Lot 109
  • 109

French food and cuisine--

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Collection of 18 French nineteenth-century volumes, in contemporary bindings, comprising:
  • Paper
Beauvilliers, A. L'art de cuisinier. Paris: Pilet, Colnet & Lenoir, 1814, 2 volumes in one, engraved illustration on title-pages, 9 folding engraved plates--Labarraque, A.-G. L'art du boyaudier. Paris: Huzard, 1822, slight foxing--Archambault. Le cuisinier économe, ou élémens nouveaux de cuisine. Paris: Renard, 1825, third edition, 2 (of 5) plates, one plate torn--Verry, A.M. Le cuisinier des cuisiniers, ou l'art de la cuisine. Paris: Audin, Canel, 1825, rare--Philomneste, G.P. Le livre des singularités. Dijon: Lagier; Paris: Pelissonnier, 1841--Étienne, -. Traité de l'office. Paris: Laignier, 1845-1846, 2 volumes, lithographed plates, bookplates of Edouard Nignon, some light foxing--Bertin, G. Sophistications des substances alimentaires. Nantes: Gailmard, 1846--Briffault, E. Paris a table. Paris: Hetzel, 1846, illustrations--Améro, J. Les classiques de la table. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1855, 2 volumes, new edition, plates, Harry Schraemli bookplates--Gouffé, J. Le livre des conserves. Paris: Hachette, 1869, frontispiece portrait, illustrations, binding slightly rubbed--Hélouis, É. Les royal-diners guide de gourmet. Paris: Noblet & Dentu, 1878, 24 chromolithographed plates, flyleaf and half-title detached--Millet-Robinet, C. Maison rustique des dames. Paris: Maison Rustique, 1884, 2 volumes, twelfth edition, illustrations--Taillevent. Le viandier (Supplement...). Paris: Techener, 1892, copy number 254 of 350, 2 volumes, plates--Salles, P. and P. Montagné. La grande cuisine illustrée. Monaco: A. Chène, 1900, illustrations--all 8vo (18)

Provenance

Hroar Dege (part of lots 239, 240 and 242)

Condition

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