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1556CAT000063Lyon: Sebastianum Barptolomari Honorati 1556. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum author penned to spine. Lacking ties degradation to fore-edge and corner of the front and rear covers and some wear to the page corners at the beginning and end slight dampstain in the gutter early on scattered old marginal marks and underlinings. xx 898 xxvii pp. Vicaire 50<br/><br/>The first Latin edition was the same year. The Deipnosophistae the great epic of dinner table conversation is one of the only major surviving sources for our knowledge of ancient banquets and food and represents the first written evidence of man's great love of stuffing animals with other animals; in book 4 a great roast boar is served stuffed with thrushes paunches fig-peckers eggs oysters and periwinkles - an inspiration for Grimod de la Reynière's roti sans pareil. It also includes the first written recipe saved from the lost cookbook of the Sicilian gastronome Mithaecus. It is instructions for serving the fish Tainia gut discard the head rinse slice; add cheese and oil. Size: 8vo octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000063. Sebastianum Barptolomari Honorati hardcover books
15353160Basileae: Joannes Valderus 1535. Quarto 34 333 1. Second edition. Text in Greek editor's notes in Latin & Greek. One of the most important works of late classical antiquity dealing with food wine and table customs dating from the third century A.D. The book is a fictionalized symposium of twenty one artists writers musicians and surgeons discussing all things that according to Greek custom should adorn a banquet. The names of the most famous gastronomers and most celebrated cooks are recorded and the text of a recipe from a lost cookbook by Mithaecus is quoted -- the earliest recipe by a named author in any language. The virtues and qualities of various wines are the subjects of lengthy discourses. Table ornament and decoration are also treated. Rebound in modern half-vellum text-block trimmed. Generally very good internally with a touch of foxing to some leaves and pages supple. With the bookplate of Anne Willan noted authority on French food founder of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne and with her husband Mark truly great cookbook collectors. This edition very scarce in the trade. OCLC locates eight copies only one in the US at the University of Kansas; this edition not listed in Bitting Cagle or Vicaire. Joannes Valderus hardcover books
