I have the Silver Spoon. It's not a friendly cookbook but has many good recipes. I can't think of any pictures though. It assumes you know how to do quite a few things it never explains in the recipes. Not something you see much in US cookbooks that usually hold your hand through every step. Where you say you have good cooking skills you should be fine.
I doubt you'll find many pictures of the dishes on google though...
And it has some idiosyncratic translations here and there. Corn salad for instance. That one threw me as I had always heard of it as mache (there's a caret over the a in there or some other diacritical mark but I don't know how to generate it off hand on my keyboard).
I've thoroughly enjoyed every Lidia Bastianich cookbook. Excellent food and usually excellent pictures. Hazan is good too but you get just a few drawings here and there. I'm fine with that, but you requested pictures.
Others I also enjoy but who have taken some liberties in bringing the food to Americans: Nick Stellino, Jeff Smith  |