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1864170599Paris Furne & cie, libraire-éditeur. 1864 459p 1 volume grand IN8. Reliure d'époque en demi basane verte. Dos lisse titré orné de fers romantiques. Ouvrage orné de 7 gravures h.t dont le frontispice sous serpente et d' Illustrations en noir in & h.t par Bertall. Bel exemplaire.
186446405881Paris, Furne, 1864 ; grand in-8, demi-basane prune, coins, plats en papier gaufré avec motifs floraux et amours, tranches peign. 3 ff., 459 pp.L’édition illustrée par Bertall avait paru en 1848 chez Gonet. Selon Vicaire, celle de 1864 “est, non pas une simple réimpression, mais une édition différente de celle de 1848 et imprimée sur plus beau papier”. 7 planches hors-texte et nombreuses vignettes dans le texte gravées sur bois par Geoffroy. Les illustrations hors-texte sont tirées sur chine appliqué.Exemplaire de la bibliothèque du baron I. R. Steingel. La puissante et très riche famille russe Steingel doit sa fortune à la construction de voies ferrées et au pétrole. L’ouvrage porte l’étiquette du relieur russe P. O. Iablonsky qui se dit “relieur à la vapeur”. Pâle mouillure à l’angle supérieur des 2 premiers cahiers.
188428049<p><strong>1884 Physiology of Taste Gastronomy Food Obesity Cooking English Brillat-Savarin</strong></p><p>Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a 19th-century French lawyer who is actually much better known for his culinary survey "<em>Physiology of Taste</em>". This book was a collection of aphorisms relating to food and food preparation taste appetite thirst and drinking and even a section on obesity!</p><p>This 1884 limited edition includes numerous illustrations by Adolph LaLauze and is numbered no. 152 of 500.</p><p>Item number: #28049</p><p>Price: $499</p><p>BRILLAT-SAVARIN Jean Anthelme</p><p><strong><em>Brillat-Savarin's Physiologie du goût. A handbook of gastronomy</em></strong></p><p>London: Nimmo & Bain 1884.</p><p><u>Details</u>:</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->xvi 516 14</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Provenance: Armorial bookplate – S. C. Lister Jr. Swinton</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Samuel Cunliffe Lister 2nd Baron Masham 1857-1917 was an English baron and industrialist. The 2nd baron's father Samuel Cunliffe Lister 1st Baron Masham 1815–1906 was an English inventor and industrialist notable for inventing the Lister nip comb which revolutionized the English textiles industry. Motto: FIDEM PARIT INTEGRITAS</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure</p><p><!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~9in X 6.5in 23cm x 16.5cm</p><p>Our Guarantee:</p><p>Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.</p><p>Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation!</p><p><u>Photos available upon request. </u></p> Nimmo & Bain hardcover
188450824London: J.C. Nimmo & Bain 1884. Limited Edition. Hardcover - as published. VG limited edition this being No. 60 of 300 copies printed for England. From the collection of a prominent New York restauranteur. 55 etchings by A. Lalauze. Some splitting to the corners of the boards binding is tight and square. Gilt top. Green boards quarter wrap vellum spine vellum is in VG condition. Gilt etching on the front board further three gilt etchings on spine. Gilt is in fine condition minor boxing to the spine. J.C. Nimmo and Bain advertisements bound in the back. . J.C. Nimmo & Bain hardcover
18409734Libraire-Editeur Paris: Charpentier 1840. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Brillat-Savarin Jean-Anthelme. Physiologie du Gout. Charpentier: Libraire-Editeur Paris 1840. 12mo 180x115mm half-bnd brown calf marbled bds 224555 blankpp.</p> <p><br /> <br /> BRILLAT-SAVARIN Jean- Anthelme 1755-1826 <br /> <br /> Physiologie du Gout ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante; ouvrage théorique historique et a l'ordre du jour dédié aus gastronomes parisiens par un professeur membre du plusieurs societés savantes. Edition précédée d'une notice par M Le Baron Richerand; suivie de La Gastronomie poème en quatre chantes par Berchoux. <br /> <br /> Paris : Charpentier Libraire-Editeur 1840. Printed by H Fournier & Co Paris. Introduction by M Le Baron Richerand. Includes pps 370-445 the poem La Gastronomie in four parts by Berchoux Joseph 1760-1839. In French. <br /> <br /> Duodecimo 180x115mm half-bound brown calf over marbled paper boards; spine in six compartments gilt lettered & ruled; 2 blank2 titlepage4555 blankpp. Boards lightly scuffed edges lightly rubbed; spine head small loss head of upper joint starting but firm corners lightly bruised; small closed tear to p.4; very occasional faint foxing; top-edges a trifle dusty; bookplate "Ex libris A. Melly" to front paste-down. <br /> <br /> ¶ Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician during and after the French revolution. Renowned as an epicure and gastronome he worked on his Physiologie du Gout all his life assembling it just before he died; it was privately published at his expense just two months before his death. Neither a cookery book nor a memoir it is rather a discussion of the nature of eating in its widest sense. It starts with twenty gastronomical "aphorismes" perhaps the best known being "IV tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are"; then thirty "méditations" and finishes with twenty-seven 'variétés' in the form of anecdotes adventures recipes and inventions.<br /> <br /> Berchoux 1760-1838 was a French poet who invented the word 'gastronomy' when he published La Gastronomie in 1801. The poem is in four culinary cantos: Historie de la Cuisine the ancient food of Greece and Rome; Le Premier Service instructions for the successful conduct of a meal; Le Second Service advice on orchestrating conversation during a meal including a description of Vatel's demise; and Le Dessert dessert wines spirits and conversations praising dining as superior to poetry. <br /> <br /> "For the French and outsides alike this work early attained the status of an exemplary culinary text perhaps the exemplary text. the Physiology of Taste civilizes eating. Moreover it socializes food and it does so by recounting in story after story our social relations with food. it appears to us today as something of a sociology of taste ahead of its time" Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2004 p. 31 <br /> <br /> An instant success Physiologie du Gout has never been out of print since. A very good text in a very good sound contemporary binding.<br /> <br /> § OCLC records only 6 holdings of this edition all in Europe.<br /> § Vicaire 117-118; cf. Oberle 153; This edition not in Cagle Bitting or Simon.</p> Charpentier unknown
185517022Paris, Curmer, 1855 ; in-8, demi veau havane, dos lisse à faux nerfs et titre dorés (reliure de l'époque) ; XIX, 239, 368, 32 pp. , frontispice et titre illustré gravés.
1865196221865. Coocking Brillat-Savarin Jean Antthelme. The Handbook of Dining or Corpulency and Leanness Scientifically Considered.by Brillat-Savarin. London: Longman Roberts & Green 1865. This is a later translation in English of the main parts of ʻPhysiologie du goût or THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE; Transcendental Gastronomy. of Brillat-Savarin. The original work in French was about 450 to 500 pages depending on the edition this version was given a new title and reduced to 202 pages and focuses more on cooking for Leanness and Reduction of Corpulency. Measures 4.5" x 7". The first long version in english was printed in 1854 this version of the text was printed 1865. Brillat-Savarin one of the most influential food writers of all time. Brillat-Savarin put forward what he felt could be called general universal principles of delicious and healthy cooking. The roots of gastronomy in America can be traced to Brillat-Savarin 1755-1826 remembered for what many consider to be the bible of gastronomy Physiologie du Goût. Savarin was the first writer to provide a systematic analysis of the pleasures of eating- His only book was Published shortly before his death and this is a 200 page abridged version of the original English speakers regularly repeat Brillat-Savarin's idea with the phrase "you are what you eat." Spine is rebound with new boards of red cloth and new endsheets. Cover is clean and pages are neat. Small previous owner stamp on title page dated March 10 1883. Overall in very good condition. unknown
18657261New York: D. Appleton and Company 443 & 445 Broadway 1865. Small octavo 18.5 x 12 cm. 200 4 pages. Advertisements. The First American Edition of Leonard Francis Simpson's English language translation of Brillat-Savarin's magnificent Physiologie du Gout. The earliest English language translation was that of Fayette Robinson published in Philadelphia in 1854. Simpson's translation here is quite unfaithful to the original admitting in the Introduction that "Many parts are however condensed others omitted as not suited to the present tone of society." Starting in 1864 editions of Simpson's translation published in the UK strayed even further with emphasis placed on a rejection of gourmandise and the title to what we have here. Quite a departure from Brillat-Savarin's original. But the translator did have high hopes for this book to affect a change upon Britain and presumably in America with this issue. The Translator's Preface has been omitted in this edition which is a shame as it takes the form of a discussion among Olympians where the goddess Gasterea speaks up to Jupiter informing him that "There is a race. of bold sea-girt islanders who worship me well in their way; indeed mighty fires of coal never cease to burn in my honour; but it a melancholy fact that London does not know 'How to Dine!'" The author proposes a reform movement starting with this book. In publisher's blind ruled and gilt-titled burgundy cloth. Very near fine. Bitting page 437; Cagle 104. D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway hardcover
18292487PARIS. CHEZ A. SAUTELET ET CIE, LIBRAIRES-EDITEURS. ALEXANDRE MESNIER, LIBRAIRE. 1829. 2 VOLUMES IN-8 (14,5 X 23 X 5,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON), DE (4) + 410 ET (4) + 432 PAGES, RELIURE POSTERIEURE A LA BRADEL PLEIN CARTONNAGE, DOS LISSE ORNE DE FLEURONS DORES, TITRE DORE SUR ETIQUETTE MAROQUIN BRUN, COUVERTURE IMPRIMEE CONSERVEE, NON ROGNE. ILLUSTRE DE 2 LITHOGRAPHIES DE HENRY MONNIER EN FRONTISPICES. PREMIERE EDITION ILLUSTREE (OBERLE. FASTES. 148 - VICAIRE. 117). QUELQUES ROUSSEURS, USURES AUX COUVERTURES, PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS GRAVITE, SINON BEL EXEMPLAIRE.
183410045Paris, Just Tessier, 1834. 2 vol. in-8 de (4)-384 pp. et (4)-412 pp., demi-chagrin vert, dos lisse orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque).
187918500De Brillat-Savarin.Avec une Préface par Ch. Monselet. Eaux-fortes par Ad. Lalauze. 52 charmantes gravures.Édition sur grand papier tirée à 210 exemplaires. Celui-ci (N°41) un des 170 sur papier de Hollande.Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles - Jouaust - 1879 - XVI, 296 et 320 pages. Portrait frontispice de Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin par Lalauze et gravé par Jouaust.Belle reliure demi chagrin rouge à coins. Dos à nerfs orné et doré. Tête dorée sur témoins, non rogné. Pas de frottement. Pas de rousseur. Parfait état. Format in-8°(22x14).Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), est avocat, magistrat de profession, et maire de Belley. Il est Girondin pendant la révolution. Après avoir publié quelques études, il travaille à la rédaction de la physiologie du gout en 1825, livre qui fera sa renommée. Il sort des presses en décembre 1825 sans nom d'auteur, mais sera daté de 1826.
187910098Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1879. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Brillat-Savarin Jean-Anthelme. Physiologie du Gout. Librairie des Bibliophiles: Paris 1879. 8vo 180x110mm 2 vols half red morocco marbled bds & eps 4xvi2964pp83204pp. preface by Ch Monselet; bound by Blanchetiere-Bretault In French</p> <p><br /> BRILLAT-SAVARIN Jean-Anthelme 1755 -1826<br /> <br /> Physiologie du Gout: avec un preface par Ch. Monselet. Eaux-fortes par Ad. Lalauze.<br /> <br /> Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1879. Limited Edition. Printed by Imprimerie Jouaust Rue Saint-Honoré Paris. Bound by Blanchetiere-Bretault. Preface by Charles Monselet. Illustrated with 63 pictorial engravings by Adolphe Lalauze including the frontispiece portrait as well as numerous sculptured head and tailpieces.<br /> <br /> In two volumes. Octavo 180x110mm half bound red morocco marbled paper boards and end-papers spine decorated and lettered in gilt inlaid dark green morocco top-edges gilt else untrimmed ribbon marker frontispiece 4xvi2964pp83204pp. One of 170 copies on Holland Paper Van Gelder watermark; total edition 260 copies; this copy unnumbered. In French.<br /> <br /> <br /> ¶ Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician during and after the French revolution. Renowned as an epicure and gastronome he worked on his Physiologie du Gout all his life assembling it just before he died; it was privately published at his expense just two months before his death. Neither a cookery book nor a memoir it is rather a discussion of the nature of eating in its widest sense. It starts with twenty gastronomical "aphorismes" perhaps the best known being "IV tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are"; then thirty "méditations" and finishes with twenty-seven 'variétés' in the form of anecdotes adventures recipes and inventions.<br /> <br /> "For the French and outsides alike this work early attained the status of an exemplary culinary text perhaps the exemplary text. the Physiology of Taste civilizes eating. Moreover it socializes food and it does so by recounting in story after story our social relations with food. it appears to us today as something of a sociology of taste ahead of its time" Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2004 p. 31.<br /> <br /> <br /> An instant success Physiologie du Gout has never been out of print since.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Librairie des Bibliophiles was established in 1869 by Damase Jouast 1834-1893 publishing French classics in small limited fine print editions. Monselet 1825-1888 was a French journalist novelist poet and playwright nicknamed "the king of the gastronomes" by his contemporaries and a close friend of Baron Léon Brisse . Lalauze 1838-1906 was a French engraver illustrator and painter known for his fine steel engraving technique. Lalauze illustrated many of Jouast's publications.<br /> <br /> A fine illustrated copy of the most renowned book on gastronomy in an elegant binding.<br /> <br /> </p> Librairie des Bibliophiles unknown
1819CLL-594Paris, Caille et Ravier, 1819 In-8 de XII, 123, (1), 60 pp., (2) ff. ms, , 4pp., demi-veau havane, dos lisse orné de filets dorés et à froid et de palettes dorées en pied, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque).
183412082Paris, Just Tessier, 1834. 2 vol. in-8 brochés de (4)-384 pp. et (4)-412 pp., couvertures jaunes imprimées, étui chemise bordé, demi-veau vert, dos lisse orné de filets dorés.
1852CAT000738Mejico: Juan R. Navarro 1852. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good. Bertall. Contempoorary sponged calf modest wear browning to endpapers with an old bookplate and old ex-libris stamp to endpapers. Scattered minor foxing some offsetting from ink generally very bright internally. An attractively printed book with a frontis of the author and vignette illustrations after those in the 1826 French first edition throughout. 414pp. Cagle 1199.<br/><br/>The first Mexican first Spanish language the first Spanish edition was not until 1869 and seemingly the first translation of any sort the next the first American edition was 1854. Upper class Mexican cuisine had always been more French than anything else - 1845's Nuevo Cocinero Mexicano en Forma de Diccionario evoked Careme and Beauvilliers and the first US published book of Mexican/California cuisine El Cocinero Español 1898 likewise drew direct lines to French and Euopean culinary traditions. Size: 8vo. Illustrator: Bertall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000738. Juan R. Navarro hardcover books
18549869Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston 1854. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Brillat Savarin. The Physiology of Taste; or transcendental gastronomy. Lindsay & Blakiston: Philadelphia 1854. 8vo 190x130mm rebacked original boards t.e gilt translated by Fayette Robinson</p> <p><br /> BRILLAT SAVARIN Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 1755-1826<br /> <br /> The Physiology of Taste: or transcendental gastronomy illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents.<br /> <br /> Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston 1854. First US Edition and first edition in English.<br /> <br /> Octavo 200x135mm blind stamped gilt decorated original publisher's brown cloth boards top-edge gilt xx pps. ix-x out of sequence126-3471 blank4 publisher advertisementspp. Translated from the last French edition by Fayette Robinson.<br /> <br /> Recently professionally re-backed in tan cloth new end-papers. Very faint foxing to preliminaries. Owner name 'John S Cunningham' neatly stamped and inked to half-title title-page and contents page; several discrete neat penciled marginal marks.<br /> <br /> Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician during and after the French revolution. Renowned as an epicure and gastronome he worked on his Physiologie du Gout all his life assembling it just before he died; it was privately published at his expense just two months before his death. Neither a cookery book nor a memoir it is rather a discussion of the nature of eating in its widest sense. It starts with twenty gastronomical "aphorismes" perhaps the best known being "IV tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are"; then thirty "méditations" and finishes with twenty-seven 'variétés' in the form of anecdotes adventures recipes and inventions.<br /> <br /> <br /> <p>"For the French and outsides alike this work early attained the status of an exemplary culinary text perhaps the exemplary text. the Physiology of Taste civilizes eating. Moreover it socializes food and it does so by recounting in story after story our social relations with food. it appears to us today as something of a sociology of taste ahead of its time" Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2004 p. 31<br /> <br /> Brillat-Savarin spent several years in New York as a refugee from the French revolution before returning to France and eventually becoming a judge on the French Court of Appeal; a post he held until retirement.<br /> <br /> "One of the most witty discussions on food ever written… The work is filled with entertaining anecdotes and commentary on good eating including several pages of impressions about the United States" Feret Barbara. Gastronomical and Culinary Literature. The Scarecrow Press 1979 p. 38.</p> <br /> Perhaps the most renowned book on gastronomy.<br /> <br /> <br /> Scarce. A nice copy.<br /> <br /> § OCLC records only 2 holdings this edition but no details; Huntington records 1 holding; Copac records 5 UK holdings.<br /> § Bitting p.60; Cagle & Stafford 103; Lowenstein 639; Wheaton & Kelly 876.</p> Lindsay & Blakiston unknown
182682261826 Paris: Chez A. Sautelet et Cie Libraires, Place de la Bourse, près la rue Feydeau, 1826. Deux volumes in-8 reliés: 13,5 x 21 cm. I/ xix-390 pp. [Dialogue, Biographie, Préface, Méditations I-XVI, Tables], II/ 442 pp. [Méditations XVII-XXX, Variétés, Tables]. Édition originale. EXEMPLAIRE DU PREMIER TIRAGE avec le "E" de Bourse à l'horizontale dans l'adresse de l'éditeur sur le titre du premier tome. Avec les deux faux-titres. Cette première édition est extrêment rare, elle fut imprimée aux frais de l'auteur à 500 exemplaires seulement et mise dans le commerce deux mois avant sa mort. (Carteret, I, 146 / Vicaire I, 926-927). Reliure d'époque en demi-basane verte maroquinée à petits coins. Dos lisses avec titre, tomaison, et roulettes et dentelles dorées. Ex-libris: "Paul Hirsch". Ex-libris: "André Gutzwiller". Dos légèrement insolés, quelques traces d'usage aux coupes, rousseurs marginales aux premières et dernières pages. Exemplaire complet de cet ouvrage qui a contribué à populariser l'art culinaire. Ouvrage de toute rareté dans cette édition.
182629746Un jalon de la littérature gastronomique. Premier tirage, avec l'erreur typographique. Paris, A. Sautelet, 1826. 2 vol. (120 x 200 mm) de [1], xiv et 390 p. ; 442 p. Demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs ornés, pièces de titre, tranches mouchetées (reliure XIXe). Édition originale et rare premier tirage (avec l’erreur typographique à l’adresse, « E » imprimé à l’horizontale).
1854140948550Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston 1854. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition and first English translation. xx 25-347 5 pp. with four advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's brown cloth ornately stamped in blind and gilt top edge gilt. Near Fine with light wear to covers and shallow chipping at spine ends and foxing to contents and textblock edges. Ownership signature in old hand to front free endpaper. Lowenstein 639.<br /> <br /> <p>Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician whose otherwise successful career was briefly interrupted by the French Revolution. The cheerful gourmand bounced back after a few years of exile and dedicated his free time to wine women and the violin -- and good meals. Written over many years and published shortly before the author's death The Physiology of Taste is a compendium of recipes culinary musings and chit-chat and anecdotes meant to enliven the dinner table. It is a seminal work of gastronomical writing and the origin of the phrase "You are what you eat. Lindsay & Blakiston unknown
1826140946549Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie 1826. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first issue. The first issue distinguished by the misprint in the printer's address for volume one the "e" of "Bourse" printed horizontally numbered 500 copies only. xiv 390 442 pp. Complete in two volumes. Bound in twentieth-century half goat skin with spine stamped in gilt over marbled boards. Near Fine with light rubbing to binding slight fading to spines. Textblock edges and contents lightly foxed throughout. <p>The foremost 19th-century gastronomic discourse being a series of meditations recipes and reflections. Brillat-Savarin is considered one of the most important figures in culinary history and often cited for this work. Topics range from obseity and fasting gastronomy and gourmet the function of appetite and even death. A work that exemplifies the author's joie de vivre for all things food. A. Sautelet et Cie unknown
18262363Paris: Sautelet et Cie 1826. Two volumes octavo xiv 390 & 449 pages. FIRST EDITION of the most famous treatise on gastronomy. The Physiology of Taste was published in an edition of 500 copies appearing only two months after the author's death. A comprehensive philosophy of the palate the table and far beyond the book is presented in a series of thirty meditations on subjects including the senses taste appetite gastronomy restaurateurs cooking fasting obesity death sleep rest and dreams. Brillat-Savarin was an attorney and magistrate who fled France during the Terror living in Switzerland and New York until his return after the fall of Robespierre in 1796. The present work secured his eternal fame among gastronomes. M.F.K. Fisher – whose translation of Brillat-Savarin's work still stands as the best – commends this book for its straightforward and unornamented prose in an era of florid writing but the intellectual range and invention of the work is anything but simple. At the very outset: "1. The Universe is nothing without the things that live in it and everything that lives eats. 2. Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating. 3. The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves." It may be noted that Brillat-Savarin regularly refers to his gastronomic experience in America. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards Light wear at extremities otherwise in very good condition. Cagle 98; Crahan 491; Oberle 144; Vicaire 116; Wheaton & Kelly 860. Sautelet et Cie hardcover
1826145035Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie 1826. The pre-eminent 19th-century gastronomic treatise First edition first issue of this famous epicurean collection of recipes reflections and anecdotes written by one of history's most influential food writers. The first issue distinguished by the misprint in the printer's address for volume one the "e" of "Bourse" printed horizontally numbered 500 copies only and is consequently rare. "For the French and outsides alike this work early attained the status of an exemplary culinary text perhaps the exemplary text. the Physiology of Taste civilises eating. Moreover it socialises food and it does so by recounting in story after story our social relations with food. it appears to us today as something of a sociology of taste ahead of its time" Ferguson p. 31. "Although there is a definite scientific approach to the material the charm of the book lies in the personality and wit of the author which are apparent throughout" Heirs of Hippocrates. 2 vols octavo 201 x 127 mm. Engraved title page devices. Contemporary quarter speckled calf twin red morocco labels to smooth spine gilt-ruled into compartments with scrollwork motifs marbled boards. A handsomely bound copy negligible rubbing to spines; contents generally clean some light marginal foxing. In very good condition. Bitting p. 60 all later editions; Cagle 98; Heirs of Hippocrates 702; Vicaire pp. 116-17. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine 2004. hardcover
1826L4AE6GTITGXXParis: Auguste Sautelet et Cie. back of title-page: printed by David 1826. Contemporary half calf gold-tooled spines marbled edges and endpapers. 8vo. With a woodcut device on both title pages. 2 volumes. Very rare first issue of the first edition of the most influential work on cultured eating ever published; only 500 copies were printed. In this first issue the e of printers address is printed horizontally. This is the only edition that was published while the author was still alive. The fame of the book was cause for countless re-issues editions and translations. The author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 1755-1826 delivers his reflections on the culture of eating and gastronomy in a style that can be described as witty refined and tasteful. It struck a chord with its contemporary readers and still does today judging from the proverbs that were coined by Brillat-Savarin and remain in use: "The destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they feed themselves"; "A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye" and many others. It is indeed a great French classic.Bookplate of Louis Rey on free endpaper of both volumes. A small repaired tear in the first free endpaper of volume 1. Minor foxing on the last few pages of volume 2. Small piece torn from the foot of page 181 in volume 2. Otherwise in very good clean and crisp condition.l Carteret I p. 146-147; Crahan 4gr; Heirs of Hippocrates 702; Vicaire 120; Bitting later eds.; Osler later eds. Auguste Sautelet et Cie. (back of title-page: printed by David), unknown
1826L4AE6GTITGXXParis 1826. 8vo. Auguste Sautelet et Cie. back of title-page: printed by David Contemporary half calf gold-tooled spines marbled edges and endpapers. With a woodcut device on both title pages. 2 volumes. 2 XIV 1 6-390; 442 pp. Very rare first issue of the first edition of the most influential work on cultured eating ever published; only 500 copies were printed. In this first issue the e of printers address is printed horizontally. This is the only edition that was published while the author was still alive. The fame of the book was cause for countless re-issues editions and translations. The author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 1755-1826 delivers his reflections on the culture of eating and gastronomy in a style that can be described as witty refined and tasteful. It struck a chord with its contemporary readers and still does today judging from the proverbs that were coined by Brillat-Savarin and remain in use: "The destiny of nations depends on the manner in which they feed themselves"; "A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye" and many others. It is indeed a great French classic.Bookplate of Louis Rey on free endpaper of both volumes. A small repaired tear in the first free endpaper of volume 1. Minor foxing on the last few pages of volume 2. Small piece torn from the foot of page 181 in volume 2. Otherwise in very good clean and crisp condition.l Carteret I p. 146-147; Crahan 4gr; Heirs of Hippocrates 702; Vicaire 120; Bitting later eds.; Osler later eds. unknown
1826140945975Paris: Chez A. Sautelet et Cie 1826. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first issue a presentation copy inscribed by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. The first issue distinguished by the misprint in the printer's address for volume one the "e" of "Bourse" printed horizontally numbered 500 copies only.Inscribed on the title page of volume one "Offert par l'auteur a M. Grepient" xiv 390 442 pp. Complete in two volumes. <p>Bound in contemporary full mottled calf with red morocco title labels and black numerical labels; scrollwork gilt-ruled into compartments engraved title page devices. Near Fine with trivial rubbing to extremities contents lightly toned. A handsome set. <p>Signed copies of this "undisputed classic of the table full of verve and good humor" Carter are incredibly scarce as Brillat-Savarin died at 70 of pneumonia weeks after publication.<p>The foremost 19th-century gastronomic discourse being a series of meditations recipes and reflections. Brillat-Savarin is considered one of the most important figures in culinary history and often cited for this work. Topics range from obseity and fasting gastronomy and gourmet the function of appetite and even death. A work that exemplifies the author's joie de vivre for all things food. Chez A. Sautelet et Cie unknown