Lot 669
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PHYSIOLOGIES -- FOUR VOLUMES containing 28 'Physiologies'. Par., (c. 1840-50). Sm-8°. Cont. hcl. & cont h. black mor. (1). (Some foxing, titles of the Physiologies in ink on the first free endpaper). -- (J.-A. BRILLAT-SAVARIN). Physiologie du gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie. Brux., 1859. Cont. h. brown mor. -- (5).
Ad 1: I.a.: HUART, L. Physiologie de l'étudiant - Id., Physiologie de le Médécin . - M. de BALZAC. Physiologie de l'employé. - F. SOULIÉ. Physiologie du Bas-Bleu. - E. LEMOINE. Physiologie de l'homme a bonnes fortunes. - Amusing satirical descriptions of Parisian types, which appeared first in the "Bibliotèque pour rire" and where an extremely popular genre in1850s France. The pieces where illustrated by well-known artists of the time like Daumier, Gavarni, A. & J. Lange, Trimolet, a.o. - Ad 2: A popular and curious work, partly couched as a droll essay and partly imbued with an almost ethnographic spirit, on taste as a philosophical concept and art, food and its enjoyment and function in (French) society and more.€ 140
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