Food & Drink.- Cato 1590

Food & Drink.- Cato (Marcus Porcius) [Opera] quae exstant, ab Ausonio Popma Frisio, collecta et restituta,title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut initials, marginal water-staining, 18th century vellum-backed boards, upper joint starting, rubbed and soiled, [Vicaire 154; cf. Bitting pp.79-80; Not in Adams], 8vo, Leiden, ex off. Plantiniana, apud F.Raphelengium, 1590.

***With much on food and drink, including recipes for wine, oils, cakes and vegetable dishes. Provenance: The library of Thomas Rawlinson with his "C. & P." inscription on front free endpaper, annotation on p.92 and diamond-shaped auction ticket on upper cover..