细节
PLATINA, Bartholomaeus (1421-1481). De honesta voluptate et valetudine, Venice: Laurentius de Aquila and Sibylinus Umber, 13 June 1475, 2° (269 x 198mm), 93 leaves (of 94, without final blank), Roman and Greek letter, 2-4-line initial spaces, (light spotting and dampstaining, last leaf mended with a few letters supplied in facsimile, worming at extreme margin of a few leaves), 17th-century vellum wrappers (rebacked in brown morocco, new endpapers). [H *13051; BMC V, 239; Goff P-762; Vicaire 688]
FIRST DATED EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK ON COOKERY, and possibly the first edition. In this humanist treatise on the art of good living, Platina describes the pleasures of dining, gives practical advice on recipes, the nutritional values of foods and suggests sauces to accompany various dishes. The present copy contains the variant omitting the printers' names from the colophon and with only 3 lines of text on the last leaf (93v). H *13051; BMC V, 239; Goff P-762; Vicaire 688.
FIRST DATED EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED BOOK ON COOKERY, and possibly the first edition. In this humanist treatise on the art of good living, Platina describes the pleasures of dining, gives practical advice on recipes, the nutritional values of foods and suggests sauces to accompany various dishes. The present copy contains the variant omitting the printers' names from the colophon and with only 3 lines of text on the last leaf (93v). H *13051; BMC V, 239; Goff P-762; Vicaire 688.
来源
Contemporary marginal annotations and foliation; Joannes Baptista Cornelius (17th-century inscription); Wellcome Insititue for the History of Medicine, Library (bookplate, withdrawal stamp).