Boston: George W. Light, 3 Cornhill, 1842. Sextidecimo, 424 pages. Fifth stereotype edition. Alcott was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and the founder of the American Physiological Society in 1837, the world's first physiological society. Much of this work is dedicated to vegetables, grains and fruits, with additional chapters on keeping accounts and journals, the general purposes of house-keeping, and an interesting exploration into "Cooking as It.....

Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Octavo, 447 pages. Illustrated. Index. First edition of this translation. The classic Renaissance-era text on chickens, by the great Italian naturalist Aldrovani. Previous owner's stamp and signature to front free end paper, otherwise very good in good only dust jacket, worn and a bit discolored.

New York: J.H. Sears & Company, 1926. Small octavo, 123 pages. First edition. With a Postscript which serves as a membership form to join the National Radio Homemaker's Club. A collection of radio talks with recipes from the Radio Recipe contest winners. Adhesion tear to final leaf, "postscript" with loss of text, otherwise with some light soiling throughout. Some rubbing and soiling to decorated blue cloth boards. Good plus. [Brown.....

New York: C.M. Saxton & Company, 1855. Octavo, 330 + 6 [ads] pages. Frontispiece, two plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Later printing. Gabler notes that several printing, in several cities, claim to be the "Third Edition - Revised and Enlarged". Allen, a grape grower in Salem, Massachusetts, produced the first widely distributed hybrid of labrusca and vinifera. Pinney, in A History of Wine in America, states that the.....

Paris: Pagnerre, Libraire-Editeur, rue de Seine, 18; Typographie de Henri Plon, 1865. Duodecimo (14.5 x 10.5 cm.), 200 pages. Engraved illustrations in the text. Table des Matieres. The eighth year of this popular French almanach, with calendar and ephemeris. But unlike most American "culinary almanacs" the bulk of this work is indeed related to food, with sections on various foodstuffs, (vegetables, birds, fish, sauces, etc.), and many recipes. The attractive.....

San Francisco, Calif. Alternatives! Foundation, [circa1970]. Mimeographed, folded booklet (22 x 14 cm.), 8 unnumbered leaves. Title from cover. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A short guide to the mechanics of communal living or collective settlements. While no author is specified, a statement at the rear states, "This booklet was written by a Canadian commune and is published by Alternatives! Foundation" (leaf [8]). [OCLC locates just three copies].

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. Quarto, i-xx, 294 pages. FIRST EDITION. Bibliography of over three thousand titles related to drink in America prior to 1901. Features titles related to grape growing and wine making in the early settlement period, government publications, temperance and prohibition literature, and publications on the alcoholic beverages industry. In black boards with only minor rubbing, otherwise a fine copy.

Chicago, Ill. John Willy, Inc.; The Hotel Monthly Press, 1940. Octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), 318 pages. Index. Photographic illustrations. Second edition (an enhanced revision of a work published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1933). A restaurant-related cookbook, its contents collated from the author’s “careful record of the requests for recipes by patrons of the dining rooms under my supervision,” including “for the most part my own original creations” as well as.....

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, [1863]. Small octavo, 133, [2], 4 pages. Index. Publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with engravings in the text. Second edition, early Dick & Fitzgerald issue. Originally issued by Garret & Co. in 1854, a series of Dick & Fitzgerald issues followed, each with a different pagination due to changes in the publisher's advertisements. Our dating is based on the earliest publication date of John Rack's French.....

Boston: Wright & Potter, 1918. 9"x6" stapled pamphlet, 23 pages. Illustrated with three halftone plates of outdoor farmers' markets in Holyoke & Lowell. Some very light rubbing and edgewear to the stapled wrappers, otherwise very good.

Paris: Achille Faure Libraire-Editeur, 1866. Duodecimo, 180 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of three hundred eleven culinary observations with a calendar. With the ex libris stamp of H.J. Grossi and a bookseller’s stamp to the rear paste down. Little bump to head of spine, otherwise a fine copy in contemporary green buckram. [Vicaire, Bitting (later edition)].

New York: G.P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway, 1868. Octavo, 134 pages, [6] ads (variously paginated). First edition. A special forward on breakfast, includes the following: "A breakfast should be as carefully composed as a dinner. Secure by art what is due to the dignity of the meal, and give it its true position." With the bookplate of Mrs. John Calvin Smith, wife of the cartographer and member of the.....

Boston: Albert Colby and Company, no. 20 Washington Street, 1859. Small octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 300, 12 pages. FIRST EDITION. The publisher's advertisement refers to the anonymous journalist as "...one of the most popular editors in New England". Chapters on wine and spirits, tea and coffee, recipes for 'domestic liquors', the 'unconstitutionality of prohibition', etc. Some staining to edges of first few leaves; light foxing, otherwise clean and sound.....