Belknap County, New Hampshire: 1888-1905. Eight small account books, all approximately 16 x 9 cm, unpaginated. A collection of turn of the 20th century grocers’ account books for Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Shaw. In multiple hands. Eight manuscript account books demonstrate the groceries purchased and relationship between the Shaw’s and seven Belknap County, New Hampshire grocers: P. Berrley (1888), C.H. Watson (1895), A. Eugune Hill (1899), John Parker Smith Co.....
Rutland, Vt. The Tuttle Co., 1916. Octavo, 187 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Recorded by his daughter Emily Marie Haddad, with the assistance of Bernice Rachel Tuttle; with an introduction by John Abner Mead. While much of the book is the autobiography, the final thirty-five pages are given over to Syrian recipes, supplied by Mrs. George Haddad. One of the earliest – if not the earliest –appearance of Middle Eastern recipes.....
Rutland, Vt. The Tuttle Co., 1916. Octavo, 187 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Recorded by his daughter Emily Marie Haddad, with the assistance of Bernice Rachel Tuttle; with an introduction by John Abner Mead. While much of the book is the autobiography, the final thirty-five pages are given over to Syrian recipes, supplied by Mrs. George Haddad. One of the earliest – if not the earliest –appearance of Middle Eastern recipes.....
Sandwich, MA: Shawme Press, Inc., 1916. Octavo, 73 pages. Second printing, revised and enlarged. Illustrated with delightful line drawings of a clambake, dunes, farmhouses, etc. Originally printed in 1911. With a foreword in poem form by Joseph C. Lincoln of Harwichport. Recipes include: macaroni and clams, oyster curry, old fashioned spider corn cake, doughnuts (much talk here about doughnuts!), tomato marmalade, and "sea foam." Some offsetting to endpapers, and an.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Small octavo, 276, [4] pages. Ads. First edition. Recipes for blanc mange, picnic dishes, griddle cakes, and more, interspersed with "Familiar Talks" on subjects from country-boarding to flies and dish-washing, written by noted novelist and cookbook author, Marion Harland, pen name of Virginia Terhune. In blind-stamped and red and black decorated brown cloth. Cover bumped, rubbed, and slightly frayed. Internally age-toned throughout. Generally good.....
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1875. Octavo, 459, [2] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. The second in the author's "Common Sense in the Household" series. Marion Harland was the pen name of Mary Virginia Terhune, a Virginia born novelist and author of non-fiction, mostly for women. She wrote a number of cookbooks and domestic works, and was the first woman elected to the Virginia Historical Society. Her daughter, Christine Terhune.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1878]. Octavo, 713 pages. With six chromolithograph plates tipped-in. FIRST EDITION. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of fare." Her list of goals is long, but includes: "to build fragments into a structure about which should linger no flavor or staleness or sameness; so.....
Baltimore, MD: I. & M. Ottenheimer, Publishers/Crawford & Co., 1907. Octavo, 156, [4] pages. Later, Baltimore printing. One of the many cookbooks from the prolific author who wrote under the pseudonym Marion Harland. Some flyspecking to rear end papers, otherwise very good, lightly edgeworn but presentable in an illustrated white oilcloth binding. [OCLC locates ten copies of this printing; not in Cagle].
Boston: Geo. B. Oakes & Company, 1869. Octavo, 292 pages. First edition. A medium-sized compendium of useful household recipes, some for cookery, but most not. Includes many recipes for tinctures, herbal essences, pickles, ketchups, other preserves, hair tonics, roof patches and more, my favorite being "To Make Artificial Volcanoes." Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in publisher's gilt-stamped light brown cloth, with some rubbing and corner bumps, but still.....
Chicago: by the author/printed at the Stinehour Press, 2004. Octavo, 145 pages. First edition. Privately printed cookbook. Fine copy in gilt-stamped red cloth. No dust jacket, as issued.
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1975. Small octavo, 54 pages. First trade edition, wrappered issue, following the privately printed edition issued by the Beehive Press. Harwell's elegant volume provides a delightful foray into the ceremonial, traditional, and regional history of the Old South's favorite drink. Taking the reader through several oft-debated recipes for creating the perfect julep, Harwell unveils the elusive history behind the drink, from its highly contested origin.....
Savannah: The Beehive Press, 1975. Small octavo (21 x 13 cm.), 59, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 300 copies, one hundred for the author and two hundred for the publisher. Harwell's elegant volume provides a delightful foray into the ceremonial, traditional, and regional history of the Old South's favorite drink. Taking the reader through several oft-debated recipes for creating the perfect julep, Harwell unveils the elusive history behind the.....
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1975. Small octavo, 54 pages. First trade edition, wrappered issue, following the privately printed edition issued by the Beehive Press. Harwell's elegant volume provides a delightful foray into the ceremonial, traditional, and regional history of the Old South's favorite drink. Taking the reader through several oft-debated recipes for creating the perfect julep, Harwell unveils the elusive history behind the drink, from its highly contested origin.....
New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers, 1891. 17 x11.5 cm, 64 pages. First edition. Illustrated throughout. A promotional cookbook for Healy & Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company. Cooking advice and over one hundred recipes for beverages; breads, biscuits, etc.; cakes; candies; cheap breakfast; farmer's dinner; fish; food for the sick; pies and puddings; poultry; roasts; soups; vegetables; warm-over dishes; and miscellaneous dishes. Verso of each page has testimonials and information.....
Janesville, Wis. Recorded Print, 1890-1891. Octavo, 160 pages. Illustrated. Ads. Cover title. Stated eighth edition. The preface indicates that it has been twenty-two years since the first publication, which would then be 1868, but there is no evidence of a copy earlier than 1885. A promotional cookbook for the chemist, whose business is supplying medical, household, and art supplies. Culinary recipes are attributed. Pages quite brittle, binding shaken. In burgundy.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Octavo, 234 pages+[4] ads. First edition of the author's second book, following her popular Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving of 1877. Henderson and her husband John B. Henderson, Senator from Missouri, were wealthy land speculators and early real estate developers, first in St. Louis, and then in Washington D.C., where she was instrumental in creating the Meridian Hill neighborhood. While this book is not.....
New York: Published by Leavitt & Allen, no. 379 Broadway, [1857]. Octavo, 360, 61, xii, pages. Engraved title and frontispiece. Illustrated with two engraved plates. A later American edition of this work, originally titled The Housekeeper's Instructor (London 1791), including Hughson's improvements and the New Family Receipt Book, reprinted here with separate pagination. As Cagle reminds us, "this is an entirely different work from Elizabeth Hammond's Modern Domestic Cookery." Chapters.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 275, [2], 11, [1] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Index. Second printing. Christine Terhune Herrick was the author of several cookbooks and other works, as well as the daughter of Marion Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune). More than half of this work is given over to monthly menus for one week each. December is lacking, though a......
Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1907. Octavo, 126 pages. FIRST EDITION. A nicely designed and charmingly written cookbook (except for the swipe at the New Englander's taste for brown bread and baked beans for supper). The recipes are in narrative paragraph form. printed in brown and black throughout. In patterned tan cloth, with illustrated paste-down, and printed text. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1930. Octavo, xii, 355 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout with half-tones. Later edition. Includes a selection of menus for special occasions. With the ownership inscription of Mrs. Arthur Pew Jr. of Springbrook Farm. Fine in publisher's dark green and white, decorated brown cloth.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1910. Octavo, 407 pages. Later printing, first issued in 1909. Photographically illustrated. Starts off with a basic scientific explanation of foods, the chemistry of cooking and biology of nutrition, as understood at the time. A thorough list of kitchen needs, equipment and staples, is next. And finally recipes, aimed at the newlywed and small household. Some light wear, otherwise very good in publisher's black and.....
Brooklyn, New York; [New York]: Hotel Clarendon; [the author]; [printed by Redfield Brothers Inc.], [1910]. Booklet sewn on cord (16.5 x 12 cm.), [22] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in dark brown and tan. FIRST EDITION. A series of eighteen single subject “talks” which, as the title tells us, “first appeared as newspaper advertisements”. Subjects include Eating, Cold Storage, Milk Cream, Butter, Eggs, Oysters, Guinea Chickens, Squabs, Ice Creams, Banquets, Healthy.....
[Minneapolis]: The Buzza Company, [1920-1929]. Tall, stapled and cord-sewn booklet (26 x 11 cm.), [48] pages, including blanks at the end for handwritten recipes. Illustrated with two color vignettes. Printed throughout in black and green. FIRST EDITION. Author and illustrator information from title page verso, "Compiled by Florence Hofflin, designs by L.V. Mero". An attractive publication from the Craftsman School-influenced novelty publisher, The Buzza Company. Topics include Beverages, Sandwiches, and.....
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880. Octavo, 432 pages. Illustrated. Later edition. A novel of manners by the American humorist Marietta Holley. "Designed as a beacon light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book." One page with abrasion, a bit shaken, otherwise very good. In publisher's gilt-decorated green cloth.....
Lowell, Mass: C.I. Hood, n.d. Small octavo, 32 pages +ads. A later reprint, still issued by the company. A small product book, with both recipes and remedies, from the makers of Hood' Saponaceous Tooth Powder and Hood's Sasparilla. Very near fine in publisher's printed wrappers.