[Hailsham, England]: [circa 1790s]. Bill of Fare, (16.3 x 10 cm.), [1] page. Printed text enclosed within an ornamental oval. Expenses for a six-day trip through Sussex, as recorded on a printed billhead, with details completed in manuscript, undated [but 1790s]. "J. Cox and wife" were charged for transportation from Hailsham to Seaford (one day), then to Lewes (one day), and on to Horsham (four days), with board, for a......
Peoria, Ill. Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc., [late 1930s]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14.5 x 9.5 cm.), 17, [1] pages. Illustrated in color. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cocktail recipe book, with descriptions of particular spirits and accompanying recipes, published in the wake of Repeal, from the makers of Signet Whiskey, Canadian Club, Ten High, H&W London Dry Gin, and more. Some light rippling to leaves, otherwise very good. wrappers color-illustrated.....
Algeciras (Spain): Impreso por Bazo, [circa 1918]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14 x 7.7 cm.), 12 pages. Illustrated throughout, printed in two colors. A handsome, nicely designed and printed cocktail menu, for the Belvedere Bar at the Hotel Reina Cristina in Algeciras, Spain. Algecrias, in Cadiz, is adjacent to Gibraltar and was once considered the southernmost health resort in Europe. Opened in 1901, the Hotel served a mostly elite clientele.....
Salisbury, N.C. Our Own Print (the company), circa 1901-4. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.5 x 13.4 cm.), 17 pages. Illustrated throughout. Fore-corners rounded. Original mailing envelope. Date estimate from date of the exit of "Messrs. Key & Co." of Statesville from the distilling industry, which was 1899-1901 (see page 4). A descriptive price list or trade catalogue of the various whiskies produced by the D.R. Arey Distilling Company of Salisbury.....
N.Y. Robert H. Elton, 98 Nassau-street, N.Y., [1842]. Almanac in wrappers, sewn with cord (20 x 13 cm.), [36] pages. Title illustration (an elaborate version of The Anatomy). Advertisement. A very early culinary almanac, related to several other contemporary almanacs by its ephemeris. "Calculated by David Young (1781-1852). The calendar pages (excepting the prose matter at their foot), as well as the astronomical matter on the preceding pages, are printed.....
Aalsmeer: van W. Keessen Jr. & Zonen, [n.d. circa 1920]. Oblong octavo (15.3 x 24.5 cm.), [60] pages. Illustrated with black and white photographic images throughout. Text in Dutch. Stated "Fifth Edition". A trade catalogue of topiary shrubs issued by the Royal Dutch Nursery "Terra Nova." The catalog includes photographs of numerous ornamental shrubs, each identified by number. The topiary forms include geometric shapes, animals, urns, chairs, boats, etc. The.....
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street; Printed by W. Clowes & Sons, Stamford Street, 1853. Small thick octavo (24.5 x 15.5 cm.), xxviii, 644 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and additional plate with full-page woodcuts, and numerous cuts in the text. Index. Second Printing of this newly-titled edition of Mrs. Rundell's Modern Domestic Cookery, considered "the earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, calling forth many imitations." Originally.....
Springfield, Massachusetts: The Pond-Ekberg Company, [1948]. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), xiv, 243 pages. With one hundred thirty-one black and white illustrations. Index. Second, Revised Edition; originally issued in 1942. "An authoritative and comprehensive history including old New England kitchens, pantry tools, bowls, plates, mortars, buckets, tubs, the early uses of paint, means of identification, etc." (jacket text). Mary Earle Gould (1885-1975) was an early American antique collector, columnist and.....
London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row, 1832. Series: Library of Useful Knowledge. Octavo (23 x 14 cm.), iv, 151 pages. Illustrated in text with wood engravings. Index. FIRST EDITION. An early 19-century work on planting, mostly arboriculture for trees, with chapters on judicious planting, the structure and growth of trees, approved methods for preparing soil, and with a chapter on ornamental plantings as well. Other topics touched on include hedgerow.....
[Yokohama, Japan: the hotel, Wednesday, 23rd August, 1899]. Bi-fold menu (24 x 17 cm.), [4] pages. Chromolithograph illustration on all panels, with the text letterpress printed on the two interior panels. A bill of fare and wine list for Yokohama's Grand Hotel, the first of the hotels to appear as Japan opened itself to the arrival of the West on its shores (1873). Identified on the front panel of this.....
Syracuse: Boomer & Boschert Press Co.; Journal Print, [1876]. Booklet in wrappers (22 x 14.5 cm.), 12 pages. Illustrated. Title from cover. Publication date, "September, 1876", from interior front wrapper panel. FIRST EDITION. A trade catalogue for this producer of presses. Includes illustrated information about the Power Press, Hand Cider Press, Wine Press, Improved Apple Grater, Power Attachment, and Racks and Cloths. The wrapper cover includes an illustration of the.....
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. Large and thick octavo (25.3 x 18.4 cm.), 991 pages. Second Edition, revised and expanded. Illustrated throughout with printed facsimiles. Important gastronomy bibliography with over 1250 volumes listed, dating from 15th to 20th centuries. Like all bibliographies built on a single collection this one is incomplete, but the bibliographical detail is admirable. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
[Troy, N.Y. [circa 1985]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is forced on mushroom propagation, and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some.....
Chicago: P.F. Volland & Company, 1909. 16mo, stapled and ribbon-tied in wrappers ( x cm.), 64 pages. Printed in red and black throughout. Stated Fourth Edition. A compilation of toasts from the Midwest-American poet, journalist and humorist, Wilbur D. Nesbit. Nesbit published many books with Volland & Co. The Loving Cup contains the first printing of L. Frank Baum's poem 'Smile'. "It is no wonder that after-dinner speaking in America.....
Boston: Copyright Henderson & Ross; Published by Fidelity Trust Company; C.B. Webster & Co., 1917. Octavo, cord-tied in wrappers (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 59, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. A fascinating long historical view of the Crown Coffee House, a tavern at Boston's Long Wharf with roots in Oxford. The text is derived from a manuscript by Walter Kendall Watkins (1855-1934) which was used in the 1917 revision and expansion of.....
London: Geo. G. Sandeman Sons & Co. Limited; Lund Humphries & Co., Ltd., 1955. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 63 pages. Photographically illustrated, and with a frontispiece silhouette portrait. FIRST EDITION. A short treatise on the two special wines, with a focus on the House of Sandeman, founded in 1790. The work begins with an "historical background of Port wine", and moves on to descriptions of "Port from Portugal", and.....
Valleyfield, P.Q. Canadian Schenley, Ltd., [circa 1953]. Booklet, stapled in stiff wrappers (12.3 x 7 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Date of publication from copyright information for "Canadian Schenley 909" which is featured throughout. A home bar guide, with cocktail recipes designed to feature various Schenley products, including Schenley Reserve, I.W. Harper Kentucky Bourbon, Canadian Schenley 909, Cresta Blanca (wine), and others. Lightest rubbing to edges, otherwise fine.
Woodbridge, United Kingdom: Antique Collector's Club, 1992. Thick octavo (14 x 22 cm.), 338, [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Second Printing, originally published in 1983. Still the classic work on English wine bottles, with some material on European bottles. The author builds on the extensive work of Lady Ruggles-Brise, published in 1949. Fine in publisher's brown cloth; in an unclipped, fine dust jacket. With the bookplate of.....
Oporto: British Association Oporto; Companhia Editora do Minho. [1970]. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrated, with twelve engravings on coated paper. FIRST EDITION. History of the establishment of English merchants in Porto, of the English Factory founded around 1727 and description of the magnificent building built in 1790 to house this institution, on the initiative of the English consul John Whitehead. Elaine Sanceau was a famous Lusophile.....
Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Eagle Book Printing Department, 1905. Octavo (23.5 x 15.3 cm.), 86, [8] pages. Advertisements. Blank pages at rear headed, "Memorandum". FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, with an introduction by the committee. Recipes are in narrative form and are frequently attributed. Light tideline to endpapers and to a few leaves; a bit of discoloration to endpapers as well. In publisher's white oil-cloth, with triangle and crescent design.....
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., [1955]. Octavo (22 x 14 cm.), 256, [6] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A series of personal essays on the author's life in the wine trade, but with a very broad range. Thomas Arthur Layton was one of the three great wine writers of his generation, alongside André Simon and Harry Waugh. Layton worked at the Ritz, and later operated an eponymous fancy food shop.....
New York: Meredith Press, 1969. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 214 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Frontispiece. Index. FIRST EDITION. A biography of the great barman and owner of the legendary eponymous New York bar and restaurant, Toots Shor. Filled throughout with exploits of the famous raconteur's exploits behind the bar and out in the City, and with stories of the celebrities and politicians who frequented Toots Shor. Considine was a......
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Large, thick octavo (24 x 14.2 cm.), 487, xxx pages. Index. Designed and illustrated by Warren Chappell. FIRST EDITION. Root's sixth book, but the work that established him as a significant writer on food and on Europe. Root had spent almost thirty years in Europe, much of it as a correspondent for the legendary Paris Tribune. In this work, Root famously divides France up.....
stanbul Matbaası: Nuruosmaniye Caddesi, 1967. Small octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), xxviii, 163 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Text in English. FIRST EDITION. An interesting cookbook of Turkish recipes assembled by Chef Ilyas Erturk of the Buyuk Efes Hotel. He represented Turkey at the London International Hotel and Catering Exhibition of 1966 and was awarded first prize. The first part of this book contains testimonials from Turkish officials.....
London: Tredolphin Press, [1983]. Wire-bound on the top edge (18 x 22 cm.), [iv], 83 pages. Illustrations. Index. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Nezih Simon's second cookbook of Turkish recipes, designed to work for experts and novices alike. This book focus on the vegetarian dishes of Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean. The author originated the first cookery and domestic science classes in Cyprus, out of which came her first book, Turkish.....