(French) Monselet, Charles. L'Almanach Gourmand pour 1868. Pastry While born in Poland

While born in Poland

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

with wood engravings of pear varieties

of the author

(French) Monselet, Charles. L'Almanach Gourmand pour 1868. Pastry While born in PolandIllus. 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.