Ben Kinmont (New York)

[Stock catalogues, numbered series: 1] Gastronomy

New York, Ben Kinmont, 1999
(19 cm), 127 (1) pp., [4] p. of colour plates, black & white text illustrations. 100 items; priced. Publisher’s printed wrappers. “The clou of the catalogue, the C.S. Ascherson - André Simon copy of the first printed cookery book, Platina De honesta voluptate et valetudine 1498, with the first printed book on salad, Massonio Archidipno, overo dell’ Insalata 1627 and the primary tract on spices, Ramingen Von den Aromaten und wolschmäckenden, gantz krefftigen und hailsamen Specereyen 1580… This was no beginner’s collection, but one that must have been long maturing” (from a notice in The Book Collector, Winter 1999, p.585). ¶ Unmarked copy

£ 16

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