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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MEXICAN COOKERY.) Nueva cocinera mexicana : ó, Excelente coleccion de las mejores recetas. 2 plates. 256 pages. Small 8vo, cloth-backed marbled boards, moderate wear, front board coming detached; lacking front free endpaper and 3 text leaves (10:4, 13:2-3), minor foxing and wear. Mexico: Luis Heredia, 1841
first edition, although one chapter on serving techniques and the two plates had appeared in 1826 as the rare pamphlet "Arte de trinchar y servir las viandas" (see Swann's 6 November 2014 sale, lot 464). It is rich in New World ingredients and Mexican preparations. Printed over the first plate in this copy is a small early chromolithograph of a soldier. How or why this occurred is inexplicable, and has baffled the best minds of Swann; perhaps it was done as a puzzle for the curious bibliophiles of the future. Not in Palau, or in Bitting or Cagle's culinary bibliographies; 5 copies in OCLC.
