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FOOD AND DRINK -- A collection of 8 works in 10 volumes, including: LA CHAPELLE, Vincent. Le Cuisinier Moderne. The Hague: Antoine de Groot for the author, 1736-1735. Volumes I-II only (of 4), 8° (195 x 129mm). 5 folding plates, 2 folding tables. (Dampstain in the bottom margin of both volumes.) Contemporary French mottled calf (some wear).
MOFFET, Thomas. Health's Improvement: or Rules ... of Preparing all sorts of Foods. London: T. Osborne, 1746. 8° (165 x 103mm). (Title with light marginal browning.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (spine cracked, joints starting, front free endpaper clipped) -- DUTRONE LA COUTURE, J.-F. Précis sur la Canne. Paris: for the author, 1790. 8° (194 x 125mm). 6 folding engraved plates and two folding tables. (Occasional minor spotting.) Contemporary calf, flat gilt spine (spine head chipped, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this important work on the raising and processing of sugar cane. Together with five others, including The Compleat Cook (1710) , The London and Country Brewer (1742) and the sixth edition of Richard Bradley's Country Housewife and Lady's Director (1732, 2 vols; lacking frontispiece).
MOFFET, Thomas. Health's Improvement: or Rules ... of Preparing all sorts of Foods. London: T. Osborne, 1746. 8° (165 x 103mm). (Title with light marginal browning.) Contemporary sprinkled calf (spine cracked, joints starting, front free endpaper clipped) -- DUTRONE LA COUTURE, J.-F. Précis sur la Canne. Paris: for the author, 1790. 8° (194 x 125mm). 6 folding engraved plates and two folding tables. (Occasional minor spotting.) Contemporary calf, flat gilt spine (spine head chipped, corners rubbed). FIRST EDITION of this important work on the raising and processing of sugar cane. Together with five others, including The Compleat Cook (1710) , The London and Country Brewer (1742) and the sixth edition of Richard Bradley's Country Housewife and Lady's Director (1732, 2 vols; lacking frontispiece).
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