Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 281

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
SOYER, ALEXIS. Group of 6 volumes. Various sizes, first 3 in original cloth, fourth in modern 1/2 morocco, fifth in original boards, rebacked, sixth in modern buckram. London, 1849-59

Additional Details

The Modern Housewife. Portrait and 4 plates. Rebacked retaining original backstrip. First edition. 1849 The Gastronomic Regenerator: A Simplified and entirely New System of Cookery . . . Seventh Edition. 15 plates, including portrait and additional title. 1850 The Modern Housewife . . . Thirtieth Thousand. Recased, endpapers renewed. Portrait and 6 plates. 1853 Soyer's Culinary Campaign; being, Historical Reminiscences of the Late [i. e., Crimean] War. With the Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions, the Army, Navy, Public, etc. etc. 9 plates, including portrait and additional title. First edition. 1857 Shilling Cookery for the People . . . One Hundred and Eighty-Fifth Thousand. Portrait. 1858 Memoirs of Alexis Soyer. Half-title. Old inscriptions and perforated stamp on title. First edition. 1859.