New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, [1882]. Stapled booklet (20 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated throughout. The third of the A.J. White Shaker almanacs. These promotional booklets – advertising the "Shaker Extract of Root" – were manufactured by the Mount Lebanon, New York United Society of Believers Community, but based on the recipes of Andrew Judson White, who contracted the Shakers to supply the tonic. Shaker Almanacs.....

Boston: Published by Charles Gaylord, 1831. Duodecimo (15 x 10.5 cm.), 102, 6 pages. Index. Author from bibliographic references (name appears on earlier edition). Later edition; first published with this title in 1830 by Concord, N.H.'s Fisk & Chase. Earlier editions were issued under the titles, Select Collection of Approved... (1820), and Thirty-one Real Genuine Receipts.., (1825), but were significantly shorter and lacked the section of culinary receipts. This popular.....

Andoversford: The Whittington Press, Manor Farm, 1984. Imperial 16mo. (19.5 x 14 cm.), [44] pages. Text set in 12-point Bell. Printed in black (the illustrations in reddish-brown) on Zerkall Silurian paper. Bound by Smith Settle. FIRST EDITION, one of 250 unnumbered copies. There was also a deluxe edition of thirty copies with the illustrations colored by hand, and enclosed in a black clamshell box. One of the most charming of.....

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 102 pages. Index. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann issued the book in England the same year. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of.....

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.....

Boston: Frank L. Wiles, 1908. Quarto (30 x 20 cm.), xxi, 197 pages. Illustrated with 102 full-page photographic plates; top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION. One of 500 copies on laid paper. A significant survey of the hunt clubs of Canada and the U.S. “From Oregon to Virginia is a far cry, and no one who has not come in personal contact, as it were, with the Hunts throughout the country.....

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1968. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), x, 124 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The author's first cookbook. While this small work is far from the first American cookbook to treat Mexican, or Mexican-American cooking, it is one of the first truly sympathetic and respectful accounts of the cuisine. The author is also well-known for his poetry, and the complete body of his cookbooks is seen.....

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......