Apresdinees et propos de table contre l'excez au boire, et au manger pour vivre longuement, sainement et sainctement. Dialogisez entre un prince et sept scavants personnages [...].

8vo: [26]-[2 bl.]-584 pp. (missing the last 4 pp.).

Cont. overl. vellum, flat spine with ink title.

Rare first edition of this work on drunkenness and drunks, with in addition a chapter on gluttony. Presented in the form of a dialogue between the Jesuit Ant. de Balinghem (1571-1630) and experts (theologian, canonist, jurisconsult, politician, physicist, philosopher and a historian) who analyse and comment on these sins. Ref. Vicaire, Gastr. 62. - Oberlé, Bibl. bachique, 71 ("rare"). - DBS I:834 n° 11. - Brunet I:626. - Bitting 26 (1624 ed.). - Not in Oberlé, Fastes. Prov. Stamp and ms. prov. on title-page.