Lot 50: GRUNAUER, Johann Albrecht. Das vollständige und auf die neueste Art eingerichtete Koch-Buch, bestehend in 37. Capiteln, und 1030. wohlzugerichteten Speisen . Nuremberg: Georg Christoph Lochner, 1726. Small 4° (200 x 165mm). Engraved frontispiece

GRUNAUER, Johann Albrecht. Das vollständige und auf die neueste Art eingerichtete Koch-Buch, bestehend in 37. Capiteln, und 1030. wohlzugerichteten Speisen . Nuremberg: Georg Christoph Lochner, 1726. Small 4° (200 x 165mm). Engraved frontispiece depicting a banquet scene and 2 kitchen scenes, title printed in red and black (lightly spotted and browned, some leaves lightly waterstained). Contemporary half vellum, manuscript title on spine (soiled and rubbed). Provenance : 4pp. of receipts in manuscript on 2 blank leaves at end (one leaf detached).

GRUNAUER, Johann Albrecht. Das vollständige und auf die neueste Art eingerichtete Koch-Buch, bestehend in 37. Capiteln, und 1030. wohlzugerichteten Speisen. Nuremberg: Georg Christoph Lochner, 1726. Small 4° (200 x 165mm). Engraved frontispiece depicting a banquet scene and 2 kitchen scenes, title printed in red and black (lightly spotted and browned, some leaves lightly waterstained). Contemporary half vellum, manuscript title on spine (soiled and rubbed). Provenance: 4pp. of receipts in manuscript on 2 blank leaves at end (one leaf detached).

FIRST EDITION of this extensive cookery book containing 1030 receipts in 37 chapters, listing ways of cooking all kinds of meat, fish, vegetables, soup, fruit, eggs, salads, pies, cakes and desserts. The work also contains more unusual receipts, for example eleven different ways of preparing calves' feet, how to fry bear's paws or cook a bear in a sour sauce, and four different ways of cooking Italian bird nests. Weiss 1342; cf. Schraemli 223.

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