PETIT, ALPHONSE La Gastronomie en Russie [Gastronomy in Russia] Paris: Edité par Chez L'Auteur et Émile Mellier, 1860.

275 pp.; 19 x 12 x 2 cm. In French. In a contemporary half-leather binding. Raised-band spine with gilt tooling. In good condition. Wear to the binding, minor damage to the leather at the head of the spine, an incipient crack to the text block, a crack at the endpaper joint, slight dampstaining to the margins, minor soiling. Ownership inscription on the free endpaper. Drawing on twelve years of experience as a cook in Saint Petersburg in the service of Count Viktor Nikitich Panin, Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire, the author presents more than two hundred local recipes: fish borscht, elk in the Polish style, buckwheat porridge, Siberian pelmeni, sturgeon rassolnik, vatrushki with jam, various kinds of blini and olad’i, bear ham, elk in the Lithuanian style, and others. First edition of the first French work devoted to Russian cuisine.