London: Country Life, 1933. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 150 pages. Index. Second printing. An interesting cookbook for small meals, very mindful of the changes in cooking technology, and how the latest appliances are less likely to be found, in the apartments, bedsitters, and small homes of those who would be 'cooking for two'. With blank pages at the end of each section for 'Further Recipes'. In publisher's printed, boldly-illustrated.....
Douglas, Isle of Man: Shearwater Press Ltd; [printed by Bridson & Horrox Ltd.], 1975. Octavo ( x cm.), 112 pages in wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Second, revised printing. A collection of traditional Manx fare, "popular localised recipes in use either before or about the turn of the present century (19th-20th)", and Celtic customs. Illustrated with images drawn from various historical sources. A bit of light spotting to text block edges; in.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, 1865. Small octavo (18.5 x 12 cm.), 200, [4] pages. Publisher's advertisements. The First American Edition of Leonard Francis Simpson's English language translation of Brillat-Savarin's magnificent Physiologie du Gout. The English language translation of Fayette Robinson preceded this, published in Philadelphia in 1854. Simpson's version is quite unfaithful to the original, admitting in the Introduction that "Many parts are, however.....
London: Printed by Thomas Martin, No. 76 Wood-street, Cheapside, [circa 1790?]. Duodecimo (15.5 x 9.5 cm.), 168 pages. Copper-engraved frontispiece of a woman in her kitchen, plating a dish in front of a roaring fire, with the legend: "Engraved for Mrs. Harrison's new cookery book, 1783", but despite bearing a title identical with that of a book by Mrs. Harrison, the book was neither new nor Mrs. Harrison's. The bulk.....
Philadelphia; New York: Curtis Publishing Company; Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Duodecimo (15 x 10 cm.), viii, [2], 245 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author. FIRST EDITION. A book of best practices and techniques more than a collection of recipes, though recipes are present as well. Sarah Tyson Rorer was the principal of the Philadelphia Cooking School and the "Culinary Editor of the Ladies' Home Journal". There.....
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974. Thick octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), xxiv, 712 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A study of the best ways to obtain, maintain, and display specimens of fungi for academic research collections. The authors seek to examine elements of mycology not normally covered in the morphological and taxonomic works. In publisher's brown cloth; some light spotting to edges of text, block, otherwise very good or better.....
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1957. Octavo (25 x 17.5 cm.), 171 pages. Illustrated with drawings on fifteen plates by Henry A. C. Jackson. FIRST EDITION. An extremely useful glossary or dictionary of some 3000 terms relevant to mycological studies. The illustrations are supplied by the great Canadian amateur naturalist, Henry A.C. Jackson (1877-1960). Henry was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson, and while A.Y. achieved great fame through.....
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., [1931]. Octavo (19 x 13.5 cm.), xxvii, 258 pages. Additional subtitle from half-title: [How to Keep Your Husband's Heart]. FIRST EDITION. A collection of French recipes adapted for the English kitchen, cook, and palate. as to the secrets of French cooking, the author states, "Four qualities are necessary, that is all – love and care; sense of balance; imagination, controlled by good taste, patience".....
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 681 Fifth Avenue, [1915]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 151, ix, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook intended to raise funds for Belgian war relief, with recipes "collected from Belgian refugees in England". Many of the recipes are attributed. Gilt-titled brown cloth, a bit discolored. In publisher's printed dust jacket, with prices on the spine and front panel each excised with a one-inch.....
Paris: Au Sans Pareil, René Hilsum et Cie Editeurs; [impr. René et Paul Deslis], 1928. Small octavo (18.5 x 12 cm.), 268, [1] pages. Table of contents. FIRST EDITION, ordinary issue. An interesting, perhaps confusing, examination of the psychology of dining and the psychology of taste, from the writer, musician, folklorist and gastronome Austin de Croze, friend of Verlaine, Huysman, and collaborator with Maurice Ravel. His writings were varied, encompassing.....
London; [Surrey]: William Heinemann Ltd.; [Windmill Press], 1928. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), viii, 156 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Laboureur; index. Third printing. A followup to Simple French Cooking for English Homes. Boulestin was a French chef, restaurateur, and author of cookbooks who popularized French cuisine in the English-speaking world. His restaurant, the Restaurant Français, opened in 1927, was known at the time as the most expensive.....
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. Life and Letters Series, no. 8. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 319 [8] pages. Later printing; first printing in the 'Life and Letter Series'; originally issued in 1927. In publisher's pale green cloth, gilt-titled. Green dust jacket with some edge wear and a closed tear to the front hinge. Near very good.
[New York: Taplinger Publishing Co. Inc., 1971]. Octavo (24 x 15.5 cm.), 137, [2] pages. Illustrated. Second printing. An "erotic cookbook" of sorts, but really an exercise of sexist marketing, shot through with the sort of low-brow double entendres and sad puns that characterized a dozen generations of male humor – of course it's "salad undressing" or "leer a little and get out the hooch". It gets worse. In tan.....
Paris: Flammarion, [1994]. Quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 171, [4] pages. Facsimile edition, though slightly reduced in dimensions, and with the color images reproduced in black and white. A monumental work, a touchstone for so many chefs. When the book was finally made available again in English (2008), a new introduction by Chef Thomas Keller, stated, "through Chef Point's words I finally understood and discovered a higher sense of purpose.....
Philadelphia: Enterprise Manufacturing Company, 1906. Small stapled booklet (18 x 13 cm.), 91, [5] pages. Index. Illustrated throughout. Sixth edition. A promotional cookbook from Enterprise, manufacturers of meat grinders, spice mills, sausage presses, and other household equipment. Includes a short trade catalogue with descriptions of various products. A near fine copy in publisher's chromo-lithographed wrappers depicting a housewife using an Enterprise meat grinder. Stamped on the rear wrapper, "Compliments of.....
Stafford Springs: The Press Job Print, 1902. Duodecimo (15.5 x 13 cm.), 106 pages. Cover title: Grace Church Recipes. Advertisements interspersed. FIRST EDITION. A Connecticut church cookbook with one hundred fifty recipes, most of them attributed. There is an emphasis on meat and fish dishes somewhat unusual for the time; among them: Swedish Baked Fish, Potted Shad, Pressed Chicken, Beefsteak Pie, Stewed Liver, Glazed Sweetbreads. But not to despair: the.....
[Pueblo(?)]: The Church, 1897. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), iv, 88 pages. Table of contents. Lists of compilers and contributors. Possessive apostrophe in title on cover only. Evident FIRST EDITION. A densely filled church cookbook with four hundred attributed recipes, weighted to baked goods and sweets. Among them: Hominy Muffins, Steamed Maizene Loaf, Hickory Nut Custard Cake, Date Cake, Almond Macaroons, Stuffed Figs, Citron Preserves, Red Currant Jelly, Apricot Sponge.....
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Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Faucet Co.; [printed by A.C. Rogers Co.], 1902 [1903]. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 13 cm.), 80 pages. Illustrated. Indices of cocktails and drinks, and of hardware products. Printed in black, red, and yellowish brown throughout. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A dual-purpose trade catalogue and cocktail recipe book, issued by Cleveland Faucet Company, makers of bar fixtures, hardware, and equipment. Seventy cocktail recipes, plus additional recipes.....
Houston: Published by the Junior League of Houston, Inc., [1968]. Large octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 432 pages. Index, Illustrated by R. L. Hawk, including one-color vignette. FIRST EDITION. A classic Texas community cookbook of the 1960s. "We present favorite recipes served with Houston hospitality." In publisher's brown- and white-printed yellow cloth. Some very light foxing throughout, otherwise fine.
New York: Blackwell Publishers, 1985. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), xii, 380 pages. Plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. "Examines methods of cooking, the history of writing about food, and the history of the education of our palates" (jacket copy). Spotting to text black edges, otherwise clean in publisher's black cloth. Near very good in fine dust jacket.
London: Museum Press, 1961. October (19 x 13 cm.), 256 pages. Illustrated. Second edition. Many of the interesting recipes are derived from historical cookbooks. Robin McDouall's review in Time and Tide stated, " The book ends with an index that would have pleased her friend, Norman Douglas." In pale blue cloth, lettered in silver. Dust jacket, price-clipped, and with light edge wear. Near very good.
London: Edward Stanford; [printed by Spottiswoode & Co., Ltd., 1904. Small quarto (22 x 15 cm.), xx, [folding map], 386 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A comprehensive study of the sea-fishing industry at the beginning of the 20th century, the last moment when most of the industry remained under sail. The book is not so much concerned with the practical side of catching fish, but forms a detailed analysis of.....
Middletown, MD: Printed by J.D. Koogle, 1858. Duodecimo (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), 224, 37, [5], iii pages. Includes separate indexes for each of three sections. Small woodcut illustrations. Second printing, now with A Supplement... A farrier’s manual, really a holistic veterinary manual which includes, formulae, receipts, and prescriptions. The text includes a list of domestic medicines and receipts, for example, Lunar Caustic, "very useful in curing bites of rabid dogs.".....
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1885. Duodecimo (14.25 x 11 cm), 104, [2] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. More than three hundred short recipes, with a stark emphasis on meat, including game, and how to serve it. The Kitchen was foremost an advertising vehicle for Rand, McNally, showing off to those who kept books in their homes the utilitarian pleasures of modern engraving and electrotypography, available at an affordable price.....
[Burlington, Vt.]: Wells, Richardson and Co., [circa 1894]. Stapled booklet (15.6 x 12.7 cm.), unpaginated. A promotional booklet for butter color, the dye used to color butter and butter-simulating products, including margarine. Though variation in butter color was natural, both seasonally and by breed – some breeds produced milk that was yellower (Jerseys for example), and others whiter (Holsteins for example), by the 1880s, use of these dyes was controversial.....