Philadelphia: 1876; 1877. Two printed menus for two different dinners. Philadelphia’s so-called "Council of Ten" was a small group of wealthy men active in politics and municipal affairs who periodically gathered for dinners. Both menus print excerpts of dialogue from the plays of William Shakespeare to describe various items on the bill. For instance, under Boned Chicken is the caption "Alas, poor hurt fowl" from the second act of Much.....

Waukesha, Wisconsin: Published by Clysmic Spring Co., [1912]. Booklet, cord-tied in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), [2], 32, [2] pages. Illustrated. Title and publication information from wrapper. Date from external evidence (1912 issue of Life Magazine announcing the publication). Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional bar manual consisting of cocktail recipes made with Clysmic water. Most of the recipes are followed by quoted toasts. At the bottom of each page is.....

New York: Famous Music Corp., 1619 Broadway, 1934. Music score, stapled in wrappers (31 x 23 cm.), 5, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. The famous "Cocktails for Two" debuted in the movie Murder at the Vanities (1934), where it was introduced by singer and actor Carl Brisson. Duke Ellington's orchestra recorded the Johnston and Coslow song in 1934, all on the heels of the December 1933 ratification of the 21st Amendment.....

New York: George W. Stewart, 1940. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), 94 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Not a book about preparing a cup of coffee, but a collection of recipes for coking with coffee as an ingredient. At the time of publication, this book claimed to be the first work to deal exclusively with coffee cookery. I offers about one hundred recipes for desserts, sweets, sauces and beverages, each containing.....

New York & Chicago: 1908. Thick quarto. 12 issues of this professional journal for the ice trade. Profusely illustrated with ads for all business connected to the trade. Contents include articles on large scale refrigeration installations, various technical matters, regional association activities, trade conventions, etc. Text block very good, but three quarter brown morocco binding is split at the hinges and quite rubbed. Scarce in the trade.

London: For Richard Wilkin, 1714. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), [16], 218, [13] pages. FIRST EDITION. “Mary Kettilby’s collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies, from a tasty “green-pease soop, without meat” to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth, for pickling.....

Various: 1915-1975. Pamphlets and booklets in a range of sizes (not exceeding 28 x 21.5 cm.). A collection of thirty-two instructional pamphlets on the topic of home-canning and commercially canned products issued primarily by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and companies whose products are used in the canning process. USDA publications represented include partial runs of Farmers’ Bulletin and Home and Garden Bulletin and those produced by subdivisions including the.....

[Egypt: various dates, 1896-1903]. Various sizes. Twenty-nine printed menus with specific offerings printed or in manuscript. On various papers, some with chromolithograph illustrations; some with embossed, debossed or die-cut elements; some with edges beveled and gilt. Texts in Arabic, French, German, and English. An unusual group of Egyptian menus from a moment when the British, Germans, and Austro-Hungarians were jockeying for Power in the region, and the last of the.....

Breé: [circa 1801]. Octavo (16.5 x 10 cm.), 1-159, 170 (contiguous)-175, [176-205] pages. The title page has a neat decorative border in pen and ink, and the hand is neat and quite legible throughout. ~ Evidently two recipe collection recorded in Latin in one volume. Combined the work contains approximately nine hundred fifty recipes for various botanical and medico-pharmaceutical remedies and medicines, including preparations against rheumatism, arthritis, itching, birth pains.....

1950. Rimbaud. Oeuvres (Paris: Mercure de France, 1950; Le Chanson de Roland (Paris: Piazza, 1947); Honore de Balzac (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1950); de Maupassant. Contes (Paris: Piazza, 1930). La Legende de St. Germain des Pres (Paris: Roulotte, 1950). Guide Commode de la Banlieue de Paris (Paris: Andre Leconte, 1950). Various sizes and editions. All signed by Julia Child. The final volume listed above is signed "Paul Child" but in Julia's.....

Indiana County, Pennsylvania: 1822-1872. Various sizes, bulk measure approximately 30 x 19 cm. Twenty-three court documents related to the sale of liquor and operation of a public house or tavern in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, located east of Pittsburgh. Indiana County’s first court convened in a tavern in 1806, testament to the integral role taverns played in American public life. These later documents submitted to and generated by the “Honorable judges.....

[San Francisco, CA: the artist, 1981]. Handbill (21.5 x 13.5 cm.), one leaf, printed recto only. Illustrated. Date from ink stamp on verso “1981”. Handbill for a performance, perhaps the first in which Lesbian entertainer Carol Roberts “Comes out as a Foodsexual”. A photographic image of Roberts shows her engaging a large bag of M&Ms. Roberts operated at the nexus of comedian and performance artist. Records of her performances are.....

Boston: J. Howe, Printer, no. 39 Merchant's Row; D. Hooton, printer, [1834]. Booklet, single sheet, folded in eight (17 x 10 cm.), printed recto and verso, 7, [1] pages (twice, printed same both sides). FIRST EDITION. A brief manual of recipes, a short materia medica, offered by Boston's Thomas Hollis, Druggist and Apothecary. The title continues, "list of articles contained in the chest", followed by a table of contents, "Emetics.....

London: Printed for Nath. Brook at the Angel in Corn Hill, 1662. Duodecimo (15 x 8.5 cm.), 123, [5], [14] pages. Table of contents. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Title within rule border. Printer's name from British Library record. Attributed to "W.M. " by Wing. Fourth printing; originally issued in 1655 by Nathaniel Brooks. Generally considered to be the final of the three parts of The Queen's Closet Opened, also first.....

Chicago: Charles T. Powner Co., 176 Plymouth Court; [Buchanan Company, Ltd., 7522 Sheridan Rd. 1934. Small octavo in wrappers, stapled (17 x 12 cm.), 128 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION THUS. An enlarged and re-titled edition of a Pre-Prohibition bar manual, Tom & Jerry's Bartender's Guide, How to Mix Drinks, now published at the onset of Repeal. The book was published under variations of this title, often with a variant title.....

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard; J. Fagin, Stereotyper; J. & W. Kite, Printers, 1843. Octavo (20 x 12 cm.) 14-196 pages. Index. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with substantial revisions reflecting its new origin. Perhaps the earliest American cookbook with international pretentions. James M. Sanderson was the owner and chef of Philadelphia's Franklin House Hotel. According to the title page and his introduction, Sanderson clearly states that the majority of his book was.....

New York: C.M. Saxton, Agricultural Book Publisher, 1851. Octavo, vi, 345, 306 , [ads] pages. Later printing. Frontispiece engraving and illustrations after The Complete Farmer. A manual of mid-19th century modern husbandry bound with practical advice for gardening fruits and vegetables, from growing and preserving, to saving seeds. In blind-stamped green cloth and gilt stamped spine. Slight foxing throughout text, otherwise very good.

[London?]: Arnold Hodder Africa, 1987. Small quarto in wrappers (24.5 x 17.5 cm.), v, 182 pages. Bibliography and index. FIRST EDITION. "Complete Kenya cookery has been developed to suit the needs of students following the cookery component of the Secondary Home Economics syllabus. The recipes chosen are representative of different areas of the country and based on foods which are widely available" (jacket copy). Chapters include: Nutrition, Food hygiene, Food.....

Ybor City [Tampa], Florida]: [the restaurant], [circa 1935]. Small stapled booklet (10 x 6 cm.), 30, [2] pages. Advertisements. Index. Illustrated. Evident FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A promotional cocktail book, with recipes as well, from the oldest restaurant in Florida, and one of the oldest and largest Spanish/Cuban restaurants in America. A tip of the hat is given to the bartender, "Genial" Tony, who is indicated as the compiler. A......

[London: the author;] J. Smith, Printer, 193 High Holborn, [1826]. Duodecimo (14 x 8 cm.), v, 144 pages. Index. Publisher’s advertisements on rear board. Date from author’s statement in preliminary “Advertisement”, “London, July 1st, 1826". Perhaps a first edition, but sequence yet to be established, of this confectioner’s manual by an author, “Late of Philadelphia”. We know of five printings between 1826 and 1831 (in London, Bungay, and Leeds); the.....

Providence, Rhode Island: Livermore & Knight Co., 1911. Cord-sewn booklet (16 x 13 cm.), [4] pages, in cardstock cover with pasted-on photographic portrait of President Taft. Includes the menu, a "Pre-Prandial" list of speakers, and a brief description of the Club and its officers. Speakers include the President, Rhode Island Governor Aram Pothier, Mayor of Providence Henry Fletcher, U.S. Senators Winthrop Murray Crane, Frank B. Brandegee, and Henry Frederick Lippitt.....

[Los Angeles; San Francisco, California: Lucca, circa 1938]. Six items in all: 1. Photo album, “Photographs”, bound with cord (18 x 26 cm.), [8] pages. Nine original black & white photographs, mounted to album leaves. The photographs depict the exterior of the San Francisco Lucca’s decked out in its grand opening finery; the bakery with staff; the dining room with full front of house staff (and perhaps the owners?); wedding.....

Edinburgh; London: Oliver & Boyd, Tweddale Court; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1856. Duodecimo (17 x 11 cm.), xv, 688 pages. Index. Table of contents. Illustrated. Bills of Fare. Publisher's advertisements. Stated "Tenth Edition, Carefully Revised and Enlarged". An extensive household compendium, with twelve hundred fifty-four recipes in narrative form. According to Oxford, this book first appeared in 1826. The sixth edition was the first to incorporate, "A Treatise on Domestic.....

Ensley, Alabama: [The Church; Printed by] Garrison Printer, [between 1909 and 1915]. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 89, [i] pages. Advertisements. Index and “Index of advertisements.” Date of publication estimated from external evidence. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook from a once independent municipality at the moment of its absorption into greater Birmingham. Nearly three hundred recipes, some of them attributed; including: English Currant Bread, Poached Eggs with Creamed Celery.....

Seymour, Conn: The Church, [1913]. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 56 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Title from cover. Date of publication from internal evidence. Evident FIRST EDITION. No frills for Seymour – no title page, no cherished image of the church. A desultory title sandwiched between advertisements on the front cover ushers some two hundred short recipes, perhaps half of them attributed. Includes a standard complement of cakes, breads, puddings.....

London: Allan Wingate, 12 Beauchamp Place, S.W.1, [1951]. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 224 pages. Table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A collection of English farmhouse recipes, largely collected from the readers of the agricultural periodical, Farmer & Stockbreeder. The author indicates that Elizabeth Craig was the judge for at least some of the contest. The recipes are often attributed, and some include stories of the uses of the various dishes.....

New York: Cuisinarts, [1970] 1831. Duodecimo in wrappers (17.5 x 11 cm.), 59 pages. Facsimile edition of the 1831 London Cadell edition of Kitchiner's famous work. Includes a new biographical portrait of the author, as well as a new index and glossary of unfamiliar cooking terms in the original. Fine in publisher's black-titled brown, limp cloth wrappers.

London: Printed for A. Constable & Co.; [printed by James Moyes, Greville Street], 1823. 24mo. (19.5 x 12 cm.), xx, 484 pages. Appendix (of marketing tables); index. Stated Fifth Edition,"the whole work has again been carefully revised, by the author of "The art of invigorating life by food," &c." Originally issued London (1817) as Apicius Redivivus..., this pre-title was dropped after the second edition of 1818. One of the most.....

New York; Boston: James Miller, Publisher, 779 Broadway; [copyright H.M. Francis, 1864]. Octavo (21 x 13 cm.), xlviii, 300, 37 pages. Printed in two columns. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and five tipped-in plates. Engraved line drawings throughout the text of the carving section. FIRST EDITION, thirteenth printing (after Cagle). Originally published by Munroe & Francis in 1832 under the title The Cook's Own Book; the following year the work.....

London; Holborn: Houlston & Stoneman, 65 Paternoster Row; Printed by A Swetting, Bartlett's Buildings, [1849]. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), 332 pages. Index. Date of publication from Oxford (page 179), and the British Library and Oxford Brookes records. Stated "new edition, corrected and improved” originally issued in 1842 by Charles Knight & Co. Includes a notable section titled, "American Mode of Cooking Indian Corn, Pumpkins, &c." with seventeen recipes, including.....

Edinburgh: Printed for the author, and sold by her, at her house, Stephen Law's close, back of the City-guard, 1777. Duodecimo (17.5 x 11 cm.), [i-v] vi-xii, [1], 2-238. Detailed table of contents. Publisher's advertisement. Stated and evident "second edition"; originally issued in 1773, with a second printing in 1774 (see Maclean, page 92). Susanna MacIver ran one of the few cookery schools in Edinburgh, a task shared with Mrs.....

New York: Sotheby's, 1986. Quarto, unpaginated [136] pages. Illustrated throughout. Auction catalogue with four hundred ninety-eight lots, for property from various owners, including Marcus and Elizabeth Crahan Collecion, Willametta Keck Day Collection, and Prof. Dr. Arnold Heertje. In wrappers with creasing and rubbing text. Very good.

Philadelphia: G.G. Evans; [Willis P. Hazard], 439 Chestnut Street, 1859. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 362, 12 pages. Illustrated. Index. Advertisements. Stated “Seventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged”; originally published 1853. A cookbook claiming to gather the best of the recipes of confectioner and pastry chef Elizabeth Baker (later Goodfellow, 1767-1851) best known for establishing America's first cooking school in Philadelphia. The publishers indicate the unnamed author of this collection is.....

Lerwick, Shetland: T.J. Manson, Shetland News Office, 1925. Octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), x, [6], 89 pages. Errata slip laid-in. Table of 'Fish in Season'. FIRST EDITION. Margaret Stout is described as "Diplomee of the Edinburgh School of Cookery". A very interesting collection, with Hoonska (Black Puddings), Skirley in the Pot, Wirtiglugs, Stooins, Sheep's Brains, Sparls, Pensh Puddings, Roe Cakes, Fried Tusk Livers on Toast, and much more. Some recipes.....

Manchester [U.K.]: Thomas Bradford & Co., 1903. Quarto (23 x 20 cm.), 68 pages. Illustrated. Index. Catalogue 1159. A trade catalogue of cooking apparatus from Thomas Bradford & Co., operators of Crescent Iron Works of Salford. The ‘Cooking Appliances and Kitchen Scullery Fittings’ delineated include, Steam Cooking Pans, Beef Tea Cooking Pans, Vegetable and Pudding Steam Ovens, Kitchen Ranges, Gas Roasting Oven, Steam Carving Table and Hot Closet, Steam Hot.....

Boston/Dover, N.H. D. Lothrop & Co., Publishers, 1884. Octavo, 223, [2] pages. Frontispiece and engraved illustrations throughout. Later printing. The juvenile title is "a series of daytime parties for you and the other grils. They will be given at one house and then at another... you will cook your own refreshments while at the club." In narrative style, the books leads one through formation of the club, making yeast, bread.....

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1910. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 407 pages. Later printing, first issued in 1909. Photographically illustrated. Starts off with a basic scientific explanation of foods, the chemistry of cooking and biology of nutrition, as understood at the time. A thorough list of kitchen needs, equipment and staples, is next. And finally recipes, aimed at the newlywed and small household. Some light wear, otherwise very good.....

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1877. Small octavo, 144 pages. FIRST EDITION. An important American book on economical cookery. Juliet Corson was "one of the original cooking school leaders, and a champion of nutritious meals for the poor." [Historic American Cookbook Project]. She made it her life's work to bring practical, inexpensive cooking to the masses. The section "Cheap Dishes With Meat" includes a good number of dishes made.....

Falls Village, Conn. Herb Grower Press, 1949. Octavo (20.3 x 14 cm.), [14)] 116, [1] pages. Illustrated. Blanks at rear for additional recipes. FIRST EDITION. The first book published by the The Herb Grower Press, a project of Gertrude and Philip Foster, founders of The Herb Grower Magazine, which started two years before this publication. Some age-toning, Dark green patterned cloth, gilt-titled on the front board. In the yellow dust.....

London: Andre Deutsch Limited, 1960. Octavo, 120 pages. Second impression. A nice little collection of recipes each using yogurt as an ingredient. Yogurt was becoming popularly recognized for its health benefits, The Turkish author brings her culture to bear on the recipes, but there are others from different cultures as well. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York; Boston: John Robinson & Co., [date]. Alternative title (from rear wrapper panel) Machine Cut Corks and Bungs, Dealers in Brewers & Bottlers Supplies… Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( x cm.), 15, [1] pages. Illustrated wrappers. Evident FIRST EDITION. A little trade catalogue for all types of corks and bungs: vials, bottles, demijohns, jugs, cans, jars, wine, soda, and beer. A few pencil marks throughout, and on the wrapper.....

Chicago: Published by P.F. Volland Company, 1918. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 127 pages. Index. Stated Wartime Edition, evident Second Edition, expanded significantly from the 1907 original published by the Rogerson Press. This new edition was a response to the demands of the First World War, in particular, the national need to save wheat. Hiller was "formerly Principal of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School". Some light pencil annotations.....

San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Company, 1910. Octavo, [18], 19-249, [13] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of attributed recipes written in narrative format, assembled to raise funds for a club house. Includes household tips and a section on Lemon Remedies. Local advertisements precede, follow, and are interspersed throughout the recipes. Organized in 1898, San Francisco's Corona Club was a women's charitable and civic organization. At the time of this publication.....

[Santa Barbara; Cambridge: 1981-2003]. A convolute of correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the relationship between American icon Julia Child, and Beverly Jackson, reporter, novelist, collector, and a legend of the social circles of Santa Barbara. The two were long-time friends, and neighbors in Santa Barbara's Montecito. ~ Contents: Fifteen original notecards or postcards, typed or handwritten, signed by Julia Child; one TLS; one fax, and one TLS in photocopy.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Small octavo, 276, [4] pages. Ads. First edition. Recipes for blanc mange, picnic dishes, griddle cakes, and more, interspersed with "Familiar Talks" on subjects from country-boarding to flies and dish-washing, written by noted novelist and cookbook author, Marion Harland, pen name of Virginia Terhune. In blind-stamped and red and black decorated brown cloth. Cover bumped, rubbed, and slightly frayed. Internally age-toned throughout. Generally good.....

Dublin: Printed by W. Porter ... and J. Archer, 1796. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), [2], 295-289, [1] pages (plates included in the pagination), ninety-four pages in all. Illustrated with fourteen engraved figures on six plates. Separate title page and wrappers. Third Edition. The final of Rumford's famous essays, the other three on the creation of poor houses and the feeding of the poor. This final essay proposes advancements in.....

London: Andre Deutsch, 1958. Small octavo, 256 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes assembled the personal collections of from British and Irish country houses. The recipes are attributed and date from the 18th and 19th centuries. A tiny bit of edge soiling, otherwise fine and bright in publisher's yellow cloth, with a price clipped, but otherwise fine dust jacket.

St. Paul, Minnesota: Webb Book Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 151 pages. Illustrated. Revised edition; originally published in 1911, and reprinted in 1917. Many printings followed, and in 1942, the book was revised and expanded "containing, in addition to all usual features, a new nutrition section treating fully of vitamins, calories, proteins, and minerals, together with sixty-three carefully prepared menus analyzed for vitamin and calorie content.” The.....

New York: Whittelsey House, 1949. Large octavo ( x cm.), 193 pages. Photographically illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. A charming portrait of a year in the country and of activities in field and town, with sections on digging potatoes, hammocks, katydids, sweet cider and the birch swinging (think climbing young birch trees and swaying back and forth). Pearson was the Verlyn Klinkenborg of his generation, contributing the country-life sketches to the.....

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1953]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 186, [1] pages. Illustrated. Glossary. FIRST EDITION. Elizabeth Craig (1883-1980) was the author of several dozen cookbooks, the earliest in the 1920s and the last in 1980, and thus reflect a wide range of situations in England's food culture. Apparently sourced from Queen Victoria's own household scrapbook, the recipes here have been chosen by Craig. "Although this book is primarily a......