MASSIALOT, François. Nouvelle instruction pour les confitures, les liqueurs et les fruits avec la maniere de bien ordonner un dessert. Parigi, Charles de Sercy, 1692

Small 8vo, mm. 160 x 88; French contemporary binding, full leather marbled with golden ornaments and golden title in the spine, decorated lips, sprinkled edges; p. [24], 444, [20]; typographic mark in the title page with the initials C.D.S., woodcut figures in the text, one woodcut plate folded out of the text. French monastic stamp to the Title-page and in the last page. Slight browning, good specimen.

Rare first edition. This classic of gastronomic literature had great success and was reprinted several times: in three parts, contains hundreds of recipes for jams, liqueurs, and the manner of preparing and disposing the fruits for dessert. Massialot, among the most famous chefs of the time, in another work he describes as “a chef who dares to qualify real, and it is not without reason, since the meals that describes for different times of the year were all served shortly after a Court, or the houses of principles and first-rate people.” This original edition is not to be confused with the most widespread pirated edition of the same year, which has a different paging and does not have the brand of Sercy imprinted in woodcut on the title-page. Vicaire 454; Bitting 584; Oberlé, Les fastes de Comus et de Bacchus, 94, fore the counterfeit edition.The Lot is offered with a valid export licence.