Lot n° 287
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287. [Truffle]. BOSREDON (Alexandre de). Manual of the truff - Lot 287
287. [Truffle]. BOSREDON (Alexandre de). Manual of the truffle grower, complete exposition of the practical method for the maintenance and creation of truffle fields, followed by the description of the main varieties of truffles, and the gastronomic and commercial history of this tuber. Périgueux, E. Laporte, 1887. In-8, 236 p., [1] f. (errata), 13 pl., brown basane titled in gold on the spine and on the cover, gold cover. ill. cons. (modern binding).
Rare copy of this monograph by the deputy of the Dordogne Alexandre Dupont de Bosredon (1831-1903), illustrated with engravings in the text and 13 plates out of the text.
The mention of second edition on the cover is probably fictitious, the content is in all points similar to the copy of the Bnf which does not have its cover, including the errata.
If the author was indeed the owner of a truffle farm, it was only after his meeting with the old Father Chénier, a schoolteacher in Nadaillac who was passionate about truffles, that he nevertheless rejected. Leaving behind the more or less smoky theories of his time, Alexandre de Bosredon plunged his hands into the earth following Father Chénier and described a method as simple as it was effective. The treatise ends with 12 truffle recipes.
"The best work, despite its date, that we know on this subject", says Jean Gaignebet, (in Revue de botanique appliquée, 26, 1923).
One loose plate, darkened boards, other minor defects.
(MikoLibri, 215; Bitting, 50 cites only Bosredon's almanac de la truffe; Vicaire, 101 indicates only 12 plates).
Attached is a set of 5 bound and stapled books on truffles:
- BORCH (Jean Michel de). Letters on the truffles of Piedmont. Lodi, G. P. Zazzera, 2001. Br. facsimile with folded color plates.
- BRUNET (R.). Culture of mushrooms and truffles. Paris, L. Mulo, 1902. Br.
- GOT (A.), Sa Majesté la truffe, livre d'or de la reine des festins. Bordeaux, La Truffereine, 1966. Br. ed. limited to 400 copies, not numbered.
- LAVAL (L.). La truffe, petit guide pratique du trufficulteur. Martel, chez l'auteur, 1938. Br. with its advertisement.
- The truffle, friendly society of Périgourdins. Périgueux, Imprimerie périgourdine, 1922. Br. (directory of statutes and members of the society).
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