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65. CURNONSKY. Atlas de la Gastronomie Francaise. Paris; édité sous le patronage des gourmets de l’Écu de France. 1938
£750
4to., original card wrappers with colour printed dust wrapper and original glassine wrapper. With colour decorations and maps by Libis. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, this no. 82 presented to mathematician Professor Paul Montel. The atlas divides France into 13 areas with a map for each area showing the particular gastronomic specialities to be found there.
Curnonsky, the psydonym of Maurice Edmond Sailland, was a larger- than-life figure both literally and figuratively. He was a celebrated fictional author, a bon-vivant, a raconteur and a gourmand.
In 1927 he was awarded the honour of Prince of Gastronomes following a public vote organised by the newspaper Paris-Soir.
He was concerned about the internationalisation of food brought about by hotel chains at the start of the twentieth century therefore collected and published a broad range of traditional French provincial recipes to ensure that they were preserved and promoted.
He also worked on or founded a number of influential publications such as Le Magazine de la Gastronomie Francaise and La France Gastronomique which was released every two months and dealt with regional cookery and tourism in a different region of France.
Towards the end of his long life (1872 - 1956) he became so obese he was scarcely able to move. His major legacy, however, was the publication Traditional Recipes of the Provinces of France in which some 300 recipes are arranged by region throughout almost 500 pages of text.
66. DALRYMPLE, William. White Mughals. Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India. London: Clays Ltd for HarperCollins, 2002.
£50
8vo (232 x 151mm). Original black boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour- printed decorative endpapers, dustwrapper retaining price; pp. xliii, [1 (blank)], 580, [16 (blank)]; 8 leaves of colour illustrations and 4 leaves of monochrome illustrations, illustrations and 2 full-page maps in the text; minimal creasing to edges of dustwrapper and light mark on lower edges of leaves, otherwise a very good, clean copy.
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First edition. Dalrymple’s acclaimed study of Anglo-Indian society in the late 18th and early 19th centuries through the life of James Achilles Kirkpatrick won both the 2003 Woolfson Prize for History and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year Award.
67. DALRYMPLE, William. The Last Mughal. The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. London: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc for Bloomsbury, 2006.
£30
8vo (233 x 151mm). Original maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour- printed endpapers, dustwrapper, retaining price; pp. XXVII, [1 (blank)], 578, [1 (blank)], [1 (‘A Note on the Author’)]; 8 colour-printed and 4 monochrome plates bearing illustrations recto-and-verso, 2 full-page maps and illustrations after Olivia Fraser; dustwrapper slightly creased at edges, very slightly bumped at edges, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. The Last Mughal— which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography — is a biography of King Bahadur Shah II, which continues Dalrymple’s exploration of the themes of his White Mughals (2002), through the Indian Mutiny of 1857, reconstructing the city before and after the seismic upheavals of that year.
68. DALRYMPLE, William. The Last Mughal. The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. London: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc for Bloomsbury, 2006.
£60
8vo (233 x 151mm). Original maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour- printed endpapers, dustwrapper, retaining price; pp. XXVII, [1 (blank)], 578, [1 (blank)], [1 (‘A Note on the Author’)]; 8 colour-printed and 4 monochrome plates bearing illustrations recto-and-verso, 2 full-page maps and illustrations after Olivia Fraser; dustwrapper very slightly creased at edges, a few light marginal marks, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. Inscribed by the author in blue ink to ‘Fozic’ and signed beneath his struck-though name on the title. The Last Mughal— which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography — is a biography of King Bahadur Shah II, which continues Dalrymple’s exploration of the themes of his White Mughals (2002), through the Indian Mutiny of 1857, reconstructing the city before and after the seismic upheavals of that year.
69. DALRYMPLE, William. The Last Mughal. The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857. London: Clays Ltd, St Ives plc for Bloomsbury, 2006.
£30
8vo (233 x 151mm). Original maroon boards, spine lettered in gilt, colour- printed endpapers, dustwrapper, retaining price; pp. XXVII, [1 (blank)], 578, [1 (blank)], [1 (‘A Note on the Author’)]; 8 colour-printed and 4 monochrome plates bearing illustrations recto-and-verso, 2 full-page maps and illustrations after Olivia Fraser; dustwrapper slightly creased at edges, very slightly bumped at edges, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. The Last Mughal— which won the Duff Cooper Prize for History and Biography — is a biography of King Bahadur Shah II, which continues Dalrymple’s exploration of the themes of his White Mughals (2002), through the Indian Mutiny of 1857, reconstructing the city before and after the seismic upheavals of that year.
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