Zurich: Interverlag AG, 1949. Large octavo, 296 pages. First edition. Illustrated with facsimiles (in-text and plates) throughout. Text in German. Schraemli's important history of cookery and cookbooks. In cloth boards with red and gilt stamped spine label, with some minor discoloration. Text slightly browned with age, else very good.
Potsdam: Muller & Kiephenhauer Verlag, 1928. Quarto, 74 pages. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The first book by architect Rudolf Schwarz. Schwarz worked in the periphery of the Bauhaus and was a significant figure in the field in the twenties and early thirties. He had a great influence on his friend Mies Van der Rohe. The photographic illustrations are by Renger-Patzsch, and this remains the most elusive of the photographer's books.....
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 254 pages. Illustrated, with frontispiece portrait of the doge, and additional illustrations in the text. FIRST EDITION. The first book authored independently by Margaret Symonds, daughter of John Addington Symonds, and published in the year of his death. Together with her father, they wrote Our Life in the Swiss Highlands (published in 1892). Foxing to some pages; abrasion mark to.....
Milano: [circa 1930-31]. Oblong folio, 18 pages, illustrated throughout. Stapled and string-bound typographic wrappers. General catalogue of moulds for pastry, ice-cream, chocolate and related machinery. Very good in printed wrappers. [OCLC locates no copies].
Vicenza: [circa 1930's]. Oblong octavo-sized, cord-bound wrappers with 14 pages, illustrated throughout. Sales catalogue for cork for the storage of ice cream and automatic distributors for cones and spoons. Very good in printed wrappers. [OCLC locates no copies].
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Barcelona: Destilerias Escat, 1948. Stapled booklet (17 x 12 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated throughout in Cromotecnica. First edition. An attractively-produced promotional booklet for various spirits and liqueurs of Destilerias Escat. The spirits include Anis de la Corona, Anis, Conac Y Ron Escarchados, Kummel no.00, Crema de Cacao, Conac Jerezano (and other conacs), Anisette Burdeos, Estomacal Escat, Vit, Absenta, Crema de Naranja y Bitter, Ron Criolla (and other rums), Peppermint, Curasao.....
Firenze: Casa Vinicola Barone Ricasoli, 1934. Eight octavo booklets, 15; 34; 20; 39; 23; 14; 14; and 14 pages. First editions. Complete set of individually authored instructional booklets for the Italian hospitality industry for use in the promotion of gastronomical tourism in Tuscany. Subjects include characteristics of “genuine” wine; where to find the best Italian wines; the wine production process; and how to best present wine to customers. Published by.....
Moskva: Gostorgizdat, 1959. Octavo, 206, [2] pages. Illustrations in the text. Thirty-two additional pages of illustrations from black-and-white photographs. First edition. Two hundred and fifty Chinese recipes, with title pages, preface and chapter headings in both Russian and Chinese, and text in Russian. A scarce culinary artifact of an era of good will between the Soviet Union and China, published just prior to the Sino-Soviet split. Original blue pictorial cloth.....
Philadelphia: Schaefer & Koradi, 1888. Small octavo, xxi, 165 pages. Later printing. Translated by J.C. Oehlschlager. An introduction to European cookery methods modified for local conditions in the United States. In thirty-one sections plus an appendix on the salting and smoking of meat in general. In browned and rubbed printed paper-covered boards with dark brown cloth spine. Child's pencil scribbles to end papers. Early owner's ink ownership inscription to front.....
Munchen: Selbstverlag/Suddeutschen Verlag, 1952. Octavo, 478 pages. First edition. Walterspiel was a prominent German chef, restaurateur and hotelier. After operating a string of other restaurants and hotels throughout northern Europe, Alfred, with his brother Otto, opened purchased the Hotel Four Seasons in Munich, and opened the Restaurant Walterspiel. The restaurant was open throughout World War II, but was bombed and burnt to the ground in 1944. They reopened the hotel.....
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[Paris]: Laboratoires Dujardin-Salleron, [circa 1890]. Broadside 37.5 x 28 cm. Contemporary to Louis Pasteur, Jules Salleron established a Parisian company specializing in oenological precision instrumentation, developing an acetimeter followed by his renown ebulliometer (still used today). Joined in the 1880s by Jules Dujardin, the company grew and continues to operate today. This pictorial broadside illustrates their oenological analysis laboratory and promotes their business to a Spanish-speaking clientele. On heavy cream.....
Leipzig: Verlagsbuchhandlung J. J. Weber, 1865. Octavo, 435 pages. Illustrated. First edition of the classic 19th century popular work on wine, by the Austrian agronomist and writer. Some light spotting to pages throughout, otherwise clean and tight, in light brown half morocco with raised bands over green paper covered boards. Some edgewear to the boards but still a handsome, near very good copy. [Bibliotheca Vinaria 42].