[NOUVEL ALMANACH] – PÉRIGORD, A.B. de (pseud. de Horace-Napoléon RAISSON et Léonce THIESSÉ). - photo 1
[NOUVEL ALMANACH] – PÉRIGORD, A.B. de (pseud. de Horace-Napoléon RAISSON et Léonce THIESSÉ). - photo 2

[NOUVEL ALMANACH] – PÉRIGORD, A.B. de (pseud. de Horace-Napoléon RAISSON et Léonce THIESSÉ).

Lot 170
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Lot 170 | [NOUVEL ALMANACH] – PÉRIGORD, A.B. de (pseud. de Horace-Napoléon RAISSON et Léonce THIESSÉ).
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[NOUVEL ALMANACH] – PÉRIGORD, A.B. de (pseud. de Horace-Napoléon RAISSON et Léonce THIESSÉ).

Nouvel almanach des gourmands, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère… Première [- Deuxième, - Troisième] année. Paris : Baudouin frères, 1825 [-1826, -1827]. [Et :] Almanach perpétuel des gourmands, contenant le code gourmand… Paris : Barba, 1830.

L'ancêtre des guides gastronomiques de la capitale.

Édition originale. Exceptionnelle collection complète, en reliure uniforme de l’époque.



Almanach rédigé par le compagnon de Balzac, Horace Raisson, et Léon Thiessé, sous le pseudonyme de Périgord. Les deux compères marchent sur les brisées d'un Grimod de La Reynière indigné qui taxera les trois premiers volumes de "plagiat éhonté". Document de premier ordre dédié au Paris gourmand sous Charles X, il décrit les Halles, les restaurants (Rocher de Cancale, Véfour, Véron, Véry, Corcelet le traiteur), les cafés, les pâtissiers et les confiseurs. Regrettant sans doute la vive critique publiée en 1826 contre la Physiologie du goût, Raisson fait amende honorable dans le troisième volume, qui comporte dix-huit pages d'éloges de Brillat-Savarin.



L’Almanach perpétuel, qui complète le Nouvel almanach, est en réalité la réédition du Code gourmand d’Horace Raisson, paru en 1827. La mention de sixième édition, sur la page de titre de ce volume, est sans doute fictive, peut-être pour donner l’illusion que l’almanach avait également paru pour les années 1828 et 1829. Quérard, Supercheries, III, 80 ; Cagle 366-368 ; Maggs, 397-399 et 437 ; Vicaire 673 et 729 ; Grand-Carteret, Almanachs, 2005 ("La troisième année fut rédigée par Léon Thiessé seul").



Ensemble 4 volumes in-12 (132 x 83 mm). 4 frontispices et 2 cartes dépliantes (rousseurs éparses). Reliure de l’époque : basane marbrée, dos lisses ornés, tranches jaunes.



Very scarce complete set of Nouvel almanach des gourmands, in a contemporary uniform binding.

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