London: Printed by W. Sears, 11, Budge Row, Walbrook, 1830. Booklet, sewn in wrappers. Octavo (22.5 x 14.5 cm.), 16 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A response to the impending Beer Act of 1830, from a "Country Brewer". The commercial policy called the Beer Act would open brewing and cider making up to all householders who paid a modest fee, and the existing brewers, all licensed by local magistrates, were.....

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street; Printed by W. Clowes & Sons, Stamford Street, 1853. Small thick octavo (24.5 x 15.5 cm.), xxviii, 644 pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and additional plate with full-page woodcuts, and numerous cuts in the text. Index. Second Printing of this newly-titled edition of Mrs. Rundell's Modern Domestic Cookery, considered "the earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, calling forth many imitations." Originally.....

[London: no publisher, 1769]. Engraved plate (27 x 19.6 cm.), untrimmed with large margins. "Fran.co Smith pinx. G. Vitalba sculp."; "Publ.d accord.g to Act of Parl.t Jan.y 30 1769". A single plate from a series of Ottoman costume plates and portraits; this issued separately, but which would later be published as [Costumes of Constantinople], alternatively titled [Eastern Costume] (1768-1769). The portfolio issue contained twenty-eight engravings, each numbered in the upper.....

Baltimore: E.B. Read & Son, 1885. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 141, [3] pages, interleaved with blanks for notes, so really [246] pages. Advertising matter at rear. Index. FIRST EDITION. There was also a simultaneously issued 48-page extract in wrappers. While emphasizing perfume in the title, this collection of commercial and useful recipes, has sections that include: Tinctures, Extracts, Pomades, Sachets, Face Washes, Tooth Powders, Fancy Elixirs, Soda Syrups, Wines.....

[New Hampshire: 1852-1901]. Thirty-one different menus, plus four related promotional pieces (35 pieces together,) all assorted broadsides, broadsheets, and bi-folds (various sizes). Some are illustrated with engravings, others with chromolithograph or hand-colored illustrations. Some of the menus are both printed and manuscript; most are print only. Condition varies but is mostly very good to fine. Five decades of menus and other items from the Golden Age of New Hampshire hotels.....

Dublin: Printed by W. Porter ... and J. Archer, 1796. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), [2], 295-289, [1] pages (plates included in the pagination), ninety-four pages in all. Illustrated with fourteen engraved figures on six plates. Separate title page and wrappers. Third Edition. The final of Rumford's famous essays, the other three on the creation of poor houses and the feeding of the poor. This final essay proposes advancements in.....

London: G. Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street; Saville & Edwards, Printers, 1857. Thick duodecimo (18.8 x 12 cm.), viii, 597, [3] pages. Illustrated with frontispiece and six additional wood engravings by Henry George Hine; additional engravings in the text. Advertisements. Index. FIRST EDITION. Soyer’s famous work on military cooking in which he outlines numerous advancements in culinary science required in the difficult circumstances of war. Soyer wrote this work having.....

Indianapolis, Ind. J.B. Allfree Co.; Gilmore & Miller, Printers, 1889. Octavo, cord-bound in wrappers (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 70 pages. Illustrated with steel engravings throughout, and with three folding plates. All pages ruled in red. FIRST EDITION. A very attractive trade catalogue of the J.B. Alfree Company, manufacturers of milling machines, including the "Keystone" Four Roller Flour Mill, the "Success: Bolter and Dresser, the J.B. Alfree Sieve Scalper, the J.B.A......

Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Eagle Book Printing Department, 1905. Octavo (23.5 x 15.3 cm.), 86, [8] pages. Advertisements. Blank pages at rear headed, "Memorandum". FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, with an introduction by the committee. Recipes are in narrative form and are frequently attributed. Light tideline to endpapers and to a few leaves; a bit of discoloration to endpapers as well. In publisher's white oil-cloth, with triangle and crescent design.....