Richmond: Garrett & Massie Publishers, 1941. Octavo (23.5 x 18 cm.), [4], 111 pages. Second printing. A study of the culinary preferences of the first President. The recipes found here include some brought back to the states from France by Jefferson, as well as others from cookbook authors of the time. Craig Claiborne called this book, "The most comprehensive work yet compiled on Thomas Jefferson's gastronomic adventures." And from the.....
Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. First edition. A photographic artist book from Les Krims, in which the artist's mother demonstrates the step-by-step method for preparing her chicken soup. The book also includes Mrs. Krims' recipes for kreplach and matzo balls. Fine.
[Québec province, s.n.]: 1948. Octavo in wrappers (22.5 x 15 cm.), 232 pages. Illustrated. Bibliographical references (pages 219-222); errata notice at rear. Second edition, revised and enlarged; the first edition was issued in 1946. This French Canadian cookbook is focused on nutrition and ingredients, and is roughly divided into two parts, the first on foodstuffs, and the second on menus and cooking. The author, Marie de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus, was.....
London; Tunbridge Wells: A. Romary & Coy Ltd. ; Charles Barker & Sons Ltd., [circa 1935]. Octavo (18.5 x 14 cm.), 36 pages. Illustrated with four leaves of plates (six color and two black and white), with additional woodcuts in the text. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook for Romary & Coy Ltd., suppliers of biscuits, savories, and other foods for entertaining. Includes a short catalogue and order list at rear.....
[Baltimore]: Records & Goldsborough, 1943. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 95 pages. Illustrated. Second printing, following the original issue of 1942. A promotional history of the Baltimore distillers, Records & Goldsborough, producers of a wide range of commercial whiskeys, gins, pre-mixed cocktails, cordials, and liqueurs. About one third of the book is given to cocktail recipes. In publisher’s royal blue cloth, with color printed title label inset to front.....
Mexico City: Editorial Diana, 1987. Octavo (23 x 14.5 cm.), 309 pages. Text in Spanish. FIRST EDITION, limited to 5000 copies. From the very prolific cookbook author, Josefina Velázquez de León, an extensive collection of dishes from the thirty distinct regions of Mexico, from Aguascalientes to Zacatecas. Some light foxing to endpapers; gift inscription to front endpaper. Otherwise near fine in printed green wrappers.
Heilbronn: T. D. Classische Buchhandlung, 1834. Octavo (20 x 12 cm.), iv, 68 pages, untrimmed. Large folding plate (which includes six lithographic illustrations-the "6 Steinzeichnungen" noted on the title page) tipped-in at the rear. FIRST EDITION. A distilling manual outlining a method of making concentrated vinegars and brandies, from August Clauer, a "practical vinegar manufacturer and distiller." Included are diagrams and recipes for such spirits as Absinthe, Chocolade-Aquavit, Persico Italiano.....
Berkeley: Free University of Berkeley, [circa 1965-72]. Saddle-stapled booklet (21 x 13.5 cm.), [48] pages. Illustrated. Corrections list to inner panel of rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION. A small collection of works by poets of Berkeley, California, published by the Free University of Berkeley. The calligraphy by Alice Walters is likely her first non-periodical appearance in print. Therese Shere, the cover artist, was the young daughter of Lydia Shere, later pastry.....
Berkeley: Free University of Berkeley, [circa 1965-72]. Saddle-stapled booklet (21 x 13.5 cm.), [48] pages. Illustrated. Corrections list to inner panel of rear wrapper. FIRST EDITION. A small collection of works by poets of Berkeley, California, published by the Free University of Berkeley. The calligraphy by Alice Walters is likely her first non-periodical appearance in print. Therese Shere, the cover artist, was the young daughter of Lydia Shere, later pastry.....
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, 1881. Small octavo (17.5 x 13 cm.), 283 pages. FIRST EDITION. This volume seeks to "teach household science as well as cooking," and is based on the author's experience teaching in a large school in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and "regular classes for ladies." In brown cloth, decorated with black and gilt stamped borders and titling. Lacking free front end.....
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Detroit; East Lansing: Mohawk Liqueur Corporation; Michigan Lithographing Co., 1935. Small, stapled booklet (11 x 7.5 cm.), 72 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout in chromolithography. FIRST EDITION. A cocktail recipe manual, with recipes tied to the products of Mohawk Liqueurs, each of which is illustrated. Some light soiling, and a number of tiny pinholes or abrasions. In color decorated yellow wrappers. Near fine. [OCLC locates four copies].
New York: Brentano's; [Press of Strauss & Klee, 1891]. Duodecimo (15.5 x 12 cm.), 46 pages. FIRST TRADE EDITION, previously issued privately by the author in a number of printings, starting in 1884. A lovely little confectionery book, with recipes for traditional, old-fashioned sweets, as well as "the varieties of bon-bons to be found at the leading confectioners in New York, Paris and London." Toning to endpapers, small ink date.....
New York: Fowler and Wells, Publishers, no. 389 Broadway; [Edward O. Jenkins, Printer & Stereotyper], [1864; copyright 1854]. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), xix, 314, [4] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated with engravings in the text, but lacking the hand-colored frontispiece that appears in the first American issue. Publication date from date of issue of American Phrenological Journal advertised in rear. Second printing of the first U.S. edition, from the second London.....
Philadelphia: Dr. D. Jayne & Sons, Inc., 1934. Octavo (13.5 x 11 cm.), 150 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The author was the publisher of Dr. Jayne's Medical Almanac and Guide to Health and producer of various patent medicines. The guide, published on the heels for repeal, includes a warning to bartender's a proprietors of other alcohol-serving businesses to follow the laws to 't', lest we "invite another fatal dose". The.....
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Detroit; East Lansing: Mohawk Liqueur Corporation; Michigan Lithographing Co., 1935. Small, stapled booklet (11 x 7.5 cm.), 72 pages. Index. Illustrated throughout in chromolithography. FIRST EDITION. A cocktail recipe manual, with recipes tied to the products of Mohawk Liqueurs, each of which is illustrated. Some light soiling, and a number of tiny pinholes or abrasions. In color decorated yellow wrappers. Near fine. [OCLC locates four copies].
New York: Charles Scribner, 145 Nassau Street, 1853. Octavo (20 x 13.5 cm.), xiii, [14]-343, [1], [4]. pages, Publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and nineteen wood-engraved plates. FIRST EDITION, with plates in state B (no priority, see BAL 8138). "This volume is composed for the most part of papers which have appeared... in... Graham's Magazine, under the running title, 'The Game of the Month'" (Preface). William Henry Herbert.....
Mystic: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1995. Quarto (30.5 x 22 cm.). xiii, 442 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Originally written for and about the Mystic Seaport Museum and its exhibits, this is the single best historical overview of the culinary traditions of maritime New England. The book includes over two hundred recipes for Yankee dishes. Fine in publisher’s lavender cloth; a bit of edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise near fine.
New York: John Ireland, 1892. Oblong Octavo (15 x 22.5 cm.) 78 numbered leaves, printed rectos only; [4] blank pages for recipes. No advertising section, which is appears in some copies of this printing. Stated “fourth edition”, originally issued 1889. A promotional cookbook, though one of significantly more subtlety than is usually found; there is a single mention of the Agate Chafing Dish in the front matter. Recipes, for Bubble.....
No place: [copyright by the author;] Calumet Baking Powder Company, 1916. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 108 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A hyper-rationalized short course in domestic science, and a good example of the path America was well along by the Great War. All is in the service of economy and nutrition, and aesthetics and taste be damned! Offered for example, "balanced ration: always there one thing in mind, the.....
Shellbanks, VA: Published at the Office of the Farmers’ Register; Robert Ricketts, Printer, 1835. Octavo, lacking original wrappers (24.5 x 16 cm.), viii, [9]-116 pages. Printed in double columns (after the Preface); errata notice at foot of final page. ~ Stated “second edition”, following the first edition of 1832, published in Petersburg, VA; this edition also appeared in some bound copies of the Farmers’ Register, Volume 2, of which the.....
North Montpelier, VT: The Driftwind Press, 1930. Octavo-sized, cord-sewn booklet in wrappers (22 x 14 cm.), vii, [1], 10. Illustrated with a full-sized abstract woodcut by Orton. FIRST EDITION; limited to 150 handset copies. "Driftwind Monograph Number Two, " reproducing a poem that first appeared in The Farmers' Museum, or Literary Gazette, in 1800. Vrest Orton was the founder of the Vermont Country Store and author of The American Cider.....
[Peoria, Illinois: Hiram Walker & Sons, 1955]. Stapled booklet in wrappers, with graduated tab-indexed pages (21.5 x 16.5 cm.), 24 pages. FIRST EDITION. A cocktail recipe collection, promoting the Hiram Walker line of products. Some rubbing, otherwise very good.
Denver, Colorado: Published by Frank J. Wolf, Printer, 1932. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 22 pages. Illustrated with photographic frontispiece of the author. Very good in publisher's titled green cloth.
Montpelier: de l'Imprimerie de J.-G. Tournel, place Louis XVI, no 57, 1821. Octavo, 136, [3] pages. Advertisement; table of contents. Illustrated. Second edition, expanded, styled "Nouvelle Edition" with the addition of the letters of Neufchateau and of Chaptal. The first edition was issued in two Montpelier printings, both in 1820. ~ Elisabeth Gervais was the earliest woman known to have produced a technological innovation in winemaking (the first recorded winemaker.....
Quedlinburg & Leipzig: G. Basse, 1828; 1833. Octavo (17.5 x 12 cm.), 80; 44 pages; with the addition of 12 pages and 4 pages respectively, of contemporary hand-written notes in German. Second, Improved Edition; First Edition. Two works bound as one. The first consists of a general guide to making all kinds of vinegars from different sources and for differing purposes. Domestic and commercial production of these useful ferments are.....