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Item #5011 Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion. A Guide for All Who Would be Good Housekeepers. ...

Parloa, Maria

Miss Parloa's Kitchen Companion. A Guide for All Who Would be Good Housekeepers. Illustrated.

Boston: Estes & Lauriat; for the Clover Publishing Company, publishers of "Food". 1887. Thick octavo, xiii, 966 pages. Illustrated throughout. Styled nineteenth edition, and issued in this case as a promotional item for the Clover Publishing Company, publishers of the periodical, "Food". A massive cookbook, from the founder of Miss Parloa's School of Cooking in Boston and a prolific author. It's been suggested that she was the first to have.....

Price: $75.00

Parloa, Maria

Miss Parloa's New Cook Book and Marketing Guide. Illustrated.

Boston: Dana Estes and Company, Publishers, [post-1887]. Octavo, 430, [18] pages. Rear blanks for recipes (not used). Illustrations in the text. Later printing, with the title page bearing the second title, "New Cook Book and Marketing Guide", not the original, Maria Parloa's New Cook Book, a Guide to Marketing and Cooking. A bit of light soiling to the endpapers and edges of text block, otherwise very good, in slightly edgeworn.....

Price: $200.00

Item #4904 Choice Receipts and Specimen Pages from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book. Sold by all...

Parloa, [Maria]

Choice Receipts and Specimen Pages from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen.

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1881. Small octavo, 32 unnumbered pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. Includes a page of press notices. Sample book with specimen pages for the author’s New Cook Book. Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book was written during the time she was lecturing at the newly established Boston Cooking School, funded in 1879 by the Women’s Education Association. not long after the book was published, she left Boston for New York.....

Price: $300.00