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BRILLAT SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme (1755-1826)]. Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante ... par un professeur . Paris: Sautelet et Cie, 1826. 2 volumes, 8°. Half titles (occasional light spotting). Contemporary sheep-backed boards, flat spines gilt (a little rubbed). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on title of volume I 'hommage de l'auteur à M. le president lanvier[?] pensay[?]' (partly deleted inscription) -- Villacros (contemporary blackstamp on half title and title of volume I.
BRILLAT SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme (1755-1826)]. Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante ... par un professeur . Paris: Sautelet et Cie, 1826. 2 volumes, 8°. Half titles (occasional light spotting). Contemporary sheep-backed boards, flat spines gilt (a little rubbed). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY inscribed on title of volume I 'hommage de l'auteur à M. le president lanvier[?] pensay[?]' (partly deleted inscription) -- Villacros (contemporary blackstamp on half title and title of volume I. FIRST EDITION OF PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS WORK ON GASTRONOMY EVER PRINTED, by Brillat Savarin, magistrate, politician and gastronome. Written in thirty chapters or Méditations and twenty-seven variétés , it begins with a number of aphorisms on gastronomy and continues with the author's thoughts on appetite, food (including some memorable and unmemorable meals), the history and origin of chocolate and coffee and his criteria for the ideal dinner party. This is one of the few extant presentation copies of the Physiologie which appeared for sale only some two months before the author's death on 2 February 1826. Vicaire 116-21; Heirs of Hippocrates 1128; not in Bitting. (2)