Philadelphia: J.B. Myers, Publishers, 1876. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), vi, 403, [1] pages. Illustrated with numerous engravings in the text and on plates; decorated initials begin each section. Index divided by section. FIRST EDITION. Issued on the occasion of the American centennial, and containing both a cookbook and a guide to Philadelphia's sites for visitors to the events. Contents include cookery, medical recipes, child care, farming, and household recipes.....

New London: Published by Bowles & Williams, Main Street, 1848. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), 108 pages. Engraved, illustrated frontispiece. Index. Stereotyped, edition, following the Worcester, MA edition of 1844. A new preface for this second edition indicates an additional fifty recipes have been added, and that the medicinal section has been expanded. The elaborate, typographically bordered frontispiece depicts two women working in a new England kitchen: one kneading dough.....

[Paris]: Corrêa, 1940; ©1940. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 190, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. Édouard de Pomiane, professor at the Institute Scientifique d'Hygiène Alimentaire, sets out here to give the home cook the tools – including recipes – to think beyond commercial marketing with some basic knowledge of the scientific basis of nutrition. His concern here is the moment when the aesthetic concerns of gastronomy must take a back seat.....

Philadelphia: G.G. Evans; [Willis P. Hazard], 439 Chestnut Street, 1859. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 362, 12 pages. Illustrated. Index. Advertisements. Stated “Seventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged”; originally published 1853. A cookbook claiming to gather the best of the recipes of confectioner and pastry chef Elizabeth Baker (later Goodfellow, 1767-1851) best known for establishing America's first cooking school in Philadelphia. The publishers indicate the unnamed author of this collection is.....

London: Dulau & Company, Ltd., 1929. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), vii, [1], 133, [3] pages. Frontispiece. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, limited to one thousand copies, each signed by the author (this is no. 848). 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 the.....

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, January, 1923. Octavo (18 x 13.5 cm.), [xxi], 227, [5] pages. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. Later printing. Octavo, 227 pages. Later printing. One of the great testimonials to wine and wine drinking in the literature. Written in his later years, Saintsbury's Notes is a chronicle of a wine drinking life by the great literary scholar and critic. The Saintsbury Club, founded by André Simon and.....

London: Bickers, Spottiswoode, 1898. Thick octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), viii, 580 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. “The great faults of English kitchen management used to be Haste, Waste, Greasiness, Wateriness, and Clumsy Flavouring.” So the authoress begins her work. She boils it down to one root cause – “Ignorance” – and puts a fair bit of the blame on the earlier cookbooks. “Vague directions, impossible theories, and mistaken advice, are.....

London; Holborn: Houlston & Stoneman, 65 Paternoster Row; Printed by A Swetting, Bartlett's Buildings, [1849]. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), 332 pages. Index. Date of publication from Oxford (page 179), and the British Library and Oxford Brookes records. Stated "new edition, corrected and improved” originally issued in 1842 by Charles Knight & Co. Includes a notable section titled, "American Mode of Cooking Indian Corn, Pumpkins, &c." with seventeen recipes, including.....

Philadelphia: Evans, Stoddart & Co., 1870. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 454, [4] pages. Table of contents; index. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes gathered from the pages of the popular periodical, Godey’s Lady’s Book (1830-1878), which had been the largest circulation of any periodical in America prior to the Civil War. The editor of the periodical at the time of this publication was Sarah Josepha.....

Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 10 Rue Mayet; [Le Société...], 1935. Octavo (210 x 16.5 cm.), 38, [8] pages. Illustrated with color lithographs by Edy Legrand. FIRST ORDINARY EDITION, one of thirty-five thousand copies on velin d'alfa. A promotional item serving the producers of Roquefort cheese, with text by two of the greatest of French mid-century food writers, and illustrations by the great illustrator and painter Edy Legrand. Tiny bit of.....

New York; Richmond, Virginia: MacFadden Publications; [printed by] L.H. Jenkins, Inc., 1928. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), xii, 372 pages. Illustrated with black and white and duotone photographs, and line drawings in the text. Index. Later printing, originally issued in 1901. Bernarr Macfadden (1868-1955) was a leader in the physical culture movement, which advocated bodybuilding along with attention to health and nutrition. He founded Physical Culture magazine, and authored a......

London: Putnam, 42 Great Russell Street, 1948. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xi, 264 pages. Frontispiece and ten plates, all color. Index. Second edition, issued thirteen years after the original. The intervening years had included the war, and so the recipes are offered this second time with a willingness to embrace substitutions. Lady Sysonby has also included a recipe, “Queen Victoria’s Soup – by especial favour by the Esquire.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1890. Octavo (19 x 13.5 cm.), xii, 214 pages. Advertisements. Illustrations in the text. FIRST EDITION. An interesting and often charming late nineteenth-century American gastronomy book. The book goes to great lengths to compare American and British cooking with French, unfavorably. The author holds up Whistler's Peacock Room for the Leyland house as an example of a properly decorated dining room, and includes.....