[Gastronomy] [Tea]. MARQUIS (François). Du thé, ou Nouveau t - Lot 36

[Gastronomy] [Tea]. MARQUIS (François). Du thé, ou Nouveau traité sur sa culture, sa récolte, sa préparation et ses usages. Ornamented with colored engravings, made after nature and after original Chinese paintings. Paris, Nepveu, Audot, F. Marquis, 1820. In-18, 124 p., contemporary havana half-calf, smooth spine, author's and title-piece, gilt fleurons with lyre and tea-box decorations, gilt fillets, illustrated covers preserved (slight rubbing, small tear in one cut; light and scattered russets). First edition published in two formats: ours with colored engravings and in-8 with black engravings. 10 pl. engraved in color after Bessa, Deguignes, Kempfer, including frontispiece and 6 doubles: Tea branch in bloom; Fruits and seeds of the tea tree; Roasting and rolling of tea leaves; Flower and seed of the Tchatchou; Inland boats for transporting tea baskets or bars; Preparation of lead sheets to wrap the tea; Manufacture of crates to contain teas in Canton; Rolling of tea leaves in bars or baskets; Singular harvest of a highly prized tea. With illustrated cover featuring elephants, dragons, peacocks and bats on each plate. Handwritten bookplate on pdt of Jean-Paul Edouard de Saint Cricq; red stamp on pdt of Bibliothèque de Gries (?). Work by François Marquis, tea merchant to the Count of Artois, whose chocolate factory, confectionery and tea and coffee business was founded in Paris, passage des Panoramas, in 1818. Vicaire, Bibl. gastronomique, 567; Quérard V-559; Cordier, Bibliotheca sinica I-205