Author: BERCHOUX,J.
Title: La Gastronomie, Poeme.
Description: Paris, Giguet et Michaud. 1805, 4Th. Full-Leather, 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Book, La Gastronomie ou l'Homme des Champs A Table. Poeme didactique en IV Chants. Suivi des poesies fugitives de l'auteur. (Corrigee et augmentee) 266 pp. Contemporairy full calf, with a fine gilded line . Backstrip/spine gone... corners bumped, small tear in last page. Nevertheless still a desirable copy of a true collectors item. See: Bitting; 36, Vicaire p. 84, Simon; p.22, & Brunet; VI-1449. Berchoux seems to be the one responsible to introduce the very word "Gastronomie" in the French language. Fair.

Keywords: Gastronomie. Berchoux.


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