[KLOCEK - 2 titles] SZYTTLER Jan - Cook well disposed volume I-II, Vilnius 1840 + Lenten Kitchen, Vilnius 1848, VERY RARE

[Blocks - 2 titles]:

1. cook well disposed with the addition of many new articles and the attachment of a traveling kitchen, for the convenience of travelers, volume I - II - Jan Szyttler, Vilna 1840r. third edition [the first appeared in 1830], in the Dyecezalney Drukarnia u XX. Misssyonarzy, published by Ruben Rafałowicz, a bookseller from Vilnius, f. 12 x 18cm, pp [4], 179, [8], 136, [8], f. plates 2 [how to set a refined table for 24 people and ash and black truffles, VERY RARE

2 [ Lenten cuisine giving the most economical ways of preparing fish dishes and soups, coolers, roast meats, pickles, vegetables, mélanges, cakes, etc.]. - Jan Szyttler, Vilna 1848, by Ruben Rafalowicz, printed by Jozef Zawadzki, f. 12 x 18cm, pp. XIV, 258, VERY RARE

SZYTTLER Jan [1763-1850] Polish cook, author of the first systematic cookbooks in the Polish lands, is considered one of the most outstanding Polish cooks in history, He was a cook at the court of the Ogiński family in Siedlce and at the court of King Stanisław August Poniatowski of Poland, among others. Szyttler published dozens of books, and drew inspiration from both Polish and French cuisine, and to a lesser extent Lithuanian and Belorussian. His books had a great influence on the formation of noble and bourgeois culinary tastes.

all in 1 volume, hardcover, fawn, spine binding detached, on the vast majority of pages and boards a trace of an old dampstain on the upper and lower edges, apart from the dampstains both pages and boards in good condition