[Boston: Joseph Burnett & Co.; Press of Mills, Knight & Co., 1880]. Small octavo, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 11 cm.), [~80] pages. Illustrated; wrapper printed in chromolithograph. Advertising matter of local merchants interspersed throughout. Earliest issue of this New England housekeepers' almanac and promotional cookbook, issued by Joseph Burnett & Co, makers of flavor extracts, and additionally used to promote local businesses (through a drop-in box on the front.....

[Boston: winter, 1896]. Octavo-sized correspondence record book (22.5 x 15 x 8 cm.), bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake, wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame (see DAB), gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station (1:45 AM) via private train.....

Boston: F.M. Porter Co., 1899. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (24 x 17.5 cm.), 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated, black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog, musical program, list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881, and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association.....

Boston, Mass. Propeller Press, 142 Washington St. 1850. Bi-fold menu (21 x 13.5 cm.), [4] pages. Illustrated. The Boston Young Men's Total Abstinence Society was formed in 1846. This "Seventh Anniversary" banquet offered an alcohol free menu with Baked Trout in Anchovy Sauce, Mutton Cutlet in Gardner's Sauce, Eels with Tartar Sauce, Mongrel Ducks, seven types of pie or cake, AND then dessert. The final page contains an engraving of.....

Boston: 1847. Broadsheet menu (31 x 13.6 cm.), [2] pages. Illustrated with an engraving of the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. A menu and wine list for the hotel restaurant of Revere House, issued in the hotel's inaugural year. Built on the site of home of Boston's Kirk Boote, Revere House became one of the city's leading hotels, hosting guests that included Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, and Walt Whitman.....

[Boston, Mass. North Bennet Street Industrial School, 1936]. Wire-O metal coil binding (26 x 18.5 cm.), 57, [7] pages. Index is table of contents. Advertisements. Title, author, and publication data from cover. Date from information in second edition of 1937. FIRST EDITION. A community fundraising cookbook for the benefit of North Bennett Street Industrial School. There is no front matter (title page, intro, etc.), and the recipes are not attributed.....

[Boston, Mass. Stickney & Poor Spice Company, [circa 1900]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 8.5 cm.), 12 pages. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely-produced product cookbook for Stickney & Poor's mustard, with twenty-seven recipes, including lots of salads and sandwiches. Very light soil to brown printed tan wrappers, otherwise fine. One handwritten recipe to interior wrapper panel, Scotch Wood-Cock, Ethelynde Smith". [OCLC locates just one copy (Historical Society of Penn)].

Boston: Kiley, Printer, 7 Spring Lane, 1885. Bi-fold menu (13.5 x 12 cm.), [4] pages. Illustrated. Engraved menu, for a banquet given for Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks, former Senator from and Governor of Indiana. Hendricks was the 21st Vice President, lasting a mere 8 months in office, from March 4th through November 25th, 1885. This dinner was given by the Bay State Club at the famous Parker House. In.....