APICIUS. *De re culinaria libri decem* [The Ten Books on the - Lot 1

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APICIUS. *De re culinaria libri decem* [The Ten Books on the - Lot 1
APICIUS. *De re culinaria libri decem* [The Ten Books on the Art of Cooking]. Lyon, Sebastien Gryphe, 1541, in-12, 314-[14] pp., modern binding in mottled half-basane, spine with 5 raised bands, red morocco title label, red speckled edges (light waterstains at the top and bottom of the volume, minor worm damage in the lower corner of the last 30 leaves, short upper margin). Old handwritten ex-libris of Jean Leal, a physician in Lyon. First French edition, published just one month after the original Basel edition. Divided into ten books, each bearing a title in Greek but written in Latin script, they deal with preservation, bread, garden produce, vegetables, poultry, offal, four-legged animals, seafood, fishing, etc. Alban Torinus has appended several treatises on cooking and dietetics to Apicius’s masterpiece. This work bears the printer’s mark of Sébastien Gryphe, one of the most famous humanist printers of the 16th century—a “griffin” that appears on the title page and the last page of the book (Oberlé, 5). Rare.
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