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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
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
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
CNAP044aSan Francisco: The Arion Press 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Thiebaud Wayne. Folio size 13 3/4" by 10 1/4" 356 pages plus 18 unnumbered pages for the prints 374 pages total. The text is Neo Didot in Monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris. The display type is Bodoni Bold handset in foundry type. The drawings were printed by letterpress from photopolymer plates. The paper is French mould-made Lana Royale; a heavier weight of the same paper is used for the lithographs. The binding done in-house is hand-sewn in full blue-gray cloth with black titling on the front and spine and a drawing by Thiebaud across the bottom. The slipcase is covered in the same cloth with titling and a vignette on the spine. The color prints binding cloth and slipcase were printed lithographically. Edition of 200 copies plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce signed by the artist. M.F.K. Fisher 1908-1992 contributed an introduction to the second Arion Press book "A Commonplace Book of Cookery" in 1975 but died before we were able to pay tribute to her by publishing her first major literary work a translation of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's 1755-1826 famous gastronomic essays. This book originally made for hire in 1948 for the Limited Editions Club formed her as an author on subjects relating to food wine dining and living well in the largest sense. <br /> <br /> She became a good friend of the Press extending invitations to "the crew" to come to her home in St. Helena for a hike and a swim followed by lunch where the conversation was always lively but never about food.<br /> <br /> The artist Wayne Thiebaud delivered to Hoyem a large pile of original ink drawings and told him to use what he wanted. Hoyem made photocopies of the drawings and sorted and combined them as he saw fit and Thiebaud immediately approved the selection. He also made the nine lithographs in color and drew a design for the cover of the binding that showed the skills he learned as a commercial graphic artist. A trade edition was published by Counterpoint in 1996. <br /> <br /> Note that while this copy is marked as a "Display" copy we do not believe it was actually used as such as both the book and slipcase are in fine condition. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Arion Press hardcover
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
140947668San Francisco CA: The Arion Press 1994. Limited Edition. Fine. Limited edition Number 115 of a limited 200 copies signed by Wayne Thiebaud. Bound in publisher's gray-blue cloth stamped in blue and black. With full-page lithographs and reproduced drawings throughout by Wayne Thiebaud. Trivial soiling to top edge of textblock else Fine. In a Near Fine slipcase with light edge wear tiny dent light soiling and droplet stain to cloth. A striking production by Arion Press of the foremost 19th-century gastronomic discourse being a series of meditations recipes and reflections. Thiebaud's bright eye-catching drawings brilliantly captures the epicurian's philosophy on all things food and wine. The Arion Press Bibliography 44. The Arion Press unknown
205958San Francisco CA: The Arion Press 1994. First edition. Large hardcover. 356 pages. Number 152 from an edition of only 200 from a total edition of 226 with Neo Didot text display text Bodoni Bold and printed on a French mould-made Lana Royale paper with two different weights for the text and illustration sheets. This is the forty fourth publication from the Arion Press. Features Brillat-Savarin's classic text translated by M.F.K. Fisher. Includes two hundred drawings and nine color lithographs by Wayne Thiebaud. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine cloth covered slipcase and with laid in very near fine example of the 16 page prospectus. Signed by Thiebaud on the limitation page. An exquisite version of this classic. Please note that this is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. The Arion Press unknown
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
4059"P., Sautelet, 1826. Deux volumes in 8, demi-basane, dos lisses, filets (reliure de l'époque) [Gardes nors refaites]. ; faux-titre, XIV pp., pp. 5 à 390-442 pp., tout compris."
196412A. Sautelet Et Cie Libraires Paris 1826 2 volumes in-8 ( 225 X 140 mm ) de I ) ( 1 ) f. d'avis, XIV pp., ( 5 ) à 390 pp. - II ) 442 pp., demi-chagrin vert à coins, dos lisses ornés de grands fers romantiques dorés, non rognés ( Reliures postérieures ). Edition originale anonyme, elle fut imprimée à 500 exemplaires seulement, aux frais de l'auteur et mis dans le commerce dès décembre 1825. À peine deux mois plus tard, BRILLAT-SAVARIN décède, sans connaître le succès futur de son ouvrage. Exemplaire de premier tirage, avec le "E" de "Bourse" placé à l'horizontale, au bas du titre du tome I. Dos légèrement éclaircis, rousseurs passim, bel exemplaire. De la bibliothèque Jacques et Hélène BON ( 2022, N°287 ) ( Ex-libris ). Vicaire, 116 - Carteret I, 146 - Oberlé, Fastes, 144.On joint, dans la même reliure, la suite complète d'Ad. LALAUZE d'un excellent tirage pour illustrer l'édition Jouaust 1879, tirée sur papier vélin fort: un portrait et 51 vignettes gravés à l'eau-forte montées sur onglets, sous serpentes. Ensemble 3 volumes.Ancien magistrat, BRILLAT-SAVARIN ne doit sa célébrité qu'à cet ouvrage, lentement élaboré durant son loisir, où se mêlent philosophie, recettes de cuisine et souvenirs. Grimod de La Reynière et Balzac en firent l'éloge. Pour Roland Barthes, « la langue de Brillat-Savarin est, à la lettre, gourmande : gourmande des mots qu'elle manie et des mots auxquels elle se réfère »
29746Paris 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. . Elle fut imprimée aux frais de l'auteur à 500 exemplaires et mis dans le commerce en décembre 1825. Brillat-Savarin qui décède moins de deux mois après la parution du volume n'aura guère eu le temps de profiter du succès de son grand oeuvre. Inutile de revenir sur l'importance et l'histoire de l'œuvre que nous pourrons cependant agrémenter d'un jugement catégorique et déglaçant d'un de ses illustres lecteurs quelques années plus tard : « Un homme très célèbre qui était en même temps un grand sot choses qui vont très bien ensemble . a osé dans un livre sur la Table . écrire ce qui suit à l'article VIN : ‘Le patriarche Noé passe pour être l'inventeur du vin ; c'est une liqueur qui se fait avec le fruit de la vigne.' Et après Après rien : c'est tout. Vous aurez beau feuilleter le volume le retourner dans tous les sens le lire à rebours à l'envers de droite à gauche et de gauche à droite vous ne trouverez pas autre chose sur le vin dans la Physiologie du goût du très illustre et très respecté Brillat-Savarin : ‘Le patriarche Noé.' et ‘c'est une liqueur.'. Je suppose qu'un habitant de la lune ou de quelque planète éloignée voyageant sur notre monde et fatigué de ses longues étapes pense à se rafraîchir le palais et à se réchauffer l'estomac. Il tient à se mettre au courant des plaisirs et des coutumes de notre terre. Il a vaguement ouï parler de liqueurs délicieuses avec lesquelles les citoyens de cette boule se procuraient à volonté du courage et de la gaieté. Pour être plus sûr de son choix l'habitant de la lune ouvre l'oracle du goût le célèbre et infaillible Brillat-Savarin et il y trouve à l'article VIN ce renseignement précieux : ‘Le patriarche Noé'. et ‘cette liqueur se fait'. Cela est tout à fait digestif. Cela est très explicatif. Il est impossible après avoir lu cette phrase de n'avoir pas une idée juste et nette de tous les vins de leurs différentes qualités de leurs inconvénients de leur puissance sur l'estomac et sur le cerveau. Ah ! chers amis ne lisez pas Brillat-Savarin. Dieu préserve ceux qu'il chérit des lectures inutiles ; c'est la première maxime d'un petit livre de Lavater un philosophe qui a aimé les hommes plus que tous les magistrats du monde ancien et moderne. On n'a baptisé aucun gâteau du nom de Lavater ; mais la mémoire de cet homme angélique vivra encore parmi les chrétiens quand les braves bourgeois eux-mêmes auront oublié le Brillat-Savarin espèce de brioche insipide dont le moindre défaut est de servir de prétexte à une dégoisade de maximes niaisement pédantesques tirées du fameux chef-d'oeuvre ». Costard trois étoiles et triple fourchette signés Charles Baudelaire in Les Paradis artificiels « Du Vin ». N'en déplaise à Baudelaire La Physiologie du goût est « un des chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature gastronomique mondiale. Il est avec Grimod de la Reynière celui qui a le plus sérieusement médité sur l'art transcendantal du bien-manger » Oberlé. Bel exemplaire ; rare en reliure d'époque et de qualité comme ici. 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 unknown
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).
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.
EXE-130Paris, Les Francs Bibliophiles, 1968. In-8°, box noir, premier plat orné de bandes de maroquin prune, aubergine et orangé, et d'un jeu de filets à froid formant des quadrillages; dos lisse orné du titre à froid; doublures et gardes de papier rayé; tête dorée; couverture & dos conservés, emboîtage (Honegger). Illustré de 25 gravures originales à la manière noire dont 1 en frontispice. Tiré à 175 exemplaires numérotés, tous sur vélin de Rives.
196134875Paris Les Francs-Bibliophi 1961 In-8, en feuilles, couverture imprime (embotage de l'diteur).25 gravures originales la manire noire de Mario Avati, dont un frontispice et 24 in-texte. Tirage unique limit 175 exemplaires numrots sur vlin de Rives. Exemplaire enrichi de 2 beaux dessins originaux la mine de plomb et l'encre de Chine, signs et dats par Mario Avati, d'un cuivre original encr, du menu du dner de la socit illustr d'une gravure originale justifie et signe par l'artiste, et d'une carte de vSux illustre galement d'une manire noire par Mario Avati.
21223Paris, A. Sautelet, 1826. Deux volumes in-8. Exemplaire à toutes marges (marg 215 x 132 mm), lavé, en parfait état de fraicheur. Demi-maroquin rouge à coins, dos lisse orné de fers romantiques dorés, tête dorée, non rogné, couverture et dos conservés (Reliure moderne). Menues et fort habiles réfections aux couvertures conservées et dans les marges de quelques feuillets.
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
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
19616087Paris, Les Francs Bibliophiles, 1961 ; in-8 en feuilles ; couverture crème imprimée en bleu marine rempliée, étui de suédine noire (emboitage de l'éditeur) ; (3) ff. blancs, 108, (8) pp., (3) ff. blancs, 25 gravures dont 1 en frontispice, protégées par des serpentes de papier de soie.
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.
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).
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
1961520691961. AVATI Mario. Aphorismes Menus et Variétés. By Brillat-Savarin. 108 8 pp. Frontispiece and 24 mezzotints by Avati. 8vo. bound in original wrappers in chemise and ultra-suede slipcase. Paris: Les Francs-Bibliophiles 1961. A tour-de-force of book illustration. Avati who is a master of the mezzotint process displays his virtuosity in the 25 jewel-like prints which illustrate this famous gastronomic text. One of 175 copies privately printed and never offered for sale. Strachan 325. unknown books
