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- Lot 395
MONSELET (Charles). The Almanac of gourmands. 1862. [then 1866 to 1870]. Paris, Eugène Pick, then Le Petit Journal, Pagnerre, 1861 then 1865 to 1869. 8 vol. in-12, half-maroquin with wine-colored corners, spine with nerves, gilt head, cover (Binding of the end of the XIXth century). Complete collection of this rare gastronomic publication, illustrated by Mariani, Régnier... It includes, in verse and prose, various anecdotes and amusing stories, poems celebrating the gourmet. The first volume, which opens with a calendar presented as an astonishing gastronomic Pantheon, is dedicated to Grimod de La Reynière. Monselet himself composed a large number of articles and had as collaborators Delvau, Magnin, Féval, Gautier, Dumas... The issues of 1868, 1869 bear the bookplate of Hector de Backer. Attached from the same author and in an identical binding : - La Cuisinière poétique. Paris, Michel Lévy frère, s.d. (1859). 199 pp. First edition of this collection of recipes in verse and prose given not by cooks but by various authors : Monselet (Un dîner que je veux faire), Dumas (poulet rôti), Duranty (boudins de Lille), Méry (la bouillabaisse), Gautier (la gastronomie britanique, un dîner turc), Ch. Bataille (l'omelette à la fleur de pêcher), Banville... - Gastronomy. Stories of table. Paris, Charpentier, 1874. In-8. False title, title, iii pp., 396 pp. First edition of this pleasant collection of souvenirs, poems, memoirs, anecdotes...; chapter VI is dedicated to Grimod de la Reynière, chapter XXI is a "selection of serious, pleasant and extraordinary recipes" : lamb filet à la Condé, sirloin à la Godard, turbot Régence, soup à la jambe de bois... Spine faded. Vicaire, 603 to 606 - Bitting, 328.
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