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, bounding full limp vellum; untitled. Near fine. Rare. [OCLC locates seven copies; Baudrier, Bibliographie des Livres imprimés à Lyon, VIII, 200; Cranz 108.117].
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958. Octavo, 224 pages. Printed throughout in red and navy. FIRST EDITION. The companion book to Fit For A King (1939), designed by the great mid-century book designer, Merle Armitage. The Armitages offer up various menu plans for creating a seamless, and seemingly effortless, dining experience. Their meals include wine pairings and cocktail recommendations. A charming book for the 'modern' hostess. Near fine in.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Published by Rand Sea Moss Farine Co., 81 Beekman Street; E.S. Dodge, Printer, 96 Chambers Street, [circa 1870-75]. Cord-bound booklet (17.5 x 10.5 cm.), [16] pages. Publisher’s advertisements at rear, and on both panels of rear wrapper. Date from testimonials at rear, and from external sources (Sea Moss Farine was manufactured by Lyon Mfg. Co. after 1976). FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Evidently the first American cookbook dedicated solely.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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[Portland, Maine]: Baker Extract Company, [circa 1910 ]. Stapled booklet (13.5 x 10.5 cm.), 24 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional book for the Baker Extract Company, makers of flavoring extracts, toilets, waters, etc., with offices in multiple states but the Laboratory was in Portland, Maine. Recipes include cakes, ice creams, custards and candies. Interestingly, a street address for the company is not provided, despite the inclusion of a coupon which.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
Stuttgart: K. Thienemanns, [1933]. Octavo, 78 pages. First edition. Text in German. Lower corner of textblock bumped, otherwise very good in black and red printed pictorial wrappers.
[England: the artist, circa 2002]. Square-backed booklet in wrappers (10 x 14 cm.), [52] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION of the second book in Banksy’s pocketbook series, following Banging Your Head. Images of Banksy’s art from Barcelona, London and San Francisco are included with commentary, thoughts and context plus reviews and emails. Small price sticker on rear wrapper panel; tiniest bit of wear to edges, otherwise fine.
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.
Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1988. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 319, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A volume in the series Les Recettes originales de..., edited by Claude Lebey. The entire series was issued between 1976 and 1992. Near fine in publisher's illustrated boards.