New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, 1865. Small octavo (18.5 x 12 cm.), 200, [4] pages. Publisher's advertisements. The First American Edition of Leonard Francis Simpson's English language translation of Brillat-Savarin's magnificent Physiologie du Gout. The English language translation of Fayette Robinson preceded this, published in Philadelphia in 1854. Simpson's version is quite unfaithful to the original, admitting in the Introduction that "Many parts are, however.....

Rochester, N.Y. Rochester Daily Advertiser Print. circa 1850s. Broadside (21.9 x 25.4 cm). Advertisement for F.M. Edson's Railroad Mill in Le Roy, Genesee County, New York. Flour manufactured from local wheat and "equal to any manufactured in the world!" Additionally notes that new machinery ensures clean wheat and thus pure flour. Freeman Edson was one of the founding Directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Printed on plain cream-colored paper.....

[Salem, Mass. Salem Gazette Press, [circa 1860-1875]. Broadside (32.5 x 16 cm.). A handsomely printed broadside, with ornamental border, advertising Dwarf Apple Trees, Quince Trees, Peach Trees, Ornamental Trees, Hardy Grape Varieties, Bedding Plants (currant, gooseberry, raspberry, etc.), and Climbing Vines. individual varietals are listed with prices. Andrew Nichols (born 1837) was son of Andrew Nichols (1785-1853), a President of the Essex County Natural History Society, Trustee of the Essex.....

Ocala Florida: T.A. Orr & Co.; [no printer identified, undated; circa 1880s]. Broadside advertisement (45 x 30 cm.), [2] pages. On bright yellow paper. Handsome illustrated broadside, advertising Christmas shopping at T.A. Orr's drug and stationery shop in Ocala, Florida. The broadside is undated, but we place it in the 1880s, based on the paper, the design, and the boom in building and business that took place in Ocala and.....

Chicago: 1862. Broadside (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) Notice to shippers of an increase of rates for livestock traveling east from Chicago. Rates outlined for destinations of Detroit or Toledo, Buffalo or Suspension Bridge, Pittsburg, and Lake Erie, Buffalo or Dunkirk. On reverse of broadside are calculations in pencil that include "Dunkirk". Small tear and fold-marks, otherwise very good condition.

Chicago: Kingston House, 1960. Thick octavo, 512 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Recipes culled from dozens of the era's best cookbooks. Fine in publisher's grey-backed blue cloth, in a fine dust jacket.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1939. Octavo, 279 pages. Second printing. An early farm-to-table concept book, from The Browns. Their twelve charming and often useful cookbooks are all the more impressive for having been written in the span of six years. The Browns are also notable for having expanded the concept of a Turducken, adding additional, progressively smaller birds surrounding a single oyster, the whole encased in a peacock. A fine.....

New York: Roving Eye Press, 1961. Large octavo, 417 pages. Illustrated frontispiece. FIRST EDITION. An idiosyncratic bibliography of over four thousand four hundred American cookery books. Brown and his family wrote and published an enormous number of cookery books in just a few short years, following years as an editor of little magazines, and a go at avant-garde poetry.In yellow dust jacket with chipping, spine discoloration, and light foxing. Green.....

New York; Hastings-on-Hudson: Valentine's Manual; At the Sign of the Three Black Swans, 1928. Octavo, stapled in wrapper (24.5 x 16 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated, some in color; text printed in black and white. FIRST EDITION. A short history of Delmonico's, America's first fine dining restaurant, founded in 1827; it's been called "the genesis of American fine dining cuisine (Wikipedia). Henry Collins Brown (1862-1961), the editor of Valentine's Manual, wrote.....

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. Small oblong octavo (10.5 x 18 cm.), [52] pages. FIRST EDITION. A charming and handsomely printed collection of recipes for forty puddings and ten sauces. Each recipe is given its own page. The rear paste-down contains an advertisement for the cookery books of Marion Harland. Lacking front free endpaper (blank). In green cloth with illustrated chromolithograph paper-covered boards, rubbed and mildly soiled. Good only.....

Marseille: chez l’auteur, 1944-1949. Large quarto, xvii, 197 pages. 35 cm. Illustrations by Louis Jou. FIRST EDITION. One of 1000 numbered copies on Auvergne pur chiffon made by Richard de Bas. One of the great works of Provençal cookery, from the great mid-20th century French chef Maurice Brun of Marseille. An elaborate production, with signatures sewn, but unattached to the colorful printed wrappers. Decorated chemise somewhat worn, a bit of.....

Williamsburg; Richmond, Virg. Colonial Williamsburg, Incorporated; Printed on the Press of August Deitz & Son, 1939. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.) 276 pages. Stated "second edition". A modern cookbook styled after late eighteenth century works, with recipes drawn from historical English sources, predominantly William Parks' 1742 printing of E. Smith's Compleat Housewife, the first cookbook printed in America. In full ruled calf with raised bands and spine label titled in.....

London: Dulau & Company, Ltd., 1929. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), vii, [1], 133, [3] pages. Frontispiece. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, limited to one thousand copies, each signed by the author (this is no. 848). A great classic of food writing, and an important book for all interested in northern tree fruits and berries. Also contains sections on nuts and grapes. The book is a learned recitation of the.....