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GRAPALDI, Francesco Mario

Opus elegantissimum [De partibus aedium]
Paris
Georgius Biermant Brugensis, expensis Joannis Granion
1511
€3.000 - €6.000

4to, [18] + 106 ff, woodcut printer's mark on title page. The text describes the ideal living conditions: starting in the garden (for growing food and wine) and then the various rooms of a house, including the library. Modern half vellum binding, red morocco title piece

One of the first directories about food and gastronomy before the modern era. The indication ""in prelo Cesareo"" in the colophon indicates that Georges Biermant worked on the address of Robert de Keysere. Ref. Kronenberg, Het Boek. Serie 2. Jaargang 27. Martinus Nijhoff, Den Haag 1943, p. 279. Ref. Julien Claerhout in: Biekorf, (1898), p. 64: ""Met de opkomste van het drukken zijn het vooral Vlamingen die deze kunst in Europa verspreid hebben. In die tijden schitterden onze medeburgers in de eerste rangen der beschaving. [...] Onder de Parijsche drukkers en boekhandelaars van 't begin der jaren 1500 kent men Joos Horenweghe, Jan Meganc, Jan Waterloos en Jooris Biermant van Brugge, Lodewijk Blaublomme van Gent, Christiaan Wechel van Lier en Jan Loys van Thielt