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.....

Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1959. (19.4 x 14.5 cm.), 261, [3] pages. Stated Fourth Edition (rear panel of wrapper). Francis Amunategui was a French culinary journalist (Santiago de Chile 1898 - Paris 1972) was a journalist. In 1947, he abandoned an earlier career as an engineer to create, in the periodical Aux Listenes, one of the first magazine sections devoted to restaurants, which were just rebounding after the years of.....

Montréal: Imprimerie H.F. Lauzon, 1915. Small octavo, [13], 4-265 pages. Ads. Black & white photo illustrations. Second edition, following the original published by "La Patrie" 1912. A French-Canadian cooking school recipe book, from the director of Montreal's Ecoles Menageres Provinciales. The photos include exterior and interior shots of the school itself. Near fine, in original black-titled green cloth. [OCLC locates six copies of this edition; Driver Q73.2].

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 (?): circa 1890]. Original photograph on board (16.3 x 22 cm.). Photographic print of tavern interior, with five men gathered around a bar and a wood or coal stove. The men include the bar or tavern keeper in jacket behind the bar, a waiter in white apron with a tray at the ready, and three customers: one warming his hands at the fire, another sporting a shot.....

[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.....

Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company; [Stereotyped by C.J. Peters & Son], 1866. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 346 pages. FIRST EDITION. As complete and thorough a confectionery book as was published in America in the 19th Century. The author claims these "receipts are from the best New York, Philadelphia, and Boston Confectioners, and include a large number from the French and other foreign nations..." though much of it was sourced.....

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 16mo. (16 x 11 cm.), 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;.....

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.....