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CORNARIUS (JANUS) De conviviorum veterum Græcorum, Basel, 1548; and works by Athenaeus, Rabelais, Giovio, Rapin, Martin, Juvenal, Ovid and Virgil (12)
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CORNARIUS (JANUS)
De conviviorum veterum Græcorum, & hoc tempore Germanorum ritibus, moribus ac sermonibus, italic type, woodcut historiated initials, final leaf with colophon, a little light browning, early inscriptions on title (partially crossed through), modern panelled calf gilt [Adams C2637; Bitting 99; Vicaire 211], Basel, [colophon: Joannes Oporinus], 1548--ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATIS. Dipnosophistarum sive coenae sapientum libri XV, title with large woodcut printer's device, some dampstaining (title frayed and repaired, last leaf repaired with loss), modern calf-backed boards [Oberlé 8-10], folio, Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1572--RABELAIS (FRANCOIS) Les oeuvres, 4 vol., frontispiece with portrait of Rabelais by De Launay after Sarabat, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spines gilt with paper shelf labels and one or two chips, 12mo, Geneva, [Cazin], 1782--GIOVIO (PAOLO) De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens æditus, full-page woodcut device on last page, lacking preliminary leaves a4-5, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, decorative gilt spine, 8vo, Antwerp, Jean Graphaeus, 1528--[MARTIN (LOUIS)] L'eschole de Salerne en vers burlesques. Et Poema macaronicum, de bello Huguenotic, third edition, title and 2 following leaves repaired with slight loss, lacking frontispiece, later vellum [Vicaire 334], 4to, Paris, Jean Henault, 1650--RAPIN (RENE) Hortorum libri 4 editio altera, fine engraved title, privilege leaf at end, contemporary calf, 12mo, Paris, Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1666; and works by Juvenal (1608), Ovid and Virgil (12)
Footnotes
The only edition of Cornarius's work on ancient Greek and contemporary German banqueting and dining customs, including descriptions of different types of beer; with other works including the 1572 Latin edition of Athenaeus's 'Banquet of the Learned', Cazin's small attractive edition of Rabelais, and a very rare edition of Giovio's important treatise on fish and their culinary use.





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