New York: Pantheon, 1977. Large quarto (28 x 21.4 cm.), 517 pages. Index. First American Edition. A thorough overview of French cooking, from one of the greatest of modern French chefs. While Bocuse is the perhaps the most well-known of the chefs who introduced nouvelle cuisine, his name has come to be synonymous with all of French cuisine. The most prestigious of culinary awards is named after him, and the.....

Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Faucet Co.; [printed Foreman, Bassett, Hatch Co., [circa 1900-01]. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (21.5 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated with engravings throughout. Index of cocktails and drinks. Printed in blue and black throughout. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A dual-purpose trade catalogue and cocktail recipe book, issued by Cleveland Faucet Company, makers of bar fixtures, hardware, and equipment. Seventy cocktail recipes, plus additional recipes for tinctures, colorings.....

Oneida, New York: The Burt Olney Canning Co., 1910. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( 17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Stated "eighth edition". A product cookbook selling the "Absolutely Pure" products of the Burt Olney Canning Co., and bearing the image of "Olney's Pure Food Boy" on the rear wrapper and on the first page. Includes recipes, menus, and some shopping hints. Light tideline to a few pages; some.....

London: Dulau & Company, Ltd., 1929. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), vii, [1], 133, [3] pages. Illustrated Frontispiece. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, limited to one thousand copies, each SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (this is no. 978). A great classic of food writing, and an important book for all interested in northern tree fruits and berries. Also contains sections on nuts and grapes. The book is a learned recitation of.....

New York: Social Mentor Publications, 200 Fifth Avenue, [1922]. Octavo (19.5 x 12.5 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Formal serving arrangements and menu suggestions for households that make regular use of wait staff and butler's pantries. Small ink stain to front panel of wrapper, otherwise very good in publisher's titled, brown, textured wrappers. [Bitting 273; Brown 2914].

New York: James Miller, 647 Broadway, 1872. Octavo (19.3 x 13 cm.), 128, [8] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Later American printing, "from the Twelfth London Edition". A classic of early rustication literature, from the same American publisher that brought us Ten Acres Enough and How to Get a Farm. Our Farm..., with sections on cows, pigs, poultry, pigeons, butter-making, bread baking, and maintaining a kitchen garden is written as a narrative.....

London: C. Griffin and Company, Limited, 1907. Thick octavo ( x cm.), xviii, 588 pages. Illustrated. Index. Publisher's advertisements. Stated Third Edition, "thoroughly revised by the author and Arthur R. Ling". The first edition was issued in 1897, and the second in 1902 (with 511 pages). In a review of this new edition published August 1907, the journal Nature stated, the work in its present form stands easily first among.....

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.....

Wien, [Vienna]: Druck von Paul Gerin, Wien II, Circusgasse 13, 1900. Menu booklet (25.5 x 17 cm.), [8] pages. Printed in blue and gold, with dishes mostly in manuscript. An extensive menu for Vienna's grand Hotel Imperial. Sections (titled in German, French, and English) include Luncheon, Hors d'Oeuvres, Soupes, Fishes, Beefs, Vegetables, Entrees, Roasts, Salade, Sweetmeats, Dessert, and on the rear panel, the "Menu du Jour, a K6". One hundred.....

Hancock, New Hampshire: [publisher not identified], 1890. Stapled booklet (18 x 13 cm.), [13] pages. FIRST EDITION. Single issue of this amateur early housekeeping periodical from South Central New Hampshire. The editor, Tislet Temple, remains a mystery to this cataloguer. Sections include: Flowers, Children's Hour, The Kitchen, Correspondence, and more. Much of the content is in the form of letters, telling stories, asking questions, offering products. Light water stain to.....

Chicago: Published by P.F. Volland Company, 1918. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 127 pages. Index. Stated Wartime Edition, evident Second Edition, expanded significantly from the 1907 original published by the Rogerson Press. This new edition was a response to the demands of the First World War, in particular, the national need to save wheat. Hiller was "formerly Principal of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School". Some light pencil annotations.....

San Buenaventura [Ventura; San Francisco: the lodge; Brunt Co. Press], 1906. Die-cut and de-bossed menu & program, on cord and with a single staple (5.5 x 19 cm.), [8] pages, plus wrappers. Illustrated with ornaments on three pages. Text in red and green. A most unusual banquet menu, die-cut in the shape of a jalapeno pepper, an appropriate shape for the Cabrillo Parlor no. 114 of the N.S.G.W. Ventura County.....

[Columbus, Ohio: the club], 1947. Menu, folded in ribbon-tied wrappers (15 x 11.5 cm.), [4] pages, plus wrappers. Mimeograph printed menu and program for the Mothers and Wives Club of the US Army 37th Division. The banquet was held at Columbus, Ohio's Seneca Hotel. The booklet contains the menu (a thoroughly mid-century midwestern affair with Fruit Cup, Well-brown Fried Chicken, Bon Ton Salad with French Dressing, and Strawberry Ice Cream.....