St. Louis, Missouri: American Grocer Publishing Association, 1879. Small octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 312 pages. Index. Second Edition, stated "Third Thousand"; the preface includes an amendment for the second edition; first published in July, 1878. A small but encyclopedic work on all types of goods sold by the grocer, from apples to axle grease, cider to cigars. The author includes a section on Adulteration, advising that informed grocers (informed.....

Lawrence, Massachusetts: The Boothby Press, [circa 1928]. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 164 pages. Cover title: City Mission Cook Book. Publication date derived from image in Walter Baker advertisement on page [107]. Includes table of contents. Advertisements interspersed. Second printing (see Brown). A generous anthology of seven hundred recipes assembled by delegate members of a community defining itself on a wide franchise. An idea of the scope can be inferred.....

Akron: Saalfield Publishing Company, 1925. Thick quarto (24.5 x 18 cm.), 609, [1] pages. Illustrated frontispiece and plates. Index. Advertisements. Sixth edition (1924), second printing. "Revised for both small and large families" (spine text). Frontispiece portrait of Grace Goodhugh Coolidge (each edition contained a portrait of the current First Lady. First issued in 1887. Hugo Zeimann is identified as "Steward of the White House" and in earlier editions as the.....

Lakewood; New York: The hotel; The Gile Company, Lith. 1891. Printed menu (20 x 13.5 cm.), [1] page. A menu for the Lakewood, a resort hotel in the town of the same name, in central New Jersey, near but not on the shore. The meal was rather elaborate, with courses of soup, joints, entreés, roast, salads, vegetables, entremet, pastry, ice cream, desert (sic), and coffee - "the drinking water is.....

Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, [1977]. Small quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), 365, [1] pages. Illustrated in the text and with eight color plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook from the giants of French cuisine. At the time of this publication, the two brothers had recently completed an expansion of the building and kitchen of their eponymous restaurant, Les Frères Troisgros in Roanne (Loire). This followed the restaurant being awarded.....

[Springfield, Mass.]: Samuel Bowles & Company, Printers, 1862. Booklet in cord-sewn wrappers (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 1-26 pages. Illustrated. Title and publication data from wrapper. At head of wrapper title, "Price 10 Cents". Publication date from wrapper; prefatory note, page [1] signed, "H. Hutchins. Springfield, Mass., May, 1860"; copyright date of 1858 from head of page 1. Evident Second Edition; the original was published in Boston in 1858 and printed.....

Chicago, IL; Windsor, Canada: H.E. Bucklen & Co., 1902. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 17 cm.), 32 pages. Publisher's advertisements on inner wrapper flaps. Illustrated. Text in double columns. Title from cover. ~ An annual advertising recipe book in almanac form with calendars for 1902 and 1903, from the company that brought us Dr. King's Electric Bitters and New Life Pills, both arnica-based treatments. Culinary recipes appear aside medicinal.....

New York: A.J. White, Druggist, [1888]. Duodecimo-sized booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Issued by the A.J. White company, this almanac advertised their products, which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Though not indicated as an almanac on the cover, a calendar for 1889 is included. Features profiles of some of the country's top chefs of the time.....

[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.....

[Philadelphia: D. De Benedictis, Printer], 1921. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23 x 16 cm.), [14], 17-128 pages. Index is table of contents. Stated third edition; originally published 1913. A guide with recipes and general kitchen advice. Internally generally clean, with a few spots to front matter. In decorated wrapper, printed in red and black; wrappers worn, with edged spine chipping and staining. Good or a bit better. Scarce. [OCLC locates.....

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.....

Philadelphia: North Bros. Manufacturing Co., 1900. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrappers (16 x 8.5 cm.), [18] pages. Title from cover. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A combination kitchen equipment catalogue and cookbook, with recipes supplied by Sarah Tyson Rorer. the featured equipment included the Crown Ice Chipper, "Gem" Freezer Clamp, Gem Ice Shave, U.S. Dial Scales, and Fluting Machines. Oxidation from one staple; in publisher's color-decorated wrapper. Near fine. [OCLC locates.....