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COLMENERO DE LEDESMA, Antoine – MOREAU, René (translator). Du chocolate discours curieux. Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy, 1643.
The rare first French edition of Colmenero’s landmark treatise on chocolate, the book that introduced chocolate to Europe. Moreau’s translation, appearing 12 years after the original Spanish edition, was the first book on chocolate in French and the first printed in France. Dedicated to Louis-Alphonse du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal de Lyon (1582-1653), an early user of chocolate for medicinal purposes, this copy appears bound for his brother Armand-Jean, Cardinal et Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642), who died shortly before publication. ABPC/RBH list no copies at auction. Palau 56905 (this edition).
Quarto (260 x 197mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials (very light marginal spotting). Contemporary limp vellum, gilt ruled, covers with central gilt arms of Cardinal Richelieu [Olivier 406 fer 2], early decorative paper and c.19th-century paper label on spine (lightly soiled and with small loss to one corner).
The rare first French edition of Colmenero’s landmark treatise on chocolate, the book that introduced chocolate to Europe. Moreau’s translation, appearing 12 years after the original Spanish edition, was the first book on chocolate in French and the first printed in France. Dedicated to Louis-Alphonse du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal de Lyon (1582-1653), an early user of chocolate for medicinal purposes, this copy appears bound for his brother Armand-Jean, Cardinal et Duc de Richelieu (1585-1642), who died shortly before publication. ABPC/RBH list no copies at auction. Palau 56905 (this edition).
Quarto (260 x 197mm). Woodcut printer’s device on title, woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials (very light marginal spotting). Contemporary limp vellum, gilt ruled, covers with central gilt arms of Cardinal Richelieu [Olivier 406 fer 2], early decorative paper and c.19th-century paper label on spine (lightly soiled and with small loss to one corner).
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