GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 133

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GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 133
GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gourmands, serving as a guide in the means of making excellent food. Fourth year. Paris, chez Maradan,1806, ORIGINAL EDITION, in-16, light brown half-chagrin with corners, paper plates "pebbles" in the browns, filets, title and tome gilded on black morocco title piece on smooth spine, period binding, XX - 336 pp., "notice", frontispiece "les méditations d'un gourmand", "epitres dédicatoire", "avertissement de l'éditeur sur cette quatrième année", alphabetical table, publisher's catalog (4 pp.), 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. A lot of information on restaurants and edible merchants. Our copy is the fourth "promenade" in the original edition. RARE. The binding shows some spotting and restoration; some scattered foxing; heavy foxing on the frontispiece.
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