CURNONSKY. Defense and illustration of French gastronomy. Pa - Lot 479

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CURNONSKY. Defense and illustration of French gastronomy. Pa - Lot 479
CURNONSKY. Defense and illustration of French gastronomy. Paris, Vialetay, 1953. In-4, in sheets (Publisher's slipcase). 190 pp, (3) ff. First edition of this prestigious work published by the Prince of gastronomes, then 81 years old. This history of French gastronomy, since pre-historic times, is illustrated with 25 full-page lithographs by Georges Villa, watercolored by François Wils. Edition at 266 copies, signed by the author and the illustrator. One of the 10 first copies on japon nacré, n° 5, including an original drawing signed ("les petits soupers du Régent"), a bon à tirer, a suite in black on Rives of the hors-texte, a suite of the culs-de-lampe and the lettrines, the 3 refused plates. It comes from the Kilian Fritsch library (1993, n° 577). Slightly rubbed wrapping.
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