[Northkeep] new old books!

[Niewoehner, Hugh]

Make yor request directly to Alban if you want a copy.

	Damon

> Date:    Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:50:18 -0600
> From:    Ted Eisenstein <alban at socket.net>
> 
> Update!
> I've just gotten three of the four books ordered a couple of 
> weeks ago:
> 
> Leonard Mascall, A Booke of the Arte and Maner how to Plant 
> and Graffe all sortes of Trees,
> how to set Stones and sowe Pepins, to make wilde Trees to 
> Graffe on, as also remedies and
> Medicins. (No, it does not include plans on how deep a 
> certain hobbit has to be planted....).
> 94 pages of difficult-to-read type.
> 
> Konrad Gesner, The newe iewell of health...Roughly 260 pages, 
> in English, of a similarly difficult-to-read typeface. "Among 
> the many remedies Gesner offers are a mixture of turpentine,
> aloe vera and myrrh to preserve corpses, butter and St John¹s 
> wort to close wounds; and the
> more complicated rosemary, borage, camomile, marjoram, sage, 
> violets, red rose leaves, and
> bay steeped in wine or aqua vitae then distilled, added to a 
> turpentine-gum mixture, flavoured
> with powdered spices including Œgraines of 36 Paradise,¹ and 
> distilled again with added musk
> and ambergris as a ointment guaranteed to sharpen the wit."
> 
> Antonio Musa Brasavolo, Examen omnium electuariorum. Venice; 
> ex Officina Erasmiana
> Vincentii Valgrisii, 1548.
> together with
> Jacques Dubois, Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio. 
> Both in Latin, darn it - but in
> a wonderfully easy-to-read Italic, which isn't odd since the 
> book-of-books was printed in Italy.
> A first edition of Brasavola¹s pharmacopea and third of 
> Dubois¹ book of cures. Roughly
> 300 pages total (150 and 145 pages, plus odds-and-ends).
> 
> 
> I'm still waiting on the French manuscript (the one that 
> contains household accounts and recipes),
> which needed an export license.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm heading to Florida on Friday for a couple 
> of weeks, which means there'll
> be a delay in digitizing and DVD-ing; I'm hoping everything 
> will fit onto one DVD, which'll
> be my first official Supplemental Offering of, like, Really 
> Old Books - but since these all deal
> with cooking, herbs, distillation, and the growing of food 
> (errr, growing of what food eats),
> I don't think anyone will want only one of 'em and not care 
> about the rest.
> 
> Nevertheless, I am willing to take requests for the DVD's 
> now; just be patient about their delivery, hookay?
> 
> Alban
>