[Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell]

The Experienced American Housekeeper, or Domestic Cookery: Formed on Principles of Economy, for the Use of Private Families. With an engraving.

New York: Robinson & Franklin, 1839.

Duodecimo, 216 pages. With a folding table depicting a table setting, as well as two other engravings: one a butchering guide and the other James and Cornell's Improved Cooking Stove. Later American edition, substantially abridged. Originally published under the title A New System of Domestic Cookery, London 1806 or 1807. Handsomely rebound by St. Michael's Abbey in full brown calf, with red morocco spine label. A few pages with repair to edges, otherwise near very good. [OCLC locates just two copies of this printing; Bitting page 411; Cagle 674-79; Lowenstein 239].

Price: $500.00