Boston, Mass. Felton & Son, Inc.; [printed by Vose-Swain], 1936. Duodecimo-sized booklet (11.4 x 8 cm.), 47 pages. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings. Stated Third Printing. A promotional bar manual, with recipes built on Felton & Son's Pilgrim Rum. With a short history of Felton & Son distillery, established by Luther Felton in Boston circa 1820. In publisher's textured burgundy stiff wrappers, embossed and gilt-titled and decorated. With the.....

Metuchen, NJ and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1979. Octavo, 125 pages. FIRST EDITION. A study, conducted between 1975-76, that surveys, identifies, and analyzes important U.S. collections of printed materials on the culinary arts. In teal boards, very fine throughout.

Quedlinburg & Leipzig: G. Basse, 1828; 1833. Octavo (17.5 x 12 cm.), 80; 44 pages; with the addition of 12 pages and 4 pages respectively, of contemporary hand-written notes in German. Second, Improved Edition; First Edition. Two works bound as one. The first consists of a general guide to making all kinds of vinegars from different sources and for differing purposes. Domestic and commercial production of these useful ferments are.....

New York: C.M. Saxton, Agricultural Book Publisher, 1851. Octavo, vi, 345, 306 , [ads] pages. Later printing. Frontispiece engraving and illustrations after The Complete Farmer. A manual of mid-19th century modern husbandry bound with practical advice for gardening fruits and vegetables, from growing and preserving, to saving seeds. In blind-stamped green cloth and gilt stamped spine. Slight foxing throughout text, otherwise very good.

Paris: Librarie Gallimard, 1932. Quarto, 180 pages. First edition, numbered and limited. One of 220 numbered hors commerce copies, stamped S.P. [service de la presse], from a total of 1589 copies. Printed in red and black and with text decorations throughout. Marie-Claude Finebouche is the pseudonym of Madame Jean Alabert, wife of the celebrated author and gourmand. Born in 1879, she published several cookbooks in the 1930s and 40s celebrating.....

Paris: Compagnie des Graphiques, 1926. Octavo (19.5 x 12.5 cm.), 256 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. "Fingosier" is the gourmand's pseudonym that has yet to be cracked. Translation of the subtitle: "useful to all lovers of good food, and generally to all those who want clarification on the art and how to prepare certain tasty dishes". Samuel Chamberlain's copy, with the wrappers covered in a patterned paper and glassine, and sporting.....

Haverhill, Mass. [The Church; Printed by] Press of Chase Bros. 1888. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), [viii], 144, [x] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Title page printed in red and black. Decorated chapter head- and tailpieces. Table of contents. List of corrections. Editor inferred from copyright statement on title-page verso. Third Edition. A church cookbook likely issued in concert with the dedication of a new meetinghouse in 1882. With approximately five.....

San Francisco: Matthews, 1910. Octavo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 165 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). “Table of contents” is actually an index. Subtitle on cover: Containing 600 Recipes Tried and Proved. Illustration of the Church on the title page. FIRST EDITION. A compact but generous church cookbook with six hundred attributed recipes, entirely addressed to an anglophone readership expecting fritters and puddings. Potential stand-outs among them: Cream of Onion Soup, Panned.....

Hartford, Conn. The Burr Index Co., Printers, 1914. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [xiv], 80, [xxii] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Index is actually a table of contents. Evident Third Edition; first appearance under this title. An enlarged revision of two earlier editions, of 1890 and 1895, both titled Bazaar Cook Book. Three hundred attributed recipes, gathered (one surmises) on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the congregation’s recognition.....

Berkeley, California: [The Church; Printed by the]Press of Standard Publishing Company, 1903. Octavo (23.25 x 14 cm.), [iv], 171, [i] pages. Advertisements. Index. Evident first edition (but subsequent to an 1884 publication with different subtitle, author statement, and publisher). A generous church cookbook with seven hundred recipes; noteworthy among them: Squash Muffins, Celery Root and Hearts of Artichoke, Mussel Bordelaise, Clam Patties, Spanish Meat Pie, Coffee Fruit Cake, Lemon Cocoanut.....

[Portland, Conn. The Church, circa 1910]. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 32 pages. Title from cover. Date of publication undetermined. Includes blank pages. Evident FIRST EDITION. A compact church cookbook, approaching two hundred brief recipes, all of them attributed; containing almost entirely baked goods, puddings, pies, and preserves. Commonplaces, to be sure, but also: Squash Biscuits, Green Tomato Pie, Huckleberry Pudding, Poached Apples, and two versions of Pear Chips (with.....

Colorado Springs, Colo. [The Church, between 1931 and 1933]. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 84 pages. Advertisements. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Title from cover. Date of publication determined from external evidence. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. An attractive if modest church cookbook from El Paso County, from a congregation that had formed – in 1872 – before the name Colorado Springs became attached to it. More than five.....

McLean, VA: EPM Publications, 1983. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), 279 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A gem of a book from the Alaska-born and Virginia-based old ways practitioner, Grace Firth. She discusses the stillroom, and its place in the home and in the lives of women, before surveying its products: cheese, breads, beverages, vinaigres bons, cured meats, fish and fowl, dry staples, etc. Some light sunning to spine, otherwise.....