Cookery -- Grimod de la Reynière (Alexandre Balthazar-Laurent): ALMANACH DES GOURMANDS, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chere; par un vieil amateur, Paris, Maradan [and others], An XII[-XIX] [1804-11], 12mo, vol. I third edition, vols. II-VIII first editions, engraved frontispiece in each vol., uncut in original orange wrappers with uniform printed labels on spines (some minor wear on vols. III and VIII, also spine of vol. VII slightly faded), booksellers ticket of Valleé frères, Rouen on front pastedown of vols. II-VIII, each with a protective guard, in 2 boxes [Simon 794; Bitting p.201-03; Vicaire p.424-8]. (8)