New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1879. Small octavo (16 x 10.5 cm), 159, [4] pages. Later printing of this important book on economical cookery from the head of the New York Cooking School. Corson made it her life's work to bring practical, inexpensive cooking to the masses. The section "Cheap Dishes With Meat" includes a good number of dishes made with alternative cuts, offal, or less popular meats such.....

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, circa 1886. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 591 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. While the copyright page indicates 1885, the preface states 1886, which is in alignment with Bitting. Corson was "one of the original cooking school leaders, and a champion of nutritious meals for the poor." [Historic American Cookbook Project] As the founder of the New York Cooking School in 1876, she was a......

[London: no publisher, 1769]. Engraved plate (27 x 19.6 cm.), untrimmed with large margins. "Fran.co Smith pinx. G. Vitalba sculp."; "Publ.d accord.g to Act of Parl.t Jan.y 30 1769". A single plate from a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits; this issued separately, but which would later be published as [Costumes of Constantinople], alternatively titled [Eastern Costume] (1768-1769). The portfolio issue contained twenty-eight engravings, each numbered in the upper.....

Portland, Oregon: [Press of Bushong & Co.], 1914. Octavo, (20 x 15 cm.), 329 pages. Illustration. Advertisements. Index actually a table of contents. Second edition, revised and enlarged, following the original issue of December, 1912 which, according to Chairman of the Cook Book Committee Flora K. Lippitt, was "exhausted within ten months." Sections include: Appetizers, Beverages, hot and cold, Breakfast dishes, Bread, biscuits, etc., Cakes, Canning, Confectionery, Coffee cake or.....

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1973. A Rutledge Book. Quarto (26 x 18.5 cm.), 223 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. FIRST EDITION. Eight women pros - all members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association - give lessons on how to improve one's golf game. The writers include Betty Burfeindt, Judy Rankin, Sandy Haynie, Mary Mills, Pam Barnett, Jane Blalock, Sandy Palmer, and Kathy Whitworth. In publisher's green cloth.....

Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1979. Quarto (27 x 18 cm.), 84 pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. Catalogue of exhibition of important gastronomic works from the collection of Marcus Crahan, with over one hundred fifteen titles with annotations, and an introduction by the collector. In gilt-titled tan wrappers; very near fine.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1953]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 186, [1] pages. Illustrated. Glossary. FIRST EDITION. Elizabeth Craig (1883-1980) was the author of several dozen cookbooks, the earliest in the 1920s and the last in 1980, and thus reflect a wide range of situations in England's food culture. Apparently sourced from Queen Victoria's own household scrapbook, the recipes here have been chosen by Craig. "Although this book is primarily a......

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.) viii, 364, [2] pages. Illustrated. Indices. Glossary. FIRST EDITION. "Descriptions of hundreds of plants and their growing conditions, from river banks, seas side, woods, dry fields, escapees from gardens, etc.” In publisher’s decorated binding, gilt-titled green cloth decorated with a floral pattern in pale gray and dark orange. Lower fore-corner lightly bumped; spine d bit darkened. Very light.....

Berkeley, CA: University of California Printing Office, 1930. Octavo, 366 pages. FIRST EDITION. Photographs and charts illustrate throughout. A University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Report regarding the prospect of Eastern Asia as a viable market for U.S. grown fruits. Following World War I prices for domestic agricultural commodities plummeted, this report investigates possible alternative markets in Japan, Korea, China, Phillipines, French Indo-China, Siam, British Malaya, Dutch.....

Philadelphia: Published by T.K. Collins Jr., 1849. Octavo (19.2 x 12 cm.), x, 240 pages. Stated "Sixth Edition"; the original was issued by John T. Lange in 1849. A wide-ranging dive into the history of alcohol and temperance movements. Includes sections on non-alcohol stimulants (arrack, pulque, and coca), causes of intemperance (effort to drown present sorrow), and "The Life and Death of King Alcohol," a fifteen page poem which includes.....

Paris: Librarie Larousse, 1953. Large, thick quarto, 856 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. FIRST EDITION. One of Curnonsky's major works out of many (nearly 65). The "Prince of Gastronomes" is widely credit for linking dining and travel. Together with his friend Marcel Rouff, he compiled the magnificent, twenty-eight volume France Gastronomique, essentially a travelogue of a nine-year journey eating their way through every department of France. Some age.....

Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 10 Rue Mayet; [Le Société...], 1935. Octavo (21 x 16.5 cm.), 38, [8] pages. Illustrated with color lithographs by Edy Legrand. FIRST ORDINARY EDITION, one of thirty-five thousand copies on velin d'alfa. A promotional item serving the producers of Roquefort cheese, with text by two of the greatest of French mid-century food writers, and illustrations by the great illustrator and painter Edy Legrand. In tan wrappers.....

London: The Lane Publications ("Daily Express" Books Dept.), circa 1920-30. Octavo, 79 pages. FIRST EDITION. Recipes submitted to the newspaper by the readers, in response to the question, "What do You Know About Fish?" Very good in near very good wrapper, with handsome multicolor design by "JH". [OCLC locates only three copies; not in Axford or Driver].