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Le Livre de honneste volvpte : contenant la maniere d'habiller toutes sortes de viandes, tant chair que poisson & de seruir en banquets & festes. Auec vn memoire pour faire escriteau pour vn banquet : extraict de plusieurs fort experts, & le tout reueue nouuelement, contenant cinq chapitres.

Accession number
PML 125482
Published
A Lyon : Povr Pierre Rigavd, 1602.
Credit line
Gift of Peter A.A. Berle, 1994.
Notes
Earliest printed ed. cited in Vicaire is dated 1588.
Largely a reprint of Benoît Rigaud's 1588 edition.
Signatures: A-M⁸ a⁸.
Printer's device on t.p., not same as the device in L.-C. Silvestre, Marques typographiques, no. 470.
Not recorded in USTC.
Description
96, [8] pages ; 12 cm (16mo)
Provenance
Nicolas Yemeniz (1775-1871), booklabel (front endleaf 4 recto), his sale, 9 May 1867, lot 605 (then bound by Simier) for fr. 51; Robert Hoe (1839-1909), book label (front pastedown), his sale, Anderson Auction Company, part III, 15 April 1912, lot 1993; Corlandt F. Bishop (1870-1935), book label (front pastedown), his sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, part II, 25 April 1938, lot 1338 for $110 to R.S.W. (for?): Beatrice Bishop Berle (1902-1993) and through inheritance to her son: Peter A.A. Berle (1937-2007), to: Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Peter A.A. Berle, 1994.
Binding
19th-century (after 1867) French full red morocco by Marius Michel.
Classification
Department