[ROBERT or ROLLAND]. The Art of treating well, divided into three parts... Exactement recherché et mis en lumière par L.S.R. Paris, Jean Du Puis, 1674. In-12, ivory vellum (antique binding). An extremely rare first edition. The initials L.S.R. in the title refer to Le Sieur Robert according to Barbier, or, according to a note in the second Pichon copy, Le Sieur Rolland, officier de bouche de la princesse de Carignan. A manifesto of seventeenth-century cuisine, it is the first French work to consider "Gastronomy" as a whole (description of a kitchen, dining room, pantry, provisions, feasts, etc.), describing a reasoned cuisine, "by its polemical tone shows once again that the art of culinary preparation [has] now entered the age of true legislation of taste" (Livres en bouche). The book contains 250 remarkable recipes. Only two editions are known to exist: this one, shared between the booksellers Jean du Puis and Frédéric Léonard, and a reprint from Lyon in 1693. From the Adiogene Giulemani library, with bookplate. A copy skilfully placed in an antique vellum binding. Some brown spots. Vicaire, 43 - Bitting, 518 - Cagle, n°407 - Livre en bouche, n°115.