Lot 54
  • 54

French cookery.

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Collection of six eighteenth-century works, all in contemporary calf bindings with gilt spines, comprising:
  • Paper
Massialot, F. Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois. Paris: widow Prudhomme, 1741, 3 volumes, woodcut plates, arms on binding--[Anon]. L'ecole parfaite des officiers de bouche. Paris: widow of Pierre Ribou, 1729, new edition, 4 folding engraved plates, arms of Louis-François-Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1696-1788) on binding (Olivier 407 fer 1)--[Menon] La science du maître d'hôtel cuisinier. Paris: Leclerc, 1776, new edition--[Marin, F.] Les dons de Comus. Paris: widow Pissot, 1750, new edition, 3 volumes, engraved frontispiece--[Anon]. Dictionnaire portatif de cuisine. Paris: Vincent, 1767, slipcase--La Chapelle, V. Le cuisinier moderne. The Hague: Antoine de Groot, 1736, 4 volumes in 2, folding tables and engraved plates--all 8vo or 12mo (11)

Provenance

Hroar Dege (part of lot 241)

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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