Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme.

Physiologie du goût... Deuxième édition [with a life of the author]. Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie., 1828, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, contemporary calf-backed boards, initials at foot of spine and stamps on titles of Alexis Tastu-Jaubert, light spotting, bindings rubbed at corners; Physiologie... troisième édition. Paris: A. Sautelet et Cie. & A. Mesnier & Bruxelles, à la librairie Parisienne, 1829, 2 volumes, 8vo, half-titles, 2 lithographed plates by Henri Monnier, contemporary green boards, signatures of Vallot-Chambeuil, chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, on titles, spotted, spines slightly damaged at head; [Another edition]. Paris, 1864, 8vo, frontispiece, contemporary half morocco; and two others, related (7)

Hroar Dege (lot 197, and part lots 240 and 242)

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The second edition was the first to contain a life of the author, and the third was the first to be illustrated.