San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Company, 1910. Octavo, [18], 19-249, [13] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of attributed recipes written in narrative format, assembled to raise funds for a club house. Includes household tips and a section on Lemon Remedies. Local advertisements precede, follow, and are interspersed throughout the recipes. Organized in 1898, San Francisco's Corona Club was a women's charitable and civic organization. At the time of this publication.....

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1879. Small octavo (16 x 10.5 cm), 159, [4] pages. Later printing of this important book on economical cookery from the head of the New York Cooking School. Corson made it her life's work to bring practical, inexpensive cooking to the masses. The section "Cheap Dishes With Meat" includes a good number of dishes made with alternative cuts, offal, or less popular meats such.....

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, circa 1886. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 591 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. While the copyright page indicates 1885, the preface states 1886, which is in alignment with Bitting. Corson was "one of the original cooking school leaders, and a champion of nutritious meals for the poor." [Historic American Cookbook Project] As the founder of the New York Cooking School in 1876, she was a......

[London: no publisher, 1769]. Engraved plate (27 x 19.6 cm.), untrimmed with large margins. "Fran.co Smith pinx. G. Vitalba sculp."; "Publ.d accord.g to Act of Parl.t Jan.y 30 1769". A single plate from a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits; this issued separately, but which would later be published as [Costumes of Constantinople], alternatively titled [Eastern Costume] (1768-1769). The portfolio issue contained twenty-eight engravings, each numbered in the upper.....

New York: James Miller, 647 Broadway, 1872. Octavo (19.3 x 13 cm.), 128, [8] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Later American printing, "from the Twelfth London Edition". A classic of early rustication literature, from the same American publisher that brought us Ten Acres Enough and How to Get a Farm. Our Farm..., with sections on cows, pigs, poultry, pigeons, butter-making, bread baking, and maintaining a kitchen garden is written as a narrative.....

[N.p. Ghent: N.p., circa 1913]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (19 x 13.5 cm.), 48 pages. Evident FIRST EDITION. A small Dutch household manual and recipe book, Practical Handbook for the Kitchen. This printing contains no publication information, but a copy at Bibliotheek Universiteit van Amsterdam, indicates it was printed in 1913 by Maes-Bejeart in Ghent. Text leaves age-toned, some small chips to edges of leaves. Black decorated gray wrapper. Near.....

Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1979. Quarto (27 x 18 cm.), 84 pages. FIRST EDITION. Illustrated throughout. Gastronomic bibliography with one hundred sixteen titles with annotations, from the collection of Marcus Crahan. Introduction by the collector. In wrappers with minor rubbing, else near fine throughout.

Berkeley: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987. Octavo, 71 pages. Illustrated throughout with facsimiles. FIRST EDITION. Exhibition catalogue, featuring bibliographic entries for one hundred British diet and cookery titles compiled by the collectors and cookery booksellers John and Elaine Craig. In printed beige wrappers with one corner of rear panel creased, otherwise fine.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. Octavo (21 x 14 cm.) viii, 364, [2] pages. Illustrated. Indices. Glossary. FIRST EDITION. "Descriptions of hundreds of plants and their growing conditions, from river banks, seas side, woods, dry fields, escapees from gardens, etc.” In publisher’s decorated binding, gilt-titled green cloth decorated with a floral pattern in pale gray and dark orange. Lower fore-corner lightly bumped; spine d bit darkened. Very light.....

Berkeley, CA: University of California Printing Office, 1930. Octavo, 366 pages. FIRST EDITION. Photographs and charts illustrate throughout. A University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Report regarding the prospect of Eastern Asia as a viable market for U.S. grown fruits. Following World War I prices for domestic agricultural commodities plummeted, this report investigates possible alternative markets in Japan, Korea, China, Phillipines, French Indo-China, Siam, British Malaya, Dutch.....

Dublin: Hibernia Magazine, [circa 1810-11]. Uncut, engraved sheet in the shape of a hand fan (32.5 x 50 cm.). Printed verso only. A parodic table setting. The image depicts the table for a “Marriage Feast”, with a main table and dessert and liquor side tables. The tables are decorated with cupids, arrows and quivers, doves, and paired lovebirds. The names of the dishes reveal the conceit, with “Devine Part of.....

Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 10 Rue Mayet; [Le Société...], 1935. Octavo (210 x 16.5 cm.), 38, [8] pages. Illustrated with color lithographs by Edy Legrand. FIRST ORDINARY EDITION, one of thirty-five thousand copies on velin d'alfa. A promotional item serving the producers of Roquefort cheese, with text by two of the greatest of French mid-century food writers, and illustrations by the great illustrator and painter Edy Legrand. Tiny bit of.....

New York: Museum of the American Indian, 1920. Indian Notes & Monographs Vol. VIII. Small thin octavo, 673 pages. FIRST EDITION in book form. A important survey of the food traditions of the Zuni tribes. 'Feeding America' calls it one of the most "thorough and comprehensive" examinations of Native American foodways. The author "lived as an adopted member of the Zuni tribe from 1879 to 1884. During this time he.....