[GASTRONOMIA] - DURANTE, Castore (1529-1590) - Il Tesoro della Sanità. Venice: Andrea Muschio, 1588. A renowned treaties on food and...

[GASTRONOMIA] - DURANTE, Castore (1529-1590) - Il Tesoro della Sanità. Venice: Andrea Muschio, 1588. A renowned treaties on food and drinks published for the first time two years earlier by the doctor Durante. Of particular interest are the final chapters dedicated the first to seasoning and the second to wine. It specifies which wine is best to drink against the plague depending on if you are rich or poor. 8vo (158 x 108mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut headpieces and initials (minimal reinforcements to title and an early ownership inscription erased, some other occasional minimal restoration, staining and foxing). Antique-style modern vellum with manuscript title, preserved in an elegant modern slipcase.