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Item #7144 Aliments et nutrition, par soeur M. de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus, servante du Coeur...

Soeur M. de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus, S.C.I.M. [Marie de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus]

Aliments et nutrition, par soeur M. de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus, servante du Coeur immaculée de Marie du Bon-Pasteur de Québec.

[Québec province, s.n.]: 1948. Octavo in wrappers (22.5 x 15 cm.), 232 pages. Illustrated. Bibliographical references (pages 219-222); errata notice at rear. Second edition, revised and enlarged; the first edition was issued in 1946. This French Canadian cookbook is focused on nutrition and ingredients, and is roughly divided into two parts, the first on foodstuffs, and the second on menus and cooking. The author, Marie de Sainte-Thérèse de Jésus, was.....

Price: $75.00

Sterrett, Robert M.; [Postum Cereal Company]

Elements of Dietetics and Nutrition, compiled by R.M. Sterrett.

Battle Creek, Mich. Scientific Dept. of the Postum Cereal Co, 1909. Stapled booklet (21.5 x 11.5 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated; with a list of works consulted (page 4). FIRST EDITION. A product cookbook, promoting the therapeutic aspects of cereals as food, specifically the products of the Posstum Company, including Postum, Grape-Nuts, and Post Toasties. The little work is about evenly divided, with the first half dedicated to a general description.....

Price: $90.00

Toklas, Alice B

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book. Illustrations by Sir Francis Rose.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Octavo (21.3 x 14.5 cm.), 288 pages. Index. Errata slip tipped-in. Early printing of the American edition. Toklas' famous memoir in the form of a cookbook, outlining her life in Paris with Gertrude Stein. The first American edition did not include her famous recipe for 'Hashische Fudge' (contributed to the U.K. edition by her good friend Brion Gysin) which cemented her place in the.....

Price: $150.00

Item #7282 The Good Houswife [Huswife, Hous-Wife, Housewife] Made a Doctor, or, Health's choice...

[Tryon, Thomas (1634-1703)]; Philotheus Physiologus (pseudonym)

The Good Houswife [Huswife, Hous-Wife, Housewife] Made a Doctor, or, Health's choice and sure friend: being a plain way of nature's own prescribing to prevent [and] cure most diseases incident to men, women, and children, by diet and kitchin-physick only. Being an appendix to the book entituled, The way to health, &c. or a further demonstration of the philosophy therein contained. With some remarks on the practice of physick and chymistry. By Philotheos Physiologius, the author of The way to health, long life and happiness. The country-man's companion, &c.

London: Printed and sold by Andrew Sowle, in the Holloway-Lane, near Shoreditch, [circa 1685-88?]. Octavo (14.5 x 9.5cm.), [12], 96, 91-232, [6] pages; collation: A6, B-Q8, R2 (I3 signed I2). Sheet A/R should have had R1 and R2 as A7 and A8. It was wrongly imposed so that A5r and A6v were perfected by pages of R and vice versa. The error was corrected by pasting leaves from half another.....

Price: $3,500.00

Item #8774 Plain Directions for Accidents, Emergencies, and Poisons : keep this where you can...

[Turner, Alexis Paul; a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and physician to several of the charitable institutions of the same city.]

Plain Directions for Accidents, Emergencies, and Poisons : keep this where you can readily find it... Enlarged edition. One hundred twentieth thousand.

New York: Mutual Life Insurance Company of New-York, [1875]. Octavo (18.5 x 13 cm.), 126 pages. Illustrated. Appendix. Index. Stated "Enlarged edition" and "one hundred twentieth thousand". Author name from OCLC records. While all recorded printings prior to this are dated 1875, the "one hundred tenth thousand" and other lower numbers contain the printers slug "S.W. Green, Printer". This work appeared in shorter form(64 pages) in 1874, credited to Alexis.....

Price: $120.00

Item #3913 Popular Observations On Regimen and Diet; In Which The Nature And Quantities of Our...

Tweed, John

Popular Observations On Regimen and Diet; In Which The Nature And Quantities of Our Common Food Are Pointed Out and Explained; Together With Practical Rules and Regulations In Regard to Health, Adapted to Various Situations and Circumstances, From Infancy to Old Age.

Chelmsford: Printed and Sold by Meggy and Chalk, circa 1820. Duodecimo, v, 248, xii pages. First edition. The author, an Essex surgeon, insists on the primacy of dietetics or nutrition to health, and traces its place in medicine back to Hippocrates, and then forward, through Cheyne, Cullen, Nisbet, etc. There are sections on general nutrition, invalid care, and the effects of exercise on digestion, but much of the book is.....

Price: $450.00

Walker, W. Hall and George Aloys Peat

Food Diet Values.

Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co., [1917]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 15 pages. FIRST EDITION. In the midst of the First World War, Walker compiled excerpts from "a Blue Book dealing with the question of the Decrease of Native Population of the Colony of Fiji, published in 1896" to address the food crisis facing England. Fijian planter George Aloys Peat argues a deficiency of food led to a population decrease.....

Price: $50.00

Item #7545 Weihaiwei. Ordinance No.1 of 1909. An ordinance prohibiting the import and sale of...

[Weihaiwei – Opium Ordinance of 1909; Walter, B. Officer Administering the Government]

Weihaiwei. Ordinance No.1 of 1909. An ordinance prohibiting the import and sale of Opium and any other hypnotic.

[Liukungtao, Weihaiwai]: [Govt. Printers], 1909. Octavo (25 x 17 cm.), [6], [numerous blanks], pages. The legal act prohibiting the use of opium and any other hypnotic on the island of Weihaiwei. British Weihaiwei (now Weihai), was a leased territory of the UK, from 1898 to 1930, seen as a potential second port island like Hong Kong. Ex-Libris City of New York Association of the Bar, with typical stamps and dates.....

Price: $150.00

Item #8839 Memoirs of a Stomach. Written by himself, that all who eat may read; edited by a...

[Whiting, Sidney]; "by a minister of the interior"

Memoirs of a Stomach. Written by himself, that all who eat may read; edited by a minister of the interior.

London: Chapman and Hall, [circa 1856]. Small octavo (17 x 11 cm.), xvi, 135 pages. Illustrated. Stated "Seventh Edition, revised, with additions". "Memoirs of a Stomach, though seemingly spoofish, articulates issues of the relationship between imperial mind and digestive body in mid-nineteenth-century terms" (sf-encyclopedia.com). Sydney Whiting (1820/21-1875) was a UK barrister, poet, and author whose works often, though not here, exhibit themes of science fiction. Those works include Heliondé: or.....

Price: $200.00

Worsnop, E.M., assisted by M.C. Blair

A Nurse's Handbook of Cookery. A Help in Sickness and Convalescence. Second Edition.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1898. Octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 106, [2] pages. Advertisements. Second edition. A book of recipes and advice for nursing. The author was a cookery instructor for the London School Board. Near very good in publisher's illustrated blue boards. With the bookseller's ticket of L. Bruck of Sydney Australia to front paste-down.

Price: $90.00