Mt. Lebanon, NY: Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, 1868. Two column broadside, 27.5 x 21.5 cm. A poem of eight numbered stanzas, which appeared as early as 1830, and is attributed to Hannah Bronson. A later printing included this explanation, "The foregoing hymn was composed by Hannah Bronson, a Shakeress, in consequence of a story being circulated that the Shakers put some kind of seed into their cakes." Rumor had it.....
New York; [London]: Alfred A. Knopf Inc.; [printed by Wyman & sons, Ltd.], 1935. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), [xii], 190, [1] pages. Advertisements. Appendix of special wine terms. Second, revised American edition. Written at the request of the great bibliographer Michael Sadleir, The Art of Good Living has been described as the first book in English "in which food and wine are treated together, by a master of both".....
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.
London: The Wine and Food Society, circa 1949. Large octavo, 264 pages. First edition. Dictionary of culinary terms from "Abalone" to "Zweiback" by the president of the Wine and Food Society, Andre L. Simon. In red boards with minor bumping, title stamped in gold to front cover and spine. Text in fine condition with bookseller's ticket of Cooks Books to rear paste down.
Manchester / London: John Heywood / F. Pittman, 1873. Octavo, 112, [1] pages. Advertisements. A condensed and revised version of Smith's Fruits and Farinacea, originally published in 1845. This revision is aimed at the lay reader, specifically the members of the Vegetarian Society. Smith took a very broad view of his subject, considering all of history from biblical times forward, and quoting Moses, Linnaeus, Adam Smith, and so on. In.....
Ottawa, Canada: The Mortimer Co. Ltd., 1913. Commission of Conservation Canada. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals. Large octavo, 159 pages. Illustrated with seven black & white plates and one map. Errata slip. First edition. A bit of bumping to the corners and spine of gilt-stamped brown cloth. Otherwise fine.
Kobe, Japan: T. Takagi, Photographic Studio & Art Gallery, circa 1914. 18 x 25.5 cm, unpaginated [22 leaves, plates interleaved with tissue]. Illustrated title page, brief introduction, and twenty hand-colored collotype plates depicting the process of cultivating Japanese rice, or, “Nippon’s ‘Staff of Life’”. Each photograph accompanied by short descriptive text. Known for his glass slides and many collotype books on themes of Japanese life, Teijiro Takagi bought his Kobe.....
Barcelona: Orfebres de Espana, Sociedad Anonima, circa 1920. Tall, brad-bound trade catalogue, 23 leaves, printed rectos only. Trade catalogue of flatware, illustrated in various patterns. Some wear to the printed card-stock wrappers, otherwise very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates no copies].
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 215 pages. FIRST EDITION. The first work in Trillin's classic "Tummy Trilogy" and the first volume of his food writing in book form. Very good in publisher's red over blue cloth, in a near very good dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half-title. Surprisingly scarce, and doubly so signed.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 215 pages. FIRST EDITION. The first work in Trillin's classic "Tummy Trilogy" and the first volume of his food writing in book form. Fine in publisher's red over blue cloth; in a near fine dust jacket. Surprisingly scarce.
London: Printed for the author at the Literary-Press, No. 62 Wardour Street, Soho, and all Book-sellers in Town and Country, 1791. Duodecimo (16 x 10.5 cm.), 120, [4-12] pages. Illustrated with twenty-one wood engravings. Publisher's advertisements at rear. ~ Second edition. First issued in 1788, this juvenile etiquette manual for mealtime is best known for its extensive section on carving, well-illustrated with nineteen handsome woodcuts of carving instruction for different.....
Baltimore: [the author], 1950. Octavo, 165 pages. FIRST EDITION. An interesting compilation of historical and literary “evidence” against the consumption of alcohol. Turnbull, a sculptor and historian of the ancient world, pulls quotes and snippets from figures including Plato, Chaucer, Franklin, Johnson, Poe and others, many of whom more than enjoyed a tipple. In a way, a drinker’s anthology, albeit one twisted by the logic of prohibitions search for “freedom.”.....
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.....
London: William H. Ainsworth, Old Bond-Street, 1827. Octavo, xl, 498 pages. Advertisements. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and nine plates illustrating bills of fare. Eighth edition, greatly enlarged. Perhaps the most extravagant work on French cookery published in England up to that time, first issued in 1813. This eighth edition was issued with a much abbreviated title, describing the author more than the contents, and, I believe.....
London: John Ebers & Co., 1833. Octavo, 485 pages. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and nine plates illustrating bills of fare. Twelfth edition. Perhaps the most extravagant work on French cookery published in England up to that time, first issued in 1813. Internally tight and clean. Some internal soiling, with a few dog-eared pages and some offsetting from the frontispiece. In half calf, rebacked with a gilt-stamped.....
London: John Ebers & Co., 27, Old Bon-Street, 1833. Octavo, xlviii, 485, [3] pages. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and nine plates illustrating bills of fare. Twelfth edition, corrected and enlarged. Perhaps the most extravagant work on French cookery published in England up to that time, first issued in 1813. A particularly handsome copy, in publisher's original patterned green cloth with gilt-titled spine. Some internal light soiling.....
Praha: Druzstevní práce [Orbis], 1931. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 355, [4] pages. Stated fourth printing, "Ctvrté vydání”, one of five hundred copies printed. The colophon states there were cloth and leather binding issues, but does not state the number of each. Originally published in 1919, Sup was one of the first works (and I believe the first novel) of Emil Vachek, journalist, playwright and novelist, and inventor of the.....
Lyon: Librairie de P. Masson, 1928. Large octavo 136 pages. First edition, n° 818 of 900 examples on vélin blanc, from a total edition of 1040. Illustrated. A year earlier, the author issued a twenty-three page booklet with the same title. "Treats of the old Lyonnaise innkeepers, cabarets, and famous restaurants; the Lyonnaise cookery, accompanying wines, and typical recipes..." (Bitting). A fine copy, uncut, in original printed wrappers, with glassine.....
Paris: Chez P. Rouquette et Fils, Editeurs, 1890. Large octavo, 971 columns / 485 pages, plus errata. Text in French. First edition. One of 450 copies on beau papier velin, from a total of 500. Illustrated throughout with images from cookery books and engraved elements for each chapter. Seminal gastronomy bibliography from the beginning of printing to 1890. According to Bitting, "the work is considered the most erudite and valuable.....
Porto: Instituto Do Vinho do Porto, 1950. Octavo, 68 pages. Illustrated. Text in French. Second, revised edition. An introduction to Port and to the region for which it is named. Very good in publisher's printed wrappers. With the bookplate of the prolific Danish wine and travel writer, Henning O'Strit.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, Chestnut Street; Stereotyped by L. Johnson, 1837. 24mo. (14 x 10 cm.), 267, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. This collection of food essays first appeared in the London weekly journal, The Original, published by the author, from May through December of 1835, and a bound volume of The Original which included these essays appeared in 1836. A second edition was published New.....
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.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street W.C.; [printed by] Butler & Tanner Ltd., [1932]. Small octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 137, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of thoughts – not quite idle thoughts – "gastronomical, literary, and political (though heedless of ephemeral policies)" from the preface. Welby was an interesting character, born and raised in India by parents who forbade him from speaking English until the age.....
New York/London: W.W. Norton, 2006. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), 390 pages. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. We believe this to be the first novel with a restaurant inspector as protagonist, from the author of Trainspotting and Filth. Fine in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author on the title page.
Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1912. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 325 pages. Cover design by Dixie Selden. Stated second impression. A work of instructional fiction with a religious bent. "Dedicated to many, many girls who carried live coals from the old kitchen stoves to their own hearth-stones." Some light spotting to interior and to text block edges. In publisher's decorated trade binding, printed in black and red on tan.....