GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 134

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GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 134
GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gourmands, serving as a guide in the means of making excellent food. Second year. Second edition, revised, corrected and increased. Paris, chez Maradan, an XIII - 1805, second edition revised, corrected and enlarged, 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, 318 pp, "avis", frontispiece "les audiences d'un gourmand", "epitres dédicatoire", "avertissement de l'éditeur sur cette seconde année", alphabetical table, publisher's catalog (12 pp.), armorial bookplate "droit et avant" Sydney on endpaper. 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 second "promenade" in the second edition well expanded and corrected. RARE. The binding shows some spotting and restoration; some foxing, especially at the beginning of the volume; some foxing on the frontispiece.
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