Mar 08, 2018 - Sale 2468

Sale 2468 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WINE.) Redi, Francesco. Bacco in Toscano. Ditirambo . . . Con le Annotazioni. Title in red and black with engraved emblem of the Accademia della Crusca. [8], 264 pages, including half-title; without the portrait, lacking in most copies. 4to, 260x190 mm, later 18th-century tree calf gilt with Greek-key border on covers and floral decoration on spine, surface imperfection toward bottom of spine; dampstaining in lower outer corners through most of volume; untrimmed. Early 19th-century inscriptions on front endpaper and half-title. Florence: Piero Matini, 1685

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first edition. "One of the most famous panegyrics on wine ever written . . . The notes are full of learned information on wines of all kinds, and on other drinks such as chocolate, tea, and coffee, which latter Redi particularly hated"--Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1268. Prandi 1685.