Friday, August 17, 2007

17th-century advice book up for sale - Advice for Women: sex, diet


LONDON - A 17th-century English manual, to be auctioned next month, advises women to use goose grease on sagging breasts and warns against yielding too quickly to men. "The Ladies' Dictionary: being a General Entertainment for the Fair Sex," published in 1694, is expected to bring about $4,000 at Bonhams, the London auction house. “It's an extraordinary book, offering advice to women of all classes on a wide range of subjects,” Matthew Haley, a book specialist at Bonhams, told The (London) Daily Mail. “You could call it the Cosmopolitan of its day.“ Full Story - Booty Parlor