Apr 16, 2019 - Sale 2505

Sale 2505 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(MEXICAN COOKERY.) Torres de Rubio, Vicenta. Cocina Michoacana. 6 plates (5 of them tinted), text illustrations. [4], 796, xxxii pages. 4to, contemporary calf, moderate wear; intermittent foxing and wear to contents, minor dampstaining. Zamora: Imprenta Moderna, 1896

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first edition. An attractively printed early regional cookbook, featuring the cuisine of Michoacán. Chapters are devoted to moles (page 193), seafood (378), pulque (740), tamales (754), and much more. Torres de Rubio was the first Mexican woman to publish a cookbook under her own name (Pilcher, Food and the Making of Mexican Identity, page 48).