DELAMARRE (Nicolas) - LE CLERC DU BRILLET (Anne). Traité... Lot 48

DELAMARRE (Nicolas) - LE CLERC DU BRILLET (Anne). Traité de la police, où l'on trouvera l'histoire de son établissement, les fonctions et les prérogatives de ses magistrats, toutes les loix et tous les reglemens qui la concernent : On y a joint une description historique et topographique de Paris, & huit Plans gravez, qui représentent son ancien État, & ses divers accroissmens. With a collection of all the statutes and regulations of the six bodies of merchants and of all the Communautez des Arts & Métiers. Paris : Michel Brunet, 1722 [volumes 1 and 2], 1719 [volume 3] ; Paris : Jean-François Hérissant, 1737 [volume 4]. - 4 volumes in-folio, 401 x 252 : (18 ff.), 680, 42 pp. 8 plans ; (6 ff.), 848, 19, 68 pp. 2 ff.) ; (4 ff.), 1088, 9 pp. ; (16 ff.), 794, xxxix pp. 2 plans. Scaly calf, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, decorated spine, gilt border inside, gilt edges on marbled boards (period binding). Brunet, III, 786. - Vicaire, Bibliographie gastronomique, 259-260. Second edition of the first two volumes and first edition of the following two, of this important work, "the most monumental of all those, and in all languages, devoted to the police", of great utility for the knowledge of the private life of the French in the 18th century. The first three volumes contain the Traité de la police, composed by Nicolas Delamarre (1639-1723), commissioner of the Châtelet, at the request of Guillaume I de Lamoignon, first president of the Parlement de Paris. The latter wanted a treatise specifying the police methods that could be used in large cities such as Paris. Having had the privilege of consulting the royal archives, Delamarre was able to propose a history of the police through the ages, then of the magistrates and officers, and to speak of the police of religion, morals, health and food. This sum is divided into 5 books. These were the only ones that Delamarre was able to compose, out of the eleven that he had planned. It is the fifth book which makes this work enter among the writings devoted to the gastronomy. It is the most extensive, dealing with foodstuffs and treating in turn bread, meat, sea and freshwater fish, whales, eggs, butter, cheese, fruits and vegetables, wine, beer, etc. It also gives valuable notes on the history of the food industry. It also gives valuable notes on the life, customs and habits of butchers, bakers, poulterers, roasters, tavern keepers, innkeepers, etc. The last volume, entitled Continuity of the treaty of Police, contains the book six devoted to the roadway. It was composed by the lawyer at the Parliament of Paris, civil and criminal lieutenant general of the Hôtel et prévôté de France Anne Le Clerc du Brillet. The edition is illustrated with a title vignette with the royal figure, engraved by Jean Audran after Antoine Dieu, 10 engraved bands after compositions by Antoine Dieu, Martin Desmarest and Paul Ponce Antoine Robert, 10 unsigned initials, and 10 LARGE DEPLOYMENTS OF PARIS. To this are added 4 woodcuts in the text. Hinges damaged and missing, splits at the hinges, some scratches and spotting. Worm damage in the margins of the first leaves of the first volume, without affecting the text. Ink stain on the top of the gutter of the second volume. The ninth map of Paris, located in the fourth volume, is disbound. Some foxing and browned leaves.