479 - Hagger, C.

Hagger, C. New Salzburg Cookbook, for Grand Ducal and Other Noble Courts, Monasteries, Manor Houses, Stewards, Cooks, and Purchasing Agents. 8 parts in 1 vol. Augsburg, Lotter, 1719. 4to (21:17 cm). With an engraved frontispiece and 295 (instead of 303) full-page copperplate engravings on 149 (instead of 153) plates. Blind-stamped contemporary half-leather binding over wooden boards; spine, endpapers, and leather on the clasps renewed. Weiss 1400 note; Horn-Arndt 268; Vicaire 435 ff.; Walterspiel Collection 239. — Second edition, identical in content to the first edition published one year earlier. A comprehensive and vividly illustrated cookbook with more than 2,500 recipes. “The illustrations in this very rare book are among the most curious” (Vicaire). The work is divided into four parts, each containing two books, with a numerical and an alphabetical index for each. “Hagger was a Rhinelander and initially served as a cook for the Bishop of Chiemsee; in 1701, he entered the service of Prince-Archbishop Johann Ernst of Salzburg and remained there for 27 years. The show dishes, which are particularly emphasized in the work (and are depicted here in copperplate engravings, some of which are magnificently decorated), were already outdated in France at that time” (H.-A.). Collation: 21 leaves, 206 pp., 11 leaves, 100 pp., 4 leaves; 32 pp., 2 leaves, 88 pp., 6; 15 leaves (in the illustration section); 216 pp., 19 leaves, 116 pp., 10 leaves; 199 pp., 18 leaves, 203 pp., 16 leaves. The copperplate engravings are numbered 1–305, with nos. 204 and 286 omitted, as in the first edition; in this copy, copperplate engravings 145–152 are missing. - Some pages have water stains along the edges; a few have scattered mold spots; copperplate engravings 1–8 have restored edge tears, some extending into the image; a few plates have tears extending into the image; a few text leaves have restored edge damage; Frontispiece is stained, creased, and has restored edge glazes. Missing are 4 plates with 8 copper engravings as well as 1 leaf at the end (report to the bookbinder & errata).