New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1912. Small octavo (17.3 x 11.5 cm.), 68, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook of Italian recipes published in the United States, with one hundred thirty recipes, including soups, pastas, sauces, salads and deserts. The author had spent some time in Rome, but not enough to adopt the Italian name given her by the publisher. For this work, Mable Earl McGinnis (born May.....
Chicago: The Bakers' Helper Co., [1906]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 114 pages. Table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A small but thorough survey of breads and cakes in use in Europe and America, by a bread and pastry cook, and author of a number of professional baking books for Hotel Monthly Press. The author emphasizes a scientific approach, particularly with the use of the thermometer to accurately measure temperature, and.....
London: Printed for Thomas Boys, 7, Ludgate Hill, by C. Green, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, 1821. Tall duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), [vi], 160, xxiii, [1] pages. Title page with hand-colored engraved illustration of a brick oven. Advertisements at rear for other works by the author. Bibliographical references. Twelve pages of reviews of Accum's Treatise on Adulterations of Food, inserted at end. FIRST EDITION. One of two 1821 editions with.....
New York; St. Louis; Philadelphia: Published by Nafis & Cornish; John B. Perry, 1838. Duodecimomo (16 x 10.5 cm.), 216 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and six plates. Index. Later edition of Mrs. Rundell's bestselling work, first published in America in 1807 under the title, A New System of Domestic Cookery. Scattered foxing and a few spots and stains in the text. In dark green diaper pattern textured cloth, blind-stamped.....
Jersey City, N.J. Published by F.W. Kinsman & Co., apothecaries, : Jersey City Printing Co., almanac printers, 1887. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (18.3 x 11 cm.), 32 pages. Printed throughout in black and red. Calendars for 1888 and 1889 printed on rear panel of wrapper. Advertisements. Other titles: Kinsman's New York Cook Book. Evident FIRST EDITION. The first of three almanacs promoting Adamson's Botanic Balsam and other nostrum's and remedies.....
Providence, R.I. Maine Creamery Co. Ice Cream, [circa 1915]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.7 x 8 cm.), [12] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated throughout, in four-color spot printing on newsprint. An advertising pamphlet with popular nursery rhymes rewritten to promote ice cream. Evidently published for hire by various ice cream producers, which including this one, the Maine Creamery Co., of Providence, R.I. There are institutional holdings of this book issued by.....
London: Putnam, 1954. Octavo (22 x 14 cm.), 240 pages. Illustrated with decorations by William McLaren. FIRST EDITION. An odd collection of recipes compiled from the kitchens of "sheiks, millionaires, peasants, dervishes, and gourmets of the old school." With interesting asides on the schooling of truffle hounds, the difference between crawfish and crayfish, and other "succulent morsels of information." In publisher's green cloth, age-toned and a bit edgeworn. Lacks dust.....
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1953]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 186, [1] pages. Illustrated. Glossary. FIRST EDITION. Elizabeth Craig (1883-1980) was the author of several dozen cookbooks, the earliest in the 1920s and the last in 1980, and thus reflect a wide range of situations in England's food culture. Apparently sourced from Queen Victoria's own household scrapbook, the recipes here have been chosen by Craig. "Although this book is primarily a......
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962. Small octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 191 pages. FIRST EDITION. A classic of food writing and of love for the great city of Paris. "Probably no one since H.L. Mencken in his prime has romped so joyously through the English language as A.J. Liebling... You can almost see him savor each phrase on his tongue like a vintage wine, and you will surely share.....
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl Street, 1841. Octavo (18 x 10.5 cm.), 130 pages. Index. Styled twenty-seventh edition (while Cagle does not record this printing, it can be inferred that this would be the Fourth Edition, Thirteenth Printing). Originally published as The Frugal Housewife the change was made so as to avoid confusion with Susannah Carter's earlier English work of the same name. Rear panel.....
NewYork/Bowling Green, Kentucky: Duncan Hines, Inc./Adventures in Good Eating, Inc., 1952. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), unpaginated. Indexed. Stated "22nd Printing". Five hundred twenty-five recipes (each numbered), plus directions for carving. Recipes gathered from restaurants around the nation by a pioneer of modern restaurant reviewing, especially from the point of view of the traveler. The author became so trusted by the public, that he later licensed the use of his.....
Leavenworth, Kansas: [The Board]; Crew & Bro., Booksellers and Publishers, 1881. Octavo (18 x 11.5 cm.), 265, [iii] pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. ~ Stated "eighth thousand". A charitable cookbook whose first edition appeared in 1874, undertaken in support of a community home for orphaned children, the infirm, and the elderly, and one of the first cookbooks published in Kansas (one title with an earlier date was recorded by Eleanor.....
Salem, Mass. the society, 1911. Cord-bound, duodecimo-sized booklet (13.5 x 10 cm.), 15 pages. Evident FIRST EDITION. A small, attractively designed community cookbook, with thirty-nine recipes offered without attribution, in narrative form. No sections, table of contents or index is offered, not is there any statement of purpose or naming of the "committee" or compilers. Salem's Woman's Friend Society was founded in 1876, "to inspire and encourage habits of industry.....
Baltimore: Cushings and Bailey, 1851. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), viii, 310 pages. Styled “Third Edition”; the third edition, first printing (two additional printings were issued that year. Originally published in 1845, the book found its final form in this third edition. An early Quaker cookbook, joining works in the same period by Mrs. Widdifield, and Mrs. Nicholson. Food historian William Woys Weaver notes that this book does not wear.....
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Insitution & Renwick Gallery, 1972. Large square booklet, stapled in wrappers (30.5 x 30.5 cm.), 52 pages. Illustrated throughout from photographs. FIRST EDITION. Catalogue of kitchen tools and furniture shown at an exhibit at the Renwick Gallery and The Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Introduction and notes by Mimi Sheraton. This exhibition ran from Sept. 1972 to April 1973, and displayed common and unusual kitchen gadgets from the.....
N.p. Liebig; Maron-Esperonnier, Imp. [circa 1950s]. Small, accordion fold booklet (13.5 x 11 cm.), [8] pages. Text in Italian. Promotional booklet for the Liebig company's various bottled sauces, including Sauce Madere, Sauce Perigueux, Sauce Chasseur, Sauce Americaine, and Sauce Italienne. The booklet includes twenty-six recipes, attributed here to the famous medical doctor and gastronome Edouard de Pomiane, pseudonym of Édouard Pozerski. The little booklet is printed by the lithographers, Maron-Esperonnier.....
Lucern: Schweizerische Hotelfachschule Luzern, 1961. Large quarto, purpose-made blank book (30 x 22 cm.), 248 pages, lined and with printed title and date line. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings, some in color. Printed index and thumb index. Some printed notes and recipes in various sections. All edges red. ~ Stated “10. Auflage” of a blank book (though as a manuscript, obviously unique), with printed thumb index. A detailed, organized.....
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Pittsburgh, Pa. [H.J. Heinz Company], 1900. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [24] pages. Illustrated. Single issue of the promotional periodical of the H.J. Heinz Company, published "in the interest of their employees and friends.” A selection of articles, including short fiction, "A Love Tangle”, and a corporate profile, “The Business of H.J. Heinz Co.”, a description of a “Supper to the Philadelphia Branch” with the menu, and.....
[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.....
[Honolulu]: University of Hawaii, [1938]. University of Hawaii Bulletin: volume XVIII, number 2. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15.5 cm.), 27 pages. Tables; bibliography. FIRST EDITION. A survey of Japanese families living in Hawaii, with a review of the families, their incomes, the value of family living, the diet itself, and a summary. One can wonder how quickly the lives of those surveyed changed in the years immediately following.....
New London, CT: The Submarine Cookbook Committee, 1952. Plastic comb bound octavo ( 23 x 16.5 cm.), 284 pages. Illustrated; index. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, albeit for a very specific community, the families of the U.S. Submarine Force. "Published for the benefit of the Navy Relief Society." Most of the recipes are attributed; sections include, cocktails, beverages, hors d'oeuvres, bread, rolls, coffee cakes, seafood, soups, casseroles, eggs, cheese dishes.....
Martinsburg, W. Va. [the hotel; Statesman Print], February 2, 1878. Bi-fold menu, folded on top edge (20.5 x 12 cm.), [4] pages. Printed in blue. A four-page program with menu for a banquet honoring Col. Nadenbousch at the Grand Central Hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Colonel John Quincy Adams Nadenbousch owned the Hotel in which he was being feted, as well as a lumber yard, and the Martinsburg branch of.....
London: Wm. Milburn & Co., 1892. Bi-fold menu (15 x 10.5 cm.), [4] pages. Printed in red, gold and blue, with menu handwritten. Menu for the voyage of the S.S. Port Chalmers, dated in ink on the front panel, "16/10/92". The internal page-spread includes the handwritten menu items including, "Giblet Soup, Boiled Turbot … , Sheep Head and Brains, Roast Turkey & Breast…, Boiled Beef & Carrots, Baked and Boiled.....
[no date; circa 1930]. Typed recipe on Hamburg-Amerika Linie stationery (20 x 15.75 cm.), one leaf, printed verso only. A single recipe, "Barley Water", typed on a sheet of stationery from the Hamburg-Amerika Linie, and identified as supplied by Lady Maude Warrender. Lady Maude Warrender was the daughter of the eight Earl of Shaftsbury. She was the first president of the British Women’s Symphony Orchestra, and sang at its first.....
Portsmouth N.H. Millers & Gray & Portsmouth Chronicle Print, 1852; [?]; 1862. Three broadsheet menus, printed versos only (24 x 15 cm.; 25 x 13 cm.; 31x 13 cm.). Decorative typographic borders. Each of the three menus is from a different establishment, all located in Portsmouth, N.H. in the 1850s through 60s. The menus are printed, with the daily fare left blank t be handwritten on the occasion. But the.....