Maurice Cousin, Comte de COURCHAMPS - séc. XIX Néo-Physiologique du gout par ordre alphabétique, ou dictionnaire général de la cuisine française Neo-physiological taste in alphabetical order or general dictionary of French cuisine...- Paris: Dictionnaire Général de Cuisine, 1839.- 634 p.; 25 cm.- E. Original edition of a treatise on gastronomy and cuisine, published without the author's name (ca.1777-1859), in response to Brillat-Savarin's celebrated Physiologie du goût which appeared 14 years earlier. The work, organized in the form of a dictionary, was reissued in 1853 and 1866, with the title somewhat modified. Slightly trimmed and with a slight acidity copy but clean. Entire calf binding of the time a little parched.