N.Y. Robert H. Elton, 98 Nassau-street, N.Y., [1842]. Almanac in wrappers, sewn with cord (20 x 13 cm.), [36] pages. Title illustration (an elaborate version of The Anatomy). Advertisement. A very early culinary almanac, related to several other contemporary almanacs by its ephemeris. "Calculated by David Young (1781-1852). The calendar pages (excepting the prose matter at their foot), as well as the astronomical matter on the preceding pages, are printed.....

Philadelphia: Ziegler & Smith, Sole Proprietors, 1867. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (16.5 x 12 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. While an almanac, there is no evidence of other issues. A promotional almanac and recipe book, for the patent medicines produced by Dr. Leon, specifically his Infant Remedy and Electric Hair Renewer. The promotion of the remedies is interwoven with culinary and household recipes, Soft Gingerbread, Winter Herbs.....

[Rochester, N.Y.]: H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co., 1889. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (22 x cm.), 51, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the eleventh annual almanac advertising Warner’s patent medicines, with the standard elements – ephemeris, glowing testimonials, illustrated advertisements for the various cures, including Warner’s Kidney & Liver Safe Cure, Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, Benton’s Hair Grower. The cooking recipes.....

New York: The Centaur Co., 1880. Stapled booklet (16 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A small promotional cookbook in the form of an almanac, from the makers of Centaur Liniments, with recipes, testimonials, and descriptions of the applications of this miraculous cure from lands far and wide. As is typical of these books, the recipes are very brief and uncredited. Short closed tear to fold of wrappers.....

[New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, 1883]. Stapled booklet (19.5 x 15 cm.), 28 pages (plus wrappers). Title from cover. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout. The ephmeris begins with April 1883 and runs through March 1884. One in the short series of A.J. White Shaker almanacs with a culinary theme. The text includes a letter of Mary Carr. These promotional booklets, advertising the "Shaker Extract of Root", were.....

New Orleans, La: Americans Rice Products Co., 2714 N. Peters Street, [circa 1921]. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrappers ( x cm.), [8] pages. Illustrated. Date from testimonial on page [2]. Printed throughout in brown ink. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook advertising Cream of Rice, with testimonials, recipes, and an emphasis on the 'food value' of the product, especially for children. Decorated light blue wrappers printed in dark blue and red.....

New York: The Handicraft Publication Company, 1873. Duodecimo (18 x 12 cm.), vi, [2], [9]-88, [12] pages. Frontispiece. Illustrated advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "with useful hints concerning all that relates to guns & shooting, & particularly in regard to the art of loading so as to kill. To which has been added several valuable & hitherto secret recipes, of great practical importance to the sportsman." Advertisements include one for "W.E. Bond's.....

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.

[N.p.; New England, Massachusetts(?)]: circa 1900-1904]. Original photograph on board (photograph 12.5 x 16.8 cm.; board 12.8 x 17 cm.). Photographic print of cafe/diner interior, with the proprietor seated at the counter on a stool, three servers standing behind the counter in white jackets. The menu includes “Pork 15c, Small Steak 15c, Rump Steak 20c, Ham & Eggs 20c, and the “Bill of Fare includes “Haddock" and "Steak Cod”. Individual.....

[Amsterdam; New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd., 1971. The English Experience: no. 298. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (22.4 x 15 cm.), 24 pages. Text is black letter. Facsimile of the second book of cookery printed in England, first published in 1508 by Wynkyn de Worde and later incorporated into the Good Huswife's Jewell (1597) and John Murrell's Two Books of Cookerie and Carving (1631). The first modern edition was edited.....

París; Fontenay-des-Roses: Administration du Guide des Plaisirs; Imprimerie Bellenand et Fils, [1930]. Small octavo (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated. Stated "Nouvelle Edition". Lightly foxed throughout; otherwise very good internally. In tan wrappers, titled in black. A bit of edgewear to wrappers, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates three copies].

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.....