Hôtel des Ventes de Lyon
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[LIGER (Louis)] *Le Ménage des champs et de la ville*: or …
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35
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[LIGER (Louis)] *Le Ménage des champs et de la ville*: or …
See original version (French)
Estimate €80 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
[LIGER (Louis)] *Le Ménage des champs et de la ville*: or *NOUVEAU CUISINIER FRANCOIS*, adapted to the tastes of the times. Containing everything a perfect head chef needs to know to cater for all kinds of tables, from those of the greatest lords to those of respectable burghers, with instructions for making all kinds of pastries, dry and liquid preserves, and all the various liqueurs currently in use… Paris, David, 1739. In-12, contemporary calfskin, scuffing at the hinges, decorated ribbed spine. Contemporary binding.
A fine copy of this sought-after classic.
‘A masterpiece of late 19th-century French printing and bookbinding’
SB
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