MASSONIO (Salvatore). Archidipno, overo dell' insalata, e dell' uso di essa. Venice, Marcantonio Brogiollo, 1627. Small in-4, stiff vellum, ribbed spine, fawn morocco title-piece, smooth edges (Early binding). First edition of the first book devoted entirely to salad. Throughout its sixty-eight chapters, this rare and curious work deals with the different varieties of salad, ways of dressing them, their medicinal virtues, their use in Antiquity, fruit salads, etc. The title is decorated with the arms of the King of France. The title is decorated with the Colantoni family coat of arms engraved on copper. It bears a handwritten bookplate which has been crossed out. From the libraries of Lord Westbury (1914-1961), with bookplate, and Raymond Oliver (1909-1990), with bookplate. Copy in an antique binding. Some light marginal spotting, small hole in the title engraving, without the last blank leaf. Vicaire, 577 - Westbury, 146 - Bitting, 315 - Simon, 1023 ("sixty eight chapters devoted to different salad dressings").