CARÊME, Antonin: Le pâtissier royal parisien ou traité éléme - Lot 61

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CARÊME, Antonin: Le pâtissier royal parisien ou traité éléme - Lot 61
CARÊME, Antonin: Le pâtissier royal parisien ou traité élémentaire et pratique; suivi d'observations utiles aux progès de cet art et d'une revue critique des grands bals de 1810 et 1811. Volume two. Paris, ed. Firmin Didot, 1828, second revised and corrected edition, in-8, brown half-chagrin, dark brown and light brown marbled paper boards, fillets, dotted lines, scrolls, fleurons, author, title and tomaison gilt on smooth spine, contemporary binding, 435 - (3) pp. illustrated with 28 folding plates: from 14 to 41, complete for the second volume (pl.31 is mounted upside down), table of chapters and summaries. Our copy is the second volume only and being of 1828, that is the second edition, revised and corrected. Very beautiful folding plates which makes, among other things, the rarity of this work. RARE. Good general condition. The binding shows some small spotting and some small gold losses on the spine; scattered freckles as usual on the paper and some plates and a brown stain of 3 cm square on the bottom left of the first 60 pages but without touching the text.
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