[N.p.]: Les Editions de l'If, 2000. Quarto, 159, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Text in English and French. FIRST EDITION. A detailed manual of chocolate production from a French master of the art. Included are colour photos of chocolate confections with smaller photos showing techniques and stages in the progress of making chocolate confections: basic techniques, moulding, eggs, desserts, behind the scenes, etc. Philippe Bertrand is the technical director.....

San Francisco: Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, [circa 1900]. Stapled booklet (15 x 12.5 cm.), [16] pages. Illustrated, and printed in halftone throughout, in black, red, and gray. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes for chocolate ice cream, cookies, puddings, jumbles, kisses, and more. “Chocolate Bretzles” and “Chocolate Africans” are among the more interesting inclusions. Publisher’s stapled, illustrated and blind-embossed wrappers, with some light edgewear. Otherwise fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates five copies].....

New York: Excelsior Publishing House, 1901. Excelsior Library of Popular Hand Books, no. 64. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 477-556, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements; illustrated. Later edition; originally published in 1878 in the series 'Haney's Trade Manuals', which included works on animal training and sign painting. This is the sole book in the series devoted to food of any sort. Haney's manuals were extracted originally from The Home Mechanic.....

Leipzig und Nordhausen: Heinrich Killinger, Konditoreibucherverlag, [1908]. Tall quarto (31 x 20.5 cm.), 16, [2], 40 chromolithograph plates, most double-page, sewn on tabs so as to lay flat. FIRST EDITION. Fifty-four examples of prize winning cake decorations, with explanations and instructions for garnishing. The garnishing instructions are supplied by Court Confectioner F.W. Eikmeier, author of numerous works on confectionery and cake decoration. while the decorations are clearly typical of the.....

London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1896. Small quarto (21 x 16.5 cm.), 99 pages. Illustrated with three chromolithograph plates and nineteen additional full-page plates. Printed throughout in royal blue ink on heavy, coated paper. Second Edition, revised; originally published in 1892. An odd history of cocoa and the roots of chocolate, by a son of the founder of Cadbury chocolates, Quaker John Cadbury. A bit shaken, due to the heavy, coated.....

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.....

A Paris: chez E. Jourdan, quai des Augustins, n. 17, [circa 1825]. Sixteen numbered poems printed on trimmed laid paper (the largest measuring 8 x 8.5 cm.), accompanied by sixteen corresponding engraved plates (sheet sizes circa 12.75 x 9.75 cm., and images 5 x 3.75 cm.). The imprint is provided at the bottom edge of plates no. 6 and 14. Bonbon box trade cards to be collected by children, the.....

Prague: Vydra & Bohuslav, 1909. Tall quarto (31 x 17 cm.) 216 [8] pages. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and photographic reproductions. Index. FIRST EDITION. A combination trade catalogue and recipe collection, both for confectioners, gingerbread makers, and candy manufacturers. The catalog contains illustrations of different types of ice cream spoons (scoops), ice cream molds, molds for marzipan, molds for small pastries, and packing and ornamental paper, and also all of.....