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Item #7980 Hearthside Recipes, compiled from the favorite recipes contributed by members of the...

[Community cookbook – Girl Scout Leader's Club (New Bedford, Mass.); Burnham, Winifred]

Hearthside Recipes, compiled from the favorite recipes contributed by members of the Girl Scout Leader's Club, New Bedford, Mass.

[New Bedford, Mass. Girl Scout Leader's Club, circa 1955]. Wire spiral-bound, octavo-sized book (21 x 14 cm.), 112, [1] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, offered by the Girl Scout Leader's Club of New Bedford Mass., on Buzzard's Bay southwest of the Cape. Many of the recipes are attributed, and reproductions of the handwritten originals. Original illustrations by Phyllis Allen and Evelyn Shainberg. Wire bound, in original black card-stock.....

Price: $90.00

Item #7958 Fifty-two Sunday Dinners a book of recipes, arranged on a unique plan, combining...

[Cottolene - N.K. Fairbank Company]; Hiller, Elizabeth O

Fifty-two Sunday Dinners a book of recipes, arranged on a unique plan, combining helpful suggestions for appetizing, well-balanced menus, with all the newest ideas and latest discoveries in the preparation of tasty, wholesome cookery.

Chicago: N.K. Fairbank Co.; Hammond Press, W.B. Conkey Company, 1915. Small octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 192 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. Elizabeth O. Hiller was a prominent “lecturer on household science” and principal of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School. She was also a shill for the N.K. Fairbank Company, and the firm's cottonseed oil-based Cottolene products appear in many, if not most, of the recipes contained in Fifty-two.....

Price: $60.00

Craig, Elizabeth

Court Favourites Recipes for Royal Kitchens. Decorations by Sheila Dunn.

[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1953]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 186, [1] pages. Illustrated. Glossary. FIRST EDITION. Elizabeth Craig (1883-1980) was the author of several dozen cookbooks, the earliest in the 1920s and the last in 1980, and thus reflect a wide range of situations in England's food culture. Apparently sourced from Queen Victoria's own household scrapbook, the recipes here have been chosen by Craig. "Although this book is primarily a......

Price: $100.00

Item #8187 Over One Thousand Recipes. The Lakeside Cook Book. A complete manual of practical,...

[Donnelley, Naomi]

Over One Thousand Recipes. The Lakeside Cook Book. A complete manual of practical, economical, palatable, healthful and useful cookery.

Chicago: Donnelley, Loyd & Co., 1878. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrapper (21 x 15.6 cm.), 47, [1] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. In September of the same year, a second volume was issued by Donnelley, Gasette, & Loyd, "containing an entirely new collection of recipes for household use". The second volume carried the changed subtitle: a manual of recipes for cooking, pickling, and preserving, and other useful information for the.....

Price: $90.00

Harland, Marion [Mary Virginia Terhune]; Van de Water, Virginia

Everyday Etiquette: A Practical Manual of Social Usages.

Indianapolis; [Brooklyn[: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers; [Press of Braunworth & Co, Bookbinders & Printers, 1905]. Duodecimo (19 x 12.5 cm.), [8], 363 pages. Index. Title page printed in red & black. FIRST EDITION. "October" below the date on the copyright page. A thorough treatise covering the traditional categories of etiquette: Invitations, Cards and Calls, Letter Writing, "Functions", Weddings, The Debutante, Gifts, Bachelor Hospitality, Hospitality as a Duty, Mourning, At Table.....

Price: $45.00

Holbrook, Captain L.R. [Captain Lucius Roy Holbrook]

The Mess Officer's Assistant.

Fort Riley, Kansas; [Junction City, Kansas: by the author; [Press of the Junction City Sentinel, 1911]. Duodecimo (17 x 12.5 cm.), v, 190 pages. Publisher's advertisement. Index. Stated "Second Edition, Fourth Thousand"; the first edition was issued in 1908; a third edition was issued in 1917. An informative overview of the work of the Army Mess Officer, from Captain L.R. Holbrook (1875-1952), Commissary of the US Army, and Director of.....

Price: $50.00

Lallemand, Roger

La Cuisine De Paris et De L'ile De France.

La Rochelle: Quartier Latin, 21 rue Albert-1er, [1975]. Collection: "La Cuisine de Chez Nous". Small octavo (22 x 14 cm.), 240 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. Preface de M. Rene Heron de Villefosse. A detailed collection of recipes describing the cuisine of Paris. Fine, in black and red printed stiff wrappers; publisher's dust jacket has a small adhesion mark on the front panel and a bit.....

Price: $90.00

Item #8199 Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking. Revised...

Lincoln, Mrs. D.A. [Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln]

Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book. What to do and what not to do in cooking. Revised edition, containing over 250 additional recipes.

Boston; Cambridge: Little, Brown, and Company, 1901. Octavo, 578, [26] pages. Illustrated. Index & Table of Contents. Advertisements and blanks at rear. Second edition, second printing, styled "Revised edition, containing over 250 additional recipes". The milestone cookbook from Mary J. Lincoln (1844-1921) the first principal of the Boston Cooking School and a student of Maria Parloa. The work was "undertaken at the urgent request of the pupils of the Boston.....

Price: $100.00

Item #8280 Six Hundred Receipts Worth Their Weight in Gold. Including receipts for cooking,...

Marquart, John

Six Hundred Receipts Worth Their Weight in Gold. Including receipts for cooking, making preserves, perfumery, cordials, ice creams, inks, paints, dyes of all kinds, cider, vinegar, wines, spirits, whiskey, brandy, gin, etc., and how to make imitations of all kinds of liquors. Together with valuable gauging tables. The collections, testing, and improvements on the receipts extending over a period of thirty years. [Spine title:] 600 Receipts worth their weight in gold.

Philadelphia: John E. Potter & Company, 617 Sanson Street, [1867]. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 311, 12 pages. Publisher's advertisements. Evident third printing. Originally published by the author in Lebanon, Penn. in 1860 as 600 Miscellaneous Valuable Receipts (with identical pagination). The second printing appeared in 1867, but with a differently styled publisher information. A household recipe book, with a significant selection of beverages, including brandies, ciders, cordials, gin, rum.....

Price: $250.00

Item #7993 Vineyard Fare, compiled by the Vineyard Haven Branch of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital...

[Martha's Vineyard Hospital Auxiliary (Vineyard Haven Branch),(Martha's Vineyard, Mass.)]

Vineyard Fare, compiled by the Vineyard Haven Branch of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital Auxiliary.

Vineyard Haven, Mass.; Falmouth: [The Auxiliary; Kendall Printing Co.], 1954. Large octavo-sized, comb-bound book (23.5 x 16 cm.), 117, [14] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, in service of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital. A historical sketch of the hospital explains that two new wings were added to the hospital in 1953, and that the year of this publication the operating suite was remodeled. Most recipes are attributed, and.....

Price: $75.00

Item #8272 Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book, and Housekeeper's Assistant. New and Enlarged Edition....

Putnam, Mrs. [Elizabeth H. Putnam]

Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book, and Housekeeper's Assistant. New and Enlarged Edition. [with:] Second Part of Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book, as an Assistant, for Economy and Comfort, to the Young Housekeeper.

New York: Sheldon & Company, 1869. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xxiii, 322, [2] pages. Illustrated with wood engravings in the text. Publisher's advertising at rear. Spine title: Mrs. Putnam's New Receipt Book. Later printing of this expansion of Mrs. Putnam's highly popular title, originally published in 1849, and expanded in 1867, with this combination of both of her highly popular titles. The original was a popular pre-Civil War cookbook.....

Price: $250.00

Talbot, Kathleen (compiler); Thevenin, M. Henri (recipes); Gaselee, Sir Stephen (introduction)

The Epicure's Monthly Companion: A Gastronomical Guide.

London; Plaistow: At The De La More Press; The Curwen Press, [1952]. Duodecimo (19 x 13 cm.), 35, [3] pages. Stated "new printing"; originally published in 1933. The compiler adds a note to this new, post-war edition, noting the book "was published some years ago when the materials for good cookery were more plentiful than they are now." An charming, small culinary anthology, arranged monthly, and containing "seasonal receipts English.....

Price: $35.00

Tipton, Edna Sibley

Menus for Every Occasion.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm.), vi, 217 pages. FIRST EDITION, review copy, with "Advance Copy" label pasted into a preliminary blank. Not a cookbook, but a collection of menus for meals of every sort: breakfasts, lunches, "salad meals", meals for one, "tray meals", guest meals, dinner meals, "color scheme meals", foods from foreign lands, and special occasions. Some light foxing to endpapers; in.....

Price: $50.00