[EVELYN, John (1620-1706)]. Acetaria. A Discourse on Sallets, London, 1699, small 8vo, large folding table (heavily spotted and browned throughout, loss of a few letters), 19th-century red half calf gilt. FIRST EDITION.

[EVELYN, John (1620-1706)].  Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets. London: Printed for B. Tooke, 1699. Small 8vo (158 x 95mm). Title within double rule border without rubrication, large folding letterpress table (lacking all before title [?blanks], heavily browned and spotted throughout, repair to a8 affecting several letters, although the text still legible, blank corners of b1 and b2 torn away without loss of letters, lacking errata leaf). 19th-century red half calf, spine gilt (new endpapers). Provenance: old signature or initials scribbled-out on title; author's name written in faint pencil. FIRST EDITION of this work on ... salads! Bitting p.149; Cagle 669; Henrey 117; Hunt 401: "It is a cookery-garden book with excellent recipes for unusual dishes of all sorts flavored with the ever useful pot herbs grown so universally in the 17th century. 'The book reveals Evelyn's zest for living and the culture of his mind. It also shows the thought and life of a country gentleman of the reign of Charles the Second'"; Keynes 105; Oxford p.46; Wing E3480. RARE.