Jacob Cats - Nuttelyck Huys-boeck - 1769

J. Cats' Useful Household Book,
containing a meditation on man; in which life is described as being subject to death; the education of children; and what is most useful, to live long in health, etc.
From the beginning, middle, to the end.
With copper plates, illustrated,,,

Second edition, Leiden Hendrik van der Deyster, 1769.

Leather bound with frames on the covers.
Complete with hand-colored title engraving and 25 hand-colored illustrations in the text. Illustrations in old hand coloring.
Condition: good. The endpapers appear to be 19th-century.

The Useful Household Book is a posthumous work by Cats. The 1st and 2nd editions appeared in 1769. These seem to be the only editions of this work.