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CORNARIUS, JANUS. De conviviorum veterum Graecorum, & hoc tempore Germanorum ritibus, moribus ac sermonibus [etc.]. 198, [1] pages, including final colophon leaf. 8vo, 158x100 mm, 18th-century vellum boards, ink notations on front cover, front hinge split; dampstain in upper inner corners through first half of volume, old signature and stamp on title. Basel: (Joannes Oporinus, September 1548)
first edition of a tract on ancient Greek and contemporary German banquets and dining customs, together with the author's translations of the Symposia of Plato and Xenophon.
