![Item #8243 [Vernacular photograph - interior of tavern]. Anonymous](/pictures/medium/8243.jpg?v=1643206203)
[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.....
![Item #8244 [Vernacular photograph – interior of cafe/diner]. Anonymous](/pictures/medium/8244.jpg?v=1643206203)
[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 cafe/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 "Steak Cod”. Individual.....
![Item #8567 The Book of Keruynge. London 1508. [Book of Kervynge, Book of Carving; facsimile]....](/pictures/medium/8567.jpg?v=1660614903)
[Amsterdam; New York: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd., 1971. The English Experience: no. 298. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (22.4 x 15 cm.), 24 pages. Text is black letter. Facsimile of the second book of cookery printed in England, first published in 1508 by Wynkyn de Worde and later incorporated into the Good Huswife's Jewell (1597) and John Murrell's Two Books of Cookerie and Carving (1631). The first modern edition was edited.....
Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company; [Stereotyped by C.J. Peters & Son], 1866. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 346 pages. FIRST EDITION. As complete and thorough a confectionery book as was published in America in the 19th Century. The author claims these "receipts are from the best New York, Philadelphia, and Boston Confectioners, and include a large number from the French and other foreign nations..." though much of it was sourced.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 16mo., vii, 183 pages. First edition. A novel addressing the strains of running a household during the Civil War, including the challenges of War-time taxation, speculation, oil fever, inflation, etc. A section in which the main character considers charitable work with the Sanitation Commission or ladies' charitable groups is enlightening. Some soiling to a few pages. Previous owner's inscription to endpapers; newspaper clipping bearing a......
New York: G.P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway, 1868. Octavo, 134 pages, [6] ads (variously paginated). First edition. A special forward on breakfast, includes the following: "A breakfast should be as carefully composed as a dinner. Secure by art what is due to the dignity of the meal, and give it its true position." With the bookplate of Mrs. John Calvin Smith, wife of the cartographer and member of the.....
New York: G.P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway, 1868. Octavo, 134 pages, [6] ads (variously paginated). First edition. A special forward on breakfast, includes the following: "A breakfast should be as carefully composed as a dinner. Secure by art what is due to the dignity of the meal, and give it its true position." Some soiling throughout; hinged a bit shaken; in publisher's blank-ruled and gilt-titled brown cloth. Cloth is.....
Quedlinburg & Leipzig: G. Basse, 1828; 1833. Octavo (17.5 x 12 cm.), 80; 44 pages; with the addition of 12 pages and 4 pages respectively, of contemporary hand-written notes in German. Second, Improved Edition; First Edition. Two works bound as one. The first consists of a general guide to making all kinds of vinegars from different sources and for differing purposes. Domestic and commercial production of these useful ferments are.....
Paris; [Abbeville]: Achille Faure, Libraire-Editeur, 23 Rue Saint-Martin; [Imprimerie de P. Briez], 1866. Duodecimo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 180 pages. FIRST EDITION. Not so much a recipe book, but a collection of three hundred eleven culinary observations and recommendations – often on specific dishes – with a calendar. Despite the popularity of this little work, and the many reprint editions it has endured (including one as recent as 2017 (Centre.....