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An attractive 8vo edition of Physiologie du Gout, Brillat-Savarin's most famous work, plates and illustrations, fine french style calf, spine gilt
An attractive 8vo edition of Physiologie du Gout, Brillat-Savarin's most famous work, plates and illustrations, fine french style calf, spine gilt
An attractive 8vo edition of Physiologie du Gout, Brillat-Savarin's most famous work, plates and illustrations, fine french style calf, spine gilt

BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme

Physiologie du Gout... ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante; ouvrage théroique, historique et a l'ordre du jour, dédié aus gastronomes parisiens par un prefesseur membre du plusieurs societés savantes. Edition précédée d'une notice par M Le Baron Richerand; suivie de La Gastronomie, poeme en quatre chantes, par Berchoux.

Paris, Charpentier, 1840.

£750.00
£750.00

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Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, founded the genre of gastronomic writing. This, his most famous work, has never been out of print. In a series of meditations that owe something to Montaigne's Essays, and have the discursive rhythm of an age of leisured reading and a confident pursuit of educated pleasures, Brillat-Savarin discourses on the pleasures of the table, which he considers a science. It is interesting to note that he considered sugar and white flour to be the cause of obesity.

8vo (185 X 125 mm); some minor, mostly perphepheral foxing, otherwise bright and clean; later 19th century Swedish binding of quarter green morocco over marbled boards by Swedish binder 'G.F Possman, Stokholm' (his label to verso of upper free endpaper, gilt tooling and devices to spine panels, red lettering-piece, with marbled endpapers and edges, plain-tipped board corners, rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good.

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An attractive 8vo edition of Physiologie du Gout, Brillat-Savarin's most famous work, plates and illustrations, fine french style calf, spine gilt

Physiologie du Gout...

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