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LE PARFAIT BOULANGER, ou Traité complet sur la fabrication & le commerce du pain.
by PARMENTIER, M.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1778.. FIRST EDITION 1778. 8vo, approximately 200 x 120 mm, 8 x 5 inches, pages: liii, [1], 1-639, full later mottled vellum, faded gilt lettered label to spine, gilt double rules to spine, armorial bookplate to first pastedown. Slight wear and rubbing to binding, small neat repair to foot of spine, tiny repaired tear to first free endpaper, short closed tear to lower margin of page 549 running into text, neatly repaired, no loss of text, occasional pale spot, tiny burn hole to 1 top margin, not near text, otherwise a very good copy. Comprehensive treatise on bread-making and the sale of the product. It includes a history of bread-making in the introduction. In 1780 Parmentier and Antoine Alexis Cadet de Vaux opened a free school of bakery in Paris. See: Gerard Oberl, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, page 458, No. 813; G. Vicaire, Bibliographie Gastronomique, column 656; William Gagle, A Matter of Taste, A Bibliographical Catalogue of International Books on Food and Drink, page 257, No. 374; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 357; Sotheby's Catalogue, Marcus and Elizabeth Crahan Collection of Books on Food, Drink and Related Subjects, No. 390. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47606
- Title
- LE PARFAIT BOULANGER, ou Traité complet sur la fabrication & le commerce du pain.
- Author
- PARMENTIER, M.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1778.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- cookery food bread pain baguette cooking boulangerie
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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