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Scappi, Bartolomeo.
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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Description
- Opera... divisa in sei libri.... con le figure che fanno bisogno nella cucina, & alli Reverendissimi nel Conclave. Venice: Alessandro Vecchi, 1596
4to (210 x 152mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, engraved portrait of Scappi, woodcut initials, 27 woodcut illustrations on 16 leaves (one double-page), nineteenth-century half calf, some light staining, quire Aa stained, a few illustrations with small paper repairs, binding rubbed, upper joint cracked
Provenance
Edmund Waterton, inscription on title-page
Literature
Censimento 16 CNCE 63727; Vicaire 773
Catalogue Note
A rare edition of Scappi's comprehensive volume of recipes; Censimento 16 lists only three copies in Italian libraries. It was first published in Venice in 1570.