Bouillon-Lagrange - L'Art de composer les liqueurs de table - 1808

BOUILLON-LAGRANGE (M.) The Art of Easily and at Little Cost Composing Table Liqueurs, Scented Waters, and Other Objects of Domestic Economy.
Paris, Dentu, 1808; small 8vo, calfskin, plain spine ornamented (binding of the period).

2 leaves, 445 pp. 3 plates.

Second edition of Bouillon-Lagrange’s book (1764-1840), a revision of Poncelet’s Chymie du Gout et de l’Odorat, published in 1765. Countless recipes for liqueurs in all their forms: coffee, anisette, chocolate, orange blossom, gin, lemongrass, wines of peaches, apricots and currants, etc.

Bitting, 51. – Chwartz, I, 156 (original edition). – Vicaire, 108 (third edition of 1825).

Discrete foxing, spine slightly cracked, a corner pierced.