Ventura, Cal: Free Press Book and Job Office, 1897. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 116, [20] pages. Detailed table of contents. Advertisements. Index of advertisers. Blanks at end. Cover title: Cook Book. Evident FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Most recipes attributed. A recipes,, arranged by standard sections, Soup, Salad, Vegetables, Meat, etc., but which also includes Spanish Recipes, with several dishes contributed by Mrs. A.G. de la Riva.....

México: Tipografia Mexicana, calle de Cadena num 3, 1870. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 34 pages. Illustrated. Text in Spanish. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Off-printed from the Boletín de la Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística (title page). The author of this survey of Mexican olive production, García, José María ( –1890) was editor of La Revista Universal. Chapters include: Clima, terreno y preparación para la siembra del olivo, Multiplicación, Cultivo durante.....

Los Angeles: [The League]; Privately Printed, 1930. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), [viii], 215, [i] pages. Illustrated chapter heads. Advertisements. Cover title: Los Angeles Junior League Recipes. Editorial attribution from page [3]. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. One of the earliest documented Junior League community cookbooks in a tradition that would not be firmly established until two decades later. Unusual in the context of charitable books, too, in that an outside.....

Berkeley, Calif. The Glozers, Booksellers, 1964. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [ii], 30 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of fifty seafood recipes highlighting animals associated with the coastal waters between Berkeley and Mendocino. Includes generic recipes (Cold Fish Mold, Sweet-Sour Fish, Fish In Harbor), as well as concoctions with more fixed requirements (Abalone Supreme, Broiled Eels Sole en Papilotte). A selection of sauce suggestions is appended. The collaborators.....

[San Francisco]: 1892-1901. Duodecimo, about 50 pages. Manuscript in pencil and ink. Small, blank account book for a dry goods store, repurposed as a cellar book for A J. B. Reveyron, who is identified by Crocker-Langley's San Francisco Business Directory (1899), as a "cellarman" located at 135 Perry Street in San Francisco. The book, written in both French and English, records personal expenses, amounts of wine and spirits moving in.....

Los Angeles, Calif. Commercial Printing House, 1894. Octavo (22.25 x 15 cm.), [14], 382 pages. Illustrated. Index. Advertisements. List of contributors. Evident FIRST EDITION. "One of the best and most extensive local cook books ever compiled. The contributors include the leading names of Southern California, to mention a few: Mrs. R. M. Widney, the Bixby's, Mrs. M. M. Bovard, Mrs. S. C. Poy, Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Frank A. Miller.....

San Francisco: Published by Town Talk Press, 88 First Street, 1916 copyright January 1, 1917. Tall octavo (28.5 x 18 cm.), 47, [3] pages. Illustrated wrappers with envelope fold. Includes the cancel leaf tipped-in at the rear, "Some War Recipes and Others". FIRST EDITION. An early and attractively produced San Francisco cookbook, issued as the city was finally putting the Great Earthquake behind it, but the nation was on the.....