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First complete edition of one of the first work to deal with the
gastronomic and healing qualities of coffee, tea and chocolate
The first work in any language to describe togheter
the three new beverages of the seventeenth century
Wide margins copy
Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre. Traitez nouveaux & curieux du cafe', du the' et du chocolate. Ouvrage également necessaire aux medecins, & à tous ceux qui aiment leur santé. Par Philippe Sylvestre Dufour.
A Lyon : chez Iean Girin, & B. Riviere, ruë Merciere, à la Prudence, 1685
12mo, (155 x 90 mm), contemporary full leather binding, gilt floral decorations and title at compartment, pp. [24], 445, [7 – last leaf blank], at p. 423: Dialogue du chocolate, di Bartolomé Marradon, cfr. l'avertissement at p. 422, Signature: â¹² A-S¹² T⁸ V².
Frontispiece and engravings by M. Demasso e Matthieu Ogier, engraved headletters and headpieces.
Three full page plates at the starting of each chapter
showing An Arab man drinking coffee
a Chinese man drinking tea… Read More

First Edition of one of the rarest gastronomy book of XVII century
le Sieur, Robert. L'Art de bien traiter; divisé en trois parties. Ouvrage nouveau, curieux, et fort galant ... Mis en lumiere, par L[e] S[ieur] R[obert]. A Paris : chez Jean Du Puis, ruë S. Jacques à la Couronne d'or, 1674.
8vo (249 x 190 mm), contemporary stiff vellum binding, pp. [4] 413, [1], Signature: a² A-R¹² S⁴, for the name of the author cfr. BNF, Catalogue BN-OPALE PLUS, xylographic headletter and decorations.
The most representative book of the revival of French cuisine in the classical age
First Edition of the rare and interesting treatise on gastronomy and cooking by Robert le Sieur. Attacking the traditional French cuisine embodied, at that time, by François Pierre de La Varenne, Le Sieur proposes a new style, many new recipes, and many other useful information to understand the gastronomy and customs at the end of the seventeenth century, details on the mise en place of the tables, including suggestions for… Read More

Rare First Edition
First polyglot printing and earliest Arabic printing of any part of the Bible
Second book printed in Arabic with movable type
The first biographical sketch of Christopher Columbus and the first published account of his second voyage
Giustiniani, Agostino, Psalterium, hebraeum, graecum, arabicum, & chaldeum, cum tribus latinis interpretationibus & glossis. Genuae : impressit miro ingenio Petrus Paulus Porrus : in aedibus Nicolai Iustiniani Pauli, 1516 mense VIIIIbri [Genua, Petrus Paulus Porrus, 1516].
Folio (30,2 x 22,5 cm), stiff vellum binding, handwritten title in sepia ink at spine, sprinkled edge, ff. [200], signature: A¹⁰ B-Z⁸ &⁸ ɔ6, printer device at leaf ɔ6r, below the printer device the motto Petrus Paulus Porrus mediolanensis, Taurini degens, title page within woodcut arabesque border and leaf A4v-5r printed in black and red, text on 8 columns on double page, printed in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Roman. 13 woodcut initials, 5 Latin, 4 Hebrew, 2 Greek and 2 Arabic.
The… Read More