Valleyfield, P.Q. Canadian Schenley, Ltd., [circa 1953]. Booklet, stapled in stiff wrappers (12.3 x 7 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Date of publication from copyright information for "Canadian Schenley 909" which is featured throughout. A home bar guide, with cocktail recipes designed to feature various Schenley products, including Schenley Reserve, I.W. Harper Kentucky Bourbon, Canadian Schenley 909, Cresta Blanca (wine), and others. Lightest rubbing to edges, otherwise fine.

Oporto: British Association Oporto; Companhia Editora do Minho. [1970]. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrated, with twelve engravings on coated paper. FIRST EDITION. History of the establishment of English merchants in Porto, of the English Factory founded around 1727 and description of the magnificent building built in 1790 to house this institution, on the initiative of the English consul John Whitehead. Elaine Sanceau was a famous Lusophile.....

[San Francisco]: Bird in Hand Press, 1972. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), [20] pages. Illustrated with woodblock prints. FIRST EDITION, limited, and numbered 181 of 213 copies. A handsome little book of household spells, compiled and transliterated by Carol Bradley and illustrated by Bruce William Bradley, operators of Northern California's Bird in Hand Press. In paper-covered boards, backed in black cloth. Title label to front board; boards are sunned; but.....

stanbul Matbaası: Nuruosmaniye Caddesi, 1967. Small octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), xxviii, 163 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Text in English. FIRST EDITION. An interesting cookbook of Turkish recipes assembled by Chef Ilyas Erturk of the Buyuk Efes Hotel. He represented Turkey at the London International Hotel and Catering Exhibition of 1966 and was awarded first prize. The first part of this book contains testimonials from Turkish officials.....

New York: Orange Judd and Co., 245 Broadway, 1874. Small octavo sewn, in wrappers (18.5 x 13 cm.), 120 pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece. Stated "New & Enlarged Edition"; originally published 1866. A book of general instructions for raising poultry, with descriptions of numerous breeds. Includes "Mr. Geyellin's Visit to the Poultry Yards of France". Edges chipped, some light soiling to a few leaves. Wrapper soiled; rear wrapper panel lacking (pagination is.....

Chicago, Illinois: Otto Naylor Corporation, Publishers, 1941. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 637, [3], xxxi pages. Second printing. This very large compendium of recipes gathered from around the world seeks to solve the problems of the modern housewife with the dishes and advice of professional hotel, restaurant, and even railroad chefs. "Dinners served to her husband's associates must compete successfully with the menus of the world's most noted hotels, restaurants.....

[New Hampshire: 1852-1901]. Thirty-one different menus, plus four related promotional pieces (35 pieces together,) all assorted broadsides, broadsheets, and bi-folds (various sizes). Some are illustrated with engravings, others with chromolithograph or hand-colored illustrations. Some of the menus are both printed and manuscript; most are print only. Condition varies, but is mostly very good to fine. Five decades of menus and other items from the Golden Age of New Hampshire hotels.....

Boston: 1847. Broadsheet menu (31 x 13.6 cm.), [2] pages. Illustrated with an engraving of the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. A menu and wine list for the hotel restaurant of Revere House, issued in the hotel's inaugural year. Built on the site of home of Boston's Kirk Boote, Revere House became one of the city's leading hotels, hosting guests that included Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, and Walt Whitman.....

London; Glasgow: Printed for T. Tegg & Son, 73 Cheapside; R. Griffin and Co.; Printed by Bradbury & Evans, 1839. Duodecimo (12.3 x 7.7 cm.), 188 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Styled eighteenth edition on the title-page. Originally published in Boston in 1829, but the title was changed in 1832 to The American Frugal Housewife, so as not to be confused with Susannah Carter's Frugal Housewife. The omission of.....

Paris: Inprimerie de la Samaritaine, 1914. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm.), 15 pages. Illustrated throughout. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A small trade catalogue featuring aprons of every type, offered by Paris' famous Samaritaine department store. The aprons are divided into men's and women's. Women's aprons include those for trade, kitchen, nurse, and baker. For men, the aprons include those for gardener, valet, military, grocer, wine merchant.....

2022. Gift certificates for Rabelais Books are valid for both in-store and online shopping. Online, we offer gift certificates for $50, $100, & $200, but you can have one in any amount, just send us an email and we will work it out. We can deliver the gift certificate to you OR directly to the recipient, either by mail or my email. Please put a note in your order indicating.....

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Octavo ( x cm.), 223 pages. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. index. FIRST EDITION. "Over two hundred succulent recipes from the best in Hungarian cooking, with notes on its tradition. This warm, flavorful cookbook is full of the zest for good food and wine that is so freely expressed in the folk songs and fiery csardas of the food-loving Magyars" (jacket copy).....

Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1910. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15 cm.), 19 pages. Photographic illustrations in text (halftones). FIRST EDITION. An exposé, targeted to residents of rural districts, of narcotic agents in patent remedies and soft drinks, as well as the illicit trade in morphine and other drugs. Illustrations depict numerous commercially available (and perfectly legal) preparations containing morphine and coca-leaf extracts, Coca-Cola prominent among them (Coca.....