{Handwriting} {Signature: Johannes Baptista Bassus.}} NO. 7, A.D. 1542, ZÜRICH IN HOC OPERE CONTENTA. || APICII CÆLII || DE OPSONIIS ET CONDIMENTIS, || SIVE ARTE COQVINA || RIA, LIBRI X. || ITEM, || GABRIELIS HUMELBERGIJ MEDICI, PHYSICI || ISNENSIS IN APICIJ CÆLIJ LIBROS X. || ANNOTATIONES. || TIGVRI IN OFFICINA || FROSCHOUIANA. ANNO, || M.D. XLII. 4to, 123 sheets, pagination commences with title, not numbered. On verso of title a poem by Ioachim Egell, extolling Humelberg. Sheet 2 the dedication, dated "Isnæ Algoiæ, mense Maio, Anno à Christo nato, M.D.XLII." Sheet 3-4 have the preface; on verso of 4 the names of the books of Apicius. On recto of sheet 5 the chapters of Book I; on verso commences the corpus of the work with Apicii Cælii Epimeles Liber I. The Apicius text is printed in bold Roman, the copious notes by the editor in elegant Italics follow each book. Very instructive notes, fine margins, splendid printing. Altogether preferable to Torinus. Our copy is bound in the original vellum. Inscribed in old hand by Johannes Baptista Bassus on the title. G.-Drexel, No. 14; Vicaire, 31; not in Pennell. NO. 8, A.D. 1705, LONDON APICII CŒLII || DE || OPSONIIS || ET || CONDIMENTIS, || SIVE || ARTE COQUINARIA, || LIBRI DECEM. || CUM ANNOTATIONIBUS MARTINI LISTER, || È MEDICIS DOMESTICIS SERENISSIMÆ MA || JESTATIS REGINÆ ANNÆ || ET || NOTIS SELECTIORIBUS, VARIISQUE LECTIONIBUS INTEGRIS, || HUMELBERGII, CASPARI BARTHII, || & VARIORUM. || LONDINI: || TYPIS GULIELMI BOWYER. MDCCV. The first edition by Lister, limited to 120 copies. 8vo. The title in red and black. Original full calf, gilt. Pp. XIV + 231. Index 11 leaves, unnumbered. This scarce book is described by Vicaire, 32, but unknown to the collectors Drexel and Pennell. Our copy has on the inside front cover the label of the Dunnichen library. Above the same in an old hand: "Liber rarissimus Hujus editionis 120 tantum exemplaria impressa sunt." On the fly leaf, in a different old hand a six line note in Latin, quoting the medieval scholar, G. J. Vossius, Aristarch. 1.13. p. 1336, on the authorship of Cœlius. Directly below in still another old hand, the following note, a rather pleasing passage, full of sentiment and affection for our subject, that deserves to be quoted in full: "Alas! that time is wanting to visit the island of Magellone [Megalona-Torinus] where formerly flourished a large town, of which there are now no other remains but the cathedral church, where, according to tradition, the beautiful Magellone lies buried by her husband Peter of Province.* Matthison's letters, etc. pag. 269. "'* Jt was in the island of Magellone that Apicius's ten books on cookery were rediscovered.' _Ibid._--Vide Fabric. Biblioth: Lat: edit. ab Ernesti. vol. 2; p. 365."