On the verso of the title page there is the printed note in Latin to the effect that 120 copies of this edition have been printed at the expense of eighteen gentlemen whose names are given, among them "Isaac Newton, Esq." and other famous men. {Illustration: TITLE PAGE, LISTER EDITION, LONDON, 1705 The first Apicius edition by Martin Lister, Court Physician to Queen Anne. Printed in London in 1705 by the famous printer, William Bowyer. This is one of the rarest of the Apician books, the edition being limited to 120 copies. It has been said that the second edition (Amsterdam, 1709) was limited to 100 copies, but there is no evidence to that effect.} {Transcription: APICIANA APICII CŒLII DE OPSONIIS ET CONDIMENTIS, Sive Arte Coquinaria, LIBRI DECEM. Cum Annotationibus MARTINI LISTER, è Medicis domesticis serenissimæ Majestatis Reginæ Annæ. ET Notis selectioribus, variisque lectionibus integris, HUMELBERGII, CASPARI BARTHII, & VARIORUM. LONDINI: Typis _Gulielmi Bowyer_. MDCCV.} Lister's preface to the reader occupies pp. I-XIV; the same appears in the 1709 (2nd) edition. The ten books of Apicius occupy pp. 1-231; the index comprises 11 unnumbered leaves; on the verso of the 11th leaf, the errata. One leaf for the "Catalogus" (not mentioned by Vicaire) a bibliography of the editor's extensive writings, and works used in this edition principally upon nature and medical subjects. This list was ridiculed by Dr. King. Cf. Introduction by Frederick Starr to this present work. The last leaf blank. Our copy is in the original binding, and perfect in every respect. {Illustration: VERSO OF TITLE PAGE of the first Lister edition, London, 1705, giving evidence of the edition being limited to 120 copies. This edition was done at the expense of the men named in this list. Note particularly "Isaac Newton, Esq.," Sir Christopher Wren and a few more names famous to this day.} {Transcription: _Hujus Libri_ centum & viginti _tantum_ Exemplaria _impressa sunt impensis infrascriptorum_. Tho. _Lord A.B. of_ Canterbury. Ch. _Earl of_ Sunderland. J. _Earl of_ Roxborough, _Principal Secretary of State for_ Scotland. J. _Lord_ Sommers. Charles _Lord_ Hallifax. J. _Lord Bishop of_ Norwich. Ge. _Lord Bishop of_ Bath _and_ Wells. Robert Harley _Speaker, and Principal Secretary of State_. _Sir_ Richard Buckley, _Baronet_. _Sir_ Christopher Wren. Tho. Foley, _Esq_; Isaac Newton, _Esq_; _President of the Royal Society_. William Gore, _Esq_; Francis Ashton, _Esq_; _Mr._ John Flamstead, _Ast._ Reg. John Hutton, } Tancred Robinson, } _M. D. D._ Hans Sloane. }} NO. 9, A.D. 1709, AMSTERDAM