Bourbon diet.- Le Thresor de santé, ou Mesnage de la vie humaine divisé en dix livres, lesquels traictent amplement de toutes sortes de Viandes & Breuvages, ensemble leur qualité & préparation, first edition, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, Oo6 colophon recto and woodcut printer's device verso, marginal worm trace to foot of sig.X, trimmed at head, affecting some headlines, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, 18th century mottled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with brown leather label, head of spine and upper corners worn, rubbed, [Bitting p.607; Cagle 424 (note); Livres en bouche 82; Notaker 614; Simon BG 1462; Vicaire 834-835], 8vo, Lyon, [Étienne Servain for] Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1607.

⁂ Rare first edition of this work on food and drink in the reign of Henri IV, which includes 'Recipes for the making of a number of different wines; also cider, perry and cordials' (Simon).