[Norwich(?): April 1st, 1845 – January 1st, 1855]. Small octavo (15.5.x 10.5 cm.), [74] pages with handwritten text (others blank). A neat household account book, labeled “Expenses Out for House”, covering a broad range of purchases over more than a decade. The first page, “For oysters” seems an outlier, not format in the manner of what follows. What follows is a detailed list of purchases, line after line listing “Cash.....

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Square quarto ( x cm.), xii, 146, [2] pages. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. “Julia Child introduces sixteen of America's talented chefs from different parts of the country and interprets their recipes for the home cook” (jacket copy). Her chefs include Charlie Palmer, Emeril Legasse, Andre Soltner, Jeremiah Tower, Lidia Bastianich, Michel Richard, and Nancy Silverton, among others. Very light foxing to endpapers, otherwise fine.....

London: George Routledge & Sons; [printed by] Wyman & Sons, [circa 1858 -1863]. Small octavo (17 x 10.5 cm.), [3], 114, [12] pages. Illustrated with frontispiece, “The Aviary”, and black & white illustrations in the text. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Both Harding and Richardson indicate that several issues of this “new edition” follows the stated second edition, and thus our date range. Later printings have various different paginations. "Rev. John.....

Fort Riley, Kansas; [Junction City, Kansas: by the author; [Press of the Junction City Sentinel, 1911]. Duodecimo (17 x 12.5 cm.), v, 190 pages. Publisher's advertisement. Index. Stated, "Second Edition, Fourth Thousand"; the first edition was issued in 1908; a third edition was issued in 1917. An informative overview of the work of the Army Mess Officer, from Captain L.R. Holbrook (1875-1952), Commisary of the US Armoy, and Director of.....

Honolulu: University of Hawaii; Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station, 1945. Bulletin (Hawaii Agricultural Experiment Station) no. 96. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15.5 cm.), 129 pages. Illustrated. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Originally published as bulletin no. 77 in 1936 under the title Some Fruits of Hawaii, now enlarged and expanded, and aimed at a wider audience. Includes botanical and cultural information on the fruit-culture of Hawaii, as well as recipes (largely.....

[New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983]. Squarish octavo (21 x 16 cm.), xiii, 236 pages. FIRST EDITION. The classic pasta book, from the "Dean of American Cooking", James Beard. Still one of the most useful introductions to the basics of pasta cooking. Tiny bit of dusting to top edge, otherwise fine in color-illustrated boards. In unclipped publisher's dust jacket, also fine.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 272 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. James Beard (the "Dean of American Cooking") and Alexander Watt (author of Paris Bistro Cooking, and The Art of Simple French Cookery) have assembled recipes from some of Paris' best chefs of the Post-War period and tweaked them just a bit for American cooks of the era. The recipes are offered in sections, each.....

[Chicago, Ill. Super Maid Cook-Ware Corp. circa 1930]. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (22 x 14.7 cm.), 16 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photo-illustrations and vignettes. Index. Title from cover. FIRST EDITION. A well-illustrated promotional brochure from Super Maid Cook-Ware, "The Aristocrat of Cooking Utensils", provides recipes for preparation in the company's pots and pans. Minor soiling to the edges of the wraps, otherwise very good. Ink inscription at the foot.....

Amsterdam, Norwood, N.J. Walter J. Johnson, Inc.; Theatrum Orbis Terrarium, 1977. Duodecimo (15.3 x 16.5 cm.), 42, [10], 72 (following the original eccentric pagination). Facsimile edition of the original 1596/7 issue Elizabethan cookbook in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. “Newly set foorth with additions”; the original was issued in 1585. Very light soil to the red cloth boards and an abrasion on the spine otherwise fine. With the bookseller ticket of.....

Philadelphia: J.B. Myers, Publisher, 1876. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), vi, 403, [1] pages. Illustrated with numerous engravings in the text and on plates; decorated initials begin each section. Index divided by section. FIRST EDITION. Issued on the occasion of the American centennial, and containing both a cookbook and a guide to the Philadelphia's Centennial Exhibition for visitors to the events. Contents include cookery, medical recipes, child care, farming, and.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1878]. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 713, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "Common Sense in the Household Series" issue; identical to the first regular issue but on cheaper paper stock, and lacking the six chromolithograph illustrations. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of.....

Boston: M. Barrows & Company, 1931. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 270 pages. FIRST EDITION. From the Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, and the author of Cooking for Profit and The Candy Cook Book. This complete dessert cookbook includes sections on ice creams, layer cakes, and French pastries. Spine a bit darkened. Lacking the dust jacket, but otherwise fine in publisher's gilt-stamped, green cloth with a marble pattern.....

Boston; Cambridge: Roberts Brothers; John Wilson & Son [printers], 1890. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xxvii, 237, [21] pages. Index. Later printing; originally issued in 1887. Not a cookbook per se, but rather an instruction manual "for the use of classes in public and industrial schools" based on the work being done by the Boston School Kitchen. The Boston School Kitchen was initiated and funded by Mrs. Mary Hemenway in.....