Cookery.- Emery (Antoine Joseph d') Le Nouveau Recueil de Curiositez, le plus Rares & admirables de tous les Effects, que l'Art & la Nature sont capables de produire, engraved additional pictorial title depicting a kitchen, gardening, an artist's studio and an alchemist's laboratory, 8 engraved plates, lightly browned, a couple of marginal spots, contemporary sheep, worn, spine wormed and frayed, lower cover lacking leather covering, [Bitting p.144 note; Caillet 3552 (as Nicolas Lemery); cf.Duveen p.192, 1697 edition & Vicaire p.327, 1685 edition], suivant la copie de Paris, Leiden, P. van der Aa, 1688 § Vine (Fred T.) Saleable Shop Goods for Counter-Tray and Window. A Practical Book for Practical Confectioners, sixth edition, original cloth-backed printed boards, rubbed & soiled, [c.1927] § Schulbe (Ernest) Advanced Piping and Modelling being Studies of Modelling in Gum Paste and Marzipan, second edition, advertisements, Manchester, 1921 § Hans Kaspar AG. Pectine, first edition, Zurich, [1948], the last three with illustrations, the last two original cloth; and 5 others on cookery, v.s. (9)

⁂ The first mentioned was first published in Paris in 1684 and is often attributed to Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715), author of Recueil des plus beaux secrets de medecine... comme aussi plusieurs secrets curieux sur d'admirables effets de la nature & de l'art, 1694. There are chapters of recipes, on wine, vinegars and conserving flowers, fruits etc., as well as medical cures (a substantial section), fireworks, perfume and cosmetics.

The final item was issued by a producer of margarine and includes recipes for cakes, using pectin for cake decoration.