Norristown, (Penn.): 1814. Single sheet (20.75 x 11.5 cm., but irregular), printed recto only; typographical border. Manuscript annotations. ~ A very early Pennsylvania bill of fare for the Norristown Hotel, with a list of items on offer, including Breakfast, Dinner, Supper, Lodging, Wine, Brandy, Gin, Spirits, Punch, Porter, Beer, Cider, Segars, Hay, and Oats. Manuscript annotations indicate “Gentleman’s Bill, May 16th, 1814", with handwritten prices added for dinner, brandy, porter.....

Philadelphia: Chase & Town, Printer, 142 South Fourth Street, 1870. Booklet, sewn on cord (19.25 x 11.5 cm.), 12 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Author and title information from wrapper cover. Second edition. A practical manual on preserving of fruits and vegetables using hermetically sealed glass jars with a threaded metal top. Two years earlier, the first edition of this booklet omitted the words "in the Gem and Hero jars" from the.....

Brooklyn, New York; [New York]: Hotel Clarendon; [the author]; [printed by Redfield Brothers Inc.], [1910]. Booklet sewn on cord (16.5 x 12 cm.), [22] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in dark brown and tan. FIRST EDITION. A series of eighteen single subject “talks” which, as the title tells us, “first appeared as newspaper advertisements”. Subjects include Eating, Cold Storage, Milk Cream, Butter, Eggs, Oysters, Guinea Chickens, Squabs, Ice Creams, Banquets, Healthy.....