Henniker, N.H.[?]: [1847-48; 1901-1906]. Tall octavo (42 x 17 cm.), [approx. 150] pages. An account book of an unidentified New Hampshire butcher working in the 1840's. The individual accounts identify customers at the top of each page, with names including John Slade, Joseph S. Newhall, Hammon Hall, William Oliver, Nathaniel Mansfield, G.H. Hardy, and others. Items sold include Lamb, Beef, Veal, Mutton, Shin Beef, Shank Beef, Beefs, Toung (sic), Chickings.....

[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 a cafe or 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.....

[Boston: winter, 1896]. Octavo-sized correspondence record book (22.5 x 15 x 8 cm.), bound volume of one hundred forty-three letters mounted on stubs. Mrs. Francis Blake, wife of the physicist and inventor of telephone fame (see DAB), gave a small ‘dancing’ party for the ‘A’ list of Boston society. Participants were to depart from the Columbus Ave. station and return to the Huntington Ave. station (1:45 AM) via private train.....

[Concord, N.H. W.G.C. Kimball, Chase Block, 15 North Main Street, circa 1882]. Cabinet card photograph (10.5 x 6 cm.). Photograph of Mary Whitcher by W.G.C. Kimball of Concord, N.H. Mary Whitcher was a member of New Hampshire's Canterbury Shaker community, a poetess, and the author of Mary Whitchers Shaker Housekeeper (1882), which is recognized as "the earliest cookbook in Shaker culinary literature, and the first to give bills of fare.....

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.....

[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.....

[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.....

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, 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.....

Belknap County, New Hampshire: 1888-1905. Eight small account books, all approximately 16 x 9 cm, unpaginated. A collection of turn of the 20th century grocers’ account books for Mr. and Mrs. Dayton Shaw. In multiple hands. Eight manuscript account books demonstrate the groceries purchased and relationship between the Shaw’s and seven Belknap County, New Hampshire grocers: P. Berrley (1888), C.H. Watson (1895), A. Eugune Hill (1899), John Parker Smith Co.....

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. 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.