GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE (Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent)]. Almana - Lot 363

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GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE (Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent)]. Almana - Lot 363
GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE (Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent)]. Almanach des gourmands, ou Calendrier nutritif, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère (...) par un vieux amateur. Paris, Marandan, then Chaumerot, 1803-1812. 8 vol. in-12, green morocco, triple fillet, gilt figure of the author on the first plate, smooth decorated spine, rust morocco lining, interior fillet, green silk endpapers, double marbled paper endpapers, untrimmed, gilt edges with witnesses, cover and spine, two cases (Aussourd). Rare complete collection of the 8 years of the famous Almanach des gourmands (without publication in 1809 and 1811). Each year is decorated with a frontispiece engraved by Maradan after Dunand. Vicaire affirms that Grimod himself made the drawings. Prepared in 25 days, the first edition was a great success and it was necessary to make two other editions the same year. "By turns emphatic or caustic, playful or serious, this prose] dealt seriously with a futile subject, pompously with vulgar objects, with nobility of the ignoble act of feeding! "(Oberlé). Precious copy of Curnonsky, with his autograph signature in volume I, and his bookplate with the motto Mala culina derisa. Novelist and gastronome, Maurice Edmond Sailland, known as Curnonsky (1872-1956) was nicknamed the "Princ des Gastrnomes". Also contains a handwritten draft of the contract between Grimod and the bookseller Maradan, dated "24 pluviose an 13" (2 pages in-8, folded; small holes pierced by ink and dusty margin). Attached is an engraved portrait of the author, mounted, and his copy in red pastel. Ex-libris Debry (Michel de Bry, 1890-1970). Some foxing and marginal spotting. Volume VIII, restorations to the frontispiece and title. Spine faded. Vicaire, 424-427 - Simon, 794-805 - Bitting, 201-203 - Oberlé, Fastes, 133.
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