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

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 distribution in the middle of the last century: determination of the number of animals intended for consumption, law of 10 May 1846, origin of slaughtered livestock, statistics, Parisian butchers, provisioning of the capital, rivalry between Normandy, Anjou and Poitou, purchase prices of live animals, retail prices of meat, price of bread, slowing or acceleration of consumption in Rouen, necessity of complete freedom for the meat trade, etc…

The final section, pp. 174 to 182, is devoted to the trade and consumption of fish