(Food History) De Salis, Mrs. Harriet Anne. The Art of Cookery Past and Present: A Treatise on Ancient Cookery, with Anecdotes of Noted Cooks and Gourmets, Ancient Foods, Menus, etc. Nuts 1"x2" closed tear to front

1"x2" closed tear to front jacket panel

Full title: The Cook’s Oracle

There are even a few Brazilian recipes

Soiling & spots to white covers

Warmly inscribed & SIGNED by Wynants (with a drawing by him) on half-title

(Food History) De Salis, Mrs. Harriet Anne. The Art of Cookery Past and Present: A Treatise on Ancient Cookery, with Anecdotes of Noted Cooks and Gourmets, Ancient Foods, Menus, etc. Nuts 1"x2" closed tear to frontArt Nouveau dec. cloth. First Edition. London: Hutchinson, 1898. A survey of Greek, Roman, and golden age French gourmands. De Salis (1829 1908) was a popular writer of Victorian era cookery and household management, and even wrote a history of kissing (!). Rubbing to spine ends, else very good charming. (8)