Mystic, Conn. Mystic Seaport Museum, 1995. Quarto (30.5 x 22 cm.). xiii, 442 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The single best historical overview of the culinary traditions of maritime New England. Originally written to illustrate exhibitions and programs of the Mystic Seaport Museum. The book, by long time food historian, columnist for the Bangor Daily News, and publisher/editor of the important quarterly newsletter Food History News, includes over two hundred recipes.....

Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1912. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (24 x 16.4 cm.), 149 pages. FIRST EDITION. Translated by Dr. E.H. Sachs. Series edited by Sigmund Freud. One of the first published works of Ernest Jones, the first English-speaking practitioner of psychoanalysis, and a friend and biographer of Sigmund Freud. This work, a translation of the author's On the Nightmare (1910) considered the subject in the light of medieval.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1877. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 376, [8] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings in the text, and two plates of table settings in the front. Second Printing; originally issued in 1876. An aspirational cookbook for America's then burgeoning middle classes. Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving is designed to provide recipes and instructions for elegant entertaining on moderate means. Shaken, with.....

Stockton, Cal. Occidental Publishing Co., 1894. Large octavo (25.2 x 19 cm.), Illustrations throughout. Also published as the Dining Room & Kitchen (1891), and as The Star Cook Book (1894), issued by the Lone Star Pub. Co. of Texas. In black-stamped white oil cloth with some rubbing and slight chipping to spine hinge, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates just one copy; Bitting, page 463, different printing; not in Cagle].

[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Foundry Co., 1912. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 72 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A combination trade catalogue and promotional cookbook, with recipes "compiled by several prominent and successful users of the New Perfection Stove". The trade catalogue portion contains descriptions and images of oil heaters, griddles, heating plates, toasters, broiler, ovens, and the New Perfection Stove. Wrappers printed in blue and black.....

Bungay: L. R. Childs, 1823. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), xxxii, 495 pages. Illustrated with an engraved title page and four plates. N.B. this copy lacking the engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. FIRST EDITION. Although the engraved title page states 1822, and the text title page 1823, this is the first edition, and the discrepancy is likely the result of the book being published in parts (see Cagle). A......

New York: M. Barrows & Company, Inc.; J.J. Little & Ives Company, 1940. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 275 pages. Index. Illustrated; black & white and color plates tipped-in, one with a photographic portrait of the author on the recto, and an image of the restaurant on the verso. Stated "Eleventh Printing (Revised)". An iconic New England cookbook, from Ruth and Kenneth Wakefield's Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts. The.....

New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1953. Quarto (26 x 19 cm.), xiv, 282 pages. Illustrations in the text and numerous unpaginated plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. "The first completely informative work devoted to the epic and epicurean delights of wine, spirits and beer, it is also a delightfully readable book on the history and practice of drinking in America" (from the jacket). Clean and sound, in publisher's buff, paper-covered illustrated.....

New York: A.J. White, Druggist, [1888]. Duodecimo-sized booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Issued by the A.J. White company, this almanac advertised their products, which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Though not indicated as an almanac on the cover, a calendar for 1889 is included. Features profiles of some of the country's top chefs of the time.....

London: Faber & Faber, Ltd., 24 Russell Square, [1938]. Octavo (19.4 x 13 cm.), 210 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. One of the many useful and charming cookbooks written by Ambrose Heath (1861-1961). Heath, born Francis Geoffrey Miller, was an English journalist and food writer who penned more than one hundred cookbooks starting in 1933 with Good Food. Influenced by wartime shortages, Heath leaned towards vegetables and fish, though he was.....

London: John Camden Hotten; [printed by the University Press, Dublin by M. H. Gill], 1872. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.) xiv, 170, [32] pages. Twelve unnumbered leaves of plates. Additional engraved title page, "with thirteen illustrations designed and drawn by Harry Furniss". Publisher's illustrated advertising supplement at rear titled, "Very important new books" and obviously printed and gathered separately, as the trim size is slightly smaller. FIRST EDITION. An examination.....

New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, 1882. Stapled booklet (20 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated throughout. The third of the A.J. White Shaker almanacs. These promotional booklets – advertising the "Shaker Extract of Root" – were manufactured by the Mount Lebanon, New York United Society of Believers Community, but based on the recipes of Andrew Judson White, who contracted the Shakers to supply the tonic. Shaker Almanacs.....

New York: Orange Judd Company, 1909. Small octavo (19 x 12.7 cm.), 131 pages. Illustrated. Index. Stated "New and Enlarged Edition"; evident second edition, second printing. Originally published in 1870 (not to be confused with Eastman's work on the same subject published by Judd in 1866); the revision was published in 1885. Joseph White was "A Practical Grower" based in New Jersey. An unusually fine copy, in publisher's gilt-titled and.....