{Milwaukee: the company, [circa 1915-1925]. Trade catalogue bound with three brass fasteners (28 x 22.5 cm.), forty-two original color-printed cellophane or polyethylene food wrappers, mostly for meat (bacon or sausage) or candy products. Brand names and designs vary greatly. Some of the samples bare the Milprint Protecto-Pack or Millprint Econo-Wrap slug. "Milprint, Inc., was founded by the brothers Max T. ("Popsy") Heller and William ("Billy") Heller as the Milwaukee Printing.....

[New York]: [T.W. Marsden], 1866. Sewn booklet with wrapper (17 x 11 cm.), [32] pages. Evident FIRST EDITION of this promotional item for T.W. Marsden, makers of popular patent medicines such as Marsden's Pectoral Balm, and Marsden's Carminative Syrup. The content is a mixture of culinary, household, and medicinal recipes, with the latter employing a Marsden's product, of course. Also included are lists of the agents for various products across.....

London: Printed for J. Harding, 36, St. James's Street, 1816. Duodecimo, 178, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION under this title, but an updated of Josiah Twamey's Dairying Exemplified, originally published in 1784. The book was written as a single continuous chapter, but this has been remedied in this edition, with clear chapters and sections and a good table. In this expanded version, additional sections by different authors are added.....

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, 18 Ann Street, 1885. Octavo, 68, [4], pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. Contains detailed information on blending to create imitations of popular spirits, but also recipes for bitters, cordials, essences, syrups, and more. The author's preface states, "It is a generally well understood fact that the thirsty individual who takes his glass of whiskey at any of even the first-class public bars, saloons, or parlors.....

Rochester, NY: the photographer, 1972. Small folding box (14 x 15 cm.), with two folding sheets containing text by Robert Sobieszek, and ten black and white prints. FIRST EDITION, limited, numbered 1047/4000 copies and signed by the author on the second text leaf. Internally fine; publisher’s blue folding box, with photographically illustrated title pasted-down to top panel, rubbed and slightly split at corners. Still, generally very good. [Not in Roth.....

Rochester, N.Y. J. Hungerford Smith Co., 1912. Stapled booklet (19 x 14 cm.), [26] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in chromolithograph. Date from interior panel of rear wrapper. Later edition. A trade catalogue of flavored syrups for soda fountains and other retailers of sodas and drinks. Substantially revised from the original publication of 1908, with recipes for the various syrups integrated into the descriptions of the syrups. Also new, counter-sized dispensers.....

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 very good. [OCLC locates four copies].

Berkeley, Cal. Saint Heironymous Press, 1970. Paper portfolio with thirty loose prints of various sizes. Printed cardstock folder (39 x 31 cm.), with thirty prints on heavy paper. Fourth Printing of the first publication of famed Berkeley chef Alice Waters, originally issued the year prior to the opening of her restaurant Chez Panisse. Waters, and Chez Panisse, went on to be a cornerstone of California Cuisine restaurants, and is undoubtedly.....

[New York]: Holiday Magazine; Curtis Publishing, 1964. Stapled booklet (8 x 5.5 cm.), 55 pages. Index at rear. Title from cover; author and publication information from text. FIRST EDITION. A follow-up publication to A Guide to New York City Restaurants (1959), itself an expanded version of what began as an article in the October 1959 edition of Holiday magazine with the title "A Holiday Handbook of New York Restaurants". The.....

Henley: Brakspear & Co., 1993. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), viii, 103 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A history of the Brakspear brewery, founded in 1779, and issued on the bicentennial of the business. Henley, on the coach route from London to Oxford, served many prestigious travelers, including James Boswell, and George IV was said to have eaten "fourteen mutton chops at a single sitting". William Shenston immortalized the Inns of.....

[London]: School Board for London; Chas. Straker and Sons, 1890. Small octavo (18.5 x 12.5), 114 pages. Indexes. FIRST EDITION. A guide for cookery educators, with syllabi and notes for instruction. Also included are instructions on using the cookbook itself in an educational setting, "... but care is necessary, as the girls destroy and disfigure [the books] sometimes. To obviate this difficulty and to help the teacher in finding out.....

Richmond: Garrett & Massie Publishers, 1938. Octavo, [4], 111 pages. FIRST EDITION. 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 introduction to a later.....

New York: Dodge Publishing Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, 1906. Tall octavo (25.5 x 13.5 cm.), 113, [7] pages. Index. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of the author. Final bordered but blank pages for handwritten additions, though here unused. FIRST EDITION. From the author of Louis' Mixed Drinks and Louis' Every Woman's Cook Book, not just recipes, but also a guide to creating an event at the dining table, with 'How to.....