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[1848] Physiologie du Gout
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Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound
Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician, famed as an epicure and gastronome. His work Physiologie du Gout was originally published in 1825 and has not been out of print since; it contains aphorisms and reflections on food and eating habits, for examples on taste, gastronomy, appetite, obesity, fasting, restaurateurs, and much more. A truly fascinating volume. The author is considered as the father of low-carbohydrate diets, as he thought sugar and white flour to be the cause of obesity.
The present copy is in the original French, with illustrations by Bertall and a biographical sketch by Alph. Karr.
Collated, complete with numerous woodcuts in text and eight full page plates.
Condition
Rebacked in quarter morocco binding over cloth covered boards with four raised bands and top edge in gilt, new endpapers. Externally sound with minor shelf wear, spine and boards lightly rubbed. Joann's Szasz's bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting scattered to the leaves. Collated, complete with numerous woodcuts in text and eight full page plates.
Very Good
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