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Apicius : cookery and dining in imperial Rome : a bibliography, critical review and translation of the ancient book known as Apicius de re coquinaria / now for the first time rendered into English by Joseph Dommers Vehling, with a dictionary of technical terms, many notes, facsimiles of originals, and views and sketches of ancient culinary objects made by the author ; introduction by Frederick Starr.
LIBRA - Blank Collection Folio TX713 .A713 1936
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Apicius.
- Standardized Title:
- De re coquinaria. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Cooking--Early works to 1800.
- Cooking.
- Cooking, Roman.
- Genre:
- Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 20th century.
- Dictionaries.
- Penn Provenance:
- Aresty, Esther B. (donor)
- Vehling, Joseph Dommers (autograph)
- Russell, Elizabeth Heard (bookplate & inscription, 1937)
- Heard, Elaine(?) Bartlett (autograph)
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor) (Blank Collection copy)
- Michels, Hilda D. (autograph) (Blank Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 301 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Apicii libri X
- Cookery and dining in imperial Rome
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Walter M. Hill, 1936.
- Notes:
- Added t.-p.: Apicii libri X, qvi dicvntvr de obsoniis et condimentis, siue arte coqvinaria, qv extant; nvnc primvm anglice reddidit promio bibliographico atqve interpretatione defensit uarlisqve annotationibvs instrvxit ita et antiqv cvlin vtensiliarvm effigiis exornauit, indicem deniqve etymologicvm et technicvm artis magiric adiecit Iosephvs Dommers Uehling; introdvcit Fridericvs Starr. Chicago, in edibvs Gvaltheri M. Hill, 1936.
- "Five hundred and thirty copies of this book have been printed ... by the Torch Press in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.A. Thirty copies are printed on Arnold hand-made paper and signed by the author ... Copies nos. 1 to 5 are not placed on sale." -- Colophon.
- "Apiciana": p. [251]-273.
- Subscribers' list on p. [viii]-ix.
- Local Notes:
- Library has copy no. 25.
- Blank Collection copy is no. 282.
- Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- Blank Collection copy has autograph of Hilda D. Michels.
- Portion of spine title is pasted to the back paste-down.
- OCLC:
- 1327424
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