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1926008867Doubleday & Page. Limited Centennial Edition. #112/500. Blue Boards With Cream Spine And Gold Lettering. A Crack Along Front Bottom Spine Edge. Binding Is Sound. Pages Are Clean Although Darkening With Age. A Slightly Oversized Book Measuring 7 1/2 By 10 3/4 Inches. The Dust Jacket Has Some Chipping And Tears Along The Edges And Is Now Within A New Protective Mylar Sleeve. A Must Have For The Food Historian. . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1926. Doubleday & Page hardcover
19251409230005P. Davies 1/1/1925. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. No. 348 of 750. Bound in quarter vellum on spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Marbled boards. Good binding and cover. Wear to extremities. Gift inscription on FEP. Clean unmarked pages with minimal tanning. Ships daily. P. Davies hardcover
1994A119232Washington: Counterpoint 1994. 1st ed. thus. Very Good. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 355pp. col. pls. text ills. Impressive volume. Ownership inscription o/w nice copy in sl. faded dust jacket Counterpoint hardcover
192630445Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co 1926. Limited edition 1 of 500 copies 8vo pp. 326; frontispiece portrait embellished with designs by Andrew Johnson; original blue paper-covered boards; signature broken at the limitation page page edges brittle otherwise about very good in the dust-jacket split at the upper joint and chipped at the edges. Doubleday, Page & Co unknown
19254346London: Peter Davies 1925. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1925 limited edition #711 of 750 copies issued. Solid and VG in publisher's original light-brown cloth with lightly-chipped gilt-lettered spine label. Quarto 326 pgs. deckled fore-edge and bottom-edge. Wonderfully illustrated in woodcut by Andrew Johnson. Peter Davies unknown
1989feb08609Meridiane 1989. Used. 1989; Romanian Edition of Fiziologia gustului Biblioteca de Arta Nr.490; For more details please contact me Meridiane unknown
1864315987Paris: FURME ET CIE libraire éditeurs 45 rue Saint André des Arts 1864. Dessins de Bertall. Frontsi and 7 plates on China. 459pp. Tall 8vo. Half contemopoirary green morocco t.e.g. Dessins de Bertall. Frontsi and 7 plates on China. 459pp. Tall 8vo. Vicaire 117 FURME ET CIE, libraire éditeurs, 45, rue Saint André des Arts unknown
C000025506Paris: Gabriel de Gonet. Leather Bound. Near Fine. No date. ca.1840s. Hardcover. Leather spine gilt spine titles gilt edges pebbled cloth decorative endpapers. 8vo. 416pp. Text in French. 8 engraved plates. Near Fine. Light rubbing at spine-ends and corners previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown mild soiling. Gabriel de Gonet unknown
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9354012590.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
199929360Washington DC:: Counterpoint 1999. First Printing of this Reprint Edition. A Very Good plus copy with previous owner inscription in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with sunning to the spine. This edition reprints the 1994 Arion Press edition limited to just 200 numbered and signed copies. This edition reproduces the pages of the Arion edition in a slightly smaller format but including the Wayne Thiebaud illustrations. The book is considered the most "famous book ever written about food and man's taste for it." It was first published in 1825 and is today considered the bible of all serious eaters. The author discusses such topics as feasting and fasting the influence of gourmandism on marriage his definition of taste his investigation into digestion sleep and dreams and much more. Fisher's translation is the most celebrated due to her conversational notes and rich insights anecdotes and ruminations. Counterpoint, 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
2092902141701353Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 2 Not Available paperback
1971106088NY:: Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0394473434 . Translated from the French by M. F. K. Fisher. Stated first edition thus. Near fine in a very good age toning dust jacket. Sewn-in ribbon bookmark. . Knopf, hardcover
197912937New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1979. Third printing. Original cream colored cloth with gilt decorated front cover gilt titled spine. 443 pages with deckle fore-edge and red top-edge stain. In the definitive English translation by M. F. K. Fisher. "The most famous book ever written about food and man's taste for it Brillat-Savarin's The Physiology of Taste which was first published--at the author's expense--in 1825 is today considered the bible of all serious eaters. There have been many translations but there has never been one like M. F. K. Fisher's." Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher 1908 - 1992 is considered one of America's greatest writers. Her writings revere the art of eating simply but well of taking pleasure where it is found and of loving life with all of its challenges. This copy is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY M. F. K. FISHER to a close personal friend. "For Loverne Morris from Mary Frances with love always and the tacit agreement of J. A. Brillat-Savarin Glen Ellen 1984 MFK Fisher." Search our listings for other titles inscribed by M. F. K. Fisher. SIGNED. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover
1844003093Paris: Charpentier 1844. .ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante ouvrage théorique historique et à l'ordre du jour dédié aux gastronomes parisiens précédé d'une notice par le baron Richerand suivie de : la gastronomie poème en quatre chants par Berchoux. Un volume in 8vo di 474 pagine. Bruniture diffuse lungo tutto il volume. Bella legatura coeva in mezza pelle rossa dorso a nervi con decorazioni dorate tagli dorati. Bella edizione in notevole legatura d'epoca di un gran classico della gastronomia moderna. Charpentier unknown