[LA VARENNE (F. P. de). Le Pastissier françois; où est enseigné la manière de faire toute sorte de Pastisserie, très-utile à toute sorte de personnes. Le moyen d'apprester toute sorte d'œufs pour les jours maigres, et autres en plus de soixante façons. Third edition. Paris, Jean Prome, 1662. In-8, vellum (contemporary binding). Title, 205 pp, 2 ff (table and privilege). Le Pastissier françois is the first French treatise devoted entirely to pastry-making, i.e. all pastry preparations, both savoury and sweet. All the editions are rare since the first of 1653, that of Elsevier of 1655, that of Paris, Gaillard of 1657 and this one declared third edition. Vicaire 663. Hardback: Le Confiturier François, Où est enseigné la manière de faire toutes sortes de confitures, dragées, liqueurs et breuvages agréables. Ensemble, la manière de plier le linge de table, et en faire toutes sortes de figures. Paris, by Jean Promé, 1662. [4] ff. 96 pp. Second edition, the first having been published by Gaillard in 1660. In reality, this Confiturier françois is a piracy (in simplified form) of the Confiturier de la Cour published in the Maistre d'hotel in 1659 (cf. Livres en bouche, no. 122). The two works are reunited in their first binding. Some foxing, title leaf of the Pastissier slightly faded. Mottling on the Confiturier, last 3 leaves creased.