DUBOIS, Urbain Artistic cuisine. Études de l'École... Lot 21

DUBOIS, Urbain Artistic cuisine. Études de l'École militaire. Work in two parts containing one hundred and one engraved plates, hors texte [...]. Paris E. Dentu 1872-1874 2 vols. in-4°; 133 h.-t. (russ. sometimes numerous, wetness at qqs. corners sup. in vol. II, some plates slightly tinted due to serpente). Brown half-chagrin, green percaline boards, ornate gilt ribbed spines (rubbed, leather slightly faded, binding almost entirely detached in vol. I). Uncommon first edition of this companion volume to "La cuisine classique". Appropriately stamped with the author's signature. Complete with 133 spectacular plates (105 steel-engraved, including 1 frontispiece and 1 double-page spread, and 28 woodcuts for the appendix), among the finest illustrations of culinary art. At the end of the first part, a catalog raisonné of Dubois's culinary publications. Ref. Vicaire 290. - Cp. Bitting 131, Oberlé, Fastes, 245 (2nd ed.).