Staten Island, N.Y. 1866-67. Small cord-bound booklet, [44], [12 blank] pages. A small, but very interesting account book for the construction of a new Bake House. In the mid-19th century, the term "bake-house" was often used to mean a cooking facility in what we would a social service facility, an orphanage, home for the indigent, etc. And we believe that's what was being referred to here. The previous bake house.....

Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1936. Quarto, xxi, [1], 301 pages. Illustrated. List of Subscribers. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. Limited, number 204 of 500 copies printed on Arnold hand-made paper, from a total of 530 copies. The 30 copies of the edition de tete were printed on Hurlbut ivory custom laid deckle edge paper. The first translation into English of this famous ancient cookery book dating back to 4th or early 5th.....

London: Bailliere, Tindall, & Cox, 1881. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 95, 31, [1] pages. Bibliography. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION. An early English language history of salt, indeed a review in The Lancet of 1881 declared this the first work on the history of salt. Unfortunately, the same article declares, “We cannot but regret that the portion of the work on which the author should speak with most.....

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Octavo (21.5 x 15.5 cm.), ix, 356 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of short works of commentary on American life from the author's columns in Harper's magazine. Bernard Devoto has been credited with encouraging Julia Child consider writing her first cookbook after a correspondence about knife sharpening and was therefore there at the birth of the idea of Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Avis deVoto.....

Baltimore: Bacchus Press Ltd., 1985. Quarto, xiii, 403 pages. FIRST EDITION. A history, including wine facts that span centuries, and wine bibliography with other three thousand titles that includes biographical sketches of prominent wine writers. In dust jacket with some edge wear, chipping, and rubbing. Boards in fine condition, with like text.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc, 1962. Octavo, 243 pages. Later printing. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. First authoritative reference book on the various types of early American wooden ware and kitchen utensils. From cheese drainers and well buckets to oyster kegs and sausage guns, Gould clearly defines each tool and places it within its historical context. Small ownership stamp to half-title. In dust jacket with slight.....

New York: Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Co., 1893. Stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 8 pages. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of this offprint. A short, but highly entertaining survey of the historical literature on the subject of sea-sickness, or motion sickness at sea, and of various therapies. “Sea-sickness as one of the earliest noted, most constant, and most palatable of human infirmities, has a literature which, if not particularly.....

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1948. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 219 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of essays, including the author's attempt to recreate a fourteenth century banquet. Layton was a caterer and the other essays describe some of the escapades encountered in that noble profession. With the tiny ink bookseller stamp of Sotheran to front end papers, and some pencil bookseller description to rear end papers. Otherwise.....

New York City: [the company, circa 1850-1857]. Original candy packaging, a bag (28 x 16.5 cm.), printed in blue with text and engraved illustration on verso and recto. A confectionery bag from the famous Ridley & Co., suppliers of candy to New York City, and renowned for their Sugar Plums. Founded in 1806 and backed by the Stewart sugar interests, the original Ridley & Co. was located at Chambers and.....

Henley: Brakspear & Co., 1993. Octavo (21.5 x 14 cm.), viii, 103 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A history of the Brakspear brewery, founded in 1779, and issued on the bicentennial of the business. Henley, on the coach route from London to Oxford, served many prestigious travelers, including James Boswell, and George IV was said to have eaten "fourteen mutton chops at a single sitting". William Shenston immortalized the Inns of.....

New York: the photographer; John D. Chase, Optician, circa 1864]. Albumen silver print stereograph (8.5 x 17.5 cm.). Two prints mounted on card. The photographer is identified in a copyright registration statement. "The New England Kitchen", in The Brooklyn & Long Island Sanitary Fair, February 22, 1864, pages 72-78 states that this demonstration kitchen, not of contemporary cooking methods, but of old fashioned hearth cooking, was a hit with the.....

Porto: J.R. Goncalves; Instituto do Vindo do Porto, n.d. Three works in one volume. Quarto (21.6 x 28 cm.), 339; 60; 75 pages. Text in Portuguese. Photocopy facsimile of the three volumes of the Portuguese Port Wine Institute's bibliography and two supplements, from 1945, 1947, and 1952 respectively. Thousands of bibliographic entries related to port wine and its production. Bound in pink wrappers with some wear. Some annotations in ink.....