Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 262

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
[MASSIALOT, FRANÇOIS.] Nouvelle Instruction pour les Confitures, les Liqueurs, et les Fruits. Folding woodcut plate showing display of confections. [24], 458, [19] pages. 12mo, modern leather, missing portion from top of spine, front joint partly cracked; contents dampstained with scattered traces of mold, crude restoration in upper outer corner of approximately the first 30 leaves partly affecting top 2 lines of text on title, paper fault in blank outer margin of V1. Paris: Charles de Sercy, 1698

Additional Details

Second edition of a treatise on preserves first published in 1692. Alden 698/140 (for references to chocolate); Cagle 321.