Gérard Oberlé - Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus - 1989

Exceptional exemplar, one of 150 head editions on matte coated paper bound in a quarto binding by Jean de Gonet (Polyurethane/rubber molding binding). Large volume in-4, revorim binding, covers of molded black polyurethane. 647 pages

Covers decorated with a skimmer (écumoire) and the title of the work in small print.

A major figure in artistic bookbinding of the last thirty years, Jean de Gonet quickly established himself in complete rupture with the modalities and décors of so-called creation bindings.

Exemplar no. 86
signed on the collation by Jean de Gonet and the author Gérard Oberlé.

Reference work. Bibliography of a large collection of gastronomy books that served as a catalog for a sale in 1900.

Gérard Oberlé describes 1181 lots/books with highly learned comments. This sale entered the history of gastronomy literature auctions.

Literary volume and first gastronomic bibliography with notices as developed about authors and works (1185 titles concerning the table in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, XVIIth, XVIIIth, XIXth and XXth centuries)

Special chapters on the School of Salerno, ancient and modern gastronomic literature, and also:

– Cuisine and science, diets
– Table manners, savoir-vivre, feasts and banquets
– The art of carving
– The street cries
– The markets, markets, trade
– Agriculture and rustic house
– Vegetables and vegetarian cooking
– Mushrooms
– Coffee, tea and chocolate
– Fish and seafood
– Milk, butter, cheese
– Bakery
– Sugar
– The table and religion, fasting, Lent, indulgence
– Menus and advertising
– The vine, wine, and drinking literature
– Table songs
– Tobacco and drugs
– The bibliographies

Small scratch on the spine, interior in excellent condition, well protected by the case in very good condition