[MANUSCRIPT - PERFUMERY]. Collection of formulas for perfumes and soaps. [France, ca 1850-1860s]. Includes numerous recipes for a wide-range of Victorian perfume fragrances.
Sale 1022 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 4, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$300 -
$400
Sold for $1,250
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Lot Description
[MANUSCRIPT - PERFUMERY]. Collection of formulas for perfumes and soaps. [France, ca 1850-1860s].
39 leaves (including 2 partial leaves), folio (ca 305 x 230mm). Written in brown ink on various paper stocks, with some later written in colored inks or pencil. (Some browning and fraying to leaves, many captions cropped at head, some stains including adhesive stains where gutter reinforced on first leaf.) Bound in modern quarter morocco.
Includes numerous recipes for a wide-range of Victorian perfume fragrances, including “Extrait de Bouqt. des Hesperides,” “Extrait Bouquet Prince Royal,” “Bouquet Victoria,” “Jenny Lind”, etc.; also includes many recipes for soap fragrances. Many recipes make reference to the name “Maugenet,” presumably M. Maugenet & E. Coudray, a small Parisian perfume shop established in 1810. Edmond Coudray, a doctor-chemist, traveled over the world bringing back exotic raw materials. In 1837 the house of Coudray became the official supplier to the British Court.
Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil
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