Buffalo, N.Y. Foster Milburn & Co.; [G.H. Dunston Lith.], 1885. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (20 x 14.5 cm.), 32 pages. An almanac advertising Burdock Blood Bitters, with the standard calendars, ephemeris, testimonials, and advertisements for other related products, including "Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberries". With remarkable duo-tone lithograph wrappers, depicting an image of an older man with a collared shirt and bald pate, and bursting through the paper a......

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.....

New York: The Centaur Co., 1880. Stapled booklet (16 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A small promotional cookbook in the form of an almanac, from the makers of Centaur Liniments, with recipes, testimonials, and descriptions of the applications of this miraculous cure from lands far and wide. As is typical of these books, the recipes are very brief and uncredited. Short closed tear to fold of wrappers.....

East Liverpool, OH: 1869. Printed billhead (42.5 x 17.3 cm.). Illustrated with small woodcuts of wares, printed on blue and red lined paper. Pre-populated with prices for Rockingham and Yellow ware products including: chambers, bowls, pie plates, nappie dishes, pitchers, rice dishes, jelly cans, stove tubs, spittoons, mugs, hanging baskets and more. This document predates the founding of Homer Laughlin China Company in East Liverpool, Ohio by two years. The.....

Ocala Florida: T.A. Orr & Co.; [no printer identified, undated; circa 1880s]. Broadside advertisement (45 x 30 cm.), [2] pages. On bright yellow paper. Handsome illustrated broadside, advertising Christmas shopping at T.A. Orr's drug and stationery shop in Ocala, Florida. The broadside is undated, but we place it in the 1880s, based on the paper, the design, and the boom in building and business that took place in Ocala and.....

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.....

San Francisco, CA; Louisville, New York, London: California Fig Syrup Co., [circa 1895]. Stapled booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 20 pages. Text and illustrations printed in dark blue ink throughout. FIRST EDITION. A promotional book (not a cookbook) for California Fig Syrup, a patent medicine employed as a laxative. Also called Elixir of Senna, the concoction had no figs in it whatsoever. This booklet seeks to tie the “purity” and.....

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.....

New York: Fleischmann & Co., 1902. Duodecimo-sized stapled booklet, 52 pages. Printed throughout in brown ink. Second, expanded edition originally issued in 1893. A product cookbook, distributed “with the compliments of Fleischmann’s & Co., original manufacturers, introducers and manufacturers of compressed yeast in the United States and Canada.” Contains more than eighty recipes for breads, buns, cakes and more, all with the product as an ingredient. Fleischmann’s Yeast was founded.....

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.....

Oneida, New York: The Burt Olney Canning Co., 1909. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( 17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Stated "third edition". A product cookbook selling the "Absolutely Pure" products of the Burt Olney Canning Co., and bearing the image of "Olney's Pure Food Boy" on the rear wrapper and on the first page. Includes recipes, menus, and some shopping hints. Water stain to lower inside corner of.....

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.....