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This item was still reported missing as of May 30, 2019. 

The following item was reported missing during transport: 

Eleonora Maria Rosalia, Herzogin zu Troppau und Jagerndorff.  FREYWILLIG-AUFFGESPRUNGENER GRANAT-APFFEL, Des Christlichen Samaritans... Wienn in Oesterreich: druckts und verlegts Anna Francisca Voigtin. (Vienna): 1708.  Fuller title: FREYWILLIG-AUFFGESPRUNGENER GRANAT-APFFEL, Des Christlichen Samaritans, Oder: Auss Christlicher Lieb dess Nachsten eroffnete Behaimbnuss Viler vortrefflichen, sonders, bewahrten Mitteln und Wunder-heylsamen Artzneyen... Auffs neue vermehrt, (sambt einer kleinen Diaeta, wie sich bey jeder Kranckheit in Essen und Trincken zuverhalten ; wie auch beygefugten neuen Koch Buch, in welchen allerhand rare und denen Patienten zu verschidenen Kranckheiten erspriessliche Speisen) nun zum sechstenmahl in offentlichen Druck verfertiget... Two volumes in one. , 499; , 120, . First title leaf stained; some additional staining elsewhere. One signature bound upside down. 4to. 200 mm. Early nineteenth century leather backed marbled boards binding; worn.  On the endpapers is a 1820's four page manuscript family record of John Friedrich Furst. Text mostly in German gothic letter.  First published in 1697, Duchess Eleonora Maria Rosalia (1647-1704) created this remarkable collection of recipes, advice, and formulas for: cooking; food; drink; medicine; veterinary; household and farm science; etc. Weiss 2300; Ferguson. Bibliotheca Chemica,; I, pp. 235-236 (1697 edition). Scarce. GER-GER 1 / 021ADD54   We have a USPS record of this leaving the U.S. (Philadelphia) on June 24, 2011... but it apparently was never received by our client in  Ludensheid, Germany.  

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