Catalogue of the Westbury collection of cookery books. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 15-16 February 1965 ]

Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 15th and 16th February 1965. Green printed wrappers, 8vo,. 100 pp, ills. 507 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Incunabula, including Platina's de Honesta Voluptate, Venice 1475 and Cividale 1480, the second and third editions of the first printed Cookery Book, Manfredï's Liber De Homine, 1474, and Petrus de Crescentiis, Il Libro Della Agricoltura, 1490; Messisburgo's Banchetti, 1549, Scappi's Opera, 1570, Mata's Arte de Reposteria, 1474, and Other Continental Books of the 16th to 19th century; STC and Wing Books Books on Carving, Including Aragon's Arte Cisoria, Madrid 1766, the Earliest Treatise in Spanish, on Wine and Vine-Growing, Dietetics and Horticulture; Mrs Rundle's New System of Domestic Cookery, 1806, First Edition, and Works by Athenaeus, Apicius, Mrs. Beeton, Brillat-Savarin, Careme, Corvado, Parmentier and Pisanelli. Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in. Laid in is a manuscript note by the bookseller Ian Jackson to a London bookseller dated 11 May 2008 explaining that he had recently acquired this copy with the purchase of the residue of Barney Rosenthal's reference library, which enabled him to present it to her.