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CHATILLON-PLESSIS. La Vie à table à la fin du XIXe siècle. Practical and historical theory of modern gastronomy. Paris, Firmin Didot et Cie, 1894. In-8, brown half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with green mosaics and quatrefoils, blue title page, gilt head, covers (Palmarts). False title, title, 411 pp. Unique edition of this rare work, interesting documentary dedicated to the Parisian tables of the Belle-Époque. It is illustrated with a frontispiece representing the Maison du gourmand, more than 170 figures in and out of the text, vignettes or full page, and 2 folding plates (including a table representing the most famous French gastronomes, from Brillat-Savarin to 1894, with the list of names). A richly bound copy. The name of the bookbinder is hidden and repeated in the gilt scrolls of the spine: G. Palmarts is from Liege. It comes from the library of the Belgian collector Guy Dartois (I, 165). Spine partly detached. Bitting, 84; Cagle, 135. Unknown to Vicaire, Oberlé.
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CHATILLON-PLESSIS. La Vie à table à la fin du XIXe siècle. Practical and historical theory of modern gastronomy. Paris, Firmin Didot et Cie, 1894. In-8, brown half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated with green mosaics and quatrefoils, blue title page, gilt head, covers (Palmarts). False title, title, 411 pp. Unique edition of this rare work, interesting documentary dedicated to the Parisian tables of the Belle-Époque. It is illustrated with a frontispiece representing the Maison du gourmand, more than 170 figures in and out of the text, vignettes or full page, and 2 folding plates (including a table representing the most famous French gastronomes, from Brillat-Savarin to 1894, with the list of names). A richly bound copy. The name of the bookbinder is hidden and repeated in the gilt scrolls of the spine: G. Palmarts is from Liege. It comes from the library of the Belgian collector Guy Dartois (I, 165). Spine partly detached. Bitting, 84; Cagle, 135. Unknown to Vicaire, Oberlé.
