BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Anthelme: Physiology of taste or meditation - Lot 40

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BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Anthelme: Physiology of taste or meditation - Lot 40
BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Anthelme: Physiology of taste or meditations of transcendental gastronomy. Theoretical, historical and up-to-date work dedicated to Parisian gastronomes. Paris, G. de Gonet, (1848), in-8, full navy percaline, author and title gilt on spine with double gilt framing and mosaics in the cases, cold engraved fillets on boards, white cloth endpapers, XXIII - 416 - (2) bl. pp., three gilt edges, a portrait of the author and 7 plates out of text engraved on steel by Ch. Geoffroy on Chine pasted on and numerous vignettes in black by BERTALL, interpreted on wood by Midderigh. A great classic of the gourmet literature; this edition is one of the most pleasant of this famous work. Binding restored with the spine redone; usual scattered foxing and qq quires a little browned;.
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