Grey (Elizabeth, Countess of Kent) A Choice manual, or, Rare and select secrets in physick and chirurgery...Whereto are added several experiments of the virtues of Gascon pouder, and lapis contra yarvam...also most exquisite wayes of preserving, conserving, candying, &c., 2 parts in 1, eleventh edition, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, titles within woodcut typographic borders, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, lacking initial and final blanks, portrait torn with loss, B10 short tear just touching text, but without loss, C6 very small burn hole within text, affecting minor part of a few letters, F5 neat short tear to lower margin, I1 small piece from lower inner corner, affecting 1 letter recto & verso, but with no loss of sense of text, occasional spotting or mostly light staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked, flat gilt spine in compartments and with red morocco label, corners little worn, small loss to leather on lower cover, else a solid enough copy, [Bitting p.201; Oxford pp.22-23 (note); Wing K313; cf. Cagle 786 & 787 (one of three editions of 1653 & 'Nineteenth Edition')], 12mo, Printed by Gartrude Dawson, and are to be sold by Will. Shears, 1659. *** A rare edition at auction. Before the Cetus Library copy in 2011 (Bloomsbury Auctions, 22nd September, lot 190, £3904) we must go back to 1972 to find a copy offered. The second part is 'A true Gentlewomans Delight. Wherein is contained all Manner of Cookery'.Provenance: 'Elizabeth Betsworth hur Book of Receipts written in ye year 1730' (ink inscription to rear pastedown and verso of portrait).