[Binding signed Gruel] Julien LE PAULMIER. - Lot 67

[Binding signed Gruel] Julien LE PAULMIER. Traité du Vin et du Sidre (de vino et pomaceo). Translated from the French by Jacques de Cahaignes. Reprinted with an Introduction by Emile Travers. Rouen, 1896, in-8, bound in full orange morocco, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fillets, triple fillet framing the boards, morocco return with fillets on the back covers, moiré endpapers, covers and spine preserved, gilt edges. A fine copy in a signed binding by Gruel, presented in a slipcase. Edition of 200 copies only. J. Le Paulmier de Grente Mesnil (St. Lô 1520-Caen 1588) is the author of the first complete treatise on cider, in which he considers this beverage superior to wine; it is reported that he became hypochondriac following the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and withdrew to Normandy, where he owed his belated recovery mainly to cider. The Latin edition was translated into French by one of his pupils, Jacques de Chaignes, who made important additions, such as "Apologie du translateur contre l'usage du vin et du sidre sans eau".