Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 251

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MEXICAN COOKERY.) Nuevo y sencillo arte de cocina, repostería y refrescos, dispuesto por una mexicana. Text illustrations. [4], 488, [20] pages. 2 volumes in one. Small 8vo, contemporary calf, moderate wear; lacks front free endpaper, minor foxing, minor dampstaining toward rear. Mexico: Vicente García Torres, 1842
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Expanded second edition, after the first edition of 1836. The only Mexican cookbook published before 1896 which claimed female authorship, though it was anonymous--"por una Mexicana." See Werner, Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico, page 155.