GOUFFE, Jules: Le livre des conserves ou recettes pour prépa - Lot 130

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GOUFFE, Jules: Le livre des conserves ou recettes pour prépa - Lot 130
GOUFFE, Jules: Le livre des conserves ou recettes pour préparer et conserver les viandes et les poissons salés et fumés, les terrines, les galantines, les légumes, les fuits, les confitures, les liqueurs de famille, les sirops, les petits fours, etc., etc. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1869, ORIGINAL EDITION, Pt. in-4, full black percaline with gilt fillets, author and title on brown-red morocco title-piece on smooth spine, later binding, VI - 450 - (2) pp. in frontispiece the "portrait of Jules Gouffé", illus. of 34 vignettes in black on wood, Table of contents, Alphabetical table. "This book is not strictly speaking a cookery book, but it is the complement of the one I have already published under the title "Le livre de cuisine". The tone is set by the author himself. It is still a book where the author teaches us the knowledge and the conservation of food. Three distinct parts: preserves in general - petits fours, candies and candied fruits - recipes for the sick and convalescent. Ref Vicaire 418 - Oberlé - Fastes 229. RARE in first edition with the author's frontispiece. Good condition; cover slightly faded, quires not aligned but solidly bound, a cut of a rectangle of paper on the pre-title page but not affecting the text, very few scattered freckles.
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