Roxbury, MA: 1849. 24.5 x 20 cm, half-fold manuscript report. A handwritten report by a committee member of the Roxbury almshouse to assess the complaint that there are “Paupers living so much better than other Paupers”. The report quality of houses in the Boston area, looking specifically at menus. A weekly menu for the Charlston, Cambridge, and Roxbury almshouses are outlined specifically, with the conclusion that “New Bedford is the.....

[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.....

[New England?]: 1804. Cord-bound 16mo. (15.5 x 9 cm.), [18] pages. A manuscript list of breakfasts, dinners, and suppers served August 21-30. One hundred forty-nine in all, each with the name of the diner and prices affixed. Use of the word “term” seems to imply a school-related work. Brown ink in a neat hand throughout. Generally very good.

Germany: [circa 1890-1915]. Octavo, (20 x14.5 cm.), 141 pages. Thumb indexed by subject. 105 pages of handwritten recipes, eighty-two of which are in a fine German script, with twenty-three pages in English in a somewhat similar hand. One hundred eighty recipes in all. Sections include Soups, Gemuse, Sleischspeisen, Fische, Braten, Wildpret, Saucen, Compots und Salate, Cremes, Puddings, L[illegible], Meat, Desserts. Recorded in a publisher’s blank recipe collection book, thumb indexed.....

[l’Ain (France): circa 1870]. Large quarto (32.5 x 25 cm.), eight sheets of text and six of color drawings. There are forty-nine original watercolors and four plain drawings of mushrooms found in the department of Ain. The watercolor drawings are approximately life-size and realistic with fine shades of color as well as precise details on the feet, rings, blades and caps. ~ Unpublished manuscript by Joannes-Erhard Valentin-Smith, a member of.....

England, France: [circa 1840-1910]. Quarto-sized scrapbook (28.5 x 23 cm.), with twenty-three individual recipe sheets pasted-in. Texts in English and French. An odd collection of loose recipes on individual sheets. We've been unable to make sense of the particular selection, which includes a number of duplicate recipes, for rather unusual dishes, appearing side by side. Three of the recipes are on printed stationery. Recipes include: [illeg.] Glace, Pouding au Chocolat.....

[Isle of Man: circa 1960s]. Small quarto (18 x 23.5 cm.), [90] pages; unpaginated. Forty-five pen and ink drawings, some hand-colored, on rectos only. Images are labeled on the pages, with additional caption text on cards (6 x 19 cm.) laid-in. An ownership label on the front paste-down states, “Miss L.S. Garrad, Rose Cottage, Cronk Road, Union Mills, Isle of Man”. Molluscs pictured include (in common names, the artist has.....

San Francisco: [circa 1870-1938]. Convolute of various ephemeral pieces produced by San Francisco's first French restaurant, originally opened in 1849. The pieces include menus, postcards, wine lists, business cards, and labels for various proprietary wines and liquors. More than fifty different pieces in all. A few of the pieces are for Camille's Restaurant, which was run by Camille Mailhebau - one of the Poodle Dog's owners - after the Poodle.....

Photographer(s) and compiler uncredited. Large album format (30 x 23.5 cm.), 23 leaves (19 with black-&-white photographs). Captions in English.Collection of photographs dating, variously, from the middle years of the last century, assembled evidently for an English-speaking audience, and providing an overview of the cellar, maturation monitoring, and bottling operations of the German sparkling wine specialist Henkell & Co. Famously known as the Schloß (palace), the complex on view was.....

1894. Black-and-white photographic image (14.5 x 10.25 cm.), depicting the head chef and numerous kitchen staff of a large-scale dining establishment in France, Belgium, Monaco or another francophone country. Dated in pencil at lower margin, "1894-1895". Additional ink inscription on one of two cardboard mounts, “Marius Buisseren a ses neuf copans, Laurent Rouge". The chef is surrounded by forty eight seated and standing members of his kitchen staff, (including two.....

Constantiople; Athens: circa 1880. Three photographs mounted on card (each 9.5 x 6.5 cm.), labeled in ink on the versos. Three photographs of street food vendors: from Athens, a “seller of a species of cake: halva”; and from Constantinople, “an egg seller” and a “seller of a kind of cream named yoghurt”. The images show each vendor in traditional garb, with the equipment of their trades, the egg vendor with.....

[San Francisco]: 1892-1901. Duodecimo, about 50 pages. Manuscript in pencil and ink. Small, blank account book for a dry goods store, repurposed as a cellar book for A J. B. Reveyron, who is identified by Crocker-Langley's San Francisco Business Directory (1899), as a "cellarman" located at 135 Perry Street in San Francisco. The book, written in both French and English, records personal expenses, amounts of wine and spirits moving in.....

London; Edinburgh: Maclaren & Sons, 37 and 38 Shoe Lane; printed by Turnbull & Spears, [1903]. Quarto (29 x 23 cm.), 336 pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated, with twelve full-page color illustrations, eight tipped-in half-tones; and two tipped-in original gelatin silver prints. First trade edition, second printing, differentiated from the first printing by twenty-four fewer pages, mostly advertisements and a list of subscribers to the deluxe edition, as well as undecorated.....