London: Mallinckrodt, 1966. Octavo, 165 pages. Facsimile of 1812 edition; volume I in Mallinckrodt Collection of Food Classics. In the late 18th century Appert developed a strictly empirical method for maintaining and extending the line of supply of food for military campaigns, this text recounts that process. In black slipcase with some edge wear. Wrappers with some rubbing. Owner's name and date stamped to front wrapper and bookseller's ticket to.....

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.

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.....

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1947. Octavo, 627 pages. Illustrated. Third edition. A complete and thorough work on the subject of orchards and small fruit, from "one of the major influences of American horticulture" (OSU, History of Horticulture). Small dampstain to top of a few pages at rear, otherwise near fine, in publisher's green cloth.

Brooklyn, NY: Bailey Refrigeration Company, Inc., 1947. Ring bound cardstock. Title page, plus 5 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. Presumably made in a very small number as a promotional piece for the firm. Leaves are pulling away from the rings at the wholes (not affecting the photographs, except.....

New York: Crown Publishers, 1951. Two volumes. Octavos, 224 & 225 pages. First trade edition. One of the great world traveling culinary writers. This separate, two volume, collection of culinary and cocktail recipes, this time focused on South America. Baker's writings on exotic cocktails recipes are second to none. Lacking the slipcase, some light sunning to spines of blue cloth, otherwise very good. With the bookplate of famed hotelier Ferdinand.....

Dorchester; Boston, Mass. Walter Baker & Co. Limited; The Barta Press, 1899. Royal octavo (24 x 18 cm.), 72 pages. Illustrated. Stated "new edition". An overview of the process of cocoa production, and of the history and development of Walter Baker & Co., at the time the oldest and largest chocolate manufactory in North America. Some light soil, and a small dampstain to the rear panel of the chromolithograph wrappers.....

New York: A Blind Spot Book/Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. Large octavo, 139 pages. FIRST EDITION. A founding member of the conceptual art movement, Baldessari serves up nuanced look at Americans breaking bread, accompanied by meditations on eating specially commissioned from contemporary writers and cultural critics such as Paul Auster, David Byrne, Dave Eggers, Francine Prose, Tim Griffin and more. A visual and intellectual feast. Text is very fine in very.....

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.

New York/London: John Wiley & Sons/Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1906. Large octavo, 260 pages + 19 ads. Illustrated and with a folding chart. First edition, first thousand. A scientific survey of ice, its structure and formation, with special focus on the ice of northern rivers. In publisher's blue cloth. Very good.