Philadelphia: Henry F. Anners, Chestnut Street; Printed by King & Baird, 1845. Duodecimo, 140 pages. Frontispiece. First edition under this title. One of a number of works of fiction by the popular Philadelphia cookbook author, Eliza Leslie. Between 1828 and 1857, she published nine cookery books. This collection includes the short story, "The Boarding School Feast" which depicts a school for young ladies which, against type, the children were given.....
London: J.M. Dent and Co, 1912. Small octavo (11.75 x 17.5 cm.), xiii, [1], 365, [1] pages. Index. Illustrated. Folding map. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION. Uncommon title in Dent's 'Mediaeval Towns Series', from the author of Leaves from a Tuscan Kitchen, one of the earliest books of Italian cooking published in England, and an early description of vegetable-oriented Tuscan cooking. But this work is a lovingly detailed description of.....
New York: Page and Shaw, 1921. Stapled booklet (14.5 x 9 cm.), 40 pages. Illustrated. Stated “sixth edition” of an unrecorded promotional booklet for the significant candy shop firm, Page & Shaw, which grew from a single shop on West Street in Boston in 1888 to a multinational candy retailer by the time of this publication. Illustrations depict the storefronts of the Page & Shaw candy shops in Boston, London.....
Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill, (1893). Small pamphlet, 26, [2 (blank)] pages. FIRST EDITION of this separately published work. There was a first part, issued in 1890, and that earlier publication is summarized within this one. A report, by the creators, on the New England Kitchen, an experiment in cooking education by example, aimed at weaning immigrants off of their food traditions toward a "New England diet" (see Laura.....
[New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, 1881]. Stapled booklet (19.5 x 15 cm.), 28 pages (plus wrappers). Illustrated throughout. The ephmeris begins with March 1882 and runs through February of 1883. The first of the A.J. White Shaker almanacs. The text includes a letter of Mary Carr. These promotional booklets, advertising the "Shaker Extract of Root", were manufactured by the Mount Lebanon, New York United Society of Believers.....
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1925. Octavo, 283 pages. First edition. "No business is more intimate with human nature than the hotel business. And no record of a hotel more resplendent of contacts with human nature than this record of distinguished tradition - the Waldorf-Astoria." Fine in original royal blue cloth. In the scarce dust jacket, complete but rubbed and with a bit of edge chipping.
New York: The Vendometer Corporation, 1927-1928. 16 x 9 cm, tri-fold and 28 x 21, 8 pages. Small promotional brochure and issue of VendOmeter News periodical. Founded in 1927, the Vendometer Corporation produced a refrigerated drink vending machine that served Oranade, “a pure fruit orange drink.” Brochure describes the convenience and sanitary functionality of the vending machine and includes a raffle ticket to win a refrigerator at the 1927 Trenton.....
Indianapolis; New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, [1939]. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), x, 210 pages. Illustrated. Evident FIRST EDITION. The second book of the author of the landmark American cookbook, The Joy of Cooking. This second effort met with, at best, a lukewarm reception. Rombauer addresses the homemaker in a rush, and tries to help her use more canned and other quick foods. The acknowledgments include home economists from Proctor.....
[Honolulu]: University of Hawaii, [1938]. University of Hawaii Bulletin: volume XVIII, number 2. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15.5 cm.), 27 pages. Tables; bibliography. FIRST EDITION. A survey of Japanese families living in Hawaii, with a review of the families, their incomes, the value of family living, the diet itself, and a summary. One can wonder how quickly the lives of those surveyed changed in the years immediately following.....
Albany: New York Department of Agriculture, 1919. Large quarto ( x cm.), 686 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes information on nearly 2900 edible foods, by far the largest and most complete study of its kind to the date of its publication. Very good in green cloth.
Manchester / London: John Heywood / F. Pittman, 1873. Octavo, 112, [1] pages. Advertisements. A condensed and revised version of Smith's Fruits and Farinacea, originally published in 1845. This revision is aimed at the lay reader, specifically the members of the Vegetarian Society. Smith took a very broad view of his subject, considering all of history from biblical times forward, and quoting Moses, Linnaeus, Adam Smith, and so on. In.....
New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann: Publishers, 1896. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 174 pages. Illustrated by C. J. Taylor, half-title, title printed in red and black. FIRST EDITION, cloth issue. Sketches of life in the suburbs - building a house, the furnace, the society church, the suburban dog, newcomers, the sporting scene, and the evolution of the suburbanite. Small chip at the top of the spine, otherwise very good, in.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. Octavo, 118 pages. Illustrated with photographs, and with folding charts. First edition. A scholarly study of the beet industry, made in the 1920's, but still reflecting a 19th century agricultural tradition. The chapters on labour, manure, sowing and harvesting, reference hand tools or horse drawn apparatus. With former owner's ink inscription to front pastedown, otherwise fine in green buckram.
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.....
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A Paris: chez E. Jourdan, quai des Augustins, n. 17, [circa 1825]. Sixteen numbered poems printed on trimmed laid paper (the largest measuring 8 x 8.5 cm.), accompanied by sixteen corresponding engraved plates (sheet sizes circa 12.75 x 9.75 cm., and images 5 x 3.75 cm.). The imprint is provided at the bottom edge of plates no. 6 and 14. Bonbon box trade cards to be collected by children, the.....
New York: Macmillan & Co, 1902. Thick, stout octavo, 461 pages. FIRST EDITION, trade issue, of this thorough survey of sundials and roses (there was also simultaneously issued limited printing of 100). Thoroughly illustrated with black and white photographs of dials in various garden settings. The author was an amateur historian who wrote frequently on the Puritans and colonial America. Earle was a passenger on a ship headed for Egypt.....
San Francisco: Sunset Magazine; Lane Publishing Co., 1940. Quarto-sized wire-bound [spiral] book (23.5 x 18.5 cm.), 223 pages. Illustrated throughout. Index. Fourth printing, originally issued 1938. A compilation of the popular "Kitchen Cabinet" columns which had run in Sunset Magazine since 1929. Some light soiling throughout. Some edgewear and de-lamination to the illustrated stiff wrappers. Good only.
New London, Conn. Copyrighted and Published by Jennie E. Underhill, 1910. Octavo (23 x 15), 173, [xx] pages. [Jennie E. Barnes Underhill]. Advertisements. Table of contents. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. An independent venture with approximately three hundred recipes. Among those exhibiting promise: Rice and Onion Soup, Oyster Ramekins, Clam Pie, Baked Blue Fish, Mutton Stew, Dutch Casserole, Noodles with Chicken, Rissoles, Fried Whole Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes in Syrup, Melon Croquettes.....
Praha: Druzstevní práce [Orbis], 1931. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 355, [4] pages. Stated fourth printing, "Ctvrté vydání”, one of five hundred copies printed. The colophon states there were cloth and leather binding issues, but does not state the number of each. Originally published in 1919, Sup was one of the first works (and I believe the first novel) of Emil Vachek, journalist, playwright and novelist, and inventor of the.....
Camden N.J. Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1968. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 160 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. FIRST EDITION. Information collected by the author after the publication of his Bitters Bottles, together, the standard reference on the field. Endpapers with green page copies from Vinegar Bitters Almanac for 1874 and 1889. Maroon cloth, gilt-titled to spine. Dust jacket, unclipped, with some rubbing, but near very good. Small ownership label to.....
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Rochester; Boston: Curtice Bros. Co.; [lithographically printed by Forbes Co., 1893. Stapled booklet (15 x 16 cm.), [20] pages. An advertising booklet/trade catalogue for the products of Curtice Brothers, growers and canners of fruits and vegetables. Established in 1868 on the shores of Lake Ontario, in Monroe County, New York, the company was able to take advantage of excellent farmland and a geographic situation with access to railroad transportation to.....
Philadelphia: Joseph L. Harbison; Table Talk Publishing Co., 1906. Squarish octavo (18.5 x 17.5 cm.), [10], 15-144 pages. Illustrated throughout with one hundred forty-four half-tones. Table of contents and list of illustrations. First Edition. The second cookbook issued by the publishers of Table Talk magazine (1885-1920), a Philadelphia competitor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine and for some, the best culinary periodical of its time. Much of the content is.....
Amsterdam: 1725-27. Copperplate engraving and etching on verge-type hand laid paper, with watermark. Paper size is circa 28.5 x 48.5 cm; the image size is circa 20.5 x 32 cm. Table of Showbread (Lechem), part of the altar in the tabernacle. In a biblical or Jewish context "showbread" (or in the King James Version: "shewbread"), refers to the cakes or loaves of bread which were always present on a specially.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1938. Large octavo, 390 pages. Illustrated. First edition, second printing of the first work of Case's trilogy of works about his beloved Algonquin Hotel, alongside Do Not Disturb and Feeding the Lions. Lacking the dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.
St. Louis, Mo. the company, 1951. Quarto-sized, stapled booklet in wrappers (29 x 22.5 cm.), 28 pages. Illustrated. A self-mailing trade catalogue featuring equipment and supplies for bars, taverns, soda fountains, and other drinking establishments. Mostly smaller products including a wide range of glassware, dishwashing chemicals, pourers, playing cards, olive forks, bottle stoppers, blenders, lemon squeezers, cocktail shakers, strainers, ice chippers, ice picks, ice tongs, jiggers, muddlers, tongs, fountain menu.....
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), x, 196 pages. FIRST EDITION. Castaneda's first book, a first-person narrative documenting his interactions with Mexican shaman don Juan Matus between 1960-65. The text was submitted as Castaneda's doctoral thesis in Anthropology at UCLA. 'The book is divided into two sections. The first section, The Teachings, is a first-person narrative that documents Castaneda's initial interactions with.....
New York: Greystone Press, 1952. Quarto (26 x 18 cm.), 288 pages. Fourth printing, originally issued 1951; there was a second edition issued in 1962. Perhaps the sexiest cocktail book ever. Saucier gathered over eight hundred cocktail recipes from restaurants, bartenders, celebrities, and friends. The delicious recipes are accompanied by twelve equally tasty pinup-style nude or risqué illustrations. Edge of text block a bit toned; illustrated paper-covered boards are soiled.....
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1898. Small octavo, ix, 279, 14 pages of publisher's ads. Later printing, originally published in 1886. Domestic advice and recipe book portrayed through a fictional story of a young married couple and their German servant. Originally published serially in Good Housekeeping magazine. In blue publisher's cloth printed in black and gold, with some edgewear and lightly soiled. Very slight foxing throughout, otherwise.....
Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1779, 1780. Two [of five] volumes. Quartos, xvi, 264 & iv, 240. Each 'Tome' with an engraved vignette title and ninety-five engraved illustrations. Christian Hirschfeld (1742 - 1792), Enlightenment scholar and rationalist, is perhaps best known for this five volume work on gardens. Published in German as the 'Theorie der Gartenkunst' at the same time as this French edition, Hirschfeld attempted to delineate the garden with the.....
New York: Oldetyme Distillers, Inc., 1936. Stapled booklet (16.5 x 110 cm.), 26 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cocktail recipe book, from the makers of Green River Whiskey, Three Feathers Whiskey, and Gold & Silver Feathers Gin. Each recipe is accompanied by a vignette with a humorous illustration by Ronan. Proskauer was President of the Society of American Magicians, a friend of Harry Houdini, and an exposer of frauds and.....
[New Hampshire: 1852-1901]. Thirty-one different menus, plus four related promotional pieces (35 pieces together,) all assorted broadsides, broadsheets, and bi-folds (various sizes). Some are illustrated with engravings, others with chromolithograph or hand-colored illustrations. Some of the menus are both printed and manuscript; most are print only. Condition varies but is mostly very good to fine. Five decades of menus and other items from the Golden Age of New Hampshire hotels.....
Unbound sheets of black construction paper (17 x 14 cm.), mounted with thirty-one chromolithograph trade cards. Two of the cards, those for the Maison du Petit st. Thomas, are die-cuts of an artist’s palate. Mounting paper is worn and chipped at edges; though the cards are mounted, the rectos of the cards themselves are very good.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1944. Octavo (19.3 x 13.4 cm.), 125 pages. Illustrated. Index. Third Printing. A detailed guide to carving, from the Upper East Side caterer, author of Of Cabbages and Kings, and diner with Lucius Beebe, Edward Arnold, Ivar Keuger and others. Chapters include Carving and Its Utensils, Roasting and Pre-Carving Preparations, Beef, Lamb, Pork, Veal, Poultry & Game, and Fish. The descriptive illustrations are clear and.....
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. Octavo, 120 pages. Second printing of the UPV edition. A study of the culinary preferences of the first President. The recipes found here include some brought back to the states from France by Jefferson, as well as others from cookbook authors of the time. Craig Claiborne called this book, "The most comprehensive work yet compiled on Thomas Jefferson's gastronomic adventures." A near fine copy.....
Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie, Publishers, 1949. Octavo, 120 pages. Later printing. A study of the culinary preferences of the first President. The recipes found here include some brought back to the states from France by Jefferson, as well as others from cookbook authors of the time. Craig Claiborne called this book, "The most comprehensive work yet compiled on Thomas Jefferson's gastronomic adventures." And from the introduction to a later.....
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. Octavo, 120 pages. Later printing. A study of the culinary preferences of the first President. The recipes found here include some brought back to the states from France by Jefferson, as well as others from cookbook authors of the time. Craig Claiborne called this book, "The most comprehensive work yet compiled on Thomas Jefferson's gastronomic adventures." And from the introduction to a later edition.....
Richmond: Garrett & Massie Publishers, 1938. Octavo, [4], 111 pages. FIRST EDITION. A study of the culinary preferences of the first President. The recipes found here include some brought back to the states from France by Jefferson, as well as others from cookbook authors of the time. Craig Claiborne called this book, "The most comprehensive work yet compiled on Thomas Jefferson's gastronomic adventures." And from the introduction to a later.....
Richmond: Garrett & Massie Publishers, 1941. Octavo (23.5 x 18 cm.), [4], 111 pages. Second printing. A study of the culinary preferences of the first President. The recipes found here include some brought back to the states from France by Jefferson, as well as others from cookbook authors of the time. Craig Claiborne called this book, "The most comprehensive work yet compiled on Thomas Jefferson's gastronomic adventures." And from the.....
London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, Strand; J. Easton, Printer, High Street, Salisbury, 1801. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 48, [2] pages. Tables. Final leaf contains an errata statement and an advertisement for another work by the author. The errata statement contains a printer slug (same as that on the title page verso, indicating separate printing. FIRST EDITION. A comparative study of poor-houses or alms-houses in England.....
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Chicago & Denver: [the club, 1951, 53, 57]. Three menus (two, 19 x 13 cm.; one, 23 x 15 cm.), each [4] pages. Three menus for a dining society, modeled after “Les Amis d’Escoffier”, but celebrating the skills of the United Air Lines’ Managing Chefs, and prepared in the various flight kitchens within United Airlines' system. Each menu item is accompanied by a wine pairing, as well as the names.....
Chicago, IL: Educational Company, 189[7?]. Octavo, selected pages [70 leaves], illustrated frontispiece, engraved illustrations. Oil cloth covers, decorated endpapers. text in English and in German. Salesman's sample book, advertising English and German editions, for a subscription publication; postdating editions issued by North American in 1887 and by Acme in 1892, and antedating an enlarged edition published by The Educational Company in 1902. Maud C. Cooke, was a popular and prolific.....
New York: Doubleday, 1992. Folio (31.5 x 24 cm.), viii, 280 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A sumptuously illustrated cookbook for entertaining, featuring classic dishes in lovely table settings. The author was design director of Tiffany, the legendary jeweler. Contributors include Deborah Turbeville, Betsy Bloomingdale, Wolfgang Puck, Mimi Sheraton, Bill Blass, Mrs. Sirio Maccioni, Valentino, Francoise Sagan, Yves Saint Laurent, and many others. Previous owner’s small stamp to front paste-down.....
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., [1908]. Octavo, 105, [1] pages. The second printing, with the price of 35 cents on the printed cover. The second in a series of five collections of prize-winning recipes issued under the Los Angeles Times imprint between 1902 and 1917. According to Glozer, this volume was first published in 1908, although others indicate 1905 or '06. This collection offers, according to the front cover, "One Thousand.....
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., [1908]. Octavo, 105, [1] pages. The second printing, with the price of 35 cents on the printed cover. The second in a series of five collections of prize-winning recipes issued under the Los Angeles Times imprint between 1902 and 1917. According to Glozer, this volume was first published in 1908, although others indicate 1905 or '06. This collection offers, according to the front cover, "One Thousand.....
Rome (N.Y.): [circa 1908]. Ten trade catalogues. Items mostly uniform in size (~ 19 x 12.5 cm.), though page count does vary (from 14 to 155). Each catalogue contains an index. Each catalogue is illustrated and most include select full-color images. Including the Erie Can Company’s, there are four general catalogues that cover a broad range of products; three catalogues are specific to syrup cans; and the remainder feature one.....
New York: Orange Judd Comapny, 1903. Thick octavo, 506, [6] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. A survey of all aspects of tobacco, from history and trade through various varieties of leaf and their uses. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in handsome, bright and clean publisher's gilt-stamped brown cloth.
Dixfield, ME and Sioux Falls, SD: Jewett Bros & Jewett and Holt Brothers Print Shop, 1917-1918. Seven items in various sizes. This collection contains two renderings on tissue paper, a box template with handwritten notes, three order forms, and a note with cost calculations, all regarding the design and production of High Grade Brand toothpick boxes for Jewett Bros & Jewett of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The artwork and order.....
New York: Meredith Press, 1969. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 214 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Frontispiece. Index. FIRST EDITION. A biography of the great barman and owner of the legendary eponymous New York bar and restaurant, Toots Shor. Filled throughout with exploits of the famous raconteur's exploits behind the bar and out in the City, and with stories of the celebrities and politicians who frequented Toots Shor. Considine was a......
Richmond, VA: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1966. Comb-bound octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), 215 pages. Index. Color stencil-printed covers. Second printing, originally issued 1956. Collection of recipes for "tropical" ingredients from around the world, arranged ingredient with chapter headings such as, the Kumquat, the Coconut, the Pineapple, the Banana. Each section has an introductory essay on the ingredient. The author’s intention was to feature ingredients easily found in the states.....
Paris: Bibliotheque de L'Art Culinaire, 1897. Octavo, 79 pages + 2 ads. An interesting collection of hors d'oeuvres by the author of Traite General de la Cuisine Maigre, and published by the journal L'Art Culinaire. Includes recipes for deviled haddock, rice and parmesan croquettes, and Norwegian anchovies with eggs. Near very good, with some age toning throughout. In printed paper boards over a black cloth spine. Scarce.
Bordeaux: P. Chaumas, Libraire-Editeur, 1853. Stated third edition. One of a number of books that were published on the heels of the Restoration (the first edition of this work was issued 1824). Clive Coates puts it among "the first comprehensive accounts of the wines of Bordeaux" (Grand Vins, 1995). Some light soiling internally, pulled at the title page/frontispiece, otherwise very good. In publisher's half green calf, over marbled boards. With.....
Paris: Garnier Hermanos, N.d., circa 1890. Small octavo, 266 pages. Illustrated. Spanish edition. Translated from the French by Luis Bravo y Boulet. A guide to modern methods for producing milk, butter and cheese, from an agricultural instructor from Calais. Illustrated with images of modern dairying equipment. With the bookseller stamp of Trejos Hermanos in Costa Rica. Some pencil notes to a few pages. Pages age-toned and with a bit of.....
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 88 John Street, [circa 1848-1855]. Redfield's Toy Books, Third Series; no. 6. 16mo. booklet, sewn on cord (11.5 x 7.5 cm.), 16 pages. Illustrated, throughout with wood engravings variously signed by "Pease," and William Howland. Evident FIRST EDITION. There was a second printing, also undated, but bearing the publisher's address, "123 & 125 William Street", which Kiggins & Kellogg moved to circa 1855. Issued as.....
Chicago: Quaker Oats Company, School Health Service, 1931. Duodecimo, stapled in wrappers (18.8 x 13.5 cm.), 77, [ii] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Quaker Oat's School Health Service no. 4, from the series recommended for fourth and fifth graders. A charming story that starts in a toy shop,and tells the story of oats, and how they reach the breakfast table. Illustrator Jessie Gillespie [Willing] "was a very talented illustrator, with great.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1854. Octavo, 369 pages, [11] index. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Stated third edition (preface), originally published by Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb of Boston in 1841. A household manual, not a recipe book, with sections on care of infants and the sick, healthful food, cleanliness, washing, house cleaning, kitchen maintenance, and more. By the great educator and domestic reformer Catherine Beecher. Some light foxing and.....
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Philadelphia: Chase & Town, Printer, 142 South Fourth Street, 1870. Booklet, sewn on cord (19.25 x 11.5 cm.), 12 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Author and title information from wrapper cover. Second edition. A practical manual on preserving of fruits and vegetables using hermetically sealed glass jars with a threaded metal top. Two years earlier, the first edition of this booklet omitted the words "in the Gem and Hero jars" from the.....
Cleveland: Tho. Brown, Publisher, Ohio Farmer Office; Frank Pinkerton, Plain & Decorative Printer, 1857. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 142, [2] pages. Illustrated with four wood engraved plates and additional wood engravings in the text. Publisher’s advertisements at end. FIRST EDITION. The first book published in the U.S. on aquaculture. By "Theodatus Garlick, giving the author's first experiments contained in a paper read before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science.....
London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1872. Octavo, 136 pages + 5 plates. With 31 steel engraved illustrations in the text. First edition. The author of this thorough manual of sugar manufacture was the editor and proprietor of the journal "Artizan'. Earlier in his life, he had designed and built sugar refineries in Jamaica and Siam. The illustrations depict in some detail all of the machinery necessary for deriving sugar from.....
Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Eagle Book Printing Department, 1905. Octavo (23.5 x 15.3 cm.), 86, [8] pages. Advertisements. Blank pages at rear headed, "Memorandum". FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, with an introduction by the committee. Recipes are in narrative form and are frequently attributed. Light tideline to endpapers and to a few leaves; a bit of discoloration to endpapers as well. In publisher's white oil-cloth, with triangle and crescent design.....
Boston: Press of Thomas Todd Company, 1926. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 73 pages. Stated "Third Edition", though just six months after the first, it is likely the third printing. An elegantly produced social cookbook, with recipes in narrative form. In publisher's decorated green paper-covered boards, over black cloth spine, with gilt title label to front board. Slight rubbing to boards; otherwise fine. Ownership inscription, "Mrs. Arthur E. Pew Jr......
Birmingham, Alabama: [The Church], 1951. Ring bound book (23 x 16 cm.), 156, [ii] pages. Typescript. Illustrated. Advertisements. Title and date of publication from cover. Author and illustrators from prefatory remarks on page 2. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook undertaken in support of a burgeoning suburban community to the south of Birmingham. With two hundred fifty attributed recipes; among them: Pear Relish (with onions and peppers), Black Cherry Salad.....
Cincinnati: C.J. Krehbiel & Co., 1899. Octavo in wrappers (19 x 12.5 cm.), 122 pages. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, numerous plates, some folding. FIRST EDITION. The second catalogue of Cincinnati's Triumph Ice Machine Company; the first catalogue, of 80 pages, was issued the prior year. A detailed and technical catalogue of the refrigeration and refrigerating machinery offered by the firm. Triumph's machinery was instrumental in growing the ability.....
Rowley, MA: Historical Society for the benefit of restoring the Platts-Bradstreet House, 1922. Duodecimo, 64 pages. FIRST EDITION. A small New England charity cookbook, with good sections on cakes, cookies, ginger breads and doughnuts as well as pickles. In black printed brown paper wrappers. Very near fine. [OCLC locates four copies only].
Lafayette, Ala. The Church, 1921. Octavo (22.5 x 15 cm.), 44, [xvi] pages. Advertisements. Title from cover. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook, with more than 250 recipes, many attributed. Most entries adhere to the reliable conventions promised by the title, but there are also such glimpses of the geography as Pecan Cake (requiring two and a quarter pounds of pecans), a custardy Burnt Almond Cream, Banana Fritters, and Squash.....
Terre Haute, Ind. [The Church; Printed by] George H. Hebb Press, 1885. [Central Presbyterian Church (Terre Haute, Ind.); Ladies of the Church]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 128 pages. Advertisements. Blank pages interleaved. Cover title: True Blue Cook Book. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. An early church cookbook from the "highland" overlooking the eastern banks of the Wabash River, the very landscape memorialized by Paul Dresser in what would presently become.....
Santa Rosa, CA: Agri-Truffle, Inc., 1980. Octavo, [4], 89, [1] pages. Illustrations in the text. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. "An historical, botanical, agricultural, economic, and culinary perspective of Tuber melanosporum, the edible black mushroom and gourmet's delight." Pictorial wrappers, as issued. Traces of cover soil and wear, else near fine.
[Hampstead, U.K.]: Tredolphin Press, [1968]. Small octavo (20 x 12.5 cm.), [iv], 105, [1] pages. Illustrated by Jean Papworth. Place and date of publication from author's preface. FIRST EDITION. With simple and clear descriptions, Simon's Turkish recipes work for experts and novices alike. The author originated the first cookery and domestic science classes in Cyprus, which in turn, brought forth this lovely book. Sections include hors d'oeuvres, dips & mezes.....
stanbul Matbaası: Nuruosmaniye Caddesi, 1967. Small octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), xxviii, 163 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Text in English. FIRST EDITION. An interesting cookbook of Turkish recipes assembled by Chef Ilyas Erturk of the Buyuk Efes Hotel. He represented Turkey at the London International Hotel and Catering Exhibition of 1966 and was awarded first prize. The first part of this book contains testimonials from Turkish officials.....
Salinas, California: [The Church; Printed by] E. H. Green, Printer, 1902. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 382, [x] pages. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Advertisements. Cover title: 20th Century Cook Book. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook with approximately four hundred recipes, from a region famous for its root and vine vegetables, its farm produce, as well as its long-established Mexican and Asian communities. Among items of note.....
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton & Kent & Co. Limited; Marshall's School of Cookery, [circa 1893]. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 468, 24, [2] pages. Index. Illustrated. Advertisements. Styled "Twentieth thousand". Originally published in 1887 (though Bitting and Cagle state 1888). Our date is proposed based on publication of the "Revised and Enlarged" edition 1894-5. The second work by the famed cookery educator who built an empire selling her students and.....
[No place: copyright by the author;] Calumet Baking Powder Company, 1916. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 108 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A hyper-rationalized short course in domestic science, and a good example of the path America was well along by the Great War. All is in the service of economy and nutrition, and aesthetics and taste be damned! Offered for example, "balanced ration: always there one thing in mind, the.....
San Buenaventura [Ventura; San Francisco: the lodge; Brunt Co. Press], 1906. Die-cut and de-bossed menu & program, on cord and with a single staple (5.5 x 19 cm.), [8] pages, plus wrappers. Illustrated with ornaments on three pages. Text in red and green. A most unusual banquet menu, die-cut in the shape of a jalapeno pepper, an appropriate shape for the Cabrillo Parlor no. 114 of the N.S.G.W. Ventura County.....
[Boston, Mass. Stickney & Poor Spice Company, [circa 1900]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 8.5 cm.), 12 pages. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely-produced product cookbook for Stickney & Poor's mustard, with twenty-seven recipes, including lots of salads and sandwiches. Very light soil to brown printed tan wrappers, otherwise fine. One handwritten recipe to interior wrapper panel, Scotch Wood-Cock, Ethelynde Smith". [OCLC locates just one copy (Historical Society of Penn)].
Bradford, Vermont: General Job Printers, [1878]. Machine-sewn booklet (16 x 10.5 cm.), [24] pages. FIRST EDITION. The text is divided into sections: List of Officers, Purses, General Regulations, and a Premium List with prize money for each category, including numerous breeds of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine. Fruit, grains, sugar & honey, mechanic arts (development of new farm implements and techniques), and flowers round out the categories. And of course.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), ix, 220, [2] pages. Harvard Historical Studies, volume XCV. FIRST EDITION. A study of the Portuguese commercial empire in India during the Hapsburg years. It is "the first book to explain how and why the Portuguese were not able to modernize their trade system when faced with crisis conditions" (from the jacket copy). Fine, in publisher's black cloth, in.....
Washington: Library of Congress, 1984. Square octavo, 223 pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. Narrative tour through two important gastronomic collections at the Library of Congress. In illustrated terra cotta boards with minor bumping to spine. Very good.
1865, 1866. Two one-page TLs, 23.5 x 18.25 each. Letters dated December 12, 1865 and January 17, 1866. Each describe the "unsettled" hog market and increases in prices for "Best Quality", "Fair to Good","Common & Mast Fed", and "Western Dressed" grade hogs. Stahlnecker & Dorman were commission dealers in live and dressed hogs out of New York. Both letters feature fold creases and ink smudges, and the 1866 letter includes.....
Chicago; Lunenberg, Vermont: [by the author; printed at the Stinehour Press], 2004. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 145 pages. FIRST EDITION. A privately printed cookbook, by one of America's leading patrons of the arts, a Smith College alumna, creator of the Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, in Chicago's Millenium Park, and recipient of the National Medal of Fine Arts. Fine copy in gilt-stamped red.....
Woodbridge, United Kingdom: Antique Collector's Club, 1992. Thick octavo (14 x 22 cm.), 338, [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Second Printing, originally published in 1983. Still the classic work on English wine bottles, with some material on European bottles. The author builds on the extensive work of Lady Ruggles-Brise, published in 1949. Fine in publisher's brown cloth; in an unclipped, fine dust jacket. With the bookplate of.....
[Bloomington, Ind.]: The Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1983. Quarto, 111 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. With introduction by William R. Cagle. Exhibition catalogue of the Gernons' culinary collection that contains European gastronomic titles dating from the 15th to 19th centuries. In wrappers with minor rubbing and slight discoloration to edge, else near fine condition.
[Bloomington, Ind.]: The Lilly Library, Indiana University, 1983. Quarto, 111 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. With introduction by William R. Cagle. Exhibition catalogue of the Gernon's culinary collection that contains European gastronomic titles dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries. In wrappers with minor rubbing and slight discoloration to edge, else near fine condition.
Philadelphia: Schaefer & Koradi, 1888. Small octavo, xxi, 165 pages. Later printing. Translated by J.C. Oehlschlager. An introduction to European cookery methods modified for local conditions in the United States. In thirty-one sections plus an appendix on the salting and smoking of meat in general. In browned and rubbed printed paper-covered boards with dark brown cloth spine. Child's pencil scribbles to end papers. Early owner's ink ownership inscription to front.....
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Hartford, Conn. the hotel, 1870. Broadsheet menu (22.4 x 14.4 cm.), [2] pages, printed recto and verso. Decorated with an ornamental border and American flag on the recto; simple border on verso. A bill of fare for the hotel restaurant for a single day, with coach schedule. Nine courses are listed on the Bill of Fare, including Soup, Fish, Boiled, Entrees, Roast, Relishes, Vegetables, Pastry, and Dessert. The United States.....
Boston: Geo. B. Oakes & Company, 1869. Octavo, 292 pages. FIRST EDITION. A medium-sized compendium of useful household recipes, some for cookery, but most not. Includes many recipes for tinctures, herbal essences, pickles, ketchups, other preserves, hair tonics, roof patches and more, my favorite being "To Make Artificial Volcanoes." Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in publisher's gilt-stamped light brown cloth, with some rubbing and corner bumps, but still.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, [copyright 1885]; 1886. Octavo (21 x 12.5 cm.), viii, 639 pages. Table of contents. Index. Evident FIRST EDITION. Intended as a general household manual but containing one of the earliest cumulations of Creole recipes in their myriad variety – succeeding by perhaps only a few months the first two Creole summations, The Creole Cookery Book issued by the Christian Woman’s Exchange (New Orleans.....
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Photographer(s) and compiler uncredited. Large album format (30 x 23.5 cm.), 23 leaves (19 with black-&-white photographs). Captions in English.Collection of photographs dating, variously, from the middle years of the last century, assembled evidently for an English-speaking audience, and providing an overview of the cellar, maturation monitoring, and bottling operations of the German sparkling wine specialist Henkell & Co. Famously known as the Schloß (palace), the complex on view was.....
London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row, 1832. Series: Library of Useful Knowledge. Octavo (23 x 14 cm.), iv, 151 pages. Illustrated in text with wood engravings. Index. FIRST EDITION. An early 19-century work on planting, mostly arboriculture for trees, with chapters on judicious planting, the structure and growth of trees, approved methods for preparing soil, and with a chapter on ornamental plantings as well. Other topics touched on include hedgerow.....
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: George W. Harlan, 19 Park Place; J. Campbell, Printer, Vandewater Street, 1880. Square-back stapled book, (17 x 12.5 cm.), 128 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Author's first book, preceding the series of single-subject books published by Frederick Stokes for which he is more recognized. Murrey was the caterer of New York's Astor House and Philadelphia's Continental Hotel. The book is an amalgam of recipes for familiar New York and.....
New York: A.J. White, Druggist, [1888]. Duodecimo-sized booklet, 32 pages. Illustrated. An almanac, issued by the A.J. White company, advertising their products which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Testimonials throughout praise Siegel's Syrup (Extract of Roots). The date is drawn from the fact that this serves as an almanac for 1889, and the last testimonial given is dated November. 1888. Includes profiles of some.....
New York: A.J. White, Druggist, [1888]. Duodecimo-sized booklet, 32 pages. Illustrated. An almanac, issued by the A.J. White company, advertising their products which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Testimonials throughout praise Siegel's Syrup (Extract of Roots). The date is drawn from the fact that this serves as an almanac for 1889, and the last testimonial given is dated November. 1888. Includes profiles of some.....
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[London]: Balue Printer, 38, Gracechurch Street, [1829]. Tall broadside bill of fare (42 x 12.5 cm.), printed recto only. A printed bill of fare for Vauxhall Royal Gardens, a dining establishment within the walls of Vauxhall Gardens, the London pleasure garden, founded in the mid-17th Century and originally named New Spring Garden. For two centuries it was one of the leading venues for public entertainment in London and featured tightrope.....
St. Paul; Delano[Minn.]: Webb Publishing Company, Publisher's Agents; The Eagle Printing Company, 1896. Octavo (18 x 12.5 cm.), 224 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. An important treatise on vegetable gardening, from the author of Amateur Fruit Growing, and a professor at the University of Minnesota. The instructions are appropriately for cold weather growing, written "for the growers of the Northern Mississippi Valley", at "the latitude of St. Paul and Minneapolis".....
Constantiople; Athens: circa 1880. Three photographs mounted on card (each 9.5 x 6.5 cm.), labeled in ink on the versos. Three photographs of street food vendors: from Athens, a “seller of a species of cake: halva”; and from Constantinople, “an egg seller” and a “seller of a kind of cream named yoghurt”. The images show each vendor in traditional garb, with the equipment of their trades, the egg vendor with.....
[Lynn, Mass. State Board of Health, 1888]. Octavo (23.3 x 14.4 cm.), [1], 316-361 pages. Illustrated with nine plates printed in black, red, and gray, and numerous illustrations and charts in the text. FIRST EDITION in book form, reprinted from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, 1888. A study of school rooms heated with stoves in predominantly rural Massachusetts towns, with suggestions for method.....
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[N.p.; New England, Massachusetts(?)]: circa 1900-1904]. Original photograph on board (photograph 12.5 x 16.8 cm.; board 12.8 x 17 cm.). Photographic print of a cafe or diner interior, with the proprietor seated at the counter on a stool, three servers standing behind the counter in white jackets. The menu includes “Pork 15c, Small Steak 15c, Rump Steak 20c, Ham & Eggs 20c, and the “Bill of Fare includes “Haddock" and.....
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[N.p. New England (?): circa 1890]. Original photograph on board (16.3 x 22 cm.). Photographic print of tavern interior, with five men gathered around a bar and a wood or coal stove. The men include the bar or tavern keeper in jacket behind the bar, a waiter in white apron with a tray at the ready, and three customers: one warming his hands at the fire, another sporting a shot.....
[No place]: 1939. Folded menu (12 x 16.5 cm.), 4 pages, plus wrapper. Manuscript menu for a dinner in honor of the winners of the fishing derby of a private club in an unidentified location. The menu includes the names of the new and previous champions, as well as the list of dishes served, along with two pieces of fishing doggerel. The wrapper includes a hand-drawn image of a fisherman's.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1965. Octavo, 246 pages. With illustrations by Epi Schlusselberger. FIRST EDITION. Written in narrative style, and with a great deal of information about markets and restaurants. This book includes contemporary and older recipes from historical sources. A fine copy in a near very good dust jacket, with one small chip to the front panel.
[London]: 1967. Folder bound with ribbon (9.5" x 13.5"), 4 typed pages with table of contents, plus thirty-three original labels attached to sheets of paper with thin pins; seven letters from manufacturers and distributors; and one folding chart from the "Trademark Journal." A printed cover label, with details in ink, states, "High Court of Justice Chancery Division, Mr. Justice Cross, The 14th Day of Feb'y, 1967, Vine Products Ltd. v......