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![GRIMOD DE LA REYNIERE (ALEXANDRE BALTHAZAR DE). Almanach des gourmands, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère. Premiere [-huitième] année; Nouvel almanach des Gourmands. Premiere [-troisième] année... par A.B. de Périgord, together 11 vol., Paris, Maradan, Baudouin frères, 1804-1812-1825-1827; and 3 other copies of volumes 1-3; Manuel des Amphitryons, Paris, 1808 (15) image 1](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2019-10%2F23%2F24872493-13-1.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
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The Property of a Catalan Collector and Former Chef
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[GRIMOD DE LA REYNIERE (ALEXANDRE BALTHAZAR DE)] Almanach des gourmands, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère. Premiere [-huitième] année; Nouvel almanach des Gourmands. Premiere [-troisième] année... par A.B. de Périgord, together 11 vol., Paris, Maradan, Baudouin frères, 1804-1812-1825-1827; and 3 other copies of volumes 1-3; Manuel des Amphitryons, Paris, 1808 (15)
4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,937.50 inc. premium
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[GRIMOD DE LA REYNIERE (ALEXANDRE BALTHAZAR DE)]
Almanach des gourmands, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère. Premiere [-huitième] année; Nouvel almana-ch des Gourmands. Premiere [-troisième] année... par A.B. de Périgord, together 11 vol., third edition of volume 1, second edition of volume 2, the remainder FIRST EDITIONS, 11 engraved frontispieces after the author, volume 5 of first series with 6-page calendar printed in blue, second series with 24-page prospectus (in volume 1) and folding 'carte gastronomique de la France' on pink paper (in volume 2), some oxidisation, without half-titles to volumes 2-4 of first series, uniformly bound in later half morocco, spines in compartments with gilt lettering and small repeated tool [Oberlé 133, first series; Vicaire 424-427], 12mo, Paris, Maradan, Baudouin frères, 1804-1812-1825-1827; together with 3 further copies, comprising first and second editions of volume 2, and a first edition of volume 1, BOOKPLATES OF ANTON MOSIMANN, uncut in original wrappers, 1804-1805; Manuel des Amphitryons; contenant un traité de la dissection des viandes à table, la nomenclature des menus les plus nouveaux pour chaque saison, et des élémens de politesse gourmande, half-title engraved frontispiece (title cropped) and 16 plates (some trimmed at head), without the 26-page index and errata leaf as often, ownership inscription on title of a 'Chef de Cuisine, Uster, Zurich, 1915', half calf, rebacked preserving most of original spine [Bitting 203; Cagle 233; Oberlé 135; Vicaire 427], 8vo, Paris, Capelle et Renard, 1808 (15)
Footnotes
Extremely rare complete set of Grimod's famous Almanachs, the first gastronomic guidebooks by the inventor of the restaurant review, with a copy of the same author's Manuel des Amphitryons, generally considered to be the first gastronomic treatise to introduced the notion of food criticism. The three volumes of the second series of Almanachs are particularly scarce: we can find no trace of a set of all eleven volumes selling at auction.





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