BOURBON, Louis Auguste de, Prince of Dombes (attrib.)

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Le Cuisinier gascon. First edition of "one of the most famous cookery books of the 18th century" (BnF).This "particularly elegant collection" of over two hundred recipes (Mennell, p. 80) is distinguished by its unusual names, which Bitting remarks "indicate that the writer gave free scope to his imagination" - poulets en culottes, sauce au singe vert. "An excellent and valuable little work, now extremely scarce" (Kirwan, p. 12), it was anonymously published. It has been most frequently attributed to Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Prince of Dombes, to whom the dedicatory epistle is addressed. A second edition was published in 1741, and a third in 1747.

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