Search Results: Titles starting with L from Pazzo Books

Venice: Gabriel Giolito, 1572. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Later but old full vellum over wooden boards with armorial stamp of Clan Stirling, hinge starting but sound, trimmed a bit close on the bottom edge affecting the very bottom of the title pages, scattered minor foxing and browning. Three volumes in one with separate titles, the last title printed in 1573. Portrait and 55 woodcuts in text in vol one, portrait and 20 in volume 3. (28), 544pp; (44)pp; (16), 186, (2)pp; Adams, D-727; Brunet II, 790Three poetic adaptations of the classics with lovely woodcuts throughout. The last title is the rarest and includes the satiric The Battle of the Frogs and Mice which had been attributed to Homer but is now usually assigned to a later poet. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046739.

Paris: Veuve Duchesne, 1772. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf, gilt, wear at the corners, joints a little weak. Scattered light foxing and browning - a nice, clean copy. [23],430,[2] An interesting enlightenment take on the book of secrets, named after, but not following, the great and little Albert of the middle ages. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science & Technology; Cooking, Wine & Dining. Inventory No: 045441.

Bolgna: Giacomo Monti, 1638. Early Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. Later half red sheep, 4 1/2" x 2 1/2". The first Bolognese edition of Lengueglia's courtesy book first published in Venice (and then Rome) the previous year. Quite scarce, no copies of this edition and only 6 copies of any edition in Worldcat. A charming little book, 3 books continuously paginated, 492pp, probably lacking endpapers, light wear to a few page edges, one small marginal repair. Size: Miniature. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Sociology & Culture. Inventory No: 042319.

Paris: G. Masson, 1888. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Original wraps, browned and chipped. General browning internally but largely unopened. With the Carte Vinicole of Oran at the rear, slightly chipped at the edges and browned but attractive and intact. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: 043958.

Paris: Éditions de la Sirene, 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition. Wrappers a little chipped, lacking glassine and with a plastic cover instead, fresh internally and mostly unopened; small bookplate on rear endpaper. 223pp Size: 12mo . One volume of the 3-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: dcoo; Inventory No: CAT000683.

Paris: Un Groupe D'Amateurs, 1933. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Green wraps worn and split at the spine, a few finger marks but otherwise clean internally with 6 illustrations. Published one year after the first French edition - number 141 of 150 copies. Size: Quarto (4to). Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Erotica; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 044372.

Disbound. Very Good Condition. 3pp offprint of a poem attributed in an accompanying manuscript note to Saint-Chamond. One corner torn, dated in manuscript, April 1769. An allegorical love (or lack thereof) poem - authorship not verified past the note. Saint-Chamond was an author and philosopher, writing works on Rousseau and Descartes before the date of this poem. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 048155.

Bruxelles: Société Typographique Belge, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Good. 1/4 leather but spine defective and spine strip largely lacking, hinges cracked but attached. Ding to top page edge, faint dampstain to fore-edge, scattered foxing. x, 285pp. 5 full page illustrations. Vicaire 86. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000109.

Paris: Delaunay, 1813. Third Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Wear at corners, slight scattered browning to pages. 141pp. Cagle 143 (1810 1st ed.), Vicaire 191, Oblerlé 391Third edition of Colnet du Ravel's satirical poem - later editions were often packaged with Berchoux's Gastronomie and Brillat-Savarin's Physiology du goût. The final section is an "extract of a larger work" authors who have died of starvation. Size: 12mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Poetry. Inventory No: CAT000543.

Paris: Emile Babeuf, 1822. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. Parchment backed marbled boards, worn at edges, rubbed, discolored; binding sound, foxing and browning internally, heavy in spots but not affecting legibility. Dampstains to plates at rear and a few other spots, wear to margins of last few pages. Three plates and a frontis. 4 pages of ads, VI, 454pp. Vicaire 9, Cagle 28 (1833 ed.). Second editon of a book first published in 1812 as "Manuel complet d'économie domestique". May have exerted more influence on Russian cuisine since it was translated, unusual for the time, into Russian in 1825 as "????????? ?????, ??? ?????????? ?????" / Parizhskii povar, ili povarennai?a? kniga Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000848.

Paris: Pilet, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes rebound as one in modern leather backed marbled boards. The second issue with the added preface and supplement (the second issue used the same sheets as the first but the titles were pulled and signed and re-dated by Beauvillier's widow as here). Minor foxing, scattered stains to edges. xx, 388; 376; 38pp. 9 folding plates of menus. Beauvilliers, while not the first, was the first great restaurateur in Paris, opening La Grande Taverne de Londres in 1782. So important that he rates his own section in Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste, where he says of L'Art Cuisinier, "Never before that time had cookery been discussed with so much method and precision." Size: 8vo (octavo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000544.

Paris: Pilet, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes rebound in modern red leather with added 19th century endpapers. The second issue with the added preface and supplement - lacking the title in volume 1 with a facsimile tipped in (the second issue used the same sheets as the first but the titles were pulled and signed and re-dated by Beauvillier's widow. This one was evidently misplaced.), small tear to the title in volume 2. Light foxing and faint dampstains to the plates at the rear of volume 1. A fine pair overall. xx, 388; 376pp. 9 folding plates of menus, 3 in volume 1 and 6 in volume 2.Beauvilliers, while not the first, was the first great restauranteur in Paris, opening La Grande Taverne de Londres in 1782. So important that he rates his own section in Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste, where he says of L'Art Cuisinier, "Never before that time had cookery been discussed with so much method and precision." Size: 8vo (octavo). 2-volume set… Read More

Roma: Societa Editrice Dante Alighieri, 1894. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Card covers, light wear, light crease to rear cover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Medicine & Health; Inventory No: 046941.

Paris, 1902. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Light wear at edges - bright copy with color illustration throughout Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 047093.

Paris, 1902. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Illustrated throughout by Steinlein - chipped at edges, covers slightly discolored, spine torn at hinge and almost detached. Bright internally - remarkable images by Steinlein critiquing French colonialism and other horrors. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 047092.

Paris: Jean Ribou, 1682. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf, lightly worn, corners a little bumped. Two small tears, one in the preliminaries, one later on, obscuring a few letters, a few minor stains - a very attractive copy overall with 42 mostly full page woodcuts (often copied according to Vicaire) within the pagination. (viii), 480, (28)pp.Cagle 179 (the 1662 1st ed.), Vicaire 339, Notaker 625.7.A popular and likable plagiaristic jumble of cookery texts put together by the anonymous author with bits from Le Maistre d'Hostel (1659), Le Patissier and Confiturier François (1653), de Lune's Cuisinier (1656), and Livre fort Excellent (1555) along with quite a few original recipes. It was translated into English in 1682. All of the 17th century editions are scarce. Size: 8vo (octavo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000081.

Lyon: Jacques Cainer, 1685. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary full calf, worn at corners, bumped on edges in a few places, scattered mostly minor stains and creases internally. 458, (3)pp. Cagle 264 (1699 ed.), Vicaire 503 Styled the 11th edition of La Varenne's groundbreaking cookbook, Le Cuisinier, Patissier and Confiturier all in separate sections. Size: 12mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000498.

Paris: Tavernier Fils, 1917. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good. Full decorative vellum, darkened with age. Number 127 of 550. 128pp plus colophon and index.An attractively printed edition of the burlesque poem from 1643 itself based on the famed 11th century poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, espousing the health and dietary precepts of the world's first medical school at Salerno. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Poetry. Inventory No: CAT000066.

Paris: Payot, 1922. First Edition. Very Good. 159pp, ads to endpapers. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Text is clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: 038454.

Paris: H. Floury, 1916. Edition Unstated. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Light age toning, faint soiling to rear cover, covers slightly bowed, repaired tear across page 24 - but a lovely copy overall. Published while the region was being fought over during World War I - it was ceded back to France with the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 046186.