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.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, Publishers, [1939]. Octavo (24 x 19.5 cm.), 258, [3] pages. Printed throughout in black, red, navy, an brown. Designed by the great mid-century book designer Armitage and printed by Lynton R. Kistler. FIRST EDITION. In addition to essays by the contributors listed above, the book contains recipes by various famous figures of the 1930s, including Raymond Loewy, Rockwell Kent, The Browns, Edgar Varese, Feodor.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

New York: Van Nostrand Company, 1899. Duodecimo, 97 pages. Nine pages advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A small text book on how to obtain and test potable water. Fine in publisher's printed green cloth. Scarce.

Milan: Edizioni Toselli, 1972. Octavo, unpaginated [28] pages. First Edition, limited to 1500 copies. Illustrated with offset lithography on paper. Text in Italian and English. In this, Baldessari's second artists' book, the text is comprised of a description/set of instructions for a game of choosing (in this case green beans). This is accompanied by nine photographs in which an anonymous finger points to one of three green beans. Stiff white.....

Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns, [1933]. Octavo, 78 pages. FIRST EDITION. Text in German. Lower corner of text block bumped, otherwise very good in black and red printed pictorial wrappers.

Philadelphia: Barber & Perkins, 1896. 30 x 23.5 cm, 14 pages. Illustrated advertisements throughout. Circular including price list and “Special Mention Columns”, a narrative column indicating freshest products and values. In blue printed wrappers creased from folding, slight chipping, some discoloration to cover, and slight foxing to edges, otherwise very good.