Alphonse BERGASSE
Recherches sur la consommation de la viande et du poisson à Rouen, depuis 1800. Mémoire lu à l'Académie des Sciences, Belles Lettres et Arts de Rouen, dans le cours de l'année 1852, et imprimé par ordre de cette Compagnie[Research on the Consumption of Meat and Fish in Rouen since 1800. Memoir read before the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Rouen during the year 1852, and printed by order of that Society]
Imprimerie de Alfred Péron|Rouen 1852|14 x 22.7 cm|Relié
First edition illustrated with 1 plate printed outside the text (graph), cf. Vicaire 85. Frère I 96.
Bradel binding in full pebble-grained paper boards, smooth spine, black oasis leather title label, original wrappers preserved though spotted, modern binding.
Scattered foxing.
Bergasse, a learned lawyer and no less distinguished magistrate, born in Lyon on 22 September 1792, died in Paris on 6 July 1853. A member of the Académie de Rouen, of which he served as president, he enriched the proceedings of that Society with several interesting memoirs" [Frère].
The present work provides valuable information on the economic condition of the butchery trade of wide dis
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