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DU VERDIER, Antoine - Diverses leçons d'Antoine Du Verdier s…
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DU VERDIER, Antoine - Diverses leçons d'Antoine Du Verdier s…
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Estimate €200
Voluntary lot
Description
DU VERDIER, Antoine - Diverses leçons d'Antoine Du Verdier sieur de Vauprivaz, etc. suivans celles de Pierre Messie, ... Augmentées par l'auteur en ceste troisiesme édition d'un sixiesme livre. Lyon, Barthelemi Honorat, 1584. Pet. in-8, (12) ff, 478 pp, (9) ff, portrait of Du Verdier and typographical mark, trimmed short at head, paper yellowed, lower margin of title mended, last leaf verso browned and stained, 18th c. tawny calf, smooth spine ornate, spine labels ref. rubbed, upper hinge, headpieces rest.
VICAIRE 304. INDEX AURELIENSIS XIII, 158.296. Missing from Baudrier (IV, 134, 139) who describes the editions of 1577 and 1580. Dedicated to Anne d'Urfé, brother of Honoré. Complement by Antoine Du Verdier to the Diverses Leçons de Pierre Messie (Pedro Mexia) published the same year by the same publisher and also edited by himself. Vicaire cites several chapters on food: the banquet of the ancients, the use of meat by big eaters and gourmands, the laws of the Ancients on excessive eating.
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