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[MENON], Les Soupers de la Cour, ou l'art de travailler toutes sortes d'alimens, pour servir les meilleures Tables, suivant les quatre Saisons.
Paris: Chez Guillyn, Libraire, 1755. First edition. 3 volumes of 4 vols., 12mo. Tome I: xii, xxii, [2], 404pp; Tome II: xxii, 460pp.; Tome III: xxii, 300pp. Lacking Tome IV. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines, marbled endpapers; head of volume II slightly nicked, joints rubbed and starting but sound. Bitting , p. 321; Cagle 344; OCLC records four locations; Vicaire col. 591. Not in Oberlé, Pennell, or Simon. ¶ A rare and important book. Both of Bittings sets (one of the first edition, the other of the second edition, were incomplete. "This is the most celebrated of Menon's works and one of the most important among the culinary works of the 18th century, consequently has become rare and difficult to obtain in complete form." - Bitting
Offered for US$ 2500.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 15140