Paris: Jacques Grancher, Editeur, 1991. Squarish octavo (23 x 18 cm.), 249, [6] pages. Index. Text in French. Illustrations by Jacques Bellanger; color photos by Daniel Czap. List of Lebanese restaurants. Later printing; originally published in 1980. Some light underlining to a few early pages, otherwise very good in publisher’s color photo-illustrated boards.
[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. The Apicius collection of Roman cookery recipes is the oldest collection of recipes to survive from antiquity The work is divided into ten books, each treating a category of cooking, much like in a......
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.
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. 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.
Lugduni: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1546. Octavo (18 x 11 cm.), 67, [1] pages. Signatures: aa-dd8, ee2. Text in Latin. Illustrated with woodcuts, including a title vignette and initials. Cuts, title vignettes, initials. Some age-toning, binding full limp vellum; untitled. Near fine. Rare. [OCLC locates seven copies; Baudrier, Bibliographie des Livres imprimés à Lyon, VIII, 200; Cranz 108.117].
Chicago: Armour and Company; Armour Press, [1905]. Octavo in cord-bound wrappers (20.5 x 14 cm.), 47 pages. Index. Illustrated. Printed throughout in black and red. FIRST EDITION. An attractively designed and printed product cookbook, from the Chicago meatpackers, Armour & Company. The recipes "were compiled by Mrs. Ida M. Palmer who has personally tested each of them a number of times in her work of demonstrating the value of Amour's.....
Honolulu, Hawaii: Tongg Publishing Company, 1944. Large octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 71 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. FIRST EDITION. A guide to the poisonous and toxic plants of Hawaii, with attention given to Oleander, Castor Bean Jimson Weed, Plant, Datura, Poinsettia, Apple of Sodom, Strychnine Tree and others. There is also a section on Mushroom-like Fungi. A Comprehensive Plant List contains short descriptions of a much longer list of plants.....
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), 307, vii, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST & SECOND PRINTING BEFORE PUBLICATION. A biography of the radical temperance activist Carrie Nation, by the legendary journalist Herbert Asbury, author of Gangs of New York, The Great Illusion, and Barbary Coast. This was published the year following Asbury's edition of Jerry Thomas' Bon Vivant's Companion. In publisher's bright green cloth, decorated.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc.; Country Life Press, 1950. Octavo (20 x 15 cm.), 344 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The final work from the historian, journalist, editor, and the author of classic studies of American mores including Gangs of New York, The French Quarter, and Barbary Coast. Asbury's first published work, the story of a small town prostitute, was also partially responsible for the rise of H.L. Mencken's American.....
New York: Crown Publishers, 1939. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 126 pages. FIRST EDITION. Produced, presumably, for the influx of visitors to the city in the year of the New York World's Fair. Publisher's salmon-colored, titled boards. Very lightly soiled and rubbed. Lacks the dust jacket illustrated by Peter Arno, but otherwise very good.
London/Bath: Longmans, Green, & CO./William Lewis, "Directory" Office, 1868. Small octavo, 17.6 x 11.3 cm, 117 pages. FIRST EDITION. Color lithographed frontispiece. A digest of the issues and failing policies facing British salmon fisheries. Threats to fisheries throughout the North Atlantic arose in the 19th century, and despite many laws to regulate salmon in England, all proved ineffectual. Thomas Ashworth expands the issue beyond the British quandary to include extracts.....
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., Publishers, 1880. Thick octavo, 337, 57, [15] pages. First edition. The final 57 pages is a reprint of The New Family Receipt Book, containing household and medical recipes. Closed tear to pages 119-120, some medium foxing, Some tiny paint flecks and scuffing to covers of gilt- and black decorated green cloth. Spine partially discolored (rubbed?), and with the author's name misspelled "Aster". Previous owner's.....
Basileae: Joannes Valderus, 1535. Quarto, [34], 333, [1]. Second edition. Text in Greek, editor's notes in Latin & Greek. One of the most important works of late classical antiquity dealing with food, wine, and table customs, dating from the third century A.D. The book is a fictionalized symposium of twenty one artists, writers, musicians and surgeons, discussing all things that, according to Greek custom, should adorn a banquet. The names.....
Boston: Damrell & Upham / The Old Corner Bookstore, 1894. Octavo, 179, [ii] pages. Illustrated. Later printing, originally issued in 1892. A combination treatise on nutrition, cookbook and technical manual for the Aladdin Oven, invented by our author Edward Atkinson. "Men have no right to scold their wives, or use swear words about the cook, and find fault with their meals in a constant and promiscuous way, if they only.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1894. Octavo, 31 pages. First edition. The author lays out his theory of cooking, loosely based on the Norwegian Cooking Box, and that applies mostly low heat to slowly cook foods with, what the author claims, is minimal waste of food, heat and fuel. Toward the end, the New England clambake is described as an example of the application of low heat. Small chips to.....
Paris: J. Barreau, Imp. Edit.; Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, No Date. Quarto-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (26.5 x 19 cm.), 19, [1] pages. Illustrated with two maps in black and red, and with two color plates, and many black and white illustrations in the text. The text is a review of towns and cities in the Jura and Burgundy, with small, inset photographic images of famous buildings in each.....
London: Prospect Books, 1987. Quarto, 438 pages. Twenty-two illustrations. FIRST EDITION. Bibliography of household books, from domestic economy, servants, domestic medicine and childcare, and etiquette, with over seven hundred fifty titles all dating 1800-1914. In blue cloth, with spine-sunned dust jacket; near fine.
London & Dundee: John Leng & Company, [1932]. Thick octavo, 252 pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook with a preliminary calendar for the year 1933. Not quite an almanac/cookbook but in that vicinity. This is the only year for which we can find any record, so the annual aspect of the book was short-lived. The illustrations throughout include color illustrations of various dishes, and black and white photographic illustrations.....
Hartford, Conn. Fowler & Miller, Printers, 1892. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 141, [ii] pages. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. A hybrid collection of more than three hundred recipes, presented by a single author who, nonetheless, has gathered favorite recipes from “ladies who have for years made a practice of collecting the rules for dishes that they have found especially attractive.” Exceptional among the attributions are those to a manuscript cookbook.....
[New York: Bacardi Imports, Inc.; Woodrow Press, Inc., circa 1936-40]. Small stapled pamphlet (15.5 x 11.5 cm.), 30 pages. Illustrated in color throughout. A promotional pamphlet for Bacardi, printed in New York City (an earlier also undated issue was printed in Havana). With a lengthy selection of cocktails, each based on one of Bacardi's seven rums. Also included are sections on proper glassware, bartending tips, and more. The booklet cites.....
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. Small octavo (17.7 x 11 cm.), xvi, 240, [4] pages. Illustrated with a color engraving frontispiece, woodcut title page, and forty wood engravings in the text. Publisher's advertisements at end. Second edition, originally issued by the author in 1834. Samuel Bagster Jr. (1800-1835) was the son of a publisher of Bibles and other religious works. The Management of Bees was Bagster's first work, and remained.....
Brooklyn, NY: Bailey Refrigeration Company, Inc., 1947. Ring bound cardstock ( x cm.) [??] pages. Title page plus five original photographs, laid-down on card stock, and hand-colored cover photo illustration. Depicts the main dining room and related equipment room for the air conditioning apparatus on the S.S. City of Lisbon. A promotional piece for the Bailey Refrigeration Company, Inc. and presumably made in a small number. Leaves are pulling away.....
Boston: White, Smith & Co., 1883. Quarto in wrappers (26 x 18 cm.), 104 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION of this vocal score with piano accompaniment. An ad appearing in the March 1884 issue of the publisher’s Folio Magazine described The Berry-Pickers as a “new and original operetta in two art--, adapted to the use of young people, and designed to illustrate scenes in country life” (page 142). A later.....
Billerica, Mass. Published by the Author, 1880. Octavo (24.5 x 15.5 cm.), 202, [26] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. Errata slip. FIRST EDITION. The first American book on silos and ensilage, from the owner of Winning Farm in Billerica, Mass, and Virginia Stock Farm in Sussex County, Virginia. Original burgundy cloth, blind-decorated and gilt-titled. Near fine.