Food: an Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World
by Root, Waverley
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0671225898
- ISBN 13
- 9780671225896
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New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. 1st. Hardcover. 0671225898 . Gift inscription on front free endpaper. ; Both book and dustjacket are in Very Good + condition. The author has written over two hundred essays on the earth's more common foods (with shorter entries on the uncommon) that offer fascinating information about food from ancient times to the present. The illustrations from many museums and galleries, libraries, institutions and private colections, offer an informal history of food in art, from early herbal to modern sculpture." ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 602 pages .
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- The Book Shelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6731
- Title
- Food: an Authoritative and Visual History and Dictionary of the Foods of the World
- Author
- Root, Waverley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0671225898
- ISBN 13
- 9780671225896
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0671225898, Food, Dictionaries, Art
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