Boston: Waite, Peirce & Company, no. 1 Cornhill; [G.C. Rand, Printer, no. 3 Cornhill], 1846. Sextidecimo (18 x 11.5 cm.), 390 pages. Publisher's advertisements. Stated "Sixth Stereotype Edition"; originally published by George W. Light in 1838. Alcott was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and founded of the American Physiological Society in 1837, the world's first physiological society. Much of this work is dedicated to vegetables, grains, and.....

Philadelphia: C.W. Alexander, Publisher, 224 South Third Street, 1867. Octavo, sewn on cord (23 x 14.5 cm.), [2], 19-94 pages. Stated "New and Enlarged Edition" but we have been unable to locate a citation of an earlier printing. A household compendium, with recipes and formulas for cookery as well as for useful articles for the home, such as Leather Flowers. Includes recipes for "the following celebrated articles: Godfrey's Cordial, Carrot.....

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.....

[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.....

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 almanac, 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.....

Buffalo, N.Y. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1887. Further title from cover: "Compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y., 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880, by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington". Machine-sewn booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 24 pages. Calendar. Illustrated. Later issue, with the first published in 1880 and carrying a calendar for 1881.....

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1933. Octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), 310 pages. Index. ~ Stated FIRST EDITION. A cookbook from the kitchens of Chicago's great Palmer House Hotel, 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 “my interpretations of standard dishes.” Recipes are simultaneously numbered.....

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.....

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......