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CARDELLI. Manual of the cook and the cookess, for the use of the city and the country. Paris, Roret, 1822. In-16, paperback, untrimmed. XII pp. and 348 pp. First edition, decorated with a frontispiece and 3 plates out of text. The recipes (soups, hors d'oeuvres, sauces, stews, meats, fishes, eggs, pastries, jams) are preceded by a treatise on dissection and followed by a list of "renowned food substances, and cities that produce them" and a treatise on wine. According to Quérard, Cardelli is the pseudonym of H. Duval, former secretary of Las Cases. Old handwritten bookplate in fine: "this book belongs to Miss Le Bienvenu". Worn paperback, soiling, corners corroded. Plate II, marginal lack due to a paper defect, without affecting the engraving. Vicar, 142.
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CARDELLI. Manual of the cook and the cookess, for the use of the city and the country. Paris, Roret, 1822. In-16, paperback, untrimmed. XII pp. and 348 pp. First edition, decorated with a frontispiece and 3 plates out of text. The recipes (soups, hors d'oeuvres, sauces, stews, meats, fishes, eggs, pastries, jams) are preceded by a treatise on dissection and followed by a list of "renowned food substances, and cities that produce them" and a treatise on wine. According to Quérard, Cardelli is the pseudonym of H. Duval, former secretary of Las Cases. Old handwritten bookplate in fine: "this book belongs to Miss Le Bienvenu". Worn paperback, soiling, corners corroded. Plate II, marginal lack due to a paper defect, without affecting the engraving. Vicar, 142.
