Chicago, Il. Shuman, 1893. Octavo (22 x 16 cm.), 221, [1] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A souvenir cookbook produced for the Columbian Exposition, with each recipe provided by a "lady manager" of the Expo and with the facsimile signature of each appearing below the relevant contributed recipe. Two blanks at rear are town with half of each leaf lacking. Some soil and wear throughout. A bit of edge wear to.....

Norwich, Conn.; Hartford: Richmond Stove Company; Press of the Plimpton Mfg. Company, 1893. Duodecimo (14 x 11.3 cm.), 67, [1] pages. Illustrated. Representative's stamp on cover: "Emerson & Son, House Furnishers, Milford, N.H." Two earlier issues appeared, with different pagination, and advertising a different selection of stoves, FIRST EDITION thus. A combination trade catalogue and promotional cookbook. True to its word, Richmond Receipts provides "hints and helps" beyond what is.....

London: Faber & Faber, 1956. Octavo ( x cm.), xviii, 286 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST U.K. EDITION. A milestone of Chinese cookbooks published in America (or in the English language at all, originally issued by John Day in 1949. Anne Mendelson, in her terrific Chow Chop Suey, calls the work "the first work in the field by a home cook who knew what other home cooks were up against. She.....

Chartres: Editions de la Tournelle, S. d., c. 1930. Offered by the Laboratories of Dr. Zizine. Illustrated by V. Le Campion. Octavo, 127 pages. First edition thus. Prosper Montagné, author of Le Grand Livre De Cuisine, and co-author of the monumental Larousse Gastronomique, revises this compilation of Mediterranean recipes supplied by more than seventy French men of medicine. The cloth issue, bound in black stamped orange cloth, with the original.....

[Paris: Editions Paul-Martial]; Laboratoire Midy, [circa 1940]. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 47, [1] pages. Illustrated with woodcut frontispiece and vignettes throughout by L. Danet. FIRST EDITION. Another promotional "cookbook" from the famous medical doctor, gastronome, and radio personality, Edouard de Pomiane, author of Vingt Plats qui Donnent la Goutte. This work is in the service of Thioderazine Midy, a product of the French pharmaceutical firm Midy. Publisher's tan wrappers.....

Boston, MA: Published by Carter and Hendee, 1831. Octavo (21.3 x 13.3 cm.), x, 169 pages. Stated Second Edition, issued the same year as the first. An early work by the author, following her important cookbook, The Frugal Housewife, by just a year. Chapters include: On the means of developing the bodily senses in earliest infancy -- Early development of the affections -- Early cultivation of intellect -- Management in.....

New York, Chicago: Price Flavoring Extract Company, [circa 1890s]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), 52 pages. Illustrations, including four plates in color. Index. Early edition (a later, 1904 printing is labeled "34th edition"). A promotional cookbook, emphasizing the purity and goodness of the flavoring extracts produced by the Price Flavoring Extract Company. Includes testimonials, from Christine Terhune Herrick, Mrs. S.T. Rorer, Marion McBride, and others. The illustrations.....

[New York: Seagram-Distillers Corporation, 1936]. Stapled booklet (18 x 13.5 cm.), 19, [1] pages. Illustrated. publication date inferred from 1936-37 calendar. FIRST EDITION. An attractive bar book, produced by the great Canadian distilling firm. Each season includes recipes by appetizers and cocktails, Some unusual appearances include the Turf Cocktail, Davies Cocktail, etc. The wrappers are colorfully illustrated by Merritt Cutler with a four panel image of the country pastimes of.....

Kansas City: Armour Packing Co., [circa 1901-1910]. Series of eight trade cards, bound with a silk cord loop (8.5 x 11.5 cm), 8 pages, numbered versos only. Title from recto of first card. Promotional ephemera, with each card illustrated with a chromolithograph depicting monkeys and parrots in a progressively more drunken conversation. Artist's identity possibly indicated on the seventh card with the initials "DM". Versos contain slightly different texts, all.....

Portland, Oregon: U.S. Bakery, [circa 1930s]. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrapper (16 x 24 cm.), 16 pages. Illustrations (some color). Title from cover. A product cookbook for this Pacific Northwest commercial bakery. Includes an introduction titled "Concerning the Earl of Sandwich" and sixty-six recipes for sandwiches and canapés (here spelled "canapis"). Some age-toning and wear to corners of illustrated wrapper. Very good. [OCLC locates two copies].

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1973]. Quarto (25 x 19 cm.), 334 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Index. FIRST EDITION, U.S. issue simultaneous with the U.K. edition. A history of more than two thousand years of mechanical instruments, a much larger history than one might expect, but one brought to an end with the phonograph The author was a restorer of mechanical music instruments and founder of the.....

Wellington, N.Z. The Polynesian Society, 1951. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volume 24. Small quarto (25.5 x 16 cm.), xxx, 492 pages. Frontispiece, folding map at end (with small correction sticker laid on), appendices, index. FIRST EDITION. "This volume includes 65 pages of references under 26 subjects, on the Maori of New Zealand. Every island group in the Pacific is covered similarly. It is a guide and handbook to writings.....

New York: James M. Thorburn & Co.; Sackett & Cobb, Steam Printers, 25 John Street, 1863. Octavo, cord-sewn (22.5 x 16 cm.), [3], 4-31, [1] pages. At head of title: "1863."; at foot of title: "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by James M. Thorburn & Co." ~ An annual seed catalogue from this supplier based in New York City. Organized alphabetically, from Artichoke to Turnip.....