APITII CELII DE RE COQUINARIA LIBRI DECEM. || COQUINARIÆ CAPITA GRÆCA AB APITIO POSITA HÆC SUNT. || EPIMELES: ARTOPTUS: CEPURICA: PANDECTER: OSPRION || TROPHETES: POLYTELES: TETRAPUS: THALASSA: HALIEUS || HANC PLATO ADULATRICEM MEDICINÆ APPELLAT || [_in fine_] IMPRESSUM UENETIIS P IOHANNEM DE CERETO DE TRIDINO ALIAS TACUINUM. M.CCCCC.III. DIE TERTIO MENSIS AUGUSTI. 4to, 32 sheets, 30 lines to the page, pages not numbered, signed a-h, by 4. {Illustration: TITLE PAGE, VENICE EDITION, 1503 From the Blasius Lancilotus edition, printed by Johannes de Cereto de Tridino alias Tacuinus, Venice, 1503. This is the second dated edition of Apicius, resembling very closely the undated edition and also the Milan edition, printed by Signerre 1498, the first to bear a date. Same size as the original. This is a first timid attempt at giving a book a title page. Most books printed before this date have no title pages.} {Transcription: Apitii Celii de re Coquinaria libri decem. Coquinariæ capita Græca ab Apitio posita hæc sunt. Epimeles: Artoptus: Cepurica: Pandecter: Osprion Trophetes: Polyteles: Tetrapus: Thalassa: Halieus. Hanc Plato adulatricem medicinæ appellat.} On the last page of our copy are the two poems mentioned in the 1490 Milan edition (No. 2) "Antonius mota ad uulgus" (4 distichs) and "Iohannes salandi Lectori" (5 distichs). The verso of this page is blank. The dedication, on the verso of title page, is likewise by Blasius Lancilotus. It appears that this edition is closely related to No. 2. Vicaire, 30; unknown to Georg-Drexel and Pennell. In the collection of the author. NO. 5, A.D. 1541, BASEL CÆLII APITII || SVMMI ADVLATRICIS MEDI || CINÆ ARTIFICIS DE RE CVLINARIA LIBRI X. RE || CENS È TENEBRIS ERUTI & À MENDIS UINDICATI, || TYPISQUE SVMMA DILIGENTIA || EXCUSI. || PRÆTEREA, || P. PLATINÆ CREMO || NENSIS VIRI UNDECVNQVE DO || CTISSIMI, DE TUENDA UALETUDINE, NATURA RERUM, & POPINÆ || SCIENTIA LIBRI X. AD IMITATIONEM C. API || TII AD UNGUEM FACTI. || AD HÆC, || PAVLI ÆGINETÆ DE || FACVLTATIBUS ALIMENTORVM TRA || CTATVS, ALBANO TORINO || INTERPRETE. || CUM INDICE COPIOSISSIMO. || BASILEÆ || M.D.XLI. [_in fine_] BASILEÆ, MENSE MARTIO, ANNO M D X L I. 4to, old calf, 16 pp., containing title, dedication and index, not numbered but signed in Greek letters. The body of the work commences with p. 1, finishing with p. 366, the sheets are signed first in small Roman letters a-z and numbers 1-3 and then in capital letters A-Z, likewise numbered 1-3. The titles of the books or chapters, on verso of the title page, under the heading of "Katalogos et Epigraphè Decem Voluminum De Re Popinali C. Apitii" are both in Greek and Roman characters. German names and quotations are in Gothic type (black letter). The book is well printed, in the style of the Froschauer or Oporinus press, but bears no printer's name or device.