Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1899. Octavo (18 x 14 cm.), 52, [2] pages. Advertisements. Later printing. A collection of specific instructions on carving and serving various cuts of meat, including tongue, calf's head, haunch of venison, veal neck, etc. Red cloth spine, with paper covered chromolithograph front and rear boards with beveled edges. Edges a bit rubbed; still, generally very good. With the bookplate of cookbook collector and founder of the.....
London: Putnam, 42 Great Russell Street, 1948. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xi, 264 pages. Frontispiece and ten plates, all color. Index. Second edition, issued thirteen years after the original. The intervening years had included the war, and so the recipes are offered this second time with a willingness to embrace substitutions. Lady Sysonby has also included a recipe, “Queen Victoria’s Soup – by especial favour by the Esquire.....
New-York: D. Appleton & Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, 1862. Duodecimo (19 x 12.5 cm.), vi, 364, [10] pages. Index. Publisher's advertisements. Illustrated with two engravings in the text. Later printing. Originally published in London in 1849. Soyer's famed recipe book was adapted by an American housekeeper, "to make a verbal correction here and there, necessary to render the meaning of the author more plain; to erase certain directions for.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1890. Octavo (19 x 13.5 cm.), xii, 214 pages. Advertisements. Illustrations in the text. FIRST EDITION. An interesting and often charming late nineteenth-century American gastronomy book. The book goes to great lengths to compare American and British cooking with French, unfavorably. The author holds up Whistler's Peacock Room for the Leyland house as an example of a properly decorated dining room, and includes.....
London: William Heinemann; [Richard Clay & Sons Ltd.], 1911. Thick quarto (24.5 x 16 cm.), xvi, 880 pages. All edges green. Publisher's advertisements; index. Second printing of the stated, "New and Revised Edition"; an English version was first issued in 1907, with a second New and Revised edition issued in 1909. One of the most influential cookbooks of all time. This is an early printing of the first English language.....
New York; Cornwall: George W. Stewart, Publisher, Inc.; Cornwall Press, Inc., 1946. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), [x], 81, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, representing the community of prisoners of war at the Bilibid, and collected by a prisoner at the camp, Colonel H.C. “Chick” Fowler. Many of the recipes are attributed to other prisoners, with additional recipes representing Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, Russian, and other cuisines, provided.....
New York; Cornwall: George W. Stewart, Publisher, Inc.; Cornwall Press, Inc., 1946. Octavo (21 x 16 cm.), [x], 81, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook of sorts, representing the community of prisoners of war at the Bilibid, and collected by a prisoner at the camp, Colonel H.C. “Chick” Fowler. Many of the recipes are attributed to other prisoners, with additional recipes representing Chinese, Filipino, Mexican, Russian, and other.....
Oakland, Cal. Pacific Press Publishing Company, 1899. Small octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 126, iv, [ii] pages. Advertisements. Title continues: Together with plain directions on healthful cookery; how to can fruit; a week’s menu; proper food combinations; rules for dyspeptics; food for infants; simple dishes for the sick; wholesome drinks; useful tables on nutritive values of foods, time required to digest food, weights and measures for the Kitchen, etc. Illustrated.....
New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, Publishers, 1885. Small octavo, 32 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes remarks on salads, fifty recipes for salads, and two recipes for dressings. One in the series of single-subject "Cookery Books" published by Frederick Stokes. Murrey was the caterer of New York's Astor House and Philadelphia's Continental Hotel. In publisher's paper covered boards, front and back covers printed illustrated with a young girl preparing salad on.....
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[Iowa: 1952-1958]. Collection of sixty two vintage black and white or color gelatin silver photographs (individually approx. 9 x 12.5 cm.), most mounted on eight loose photo pages with handwritten dates to rectos and some with captions on the versos. Age-toning to the color photographs with a few items with corner chips from mounts. Several loose photos, and several spaces on the pages where photos appear to have been removed.....
Monte-Carlo: Imprimerie Nonegasque, 1936. Squarish octavo (21.6 x 16.5 cm.), 68, [3] pages. Illustrated throughout. Text printed in red and black. Two-page folding facsimile menu. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes along with advice for pleasurable entertaining, from a woman of stature, descendant of Roger Puleston of Emral, Worthenbury. She spent her later years in Monaco, and travelled in high circles there, in the book offering thanks to the Marches.....
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[Likely London: circa 1875-1922]. Tall quarto (32.5 x 20 cm.), 30 pages (all used). A letter book, repurposed as a recipe collection, with sixty-four handwritten recipes, and an additional thirty-four recipes on separate slips of paper pasted-, tipped-, or laid-in. Additional slips of paper with business information, "James Fulton & Co., Ham Curers and Provisioners" of Glasgow, "Laou-Kai-Fook Co., Silks, Satins, Crepes, Gauzes..." of Shanghai, or "Mrs. Field, Accordion Pleating".....
Williamsburg; Richmond, Virg. Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated; Printed on the Press of August Deitz & Son, 1939. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.) 276 pages. Stated "second edition". A modern cookbook styled after late eighteenth century works, with recipes drawn from historical English sources, predominantly William Parks' 1742 printing of E. Smith's Compleat Housewife, the first cookbook printed in America. In full ruled calf with raised bands and spine label titled in.....
Williamsburg; Richmond, Virg. Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated; Printed on the Press of August Deitz & Son, 1942. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.) 276 pages. Stated "fourth edition". A modern cookbook styled after late eighteenth century works, with recipes drawn from historical English sources, predominantly William Parks' 1742 printing of E. Smith's Compleat Housewife, the first cookbook printed in America. In full ruled calf with raised bands and spine label titled in.....
London: Printed by R. Noble, for J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, 1792. Octavo (22 x 13.5 cm.), [28], 451, [1] pages. Half title; table of contents. Illustrated with fourteen engravings, including a double-portrait frontispiece, twelve engraved plates setting out bills of fare for each month, and one engraved plate with directions for carving. FIRST EDITION. Maclean quotes the bookseller John Lyle (Catalog 3, 1976), a “well printed book by the.....
Manchester: Thomas Bradford & Co., 1903. Quarto (23 x 20 cm.), 68 pages. Illustrated. Index. Catalogue 1159. A trade catalogue of cooking apparatus from Thomas Bradford & Co., operators of Crescent Iron Works of Salford. The ‘Cooking Appliances and Kitchen Scullery Fittings’ delineated include, Steam Cooking Pans, Beef Tea Cooking Pans, Vegetable and Pudding Steam Ovens, Kitchen Ranges, Gas Roasting Oven, Steam Carving Table and Hot Closet, Steam Hot Closet.....
Kingston, Ja. [Jamaica]: Printed by Gleanor Co., 1946. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( x cm.), 39, [3] pages. Advertisements. Stated “7th edition”. Originally published in 1926 as a charitable cookbook, and carrying the statement, “compiled by Mrs. F.S. Edmonds and sold for the benefit of child welfare in Jamaica.” Later editions did not credit the compiler. Recipes include Ox-tail Soup, Turtle Steak, Baked Cow Heel, Callalu and Eggs, Wild Cucumber.....
Chicago, Ill. [Mitchell, Larimer & Titus, printers], 1911. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 68 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A “work on the manufacture of whiskey and alcohol…” by the Director of Chicago’s Distillers and Rectifiers Institute. With diagrams of a variety of stills, and images of other equipment. Some light spotting to some pages. In publisher’s green pebbled cloth, gilt-titled on the front board; some wear to extremities, and.....
[London: John Waddington Limited, 1950]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [16] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness Book.....
[London: John Waddington Limited, 1939]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm.), [20] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness Book.....
[Ipswich, UK: W.S. Cowell Ltd., 1956]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [12] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness.....
Boston: Peoples Publishing Company, 1877. Octavo (19.5 x 15 cm.), 156, [4] pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of household recipes, for "every department of the house beyond the kitchen", with helpful advice such as: "To Make a Walking Stick" and "How to Know if Wine is Coloured". Soiled internally and hinges starting. Darkening to edges of text block; some wear and rubbing to publisher's blind- and black-decorated blue.....
Richmond: Garrett & Massie Publishers, 1941. Octavo (23.5 x 18 cm.), [4], 111 pages. Second printing. 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.....
New York City: [circa 1870s]. A tri-fold circular (18 x 9 cm.) when flat. Alas, not illustrated. A small handbill-sized trade catalogue with an introduction by B. Staubach, followed by information on Miles’ “Challenge” Butchers’ Meat Cutter, Bell’s Improved Ham Pump, the “Challenge” sausage stuffer, the Plunger sausage stugger, various lard presses and butchers’ fixtures. Each with a narrative description, some with pricing information. The verso includes testimonials, information on.....
Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin C. Buzby, No. 2, North Third-Street; Stiles, Printer, 1808. Duodecimo (14 x 9 cm.) [2], xviii, 263 pages (final leaf blank). Table of Contents. Index. Fifth American Edition (see Cagle 667), though stated "Second Philadelphia Edition". Originally published 1806 or 1807 in London, and the first American edition in 1807 in Boston (though printed in Charleston, S.C. An early American edition of what has been called.....