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Gastronomia - Collegio de’ Medici di Firenze,

Newly illustrated Florentine recipe book, 1696

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€ 1.000 - 2.000

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€ 4.878

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Florence: in the S.A.S. printing plant for Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1696.In-folio, with a beautiful fully engraved title page and 3 full-page engravings in the text. Medici coat of arms in fine, sporadic reddening, rear binding in brown half leather, title and friezes impressed in gold on the spine, small defects.

Specialist Notes

Rare edition of this fundamental scientific contribution to gastronomy dedicated to Cosimo dei Medici and the Florentine College of Medici, which not only contains the orders, provisions, chapters and statutes, but numerous recipes for pills and syrups.
Brunet V, 1279; Krivatsy, 9610; Leg 842.