Lot n° 278
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278. GOUFFÉ (Jules). The cookbook including the household ki - Lot 278
278. GOUFFÉ (Jules). The cookbook including the household kitchen and the large kitchen. Paris, L. Hachette, 1867. Gr. in-8, xi, 826 p., 25 plates, half cloth, spine decorated.
First edition illustrated with 25 plates printed in chromolithography and 161 vignettes on wood drawn after nature by E. Ronjat. Oberlé claims that complete copies of the 25 plates in color as here are rare because in many cases they contain only 4 of them while the others are in black. In any case, this is true of the 3rd and 4th editions which have a reduced number of color plates. "This culinary work is, with those of Urbain Dubois, one of the most complete and serious treatises that exist; the recipes that one finds there are very sought after, but one must have a rather large budget, allocated to table expenses, to be able to follow the learned advice of this master of the culinary art", says Vicaire.
Corners dulled, binding a little rubbed, plates not bound in order, foxing, one spine torn as it partly adheres to the plate, plates a little darkened, a handwritten consignment from Russell Stangis on the flyleaf.
(Vicaire, 417; Oberlé, Fastes, 226; Bitting, 195).
Attached:
- SALLES (Prosper) & MONTAGNE (Prosper). La grande cuisine illustrée. Reasoned selection of 1221 recipes of transcendent cuisine. A relay label "Se trouve à Paris chez MM. Dupont & Malgat, 1 rue Coquillière" covers the initial mention: Monaco, Chêne, 1900. Gd in-8, xii, 533 p. Binding of the time, black half-chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt fleurons.
Uncommon first edition. One of the great treaties of modern cooking, says Gérard Oberlé.
(Oberlé, Fastes, 270 for the second edition; Bitting 415)
- ALI-BAB (Henri Babinski, pseud.). Practical Gastronomy, culinary studies followed by the treatment of the obesity of the gourmands. Paris, E. Flammarion, s.d. (1923). Large in-8, 1107 p., half brown crushed leather, spine decorated, top edge tinted, gold cover (P. Burkhabt).
Third edition entirely recast and printed on laid paper. In addition to the new recipes, there is a study on the edible mushrooms of France. "The dishes of Mr. Babinski are far from being within the reach of everyone as he claims in the preface. One must be rich to buy the ingredients and knowledgeable to make them" warns Oberlé.
Label stuck on the upper cover, other minor defects.
(Oberlé, Fastes, 274).
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