C... S... (François BRAC Fils) - LAVOCAT, Antoine: Le commer - Lot 254

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C... S... (François BRAC Fils) - LAVOCAT, Antoine: Le commer - Lot 254
C... S... (François BRAC Fils) - LAVOCAT, Antoine: Le commerce des vins réformé, rectifié et épuré; ou nouvelle méthode pour tirer un parti, prompt et avantageux, des récoltes en vins. This work is especially intended for the lords and priests of vineyard countries, the owners and cultivators of vineyards, the wine merchants of Paris, those of the other cities of the Kingdom and generally for all those who are intermediaries in this trade, as well as the wine merchants themselves. The views it contains can also and easily be applied to the trade of grain, hay, wood and all agricultural products, followed by Le Vigneron expert, ou la vraie manière de cultiver la vigne. Work that was submitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences, Arts and Belles Lettres of Nancy. Amsterdam et Lyon - Paris, et Nancy, chez Louis-Joseph Berthoud - chez Durand, rue Galande et chez Bonthoux, 1769 ORIGINAL EDITION and 1787, 2nd edition, 1 vol. reuniting 2 works, in-12, burgundy half calf, marbled paper boards, fillets - garland - title "traité sur les vins" and tomaison "2" gilded on smooth spine, binding end 19th or beginning 20th century, for the Brac: (1) - 175 - (1 bl.) - (1) - 166 - 6 pp, headbands, endpapers and lettering, Project, Notes, Additions, Errata, stamps of the former owner (title page and in the text); for Lavocat: (7) - 112 pp. with headbands and endpapers, "A messieurs de la Société Royale des Sciences ...", Avertissement, Approbation. François Brac (1725 - 1800) was lord of la Perrière and, like his father, a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris and Lyon. They were owners of the fief of la Perrière, located in Saint-Lager, in the Beaujolais vineyard. This book is of the greatest interest for the history of the Beaujolais vineyards. It is a historical and above all economic treatise addressed to the owners of this region to enhance the value of their wines. A description of the first class wines (Juliéna, Odenas, Quincié, Fleurie) with their history. It denounces the abuses of the Parisian merchants who "fiddle" with the wines of Beaujolais (Oberlé - Fritsch). Well completed with the two errata which are often missing! RARISSIME. Antoine Lavocat (1707 - 1788) former farmer who developed his inventive genius. He was "receveur buraliste" at the Bureau de Champigneulle and "mécanicien" at the Court of Brussels for the Duke Alexandre de Lorraine, governor of the Netherlands. The first edition dates from 1782. Our copy, the second edition, is as RARE as the first! A very useful work for planting, cultivation, diseases of the vine and the remedies necessary to cure them as well as the means to make profits and especially several notices against the fraud of the traffickers. Unknown in the large specialized bibliographies. Particularly RARE. This book was part of the culinary library of Victor Michon, who was one of the greatest cooks of the early 20th century. He was trained in his mother's kitchen. Even today, the Victor Michon Prize at the Concours International Gastronomique d'Arpajon is one of the titles that many "star" chefs are honored with. Cook of the Great Ones, he was the cook of the Austrian-Hungarian Embassy, located at the Hôtel Matignon in Paris at the time of the First World War. He organized the banquet of 3,000 covers for the Russian celebrations, the menu offered to the King of the Belgians by President Felix Faure and the lunch of Isabella II of Castile. But his recipes reflect a cuisine that is both bourgeois and simple. He presided over the journal "Le cuisinier français" and the "Académie Culinaire de France", created in 1883. His private library included the greatest names in French gastronomy: Grimod de La Reynière, Vincent La Chapelle, Jules Gouffé, Brillat-Savarin, Antonin Carême, Etienne, Urbain Dubois, Escoffier and many others, including our copy! The tomation "2" is explained by the meeting of three volumes with the same binding, and taking up the "cream" of the 18th century oenology! The handwritten signature of the former owner, Victor Michon, appears on the first blank of this work. Very good condition of the binding; very good condition of the Brac paper; the Lavocat has some old spotting and a few freckles as well as a few small paper tears in the margins but without affecting the text.
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