(French) Monselet, Charles. L'Almanach Gourmand pour 1868. Pastry and requirements are laid out

and requirements are laid out in this in-depth book

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

While born in Poland

200 recipes

(French) Monselet, Charles. L'Almanach Gourmand pour 1868. Pastry and requirements are laid outIllus. 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.