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.....

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.....

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.....

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.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. Octavo, 109 pages. FIRST EDITION. Review copy, with lavender review slip laid-in. A masterwork of drink literature. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket.

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.

London: printed for T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Fryers, Fleet-Street, 1740. Quarto (18.5 x 14.5 cm.), [2], 653; 664-694 pages, plus plates. Pages 654-663 mis-paginated; pages 529-540 misnumbered 527-538 (but both instance content is complete. Illustrated with fifteen engraved plates of pie shapes and decoration and twenty-four engraved plates of bills of fare, as well as ten woodcuts in the text depicting carving instructions. Stated second edition, but the first to.....

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.....

London: Black, Parry and Kingsbury; [printed by Cox & Baylis], 1812. Octavo (18 x 11 cm.), xxv, 164, [2] pages. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Second English Edition. A pioneering work on food preservation which describes “the first workable process for canning foods, the foundation of today’s vast canning industry. Pasteur later admitted that his process of “pasteurization” was chiefly a refinement of, and scientific explanation.....

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Large octavo, 254 pages. First edition. Illustrated throughout. From Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Elizabethan England to late 19th-century America this social history of food, eating, and drinking contains numerous historic recipes. Previous owner inscription. Quarter-cloth in heathered gray boards decorated with gilt and purple, slight bumping to corners else fine condition. In dust jacket with edge-wear and chipping.