Vienna; Bratislava. 1881-1891. Collection of thirty-one menus, mounted in a contemporary scrapbook. The menus hail mostly from Vienna, in large part from the Metropole Hotel and Frohner's Hotel Imperial, but there are also four from the Palugyay Palace in Bratislava. Although the menus come from only a few hotel restaurants, there is great stylistic variety, with some of the menus printed, and other handwritten on printed card. A few contain.....
![Item #8243 [Vernacular photograph - interior of tavern]. Anonymous](/pictures/medium/8243.jpg?v=1643206203)
[N.p. New England (?): circa 1890]. Original photograph on board (16.3 x 22 cm.). Photographic print of tavern interior, with five men gathered around a bar and a wood or coal stove. The men include the bar or tavern keeper in jacket behind the bar, a waiter in white apron with a tray at the ready, and three customers: one warming his hands at the fire, another sporting a shot.....
![Item #8244 [Vernacular photograph – interior of cafe/diner]. Anonymous](/pictures/medium/8244.jpg?v=1643206203)
[N.p.; New England, Massachusetts(?)]: circa 1900-1904]. Original photograph on board (photograph 12.5 x 16.8 cm.; board 12.8 x 17 cm.). Photographic print of cafe/diner interior, with the proprietor seated at the counter on a stool, three servers standing behind the counter in white jackets. The menu includes “Pork 15c, Small Steak 15c, Rump Steak 20c, Ham & Eggs 20c, and the “Bill of Fare includes “Haddock" and "Steak Cod”. Individual.....
[Boston: Winter, 1896]. A bound volume of autograph letters with the invitation and autograph menu. Octavo (22.5 x 15 x 8 cm.), bound volume of letters mounted on stubs. A superb record of the social grace of an era long gone. Mrs. Francis Blake, wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame (see DAB), gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the society ‘A’ list of Boston. Participants were to.....
Phoenixville, PA: circa 1890. Broadside (35.5 x 28 cm.); set of six photographs, approximately 13 x 11 cm each; and business card, 4.5 x 9 cm. Broadside with pasted down photograph by A.W. Rothengatter & Company of Philadelphia. Offers fresh baked items daily, seasonal treats, and event catering. Four photographs are pasted down to individual rough-edged board, remainder with descriptions to verso. Photos illustrate various exterior and interior shots of.....
Paris: [1953]. One and one half page pen and ink letter (26.5 x 21.5 cm.) on single sheet of pale blue Paul Cushing Child stationery, with ink date stamp ("May 18 1953"), addressed, "USIS. 5 Place de Rome, Marseille (B du Rh)". ~ An early letter from Julia Child, written while she was living in Paris with her husband Paul and working on her first book, the seminal Mastering the.....
1950. Rimbaud. Oeuvres (Paris: Mercure de France, 1950; Le Chanson de Roland (Paris: Piazza, 1947); Honore de Balzac (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1950); de Maupassant. Contes (Paris: Piazza, 1930). La Legende de St. Germain des Pres (Paris: Roulotte, 1950). Guide Commode de la Banlieue de Paris (Paris: Andre Leconte, 1950). Various sizes and editions. All signed by Julia Child. The final volume listed above is signed "Paul Child" but in Julia's.....
[Santa Barbara ; Cambridge: 1981-2003]. A convolute of correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the relationship between American icon Julia Child, and Beverly Jackson, reporter, novelist, collector, and a legend of the social circles of Santa Barbara. The two were long time friends, and neighbors in Santa Barbara's Montecito. ~ Contents: Fifteen original notecards or postcards, typed or handwritten, signed by Julia Child; one TLS; one fax, and one TLS.....
![Item #6143 Amministrazione d[e]l' Mag[nifi]co Antonio Ciotti Fattore d[e]l' Nob[il]e Signore...](/images/noimage.png)
[Seggiano, Italy: 1793-95]. Manuscript codex (32 x 22.5 cm.) in several hands; various paginations in 24 gatherings of unequal lengths, including additionally several miscellaneous receipts, all indicating a retrospective assemblage, headed by a summary report as reflected by the title on the first gathering; bound in vellum and tied with cords. ~ A reference account book for the crop year October 1793-September 1794 (two instances of the date 1792 may.....
![Item #8747 [Original scrapbook and manuscript notes for the Guerriere Dinners. With:] A Brief...](/pictures/medium/8747(1).jpg?v=1670457423)
Boston: [1933-1948]]. Quarto (29 x 22 cm.), [~150] pages. Additional handwritten or typed leaves pasted in. In full royal blue calf, titled in gilt; with dentelles. Some rubbing to edges. Some additional materials detached but present. Generally very good. ~ A somewhat ad hoc record book of the meetings of the Boston dining society, The Guerriere Dinners. The Dinners are named after the British frigate Guerriere, which lost a grand.....
![Item #7573 [R.H. Murphy Cookery Book]. R. H. English manuscript/typescript recipe book –...](/pictures/medium/7573.jpg?v=1611714123)
[United Kingdom: N.d., circa 1920s]. Quarto-sized spring-back binder (29 x 24 cm.), [10], 84 pages, numbered by hand. Detailed table of contents. Title from cover. Many leaves are carbon, with a few the original, and most leaves have a few holograph edits. Paper watermarked “Silver Line”. An illustrated advertisement for the “Rekarts Instantaneous Spring Back Binder” pasted-down to front interior binding panel. Laid-in is an original photograph (20.5 x 16.....
Boston: Elmer Chickering, [circa 1889-1893]. Albumen print photograph, (19 x 24 cm. plus margins). Photographer’s imprint and manuscript inscriptions on verso, identifying the women pictured and their hometowns. This rare photo, taken by Boston photographer Elmer Chickering, shows Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857–1915) seated at front left surrounded by the students. Most are holding cooking utensils while one holds a cookbook and another kneads dough. Farmer graduated Mrs. Lincoln’s Boston Cooking.....
Megere, [Haut Savoie, France]: November 6th, 1944. Bi-fold sheet, (18 x 14 cm.), [4] pages. With three punched holes, likely added later by the military office for organized storage. Two pages of manuscript text, with annotations in pen and pencil from various recipients in the chain of command, and with a red stamp of receipt, dated 15 Nov. 1944, to the rear panel. A French chef writes requesting employment as.....
Liebemuehl, Prussia: 1853. Octavo (20.5 x 17 cm.), 140 pages. Text in German, in one neat hand. A cookery book created for Matilde Lehmann of Milomlyn, Poland, formally Liebemuehl in the Province of Prussia. Contains two hundred eighty-six food recipes scaled for household use and partially indexed at the front. Written in narrative form, the recipes include a wide variety of desserts such as puddings, cakes, and torts as well.....
Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2000. Two volumes, unpaginated, with black and white photographs. Quarto, boards covered in butcher paper, boxed. Text in French and English. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 numbered copies signed by Gissinger. An exchange in words and images between photographer Hans Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, this book provides a sharp contrast to what is usually considered "food photography". The black and white images reveal the grisly.....
Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2001. Folio, 194 pages with 58 full-page color plates. FIRST EDITION, limited to 500 copies signed by Gissinger and numbered. Nearly sixty "portraits" of salamis taken by Gissinger on his travels through Milan's salumeria, with a funny and erudite series of essays by Oberlé as accompaniment. Text in French and English. In the artist's salami-pattern printed cloth; edges of text block also with salami pattern. Fine.....
Paris: Librarie Remi Flachard, 9 rue du Bac, 75007; Impr. Drapeau-compo, 1991. Quarto (25 x 17.5 cm.), 109 pages. Illustrated with four plates of facsimiles. Bibliographic references. FIRST & ONLY EDITION, number 109 of 300 copies on vergé teinté ivoire, with an additional 50 copies hors commerce. The unpublished personal correspondence of Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (1758-1837), author of the famous Almanach des Gourmands. Grimod was the first restaurant.....
Rochester, NY: the photographer, 1972. Small folding box (14 x 15 cm.), with two folding sheets containing text by Robert Sobieszek, and ten black and white prints. FIRST EDITION, limited, numbered 1047/4000 copies and signed by the author on the second text leaf. Internally fine; publisher’s blue folding box, with photographically illustrated title pasted-down to top panel, rubbed and slightly split at corners. Still, generally very good. [Not in Roth.....
Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. An artist's book from Les Krims, in which the artist's mother demonstrates the step-by-step method for preparing her chicken soup. The book also includes Mrs. Krims' recipes for kreplach and matzo balls. Fine in photographically illustrated wrappers. A scarce photographic artist’s book and doubly so in that it is signed and.....
Rochester: Humpy Press / Light Impressions, 1979. Square duodecimo, unpaginated. Illustrated with twenty-eight black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. A photographic artist book from Les Krims, in which the artist's mother demonstrates the step-by-step method for preparing her chicken soup. The book also includes Mrs. Krims' recipes for kreplach and matzo balls. Fine in photographically illustrated wrappers.
New York: October 13, 1795. Single leaf notarized document (32.5 x 20.5 cm.), printed and manuscript text on recto only. With embossed paper seal of the notary. Sworn testimony of a Peter Adams, regarding an agreement to settle a dispute over transport of one hundred barrels of fish. The fish, located in New Carlisle, Quebec (north of New Brunswick), to New York. The parties, Thomas Sherrer, who had attempted to.....
[Los Angeles; San Francisco, California: Lucca, circa 1938]. Six items in all: 1. Photo album, “Photographs”, bound with cord (18 x 26 cm.), [8] pages. Nine original black & white photographs, mounted to album leaves. The photographs depict the exterior of the San Francisco Lucca’s decked out in its grand opening finery; the bakery with staff; the dining room with full from to house staff (and perhaps the owners?); wedding.....
[circa 1873]. Narrow octavo, 56 pages, plus unpaginated memoranda section. Pages 1-25 of the Commercial Index are pasted over with clippings that include recipes for cakes, preserves, puddings, cookies, pies, and other household hints. Pages 26-55 remain intact with indices of business houses of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh with maps showing locations. Interspersed are advertisements. Page 56-finis are forty-nine handwritten recipes, ranging from fly-paper and taffy to sausages.....
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St Louis. MO: [circa 1940]. One page autographed letter signed, from Irma Rombauer, author of The Joy of Cooking, and a major figure in the history of American cooking. Addressed to Louise [Diallo],The last name was supplied by the seller and is not indicated on the letter itself. In black ink on cream colored stationery printed in brown, "Mrs. Edgar Rombauer - 5712 Cabanne Avenue - St. Louis - Mo.....
![Item #6862 Tuxedo Park, November 5, 1915. [title from header]. Manuscript – Chef’s...](/pictures/medium/6862.jpg?v=1599793341)
[Tuxedo Park, N.Y. November 15, 1915 – January 27, 1917]. Manuscript menus in a lined notebook (21 x 17 cm.), [110] pages. Menus, one per page, throughout in a neat hand. A chef’s collection of daily menus for meals at the Tuxedo Club, the private clubhouse and dining room for the community of the Tuxedo Park Association (now the village of Tuxedo Park). The Club, like many of the original.....