PARMENTIER (Antoine-Augustin) and Nicolas DÉYEUX. Précis of - Lot 132

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PARMENTIER (Antoine-Augustin) and Nicolas DÉYEUX. Précis of - Lot 132
PARMENTIER (Antoine-Augustin) and Nicolas DÉYEUX. Précis of experiments and observations on the different species of milk, considered in their relation to chemistry, medicine and rural economy. Strasbourg, F.-G. Levrault, Théoph. Barrois, year 7 (1799). In-8, half brown basane, spine decorated, black title, red speckled edges (19th century binding). False title, title, iii ff. 420 pp. and (2) ff. of table. Unique and rare edition of this complete treatise on milk. This work, which escaped the majority of gastronomic bibliographies, is the development of a memoir published in 1788, the subject of which was the comparison of the milk of women, cows, goats, donkeys, sheep and mares. Divided into three parts, the treatise deals with the chemical properties of milk (including cream, coagulation, fermentation), the moral and medicinal influences on milk and the use of milk as a medicine, and finally milk in the economy (with an approach to dairies, trade, the manufacture of cheeses and their different qualities). Nicolas Déyeux (1745-1837) was Napoleon I's pharmacist, the King's first pharmacist under the Restoration, a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medicine; with Parmentier, he undertook other research, on blood or gallic acid for example, and collaborated in the Bibliothèque physico-économique (1782-1797), a periodical that published from 1782 to 1831 many articles concerning gastronomy and oenology. Some foxing. Spine slightly faded.
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