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(Pasta) Codou. Societe Anonyme des Pates Alimentaires Codou.

$120.00

24 pp. Illu. with 17 color plates of pasta types and packaging. 8x4.75", pictorial embossed blue-gray wrappers. In English and French. Marseilles: Codou, c.1910.

An elegantly illustrated catalog of pasta products made by Codou, whose factory was located in Marseilles, for its proximity to Algerian and Russian hard wheat varieties. Well known for their glutinous properties, Codou believed those wheats made the most "exquisite and nutritious" pasta. Near fine.

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