GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 132

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GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 132
GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gourmands, serving as a guide in the means of making excellent food. fifth year. Paris, chez Maradan,1807, ORIGINAL EDITION, in-16, light brown half-chagrin with corners, paper plates "pebbles" in the browns, filets, title and volume gilded on black morocco title-piece on smooth spine, period binding, XIV - 362 pp, "notice", frontispiece "le premier devoir d'un amphitrion" with explanation of it, "epitres dédicatoire", "avertissement de l'éditeur sur cette cinquième année", alphabetical table, errata, armorial bookplate "droit et avant" Sydney on the flyleaf. The famous "almanacs des gourmands" are no longer presented! A precious testimony of the food customs after the French Revolution. The complete collection consists of eight years. Many information on restaurants and edible merchants. Our copy is the fifth "promenade" in the original edition. RARE. The binding shows some spotting and restoration; some scattered foxing, especially at the beginning and end of the volume; heavy foxing on the frontispiece.
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