The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, &c

Peter Dring, 1661 London. later edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving and candying, &c., Printed for Peter Dring, 1661. 3 parts in 1 the first 2 parts (Queens closet and queens delight) with continuous pagination and separate titles, 3rd part compleat cook with separate title and pagination. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Henrietta Maria by G. Faithorne, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, Queens Closet E4 and I1 both lacking half page of text (the latter repaired), Compleat Cook A12 repaired margin tear with loss of text, Queens Delight minor worming within signature P, mostly marginal, but occasionally just touching part of the odd letter, 20th century light brown half morocco, gilt, spine in compartments and with green morocco label, t.e.g. Wing M99a and M91Parts 2 & 3 imprints : A Queens Delight, Printed by R. Wood, for Nath. Brooke, 1660; The Compleat Cook, Printed for Nath. Brooke, 1659. [x] 300pp [24] 123pp [19]The second and third parts are A Queens Delight, Printed by R. Wood, for Nath. Brooke, 1660, and The Compleat Cook, Printed for Nath. Brooke, 1659.Provenance: 'Mary Bradshaw, her boocke, 1674' (ink inscription to front free endpaper); Harry Schraemli, bookplate.More photographs or a Whatsapp video available on request