The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy. Illustrated

by Anecdotes of Distinguished Artists and Statesmen of Both Continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Fayette Robinson

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Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854. First American edition and first English translation. xx, 25-347, 5 pp. with four advertising pages at rear. Bound in publisher's brown cloth ornately stamped in blind and gilt, top edge gilt. Near Fine with light wear to covers and shallow chipping at spine ends, and foxing to contents and textblock edges. Ownership signature in old hand to front free endpaper. Lowenstein

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