[Bullfrog, Nye County, Nevada]: 1905. Two broadsheet menus (26 x 13.5 cm.), [1] page, each. Illustrated. Two holiday menus, for Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1905, from the height of the Nevada Gold Rush. The Christmas menu, assembled by Robert Brogelman, Chef, included Blue Point Oysters, Mock Turtle Soup, Lobster Mayonaise, Oyster Fritters, English Plum Pudding, Malaga Grapes, Hennesy 3 Star Brandy, and Josyni Key West Cigars. The Thanksgiving menu included.....

London: William Heinemann; [Richard Clay & Sons Ltd.], 1909. Thick quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), xvi, 880 pages. All edges green. Publisher's advertisements; index. Second, "New and Revised Edition". The first English language edition was issued in 1907. An early issue of the first English language translation of Escoffier's masterwork, which built on the work of Careme while simplifying and codifying French haute cuisine. One of the most influential cookbooks.....

New York: Orange Judd Co., 1901. Octavo (19 x 12.8 cm.), 119, [9] pages. Advertisements. Later printing of this classic guide to cider making. Includes chapters on cider and apple juice, apple varieties, cider-making equipment, and technique. With a final section on using the "old method". Text-block age-toned; hinges tender. Some discoloration and light edge wear to the publisher's blind and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Near very good.

New York: Fox Duffield & Company; Shilling Press, 1906. Octavo (19 x 11.5 cm.), 160 pages. FIRST EDITION (in any language). There are three imprints bearing a date of 1909: Fox Duffield, Duffield, and Putnam. The Fox Duffield imprint is the earliest. This small book introduced the concept of "teaism" to the world. Teaism used the simplicity of the tea ceremony as a model for other activities, including art and.....

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., [1902]. Octavo ( x cm.), 120, [8] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Second Edition. A second printing of this edition appeared in 1906, with 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. A significant American cocktail recipe book, from the barman of the Holland House Hotel in New York City. In his preface to the Mud Puddle facsimile of this title, "Dr. Cocktail" Ted Haigh describes the author, "Kappeler was.....

New York: Fox, Duffield & Company; [Printed by] The Trow Press, 1904. Octavo (19.25 x 13 cm.), xlii, 350 pages. Photographic frontispiece (“The Turbaned Mistress of a Kentucky Kitchen”) and twelve additional photographic plates (really eleven, as the list of illustrations counts one plate as two). Detailed table of contents. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook of sorts, in light of its contributions from forty-six acquaintances of the compiler.....

New York: Harrison, Smith & Robert Haas, Inc., 1934. Introduction by Helen Woodward. Octavo (19.25 x 13 cm.), xvi, 305 pages. Illustrated with sixteen black & white plates, including the frontispiece. Second, Revised Edition. Originally published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith in 1930. A collection of historical Charleston recipes, with Huguenot and African influences fully on display, compiled by Blanche S. Rhett (1876-1942). Helen Woodward has provided the introduction.....

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; The New England Institute For Medical Research, 1966. Large octavo (24 x 17 cm.), xvi, 447 pages. Illustrated with over fifty full-color plates and hundreds of black and white photographs. Index; bibliography. FIRST EDITION. The classic work on strawberry fruit cultivation, from the giant of the field, after a lifetime of study and experimentation. "George McMillan Darrow (1889–1983) was an American horticulturist and the.....

Boston: Published by the Author, 1870. Octavo, (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 191 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Index. All edges red. FIRST EDITION. A small, thorough guide to baking of all sorts, written by a professional baker, who worked both coasts of Canada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands. The author differentiates the skills of bread baking from those of cake making and pastry, but.....

New York: Rohde & Haskins, 1904. Small octavo (18.5 x 12 cm.), vii, 235 pages. FIRST EDITION. A second edition was published by Moffat, Yard & Co. in 1904. A day book of recipes, with literary quotes and inspirations for recipes for each day of the year. In the preface, the author writes, "In making up this collection of recipes suggested by quotations chiefly from English novelists and poets, our.....

Poughkeepsie, NY: Paraclete Potter / P&S Potter, Printers, 1815. 24mo. (14.2 x 9 cm.), iv, [1], [5] 71 pages. The eighth edition of Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, originally issued Hartford, 1796. The book is widely considered to be the first American cookbook, authored by an American and printed and published in the US. Contemporary one-quarter brown calf, with marbled paper over boards; Hinges sound, but calf split on front panel.....

Rodez: E. Carrère, 1906; 1904. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 20 cm.),(vol. 1.) 200 pages. Illustrated with one folded leaf of plates, and engravings and half-tone photographs in the text. Table of contents. Bibliography; (vol. 2): 119, [1] pages. Engravings and half-tone photographs in the text. Bibliography. Text in French. FIRST EDITION of the Roquefort volume; Second Edition, much enlarged, of d'Aubrac (though the first edition, issued.....

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Octavo (22 x 14.7 cm.), 184 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook of the recipes of Jesse Willis Lewis, an African-American chef from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as set down by his employers, the Ballard family of Bay St. Louis and later New Orleans. Specialties include the Creole dishes of New Orleans; the fish, meat, and game concoctions of the Deep South; oyster cutlets.....

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. Duodecimo (17.3 x 11.3 cm.), ix, 126, [1] pages. Publisher's advertisement at rear. FIRST EDITION. "When the hot midsummer months come who is it that does not feel a repugnance for hot food, and whose palate does not demand something delicate yet Cold?" According to NUC the authors' names are pseudonyms, but we've been unable to identify the actual authors. Text block clean.....

Paris: Ch. Ploche, Libraire-Editeur, 1852. Small octavo in wrappers, sewn on cord (17 x 11 cm.), 64 pages. Table of contents at rear. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A small compilation of short texts for the mistress of the house in the series Bibliothèque de la Maitresse de Maison. The wrapper advertisement for the series lists approximately fifty titles, stating "chaque ouvrage se vend separement". The essays include Cuisson d'un poisson.....

Minneapolis, Minn. the company, 1955. Quarto-sized, booklet in wrappers, in a three-hole brad binding (29 x 22.5 cm.), 249, [4] pages. Illustrated throughout. Printed on various stocks, some illustrated with color, and two leaves at the end with color samples. A sizable trade catalogue from the Minneapolis-based bar supply company, servicing drinking establishments, restaurants, hotels, etc. Sections include direct draw bars, direct draw tap boxes, ice cube makers, refrigeration and.....

[Boston: Robinson Engraving Co., 1890]. Menu, in painted wooden boards, bound with cord (20 x 15.2 cm.), 10 gold-printed leaves, each a die-cut circle printed versos only. An elaborate program of events for the eleventh annual meeting of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, held in May, 1890 at Boston's great hotels, the Parker House, Hotel Vendome, and American House. The H.M.M.B.A. was founded in 1879 to offer hotel workers.....

New York: Pantheon, 1977. Large quarto (28 x 21.4 cm.), 517 pages. Index. First American Edition. A thorough overview of French cooking, from one of the greatest of modern French chefs. While Bocuse is the perhaps the most well-known of the chefs who introduced nouvelle cuisine, his name has come to be synonymous with all of French cuisine. The most prestigious of culinary awards is named after him, and the.....

[Las Vegas, Nevada; [Newton, Iowa: the Club; Bebco Litho. Co., circa 1953]. Miniature book, stapled, in stiff wrappers (8 x 5.3 cm.), [60] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION of this promotional cocktail recipe book with calendars. Includes room for addresses and memoranda. A child's pencil scribbles to a few of the memorandum pages. in publisher's stiff blue leatherette, silver-titled and decorated. Rubbing to edges, otherwise very good. Very scarce. [OCLC locates.....

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1974. Quarto (24 x 19.5 cm.), 471, [1] pages. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION and FIRST US EDITION of one of the most celebrated of twentieth century French cookbooks, by the distinguished cook and engineer. This translation is derived, mostly, from the smaller first edition of Babinski's great work. Later editions of this book were greatly expanded, from 471 to 1107 pages. There has been.....

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1981]. Small quarto ( x cm.), 286 pages. Illustrated in the text and with color plates. Later Printing. Wolfgang Puck's first book, written before he became wildly famous as the owner-chef of Spago and Chinois, offers more than one hundred sixty complex, innovative recipes. Puck had been chef of Los Angeles's Ma Maison at the time of publication. The book offers more than two hundred recipes.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. Octavo (18.5 x 13.7 cm.), xii, [2], 263, [1] pages. Thirteen black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Stated Third Printing. Record of "a motor journey through the wine country of France, and adventure devoted chiefly to Bordeaux and Burgundy" (from the jacket flap). Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890-1973) was the author of more than a dozen novels and short story collections. Clean and sound.....

Rennes: Imprimerie de "L'Ouest Eclair" 1924. Booklet in staples, small octavo (18 x 11.5 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated with sixty seven figures in the text, all images of plants. FIRST EDITION. A survey of medicinal plants and plants for essences of France's Brittany, published by the Breton Committee for Medicinal Plants and Plant Essences under the patronage of the Interministerial Committee and the National Office for Plant Raw Materials for.....

New York: Felicie, Inc., 1973. Large quarto (31.5 x 22 cm.), 324 pages. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial endpapers feature Dalí paintings that incorporate food. FIRST EDITION, English language issue. "[E]laborated with great precision by a 'chef' wishing to remain in the most secret anonymity" (colophon), this fantastical cookbook features fifty-six recipes including many from Lasserre, Maxim's, la Tour d'Argent, and le Buffet de la gare de Lyon, many of which featured.....

Wien [Vienna]: Druck von Paul Gerlin, [circa 1908]. Broadside menu (17.5 x 11 cm.), [1] page, printed recto only in black and titled in gilt and embossed; gilt-edged. Menu for dinner at the Grand Hotel Vienne. William Pembroke Fetridge's American Travelers' Guide described the Grand Hotel as a "Splendid first-class Hotel, situated in the most fashionable and frequented part of the town, in close proximity to the Imperial Grand Opera.....