LE GRAND D'AUSSY. Histoire de la vie privée des François, de - Lot 378

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LE GRAND D'AUSSY. Histoire de la vie privée des François, de - Lot 378
LE GRAND D'AUSSY. Histoire de la vie privée des François, depuis l'origine de la nation jusqu'à nos jours. Paris, Simonet, 1815. 3 vols. - Public and private life of the French, in the city, at court and in the provinces... Paris, Melle Sigault, Le Rouge, 1826. 2 vols. - Set. 5 vol. in-8, half havana calf, smooth spine decorated, red title and green tomaison, speckled edges (Binding of the second half of the 19th century). Third edition, corrected and updated, of this famous fresco of the food life of the French, first published in 1782. It describes in 7 chapters the uses of the table: food from the vegetable and animal kingdom (meat, fruits and vegetables, milk, fish, pastries), prepared dishes, drinks (wine, beer, liquors...), furniture and utensils for meals, particular uses; the guilds related to food are also evoked (butchers, cooks, pastry cooks, forgers, etc.). Volume III ends with an important table of authors and characters quoted, and a table of contents. This work is completed by a two-volume continuation, in original edition, of which some chapters also concern food: in the first volume, devoted to public life, are presented the restaurants, cafés, cabarets, guinguettes, civic or public meals; and in the second volume, concerning private life, are explained the new uses for the meals of the nobility, the bourgeoisie and the clergy. Some foxing. Pronounced rubbing to the spines. Bitting, 280 - Vicaire, 510 : (I to III).
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