London: Frederick Muller Ltd., [1956]. Octavo ( x cm.), 377 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. One hundred forty-four "simple and super suggested menus" with over 500 wines to partner with them. Written for "the overworked housewife" or the "ambitious or simply socially minded hostess". André Louis Simon (1877-1970) was the leader of the English wine trade for most of the first half of the 20th century, and the "Grand Old Man.....
London: Prospect Books, 1981. Quarto (27.7 x 19 cm.), 197 pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. Short-title gastronomic bibliography featuring over three hundred English language titles. Very useful. Publisher's red cloth, gilt-titled at the spine, some light spotting to top edge. In price-clipped, but otherwise fine dust jacket. Near fine.
Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1994. Large octavo (27 x 16 cm.), xiv, 262 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Bibliography. Index. FIRST EDITION. An important work on the Gallic roots of modern cuisine. With chapters on foraging, the kitchen garden, the French style, meat, traditions, etc. In red cloth with spine gilt-lettered; in unclipped dust jacket. Fine.
Falls Village, Conn. Herb Grower Press, 1949. Octavo (20.3 x 14 cm.), [14)] 116, [1] pages. Illustrated. Blanks at rear for additional recipes. FIRST EDITION. The first book published by the The Herb Grower Press, a project of Gertrude and Philip Foster, founders of The Herb Grower Magazine, which started two years before this publication. Some age-toning, Dark green patterned cloth, gilt-titled on the front board. In the yellow dust.....
Pensacola, Fl.; Kansas City, Mo. Temple Bethel-el [Beth-El]; North American Press of Kansas City, October 1970. Comb-bound octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 284, D, [2], [4], A-S, [xiv] pages. Community advertising. Index (really a table of contents). FIRST EDITION. A similarly titled work was issued by the same organization in 1958, but this is a new compilation of recipes. The Editor, Julia M. Gup and Assistant Editors are listed in.....
[Hailsham, England]: [circa 1790s]. Bill of Fare, (16.3 x 10 cm.), [1] page. Printed text enclosed within an ornamental oval. Expenses for a six-day trip through Sussex, as recorded on a printed billhead, with details completed in manuscript, undated [but 1790s]. "J. Cox and wife" were charged for transportation from Hailsham to Seaford (one day), then to Lewes (one day), and on to Horsham (four days), with board, for a......
Algeciras (Spain): Impreso por Bazo, [circa 1918]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14 x 7.7 cm.), 12 pages. Illustrated throughout, printed in two colors. A handsomely designed and printed cocktail menu for the Belvedere Bar at the Hotel Reina Cristina in Algeciras, Spain. Algecrias, in Cadiz, is adjacent to Gibraltar and was once considered the southernmost health resort in Europe. Opened in 1901, the Hotel served a mostly elite clientele, and.....
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, [1995]. Small quarto (25 x 18.5 cm.), xi, 377 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. An essential work for anyone interested in the food of the wealthy households of France at the end of the Middle Ages. With over one hundred detailed recipes, as well as chapters on the dishes, foodstuffs, methods, and equipment of the kitchens and dining rooms of the period. in.....
Salisbury, N.C. Our Own Print (the company), circa 1901-4. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.5 x 13.4 cm.), 17 pages. Illustrated throughout. Fore-corners rounded. Original mailing envelope. Date estimate from date of the exit of "Messrs. Key & Co." of Statesville from the distilling industry, which was 1899-1901 (see page 4). A descriptive price list or trade catalogue of the various whiskies produced by the D.R. Arey Distilling Company of Salisbury.....
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co., 1913. Thick quarto (25 x 19 cm.), vi, 590, [ii] pages. Illustrated with plates and line drawings in the text. Publisher's advertisements. Index. Frontispiece portrait of Helen Axson Wilson (each edition contained a portrait of the current First Lady. Later Edition, "New and Enlarged"; first issued in 1887. Hugo Zeimann is identified as "Steward of the White House" and "one time caterer for that Prince.....
N.Y. Robert H. Elton, 98 Nassau-street, N.Y., [1842]. Almanac in wrappers, sewn with cord (20 x 13 cm.), [36] pages. Title illustration (an elaborate version of The Anatomy). Advertisement. A very early culinary almanac, related to several other contemporary almanacs by its ephemeris. "Calculated by David Young (1781-1852). The calendar pages (excepting the prose matter at their foot), as well as the astronomical matter on the preceding pages, are printed.....
Coral Gables, Fla. Wake-Brook House, 1964. Large octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 224 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION, regular issue. There was also a "Sponsor's Edition" limited to 225 signed and numbered copies, with a list of sponsors, but otherwise similar. An interesting collection of recipes from South Florida, which contains an amalgam of dishes focused on the cuisines of the West Indies, especially those that use fruits and vegetables of.....
New York: G.P. Putnam, 10 Park Place, 1852. Series: Putnam's Semi-monthly Library for Travelers and the Fireside, no. vii. Octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 235 pages. Frontispiece, illustrated with an engraving signed "J.W. Orr, N.Y.". FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, following the London first of the same year. "This work is reprinted from the early proof sheets of the London edition by special arrangement." The narrative of a traveler's journey through Bordeaux.....
Aalsmeer: van W. Keessen Jr. & Zonen, [n.d. circa 1920]. Oblong octavo (15.3 x 24.5 cm.), [60] pages. Illustrated with black and white photographic images throughout. Text in Dutch. Stated "Fifth Edition". A trade catalogue of topiary shrubs issued by the Royal Dutch Nursery "Terra Nova." The catalog includes photographs of numerous ornamental shrubs, each identified by number. The topiary forms include geometric shapes, animals, urns, chairs, boats, etc. The.....
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street; Printed by W. Clowes & Sons, Stamford Street, 1853. Small thick octavo (24.5 x 15.5 cm.), xxviii, 644 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and additional plate with full-page woodcuts, and numerous cuts in the text. Index. Second Printing of this newly-titled edition of Mrs. Rundell's Modern Domestic Cookery, considered "the earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, calling forth many imitations." Originally.....
Springfield, Massachusetts: The Pond-Ekberg Company, [1948]. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), xiv, 243 pages. With one hundred thirty-one black and white illustrations. Index. Second, Revised Edition; originally issued in 1942. "An authoritative and comprehensive history including old New England kitchens, pantry tools, bowls, plates, mortars, buckets, tubs, the early uses of paint, means of identification, etc." (jacket text). Mary Earle Gould (1885-1975) was an early American antique collector, columnist and.....
London: Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row, 1832. Series: Library of Useful Knowledge. Octavo (23 x 14 cm.), iv, 151 pages. Illustrated in text with wood engravings. Index. FIRST EDITION. An early 19-century work on planting, mostly arboriculture for trees, with chapters on judicious planting, the structure and growth of trees, approved methods for preparing soil, and with a chapter on ornamental plantings as well. Other topics touched on include hedgerow.....
[Yokohama, Japan: the hotel, 1899. Bi-fold menu (24 x 17 cm.), [4] pages. Chromolithograph illustration on all panels, with the text letterpress printed on the two interior panels. A bill of fare and wine list for Yokohama's Grand Hotel, the first of the hotels to appear as Japan opened itself to the arrival of the West on its shores (1873). Identified on the front panel of this menu, Manager Louis.....
London: Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1830. Booklet, sewn on cords (22 x 14 cm.), 23 pages. FIRST EDITION. An additional issue was published the same year by Hinde of Lichfield. The author suggests that allotments be supplied to the poor so they might labor at growing some of their own food. He proposes a number of results of the allotments: that the.....
London: David Bogue, Fleet Street; J. Unwin, Bucklesbury, 1846. 16mo. (17.5 x 11 cm.), xi, 339, [1] pages. Illustrated with engravings in the text. Table of contents, Index. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. The English editor's Preface states this scarce work is "an adapted translation of one of the most popular treatises on French Cookery, entitled La Cuisiniere de la Campagne et de la Ville ou Nouvelle Cuisine Economique, Paris, Audot, 1846".....
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. Large and thick octavo (25.3 x 18.4 cm.), 991 pages. Second Edition, revised and expanded. Illustrated throughout with printed facsimiles. Important gastronomy bibliography with over 1250 volumes listed, dating from 15th to 20th centuries. Like all bibliographies built on a single collection this one is incomplete, but the bibliographical detail is admirable. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
[Troy, N.Y. [circa 1985]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is focused on mushroom propagation and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some.....
Chicago: P.F. Volland & Company, 1909. 16mo, stapled and ribbon-tied in wrappers ( x cm.), 64 pages. Printed in red and black throughout. Stated Fourth Edition. A compilation of toasts from the Midwest-American poet, journalist and humorist, Wilbur D. Nesbit. Nesbit published many books with Volland & Co. The Loving Cup contains the first printing of L. Frank Baum's poem 'Smile'. "It is no wonder that after-dinner speaking in America.....
Boston: Copyright Henderson & Ross; Published by Fidelity Trust Company; C.B. Webster & Co., 1917. Octavo, cord-tied in wrappers (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 59, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. A fascinating long historical view of the Crown Coffee House, a tavern at Boston's Long Wharf with roots in Oxford. The text is derived from a manuscript by Walter Kendall Watkins (1855-1934) which was used in the 1917 revision and expansion of.....
London: Geo. G. Sandeman Sons & Co. Limited; Lund Humphries & Co., Ltd., 1955. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 63 pages. Photographically illustrated, and with a frontispiece silhouette portrait. FIRST EDITION. A short treatise on the two special wines, with a focus on the House of Sandeman, founded in 1790. The work begins with an "historical background of Port wine", and moves on to descriptions of "Port from Portugal", and.....