London: Printed by Thomas Martin, No. 76 Wood-street, Cheapside, [circa 1790?]. Duodecimo (15.5 x 9.5 cm.), 168 pages. Copper-engraved frontispiece of a woman in her kitchen, plating a dish in front of a roaring fire, with the legend: "Engraved for Mrs. Harrison's new cookery book, 1783", but despite bearing a title identical with that of a book by Mrs. Harrison, the book was neither new nor Mrs. Harrison's. The bulk.....

Boston: Geo. B. Oakes & Company, 1869. Octavo, 292 pages. FIRST EDITION. A medium-sized compendium of useful household recipes, some for cookery, but most not. Includes many recipes for tinctures, herbal essences, pickles, ketchups, other preserves, hair tonics, roof patches and more, my favorite being "To Make Artificial Volcanoes." Some light foxing throughout, otherwise very good, in publisher's gilt-stamped light brown cloth, with some rubbing and corner bumps, but still.....

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., [1949]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), viii, 184 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, one color plate, eighty-three sepia-toned plates on and eight illustrations in the text. Index. FIRST EDITION. "... an intimate picture of Tudor, Stuart, and Georgian ways and means..." "... an account of the architecture, lay-out, furnishing, interior decoration, and all-round planning and functioning of homes throughout three centuries." Top edge red. Publisher's.....

Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight Company, 1921. Octavo (21 x 13 cm.), 58 pages. With eighteen illustrations by Peter Newall. FIRST EDITION. A collection of paradoxical verse based on known works by famous poets, re-imagined to relate to the trials and tribulations of housekeeping in the 1920’s. Internally clean and sound. In red printed tan wrappers; some wear to wrapper spine and with edgewear, otherwise very good. Signed and inscribed.....

New York; Boston: S. Colman; Weeks, Jordan & Co., 1837. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), 144 pages. Evident FIRST EDITION. A lengthy scolding on the dangers of "keeping up appearances", third in the series, Stories from Real Life, Designed to teach true independence and domestic economy. Lacking front and rear free endpapers. Foxed throughout; leaf with pages 7-8, with a closed tear. In rubbed and faded, original pebbled black cloth.....

Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Company, 617 Sanson Street, [1867]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 311, 12 pages. Publisher's advertisements. Evident third printing. Originally published by the author in Lebanon, Penn. in 1860 as 600 Miscellaneous Valuable Receipts (with identical pagination). The second printing appeared in 1867, but with a differently styled publisher information. A household recipe book, with a significant selection of beverages, including brandies, ciders, cordials, gin, rum.....

New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. Octavo (24.5 x 16 cm.), 313, [2] pages. Publisher’s list of titles in the series at rear. Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, vol. XV (Franz Boas, editor). FIRST EDITION. An investigation of the impact of re-tribalization on purposely masked tribe of Plains native peoples, identified by Mead as “Antlers”. The result of studies conducted during 1930, This third book-length work of Mead’s attempts to.....

Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 48 N. Fourth Street, 1860. Small octavo, 160 pages. Index. Stated "fourth edition, revised and enlarged". Originally published Philadelphia, 1856 under the title What I Know, or Hints on the Daily Duties of a Housekeeper. One of a number of Quaker cookbooks to appear in the 1850s. The first section "The Economical Cook Book" (roughly two thirds of the content), contains recipes in narrative form. The latter.....

[Foxborough, Mass.]: Published by A.L. Elliot, 1865. Booklet, (13 x 7.5 cm.), 8 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. The second in a series of three handy money-saving books: No. 1 – How to Save Fuel; No. 2 – Water-proof Boots & Warm Feet; No. 3 – Cures for Coughs and Colds. While the wrappers indicate, “Others will be ready soon” there is no evidence more booklets were produced beyond the.....

Boston: Dana Estes and Company, Publishers, [post-1887]. Octavo, 430, [18] pages. Rear blanks for recipes (not used). Illustrations in the text. Later printing, with the title page bearing the second title, "New Cook Book and Marketing Guide", not the original, Maria Parloa's New Cook Book, a Guide to Marketing and Cooking. A bit of light soiling to the endpapers and edges of text block, otherwise very good, in slightly edgeworn.....

Buffalo, N.Y. Published by D. Ransom, Son & Co.; Press of Baker, Jones & Co., 1883. Booklet, sewn on cords in wrappers (16.5 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. A single year from the annual almanac promoting the “Celebrated Family Medicines” of Ransom, Son & Co. (series 1874 – c. 1923). The booklet consists of a series of alternating pages of recipes (culinary, household, medicinal, dyeing, etc.), with facing.....

Hancock, New Hampshire: [publisher not identified], 1890. Stapled booklet (18 x 13 cm.), [13] pages. FIRST EDITION. Single issue of this amateur early housekeeping periodical from South Central New Hampshire. The editor, Tislet Temple, remains a mystery to this cataloguer. Sections include: Flowers, Children's Hour, The Kitchen, Correspondence, and more. Much of the content is in the form of letters, telling stories, asking questions, offering products. Light water stain to.....

[Norwich(?): April 1st, 1845 – January 1st, 1855]. Small octavo (15.5.x 10.5 cm.), [74] pages with handwritten text (others blank). A neat household account book, labeled “Expenses Out for House”, covering a broad range of purchases over more than a decade. The first page, “For oysters” seems an outlier, not format in the manner of what follows. What follows is a detailed list of purchases, line after line listing “Cash.....