Paris: Flammarion, 1980; ©1969. Quarto (28 x 21.5 cm.), 177 pages. Illustrated. Text in French. Later printing of this monumental work of 20th Century gastronomy, from the father modern French cuisine. The posthumous work (Point died in 1955) is part memoir, part culinary guide and part cookbook. Assembled by Point's widow and published in 1969, the book was reissued in English in 2008 with a new introduction by Chef Thomas.....

Philadelphia: Printed by Lippincott & Co., 1887. Duodecimo (17 x 11.5 cm.), 95 pages. Includes two pages of "Opinions of the Press". Stated Thirtenth Edition, though more likely a later printing of the first edition. Originally published by Lippincott in 1878, this Temperance tract in verse was republished almost yearly until its final issue, in 1889. The Daily Leader of Binghamton, N.Y. described the work as "an intensely interesting Temperance.....

Paris: Eugene Figuiere, Editeur, 1923. 192 pages. Colored illustrations in the text. Publisher's catalog pages [177]-192. Horace-Napoleon Raisson (1798-1854) was a journalist, historian, gourmet and author of numerous "codes" interpreting the manners and morals of nineteenth century French society [e.g., Le Code galant, Le Code conjugal, etc.]. He was a popular enough writer in his lifetime, although today his works are, in the words of the writer of the preface.....

Firenze [Florence]: Per Piero Matini, 1691. Small quarto (23 cm), (8), 46; (2), 251, pages. Title page in red and black with printer’s vignette; decorative head- and tail-pieces, and ornamental initial caps. Text in Italian. ~ Third edition, improved. Franceso Redi (1626-1697) used the form of Ditirambo (dithyramb), a poetic meter of the ancient Greeks in the form of a song, here a paean praising the benefits of wine, particularly.....

Paris: Librarie Nilsson, [1903]. Short, squat octavo, 914 pages. Later edition. Illustrated by Robida. Considered by some to contain the first documentation of a recipe for coq au vin. Priscilla Ferguson discusses this book as an example of Culinary Republicanism, a patriotic recognition of the diversity of parts, and yet the assembly into a whole. She points out that Alsace and part of Lorraine had been ceded to the Germans.....

New York: Fountainhead Publisher's Inc., 1961. Large octavo (24 x 16 cm.), xii, 306 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, Deluxe Issue, one of an unspecified number of signed copies, this one numbered "H.F.F.". Each chapter describes an element of the fine dining restaurant experience: great chefs, dining room staff, the sommelier, tipping, restaurant guides, and a fairly long view of what at the time was an unbroken line of tradition. The.....

Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University Library, 1968. Quarto, 230 pages. FIRST EDITION. Bibliography of all the cookery books and household manuals held by Kansas State University Library up to 1968. In cloth-backed purple wrappers with some creasing, and edgewear to the spine.

Hergiswil: Verlag Gastropress, 1981. Large octavo, 304 pages. Later printing. Illustrated with facsimiles throughout. Text in German. Schraemli's important history of cookery and cookbooks. In clean tan cloth. Very, very slight foxing to a few pages, otherwise fine. In near fine dust jacket with minor wear to corners.

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.

New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1924. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 102 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. The author, a young Wall Street businessman, shipped as a working hand for two weeks in 1904 on a fishing schooner. The twenty-three man crew fished from dories off the Delmarva Peninsula and New Jersey, hand-lining for bluefish. In gilt-titled dark blue cloth; fine in a very good dust jacket.....

New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1949. Large octavo, 264 pages. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Dictionary of culinary terms from "Abalone" to "Zweiback" by the president of the Wine and Food Society of London, Andre L. Simon. In rather chipped and faded dust jacket. Blue cloth slightly discolored and rubbed at edges.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, Little, Brown & Company, 1948. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.), xxi, 342 pages. Illustrated, some plates in color. Index. New edition revised by Crosby Gaige; originally issued in 1938. "Succulent French Cookery brought within reach of the American Housewife. Each appetizing menu is accompanied by suggestions for the appropriate wines-both French and American" (from the jacket). Some age-toning and light spatters to text block; a bit.....

New York: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc., 2000. Small octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), 155 pages. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. A beautiful novel of dreams, truffles, and the Provencal countryside from the American-born poet Gustaf Sobin who spent most of his life in the south of France. Reviewing Mr. Sobin's in The New York Times, In his review of the book in the New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called it a......