[Bullfrog, Nye County, Nevada]: 1905. Two broadsheet menus (26 x 13.5 cm.), [1] page, each. Illustrated. Two holiday menus, for Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1905, from the height of the Nevada Gold Rush. The Christmas menu, assembled by Robert Brogelman, Chef, included Blue Point Oysters, Mock Turtle Soup, Lobster Mayonaise, Oyster Fritters, English Plum Pudding, Malaga Grapes, Hennesy 3 Star Brandy, and Josyni Key West Cigars. The Thanksgiving menu included.....

London: William Heinemann; [Richard Clay & Sons Ltd.], 1909. Thick quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), xvi, 880 pages. All edges green. Publisher's advertisements; index. Second, "New and Revised Edition". The first English language edition was issued in 1907. An early issue of the first English language translation of Escoffier's masterwork, which built on the work of Careme while simplifying and codifying French haute cuisine. One of the most influential cookbooks.....

New York: Orange Judd Co., 1901. Octavo (19 x 12.8 cm.), 119, [9] pages. Advertisements. Later printing of this classic guide to cider making. Includes chapters on cider and apple juice, apple varieties, cider-making equipment, and technique. With a final section on using the "old method". Text-block age-toned; hinges tender. Some discoloration and light edge wear to the publisher's blind and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Near very good.

New York: Fox Duffield & Company; Shilling Press, 1906. Octavo (19 x 11.5 cm.), 160 pages. FIRST EDITION (in any language). There are three imprints bearing a date of 1909: Fox Duffield, Duffield, and Putnam. The Fox Duffield imprint is the earliest. This small book introduced the concept of "teaism" to the world. Teaism used the simplicity of the tea ceremony as a model for other activities, including art and.....

Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., [1902]. Octavo ( x cm.), 120, [8] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Second Edition. A second printing of this edition appeared in 1906, with 12 pages of publisher's advertisements. A significant American cocktail recipe book, from the barman of the Holland House Hotel in New York City. In his preface to the Mud Puddle facsimile of this title, "Dr. Cocktail" Ted Haigh describes the author, "Kappeler was.....

New York: Fox, Duffield & Company; [Printed by] The Trow Press, 1904. Octavo (19.25 x 13 cm.), xlii, 350 pages. Photographic frontispiece (“The Turbaned Mistress of a Kentucky Kitchen”) and twelve additional photographic plates (really eleven, as the list of illustrations counts one plate as two). Detailed table of contents. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook of sorts, in light of its contributions from forty-six acquaintances of the compiler.....

New York: Harrison, Smith & Robert Haas, Inc., 1934. Introduction by Helen Woodward. Octavo (19.25 x 13 cm.), xvi, 305 pages. Illustrated with sixteen black & white plates, including the frontispiece. Second, Revised Edition. Originally published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith in 1930. A collection of historical Charleston recipes, with Huguenot and African influences fully on display, compiled by Blanche S. Rhett (1876-1942). Helen Woodward has provided the introduction.....

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; The New England Institute For Medical Research, 1966. Large octavo (24 x 17 cm.), xvi, 447 pages. Illustrated with over fifty full-color plates and hundreds of black and white photographs. Index; bibliography. FIRST EDITION. The classic work on strawberry fruit cultivation, from the giant of the field, after a lifetime of study and experimentation. "George McMillan Darrow (1889–1983) was an American horticulturist and the.....

Boston: Published by the Author, 1870. Octavo, (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 191 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Index. All edges red. FIRST EDITION. A small, thorough guide to baking of all sorts, written by a professional baker, who worked both coasts of Canada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands. The author differentiates the skills of bread baking from those of cake making and pastry, but.....

New York: Rohde & Haskins, 1904. Small octavo (18.5 x 12 cm.), vii, 235 pages. FIRST EDITION. A second edition was published by Moffat, Yard & Co. in 1904. A day book of recipes, with literary quotes and inspirations for recipes for each day of the year. In the preface, the author writes, "In making up this collection of recipes suggested by quotations chiefly from English novelists and poets, our.....

Poughkeepsie, NY: Paraclete Potter / P&S Potter, Printers, 1815. 24mo. (14.2 x 9 cm.), iv, [1], [5] 71 pages. The eighth edition of Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, originally issued Hartford, 1796. The book is widely considered to be the first American cookbook, authored by an American and printed and published in the US. Contemporary one-quarter brown calf, with marbled paper over boards; Hinges sound, but calf split on front panel.....

Rodez: E. Carrère, 1906; 1904. Two volumes bound as one. Quarto (27 x 20 cm.),(vol. 1.) 200 pages. Illustrated with one folded leaf of plates, and engravings and half-tone photographs in the text. Table of contents. Bibliography; (vol. 2): 119, [1] pages. Engravings and half-tone photographs in the text. Bibliography. Text in French. FIRST EDITION of the Roquefort volume; Second Edition, much enlarged, of d'Aubrac (though the first edition, issued.....

New York: The Viking Press, 1954. Octavo (22 x 14.7 cm.), 184 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook of the recipes of Jesse Willis Lewis, an African-American chef from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as set down by his employers, the Ballard family of Bay St. Louis and later New Orleans. Specialties include the Creole dishes of New Orleans; the fish, meat, and game concoctions of the Deep South; oyster cutlets.....