New York: Charles L. Webster & Co.; [Press of Jenkins & McCowan], 1892. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), 294, [10] pages. Publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. Copyright 1891 but first published 1892. A classic cocktail recipe book, by the self-styled "Only William", a German immigrant who opened the Bridge Saloon at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1884. An endlessly creative bartender who created drinks on a whim.....

London: G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street; Saville & Edwards, Printers, 1857. Thick duodecimo (18.8 x 12 cm.), viii, 597, [3] pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and six additional wood engravings by Henry George Hine; additional engravings in the text. Advertisements. Index. FIRST EDITION. Soyer’s famous work on military cooking in which he outlines numerous advancements in culinary science required in the difficult circumstances of war. Soyer wrote this work having.....

London; Edinburgh: Griffith & Farran; Murray & Gibb, 1868. Octavo (18 x 12.5 cm.), viii, 375, [1] pages. Index. Publisher’s advertisement. FIRST EDITION. Notes on the progress of cookery and housewifery from the Elizabethan to Victorian eras, with many practical suggestions for the domestic remedies, avoidance and treatment of accidents and one on cookery for the poor. The last offers recipes to be used by Lady Bountiful in “doing good.....

[Paris: Editions Paul-Martial]; Laboratoire Midy, [circa 1940]. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 47, [1] pages. Illustrated with woodcut frontispiece and vignettes throughout by L. Danet. FIRST EDITION. Another promotional "cookbook" from the famous medical doctor, gastronome, and radio personality, Edouard de Pomiane, author of Vingt Plats qui Donnent la Goutte. This work is in the service of Thioderazine Midy, a product of the French pharmaceutical firm Midy. Publisher's tan wrappers.....

Boston, MA: Published by Carter and Hendee, 1831. Octavo (21.3 x 13.3 cm.), x, 169 pages. Stated Second Edition, issued the same year as the first. An early work by the author, following her important cookbook, The Frugal Housewife, by just a year. Chapters include: On the means of developing the bodily senses in earliest infancy -- Early development of the affections -- Early cultivation of intellect -- Management in.....

New York, Chicago: Price Flavoring Extract Company, [circa 1890s]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), 52 pages. Illustrations, including four plates in color. Index. Early edition (a later, 1904 printing is labeled "34th edition"). A promotional cookbook, emphasizing the purity and goodness of the flavoring extracts produced by the Price Flavoring Extract Company. Includes testimonials, from Christine Terhune Herrick, Mrs. S.T. Rorer, Marion McBride, and others. The illustrations.....

[Battle Creek, Mich. Postum Company, Inc., 1928]. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (26.5 x 14.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrations throughout printed in blue and black. Title from cover. Stated "second edition, second printing". A promotional cookbook, advertising various Postum Company products including Grapenuts, Postum Cereal, and Minute Tapioca. Most of the content is not recipes, but rather instruction on how to achieve healthy nutrition for children in a school lunch.....

[New York: Seagram-Distillers Corporation, 1936]. Stapled booklet (18 x 13.5 cm.), 19, [1] pages. Illustrated. publication date inferred from 1936-37 calendar. FIRST EDITION. An attractive bar book, produced by the great Canadian distilling firm. Each season includes recipes by appetizers and cocktails, Some unusual appearances include the Turf Cocktail, Davies Cocktail, etc. The wrappers are colorfully illustrated by Merritt Cutler with a four panel image of the country pastimes of.....

Kansas City: Armour Packing Co., [circa 1901-1910]. Series of eight trade cards, bound with a silk cord loop (8.5 x 11.5 cm), 8 pages, numbered versos only. Title from recto of first card. Promotional ephemera, with each card illustrated with a chromolithograph depicting monkeys and parrots in a progressively more drunken conversation. Artist's identity possibly indicated on the seventh card with the initials "DM". Versos contain slightly different texts, all.....

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., [1921]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (19.5 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Index. Later edition. A promotional cookbook, which could be labeled with various clients, in this case the Westfield Trust Company of Westfield, New Jersey. The Trust's name appears on the front wrapper and more information on the rear, including a pastedown label with, I presume, updated information. It's interesting that this edition appears, credited.....

Portland, Oregon: U.S. Bakery, [circa 1930s]. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrapper (16 x 24 cm.), 16 pages. Illustrations (some color). Title from cover. A product cookbook for this Pacific Northwest commercial bakery. Includes an introduction titled "Concerning the Earl of Sandwich" and sixty-six recipes for sandwiches and canapés (here spelled "canapis"). Some age-toning and wear to corners of illustrated wrapper. Very good. [OCLC locates two copies].

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1973]. Quarto (25 x 19 cm.), 334 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Index. FIRST EDITION, U.S. issue simultaneous with the U.K. edition. A history of more than two thousand years of mechanical instruments, a much larger history than one might expect, but one brought to an end with the phonograph The author was a restorer of mechanical music instruments and founder of the.....

Wellington, N.Z. The Polynesian Society, 1951. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volume 24. Small quarto (25.5 x 16 cm.), xxx, 492 pages. Frontispiece, folding map at end (with small correction sticker laid on), appendices, index. FIRST EDITION. "This volume includes 65 pages of references under 26 subjects, on the Maori of New Zealand. Every island group in the Pacific is covered similarly. It is a guide and handbook to writings.....