[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.....

West Palm Beach, Florida: Tropical Book House, 1935. Small octavo, stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 14 cm.), 85, [9] pages. Illustrated. Index. Cover title: The Tropical Recipe Book. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A collection of Florida recipes, from an unidentified author. The citrus and seafood oriented collection includes recipes with avocado, banana, carissa, figs, citron, coconut, guava, king orange, kumquat, lemon, lime, loquat, mango, mulberry, orange, papaya, pineapple, pomelo, roselle.....

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. (16 x 11 cm.), 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;.....

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.....

[Troy, N.Y. [circa 1985]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is forced on mushroom propagation, and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some.....