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APICIUS, Coelius (fl. 14-37 A.D.). De re culinaria libri decem. B. Platinae ... De tuenda ualetudine ... Pauli Aeginetae De facultatibus alimentorum tractatus, Albano Torino interprete. Lyon: S. Gryphius, 1541. 8°. Woodcut devices on title and last page (rather spotted throughout, some waterstains). Contemporary limp vellum (a little soiled, lacks ties). Provenance: Jesuit College at Rome (18th-century inscription on title).
Fifth edition of this collection of receipts from the late Roman period, and the first cookery book to be printed - it first appeared in Milan in 1498. This is the second edition of Alban Thorer's recension of Apicius; it was first published at Basel in the same year as the present edition. Adams A1300; Vicaire 31; Bitting p.11; Simon BG 123.
Fifth edition of this collection of receipts from the late Roman period, and the first cookery book to be printed - it first appeared in Milan in 1498. This is the second edition of Alban Thorer's recension of Apicius; it was first published at Basel in the same year as the present edition. Adams A1300; Vicaire 31; Bitting p.11; Simon BG 123.
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