SCAPPI (Bartolomeo). Dell arte del cucinare, con Il mastro d - Lot 155

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SCAPPI (Bartolomeo). Dell arte del cucinare, con Il mastro d - Lot 155
SCAPPI (Bartolomeo). Dell arte del cucinare, con Il mastro di casa e Trinciante. Venice, Combi, 1643. In-4, brown speckled calf, spine redone formerly decorated with gilded fillets, red morocco title-pieces (Binding of the time). 636 pp. including the title-frontispiece, 23 (out of 28) copper-engraved plates. Venetian edition of one of the most important illustrated books on cooking during the Renaissance, renowned for its careful plates. They show the instruments of the cook: seats, sieves, graters, table, benches, cupboard, various cassettes, numerous pots, ladles, credenzas, instruments for cooking in the open air, forks, jars, knives, dairy, oven... This edition includes, as is often the case, three texts: Scappi's work is followed by Cesare Pandini's Il mastro di casa, and Vincenzo Cervio's Il Trinciante. Rare work, and often incomplete. Copy incomplete of 5 plates, and 2 ff of text (pp. 629 to 632), notebook kkkk partly detached. Restorations to the introductory leaves and in-fine plates, sometimes a little short at the head, renewed endpapers, pale spotting, stains. Binding very worn, spines cracked. Vicaire, 775 - B. IN. G., 1784 - Bitting, 419 - Simon, 1356 - Oberlé, Fastes, 75, 76: other editions.
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