Lot no. 44
DUCHEMIN (Pierre-Claude). Manuel industriel contenant la manipulation de la patisserie... Paris, Se vend chez l'auteur, 1840. In-8, paperback, green half-basin folder, spine decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, gilt title, slipcase lined with the same (Modern folder and slipcase). Very rare first edition.
Duchemin was a pastry chef on rue des Capucines in Paris, then a chef at Château de Balthazar near Livarot in Calvados.
Vicaire, 293. Gives only the second edition.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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