GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 136

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GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gour - Lot 136
GRIMOD de LA REYNIERE, Alexandre Baltazar: Almanach des gourmands, serving as a guide in the means of making excellent food. Third year. Second edition, revised, corrected and increased. Paris, chez Maradan,1806, 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, XVI - 336 pp, "notice", frontispiece "session of a jury of gastronomes tasters", "dedicatory epistles", "warning of the publisher on this third year", alphabetical table, armorial bookplate "right and front" Sydney on the guard. 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 third "promenade" in the second edition well expanded and corrected. RARE. The binding shows some spotting and restoration; some scattered foxing; heavy foxing on the frontispiece.
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