COUSIN DE COURCHAMPS (Maurice, comte de)]. Neo-physiology of taste in alphabetical order, or General Dictionary of ancient and modern French cuisine. Paris, Au bureau du dictionnaire général de cuisine, 1839. In-8, fawn half-calf, smooth spine decorated (Binding of the time). False title, title, 635 pp. First edition of one of the most interesting culinary dictionaries of the 19th century. "This Neophysiology of taste is, indeed, quite interesting; it does not have the ordinary dryness of a cookbook, nor does it have the banality. Here and there, in the columns of this sort of encyclopedia of gourmet food, next to practical recipes, we find piquant anecdotes." (Quérard). Anonymous, it is dedicated to the author of the Mémoires de la marquise de Créquy, that is to say Cousin de Courchamps himself (1783-1889), gastronome and publicist. Slight foxing. Slight rubbing, small tear to spine. Vicaire, 622; Simon, 1083; Bitting, 104.