Bidspirit auction | (COOK-BOOK). Marie Kauders. Erstes Israelitisches

(COOK-BOOK). Marie Kauders. Erstes Israelitisches Kochbuch für Böhmische Küche [“First Jewish Cookbook for Bohemian Cuisine. 586 Original Recipes Based upon More than Forty Years of Experience.”] FIRST EDITION. Frontispiece portrait of the author. pp. xiii, 181. Browned and slightly foxed. Contemporary blind-tooled boards, worn. 8vo. Prague, Jacob Brandeis, 1886.     WorldCat lists only three copies in institutional collections, just one of which is located in the United States.         “A widow, Marie Kauders ran a Kosher cookery school in Prague which trained cooks for Jewish restaurants and wedding catering. Kauders insisted that cooking was an art on a par with sculpture.” This award-winning cookbook, her first, was sufficiently popular to be published in multiple versions and editions, of which this is the first.     See https://yivoencyclopedia.org/printarticle.aspx? id=2517.