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GASTRONOMY AND FOOD

The Property of a Catalan Collector and Former Chef
Lot 155

APICIUS COELIUS
De re culinaria libri decem... De tuenda valetudine... Pauli Aeginetae De facultatibus alimentorum tractatus, Albano Torino interprete, Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1541

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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APICIUS COELIUS

De re culinaria libri decem... De tuenda valetudine... Pauli Aeginetae De facultatibus alimentorum tractatus, Albano Torino interprete, woodcut printer's device on title and last page, woodcut initials, light marginal dampstains towards end and small wormhole in margin of signature r (otherwise a fresh clean copy), eighteenth century blind panelled calf, blind tooled spine with raised bands, g.e. [Adams A1300; Bitting p.11; Cagle 32; Oberlé 5; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 123 and Bibliotheca Bacchica 52 & 527; Vicaire 31], 8vo (165 x 100mm.), Lyon, Sebastian Gryphius, 1541

Footnotes

A very good copy of this classic cookbook, containing a collection of almost 500 Roman recipes which range from flamingo to stuffed dormouse. Earlier editions went under the name De re coquinaria and the work is sometimes also attributed to Marcus Gavius Apicius, the famed epicure who flourished during the reign of Tiberius early in the first century AD. The present Gryphius edition was printed shortly after the Basel edition of the same year, both being the work of the Swiss scholar Alban Thorer. He included a printing of Platina's De honesta voluptate et valetudine, and other works such as the Byzantine physician Paulus Aegineta's work on health and diet.

Provenance: Etienne Récamier, bookplate ("Bibliothèque Lyonnaise 1858-1893").

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