BOSREDON (Alexandre de). Manual of the truffle grower. Périg - Lot 556

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BOSREDON (Alexandre de). Manual of the truffle grower. Périg - Lot 556
BOSREDON (Alexandre de). Manual of the truffle grower. Périgueux, Imprimerie E. Laporte, 1887. In-8, bradel marbled paper boards, brown title page (Modern binding). False title, title, pp. (3) to 236, (1) f. of errata, 13 plates. Original edition describing, in a first part, the creation and maintenance of truffle fields, and in a second part, scientific research on varieties, the origin of truffles, their gastronomic and commercial history, frauds and falsifications...; a chapter is devoted to culinary recipes: preserves in cans, jars or bottles; truffle essence; truffles in the calonne au vin, in the Provençal style, in the Perigueux style, on the spit... It is decorated with 13 plates out of text in black. Alexandre de Bosredon (1831-1903), deputy of Aquitaine, was president of the Agricultural Society of the Dordogne, and specialized in truffle growing. Mykolibri, 215.
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