The Manufacture of Liquors, Wines, and Cordials, Without the Aid of Distillation. Also the Manufacture of Effervescing Beverages and Syrups, Vinegar and Bitters. Prepared and Arranged for the Trade
by Lacour, Pierre
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, no. 18, Ann Street, 1885. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 312 [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Index, really a table of contents. Later printing; originally published by R. Craighead (New York) in 1853. Perhaps the most broadly used work on making hundreds of wines and spirits from a neutral base alcohol, with extensive descriptions of the materials and techniques used to create these dishonest drinks. Cheating aside, the book provides significant information on the... Read More
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Monticola Club cook book. Compiled by the ladies of the Monticola Club
by [Ladies of the Monticola Club (Susanville, Cal.)]
Susanville, Lassen County, California: [the club: Lassen Advocate, 1914. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 100, [11] pages. Index. Advertisements at rear. Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook produced by the Monticola Club, founded in 1912 by Philenda Spencer, apparently inspired by the passage of the bill that recognized the rights of California women to vote. The club was located in Susanville, on the banks of the Susan River in Honey Lake Valley, on the far side of the Lassen... Read More
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The Pentucket Housewife. A Manual for Housekeepers, and Collection of Recipes, Contributed by the Ladies of the First Baptist Church, Haverhill, Mass
by Ladies of the First Baptist Church, Haverhill, Mass.; [Train, Carrie W.]
Haverhill, MA: Steam Press of Chase Bros., 22 Washington Square, 1882. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 136, [6], pages. Advertisements. Index. Title page printed in red and black. FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook likely issued in concert with the dedication of a new meeting house in 1882. With approximately five hundred recipes, many of them attributed. Representative entries: Bean Porridge, Oyster Stew, Shaker Codfish, Chicken Curry with Rice, Potted Pigeons, Cannelon of Beef, Baked Tomatoes, Parsnips, Stewed Celery, Brown... Read More
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Round Robin Cook Book: containing five hundred favorite recipes, collected and published by the ladies of The First Baptist Church
by [Ladies of The First Baptist Church (Lowell, Mass.]; edited and arranged by Clara A. Emerson, Sarah J. Crosby]
Lowell, Mass: First Baptist Church, 1899. Squarish octavo (17.5 x 14 cm.), 184 pages. Includes 50 pages of advertisements. Publication date inferred from ads. Stated FIRST EDITION. A handsome community cookbook from Lowell, Mass. with short narrative recipes attributed. Divided into sections on Soups, Meat, Fish and Game, Eggs, Bread, Puddings and more. More than one quarter of the book is given over to advertisements for local businesses. Age-toned throughout, with a few small stains, in publisher's attractively printed... Read More
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The Standard Family Cook-Book; A volume of valuable cooking receipts, carefully compiled from reliable sources, and published by Ladies of the Spencer Baptist Society for the benefit of their building fund
by [Ladies of the Spencer Baptist Society (Spencer, Mass.)]
Spencer [Mass.]: Book and Job Office of the Spencer Sun, 1885. Duodecimo (17.5 x 12 cm.), xii, 110 pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, containing a collection of narrative format recipes arranged in twenty-one chapters, including Boiling, Roasting, Pickles, and House Plants. Spencer, Massachusetts was settled in 1717 and officially incorporated in 1753. In rubbed and lightly soiled brown wrappers. Some slight foxing and water stains to edges, otherwise good. Some annotations to recipes throughout the text and... Read More
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Good Food : How to Cook It ; Where to Get It. A book for every-day use in the kitchen
by [Ladies of the Park Street Free Baptist Church (Lake Village, N.H.)]
[Concord, N.H.: Republican Press Association, 1891. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 39, [1]pages. Index. Publisher's advertisements throughout and on the wrappers. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Recipes in narrative form and unattributed. The recipes are provided in no systematic order, with Graham Bread, Creamed Oysters, and Fruit Jumbles all appearing on the first page of receipts. Lake Village has been consumed by the better-known Laconia, both on the shore of Lake... Read More
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The Dame Durden Cook Book. Compiled by the Ladies of the Church of the Reconciliation, Utica, N.Y.
by [Ladies of the Church of the Reconciliation (Utica, N.Y.)]
Utica, N.Y.: Converse & Co., Job Printers, 38 Arcade, 1884. Octavo (20.8 x 13.7 cm.), 49, [3] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A slim but very enjoyable community cookbook, issued by a woman's church group from Utica, in Central New York State. The recipes, in narrative form, are often but not always attributed. Most pleasing is the array of typefaces used throughout, in the recipe titles and especially in the advertisements. Advertisers include S.S. Converse – "Dropsy Treated Free!", A.L.... Read More
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Revised Edition. Tried and True Recipes. The Variety Cook Book of Washingtonville.Published for the Benefit of..
by Ladies Society of the First Presbyterian Church (Washingtonville, N.Y.)
Washingtonville; Newburgh: [the society; Newburgh Journal Print], 1889. Octavo, stapled in cloth-backed wrapper (20 x 14 cm.), 62, [1] pages. Advertisements front and rear. Printer information from wrapper. Second Edition, Revised, following the original publication of 1880. A community cookbook from the Orange County, N.Y. hamlet of Washingtonville, with recipes in narrative form and mostly attributed. The advertisements, mostly for businesses in the larger towns of Newburgh or Middletown, are handsomely designed, with some illustrated. Some very light discoloration... Read More
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Cookery Made Easy; or the most plain and practical directions for properly preparing to cook and for cooking and serving-up all sorts of provisions, from a single joint of meat with vegetables to the finished seasoned dishes of poultry, fish and game..
by A Lady
London: Published by Dean and Son, 11 Ludgate Hill, 1855. Duodecimo (16.5 x 10.5 cm.), iv, 176, 17-21 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, "Art of Trussing"; additional engravings in the advertisements at end. The publication date, "November, 1955", is from the Preface. Stated "Thirteenth Edition, Improved". The "whole written entirely from practice, and combining gentility with economy by a Lady." Text block foxed at edges throughout, and edge stain to first few leaves, including the frontispiece. In blind-decorated... Read More
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![350 Medical Receipts: for families, seamen, and travellers [sic]. From the most approved medical works and the best physicians in this country and Europe. Compiled by Louis La Grange](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/114/159/1298159114.0.l.jpg)
350 Medical Receipts: for families, seamen, and travellers [sic]. From the most approved medical works and the best physicians in this country and Europe. Compiled by Louis La Grange
by La Grange, Louis
Boston: Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co, 1872. Duodecimo (17 x 11 cm.), [4], 3-69, [1] pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A collection of prescriptions, formulae, and receipts, gathered by the author for the use of the traveler. "The language is in plain English, so that every person can go into the woods and pastures, and collect roots and herbs suited to his disease; or they can be obtained at the apothecaries'" (Preface). The recipes are organized by malady... Read More
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Royal-Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the particular Branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's Palaces of St. James, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. With near Forty figures (curiously engraven on Copper) of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations Instalments; Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; Also receipts for making of Soupes, Jellies, Bisques, Ragoos, Pattys, Tansies, Forc'd-meats, Cakes, Puddings, &c. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne. To which are added, bills of fare for every Season of the year
by Lamb, Patrick
London: Printed for Abel Roper and sold by John Morphew, near Stationer's Hall, 1710. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), [12], 127, [12], [12] pages. 35 plates, mostly folding. The final, unnumbered pages include bills of fare and bookseller's advertisements. All edges marbled. FIRST EDITION, published a year after the great chef's death. Maclean describes an additional printing of the first edition, printed for and sold by Maurice Atkins. "Lamb brought a touch of French snobbery to traditional English recipes... Read More
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En Compagnie d'Nout' Vin d'Anjou
by Landreau, Felix (Maurice Pouzet, illustrator)
Angers: Editions Jacques Petit, 1945. Octavo, 70 pages. FIRST EDITION, one of 879 numbered copies on velin blanc pu chiffon, from a total of 990. Illustrated by Maurice Pouzet in pochoir throughout. Some light abrasions to paper covers, otherwise very good, in publisher's paper covered boards, with a wine label style artwork pasted down.
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Choice Menus for Luncheons and Dinners
by Lang, Gladys T.
St. Louis, Mo: the author, 1937. Octavo (25 x 18 cm.), 135, [12], x pages. Index. Memorandum pages for additional recipes. Stated "Seventh Edition", originally published 1930. A self-published compilation of "all the best recipes" the author has originated, collected and served. Structured in sections that start with a menu for either luncheon or dinner and followed with the recipes by menu. In an eleven-page Memorandum section there are fifteen manuscript recipes, handwritten directly on the page or taped-in,... Read More
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![Cardamoms in Ceylon: With the Compliments of the Growers. [Cover title; caption title: Cardamoms. (Elettaria Cardamomum)]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/440/964/1192964440.0.l.1.jpg)
Cardamoms in Ceylon: With the Compliments of the Growers. [Cover title; caption title: Cardamoms. (Elettaria Cardamomum)]
by [Spices/herbs; Ceylon/Sri Lanka]
[Colombo: Cave & Co., Printers, 1910. Oblong booklet (18 x 14 cm.), [16] pages. Text illustrations from black-and-white photographs. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A promotional pamphlet published by the cardamom growers of Ceylon, with information on cardamom cultivation, cardamom use in cooking, medicine and perfume, and trade statistics. The tentative date is derived from statistical data for 1909 contained in the text. Original pictorial self-wrappers. Some soil and discoloration to wrapper margins, light additional wear, else very good. Unrecorded.... Read More
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La Cuisine Berrichonne, suivi de Chansons a Boire, Ornaments de Emile Popineau
by Lapaire, Hugues
Paris: Chez Helleu et Sergent, 1925. Small octavo, 108, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. A simple and lovely book devoted to the cuisine of Berry. The recipe list is not long, but includes "boeuf au cornichons", "veau en etuvee", "rognons de moutons a la mode de Bourges", and "truffiat ou galette aux pommes de terre". With a section on the wines of the region and a collection of local drinking songs. Charmingly illustrated with woodcuts by the regional sculptor Emile... Read More
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Maura Laverty's Cookery Book.With a section on diet by Sybil Le Brocquy
by Laverty, Maura; Sybil Le Brocquy (illustrator)
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1948. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), [2], 133 pages. Illustrated. Third impression; originally issued 1946. Simultaneously issued in Tralee, Ireland as Kind Cooking. The first cookbook of Maura Laverty (1907 - 1966), the Irish novelist, playwright, journalist, broadcaster and cookery expert. Her 1960 cookbook Full & Plenty is considered a classic collection of Irish recipes. With decorations by the Irish artist Louis Le Brocquy early in his career. Some light offsetting to endpapers, otherwise... Read More
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Manuscript legal settlement of a dispute over a delivery of fish
by [Law – Delivery of fish]; Adams, Peter. Roorbach, John F.
New York, 1795. Single leaf notarized document (32.5 x 20.5 cm.), printed and manuscript text on recto only. With embossed paper seal of the notary. Sworn testimony of a Peter Adams, regarding an agreement to settle a dispute over transport of one hundred barrels of fish. The fish, located in New Carlisle, Quebec (north of New Brunswick), to New York. The parties, Thomas Sherrer, who had attempted to ship the barrels, and John Claswell, captain of the vessel that... Read More
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The Poor Man's Garden: or A Few Brief Rules for Regulating Allotments of Land to the Poor, for Potatoe Gardens, With Remarks, Addressed to Mr Malthus, Mr Sadler, and the Political Economists: and a Reference to the Opinions of Dr Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations."
by Law, James Thomas
London: Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Waterloo-Place, Pall-Mall, 1830. Booklet, sewn on cords (22 x 14 cm.), 23 pages. FIRST EDITION. An additional issue was published the same year by Hinde of Lichfield. The author suggests that allotments be supplied to the poor so they might labor at growing some of their own food. He predicts a number of results of the allotments: that the poor may contribute to their own subsistence; that gardening... Read More
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Lawrence City Mission Cook Book: Favorite Recipes of the Women of Greater Lawrence
by [Lawrence City Mission (Lawrence, Mass.); Women of Member Churches]
Lawrence, Massachusetts: The Boothby Press, 1928. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 164 pages. Cover title: City Mission Cook Book. Publication date derived from image in Walter Baker advertisement on page [107]. Includes table of contents. Advertisements interspersed. Second printing (see Brown). A generous anthology of seven hundred recipes assembled by delegate members of a community defining itself on a wide franchise. An idea of the scope can be inferred from the number–forty-eight–of recipes for pudding of one sort or... Read More
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Five to a Feast
by Layton, T.A.
London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1948. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 219 pages. FIRST EDITION. A collection of essays, including the author's attempt to recreate a fourteenth century banquet. Layton was a caterer and the other essays describe some of the escapades encountered in that noble profession. With the tiny ink bookseller stamp of Sotheran to front end papers, and some pencil bookseller description to rear end papers. Otherwise a fine copy in blue cloth. In a price-clipped,... Read More
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Maigre Cookery
by Lear, H.L. Sidney
London; [Edinburgh]: Rivingtons, Waterloo Place; [printed by R. & R. Clark], 1884. Octavo (15 x 10 cm.), xvi, 96 pages. FIRST EDITION with this title, thus second edition; originally issued as Lenten Cookery, published by A.R. Mowbray in 1876. "Two or three years ago this little book was published containing a good many recipes ... It is now re-edited in a different shape ..." (page v). Perhaps the earliest Italian cookbook published in England, at the service of Lenten... Read More
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A Treatise on Citrus Culture in California
by Lelong, B.M.; [State Board of Horticulture, California]
Sacramento, Cal: State Office: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing, 1888. Slim octavo (23 x 15 cm,), 96 pages. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and wood engravings throughout. Several errata have been overprinted in purple ink (rubber stamp?). FIRST EDITION. Byron Martin Lelong (1856-1901) was the Secretary of California's State Board of Horticulture, and amongst a generation of farmer-scholars working and publishing in California in the 1880s and 90s. Others included Thomas Garey and William Andrew Spaulding, and in a... Read More
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A Treatise of all Sorts of Foods, Both Animal and Vegetable: also of Drinkables: Giving an Account How to chuse the best Sort of all Kinds; Of the good and bad Effects they produce; the Principles they abound with; the Time, Age and Constitution they are adapted to. Wherein their Nature and Use is explain'd according to the Sentiments of the most eminent Physicians and Naturalists Ancient and Modern. The Whole divided into one Hundred seventy-six Chapters. With Remarks upon each. Written originally in French, By the Learned M. L. Lemery, Physician to the King, and Member of the Royal Academy. Translated by D. Hay, M. D. To which is added, An Introduction treating of Foods in general: A Table of the Chapters, and an Alphabetical Index
by Lemery, M.L.
London: Printed for T. Osborne, 1745. Small octavo (17 x 10 cm.), [xii], 372, [24] pages. Title-page printed in red and black. Index. FIRST EDITION THUS. "The first English translation under the title A Treatise of Foods, in General... was printed in 1704. Oxford cites two imprints in 1745, the second with a frontispiece, called the third edition" (Bitting). Louis Lémery (1677-1743). His treatise reflects the 18th-century interest in understanding the nature of foods, their effects on the body,... Read More
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Seventy-Five Receipts, for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. The Eleventh Edition
by Leslie, Miss [Eliza]
Boston: Munroe and Francis, and Joseph Francis, Charles Francis, 1838. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), vi, 107, [5] pages. Advertisements. Eleventh Edition, Revised. A remarkable cookbook, in that it is considered the first to adopt the concise recipes formula, throughout, of a name, a list of ingredients, and a series of steps. The author did this with the intention of making the recipes, "intelligible to servants and persons of the most moderate capacity." In later cookbooks, Leslie abandoned the... Read More
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The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable Based on True Events
by Logsdon, Gene
Cleveland: [by the author], 1998. Small octavo (16 x 12.5 cm.), 54 pages. Illustrated by Luz Aveleyra. FIRST EDITION, no. 93 of 119 copies. "Designed and Composed in Bembo Type and Printed on Twinrocker Paper in an Ostrander Seymour Hand Press by Bob Baris." An illustrated short story by the American farmer and agrarian writer and cultural critic Gene Logsdon. Clean and sound, in publisher's grey, textured cloth, with a paper title label on the spine. Fine.
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