Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(FOOD AND DRINK.) Lee, N.K.M., Mrs. The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia. Woodcut diagram showing cuts of meat on page xxxii. xxxv, [1], 300 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, moderate wear, repairs to spine, rear joint cracked; a few pages with pencil scribbling, older newspaper clippings attached by a pin, first few leaves lightly dampstained, last few leaves loosening. Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1832

Additional Details

first edition. Provides recipes and advice for all occasions, and includes a diagram of a cow demarcated to show the various cuts of beef. Cagle & Stafford 447; Lowenstein 160.