Sale 2457 - Early Printed Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 17, 2017

136 ● Reasons most humbly submitted to the Wisdom of Parliament for the taking off the present Duty of Excise upon Beer and Ale, and laying the Duty upon the Original Malt:Which is designed by a Lover of his Country. 27 pages. 4to, 205x155 mm, modern 1 / 2 green morocco; contents generally clean, vertical crease in most leaves, gathering E trimmed in blank upper margins; uncut. London: Tho. Parkhurst, 1695 [200/300] FIRST EDITION . Wing R571. 137 ● ROMOLI, DOMENICO. La Singolare Dottrina . . . dell’Ufficio dello Scalco. [16], 376 leaves, with leaves 184 and 185 laid in from another copy. 8vo, 151x102 mm, contemporary limp vellum, spine darkened with horizontal crack, rear hinge split; stain in outer and lower margins of opening leaves, dark stain in lower outer corners of leaves 235 through 249, ink smudges on leaves 241-42, rear endpapers lacking. Early signature of M[ar?]ia-Lisabetta Curini on title. Venice: (Michele Tramezzino, 1560) [2,000/3,000] FIRST EDITION . “A popular treatise for Cooks and Maîtres d’Hôtel, dealing with the choice, preparation, and service of various foods, as well as the choice, care, and service of wine” (Simon). Menus for an entire year are contained in book 4 (leaves 32-127), and over 100 recipes in book 5 (128-97). Cagle 1174; Notaker 908.1; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1311. 138 ● TAEGIO, BARTOLOMEO. L’Humore Dialogo. Printer’s woodcut device on title and last page; woodcut portrait of the author on title verso. 80 [i. e., 79] leaves. 8vo, 150x94 mm, old vellum boards; margins trimmed not affecting text, marginal soiling on title, contents otherwise clean. Bookplate of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823). EXCELLENT COPY . Milan: Gio.Antonio degli Antonii (forValerio & Girolamo Meda), 1564 [4,000/6,000] Second edition, a page-by-page reprint of the first published the same year, with the incorrectly printed leaf E8 cancelled. “A very rare little treatise, the author of which deals in a very thorough manner with viticulture, the making, keeping and serving of wine, the virtues of different wines, and their use and abuse”—Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1442. 139 ● TANARA,VINCENZO. L’Economia del Cittadino in Villa. [8], 594, [1] pages, including colophon leaf at end. 4to, 227x164 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, spine wormed; occasional toning or browning, marginal soiling and dampstaining mainly at beginning and end, hole in blank upper inner corner of 3V1. Bologna: (Giacomo Monti), 1644 [800/1,200] FIRST EDITION of a treatise on rural economy with sections on bread and bread baking, wine and viticulture, beekeeping, vegetable gardening and preparation, hunting, etc. Cagle 1187. 140 ● VILLENA, ENRIQUE DE ARAGÓN, Marqués de. Arte Cisoria; o, Tratado del Arte del Cortar del Cuchillo. Woodcut text illustrations of cutlery. [24], 197 pages. 4to, 198x144 mm, contemporary vellum boards, spine and front cover darkened; contents lightly dampwrinkled but clean apart from marginal soiling and cellophane tape discoloration on title. Madrid: Antonio Marin, 1766 [800/1,200] FIRST EDITION of the oldest known Spanish-language work on carving, originally written in the early 14th century. Cagle 1222; Palau 369452. FOOD & WINE, continued