Audot

First edition of the first major study on the sculptor Jean Goujon (c. 1515 - c. 1568) who played a key role in the French School of sculpture.
Bottle-green Bradel half paper over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt fillets, navy blue shagreen title piece, edges of covers rubbed.
With 85 hors texte engravings, of which 3 double page, accompanied by an explicatory text on each of the monuments for which Goujon provided sculptures.
With an essay on the life and works of Jean Goujon at end.
A little scattered spotting affecting both text and plates.
Rare.

Louis-Eustache AUDOT
La Cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville, ou la nouvelle cuisine économique ; précédée d’observations très importantes sur les soins qu’exige une cave, et d’une instruction sur la manière de servir à table, et sur la dissection des viandes
Audot | Paris 1818 | 11 x 20 cm | half shagreen
Rare first edition published anonymously and illustrated with 8 bistre plates showing the dissection of meats and fish.
Bound in half black shagreen, spine in five thin compartments decorated with blind tooled fillets, gilt name at the foot of the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, corners lightly worn.
A small section missing at the head...

RISSO Antoine & POITEAU Antoine
Histoire naturelle des orangers [Natural History of Orange Trees]
Audot, Paris 1818-1822, in-folio (26 x 35 cm), two volumes in one, original wrappers with custom slipcase and chemises
First edition, an extremely rare copy on grand papier (deluxe), in-folio format.
The book is illustrated with 109 stippled engraved plates.
The cover and the spine have been repaired, scattered foxing, not serious. Slipcase and chemises in half cloth and brown shagreen, the squared spine with brown title piece, covers of ancient paper.
In this book dedicated to the Duchess of Berry, the author describes 169 species or varieties of...

First edition.
A slight lack and one small tear to head and to foot of spine, one angular trace of fold to upper cover, some light foxing, not serious,.
Rare.