LISTER (Dr. Martin). A journey to Paris in the year 1698. London, Jacob Tonson, 1699. In-8, brown calf, central design in a speckled frame, double fillet and triple fillet with cold corner finial, spine ribbed, red title page, red speckled edges (English binding of the period).
Title, (2) ff, 245 pp, (1) f., 6 folding plates.
Second edition of this travel guide to Paris; a long passage (pp. 146-170) concerns the food of Parisians; it begins with bread, studies at length mushrooms, and wines from all regions of France, ratafias, coffee, tea, chocolate and waters.
Martin Lister (1638-1712) was an English naturalist who published numerous medical articles in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and who composed reference memoirs on conchyliology.
Handwritten bookplate: John Chaytor, 1820.
Very worn binding. Some foxing, stains, creased boards (one restored), annotations on endpapers.
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