L'ART DE LA CUISINE FRANCAISE AU DIX-NEUVIEME SIECLE.
TRAITE ELEMENTAIRE ET PRATIQUE Des Bouillons en gras et en maigre, des Essences, Fumets, des Potages francaise et etrangers; des grosses pieces de Poisson; des grandes et petites Sauces; des Ragouts et des Garnatures; des grosses pieces de Boucheriee, de Jambon, de Volaille, et de Gibier, etc. PAR Antonin CAREME, de Paris. (one single line) TOME 1st A PARIS, (one single line) AU COMTOIR DES IMPRIMEURS-UNIS, Qui Malaquais, 15, CHEZ JULES RENOUARD ET C, LIBRAIRES, 6, RUE DE TOURNON, Meme maison a Leipzig; CHEZ DENTU, LIBRAIRE, GALERIE D' ORLEANS, AU PALAIS-ROYAL., Et au Depot principal, rue Sainte-Anne,55. (one very small single line) 1847
3 VOLUMES -- TOME 1: 218 x 140mm. 1fep. Half-title. [2] Portrait frontis of Careme. Elaborate title page (designed by Careme) [1] Title page. [1] v-vj Dedication to Madame Rothschild. vij-xix To Lady Morgan. [1] xxj-liij Notice Historique et Culinaire. [1] lv-lxvj Avertissement. lxvij-cviij Histoire. cix-cxvj Fragments. cxvij-cxxvij Des Ceremonies. [1] 1-296. (1)298-313 Table. [1] 1fep. Many small vignettes throughout the book. TOME 2: 218 x 140mm. 1fep. Half-title. Elaborate title page (designed by Careme) [1] Title page. [1] j-xxviij Aphorismes. xxix-xxxj Trait de Devouement d'un Domestique. [1] (2)7-326. (1)328-342. 1fep. Nine folded plates present plus many small vignettes throughout the book. TOME 3: 218 x 140mm. 1fep. Half-title. [1] Title page. [1] (1)2-519. [1] (1)522-544 Table des chaptres.. 1ep. Three single and eleven folded plates present plus many small vignettes throughout the book. All half title, elaborate titles and title pages foxed due to inferior paper being used. All text blocks clean and tight. All volumes in quarter dark tan calf with marbled board. Calf tips to boards. Spines with raised bands, gilt lines, blind tooling and 2 two red labels each. A fine set.
- Marie-Antoine Carême, born June 8, 1784, Paris, France, died January 12, 1833, Paris. A French chef who served the royalty of Europe, wrote several classic works on cuisine, and advanced the notion of cuisine as both an art and a science. Carême was born into a poor family. He began his career at age 15 as a kitchen helper in a Parisian restaurant but soon moved to employment in a fashionable pastry shop, or pâtisserie, frequented by Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand. Carême’s elaborately sculptured confections reached the table of Napoleon himself. Carême thereafter became the chef of Talleyrand (12 years), of the prince regent (the future George IV) of Great Britain (2 years), and briefly, in succession, of Tsar Alexander 1 of Russia, the court of Vienna, the British embassy in Paris, the Prince of Württemberg, the Marquess of Londonderry, and Princess Bagration. He then spent seven years with the Baron de Rothschild at his Ferrières estate. He published the first three volumes of 'L'art de la Cuisine Francaise au xixe-siecle.' by January 1833, while still alive. After his death volumes four and five were edited by his friend the food author Armand Plumerey, from the existing papers of Careme and published by 1834. Interestingly these three volumes can be considered a complete set as well as the set of five with Plumerey's additional two. Careme and his wife were buried together in Montmartre at the Cimetière de Montmartre.
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