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De Conviviis Libri Quatuor.

[bound after]: De Ludis Privatis; De Pictura, plastice, Statuaria Libri Duo.

Stock Code 102591

Lyon, Heirs of Rouillé for Ludovic Prost, 1627

Original price $561.00 - Original price $561.00
Original price
$561.00
$561.00 - $561.00
Current price $561.00
An important, early work comprising treatises on banquets, wine, gastronomy, games, painting and sculpture of the Greeks and Romans.

First edition, 3 works in one vol., 8vo; woodcut printer's device to titles, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, each work with errata at end, some browning mostly confined to margins, occasional spotting, bookplate and ownership markings to front pastedown, old ink initials to first title; 18th century calf, edge wear, spine rubbed, upper cover detached; collates as complete.
Provenance

Earls of Macclesfield (bookplate and stamps).

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