(French) Monselet, Charles. L'Almanach Gourmand pour 1868. Pastry Some fading and rubbing to

Some fading and rubbing to cloth

and purported to retain mineral and vitamine [sic] elements while cooking on multiple physical levels (image at rear shows various compartments)

of the author

A scarce 19th c

(French) Monselet, Charles. L'Almanach Gourmand pour 1868. Pastry Some fading and rubbing toIllus. Pictorially engraved wrappers. Paris: Librairie du Petit Journal, 1868. Seasonal foods listed for each month, long with poems and stories around food, with each page illustrated with engraved vines. One piece describes a meal in Mexico, and another in China. Binding strings coming loose, piece of rear wrapper lacking, else good.