Venezia, Rampazzetto, 1560.
Notandissimi secreti de l’arte profumatoria, per far ogli, acque, paste, balle, moscardini, uccelletti, paternostri e tutta l’arte intiera, come si ricerca cosi nella città di Napoli del reame, come in Roma, e quini in la città di Venegia.
Rare second edition (first 1555) of the first Western treatise on the art perfume making and cosmetics, containing over 300 recipes, which became something of a Venetian specialty in part because of that city’s supply of exotics from trade with the East, and in part for its fascination with feminine..... More