£400
Cookery. Efendi (Turabi), Turkish Cookery Book. A Collection of Receipts, Dedicated to those Royal and Distinguished Personages, the Guests of His Highness the Late Viceroy of Egypt, on the occasion of the banquet given at Woolwich, on board His Highness's Yacht the Faiz-Jehad, the 16th July 1862 [...], first edition of the first English translation of the first printed Turkish cookery book, [London: printed by W.M. Watts, Crown Court, Temple Bar, August, 1864], [xii], 82pp, wormtrails throughout, sometimes with loss of letters, but never with loss of sense, bound in contemporary (original?) quarter-morocco over cloth boards, gilt-lettered upper-cover, rubbed, split and wormed, lacking verso ffep, 8vo, [Bitting p. 141; Blackmer 1684]
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