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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