W.T. & Co. "Silent" Milk Shake. Absolutely Noiseless, Very Easy to Operate, Low in Price
by [Handbill – Milkshakes]; [Whitall, Tatum & Co.]
New York /Philadelphia/Boston: Whitall, Tatum & Co, 1880. Broadside (21.6 x 14 cm.). Illustrated handbill for a "Silent" Milk Shake machine. Description, dimensions, and price listed as well as locations of Whitall, Tatum & Co. locations in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. W.T. & Co. sold goods equipment and goods for pharmacies and druggists, issuing lists and catalogues from 1874 through 1899. Fold creases, otherwise fine condition. [Romaine lists numerous W.T & Co. items, but not this].
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The Vineyards and Wine Cellars of California: An Essay on Early California Winemaking
by Hardy, Thomas
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1994. Folio, xxiii, 64 pages. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; one of 450 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper printed at the Yolla Bolly Press. First published in Adelaide, Australia, in 1885. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Foreword by Robert Mondavi. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher's slipcase.
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Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea
by Harland, Marion [pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 459, [2] pages. Advertisements. Later printing, with the slight change in name of the publisher, which occurred in 1878. The second in the author's "Common Sense in the Household" series. Marion Harland was the pen name of Mary Virginia Terhune, a Virginia born novelist and author of non-fiction, mostly for women. She wrote a number of cookbooks and domestic works, and was the first woman elected to the... Read More
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The Dinner Year-Book
by Harland, Marion; [Mary Virginia Terhune]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 713, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "Common Sense in the Household Series" issue; identical to the first regular issue but on cheaper paper stock, and lacking the six chromolithograph illustrations. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of fare." Her list of goals is long, but includes:... Read More
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The Dinner Year-Book
by Harland, Marion; [Mary Virginia Terhune]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 713, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "Common Sense in the Household Series" issue; identical to the first regular issue but on cheaper paper stock, and lacking the six chromolithograph illustrations. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of fare." Her list of goals is long, but includes:... Read More
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American Silver 1670-1830 The Cornelius C. Moore Collection at Providence College
by Hauck, Alice H.R. (introduction); essays and catalogue by Anne E. Spokas, Karolyn Kras, Anne M. Skarzynski, Kimberly A. Kyle, and Emily Kean
Providence: Providence College, 1980. Quarto (28.5 x 22 cm.), 3, 151 pages. [1 leaf]. Illustrated in black & white. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION, limited to one thousand copies. A handsomely produced catalogue of the important collection of early American silver assembled by Cornelius Moore, and now held at Providence College. The collection is known for its attention to the cultural history of the objects within it. Fine in publisher's black cloth, titled in silver at the spine; slight edge wear... Read More
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South Florida Cookery; Unique recipes from the tropics and elsewhere
by Hawkes, Alex D.
Coral Gables, Fla: Wake-Brook House, 1964. Large octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 224 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION, regular issue. There was also a "Sponsor's Edition" limited to 225 signed and numbered copies, with a list of sponsors, but otherwise similar. An interesting collection of recipes from South Florida, which contains an amalgam of dishes focused on the cuisines of the West Indies, especially those that use fruits and vegetables of the Caribbean, with dishes familiar to any American seeking... Read More
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La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes, From Leading Chefs and Noted Creole Housewives, Who Have Made New Orleans Famous for its Cuisine
by [Hearn, Lafcadio]
New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885. Octavo (19.7 x 15 cm.), 268 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION, state "A" according to BAL, with the Introduction one and a half pages long, and with the word Brulot with an accent instead of an umlaut (state "B" has a one page Introduction and the word Brulot has an umlaut). A classic American cookbook, and one of the great books of Creole cooking, as it compiles recipes of one of the great American... Read More
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Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919: Twenty-Seventh Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II
by Hedrick, U.P.
Albany: New York Department of Agriculture, 1919. Large quarto ( x cm.), 686 pages. FIRST EDITION. Includes information on nearly twenty nine hundred edible foods, by far the largest and most complete study of its kind to the date of its publication. Very good in green cloth.
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Les Champignons Hallucinogènes du Mexique. Études Ethnologiques, Taxinomiques, Biologiques, Physiologiques et Chimiques. Cover title: Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Septième Série, Tome VI. [With]: Nouvelles Investigations sur les Champignons Hallucinogènes
by Heim, Roger, R. Gordon Wasson, et al.
Paris: Éditions du Muséum, 1967. Two volumes, large quartos ( x cm.), 322 pages. Frontispiece, title page illustration of Psilocybe Wassonii Heim, Seventeen color plates after watercolors by Heim et al., 20 photographic plates, numerous illustrations in text (some color), 3 maps; [and] 219 pages. Eleven plates (six in color), 34 illustrations in text (some color), map. FIRST EDITION. Wasson's Mexican Mushroom Trip. The lavishly produced, pioneering study of the sacred mushrooms of Mexico, embracing anthropology, archology, natural history... Read More
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Traite des Hors-D'oeuvre & Savoureux. Nouvelle edition. Dessins de Froment
by Helie, Auguste
Paris: Bibliotheque de L'Art Culinaire, 1897. Octavo, 79, [2] pages. Advertisements. Later edition; stated "Nouvelle edition". An interesting collection of hors d'oeuvres by the author of Traite General de la Cuisine Maigre, and published by the journal L'Art Culinaire. Includes recipes for deviled haddock, rice and parmesan croquettes, and Norwegian anchovies with eggs. Near very good, with some age-toning throughout. In printed paper boards over a black cloth spine. Scarce.
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The Chafing-Dish Supper
by Herrick, Christine Terhune
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. Small octavo (17.7 x 12 cm.), 112 pages. Later printing. The second cookbook, following The Little Dinner, from Christine Terhune Herrick, author of over thirty books on housekeeping and cooking, and the daughter of Marion Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune). Her first article was published in the very first issue of Good Housekeeping, in 1885. In this work, Herrick offers a brief history of the chafing dish and practical suggestions for each... Read More
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The Corn Cook Book. War Edition
by Hiller, Elizabeth O. (compiled and arranged by)
Chicago: Published by P.F. Volland Company, 1918. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 127 pages. Index. Stated Wartime Edition, evident Second Edition, expanded significantly from the 1907 original published by the Rogerson Press. This new edition was a response to the demands of the First World War, in particular, the national need to save wheat. Hiller was "formerly Principal of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School". Some light pencil annotations to a few pages. In publisher's tan cloth, decorated... Read More
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Food Talks. Being a series of Little Talks which first appeared as newspaper advertisements and are here reprinted in response to many requests
by Hill, John
Brooklyn, New York; [New York]: Hotel Clarendon; [the author; printed by Redfield Brothers Inc, 1910. Booklet sewn on cord (16.5 x 12 cm.), [22] pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in dark brown and tan. FIRST EDITION. A series of eighteen single subject “talks” which, as the title tells us “first appeared as newspaper advertisements”. Subjects include Eating, Cold Storage, Milk Cream, Butter, Eggs, Oysters, Guinea Chickens, Squabs, Ice Creams, Banquets, Healthy Body, In Explanation, and Criticisms. There is much emphasis... Read More
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Cocoa: All About It, by 'Historicus'
by Historicus' [Cadbury, Richard]
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1896. Small quarto (21 x 16.5 cm.), 99 pages. Illustrated with three chromolithograph plates and nineteen additional full-page plates. Printed throughout in royal blue ink on heavy, coated paper. Second Edition, revised; originally published in 1892. An odd history of cocoa and the roots of chocolate, by a son of the founder of Cadbury chocolates, Quaker John Cadbury. A bit shaken, due to the heavy, coated stock. Some light damp staining to rear panel of... Read More
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The Clammer; [with and offprint and TLS]
by Hopkins,William John
Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Riverside Press, 1906. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 255 pages. FIRST EDITION. Three short stories, including the title entry, "The Clammer", first published in The Atlantic Monthly in August of 1905. Also included is the original appearance of "The Clammer" from the Atlantic Monthly, disbound from the magazine and sewn into green wraps, and a typed letter signed from Hopkins tipped-in, dated 1912. Clean and sound, in publisher's decorated binding, with a design... Read More
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![The Theory and Art of Bread-making; a new process, without the use of ferment.[with: A New Method of Making Bread.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/702/900/1689900702.0.l.jpg)
The Theory and Art of Bread-making; a new process, without the use of ferment.[with: A New Method of Making Bread.]
by Horsford, Prof. E.N.; Liebig, Justus V.
[Cambridge: the author; Rumford Press, 1869. Octavo-sized booklet (21 x13 cm.), 47 pages. Illustrated. The Second Printing of Horsford's important work on leavening with phosphoric acid/bicarbonate of soda, and the First Edition to add the first English translation of Liebig's New Method of Making Bread which had been published in January of the same year in Germany. Eben Norton Horsford (1818-1893) was Rumford Professor at Harvard University. Instead of yeast or other leavening methods, Horsford presents a method of... Read More
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Thirty-one Menus from the Grand Hotels of New Hampshire's Atlantic Shore and White Mountains
by [Menu collection – New Hampshire Hotels]
[New Hampshire, 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. Hotels include: Mount Pleasant House, Senter House, Twin Mountain... Read More
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A New Method of Cookery or, Expert and ready way for the Dressing of all Sorts of Flesh, Foul, Fish, either Baked, Boiled, Roasted, Stewed, Fryed, Hashed Frigasied, Carbonaded Forced, Collared, Soused, &c. After the Best and Newest Way, with their several Sauces and Sallads. And making all sorts of Pickles. Also making Variety of pies, Pasties, Tarts, Cheese-Cakes, Custards, Creams, &c. With the Art of Preserving, Candying of Fruits and Flowers and the making of Conserves, Syrrups, Jellies, and Cordial Waters. Also making several sorts of English Wines, Cyder, Mead, Metheglin. Together with several Cosmetick of Beautifying Waters: and also several Sorts of Essences and Sweet Waters: by Persons of the highest Quality. By Thomas Houdlston, Cook, in Dumfries
by Houdlston, Thomas; [Huddleston, Thomas (fl. 1753)]
[Dumfries]: printed for the author, 1760. Small octavos in 4s (15 x 9 cm.), 186 pages. FIRST EDITION, though priority not firmly established. MacLean states “another ed. Edinburgh: printed for E. Wilson at Dumfries, [c.1760]” (though that edition is dated, “M.DCC.LX” at the foot of the title page); the Wilson issue has 136 pages. Cagle refers to the Wilson issue as “Second Edition”. Both editions display the misspelled author’s surname, as “Thomas Houldston” is almost certainly Thomas Huddleston. MacLean... Read More
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Les Meilleures Recettes de Ma Pauvre Mere, et quelques autres encore
by Huguenin, Pierre
Dijon: Librarie L. Venot, 1936. Octavo, 127 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of authentic Bourguignonne recipes, assembled by the Comite de la Foire Gastronomique de Dijon. Some age toning to the text block, otherwise very good in very lightly stained faded black and red printed wrappers. [OCLC locates eight copies; not in Cagle].
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The Story of the Waldorf-Astoria. Illustrated
by Hungerford, Edward
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1925. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), vi, 283 pages. FIRST EDITION. The definitive history of the early years of this grand New York City hotel. "No business is more intimate with human nature than the hotel business. And no record of a hotel more resplendent of contacts with human nature than this record of distinguished tradition - the Waldorf-Astoria." Fine in original royal blue cloth, gilt-titled at the spine. In the... Read More
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Soups, Salads, and Desserts: their making and serving... compiled by Sophie B. Hurd, Graduate of Boston Cooking School. Eighth edition
by [Hurd, Sophie B.; Burt Olney Canning Co. (Oneida, N.Y.)]
Oneida, New York: The Burt Olney Canning Co, 1910. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( 17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Stated "eighth edition". A product cookbook selling the "Absolutely Pure" products of the Burt Olney Canning Co., and bearing the image of "Olney's Pure Food Boy" on the rear wrapper and on the first page. Includes recipes, menus, and some shopping hints. Light tideline to a few pages; some very light soil internally. Wrappers decorated with an image... Read More
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Soups, Salads and Desserts: their making and serving. Compiled by Sophie B. Hurd, Graduate of Boston Cooking School. Sixth edition
by [Hurd, Sophie B.; Burt Olney Canning Co. (Oneida)]
Oneida, New York: The Burt Olney Canning Co, 1909. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Stated "sixth edition". A product cookbook selling the "Absolutely Pure" products of the Burt Olney Canning Co., and bearing the image of "Olney's Pure Food Boy" on the rear wrapper and on the first page. Includes recipes, menus, and some shopping hints. Some very light soil internally, otherwise fine. Wrappers decorated with an image of a woman serving a... Read More
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The Oyster, Clam And Other Common Mollusks
by Hyatt, Alpheus
Boston: Ginn & Heath, 1881. Guides for science-teaching; no. IV. Small octavo (15.5 x 11 cm.), 65 pages, 17 lithographed plates. First issued in 1880 and later reissued in 1884 and 1888, this appears to be the second printing. Small closed tear and chips to edges near spine, otherwise near very good in titled wrappers.
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Cunard Line, Cocktails, Liqueurs, Cigars, Cigarettes
by [Cocktail Menu] Cunard White Star; A.K. MacDonald (illustrator)
[England: Cunard White Star, 1937. Tri-fold, card-stock menu (15 x 8 cm. folded), [6] pages. Illustrated, and signed "A.K. MacDonald" in the print. A shipboard cocktail menu, labeled "Express Steamers, (American Cruise, 1-12-37)". The name of the ship is not specified. The menu offers lists of Aperitifs, Cocktails, Liqueurs, Mixed and Fancy Drinks, Cigars, Tobacco, Cigarettes, and Playing Cards. two panels illustrated with a fantastic image by A.K. Macdonald, featuring a mermaid and a winged fairy celebrating a toast.... Read More
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