My Life With Wine.
St. Helena, California: [privately published], 1972. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), xiv, 71 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-titled at spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine.
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The Cook's Paradise; being William Verral's 'Complete System of Cookery' Publish in 1759 with Thomas Gray's Cookery notes in holograph
London: The Sylvan Press, [1948]. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 139 pages. An interesting modern edition of an 18th century cookbook, William Verral's Complete System of Cookery (1759), which was reproduced from the copy owned by Thomas Gray, the English poet, letter-writter, and classical scholar, and includes reproductions of Gray's annotations. "It appeals to the revelation of ancient culinary mysteries while adding the attraction of the fact that the.....
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook.
New York: Random House, [1982]. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 312, [1] pages. Illustrated. Later printing. The first of the many cookbooks to find their origin in the Berkeley's legendary restaurant, Chez Panisse. Publisher's brown cloth, a bit creased at spine. Still clean and sound. In unclipped dust jacket, with tiniest spine fading and a small crease or two to the jacket flaps. Very good plus.
The New Cookery. A Book of Recipes, most of which are in use at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Second Edition, Revised.
Battle Creek, Mich. Good Health Publishing Co., 1914. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 301, [12] pages. Illustrated. Advertising. Index. Stated "Second Edition - Revised". In later editions Cooper is joined by Margaret Allen Hall; both were dietitians at the Battle Creek Sanatorium. Includes sections on meat substitutes Protose, Vita-met and Nuttolene. Some soiling to edges of text block; hinges tender. In publisher's tan cloth, titled in dark brown. Soiled, but.....
The International Cook Book: totally different and complete with suggested menus, ruled for proper table service, an abundance of practical recipes for every need, famous international recipes, all home tested, cookery technique and complete indexing: illustrated in colors.
Boston, Mass. Compiled and Published by Merchandisers Inc., 1929. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 383 pages. Illustrated with color plates. Index. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook more often seen with the imprint of an oil company or grocery chain. The recipes are gathered from chefs across the country, and the illustrations include a spread of portraits of the dozens of contributors. In publisher's blue, patterned cloth, titled and decorated in.....
The White House Cook Book : a comparative cyclopedia of information for the home. Containing cooking, toilet and household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc.
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 and a frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements. Index. Later Edition, "New and Enlarged"; first issued in 1887. This edition contains a frontispiece portrait of Helen Axson Wilson; each edition contained a portrait of the current First Lady. Hugo Zeimann is identified as "Steward of the White House".....
Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1911. Octavo (19.5 x 13.25 cm.), 289, [24] pages. Advertisements. Photographically illustrated. Later Edition. Originally issued in 1904. While best known for The Boston Cooking School Cookbook, Fannie Farmer had more than a passing acquaintance with issues of health, convalescence and medicine. Farmer suffered a debilitating stroke following high school, and struggled for years to regain her mobility. After her studies at the Boston Cooking.....
First Aid to the Menu Planner: Six hundred Suggestions for Serving Meat. Including General Directions for Cooking Meat and Recipes for Sauces and Stuffings.
Boston: Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, Inc., 1935. Small octavo (18 x 13 cm.), 91, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisement. FIRST EDITION. A small instruction work on meat, from the Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, editor of The Woman's Home Companion, and author of more than ten cookbooks. Staple in binding oxidized and showing through at front hinge, otherwise internally clean and sound. In publisher's light brown, textured paper-covered.....
Woman's World Cook Book.
Chicago, Ill. Manning Publishing Company, [1931]. Quarto ( x cm.), 468 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author and over eighty color and halftones. FIRST EDITION. A sizable cookbook from the publisher of Woman's World magazine. Introduction by the publisher himself, Walter W. Manning, dated February 1, 1931. There is another version of this book, also dated 1931, but with a Reilly & Lee imprint; we believe the.....
Good Housekeeping Cook Book. Recipes and Methods for Every Day and Every Occasion Tested, Tasted, and Approved.
New York: International Magazine Company Inc., 1933. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 254 pages. FIRST EDITION of this popular cookbook from the Good Housekeeping Institute. he book was distributed to subscribers of Good Housekeeping Magazine. Light soiling to publisher's green and white printed cloth, otherwise very good. No dust jacket, as issued.
English Home-Life 1500 to 1800. Illustrated from Portraits, Paintings and Prints.
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., [1949]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), viii, 184 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, one color plate, eighty-three sepia-toned plates on and eight illustrations in the text. Index. FIRST EDITION. "... an intimate picture of Tudor, Stuart, and Georgian ways and means..." "... an account of the architecture, lay-out, furnishing, interior decoration, and all-round planning and functioning of homes throughout three centuries." Top edge red. Publisher's.....
220 Recettes de Cuisine Belge: d'hier et d'aujourd'hui.
Paris: Jacques Grancher, Editeur, [1981]. Large octavo (23 x 18 cm.), 191 pages. Illustrated. Index. Lexicon. FIRST EDITION. An excellent introduction to the overlooked cuisine of Belgium. Some light spotting to edges of text block; cream colored cloth, titled in brown. Very good, in a near fine dust jacket. With the bookseller's ticket of John Lyle to front paste-down.
Cook It In a Casserole, with chafing dish recipes and menus.
[New York]: M. Barrows and Company, Inc., [1949]. Octavo ( x cm.), 183 pages. Designed by Stefan Salter. Stated "Eighth Printing"; originally published in 1943. Interestingly, the introduction by Henrik Van der Loon which appears in the first few printings (and which was noted on the earlier dust jackets) is not included here. A classic and early casserole cookbook; James Beard's Casserole Cookbook was published in 1955 and Ambrose Heath's.....
Memoirs of a Stomach. Written by himself, that all who eat may read; edited by a minister of the interior.
London: Chapman and Hall, [circa 1856]. Small octavo (17 x 11 cm.), xvi, 135 pages. Illustrated. Stated "Seventh Edition, revised, with additions". "Memoirs of a Stomach, though seemingly spoofish, articulates issues of the relationship between imperial mind and digestive body in mid-nineteenth-century terms" (sf-encyclopedia.com). Sydney Whiting (1820/21-1875) was a UK barrister, poet, and author whose works often, though not here, exhibit themes of science fiction. Those works include Heliondé: or.....
Casserole & Chafing Dish.
London: Neville Spearman Ltd., [1958]. Octavo (19.4 x 13 cm.), xi, 100 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. One of the many useful and charming cookbooks written by Ambrose Heath (1861-1961). Heath, born Francis Geoffrey Miller, was an English journalist and food writer who penned more than one hundred cookbooks starting in 1933 with Good Food. "A stew by any other name..." Small red ink stain to free front endpaper, and a......
Standard and Commercial Poultry Culture, by artificial process or, how to make poultry culture profitable.
Chicago: American Poultry Journal, 1885. Small octavo (18 x 12 cm.), 135, [32] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A guide to poultry production, but through the lens of industrial chicken production. Internally clean and sound. In publisher's orange cloth, titled and decorated in black and gilt. Cloth soiled and with corners bumped; good plus. Pencil ownership inscription to preliminary blank, "W.H. Bradley... Gertrude Kyrk", and with the blind-stamp of the.....
Private Car Line Bill. Advocated by the Western Fruit Jobbers' Association... [An Act to Further Regulate Commerce Among the States...
[Duluth, Minn. Western Fruit Jobbers' Association; Trade News Publishing Co., Printers, 1906]. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23.5 x 16 cm.), 30 pages. Date from a three page TLS from the Association laid-in, transmitting the Resolutions of the Association; and also from pencil annotation on the rear wrapper, "Rcv'd 3/14/06". FIRST EDITION. "This is primarily a Bill to Eliminate Private Freight Cars, Correct Refrigerating Abuses, and Bring Express Companies Under the.....
Dainty Desserts: Plain and Fancy.
London; New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., Limited, 1898. Metropolitan Pamphlet Series: vol. XI, no. 3. Large octavo-sized booklet (24 x 17 cm.), 56 pages. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Third Edition, following the first of 1891 (vol. 2, no 4.), and the second of 1892 (vol. 5, no. 2), both of 32 pages. A quirky book, likely because its contents were pulled from a variety of professional cookbooks in sections.....
The New England Cook Book: the latest and the best methods of economy and luxury at home. Containing nearly a thousand of the best up-to-date receipts for every conceivable need in kitchen and other departments of housekeeping.
Boston: Chas. E. Brown Publishing Company, [1905]. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 286, [20] pages. Illustrated in the text. Advertisements. Blank pages at rear "for additional recipes". Author information from front cover and spine texts. A promotional issue of this very popular work, featuring Locke Coal Co. of Malden Mass in numerous advertising preliminaries. The work was originally published in 1887 with the title Universal Cookery Book, Practical Recipes for.....
Schololadenformen, Anton Reiche, Dresden, Chocolate-moulds; The Chocolate Mould Book. [Chocolate molds].
Dresden; Oakton, Virginia: Anton Reiche AG; Oakton Hills Publication, [1883] 1983. Facsimile. Oblong quarto (21.5 x 28.5 cm.), [10], 40 pages. Printed rectos only in brown ink. Illustrated throughout. Number 426 of 500 hand-numbered copies, issued on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the National Confectioners Association. Hundreds of chocolate moulds are depicted. With a description of the Reiche factory in German and in English. Tan paper wrappers, decorated.....
The New Cooking Art.
Fort Wayne, Indiana; [Milwaukee, Wisc.]: Wayne Company; [Printed by the Cramer-Krasselt Co.], 1928. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (19.5 x 12.5 cm.), 15, [1] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in three colors. Wrapper bears a die-cut panel revealing a photographic image from the title page beneath. A product cookbook, advertising "The Advantages of Electric Refrigeration". "All recipes have been tested by Mrs. Kander in her own home kitchen." The Settlement Cook Book.....
Gold Medal Flour Cook Book.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Washburn-Crosby Co., 1910. Quarto-sized booklet ( x cm.), 74 pages. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and orange duo-tone. Endpapers bear an attractive pattern of the Flour's logo. THIRD EDITION. following publications in 1904 and 1909. A product cookbook, but with a range of recipes that go far beyond those that use Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Flour. Includes an article on white bread, and a number of statements that Gold.....
Arshi, Cook of the Seraglio. Engrav'd from the Collection of the Rt. Hon.ble Lord Baltimore.
[London: no publisher, 1769]. Engraved plate (27 x 19.6 cm.), untrimmed with large margins. "Fran.co Smith pinx. G. Vitalba sculp."; "Publ.d accord.g to Act of Parl.t Jan.y 30 1769". A single plate from a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits; this issued separately, but which would later be published as [Costumes of Constantinople], alternatively titled [Eastern Costume] (1768-1769). The portfolio issue contained twenty-eight engravings, each numbered in the upper.....
The Old English Farming Books, 1523-1793; [Facsimile edition of: The Old English Farming Books from Fitzherbert to Tull, 1523 to 1730 [and] More Old English Farming Books from Tull to the Board of Agriculture, 1731 to 1793].
Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen Rare Books, 1978. Two volumes published as one; octavo (22 x 14.4 cm.), 141, v, 187 pages. Illustrated. Index. LIMITED FACSIMILE EDITION, number 227 of 500 numbered copies. Originally published in London by Crosby Lockwood in two separate volumes in 1947 and 1950. A narrative bibliographic description of British agriculture books; volume one dates from 1523 to 1730 and features about two hundred fifty titles while volume.....
The War Garden Guyed.
Washington: The National War Garden Commission, 1918. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated throughout with comics. FIRST EDITION. A work promoting domestic war gardens in the U.S. during World War I, using comics and humor to look at the lighter side of food shortages and gardening. Most of the work reprinted from other newspapers and magazines. The pamphlet was published by the National War.....
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