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[N.p. New England (?): circa 1890]. Original photograph on board (16.3 x 22 cm.). Photographic print of tavern interior, with five men gathered around a bar and a wood or coal stove. The men include the bar or tavern keeper in jacket behind the bar, a waiter in white apron with a tray at the ready, and three customers: one warming his hands at the fire, another sporting a shot.....
Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 96 pages. Illustrated with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. FIRST EDITION with this title; originally published in 1863, by Edward Parrish of Philadelphia, under the title Phantom Bouquet: Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed Vessels. Producing skeletonized leaves was a fashionable Victorian pastime which involved removing chlorophyll from leaves to create intricate designs which imitated those left.....
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [circa 1881]. Octavo (17 x 11 cm.), 79, [1],[16] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A small but thorough manual of sweets cookery, from blancmange to sugar spinning. One closed tear and a few very small chips to the edges of the illustrated wrappers; small dog ears to the upper right corner, otherwise near fine. Scarce. [OCLC cites five copies of this 1881 edition, and three.....
[Troy, N.Y. [circa 1895]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is focused on mushroom propagation and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some.....
Paris; [Abbeville]: Achille Faure, Libraire-Editeur, 23 Rue Saint-Martin; [Imprimerie de P. Briez], 1866. Duodecimo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 180 pages. FIRST EDITION. Not so much a recipe book, but a collection of three hundred eleven culinary observations and recommendations – often on specific dishes – with a calendar. Despite the popularity of this little work, and the many reprint editions it has endured (including one as recent as 2017 (Centre.....