Boston: Samuel Harris, 3 Cornhill, 1846. Duodecimo, stab-sewn on cord (15 x 9,5 cm.), 99 pages. Stated "3rd stereotype ed.”; originally issued 1836 by New York’s phrenological publishing house, Fowler & Wells. The first American work on the physiological effects of tea and coffee. Stab sewn on cord; lacking wrappers, though a bit of residue at the spine indicates a salmon colored wrapper. Light foxing and soil throughout; title page.....

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.....

Baltimore: Published by J.W. Bond & Co., No. 44 Baltimore Street, 1850. Booklet, sewn on cord (20 x 17 cm.), [36] pages including wrappers. Illustrated with woodcuts. Each month has a vignette, and there are an additional six larger woodcuts in the text. Title and publication information from cover. Author from note on page [2], a note by the calculator, "Charles F. Eagelmann". FIRST EDITION of this early American culinary.....

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.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 16mo., vii, 183 pages. First edition. A novel addressing the strains of running a household during the Civil War, including the challenges of War-time taxation, speculation, oil fever, inflation, etc. A section in which the main character considers charitable work with the Sanitation Commission or ladies' charitable groups is enlightening. Some soiling to a few pages. Previous owner's inscription to endpapers; newspaper clipping bearing a......

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." Some soiling throughout; hinged a bit shaken; in publisher's blank-ruled and gilt-titled brown cloth. Cloth is.....

[Lubeck]: n.p., [1790]. Octavo, [14], 230 pages. Engraved title and dedication pages. All edges dappled red. The final edition of Apicius to reprint the 1542 Humelberg text, which therefore closes the Renaissance tradition for the author. In the preface to this edition of the Apicius collection of Roman cookery recipes – the oldest collection of recipes to survive from antiquity – Joannes Michael Berhold refers to a Mediolani edition of.....