Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

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 APICII C{OE}LII || DE || OPSONIIS || ET || CONDIMENTIS, || SIVE || ARTE COQUINARIA, || LIBRI DECEM. || CUM ANNOTATIONIBUS || MARTINI LISTER, || È MEDICIS DOMESTICIS SERENISSIMÆ MAJE || STATIS REGINÆ ANNÆ, || ET || NOTIS SELECTIORIBUS, VARIISQUE LECTIONIBUS INTEGRIS, || HUMELBERGII, BARTHII, REINESII, || A. VAN DER LINDEN, & ALIORUM, || UT & VARIARUM LECTIONUM LIBELLO. || EDITIO SECUNDA. || LONGE AUCTIOR ATQUE EMENDATIOR. || AMSTELODAMI, || APUD JANSSONIO-WÆSBERGIOS. || M D C C I X. Small 8vo. Title in red and black. Dedication addressed to Martinus Lister by Theod. Jans. [sonius] of Almeloveen; the preface, M. Lister to the Reader, and the "Judicia et Testimonia de Apicio" by Olaus Borrichius and Albertus Fabricius occupy seventeen leaves. The ten books of Apicius, with the many notes by Lister, Humelberg and others, commence with page 1 and finish on page 277. Variæ Lectiones, 9 leaves; Index, 12 leaves, none numbered. Vicaire, 32; Pennell, p. 112; G.-Drexel, No. 164. "Edition assez estimée. On peut l'annexer à la collection des Variorum d'après M. Græsse, Trésor des Livres rares et précieux."--Vicaire. Our copy is in the original full calf gold stamped binding, with the ex libris of James Maidment. The notes by