Baptiste Platine de Cremonne De l'honneste volupte : liure tres necessaire à la vie humaine, pour obseruer bonne santé : diligemment reueu & corrigé comme est fait mention à la page suyuante.

Engraved bookplate (signed "M") on front paste-down bearing side-by-side arms (topped with monograms and coronets) of le comte Alexandre-Louis-Thomas de Lurde (1800-1872) and his nephew le baron Alphonse Joseph de Ruble (1834-1898) (the latter's arms impaled with those of his wife, Jeanne de Connantré), both prominent bibliophiles; inscription in blue-green pencil on verso of front free end-paper ("Trautz Bauzonnet"?); bookplate of Charles Rossigneux (1818-1907), architect, designer, and decorator, on recto of first front fly-leaf, with a shield bearing an monogram and borne by a pair of wings, and with motto "Arte labore"; this copy described as "Irving Berlin family cookbook" in correspondence and conversation with librarian; bookseller's description, by Adam Weinberger, Rare Book Buyer, New York, New York, available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 60, along with librarian correspondence with bookseller.

MSU: Leaf S2 almost entirely torn out and lacking, leaving a small stub with text. Print-out of missing pages from Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon copy available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 60.

In 19th-century full navy blue crushed morocco; both boards with four gilt cornerpieces (monogram of le comte Alexandre-Louis-Thomas de Lurde, surmounted with a count's coronet); spine with five raised bands and six compartments decorated with the same monogram device and title in gilt; outer edges of boards, end-band covers, and turn-ins tooled in gilt; all edges marbled and gilt; marbled end-papers; red silk page-markers; binding signed in gilt inside front board ("Trautz-Bauzonnet") and inside rear board ("1866").