Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LÉMERY, LOUIS. A Treatise of Foods, in General. [18] (of [20]), xx, 320, [8] pages, including final ad leaf; lacks initial license leaf. 8vo, mottled calf gilt contemporary calf by Zaehnsdorf, spine brittle, front cover detached; contents washed with some residual spotting. London: John Taylor, 1704

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first edition in english of Lémery's 1702 Traité des Alimens, "a dictionary of edibles with a description of their nutritional value in terms of chemico-mechanical principles"--DSB VIII, 171. Cagle 821; Oxford, page 48; Vicaire 514.