Lot 257: BRUYERIN, JEAN BAPTISTE

DE RE CIBARIA LIBRI XXII. LYON: (NICOLAS EDOARD FOR) SBASTIAN HONORAT, 1560 first edition, 8vo (164 x 101mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut head-pieces and initials, early annotations, contemporary limp vellum, occasional slight browning and damp-staining, binding slightly worn, lacking ties

Adams B2976; Durling 766; Wellcome I 1125

Libreria de Torrepalma, inscription; Joaquin de Arteaga-Lazcano (1706-1784), armorial bookplate

A native of Lyon, Jean Baptiste Bruyerin was doctor to both François I and Henri II. The De re cibaria, which Bruyerin spent over thirty years compiling, not only discusses most of the ingredients common to Renaissance cooking but provides a rare window onto the kitchens and dining tables of the early sixteenth-century French court.