Search Results: Titles starting with L from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

[Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1774. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 259, pages. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes. Stated "Seconde edition". Not to be confused with the publication of the same year, also styled "Seconde edition", but issued in an entirely different setting by l'Imprimerie Royale, with different pagination and with eight plates of engravings. This current edition has no identified place of publication or publisher. While both 1774 editions state "Seconde Edition" on the title page, evidence of survival of a first edition remains a mystery to this cataloguer. ~ A vast didactic poem on life in the countryside, in six songs. The poet, Pierre-Fulcrand de Rosset (born in Montpellier in 1708) starts with eighty pages on the Georgics. The first of the six songs considers the foundations of agriculture and breeding. The second is devoted to the vine, from Noah to the modern Carnival. Rosset's Agriculture appeared twenty years before Delille's poem on the same subject.… Read More

Luzarches (France): Daniel Morcrette, 1978. Duodecimo (15.8 x 9.3 cm.), [ii], 413, [2] pages. Title page and chapter heads vignettes. All edges gilt. Table of contents. FACSIMILE of the original edition; number 247 of 250 hand- numbered copies. Initialed in the colophon by the publisher. "Acheve d'imprimer sur lespresses des imprimeries reunies de senlis pour Daniel Morcrette 95270 Luzarches (France) le 15 Novembre 1978. Relie par la reliure d'art du centre, limoges - tire a 250 exemplaires" (the colophon). A very handsomely produced facsimile of the original 1674 edition of L'Art de Bien Traiter, printed by Jean du Puis in Paris. [Trans: The Art of Treating Well, Divided into Three Parts; New, curious, and very gallant work, useful to all people and conditions]. One of the most important treatises on French cuisine. "The work is considered the most revolutionary of seventeenth-century French cookery texts. The author, whether Robert or Rolland, postulates a cuisine that finds its taste in the… Read More

Paris: Payot; Imprimerie F. Paillart, 1928. 16mo. (18.7 x 12 cm.), 208 pages. FIRST EDITION. A general work on the history of gastronomy, from the Belgian author, Maurice des Ombiaux (1868-1943), author of more than one hundred books, co-creator of the Académie des Gastronomes, creator of the Conseil des Sept, and recipient of the titles, Prince de la Treille and Cardinal de la Gastronomie. He nearly beat Curnonsky to the title of prince de gastronomes.Perhaps his greatest effort was an attempt to convince the Vatican to have Gluttony removed from the list of Seven Deadly Sins based on on a grammatical technicality. Internally clean and sound; publisher's wrappers a bit edgeworn and creased at the spine. Near very good. With the bookseller's ticket of Maxwell Einhorn Books to the rear wrapper panel. [OCLC locates twenty-four copies].

Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959. (19.4 x 14.5 cm.), 261, [3] pages. Stated Fourth Edition (rear panel of wrapper). Francis Amunategui was a French culinary journalist (Santiago de Chile 1898 - Paris 1972) was a journalist. In 1947, he abandoned an earlier career as an engineer to create, in the periodical Aux Listenes, one of the first magazine sections devoted to restaurants, which were just rebounding after the years of the Occupation. He wrote a number of books on food and cookery and also Basque culture, including 52 Weekends Around Paris (1963), le Plaisir des Mets (1964) and Gastronomiquement Vôtre (1971). In 1960, he founded the Association Aamicale des Amateurs d'Andouillette Authentique. Some signatures partially unopened at top edge. In publisher's yellow wrapper, titled and decorated in black. Some rubbing and a bit of sun fading to wrappers. Near very good.

A Paris: Chez Emile Babeuf a la Librairie historique et des arts et métiers, rue Saint-Honoré, no. 123, Hôtel d'Aligre, 1822. Octavo, [4], vi, 454 pages. [I], III leaves of plates. Second edition. The original was published in 1815 with the title, Manuel complet d'économie domestique. This 1822 second edition was the first to carry the new title. Cagle incorrectly states that the title was changed with the third edition of 1825. This one one of the earliest works of French cuisine to be translated into Russian and published there as Parizhskij Povar, ili Povarennai Kniga (Moscow, 1825). The frontispiece of L'Art du Cuisinier Parisien is a handsome depiction of Le Cuisinier Parisien, tasting from a pot on the stove, and accompanied by a seated female assistant, a cat, and a dog. An array of kitchen equipment is displayed on shelves. Albert was chef de cuisine to Cardinal Fesch, Prince of France, diplomat, and uncle of Napolean Bonaparte. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise tight and sound.… Read More

Paris: Librarie Nilsson, 1903. Short, squat octavo, 914 pages. Later edition. Illustrated by Robida. Considered by some to contain the first documentation of a recipe for coq au vin. Priscilla Ferguson discusses this book as an example of Culinary Republicanism, a patriotic recognition of the diversity of parts, and yet the assembly into a whole. She points out that Alsace and part of Lorraine had been ceded to the Germans in 1870, and that the author includes over 30 pages dedicated to the foods of Lorraine (the author's homeland). Pages browned and near brittle, hinges pulled. In publisher's black and gold printed red cloth, worn and soiled, and with the rear hinge started.

Paris: Hachette, 1996. Collection "Les Maîtres de la Gastronomie". Quarto (29.5 x 23.5 cm.), 248 pages. Illustrated with color and black & white photographs by Hervé Amiard. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. Joël Robuchon (1945-2018) was named "Chef of the Century" by Gault Millau in 2018 and he was awarded a total of thirty two Michelin stars, more than any other restaurateur. L'Atlier is as much a workshop as a taste laboratory. In this work, the great chef opens the doors of his studio to us, illustrated with the photographs of Hervé Amiard and with narrative by Patricia Wells. The recipes are focused on just eight food stuffs: potatoes, caviar, scallops, porcini mushrooms, sweetbreads , truffle, chestnut and almond. Fine in publisher's white cloth; unclipped dust jacket. With the ownership inscription of culinary collector Marlene Andrews Gilboy to the free front endpaper. Also inscribed to Gilboy by Patricia Wells, "For Marlene, To single pleasure, memorable meal! Patricia Wells."

Neuchatels: Idees et Calendes, 1964. Quarto, 124 pages. Illustrated throughout with lithographs by the author. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A pleasant and entertaining history of beer from the ancient world to the mid-20th cenury. Tiny bit of wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a fine copy in publisher's paper covered boards, in original glassine.

Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1947. Octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 448 pages. Illustrated with 36 gravures. Index. Stated "31e edition." An abridged version of the celebrated 1927 cookbook, "Le Livre de Cuisine de Madame Saint-Ange: recettes et méthodes de la bonne cuisine française", though this title was later applied to the full length work, and to an English version translated by Paul Aratow in 2005. The contents were largely culled from a column by Marie Ebrard in Pot-au-Feu, a weekly periodical edited by the author's husband. A detailed but approachable cookbook, La Bonne Cuisine was a significant reference for Julia Child while she was writing Mastering the Art... Publisher's lithographically illustrated, paper-covered boards, backed in blue cloth. Paper title label to spine. Lacking the free front endpaper. Age toning to txt block. Wear to edges of boards and a short pull to the head of the spine; otherwise near very good. With the bookplate of the Sontheimer Foundation.

Venezia [Venice, Italy]: La Colomba, 1962. Single-folded menu, (13 x 13 inches), with screen printed typo-pictorial design in green, bland, and orange. Verso printed in the same colors with food offerings and prices. A menu designed by the Belgian surrealist E.L.T. Mesens, probably created for the design contest of famed Venice art bistro La Colomba. Signed "Mesens 62" in the lower left-hand corner, and further inscribed in 1964 by Mesens to his long-time friend and accomplice, the surrealist jazz musician and all around bohemian and eccentric George Melly, "For Diana and George, who should go to eat by gondola in Venezia! Look at the prices. . . Ted. 1964". Melly was introduced to surrealism by Mesens and worked for a time in his important surrealist gallery in London, where he developed a close and complicated three-way relationship with Mesens and his wife Sybil. Melly would go on to write the biography of Mesens, entitled "Don't Tell Sybil." The "Diana" of the inscription is Diana Moynihan,… Read More

Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2000. Two volumes, unpaginated, with black and white photographs. Quarto, boards covered in butcher paper, boxed. Text in French and English. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by Gissinger. An exchange in words and images between photographer Hans Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, this book provides a sharp contrast to what is usually considered "food photography". The black and white images reveal the grisly processes of haute cuisine; slaughtering animals, force feeding geese, stuffing sausages. Parallel to their meditation on food and its cultural significance are Gissinger's gripping photographs which find beauty, depth, and humanity in our relationship with what we eat and how it gets to the plate. Fine.

Coulommiers: en vente Chez l'Auteur; Imprimerie Paul Brodard, 1895. Octavo (18.5 x 14 cm.), 318, [1] pages. Table of contents. Text in two columns. FIRST EDITION, published by the author herself; soon after the work was published "Aux Magasins du Bon Marchè". Two hundred menus, with recipes, arranged in alphabetical order. Although the book appears to be aimed at the French household cook, many of the recipes reflect cooking at the grand restaurants of the era. Some sample dishes: Grenouilles a la Dumas, Ecrivisses en Honchet, Petits oiseaux au fumet, and Poitrine d'agneau Sainte-Menehould. Age-toning throughout, in printed pale blue cloth with some rubbing and light soiling; tape adhesion marks to front and rear paste-downs. Near very good. With the bookplate of culinary collector John Fuller. [OCLC locates just four copies of the first edition].

Paris: Librarie Gallimard, 1932. Quarto, 180 pages. First edition, numbered and limited. One of 220 numbered hors commerce copies, stamped S.P. [service de la presse], from a total of 1589 copies. Printed in red and black and with text decorations throughout. Marie-Claude Finebouche is the pseudonym of Madame Jean Alabert, wife of the celebrated author and gourmand. Born in 1879, she published several cookbooks in the 1930s and 40s celebrating the pleasures of traditional French domestic cuisine, as practiced by the women of her grandmother's generation. All were issued in somewhat limited editions, and all are rather scarce in American collections. Publisher's advertisement and author's photograph laid in; Some light foxing to a few pages, otherwise fine, in illustrated wrappers. Inscribed at some length by the author, using her real name, to Jean Ernest-Charles. [OCLC locates eight copies, only four in the US; Bitting, page 158].

Paris: Librarie Gallimard, 1932. Quarto, 180 pages. First edition, numbered and limited. One of 220 numbered hors commerce copies, stamped S.P. [service de la presse], from a total of 1589 copies. Printed in red and black and with text decorations throughout. Marie-Claude Finebouche is the pseudonym of Madame Jean Alabert, wife of the celebrated author and gourmand. Born in 1879, she published several cookbooks in the 1930s and 40s celebrating the pleasures of traditional French domestic cuisine, as practiced by the women of her grandmother's generation. All were issued in somewhat limited editions, and all are rather scarce in American collections. A fine copy, rebound in half blue morocco, with silk ribbon. Original illustrated wrappers laid-in, and with the bookplate of the Carl Sontheimer Foundation. [OCLC locates eight copies, only four in the US; Bitting, page 158].

La Rochelle: Quartier Latin, 21 rue Albert-1er, 1975. Collection: "La Cuisine de Chez Nous". Small octavo (22 x 14 cm.), 240 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. Preface de M. Rene Heron de Villefosse. A detailed collection of recipes describing the cuisine of Paris. Fine, in black and red printed stiff wrappers; publisher's dust jacket has a small adhesion mark on the front panel and a bit of light rubbing, otherwise fine.

Lyon: Librairie de P. Masson, 1928. Large octavo (24 x 19 cm.) 136 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. n° 818 of 900 examples on vélin blanc, from a total edition of 1040. A year earlier, the author issued a twenty-three page booklet with the same title. "Treats of the old Lyonnaise innkeepers, cabarets, and famous restaurants; the Lyonnaise cookery, accompanying wines, and typical recipes..." (Bitting). A fine copy, uncut, in original printed wrappers, with glassine. [OCLC locates eleven copies; Bitting, page 475].

New Orleans, LA; [Chicago]: F.F. Hansell & Bro., Ltd.; [Hammond Press, W.B. Conkey Company, 1915. Octavo, 268 pages. Index. Third Edition, though styled "Second Edition". While the copyright page states "1885" it was likely printed circa 1915. A classic American cookbook and, in its original edition, one of the first two books on the subject of Creole cooking; in the same year, the Woman's Christian Exchange published The Creole Cookery Book. Both books were issued to be marketed at the 1884-85 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition. Creole Cuisine was issued without a stated author, and it remains unstated in this edition, but it has been generally accepted (on slim evidence, we think) that the compiler was Lafcadio Hearn. This work has been almost continuously in print since the original issue. Text block clean and sound. Gift inscription to front paste down. Some light wear and soiling to gilt-titled red cloth boards and to head of spine, otherwise a very good copy. [For notes on… Read More

Lyon: Librairie de P. Masson, 1928. Large octavo (24 x 19 cm.) 136 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. n° 505 of 900 examples on vélin blanc, from a total edition of 1040. A year earlier, the author issued a twenty-three page booklet with the same title. "Treats of the old Lyonnaise innkeepers, cabarets, and famous restaurants; the Lyonnaise cookery, accompanying wines, and typical recipes..." (Bitting). Largely unopened, in original printed wrappers with glassine. Some wear to glassine at spine, otherwise near fine. [OCLC locates eleven copies; Bitting, page 475].

Bagneaux; Paris: [Editions du Cep; Imp. E. Pigelet], 1946. Octavo (18.5 x 14 cm.), 254, [1] pages. Second Edition; original issued in 1942 by G. Le Prat. A mid-century French seafood cookbook. Variation of the paper stock, some leaves age-toned; a bit of spotting to top-edge. In publisher's decorated, paper-covered boards, illustrated in color. [OCLC locates four copies of this edition - just one in the U.S. (Schlesinger) and two of the first edition].

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, S.A., 1987. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 460, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Light rubbing to edges of boards, otherwise near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.