Lot no. 4
ARAGO (Jacques). Comme on dîne à Paris. Paris, Berquet et Pétion, 1842. In-18, green half-basin, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets (period binding). Second edition, published on the same date as the original; the work contains "amusing anecdotes on the restaurants of Paris and on the manner in which one eats there, from the dinner at 4 sous, the dinner with a syringe, to the finest suppers in the English cafés, Foy and the Maison dorée" (Vicaire).
Rousseurs.
From the library of F. M. Caye, with bookplate.
Vicaire, 36.
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