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. Algeciras, in Cadiz, is adjacent to Gibraltar and was once considered the southernmost health resort in Europe. Opened in 1901, the Hotel Reina Cristina served a mostly elite.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Dover, Mass. Manufactured solely by E.F. Hodgson, [circa 1898]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (20 x 13 cm.), 39, [1] pages. Illustrated with photographic reproductions and line drawings in the text. Evident FIRST EDITION. A trade catalogue for poultry breeding supplies and poultry. Ernest Franklin Dodgson's Peep-o'-Day Poultry Specialties was later to be rolled into Cornell Incubator Manufacturing. Fine in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies].

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".....

[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.....

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.....

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.....

New York: Meredith Press, 1969. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 214 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Frontispiece. Index. FIRST EDITION. A biography of the great barman and owner of the legendary eponymous New York bar and restaurant, Toots Shor. Filled throughout with exploits of the famous raconteur's exploits behind the bar and out in the City, and with stories of the celebrities and politicians who frequented Toots Shor. Considine was a......