124 - [BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean Anthelme)].

[BRILLAT-SAVARIN (Jean Anthelme)]. The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy; a theoretical, historical, and topical work, dedicated to the Parisian gourmets, by a professor and member of several literary and scholarly societies. Paris, Sautelet et Cie, 1826. 2 vols. in-8, [1] folio, XIV pp., pp. [5]–390 pp. & 442 pp. Light-colored half-calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and scrolls, title page in brown marbled paper, gilt volume number, marbled endpapers (contemporary binding). Foxing and wormholes. Paper repairs on the first two folios of Volume II. First edition and first printing, featuring the horizontal “E” of Bourse in the publisher’s address on the title page of the first volume. This first edition is extremely rare; it was printed at the author’s expense in a run of only 500 copies and released two months before his death. (Oberlé, 144; Vicaire gastr. 116–117.)