Boston: Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, Inc., 1935. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 91, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisement. FIRST EDITION. A small instruction work on meat, from the Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, editor of The Woman's Home Companion, and author of more than ten cookbooks. Staple in binding oxidized and showing through at front hinge, otherwise internally clean and sound. In publisher's light brown, textured paper-covered.....

Devon, England: Prospect Books, 1995. Quarto, 218 pages. Glossary. Index. Later printing of the Prospect Books facsimile edition (1983), of the original 1747 edition. The Art of Cookery was the most successful and influential English cookbook of the eighteenth century. Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) was the wife of an attorney and the mother of eight children, and she published the first edition of her Art of Cookery -- a work she.....

Los Angeles/San Francisco/New York: Suttonhouse Ltd., 1936. Octavo (21.5 x 16 cm.), 150 pages. FIRST EDITION. This book draws recipes both from Mexico, especially Minititlan, on Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, and from early Texas history, based on oral and manuscript sources. Strehl, in One Hundred Books on California Food and Wine states, "based on family recipes brought from Mexico during the late nineteenth century, this book addresses the Indian origins of.....

London: Printed for Tho. Asley, at the Rose against the North Door of St. Paul's, 1734. Octavo (20 x 12.5 cm.), iv, 249, [9] pages. Index. Publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. The last of the "court cookery" books, addressed to chefs of noble houses. The recipes are drawn it is claimed, largely from those of John Middleton, "Cook to his Grace the late Duke of Bolton. Revised and recommended.....

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1948. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 219 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of essays, including the author's attempt to recreate a fourteenth century banquet. Layton was a caterer and the other essays describe some of the escapades encountered in that noble profession. With the tiny ink bookseller stamp of Sotheran to front end papers, and some pencil bookseller description to rear end papers. Otherwise.....

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 302 pages. FIRST EDITION. A chronicle of the high-spirited opening and subsequent rapid decline and extinction of a New York City restaurant at the end of the Go-Go Eighties. A portrayal of a restaurant that seemingly had everything: celebrity investors, a trendy location, hot waitresses and A-list clientelle. But things didn't work out as expected. Fine in publisher's cloth.....

Malden, [Mass.]; Boston: Middlesex Institute; C.M. Barrows & Co., Printers, 1888. Octavo (24 x 16cm.), 19, [double-page map], 3-9, 2-201 pages. Index. Half-title of map: "A topographical reference map of Middlesex County. Massachusetts, with key showing the location of villages, hills, ponds, brooks, swamps, etc., compiled from the latest revised maps, by Edward P. Adams". ~ First and only edition. An early botanical survey of Middlesex County Massachusetts. The authors.....

Florence, Ala. [The Church], 1931. Octavo (22.5 x 14.5 cm.), [x], 151, [xxix] pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Stated Second Edition (likely a corrected printing of the first edition). An evidently well-received collection of nine hundred recipes, following closely upon the first edition of only two years previous (with the same 151 pages). Southern favorites stand in relief: Southern Egg Bread, Okra Gumbo, Bishop Whipple Pudding, Ambrosia, Owendaw, Asparagus Loaf.....

Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1913. Large octavo ( x cm.), 143 pages. With full-color illustrations after watercolors by Norman Criddle. FIRST EDITION. Descriptions of the major North American fodder and pasture grasses. For each section there is a botanical description, geographical distribution, habitat, cultural conditions, climate, habits of growth, agricultural value, pasture, seed, and quality of seed. Very good, in publisher's gilt-stamped olive green cloth.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1909. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 289, [16] pages. Advertisements. Photographically illustrated. Fourth printing. Originally issued in 1904. While best known for The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Fannie Farmer had more than a passing acquaintance with issues of health, convalescence and medicine. Farmer suffered a debilitating stroke following high school, and struggled for years to regain her mobility. After her studies at the Boston Cooking.....

Calcutta: Published by the author; Gossain & Co., (Printers) Private, Ltd., 1959. Octavo (25.5 x 17 cm.), vi, 72 pages. Index. Glossary. Bibliography. Foreword by Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, Chief Minister, West Bengal. FIRST EDITION. An interesting, thorough history with very useful glossary and bibliographical references. The author was at the Department of Ancient History and Culture, University of Calcutta. In unprinted, blue paper-covered boards; corners slightly bumped. Printed, blue.....

Chicago: The Grocery Trade Publishing House, 1934. Octavo, 96 pages. First edition. Photographic illustrations throughout. A thorough buying guide for consumers on topics such as fats and oils, fresh fruits, canned fish, meat products, bakery goods, and more. In red cloth with mild edgewear and bumping and slight discoloration to endpapers, otherwise very good.

Marion, Massachusetts: Friends and Members, [n.d., circa 1960]. Mimeographed booklet, hole punched but not bound, (14 x 11.5 cm.), [16 pages (some vertical gatefolds)]. Cover illustrated with a linocut. Title partly from the wrappers. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook for Marion, Massachusett's First Congregational Church. All recipes are attributed, and each is given its own page, some of which are cut longer to fit a longer recipe. Some of the.....

Brooklyn, New York; [New York]: Hotel Clarendon; [the author]; [printed by Redfield Brothers Inc.], [1910]. Booklet sewn on cord (16.5 x 12 cm.), [22] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in dark brown and tan. FIRST EDITION. A series of eighteen single subject “talks” which, as the title tells us, “first appeared as newspaper advertisements”. Subjects include Eating, Cold Storage, Milk Cream, Butter, Eggs, Oysters, Guinea Chickens, Squabs, Ice Creams, Banquets, Healthy.....

Chicago: Row, Peterson and Company, 1914. Octavo, 396 pages. Illustrated. First edition. More a teacher's guide than a student's text book, this work contains information on cleanliness, sanitation and food safety from farm to serving. Very good in brown cloth.

Boston: M. Barrows & Company, 1927. Octavo ( x cm.), 96 pages. Illustrated with line drawings reproduced in the text. Later printing, originally issued in 1922. The subtitle continues: "Suitable for Company Luncheons, Sunday Night Suppers, Afternoon Parties, Automobile Picnics, Evening Spreads and for Tea Rooms, Lunch Rooms, Coffee Shops, and Motor Inns. By Alice Bradley, Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, author of 'Desserts', etc." Some toning to.....

Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. Small quarto-sized, in wrappers, 11 pages text, 60 photographic plates. First edition. Introduction by Franz Roh. Designed by Jan Tschichold. Text in German, English and French. Thin quarto. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Slight erosion at the paper spine, slight soiling, else a near fine copy. The first study to concentrate on the important Bauhaus artist's photography.

Honolulu: The White Knight Press, 1947. Octavo (24 x 16cm.), [12] pages. Printed throughout in red and black. FIRST EDITION, thus. "Six copies of this first bibelot from the White Knight Press in Honolulu were printed in January, 1947, and were dedicated to Mrs. Alfred L. Castle. This is copy no. 2” and signed in the colophon, “A Grove Day”. The first full-length publication from what I believe is the.....

Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Octavo (24 x 16.5 cm.), 384 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The first of the series of twelve Foxfire Books (and a few related spinoffs), which grew out of the original Foxfire magazine, a project started in 1967 and produced by students in rural Georgia with the help of their teacher, Eliot Wigginton. The students researched and recorded the stories of Appalachian oldways.....

Bristol: W.D. & H.O. Wills, [1880]. 21.4 x 13.3 cm. Announcement from tobacco purveyors, W.D. & H.O. Wills that warns against fraudulent product based on labels. Small stain and minor glue marks where edge was tipped in, else very good.

London: John Ebers & Co., 27, Old Bon-Street, 1833. Octavo, xlviii, 485, [3] pages. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and nine plates illustrating bills of fare. Twelfth edition, corrected and enlarged. Perhaps the most extravagant work on French cookery published in England up to that time, first issued in 1813. A particularly handsome copy, in publisher's original patterned green cloth with gilt-titled spine. Some internal light soiling.....

London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [1931]. Octavo (19 x 13.5 cm.), xxvii, 258 pages. Additional subtitle from half-title: [How to Keep Your Husband's Heart]. FIRST EDITION. A collection of French recipes adapted for the English kitchen, cook, and palate. as to the secrets of French cooking, the author states, "Four qualities are necessary, that is all – love and care; sense of balance; imagination, controlled by good taste, patience".....

Boston, Mass. David R. Godine, Publisher, 1985. Small quarto (25 x 17.5 cm.), x, [2], 295, [8] pages. Second, revised and enlarged edition. Originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1970. The author's first book, and a classic at that. The French Menu Cookbook was voted "Best Cookbook Ever" by The Observer Food Monthly. Richard Olney was one of the greatest of cookbook authors of the 20th century and a......

New York: Harper & Row, 1962. Thick octavo, 504 pages. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Elizabeth David is rightly considered one of the greatest of culinary writers. It was in this book that her full voice was first truly heard. A book to be read as much as cooked from, and then read again. Very light age toning, otherwise fine, in a price-clipped but otherwise very good plus dust jacket.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901. United States Fish Commission. Document 473. Quarto (28 x 19.5 cm.), 26 pages. Illustrated with eight photographic plates, and additional illustrations in the text. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION; from the U.S. Fish Commission Bulletin of the same year. A thorough examination of the sardine industry of France, primarily that of Brittany, with descriptions of the fishing fleets of the French Coast, the canning operations, and the.....

Wien, [Vienna]: Druck von Paul Gerin, Wien II, Circusgasse 13, 1900. Menu booklet (25.5 x 17 cm.), [8] pages. Printed in blue and gold, with dishes mostly manuscript. An extensive menu for Vienna's grand Hotel Imperial. Sections (titled in German, French, and English) include Luncheon, Hors d'Oeuvres, Soupes, Fishes, Beefs, Vegetables, Entrees, Roasts, Salade, Sweetmeats, Dessert, and on the rear panel, the "Menu du Jour, a K6". One hundred thirty-two.....

Dublin: Printed by James Hoey, jun. at the Mercury, in Parliament-street, [circa 1765-8]. Duodecimo, (16.5 x 10 cm.), [12], 168 pages. [A-H12]; not all leaves signed. Index and bills of fare at front. Publication date from external sources. Evident FIRST EDITION, the functionally simultaneous Dublin imprint (see Maclean, pages 23-24). The only known work by Susannah Carter of Clerkenwell (London), but an extremely popular and influential in England and Ireland.....

Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 83, N. Second-Street, 1796. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), [xiii], 14-132 pages. Index. Illustrated with three plates; two engravings depicting carving and a third woodcut depicting "Arrangement of a Supper Table". ~ Third American edition, first printing. Carter’s popular English cookbook (circa 1765), became one of the very earliest cookery books printed in the United States. The American printings preceding this one were: Boston: Edes.....

London; Glasgow: Printed for T. Tegg & Son, 73 Cheapside; R. Griffin and Co.; Printed by Bradbury & Evans, 1839. Duodecimo (12.3 x 7.7 cm.), 188 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Styled eighteenth edition on the title-page. Originally published in Boston in 1829, but the title was changed in 1832 to The American Frugal Housewife, so as not to be confused with Susannah Carter's Frugal Housewife. The omission of.....

[Salem, Mass. Salem Gazette Press, [circa 1860-1875]. Broadside (32.5 x 16 cm.). A handsomely printed broadside, with ornamental border, advertising Dwarf Apple Trees, Quince Trees, Peach Trees, Ornamental Trees, Hardy Grape Varieties, Bedding Plants (currant, gooseberry, raspberry, etc.), and Climbing Vines. individual varietals are listed with prices. Andrew Nichols (born 1837) was son of Andrew Nichols (1785-1853), a President of the Essex County Natural History Society, Trustee of the Essex.....

Berkeley, CA: University of California Printing Office, 1930. Octavo, 366 pages. FIRST EDITION. Photographs and charts illustrate throughout. A University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Report regarding the prospect of Eastern Asia as a viable market for U.S. grown fruits. Following World War I prices for domestic agricultural commodities plummeted, this report investigates possible alternative markets in Japan, Korea, China, Phillipines, French Indo-China, Siam, British Malaya, Dutch.....

New York: Fowler and Wells, Publishers, no. 389 Broadway; [Edward O. Jenkins, Printer & Stereotyper], [1864; copyright 1854]. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), xix, 314, [4] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated with engravings in the text, but lacking the hand-colored frontispiece that appears in the first American issue. Publication date from date of issue of American Phrenological Journal advertised in rear. Second printing of the first U.S. edition, from the second London.....

Honolulu: University of Hawaii; Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, 1945. Bulletin (Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station) no. 96. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15.5 cm.), 129 pages. Illustrated. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Originally published as bulletin no. 77 in 1936 under the title Some Fruits of Hawaii, now enlarged and expanded, and aimed at a wider audience. Includes botanical and cultural information on the fruit-culture of Hawaii, as well as recipes (largely.....

New York: Fowler & Wells, Publishers, 1890. Small octavo, 242, [ads] pages. FIRST EDITION. Hundreds of fruit-specific recipes and thoughts on the hygienic value of fruit, the culture and preservation of fruit by women, and fruit and temperance. In brown cloth with some edgewear and minor foxing throughout, else good. Inscribed and dedication by author, with an alternate owner's name to front endpaper.

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. Duodecimo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (12.7 x 8.6 cm.), 64 pages. FIRST EDITION. Text block age-toned. Front panel of wrapper has a significant closed tear, now repaired on the verso with archival tape; blue wrappers faded to tan. Good. [OCLC locates eight copies]. DAMAGED.

Chicago: G & W Packing Company, [undated]. Stapled, legal-size booklet, partially unpaginated [29 leaves] + 7 pages. Mimeograph style buyers guide for Chicago meat purveyors, featuring a cover image of the gateway of the Union Stockyards. Includes a TLS from the company’s president, the customer-is-always-right-statement, advertisements for “Cook-In-Bag Roast”, and product list for beef, veal, lamb, pork, poultry, sausage, smoked meats, and entrees. In printed beige wrapper with minor edgewear.....

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1936. Thick octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), x, 1300 pages. Illustrated with two hundred fifty half-tones and five hundred line drawings. FIRST EDITION. "A single big volume that gives you the scope and contents of a whole shelf full of garden books." In green cloth, blind- and gilt-titled. A bit of wear to the extremities. In an unclipped dust jacket; 1/2 inch chip.....

London: Printed for the Author; and sold by John Rivington in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, H. Woodfall, etc. 1769. Thick octavo, lxvi, [ii], 382, [22] pages. Engraved frontispiece and five folding plates. Fifteenth Edition. Occasional light browning. Very good in recent full calf.

Zürich: Offizieller Führer durch die Fachbücherschau. 1942. Octavo, 96 pages. FIRST EDITION. Text in German. Exhibition catalogue with descriptions of five hundred seventy gastronomic titles from the collection of Harry Schraemli. In blue wrappers with minor creasing to top right corner, otherwise very fine condition. Scarce.

Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979. Octavo, 125 pages. FIRST EDITION. A study, conducted between 1975-76, that surveys, identifies, and analyzes important U.S. collections of printed materials on the culinary arts. In teal boards with slight foxing to front cover and minor bumping to spine, otherwise fine throughout.

Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979. Octavo, 125 pages. FIRST EDITION. A study, conducted between 1975-76, that surveys, identifies, and analyzes important U.S. collections of printed materials on the culinary arts. In teal cloth; fine.

Zurich: Swiss National Tourist Office, 1956. Small octavo in wrappers (18 x 12 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated in black and white and color throughout. FIRST EDITION. About half of the text is a review of the culinary products and traditions of Switzerland. The second half is an introduction to the table ware of the mountainous nation, especially that produced by the potter’s craft. Some light rubbing to illustrated wrappers, otherwise.....

Nashua, New Hampshire; [Germany]: [White Mountain Freezer Co., 1898; [circa 1900]. Squarish, octavo-sized notebook (17 x 21.5 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated with two pasted-in clippings from the original book. A handwritten and likely professional translation of the original American publication of Frozen Dainties as Made with the White Mountain freezer from Recipes by Mrs. Lincoln [the title page is translated in full] (White Mountain Freezer, 1898). With fifty recipes for.....

Lancaster [PA]: Gedruckt für den Verfasser, von Johann Bär, 1831. Octavo (18 x 10.5 cm.), [2], [3]-118 pages. ~ FIRST EDITION. Compendium of popular folk remedies compiled by Heinen from various sources. “The author in his preface states that the book is written in non -technical language for the German farmer and ruralist… the book contains more than one hundred headings, listing various illnesses, giving their symptoms, causes, and treatment.....

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Philadelphia: Giunta Brothers Manufacturing Co., [circa 1900]. Oblong stapled catalogue, 23 x 30.7 cm, 23 pages. Text in English and Italian. Heavily illustrated with photographs and drawings. Features typical Italian culinary wares: wine presses, pasta makers, coffee grinders, ice cream freezers, pizzelle irons, and more. “All items manufactured [...] are covered by patents.” In printed yellow wrappers with chipped corners and tide marks, otherwise near very good. [OCLC locates one.....

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1957. Octavo (25 x 17.5 cm.), 171 pages. Illustrated with drawings on fifteen plates by Henry A. C. Jackson. FIRST EDITION. An extremely useful glossary or dictionary of some 3000 terms relevant to mycological studies. The illustrations are supplied by the great Canadian amateur naturalist, Henry A.C. Jackson (1877-1960). Henry was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson, and while A.Y. achieved great fame through.....

Philadelphia: Evans, Stoddart & Co., 1870. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 454, [4] pages. Table of contents; index. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes gathered from the pages of the popular periodical, Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1878), which had been the largest circulation of any periodical in America prior to the Civil War. The editor of the periodical at the time of this publication was Sarah Josepha.....

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Washburn-Crosby Co., 1910. Quarto-sized booklet ( x cm.), 74 pages. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and orange duo-tone. Endpapers bear an attractive pattern of the Flour's logo. THIRD EDITION. following publications in 1904 and 1909. A product cookbook, but with a range of recipes that go far beyond those that use Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Flour. Includes an article on white bread, and a number of statements that Gold.....

Philadelphia/New York: Curtis Publishing Company/Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Ladies' Home Journal Household Library. Duodecimo, 245 pages. Later printing. A pocket sized cookbook from the founder of the Philadelphia School of Cookery, and a member of the staffs of both Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good. In publisher's gilt- and green-stamped dark green cloth.