Bastiment de receptes. Newly translated from Italian... Lot 7

Bastiment de receptes. Newly translated from Italian into French, containing three parts of Receptories. Lyon, Olivier Arnoullet, 25 October 1548. In-8 of (52) ff : brown morocco, double cold fillet, frame decorated with repeated stylized foliage, small iron in the corners, ornamented spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Chambolle-Duru, 1864). A very rare gothic edition from Lyon. It is decorated with two woodcuts, one depicting a doctor visiting a bedridden patient, the other symbolizing the author. A kind of practical and medicinal encyclopaedia of Italian origin, containing "a great number of beautiful secrets". An anonymous work of Venetian origin, the Dificio di ricette (1539) was a great success in the 16th century and was reprinted many times until the end of the following century. Among the beautiful secrets it offers are those for making parchment of various colours (azure, violet, yellow, green or black) on which one can write in gold or silver letters, for making pasta, for catching fish and birds, for protecting oneself from bedbugs, lice and crabs, for relieving toothache, remedies against the plague, etc. There are also some recipes for jams (cherry trees, musk pears, squash or orange peels) and recipes for soaps and fragrant oils. No copies of this gothic edition seem to be listed in computerized catalogues. Tear with loss of text on the front and back of the title, restored. (Baudrier, t. X, p. 83.- Bechtel, B-52.- Vicaire, Bibliographie gastronomique, col. 71-73, for other editions of this book.)