New York: Cleveland Baking Powder Co., [circa 1891]. Octavo (17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 76 pages. Date from preface. Index. Later edition, stated "Second Million". A wide ranging little product cookbook, from Cleveland Baking Powder Co., the New York based baking powder manufacturers. Included are a number of testimonials, including a letter from Sarah Tyson Rorer, Principal of the Philadelphia Cooking School which is accompanied by a pair of recipes (Apple.....

La Rochelle: Quartier Latin, 21 rue Albert-1er, [1975]. Collection: "La Cuisine de Chez Nous". Small octavo (22 x 14 cm.), 240 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. Preface de M. Rene Heron de Villefosse. A detailed collection of recipes describing the cuisine of Paris. Fine, in black and red printed stiff wrappers; publisher's dust jacket has a small adhesion mark on the front panel and a bit.....

New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 2000. Small octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), 155 pages. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A beautiful novel of dreams, truffles, and the Provencal countryside from the American-born poet Gustaf Sobin who spent most of his life in the south of France. Reviewing Mr. Sobin's in The New York Times, In his review of the book in the New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called it a......

New York: The Scribner Book Store, [1935]. Large octavo in wrappers (23.75 x 15.5 cm.), 147 pages. Index. An important catalogue of four hundred thirteen antiquarian science and philosophy books from New York City's legendary Scribner Book Store (Scribners – they used both names simultaneously). "Lists all books for sale at the time and describes each book with prices. Eleven sections and index of authors. Math, physics, electricity, chemistry, biology.....

New Haven: Printed for Members of The Bacchus Club; at the Sign of the Chorobates, 1930. Small quarto (26 x 19 cm.), 100 pages. Illustrated with five wood engravings by F.H. Fischer after designs by W.A. Dwiggins. Typeset by Carl Purington Rollins at the Sign of the Chorobates. FIRST EDITION. One of 515 copies, this no. 385. A guide to small scale winemaking with chapters on red, white and sparkling.....

Washington D.C. Government Printing Office; [GPO], 1896. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 433 pages. Illustrated with four plates, thirty-two illustrations in the text, and a folding color graph. With a supplemental bibliography of cotton at the rear. FIRST EDITION. A detailed and significant survey of the cotton plant, which includes a history, from ancient times through the book's present, its botany, chemistry, varieties and cultivation. The culture of the plant.....

Boston, Mass. Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, 1917. Stapled booklet (20 x 13 cm.), 29 pages. Stated "Third printing, May 21, 1917"; originally published in April of that year, and with a "Second Edition" early in the month of May. The lessons in this booklet cover "Food as an Energy Producer", and were “first arranged for lessons in Canteen Cooking, from the Massachusetts Branch of the Special Aid Society for.....

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.....

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.....

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]: 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: 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.....

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.....