La Varenne (François Pierre) Le vrai Cuisinier françois, enseignant la manière de bien apprêter & assaisonner toutes sortes de viandes, graisses et maigres, legumes & patisseries en perfection, &c., 3 parts in 1, engraved frontispiece, title in red and black and with small woodcut floral ornament, folding woodcut plate of table settings, woodcut illustrations of carving, privilege f. at end, chip to upper blank outer corner of frontispiece, water-stained, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary speckled calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with red leather label, head of spine neatly repaired, foot of spine worn, but solid, rubbed, [cf. Vicaire 499 (Backer, 1712)], 12mo, Brussels, George de Backer, 1711.

⁂ A rare edition.

Provenance: Hopetoun (engraved armorial bookplate).