SOYER ALEXIS The Pantropheon; or History of Food and its Pre

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SOYER, ALEXIS. The Pantropheon; or, History of Food, and its Preparation, from the Earliest Ages of the World. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of Soyer and 41 plates. Half-title. Large 8vo, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth, spine ends nicked, hinges cracked. Boston, 1853

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first american edition of a work originally published the same year in London, "covering every aspect of food production, preparation, and history. This was in a completely different style from his previous work, and it is now known that it was not written by him, but by a Frenchman, Adolphe Duhart-Fauvet, who sold it to Soyer to translate and complete. This he did, but published it under his own name without acknowledgement to the original author" (ODNB). Cagle & Stafford 725; Lowenstein 596.