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A revolution in food preservation: the food can!

APPERT, [Charles or Nicolas or François].
Le livre de tous les ménages : ou l'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales.

Folding engraved plate with machinery for preserving food, engraved by Gaitte.

Folding engraved plate with machinery for preserving food, engraved by Gaitte.



Paris, Barrois l'aine, 1813. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red gilt title label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Folding engraved plate with machinery for preserving food, engraved by Gaitte. XLVIII, 176 pp.

Third, enlarged and reviewed edition of an important manual on preserving  a variety of vegetables, fruit, meat etc. by Charles Appert, (or François or Nicolas Appert) confectioner (1749-1840). Appert started to develop a new method of preserving food after Napoleon offered a prize for the creation of a food preservation technique for the use of his military forces.  After many years of experimenting he eventually established the first commercial cannery in 1804 and made his results public in the first edition of this work in 1810, (Paris)  the same year that he was awarded the prize.  This work contains also a section on coffee and tea (pp. 89-93).
Fine copy.- (Some minor foxing).
Vicaire, 35; Bitting 14; Garrison & Morton 2467.1; Oberlé 184 (1810 ed.); Hünersdorff, p. 51.

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Coffee & Tea  France  Gastronomy  Industry 

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