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.

[Paris: Editions Bellouet, 1992]. Large quarto (31 x 22 cm.), 211, [4] pages. Illustrated. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. The definitive work on the work of the pastry chefs of Les Ambassadeurs in Paris' Hotel de Crillon. With a preface by Alain Ducasse. Original cardboard slipcase rubbed and bumped. Very slightest bumping to corners of gilt-titled, white leather boards, otherwise fine, in a fine dust jacket.

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 Three unpublished pen and ink sketches by Wendy Jones on tracing paper pasted to white board, with some use of correction fluid.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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.

Chicago: The Bakers' Helper Co., [1906]. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 114 pages. Table of contents. FIRST EDITION. A small but thorough survey of breads and cakes in use in Europe and America, by a bread and pastry cook, and author of a number of professional baking books for Hotel Monthly Press. The author emphasizes a scientific approach, particularly with the use of the thermometer to accurately measure temperature, and.....

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.....

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.....

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.....