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[Food & Drink] Brillat-Savarin, (Jean-Anthelme). Group of 2 First Editions

Brillat-Savarin, (Jean-Anthelme), and Mario Avati
Aphorismes Menus & Varietes
(Paris): Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961. First and limited edition, #160/175 numbered copies privately printed on Velin de Rives a la cuve paper, and signed by the illustrator, Mario Avati, in pencil on colophon (from a total edition of 223). 8vo. Text printed in blue and in black. Illustrated with mezzotint frontispiece and 24 mezzotints, by Avati. With an additional original pencil drawing by Avati laid in (Two Poissons, mezzotint appears on p. 19), signed and dated (1960) by him in top right; in a window mounted bifolium sheet. Loose gatherings, as issued, laid into publisher’s stiff printed wrappers, in glassine; scattered light foxing to text; in publisher’s white paper-covered chemise and black faux-suede slip case. Strachan 325

Together with:

Brillat-Savarin, (Jean-Anthelme)
The Handbook of Dining; or, Corpulency and Leanness Scientifically Considered
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1865. First American edition. 12mo. 200, (4, ads) pp. Publisher’s brown cloth-covered boards, stamped in blind and in gilt, spine and extremities faded, spine ends lightly worn, extremities slightly rubbed; ownership signature in blue pencil on front free endpaper; bookseller’s ticket at bottom of front free endpaper verso; in blue-cloth fall-down-back box.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

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