Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 350

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(MEXICAN COOKERY.) Libro de recetas para la provisioria de las Religiosas Carmelitas Descalzas del Convento de S. My. J. [60] manuscript pages. 12mo, original cloth-backed boards, moderate wear; front hinge split, otherwise clean and legible. Morelia, Mexico, 1897

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A cookbook kept in several different hands by the nuns of a Carmelite convent in central Mexico. The first half of the book is devoted to seafood, surprising for an inland city.