Philadelphia: J.B. Myers, Publishers, 1876. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), vi, 403, [1] pages. Illustrated with numerous engravings in the text and on plates; decorated initials begin each section. Index divided by section. FIRST EDITION. Issued on the occasion of the American centennial, and containing both a cookbook and a guide to Philadelphia's sites for visitors to the events. Contents include cookery, medical recipes, child care, farming, and household recipes.....

Dixon, Ill. Star Job Printing Rooms, [circa 1899]. Cord-bound booklet (15 x 12 cm.), 16 pages. Privately published. Evident FIRST EDITION. A collection of potato recipes, another in the series of charming self-published cookbooks produced under the name "Mrs. De Witt C. Owen". The author, Ella "Nellie" Upton Leighton, was born in Steuben, Maine, and adopted into the Leighton family. Her husband, Dewitt Clinton Owen was a newspaperman, owner of.....

Philadelphia: Printed by Lippincott & Co., 1887. Duodecimo (17 x 11.5 cm.), 95 pages. Includes two pages of "Opinions of the Press". Stated Thirtenth Edition, though more likely a later printing of the first edition. Originally published by Lippincott in 1878, this Temperance tract in verse was republished almost yearly until its final issue, in 1889. The Daily Leader of Binghamton, N.Y. described the work as "an intensely interesting Temperance.....

New York: Charles A. Lilley, Publisher, 7 Murray Street, [circa 1879]. 115, [1] pages. Advertisements. Date based on external evidence. The publisher produced only a very few books, all issued in 1879. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook, featuring recipes that are brief, if not altogether lacking in detail. The book is in service to Houghton & Dutton, a dry goods specialist from Boston, and the recipes are interspersed.....

New York: Sheldon & Company, 1869. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xxiii, 322, [2] pages. Illustrated with wood engravings in the text. Publisher's advertising at rear. Spine title: Mrs. Putnam's New Receipt Book. Later printing of this expansion of Mrs. Putnam's highly popular title, originally published in 1849, and expanded in 1867, with this combination of both of her highly popular titles. The original was a popular pre-Civil War cookbook.....

New York: Oakley & Mason, 11 Murray Street, 1867. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xv, 228 pages. Index. Stated "New and Enlarged Edition". Originally published in 1849, Elizabeth Putnam's first cookbook, the Receipt Book, was enlarged in 1857, and this is a later printing of that enlarged edition. Some publisher's issued this together with a second part, titled, Second Part of Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book, as an Assistant, for.....

London; Paris: Published for the proprietor by John Dicks; A. and W. Galignani, 1847. Octavo (25 x 16 cm.), [3], x, [1], 242 pages, printed double-column. Illustrated with small woodcuts of animals and food throughout the text. FIRST EDITION. "The whole book, it is hoped, forms a compendious Cyclopoedia for the tradesman, mechanic, emigrant, and amateur, as well as the heads of families ... advice of the best living authorities.....

Philadelphia: North Brothers Mfg. Co., 1895. Duodecimo-sized booklet, 104 pages. Later printing, originally issued 1890. Another of the many books of Sarah Tyson Rorer, Director of the Philadelphia Cooking School, and author of Mrs. Rorer's Cook Book. The book's publishers were the manufacturers of the Gem Freezer, and ice cream maker, and the recipes are for ice creams and ices. Also includes descriptions with illustrations, of a variety of kitchen.....

Philadelphia/New York: Curtis Publishing Company/Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Ladies' Home Journal Household Library. Duodecimo, 245 pages. Later printing. A pocket sized cookbook from the founder of the Philadelphia School of Cookery, and a member of the staffs of both Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good. In publisher's gilt- and green-stamped dark green cloth.

New York: Sheldon and Company, 498 and 500 Broadway, 1870. Octavo, viii, 150 pages. Illustrated. Later printing, originally published under this title in 1868. One of six volumes from the Juvenile Library of the Natural History of Animals. An introductory text on bees, butterflies and insects, for children. includes additional sections on spiders, crabs, lobsters, shrimps, barnacles, etc. Some light foxing throughout, and a bit of mustiness. In publisher's blind-stamped.....

Milwaukee, WI: The Settlement Cook Book Co., 1951. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), xlvi, [2], 624 pages. Index. Menus. Cover title: The Way to a Man's Heart, "The Settlement" Cook Book.Thirtieth edition, revised and enlarged. A later of edition this influential and massively successful cookbook, originally published in 1901. The emphasis is American, with a smattering of hearty Eastern European Jewish fare. In earlier editions, the Jewish/Eastern European influence was.....

Chicago, Philadelphia, & Stockton, Cal. Monarch Book Co., Publishers (successors to and formerly L.P. Miller & Co.), [1891]. Large octavo (25.2 x 19 cm.), 527 pages. Illustrated. Index & table of contents. FIRST EDITION. Also published as the Imperial Cook Book, and in 1894 as The Star Cook Book, issued by the Lone Star Pub. Co. of Texas. ~ Internally browned throughout, which is sadly par for the course for.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, [copyright 1885]; 1886. Octavo (21 x 12.5 cm.), viii, 639 pages. Table of contents. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. Intended as a general household manual but containing one of the earliest cumulations of Creole recipes in their myriad variety – succeeding by perhaps only a few months the first two Creole summations, The Creole Cookery Book issued by the Christian Woman’s Exchange (New Orleans.....