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Auction #123 begins on 15 May 2025

Leipoldt (C. Louis)

KOS VIR DIE KENNER - 'n Kookboek met meer as 'n Duisend Resepte (1933)

Published: Nasionale Pers, Kaapstad, 1933

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $200

Approximately:

Estimate: $240

Bidding opens: 15 May 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 22 May 16:30 GMT

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A very scarce first edition of C. Louis Leipoldt's famous cook book. The author was a medical doctor who, in his spare time, wrote numerous popular (and now classic) early Afrikaans detective novels, poetry and history books. He was both a great culinary enthusiast and chef and in his recipe book recorded over one thousand traditional recipes covering the whole spectrum of the culinary experience.

Publisher's illustrated ochre cloth binding.

v + 486pp. Text in Afrikaans.

This copy is clean internally with no wear on the binding. 

This 1933 first edition is a rarity.

  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine


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