“That it was sacrilege to Chop a Leek”: William King - The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry : with some letters to Dr. Lister and others (1709?) Natural History Part of the Voyages Extraordinaires

Part of the Voyages Extraordinaires collection

marked with a Mayan glyph

While Ptolemy’s works had been used since the Medieval period by way of Arabic translation and preservation of the text during a time when Greek literacy was uncommon in the West (see here for an example of 13th century Ptolemy text)

illustrated throughout

“That it was sacrilege to Chop a Leek”: William King - The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry : with some letters to Dr. Lister and others (1709?) Natural History Part of the Voyages ExtraordinairesKing, William. The art of cookery, in imitation of Horace's Art of poetry : with some letters to Dr. Lister and others, occasion'd principally by the title of a book publish'd by the doctor, being the works of Apicus Coelius concerning the soups and sauces of the antients : to which is added Horace's art of poetry, in Latin. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott [1709?]. First edition. (200 x 125 mm ) Half title, [8], 1 160. [A]4 B L8. Pp. 52 135 Latin