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I’ve got a real treasure today for anyone interested in medicine, recipes, and/or women’s books: a copy of Culpepper’s English Physician, published by a woman and owned by two sisters! Read through for a special treasure… 1/
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Hannah Sawbridge was born into the book trade, the daughter of booksellers Edward and Ellen Brewster. When Edward died, Ellen carried on the business, partnering with George Sawbridge, who Hannah married. 2/
Just like her mother before her, after her husband’s death, Hannah continued to operate their hugely successful operation. She published this “enlarged” edition of The English Physitian in 1683. 3/
With help from @EricaHnrksn and @SLevelt, here's the 1821 sheet from Le Monde Universel! Note the columns, still visible in the binding...
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Today, I finally got around to re-cataloging a fun #herbook - our copy of Icones Virorum Illustrium (1597-99)
Mme Van Huerne, aka Maria Anna Jozefina de Schietere de Lophem(1764-1804) was the second wife on Joseph van Huerne(1752-1844), a book collector in his own right. Apparently he was kind of a dilletante before they met - a poem about him uses the phrase "dove into indolence"
Her father was a book collector, too, but it's interesting that hers is the only name on it - it's distinctly part of her library
