Allgemeines Deutsches Kochbuch für bürgerliche haushaltungen

Berlin: Berlag von Carl Friedrich Umelang, 1849. Hardcover. Green embossed cloth covered boards. Very good. 445 pages. 19 x 12 cm. Lovely engraved frontispiece with tissue guard. An essential handbook for aspiring housewives, housekeepers and cooks. Written in "old' German script, or Fraktur. Marbled edges. Interior lightly foxed, otherwise clean. Boards lightly rubbed. From the culinary collection of Carl G. Sontheimer, the man who revolutionized American cooking by bringing the Cuisinart to the United States. Bookplate states: This book is a gift from THE SONTHEIMER FOUNDATION Greenwich, Connecticut.