Leatherbound
1541 · Luguduni [sic: Lyon]
by APICIUS, Caelius [or Marcus Gavius Apicius]; Bartolomeo Platina; Paulus Aegineta; Johannes Damasceno (Albanus Torinus, editor)
Luguduni [sic: Lyon]: Seb. Gryphium [Sebastian Gryphius], 1541. Early reprint. Leatherbound. Good. 12mo. Pp. 314 [13]. Early 18th-C. tree calf, five raised bands with gilt tooled decorations and lettering piece, edges trimmed and dyed red. Decorative initial caps, italic text with roman titles, table of Latin and Greek chapter titles, marginal notes, index following text, followed by a tail-piece (that of a gryffin, in reference to printer Gryphius). Includes Appendicula de condituris varijs, ex Ioanne Damasceno, a section of fourteen recipes for “condimenta” and “condituræ” between De Re Culinaria and Facultatibus alimentorum. Spine ends chipped, edges (truncated)