Collection of 6 works on gastronomy and food fraud: 1. TENDR - Lot 43

Collection of 6 works on gastronomy and food fraud: 1. TENDRET (Lucien): La table au pays de Brillat-Savarin. Chambéry, Dardel, 1934. One volume. 13.5 by 20 cm. 1 portrait-283 pages. Paperback, printed cover. 2nd edition (E.O.: Belley, 1892). 2750 copies printed. Oberlé, Fastes de Bacchus 257. The best work on Bugey gastronomy. 2. RÈGLEMENT POUR LE POIDS, la qualité et le prix du pain chez les boulangers et panetiers. S.l.n.d. [Grenoble, André Giroud, 1739]. One volume. 16.5 by 22 cm. 22 pages. Modern bradel boards. Very good condition. 3. CHEVALLIER (Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse) and BAUDRIMONT (Ernest): Dictionnaire des altérations et falsifications des substances alimentaires, médicamenteuses et commerciales, avec l'indication des moyens de les reconnaître. Sixth edition revised, corrected and considerably enlarged. With 310 figures interspersed in the text and 4 chromolithographic plates. Paris, Asselin et Cie, 1882. One volume. 16 by 24.8 cm. XVI-1501-(1) pages + 1 folding table h.t. + 4 color plates on 2 leaves h.t. accompanied by a f. legend recto-verso. Publisher's printed full cloth. Hinges slightly rubbed, otherwise good condition. Small paper loss on 1 f. (page 547) resulting in the loss of 6 letters (not serious), ff. of 1st quire and fold-out table slightly foxed, light wetness in lower margin of last quarter of ff. 6th edition (E.O.: 1850). Numerous articles concerning food substances and beverages. Wine and vinegar occupy pp. 1349-1458; alcohol, pp. 99-120. An essential work in the history of fraud control. Reissued and enlarged until 1897 (7th edition). 4. GARDENAT (Louis): Traité pratique des fraudes, tromperies, falsifications (legislation of August 1, 1905). Preface by Me R. Garraud. Mâcon, Édition de "La Semaine Législative et Judiciaire", s.d. [1923]. 2 volumes. 13.5 by 21 cm. 398; 418-(1) pages. Contemporary black half-basane, spine ribbed. Leather on spines cracked, small 2 cm split on one spine (not serious), otherwise a good copy. First edition. 5. CHEVALLIER (Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse) and BAUDRIMONT (Ernest): Dictionnaire des altérations et falsifications des substances alimentaires médicamenteuses et commerciales avec l'indication des moyens de les reconnaître. Fourth edition revised, corrected and considerably enlarged. Paris, P. Asselin, and Bruxelles, G. Mayolez, 1875. One volume. 14.5 by 23 cm. XV-(1)-1260 pages + 1 folding table + 32 pages (Cat. Asselin). Publisher's full cloth, very slight rubbing to hinges. Scattered foxing. 4th edition (E.O.: 1850). Vicaire p. 169 (1st ed.). Numerous articles concerning food substances and beverages. Wine and vinegar occupy pp. 1153 to 1234; alcohol, pp. 79 to 98. Comparison from one edition to the next shows both how fraud evolves, and how analyses are perfected. 6. VAN SANTBERGEN (René): Les bons métiers des meuniers, des boulangers et des brasseurs de la cité de Liège. Liège, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, 1949. One volume. 16.5 by 25 cm. 376-15-(1) pages + 19 plates + 1 f. errata (flyleaf, printed on pink paper). Paperback, in printed cover. Small cuts on second cover, otherwise in mint condition. First edition. Historical evolution, corporate regulation, access to corporate privileges, professional organization and social life, administrative organization of the trades, economic function of the trades, police and judicial repression, religious and public life.