Rabelais Inc.

Item #7995 Handy Hints: a valuable and useful compilation of tried and famous household cooking...

[Druggist’s promotional cookbook – Kinsilla, C.P. (Paterson, N.J.); Henry Evans (compiler)]

Handy Hints: a valuable and useful compilation of tried and famous household cooking receipts. Dainties for the Sick Room – Poison Antidotes--Table Etiquette, Etc., Etc. – Suggestions for the Table, Indexed. Published for the benefit of our customers.

[Paterson, N.J. C.P. Kinsilla, circa 1901]. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (22 x 15 cm.), 143, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Advertisements throughout. Author from external information (NYAM copy). FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook, advertising the druggist and pharmacist C.P. Kinsilla of Paterson, N.J. The original was issued by Henry Evans, "Manufacturing Chemist and Wholesale Druggist of Washington, D.C.” in 1901 and the text was used to promote similar druggists in Boston.....

Price: $150.00

Hofflin, Florence (compiler); Mero, L. V. (illustrator)

The Afternoon Tea.

[Minneapolis]: The Buzza Company, [1920-1929]. Tall, stapled and cord-sewn booklet (26 x 11 cm.), [48] pages, including blanks at the end for handwritten recipes. Illustrated with two color vignettes. Printed throughout in black and green. FIRST EDITION. Author and illustrator information from title page verso, "Compiled by Florence Hofflin, designs by L.V. Mero". An attractive publication from the Craftsman School-influenced novelty publisher, The Buzza Company. Topics include Beverages, Sandwiches, and.....

Price: $60.00

[Rios, Agustin (compiler)]

Sloppy Joe's Cocktail Recipes. BEekman3-5420. [title from cover].

[Havana, Cuba: F. Diaz], [undated: circa 1940]. Small stapled booklet (9.5 x 6.5 cm.), [32] pages (including price list at center). Issued without the title page, otherwise found in other issues), and without the portraits or biography of the founders. ~ A later, apparently promotional issue of the famous cocktail manual, of which at least nine annual issues are known, all titled Sloppy Joe's Cocktails Manual, and most with the.....

Price: $300.00

Item #7371 The English Vineyard Vindicated... with an address, where the best plants are to be...

Rose, John; Evelyn, John (compiler and preface); [Jeffers, Robert H. (supplementary biography)]

The English Vineyard Vindicated... with an address, where the best plants are to be had at easie rates.

Falls Village, Connecticut: The Herb Grower Press, 1965. Duodecimo (17.5 x 10.5 cm.), 48, [1], 27, [1] pages. Bibliographical references. ~ Facsimile of the 1675 edition published in London by T.R. & N.T. for B. Tooke; with a supplementary "appendix". FIRST EDITION THUS, limited to 250 numbered copies (this is number 26 of 250). Originally published in London 1666, "printed by J. Grismond for John Crook, at the Ship in.....

Price: $350.00

[Royal Baking Powder Company]; Rudmani, Prof. G[iuseppi, compiler], Late Chef de Cuisine of the New York Cooking School

The Royal Baker & Pastry Cook.

New York: Royal Baking Powder Company; [lithography by] Schumacher & Ettlinger, 1887. Stapled booklet (21 x 13 cm.), 43, [1] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. Front wrapper verso with facsimile of a letter from Marion Harland dated 1887. Publication date from copyright statement on front wrapper panel. Includes a wood engraving showing twenty figures of diverse pans used in baking. “The recipes in this book are new, and formulated by one.....

Price: $120.00

[Royal Baking Powder Company]; Rudmani, Prof. G[iuseppi, compiler], Late Chef de Cuisine of the New York Cooking School

The Royal Baker & Pastry Cook.

New York: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1878, ©1877. Stapled, octavo-sized booklet (23.5 x 15cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Front wrapper verso with product reviews dated 1878. Includes a wood engraving showing twenty figures of diverse pans used in baking. “The recipes in this book are new, and formulated by one of the most experienced Professors in the art of scientific and practical cookery, especially adapted for the use of.....

Price: $150.00

Item #7276 A New Collection of Genuine Receipts, for the Preparation and Execution of Curious...

[Rufus Porter (1792-1884, compiler)]

A New Collection of Genuine Receipts, for the Preparation and Execution of Curious Arts, and Interesting Experiments, Medical and Miscellaneous, Domestic and Agricultural. Which are well explained, and warranted genuine, and may be performed easily, safely, and at little expense. To which is added, a complete and much improved system of dyeing, in all its varieties. Stereotype edition.

Boston: Published by Charles Gaylord, 1831. Duodecimo (15 x 10.5 cm.), 102, 6 pages. Index. Author from bibliographic references (name appears on earlier edition). Later edition; first published with this title in 1830 by Concord, N.H.'s Fisk & Chase. Earlier editions were issued under the titles, Select Collection of Approved... (1820), and Thirty-one Real Genuine Receipts.., (1825), but were significantly shorter and lacked the section of culinary receipts. This popular.....

Price: $350.00

Item #5824 Famous Recipes By Famous People. Compiled and edited by Herbert Cerwin. Illustrated by...

[Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte]; [John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, Zane Grey, H.L. Mencken, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walt, Disney, Gertrude Stein, William Beebe, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Rube Goldberg, et al.]; (Cerwin, Herbert, compiler and editor)

Famous Recipes By Famous People. Compiled and edited by Herbert Cerwin. Illustrated by Sinclair Ross.

San Francisco, Calif. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte, 1940. Large octavo, 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second edition, originally published under the slightly different title, Famous Recipes of Famous People, and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes, with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude.....

Price: $120.00

Talbot, Kathleen (compiler); Thevenin, M. Henri (recipes); Gaselee, Sir Stephen (introduction)

The Epicure's Monthly Companion: A Gastronomical Guide.

London; Plaistow: At The De La More Press; The Curwen Press, [1952]. Duodecimo (19 x 13 cm.), 35, [3] pages. Stated "new printing"; originally published in 1933. The compiler adds a note to this new, post-war edition, noting the book "was published some years ago when the materials for good cookery were more plentiful than they are now." An charming, small culinary anthology, arranged monthly, and containing "seasonal receipts English.....

Price: $35.00

Williamson, Sarah M. (compiler); [Lionel Josaphare (illustrator)]

A California Cook Book.

San Francisco: Published by Town Talk Press, 88 First Street, 1916 copyright January 1, 1917. Tall octavo (28.5 x 18 cm.), 47, [3] pages. Illustrated wrappers with envelope fold. Includes the cancel leaf tipped-in at the rear, "Some War Recipes and Others". FIRST EDITION. An early and attractively produced San Francisco cookbook, issued as the city was finally putting the Great Earthquake behind it, but the nation was on the.....

Price: $1,500.00