Null BERCHOUX (Joseph de)]. La Gastronomie ou L'Homme des champs à table. Paris,…
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BERCHOUX (Joseph de)]. La Gastronomie ou L'Homme des champs à table. Paris, Giguet et Michaux, 1804. In-12, half tan basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page (Binding of the period). 228 pp. Third edition, illustrated with a new frontispiece engraved by Bovinet after Monsiau. This poetic collection in four songs deals essentially with the cuisine of the Ancients. The subtitle "L'Homme des champs à table" evokes the work of the poet Delille, exiled and admired by the royalist writer Berchoux. Ex-libris printed Bibliothèque de Lumigny. Some foxing. Binding rubbed, two upper jaws cracked. Vicar, 83.

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BERCHOUX (Joseph de)]. La Gastronomie ou L'Homme des champs à table. Paris, Giguet et Michaux, 1804. In-12, half tan basane, smooth spine decorated, red title page (Binding of the period). 228 pp. Third edition, illustrated with a new frontispiece engraved by Bovinet after Monsiau. This poetic collection in four songs deals essentially with the cuisine of the Ancients. The subtitle "L'Homme des champs à table" evokes the work of the poet Delille, exiled and admired by the royalist writer Berchoux. Ex-libris printed Bibliothèque de Lumigny. Some foxing. Binding rubbed, two upper jaws cracked. Vicar, 83.

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