Cincinnati: C.J. Krehbiel & Co., 1899. Octavo in wrappers (19 x 12.5 cm.), 122 pages. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, numerous plates, some folding. FIRST EDITION. The second catalogue of Cincinnati's Triumph Ice Machine Company; the first catalogue, of 80 pages, was issued the prior year. A detailed and technical catalogue of the refrigeration and refrigerating machinery offered by the firm. Triumph's machinery was instrumental in growing the ability.....

[Cocoa Beach, Florida]: 1963. Octavo-sized, metal post binding (21.5 x 14 cm), [100] leaves printed rectos only. Illustrated. Author, title, and publication information from cover. A community cookbook, with recipes attributed, from the airmen and airmen's spouses living at Patrick Air Force. Patrick AFB is a significant location in the history of the American space program, and 1963 just two years after the first manned space flight (Gagarin), and the.....

Hot Springs, S.D. the hotel, 1905. Bi-fold menu (14 x 9 cm.), [4] pages. Printed in brown. Illustrated. Printed menu for the resort hotel in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The hotel featured golf, tennis, swimming, shooting, pine forests, and "sunshiny weather'. The front panel of the menu contains a photographic illustration of the five-story hotel, which looks a bit like an armory or a prison. The Sunday evening.....

Henniker, N.H.[?]: [1847-48; 1901-1906]. Tall octavo (42 x 17 cm.), [approx. 150] pages. An account book of an unidentified New Hampshire butcher working in the 1840's. The individual accounts identify customers at the top of each page, with names including John Slade, Joseph S. Newhall, Hammon Hall, William Oliver, Nathaniel Mansfield, G.H. Hardy, and others. Items sold include Lamb, Beef, Veal, Mutton, Shin Beef, Shank Beef, Beefs, Toung (sic), Chickings.....

Jackson; London: University Press of Mississippi, [1990]. Oblong quarto (26 x 28.5 cm.), 16 pages, 58 leaves, [3] pages. Illustrated with 58 color photographs. FIRST TRADE EDITION; there was also a deluxe issue of 126 copies. The first monograph from photographer Birney Imes (preceded by at least two exhibition catalogues. "Imes reveals a previously unexplored domain, the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta country, and transforms this familiar phenomenon.....

New York: John Ireland; Press of Edward O. Jenkin's Sons, 1893 ©1892. Oblong octavo (15 x 22.5 cm.), 7-18 pages + 122, [2] numbered leaves, printed and numbered rectos only. Advertisements at end. FIRST U.S. EDITION, originally published in Paris the year before. An early example of single-ingredient or single-subject cookbook publishing that expanded exponentially in the 1890s and is still with us. Each recipe is presented in narrative style.....

Paris; Reims: Albin Michel; l'Atelier du Livre, 1992. Preface S.A.S. Le Prince Rainer III de Monaco. Large quarto (32 x 18 cm.), 294 pages. Illustrated with photographs by Jean-Louis Bloch-Lainé. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook of Chef Alain Ducasse, with recipes for dishes served at his restaurant Le Louis XV in Monaco's Hotel de Paris. Fine in dust jacket. [OCLC locates thirteen copies].

New York: Famous Music Corp., 1619 Broadway, 1934. Music score, stapled in wrappers (31 x 23 cm.), 5, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. The famous "Cocktails for Two" debuted in the movie Murder at the Vanities (1934), where it was introduced by singer and actor Carl Brisson. Duke Ellington's orchestra recorded the Johnston and Coslow song in 1934, all on the heels of the December 1933 ratification of the 21st Amendment.....

[Toledo, Ohio: 1936]. Eight black & white photographs (13 x 18 cm.). A series of photographs of bakery workers posed in their sections at the Hostess plant in Toledo, Ohio. The plant was one of the showcase production facilities of Interstate Bakeries, with a daily output of as many as 250,000 loaves per day. Many of the photos are labeled "Hostess Cake Kitchen" which may have been a separate baking.....

Hartford, Conn. the hotel, 1870. Broadsheet menu (22.4 x 14.4 cm.), [2] pages, printed recto and verso. Decorated with an ornamental border and American flag on the recto; simple border on verso. A bill of fare for the hotel restaurant for a single day, with coach schedule. Nine courses are listed on the Bill of Fare, including Soup, Fish, Boiled, Entrees, Roast, Relishes, Vegetables, Pastry, and Dessert. The United States.....

[London: Prospect Books, 1983; 1744]. Duodecimo (17.7 x 10.5 cm.), xii, 216 pages. Illustrated with decorative head- and tail-pieces. Index. All edges gilt. FACSIMILE EDITION of the 1744 original published in London, Printed for R. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall ; And sold by M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster Row. The title continues: Part I: Shewing the best and most approved Methods of raising and bringing to the greatest Perfection.....

Luzarches (France): Daniel Morcrette, 1674; 1978. Duodecimo (15.8 x 9.3 cm.), [ii], 413, [2] pages. Title page and chapter heads vignettes. All edges gilt. Table of contents. FACSIMILE of the original edition; number 247 of 250 hand- numbered copies. Initialed in the colophon by the publisher. "Acheve d'imprimer sur lespresses des imprimeries reunies de senlis pour Daniel Morcrette 95270 Luzarches (France) le 15 Novembre 1978. Relie par la reliure d'art.....

London: Prospect Books, 1981. Quarto (27.7 x 19 cm.), 197 pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. Short-title gastronomic bibliography featuring over three hundred English language titles. Very useful. Publisher's red cloth, gilt-titled at the spine, some light spotting to top edge. In price-clipped, but otherwise fine dust jacket. Near fine.