[GASTRONOMY]. ALI-BAB (alias Henri BABINSKI). Practical Gastronomy. Culinary Studies, followed by *The Treatment of Obesity in Gourmets*. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, Publisher, 1912. Sturdy in-4° volume, brown half-shagreen, decorated ribbed spine (contemporary binding). “2nd edition, revised and considerably expanded.” Color portrait on the frontispiece, by Eugène CADEL. Printed on laid paper. Spine slightly faded; “Delpeuch” bookplate on the flyleaf. Cagle, 57a.