Wageningen: Wynand Sandelyn, staddrukker en boekverkooper, 1776. Stab-sewn booklet, 14, [2] pages. Orders and regulations to regulate the bakers and rye-flour vendors of the City of Wageningen, issued December 27, 1775. Two unopened signatures, stab-sewn with thread. decorative ornament to titles page. Fine.
[Angers]: 1689. Broadside, (). First edition. This royal proclamation regulates the prices bakers can charge for different varieties of bread in Angers in proportion to the cost of wheat and rye, perhaps as a result of the economic pressures of the beginning of the Nine Years’ War. Includes regulation of meat prices, and a promise that price regulations will be considered the next Thursday for woodcutters and coopers. These regulations.....
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Montvale, New Jersey: Heritage Kitchens, [1980]. Comb-bound book in stiff wrappers (21.5 x 19 cm.), [ii], 108, [3] pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. An early collection of recipes describing uses of bulgur wheat, with an historical introduction. "... 9000 thousand years are embodied in presenting a useful, tasty, and nutritious food in a variety of dishes" (from the Introduction). Some light soil and spots to the wrapper panels; internally clean. About.....
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Phoenixville, PA: circa 1890. Broadside (35.5 x 28 cm.); set of six photographs, approximately 13 x 11 cm each; and business card, 4.5 x 9 cm. Broadside with pasted down photograph by A.W. Rothengatter & Company of Philadelphia. Offers fresh baked items daily, seasonal treats, and event catering. Four photographs are pasted down to individual rough-edged board, remainder with descriptions to verso. Photos illustrate various exterior and interior shots of.....
San Francisco: Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, [circa 1900]. Stapled booklet (15 x 12.5 cm.), [16] pages. Illustrated, and printed in halftone throughout, in black, red, and gray. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes for chocolate ice cream, cookies, puddings, jumbles, kisses, and more. “Chocolate Bretzles” and “Chocolate Africans” are among the more interesting inclusions. Publisher’s stapled, illustrated and blind-embossed wrappers, with some light edgewear. Otherwise fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates five copies].....
London: 1977. Three unpublished pen and ink sketches by Wendy Jones on tracing paper pasted to white board, with some use of correction fluid. Contained in a large folder (37 x 29 cm.) titled “Sketches for bread book Wendy Jones”. The bread book is Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast. The first board (21.5 x 19 cm.) contains two images: two measuring cups and a kitchen scale. The second board.....
Paris: Frigéco-Thomson; Max Gottchalk, Imp. [circa 1930]. Octavo (14.5 x 22 cm.), 183 pages. Index. Printed throughout in red and black. Evident first edition. An attractive and charming cookbook promoting the Frigeco refrigerator through recipes require freezing and cold. Dishes include one hundred thirty ice-cream recipes, frozen entremets, cold entremets, specially studied for freezing in the "Frigéco". Some ice-creams made with perfumes; icy water (cherry); jellies with lemon, violet, rose.....
New York: Fleischmann & Co., 1902. Duodecimo-sized stapled booklet, 52 pages. Printed throughout in brown ink. Second, expanded edition originally issued in 1893. A product cookbook, distributed “with the compliments of Fleischmann’s & Co., original manufacturers, introducers and manufacturers of compressed yeast in the United States and Canada.” Contains more than eighty recipes for breads, buns, cakes and more, all with the product as an ingredient. Fleischmann’s Yeast was founded.....
London: Baker and Confectioner, 1895. Octavo, 198, x pages. Ads. Illustrated. First edition. A technical manual of commercial breadmaking, from the Consulting chemist to the London Master Bakers' Society, and the author of The Dietetic Value of Bread. Contains lots of technical analysis of the principles of bread creation, as well as illustrations of the chemical activities, and equipment of breadmaking. The book is quite shaken, and several signatures are.....
Leipzig und Nordhauser: Heinrich Killinger, n.d. c. 1910. Quarto, Fifty-four double page chromolithograph plates of prize-winning cake decorations. The plates are lovely, and the styles vary widely, from Vienna Secessionist to more traditional. With a tiny bit of adhesion to a few plates, otherwise the plates are bright and generally very good. Some soiling to edges of text block, and a bit of rubbing to the decorated blue cloth boards.....
London: Gresham Publishing Company Ltd., 1924. Four volumes. Large octavos, xvi, 246; xvi, 278; xiv, 269, [1]; x, 250 pages. One hundred-eight plates (1 folding; 25 color; some with tissue guards with legends). Five colored maps on four plates. Two folding tables. numerous text illus. (some full-page). Second, revised edition. The first edition, issued in 1907, was in six volumes. A comprehensive and well-illustrated work, intended to offer a faithful.....
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1956. Small octavo, 223 pages. Later printing of the classic Italian dessert book, originally published in 1952. Contains "over 250 recipes for delectable desserts, confections, liqueurs, and other specialties..." Some age toning and light foxing to text block, otherwise very good in gray cloth, with a slightly dusty, unclipped dust jacket with a small smudge to the center of the front panel. Still.....
Woodstock, VT. The Lilliputter Press, 1960. (6 x 4.3 cm.), 89 pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 2000 unnumbered copies. The first miniature from the press of Frank H. Teagle, Jr. With a preface on miniature books and a selection of cookie recipes, including Sugar Cookies, Corn Flake Macaroons, Pecan Puffs, Springerle and more. The authors hoped the tiny book would be carried in apron pockets, mimicking the entreaties of 19th.....
Bay City (Michigan): C.F. Porter, 1919. Square booklet, stapled in wrappers (18 x 18 cm.), 47, [1] pages. Printed in green and black throughout. Illustrated. Cover title: Cakes of quality, how to make them. Stated fourth edition; much smaller editions were issued in 1915 and 1916. Mrs. Osborn explains exactly why it is important to not use a bread flour in your cake. and many other baking hints mixed in.....
LeRoy, N. Y. The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1924. Oblong, stapled booklet (18 pages). Illustrated throughout in color; with color wrappers illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Includes recipes, menus, and text reassuring the consumer about the quality of Jell-O. With original cord tie, for hanging the booklet in the kitchen. Light soiling to wrappers, otherwise fine.
LeRoy, N. Y. The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1924. Oblong, stapled booklet (18 pages). Illustrated throughout in color; with color wrappers illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Includes recipes, menus, and text reassuring the consumer about the quality of Jell-O. With original cord tie, for hanging the booklet in the kitchen. Wrappers soiled, otherwise very good.
[Boston, Mass. Chester Kent & Co., circa 1920]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (16.5 x 11.5 cm.), 24 pages. Illustrated. Product cookbook, promoting Chester Kent & Co., with alternating pages of recipes and testimonials for their patent medicine, cod liver & iron tonic "Vinol", Saxol Salve, and Saxo Soap, remedies for skin diseases, and Vinlax Tablets for constipation. The cover has been customized for a distributor of the Vinol products, “with.....
Boston: M. Barrows & Company; [Thomas Todd Company, Printers], 1926. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 113 pages. Index. Second edition. A rather precise manual of cake baking, from the "instructor of Home Economics in Los Angeles City Schools". Clean and sound, in publisher's tan cloth, with printed title label to front panel. Some light rubbing to extremities, otherwise fine.
Danvers, Mass.; Lynn, Mass. L.A. Roberts & Co.; Perry & Searle, Printers, 1902. Stapled booklet (17 x 12.5 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. [Cover title: 100 Recipes with Cream of Pure Chocolate]. First and only edition. Includes testimonials and prize-winning recipes, many attributed to their contributors. Sections include: Beverages, Beverages for the sick, Cakes and cookies, Candy, Custards, Frostings, Fudge, Ice cream, Pie fillings, Puddings, Sandwiches. Some offsetting from wrappers to.....
London; Edinburgh: Maclaren & Sons, 37 and 38 Shoe Lane; printed by Turnbull & Spears, [1903]. Quarto (29 x 23 cm.), 336 pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated, with twelve full-page color illustrations, eight tipped-in half-tones; and two tipped-in original gelatin silver prints. First trade edition, second printing, differentiated from the first printing by twenty-four fewer pages, mostly advertisements and a list of subscribers to the deluxe edition, as well as undecorated.....
Boston: Lee & Shepard Publishers, 1891. Oblong octavo, 129 pages. Second printing, first issued in 1890. As the author mentions in here preface, these recipes derive from a single New England family over a half century. Each recipe is given one full page, with multiple recipes for the same item, including five for Brown Bread, four for Rye Drop Cakes, and four for Johnny Cakes. There are also 12 different.....
Croydon: Geo. B. Cotton at the Galleon Press, (1933). Octavo, 207 pages. Illustrated First edition. A history of the seven centuries of one of the oldest of the livery companies, dating itself to the 12th century and the reign of Henry II. Previous owner's ink initials to front free end paper, corners of gilt stamped green cloth boards slightly bumped, otherwise fine.
Markkleeberg-Leipzig: 1932. Small octavo, 74 pages plus insert with two post-cards. Text in German. Printed throughout in maroon. Illustrated catalogue for German food production machines and products, specifically for bakeries, ice cream, and candy production. Detailed images throughout. Over one hundred items featured, including such as: Holzlöffel [wooden spoon], Waffeln [waffles], Eis-Handwagen [ice hand-wagon], Friko-Elektra-Eismaschine 30 Liter [30 Liter Friko Electric Ice Machine], and Papierbecher [paper cups]. In green wrappers.....
[London: the author;] J. Smith, Printer, 193 High Holborn, [1826]. Duodecimo (14 x 8 cm.), v, 144 pages. Index. Publisher’s advertisements on rear board. Date from author’s statement in preliminary “Advertisement”, “London, July 1st, 1826". Perhaps a first edition, but sequence yet to be established, of this confectioner’s manual by an author, “Late of Philadelphia”. We know of five printings between 1826 and 1831 (in London, Bungay, and Leeds); the.....
Boston: Published by the Author, 1870. Octavo, 191 pages. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. First edition. A thorough little guide to baking of all sorts, written by a professional baker, who worked both coasts of Canada, San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands. The author differentiates the skills of bread baking from those of cake making and pastry, but endeavors to teach it all. With sections on jellies.....