NO RESERVE [Massialot (François)] Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs et les fruits, new edition, enlarged, 3 folding engraved plates of table settings, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and decorative initials, 1 plate with split at fold, without loss, Vv5 with short neat tear within text, but without loss, some mostly marginal water-staining at foot, occasional spotting, lightly browned, contemporary calf, richly gilt spine in compartments and with brown leather label, small piece of leather missing from compartments at head and foot, corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Bitting p.584; cf. Livres en bouche 125 (first edition); & Simon BG 1022 (with a note regarding author attribution)], Paris, Claude Prudhomme, 1734; and 2 others by the same, 1 an odd vol., large 12mo (3)

⁂ Scarce edition. Jams, liqueurs and fruits.