Baltimore: Published by J.W. Bond & Co., No. 44 Baltimore Street, 1850. Booklet, sewn on cord (20 x 17 cm.), [36] pages including wrappers. Illustrated with woodcuts. Each month has a vignette, and there are an additional six larger woodcuts in the text. Title and publication information from cover. Author from note on page [2], a note by the calculator, "Charles F. Eagelmann". FIRST EDITION of this early American culinary.....

Indianapolis: Holcomb & Hoke Manufacturing Co., [circa 1914]. Flat box (26.5 x 16.7 cm.). Yellow, blue, and red printed original popcorn container with circus illustrations and featuring imagery of the Butter-Kist Pop Corn Popper Machine. Box flaps include recipes for Butter-Kist Breakfast Food, Pop Corn Balls, and Dainties, as well as information about Holcomb & Hoke’s trademarks. Unused and in its original folded form. Some edgewear and rubbing, small chip.....

Trenton, N.J. C.V. Hill & Co., Inc., 1934. Octavo, 9-208 pages. Illustrated. First edition. A thorough guide to food presentation and the planning of food markets, "the aim of which is to give readily followed instructions for making our food stores more profitable to the owners and more pleasant to the public. Illustrated with plans, diagrams and photographs of store interiors and exteriors. A bit of rubbing to the printed.....

[Detroit, Mich. Printing Department of Horton-Cato Manufacturing Co., 1895. Stapled booklet (14 x 12 cm.), [16] pages. Illustrated. Photographic portrait of the author. Evident second printing, as OCLC records copies dated 1894. A product cookbook, containing salad recipes made with Horton-Cato's "Royal Salad Dressing." Some ink annotations to the margins, otherwise internally clean and sound. Wrappers, attractively printed in black, red, and yellow, are separated from the text, and split.....

Milwaukee, WI: National Distilling Co., [circa 1930s]. A die-cut volvelle (14 x 10 cm.), in the shape of a cocktail shaker, printed in silver and blue. Includes recipes for twelve different cocktails with three die-cut windows for ingredients for each cocktail. The verso promotes a variety of Mistletoe Gins and Liqueurs including Tom Gin, Mistletoe Sloe Gin, Dry Gin, Kummel and Ruby Sloe Gin. Also includes a suggestion at the.....

Muncie, Indiana: Published by the Durham Manufacturing Co., [circa 1920]. Duodecimo (17 x 13 cm.), 64 pages. Table of contents. Index. Illustrated. Later printing, with one cross-section diagram of the stove instead of two; some paragraphing re-spaced, but total pagination identical. A manufacturer’s cookbook designed to accompany a fireless stove brought to market shortly after the close of the First World War. With two cross-section diagrams of the stove. Approximately.....

[San Antonio, TX]: U.S. Print and Litho Co., c. 1911. Tall, stapled booklet, 44 pages. Illustrated in color. Ads. Very early edition of the first Mexican-American cookbook published in in English. Gebhardt published this little recipe booklet to help spread an understanding of Mexican-American cooking in order that they might grow demand for their products. The recipes claim to drawn from the "most famous chefs in Old Mexico". The dating.....

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.....

New York /Philadelphia/Boston: Whitall, Tatum & Co., Circa 1880. Broadside (21.6 x 14 cm.). Illustrated handbill for a "Silent" Milk Shake machine. Description, dimensions, and price listed as well as locations of Whitall, Tatum & Co. locations in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. W.T. & Co. sold goods equipment and goods for pharmacies and druggists, issuing lists and catalogues from 1874 through 1899. Fold creases, otherwise fine condition. [Romaine lists.....

LeRoy, New York: Gennesee Pure Food Co.; [printed by] J. Ottman Lith. Co.], [1913]. Stapled booklet (16 x 12 cm.), 16 pages, including wrappers, with six additional semi-detached pages bound only with cord. Date from external evidence (see Schreiber, Jell-O: A Checklist). Twelve full-page chromolithographs including the cover and centerfold. The chromolithographs illustrate Coffee Jell-O, Orange Jell-O, Raspberry Jell-O, a collection of attractively plated Jell-O desserts (on the centerfold), Peach.....

Boston: Joseph Burnett & Co.; [printed by] Forbes Co., 1878. Booklet in stapled, chromolithographed wrapper (11.5 x 7.5 cm.), 40 pages. Illustrated advertisements throughout, Title, date, and publication information from cover. ~ A single issue of an attractive little calendar and promotional booklet produced annually, usually under the title Burnett's Floral Handbook and Ladies Calendar, by the company to advertise its various patent medicines, flavoring extracts for cooking, and hair.....

New York: Chamberlain, Roe & Co., [late 19th century]. 16 x 27 cm label. Printed in red and black. A diamond shaped label for 19th century New York Lard Refiners and Provision Dealers, Chamberlain, Roe & Co. Leaf lard is the highest grade of lard, prepared here “expressly for family use”, leaf lard has minimal pork flavor and is ideal for its use in baked goods. Fine.