Bourbon, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, Prince de Dombes. Le Cuisinier Gascon. “Amsterdam”, s.n. 1740. 12mo. [iix], 208p. Woodcut headpieces & woodcut title vignette signed N.Contemporary mottled calf (crown & base neatly restored), spine & red morocco label gilt. *PRINCELY RECIPES. FIRST EDITION: THE FIRST PUBLISHED COLLECTION OF RECIPES WRITTEN BY A ROYAL CHEF. The Prince des Dombes was “an amateur cook who often ‘officiated’ at Louis XV’s ‘Petit Soupers’” (Simon). The Count de Charolais and Marie Leczinska also labored in his kitchen: King Stanislas made his own baba au rhum! The prince imaginatively named his dishes — Yeux de veau farcis au gratin, Poulet à l’allure nouvelle en Chauve souris en culotte, Bignets bacchiques, Hachis d’œuf sans malice…. He wryly dedicated the book to himself. In good condition (two minor ink spots on two blank margins). Vicaire, Bib. gastr. 233-4; Bitting, Gastronomic Bib. 540; Cagle, A Matter of Taste 1081; Brunet II: 439; see Wellcome II: 412 & Simon’s Bib. gastron. 421 & Oberlé’s Bacchus 112 (later edd.). Price: USD 7,500.00 other currencies   order no. 10195    inquire

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