Le Ménage de la Ville et des Champs
1738
Le Ménage des champs et de la ville : ou Nouveau cuisinier françois accomodé au goût du tems. Contenant tout ce qu'un parfait chef de cuisine doit sçavoir pour servir toutes sortes de tables, depuis celles des plus grands seigneurs jusqu'à celle des bons bourgeois, avec une instruction pour faire toutes sortes de pâtisseries, confitures sèches & liquides, & toutes les différentes liqueurs qui sont aujourd'hui en usage. Première partie du Ménage. Louis Ligier Paris, 1738, chez Michel-Antoine David, bookshop in the rue des Mathurins. 12mo, 16.5 x 10 cm; [6] unnumbered ff. (title, preface), 582 pp., [9] unnumbered ff. of table and privilege. Contemporary binding, full marbled fawn calf, spine with 5 raised bands, compartmented and tooled with fleurons, title label, red edges. Small abrasions on the boards. and upper corner damaged at the rear. Loss in the marbled cover paper at the end (not the work itself). A good copy, quite fresh, with a sound binding. A work of cookery and domestic economy composed by Louis Liger, a French agronomist and writer of the late 17th century. This type of manual was addressed to landowners, stewards and well-to-do households, in the tradition of the domestic economy treatises of the early modern period.
An 18th-century recipe and cookery book. Second edition of this work, published from 1714 to 1756 and recognised as a classic. A fine copy
