A Paris: Chez Emile Babeuf a la Librairie historique et des arts et métiers, rue Saint-Honoré, no. 123, Hôtel d'Aligre, 1822. Octavo, [4], vi, 454 pages. [I], III leaves of plates. Second edition. The original was published in 1815 with the title, Manuel complet d'économie domestique. This 1822 second edition was the first to carry the new title. Cagle incorrectly states that the title was changed with the third edition.....

París; Fontenay-des-Roses: Administration du Guide des Plaisirs; Imprimerie Bellenand et Fils, [1930]. Small octavo (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated. Stated "Nouvelle Edition". Lightly foxed throughout; otherwise very good internally. In tan wrappers, titled in black. A bit of edgewear to wrappers, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates three copies].

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. Octavo, xv, 380 pages. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. An important cookbook by "one of the most famous early nineteenth century Paris restaurateurs. ...Beauvilliers stands as the first and most easily recognized example of a restaurateur as a democratization of what had once been an aristocratic privilege." (Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant). André Simon called this book, "at the time of its.....

Paris: L.G. Michaud, Libraire-Editeur, 1829. Four volumes in two. Duodecimo, 226; 210 & 216; 216 pages. With four frontispiece engravings. A handsome early collection of the works of Berchoux who is credited with popularizing the word "gastronomy" with the first poem of this collection. Quarter green calf bindings, with gilt titled and decorated spines. Spines darkened, and some rubbing and edgewear to the boards, otherwise very good. Lord Westbury's copies.....

Alexandria, Virginia: Jean Berrard, 1987. Quarto in wrappers, [xiii], 146 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A cookbook and memoir by a chef who grew up in his family's hotel in the small town of Artemare Haute Savoie and followed in his father's footsteps when his father retired in 1955. The author describes life under Nazi occupation. Berrard's admirers included Simca Beck, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Pen mark roughly.....

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1984. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 337, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Very light soiling, otherwise near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.

Paris: Publié par J. Hetzel, 1846. Octavo, 184, iv pages. Illustrated by Bertall. FIRST EDITION. A significant work of early nineteenth-century gastronomy, which, though small by comparison, stands alongside Brillat-Savarin and Dumas. The illustrator Bertall was one of the most prolific French illustrators of the nineteenth century, and a pioneering photographer. Small open tear to corner of page 37, with no loss to text, otherwise very good in dark brown.....

Paris: Sautelet et Cie. 1826. Two volumes, octavo, xiv, 390 & 449 pages. FIRST EDITION of the most famous treatise on gastronomy. The Physiology of Taste was published in an edition of 500 copies, appearing only two months after the author's death. A comprehensive philosophy of the palate, the table, and far beyond, the book is presented in a series of thirty meditations on subjects including the senses, taste, appetite.....

Marseille: chez l’auteur, 1944-1949. Large quarto, xvii, 197 pages. 35 cm. Illustrations by Louis Jou. FIRST EDITION. One of 1000 numbered copies on Auvergne pur chiffon made by Richard de Bas. One of the great works of Provençal cookery, from the great mid-20th century French chef Maurice Brun of Marseille. An elaborate production, with signatures sewn, but unattached to the colorful printed wrappers. Decorated chemise somewhat worn, a bit of.....

Paris: [1953]. One and one half page pen and ink letter (26.5 x 21.5 cm.) on single sheet of pale blue Paul Cushing Child stationery, with ink date stamp ("May 18 1953"), addressed, "USIS. 5 Place de Rome, Marseille (B du Rh)". ~ An early letter from Julia Child, written while she was living in Paris with her husband Paul and working on her first book, the seminal Mastering the.....

Paris: L. Mulo, Libraire - Editeur, 1897. Small octavo, 242 + 6 +36 pages. Third edition, revised and enlarged. A thorough and somewhat scientific cookbook for girls, from founder of the Ecole de Cuisine, and the former Chef des cuisines of the Prince and Princess Hatzfeldt Wildembourg. The book starts with a list of condiments, really an ingredient dictionary, and that alphabetical list starts with, what else, absinthe! Exactly where.....

Paris: Librarie Larousse, 1953. Large, thick quarto, 856 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. FIRST EDITION. One of Curnonsky's major works out of many (nearly 65). The "Prince of Gastronomes" is widely credit for linking dining and travel. Together with his friend Marcel Rouff, he compiled the magnificent, twenty-eight volume France Gastronomique, essentially a travelogue of a nine-year journey eating their way through every department of France. Some age.....

Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 10 Rue Mayet; [Le Société...], 1935. Octavo (21 x 16.5 cm.), 38, [8] pages. Illustrated with color lithographs by Edy Legrand. FIRST ORDINARY EDITION, one of thirty-five thousand copies on velin d'alfa. A promotional item serving the producers of Roquefort cheese, with text by two of the greatest of French mid-century food writers, and illustrations by the great illustrator and painter Edy Legrand. In tan wrappers.....