The Kitchen Directory and American Housewife: Containing the Most Valuable and Original Receipts, in All the Various Branches of Cookery: Together with Collection of Miscellaneous Receipts and Directions Related to Housewifery... Also the Whole Art o.

New York: Published by Mark H. Newman & Co., [1841].

Small octavo, 144 pages. Illustrated with a two-page plate of market cuts of beef, venison, mutton, veal, and pork, and with additional illustrations in the text, particularly in the section on carving. The text was substantially published earlier, in 1839, under the title, "The American Housewife..." A bit of foxing throughout, otherwise fine, rebound in marbled boards and spine, in a 20th century Italian style, and with the stamp of a Milanese binder. With the bookplate of the Sontheimer Foundation. This book was part of the important culinary collection of Carl Sontheimer, inventor, entrepreneur and cook, best known as the founder of Cuisinart. The collection was gifted to The Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe, and we have been privileged to be able to offer duplicates from that collection. [Worldcat cites 14 copies; not in Cagle; Lowenstein 271; Bitting p. 516].