Nismes: Chez l'Auteur, Rue Notre-Dame, no. 15; Imprimerie C. Durand-Belle, 1843. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), xvj, [1], 18-432 pages. Table of Chapters. Dictionnaire. Illustrated with a frontispiece lithograph of the chef, and a large folding plate depicting the placement of the various menus during service. ~ Fifth Revised Edition, corrected and augmented by the author. One of the earliest regional cookbooks in the history of French cuisine. A recipe.....

Muncie, Indiana: Published by the Durham Manufacturing Co., [circa 1920]. Duodecimo (17 x 13 cm.), 64 pages. Table of contents. Index. Illustrated. Later printing, with one cross-section diagram of the stove instead of two; some paragraphing re-spaced, but total pagination identical. A manufacturer’s cookbook designed to accompany a fireless stove brought to market shortly after the close of the First World War. With two cross-section diagrams of the stove. Approximately.....

New York: Macmillan & Co, 1902. Thick, stout octavo, 461 pages. FIRST EDITION, trade issue, of this thorough survey of sundials and roses (there was also simultaneously issued limited printing of 100). Thoroughly illustrated with black and white photographs of dials in various garden settings. The author was an amateur historian who wrote frequently on the Puritans and colonial America. Earle was a passenger on a ship headed for Egypt.....

Bungay: L. R. Childs, 1823. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), xxxii, 495 pages. Illustrated with an engraved title page and four plates. N.B. this copy lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. FIRST EDITION. Although the engraved title page states 1822, and the text title page 1823, this is the first edition, and the discrepancy is likely the result of the book being published in parts (see Cagle). A......

Milano: Romanzo Bompiano, 1989. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 509, [11] pages. Index. Stated "III edizione", really third printing, in the year after the original issue. The second novel from the great medievalist, semiotician, and lover of books and literature. Text block age-toned, as usual with this title; some light spotting to top edge. In publisher's red cloth. Printed dust jacket very lightly soiled at internal edges and with a......

[Battle Creek, Mich. Postum Company, Inc., 1928]. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (26.5 x 14.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrations throughout printed in blue and black. Title from cover. Stated "second edition, second printing". A promotional cookbook, advertising various Postum Company products including Grapenuts, Postum Cereal, and Minute Tapioca. Most of the content is not recipes, but rather instruction on how to achieve healthy nutrition for children in a school lunch.....

Baltimore, U. S. A. Williams & Wilkins Company, 1908. Octavo (19.75 x 14 cm.), 180 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A broad reference with generalized instructions ("Directions for making mush and gruels") but also with quick entries, in some cases a single sentence ("Hominy. To 1 quart of large hominy add 1 gallon of water, 1 cup of beans, a little salt, and boil it all day, slowly"). ~ Four.....

[New Haven, Conn.]: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, [1909]. Small octavo (18 x 11 cm.), xi, 102, [xxviii] pages. Advertisements. Date of publication from prefatory note. Errata slip laid-in. Evident FIRST EDITION. A compact school community cookbook with nearly three hundred recipes, the majority of them attributed. Notable among them: Cucumber Soup, Creamed Sardines, Fig Sandwiches, Cymling, Cabbage Pudding, Lemon Wafers, Belgrader Brod (i.e., Brot), Kum Baba Cake, Nanepashemet.....

Frankfurt a. M. Verlag von J. Kauffmann, 1901. Thick octavo (23 x 16 cm.), vi, 926, [2],16 pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION of this important German- Jewish cookbook. In their excellent survey of historic German-Jewish cooking, Gabrielle and Sonya Gropman state that Elsasser's is "a book for Jewish housewives, and holds important secrets of the German-Jewish kitchen, such as a section of acceptable fat substitutions in a land of pork.....

New York: Knopf, 1939. Octavo, 408 pages. FIRST EDITION. An early diet book, containing what appears to be a surprisingly sensible approach to weight loss. In the foreword titled, "Accidentally, I Become the Father of a Hornets Nest of Fads," in which the author relates the story of Hollywood starlet desiring to lose forty pounds in four weeks. He asked her what she liked to eat and recommend that she.....

stanbul Matbaası: Nuruosmaniye Caddesi, 1967. Small octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), xxviii, 163 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Text in English. FIRST EDITION. An interesting cookbook of Turkish recipes assembled by Chef Ilyas Erturk of the Buyuk Efes Hotel. He represented Turkey at the London International Hotel and Catering Exhibition of 1966 and was awarded first prize. The first part of this book contains testimonials from Turkish officials.....

Marseille: Editions Jean Laffitte, 1985. Octavo in wrappers (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 193, [6] pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. An informative collection of material gathered after the death in 1935 of the great chef Auguste Escoffier by his son Paul. The materials cover the entire lifetime of Escoffier. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good in illustrated wrappers.

Dublin: The Candle Press; [printed by Colm O'Lochlainn], 1918. Number Two in the series Prose Booklets. Stapled in wrappers (18 x 11.5 cm.), 29 [3] pages. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Subtitle from wrapper title. FIRST EDITION. A harrowing tale of malnourishment amongst the Dublin poor, “Hunger” was published during the Irish Rebellion and issued under the barely obscuring pen-name "James Esse" to avoid prosecution. It’s been considered by many to.....