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Mixed Edition. Volume 1 3rd Ed. Volume 2, and 3, 2nd Ed. Volume 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 1st Eds. 8 vols. 12mo. Engraved frontiss. Half titles present. French text. Inner gilt dentelles, marbled e.ps. and edges, exquisitely bound in contemporary cats paw calf, minor dulling to edges of boards, with double gilt rule to boards with a dec. gilt emblem to each corner, intricate gilt tooled compartments with gilt lettered title and volume labels to spines, minor signs of rubbing and wear. Vicaire 424-7.Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (1758-1837) lawyer by qualification who acquired fame during the reign of Napoleon for his sensual and public gastronomic lifestyle. As the first public critic of cooking, the first reviewer of the ambitious restaurants that cropped up in Paris in the later eighteenth century and flowered under the Napoleonic regime, his name is a by-word on a par with Brillat-Savarin and an equally rich source of quotations in French gastronomic literature through the eight volumes of his annual L'Almanach des gourmands, which, among other innovations, were the first restaurant guides. Pascal Ory considers Alexandre Grimod to be "one of the founders of the modern French culture," grouping him with the Comte de Saint-Simon and Alexis de Tocqueville. He "reestablished order, hierarchy, and distinctions in the realm of good taste" through the publication of texts that helped to define the French food scene. While others at the time were focused more on art, literature and drama, Grimod opened the door to criticism of food and cookery, there was literature about food and eating before Grimod, but it was concerned only with technical aspects and recipes, while Grimod introduced the idea of epicurean criticism. US$3341.

Grand-Carteret 1401; Simon 794-798; Vicaire 424-425; Schraemli 90; Horn/Arndt 358; Oberlé 133; Bitting 201 ff. - Bis auf Jahrgang 1 und 4, seltene, fast vollständige Ausgabe des berühmten gastronomischen Almanachs, herausgegeben von dem Gastrosophen Grimod de la Reynière. Die Rezepte dieses Feinschmecker-Kochbuches sind mit Bonmots und Anekdoten, Sprichwörtern, Gleichnissen und amüsanten Abenteuern gewürzt. Die Frontispize zeigen eine Feinschmecker-Tischgesellschaft, die Audienz eines Feinschmeckers, le premier devoir d un Amphitrion , le lever d un gourmand und les rêves d un Gourmand . - Das Frontispiz fehlt in Band 8. Vorhanden sind die Bände 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8. Band 2 hat auf den ersten 150 Seiten einen Brandschaden. Dieser Band 2 ist als vollständiges Exemplar doppelt in einem Interims-Umschlag der Zeit hier zusätzlich beigegeben. - Die Deckblätter wenig gebräunt und mit alten Bibliotheksstempeln, sonst in sauberer Erhaltung Mit 5 (st. 6) gestoch. Frontispizen von Maradan und Mariage Pappband der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung u. goldgepr. Rückenschild, Kl.8°.

4 Volumes. 18mo. pp. 8 p.l., [v]-viii, viii, [9]-247, [1]; 2 p.l., xxii, [23]-318; xiv, 342; xx, 336. with half-titles. 4 engraved frontis. Vols. I-II in original bds., Vol. IV in contemporary half calf (some chipping to spines). Second Edition of Vols. I-II; First Editions of Vols. III-IV. The first four issues, of a total of eight published annually from 1803 to 1812 (none for 1809 and 1811). The French gourmand and littérateur Grimod de la Reynière established a culinary jury which held monthly sessions to decide on the merits of particular dishes with a view to promoting what Montaigne styled 'the science of the palate'. One of these sessions is depicted in the frontispiece to the third volume. Of special interest in Vols. I and III are the chapters entitled Itinéraire Nutritif, Ou Promenade D'Un Gourmand Dans Divers Quartiers De Paris, a review of the better restaurants and food shops in Paris. Bitting 201-02. cfSimon 795; Simon 797-98. Vicaire 424-25. cfCagle 224-25; Cagle 226-27. See Oberlé 133.