Boston: A. Williams & Co.; Press of Wright & Potter, 1876. Octavo (18.5 x 11.7 cm.), 48 pages, "with blank pages interleaved". Table of contents. Advertisements. Author from copyright statement and from LC Old Records. FIRST EDITION. A charitable cookbook, published "for the first time for the Fair in aid of the Massachusetts Infant Asylum" (Preface). The recipes are presented in narrative form. The rear wrapper panel displays ads for.....

Springfield, Mass. Cyrus W. Atwood, Printer, 1895. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 80 pages. Advertisements. Cover title: The A. A. Cook Book, Containing Three Hundred Tested Recipes. Publisher's name and date of publication from cover. Index is actually a table of contents. ~ Stated Second Edition. Not a charitable cookbook (though included in Cook), but rather a functionally anonymous compilation of unattributed recipes, numbered 1-350. A survey eminently of its.....

Philadelphia: Ziegler & Smith, Sole Proprietors, 1867. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (16.5 x 12 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. While an almanac, there is no evidence of other issues. A promotional almanac and recipe book, for the patent medicines produced by Dr. Leon, specifically his Infant Remedy and Electric Hair Renewer. The promotion of the remedies is interwoven with culinary and household recipes, Soft Gingerbread, Winter Herbs.....

[Rochester, N.Y.]: H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co., 1889. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (22 x cm.), 51, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the eleventh annual almanac advertising Warner’s patent medicines, with the standard elements – ephemeris, glowing testimonials, illustrated advertisements for the various cures, including Warner’s Kidney & Liver Safe Cure, Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, Benton’s Hair Grower. The cooking recipes.....

New York; Lockport, N.Y. Published by F.W. Kinsman & Co., apothecaries: Union Printing & Publishing Co., 1890. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (18.3 x 11 cm.), 32 pages. Printed throughout in black and red. Calendars for 1890 and 1891 printed on rear panel of wrapper. Advertisements. Other titles: Kinsman's New York Cook Book. The third and final almanac promoting Adamson's Botanic Balsam and other nostrum's and remedies produced by F.W. Kinsman.....

Paris: Pagnerre, Libraire-Editeur, rue de Seine, 18; Typographie de Henri Plon, 1865. Duodecimo (14.5 x 10.5 cm.), 200 pages. Engraved illustrations in the text. Table des Matieres. The eighth year of this popular French almanac, with calendar and ephemeris, but unlike most American "culinary almanacs" the bulk of this work is indeed related to food, with sections on various foodstuffs, (vegetables, birds, fish, sauces, etc.), and many recipes. The attractive.....

Buffalo, N.Y. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 1887. Further title from cover: "Compliments of World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y., 1882. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1880, by the World's Dispensary Medical Association, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington". Machine-sewn booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 24 pages. Calendar. Illustrated. Later issue, with the first published in 1880 and carrying a calendar for 1881.....

New York: Published by Rand Sea Moss Farine Co., 81 Beekman Street; E.S. Dodge, Printer, 96 Chambers Street, [circa 1870-75]. Cord-bound booklet (17.5 x 10.5 cm.), [16] pages. Publisher’s advertisements at rear, and on both panels of rear wrapper. Date from testimonials at rear, and from external sources (after 1876, Sea Moss Farine was manufactured by Lyon Mfg. Co., not by Rand). FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Evidently the first American.....

New York: Random House Inc., 1958. Octavo (24 x 17 cm.), 128 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION THUS; originally issued by magazine publisher Maco. An early outdoor cooking book, featuring "200 great outdoor recipes" from James Beard (1903-1985). Attractively laid out, and illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean and sound, in publisher's black cloth-covered boards, over a green cloth spine. Some edge wear to unclipped dust jacket; one small chip.....

Ashland, Mass. [n.p., 1907]. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 82, [1] pages. Index. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A collection of attributed recipes to benefit the St. Paul's Parish Church of Hopkinton, some twenty-five miles west of Boston in Massachusetts. St. Paul's Episcopal church was established in 1745, by Rev. Roger Price, Rector of King's Chapel, Boston. The recipes are in narrative form, and include some unusual offerings, including Eggs a'la Goldenrod.....

Boston, Mass. Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery, 1917. Stapled booklet (20 x 13 cm.), 29 pages. Stated "Third printing, May 21, 1917"; originally published in April of that year, and with a "Second Edition" early in the month of May. The lessons in this booklet cover "Food as an Energy Producer", and were “first arranged for lessons in Canteen Cooking, from the Massachusetts Branch of the Special Aid Society for.....

Cincinnati, OH: [circa 1882]. Two-sided advertising broadside, (29.8 x 22.2 cm.). Illustrated advertisement, printed on both sides. For Cincinnati, Ohio purveyor S.S. Kingery. On one side, Kingery promotes a combined peanut roaster and warmer. Includes description, capacity, ordering options, and testimonials. The other side advertises two types of ice cream makers, the "Giant Freezer" and the "Peerless Freezer". Some very slight edge wear and fold creases, fine condition. [OCLC locates.....

Nashville, Tennessee: [the author; Benson Printing Company, 1929. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 215 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes, gathered "from hither and yon" by the compiler, Anne Foster Caldwell, founder of the Nashville chapter of the Housewives League of America, and head of the Home Department of the Centennial Club, was head of Victory Gardens of Nashville. Internally clean and sound. In publisher's white cloth, gilt-titled.....