Paris: Audot, Libraire-Editeur, 1836. Duodecimo, 480, 24 pages. Styled twentieth edition. Vicaire notes that this extremely popular work has on occasion been misattributed to Mlle. Aglaé Adanson. In 1832, Philadelphia's Carey & Hart published the first American edition, a translation by Eliza Leslie, one of the earliest French cookbooks published in the U.S. A lovely copy, untrimmed, in original printed, paper-covered boards, with a bit of pulling at the hinges.....

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.....

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1988. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 319, [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. Near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.

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 attributed with having popularized 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.....

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.

New York: Pantheon, 1977. Large quarto, 517 pages. First American Edition. A thorough overview of French cooking. While Bocuse is the perhaps the most well-known of the chefs who introduced nouvelle cuisine, his name has come to be synonymous with all of French cuisine. The most prestigious of culinary awards is named after him, and the Culinary Institute of America changed the name of its dining room from Escoffier to.....

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. contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards Light wear at extremities, otherwise in very good condition. 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. The book is a comprehensive philosophy of the palate and of the table.....

Paris: Charpentier, Libraire-Éditeur, 1865. Small octavo, xii, 525, (3) pages. With additional gastronomic texts by Balzac, Berchoux, and others. A later printing of the 1853 Charpentier edition. Internally clean and tight, marbled endpapers. Previous owner's name inked to half-title. Marbled boards over half-morocco, compartmented spine, with gilt-titled labels. light wear to edges, otherwise near very good. [Vicaire, page 118; this edition not in Cagle, Bitting or Oberlé].

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 Provencal cookery, from the great 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 very light foxing.....

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950. Small octavo, 278 pages. First edition. A recipe book of traditional French cooking, from the French wife of the British consul in Calais. The recipes are distinctly northern French. Fine in a slightly sun faded dust jacket.

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.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. Quarto, xxi, 555, liv, [4] pages. FIRST EDITION, first printing of the second volume of Julia Child's classic work, published nine years after the first volume. For this second work, Julia was joined by Simone Beck only. Fore corners of original publisher's cloth slightly bumped, otherwise fine; some rubbing to head and foot of dust jacket spine, and slight age-toning to the red printing.....