Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, [1962]. Octavo (21.5 x 15.5 cm.), 176 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A compendium of pancake recipes from Ruth Ellen Church, the food editor of the Chicago Tribune. Her column there and most her books were written under the pseudonym Mary Meade. While at the Tribune, she established the first newspaper test kitchen, and she has been called the first American to have a regular.....

México, D.F. Academia de Cocina y Repostería Velázquez de León, 1952. Octavo (19 x 14.5cm.), 75 pages. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. FIRST EDITION. A publication of the prolific cookbook author and culinary educator, Josefina Velázquez de León. Here she examines the cuisine of Jalisco, the far west state of Mexico containing Guadalajara, a region known for, among other things, it’s beer, tequila, mariachi and ranchera.....

[l’Ain (France): circa 1870]. Large quarto (32.5 x 25 cm.), eight sheets of text and six of color drawings. There are forty-nine original watercolors and four plain drawings of mushrooms found in the department of Ain. The watercolor drawings are approximately life-size and realistic with fine shades of color as well as precise details on the feet, rings, blades and caps. ~ Unpublished manuscript by Joannes-Erhard Valentin-Smith, a member of.....

Paris: Loudmer; [printed by Impresserie Adrian Maeght], 1993; 1992]. Thick quarto (25.5 x 22 cm.), 313, [6] pages. Illustrated in color and black & white. Index; bibliography. Text in French. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. There was also a deluxe edition of 50 copies on papier Perigord mat, in binding by Jean-Paul Laurenchet. The catalogue for the sale at auction of the magnificent wine book collection of Kilian Fritsch. Sold on.....

Paris: Boubée & Cie. 1963. Octavo (19 x 14.5 cm.), 326 pages. Illustrated with forty-three figures and three maps, designed by Michelle Bory. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296). Errata slip laid-in. FIRST EDITION. One of the final published works of Roger Heim, noted mycologist and head of the Museum National d'Historie Naturalle. Heim is recognized for his descriptive and taxonomic studies of fungi and documentation of psycho-physiological effects of psilocybin.....

Norristown, (Penn.): 1814. Single sheet (20.75 x 11.5 cm., but irregular), printed recto only; typographical border. Manuscript annotations. ~ A very early Pennsylvania bill of fare for the Norristown Hotel, with a list of items on offer, including Breakfast, Dinner, Supper, Lodging, Wine, Brandy, Gin, Spirits, Punch, Porter, Beer, Cider, Segars, Hay, and Oats. Manuscript annotations indicate “Gentleman’s Bill, May 16th, 1814", with handwritten prices added for dinner, brandy, porter.....

Boston; Cambridge: Roberts Brothers; [printed by Universtiy Press, John Wilson & Sons], 1891. Octavo (18 x 14 cm.), 52, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements, mostly testimonials. Later printing; first issued in 1887. A collection of specific instructions on carving and serving various cuts of meat, including tongue, calf's head, haunch of venison, veal neck, etc. Chromolithograph-illustrated paper covered boards with beveled edges; over red cloth spine. Very little wear or soiling.....

Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979. Octavo, 125 pages. FIRST EDITION. A study, conducted between 1975-76, that surveys, identifies, and analyzes important U.S. collections of printed materials on the culinary arts. In teal cloth; fine.

Bremen: G. Winters Buchhandlung ; Franz Quelle Nachf, 1930. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), 70 pages. Illustrated with eight leaves of plates. Translated from the German by Harold Styring. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Originally published in German in 1929. A description of the town council wine cellar of Bremen, first erected in the year 1405. In decorated, paper-covered boards over orange cloth. Some general age toning; rear panel soiled. Generally.....

Falls Village, Connecticut: The Herb Grower Press, 1965. Duodecimo (17.5 x 10.5 cm.), 48, [1], 27, [1] pages. Bibliographical references. ~ Facsimile of the 1675 edition published in London by T.R. & N.T. for B. Tooke; with a supplementary "appendix". FIRST EDITION THUS, limited to 250 numbered copies (this is number 26 of 250). Originally published in London 1666, "printed by J. Grismond for John Crook, at the Ship in.....

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), xii, 365 pages. FIRST EDITION. The third book from the Boston-based couple whose earlier work included The Romagnoli's Table and the eponymous restaurant in Faneuil Hall. This book brings "modern" techniques like pressure cooking, micro-waving, and food processing to the more classical techniques they employed in their earlier works. Fine in publisher's mustard yellow cloth; in price clipped and.....

[Ithaca, N.Y.]: Barbara Ann Larson, 1953. Quarto-sized, cloth-bound typescript (27 x 20.5 cm.), 149 leaves, versos only. FIRST EDITION thus. The first English language translation of the Memoirs of Georges Melies, produced as part of a Masters dissertation and heretofore unpublished. Larson outlines of the career of the great French illusionist and film director occupies the first 82 pages. The remaining 67 pages is the translation of Melies' memoirs, previously.....

[Standish, Maine]: 1844-1848. Quarto (8.25 x 13 inches), 336 numbered pages. Marbled boards over half-calf; gilt-ruled spine. Pages hand-ruled in red. ~ An account book of a prosperous and well-stocked general store, with manuscript entries in chronological order, from the town of Standish, Maine. The first journal entries in the accounts (page 16) are headed "Standish, September 11, 1844”, and the final headed “Standish, May 13th, 1848”. The account book.....