Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
LESLIE, ELIZA. Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. 8vo, original cloth, top of spine damaged, paper lettering piece off; rear hinge cracked. Boston, 1830

Additional Details

Third edition of the author's first work, originally published in 1828, the first American cookbook devoted to pastry and confectionery (with a brief appendix of miscellaneous recipes). Cagle & Stafford 472; Lowenstein 136.