Auction 487/round/2
BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Sep 22, 2020
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Italy
Via Pontaccio 12, 20121 Milano
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Auction 487
22 September 2020
II session - 3.30 pm, from lot 135 to lot 270
Venue: Via Pontaccio 12, Milano
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LOT 165:
[GASTRONOMIA] - DURANTE, Castore (1529-1590) - Il Tesoro della sanità.. nel quale s'insegna il modo di ...
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Sold for: €550
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180
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€200 - €400
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25%
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[GASTRONOMIA] - DURANTE, Castore (1529-1590) - Il Tesoro della sanità.. nel quale s'insegna il modo di conservar la Sanità e prolungar la vita et si tratta della natura de' cibi. Bergamo: Comino Ventura, 1588. A renowned treaties on food and drinks published for the first time two years earlier by the doctor Durante. Of particular interest are the final chapters dedicated the first to seasoning and the second to wine. It is specified which wine is best to drink against the plague depending on if you are rich or poor. 4to (188 x 141mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut headpieces and initials (some waterstaining and few other lighter stains, few minor marginal tears, final leaf repaired at bottom corner). Later boards, manuscript title no spine (some staining and chipping). Provenance: V.A. (bookplate).
