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[Billhead - Stoneware] Ballard, A.K

Bought of A.K. Ballard, Manufacturer of Every Description of Stone and Rockingham Ware.

Burlington, VT: 1871. Printed billhead (35 x 21.7 cm.), Illustrated with an etched image of A.K. Ballard’s pottery business and factory. Pre-populated billhead features jugs, molasses jugs, covered cream pots, butter pots, cake pots, preserve jars, tomato or fruit jars, churns, pudding pots, flower pots, plain pitchers, stove pipe safes, bean pots, and Rockingham ware each accompanied by small image of product. Alfred K. Ballard (? – -1874) founded his.....

Price: $350.00

[By Experienced Preservers].

[A Treatise on the Art of Preserving Fruits and Vegetables Hermetically].

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.....

Price: $500.00

Heim, Roger (1900-1979)

Les Champignons Toxiques et Hallucinogènes.

Paris: Boubée & Cie. 1963. Octavo (19 x 14.5 cm.), 326 pages. Illustrated with forty-three figures and three maps, designed by Michelle Bory. Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296). Errata slip laid-in. FIRST EDITION. One of the final published works of Roger Heim, noted mycologist and head of the Museum National d'Historie Naturalle. Heim is recognized for his descriptive and taxonomic studies of fungi and documentation of psycho-physiological effects of psilocybin.....

Price: $350.00

Hill, John

Food Talks. Being a series of Little Talks which first appeared as newspaper advertisements and are here reprinted in response to many requests.

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.....

Price: $350.00

[Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc. (Peoria, Ill.)]

The Essential Guest.

Peoria, Ill. Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc., 1934. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 8 cm.), [16] pages. Illustrated in color; printed in Phototone throughout. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cocktail recipe book, published in the wake of Repeal, from the makers of Canadian Club, H&W London Dry Gin, and the Palais Royal Cordials. With additional texts by Ernest Byfield, “Host to America” at Chicago’s Hotel Sherman, operatic star Coe Glade.....

Price: $90.00

[Jessie Bright Henderson Colville]

A Kentucky Woman's Handy Cook Book. By Jessie Henderson Colville.

[Covington, Ky.; Cincinnati, Ohio: The author]; Printed for the author by Jennings and Graham, 1912. [Jessie Bright Henderson Colville]. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 134 pages. Tables on endpapers. Lined blank pages intercalated. "Index" is actually a table of contents. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. "At the request of encouraging friends, I offer to the public this little book of tried and proven recipes handed down to me by several generations.....

Price: $600.00

[Manuscript – mushrooms; Valentin-Smith, (Joannes-Erhard)]

Champignons de l’Ain.

[l’Ain (France): circa 1870]. Large quarto (32.5 x 25 cm.), eight sheets of text and six of color drawings. There are forty-nine original watercolors and four plain drawings of mushrooms found in the department of Ain. The watercolor drawings are approximately life-size and realistic with fine shades of color as well as precise details on the feet, rings, blades and caps. ~ Unpublished manuscript by Joannes-Erhard Valentin-Smith, a member of.....

Price: $3,000.00

[Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition – Brewers' Industrial Exhibition (Philadelphia, Pa., 1876); Centennial Grounds, Fairmount Park]

Essays on the Malt Liquor Question.

New York: Francis Hart & Co., Printers & Stationers, 63 and 5 Murray Street, cor. College Place, 1876. Large octavo in wrappers (26 x 17 cm.), 40 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and four additional full-page engravings. ~ FIRST EDITION. Contents include a description of the principal buildings of the Centennial Exhibition; a detailed description of the malt liquor trade; medical aspects of malt liquor; medical opinions in support of malt.....

Price: $250.00

[Shaker] Whitcher, Mary

Mary Whitcher's Shaker House-Keeper [caption title]. [with a Cabinet Card of Mary Whitcher].

Boston: Weeks & Potter, (1882). Small stapled booklet, 32 pages. FIRST EDITION, first printing. "The earliest cookbook in Shaker culinary literature, and the first to give bills of fare, or menus, for each day of the week together with 150 nutritious recipes for preparing a variety of fresh, natural foods. The book was not sold but was given, in accordance with the custom of the day, to those interested in.....

Price: $500.00

Talbert, Ted; Zeke (illustrator)

Everything you always wanted to know about chitterlings but were afraid to ask, Explained by Ted Talbert.

[Detroit]: Ted Talbert; [a T-Square Book], 1971. Small stapled booklet (15 x 10 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated with “Cartoons by Zeke" (from the inside back cover). FIRST EDITION; a second edition was issued in 2000. A humorous little work on the classic pork intestine dish known as chitlins, chittlins, or as here, chitterlings. The book contains short humorous texts and facing illustrations, some geometric designs, and others the cartoons of.....

Price: $150.00

[Tuborg Fabrikkers; Tuborg Breweries]

Tuborg Fabrikkers: Tuborg Beer from Barley to Bottle.

Denmark: Tuborg Breweries, [1923]. Accordion folded booklet in wrappers, octavo-sized (24 x 16.5 cm.), 21 pages. Illustrated. Date from information in introduction. FIRST EDITION. A single accordion-folded sheet extends to reveal text and vibrant color illustrations printed on one side. Back cover has a birds-eye-view illustration of the brewery complex. Tuborg, the Danish brewing company founded in 1873 is today a subsidiary of the Carlsberg Group. This pamphlet gives "a.....

Price: $200.00

Velázquez de León, Josefina

La Cocina en el Aire. Selección de recetas exquisitas, útiles y prácticas ofrecidas en los diversos programas deradio en que tomó participación la autora en las estaciones XEQ, XEK, XEJP y XEW de la Ciudad de México.

México, D.F: Academia de Cocina Velázquez de León, 1947. Octavo (19 x 14 cm.), 149, [6] pages. Index. Publisher’s advertisements at rear. Series: Ediciones J. Velázquez de León. FIRST EDITION. An early publication of the prolific cookbook author and culinary educator, Josefina Velázquez de León. This volume is a compendium of recipes she developed while presenting culinary shows for a number of Mexican broadcasters. Binder’s error leaves two leaves dog.....

Price: $250.00

Woolley, Hannah

Queen-like closet, or rich cabinet: stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery... [bound with:] Supplement to...

London: printed by Richard Lowndes in Duck Lane, at the White Lion, near West-Smithfield, 1675; 1674. Duodecimo [10], 1-344, [44]; 1-200 pages. Wanting leaf A1v, containing imprimatur ("Licensed, Nov. 16, 1669. Roger L'Estrange"). Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece depicting five scenes of six women preparing food. The second part of the queen-like closet" has separate title page, dated 1674, on leaf H7r; pagination and register are continuous. Advertisement leaf follows.....

Price: $6,500.00