Photographs: Yeasts and Sediments. Magnification 600 diameters
by [Wallerstein Laboratories (NYC)]
[New York: Wallerstein Laboratories; [album manufactured by E.B. Michaelman], 1900. Small, post-bound photo album (15 x 18 cm.), [26] leaves. Illustrated with twenty-five original silver gelatin photographs; photographs are captioned in the photos, and the title page is itself a photograph. All photos "slotted-in" to stiff black paper. A photographic survey of "Yeasts and Sediments" associated with beer brewing. The microphotographs include Lager Yeast, Ale Yeast, Budding Yeast, Wild Yeast, Beer Sediment (various types), and more. Photos and post-bound... Read More
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![Old Mr. Boston Says "Here's How" with 24 Famous Recipes. [Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/282/352/1377352282.0.l.jpg)
Old Mr. Boston Says "Here's How" with 24 Famous Recipes. [Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide]
by [Old Mr. Boston; Ben-Burk Distillers (Boston, Ma.)]
Boston: B.B. Inc.; [Ben-Burk Distillers], 1934. Small folded pamphlet (11 x 6.5 cm.), 16 pages when folded. Printed in red, black and blue. FIRST EDITION. One of the very rare precursors to the famous Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide (1935). Following Repeal, Ben-Burk Distillers published the Guide, which was to become one of the iconic cocktail recipe books. Originally published as a promotional item for the Ben-Burk line of spirits distilled in Boston, the Guide became a staple of... Read More
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Les Vertus de Civilite. Célébrées au burin par Gautier-Constant
by Oliver, Raymond (Raymond Gautier-Constant, illustrator)
n.p.: Raymond Oliver, 1950. Small folio, 16 unbound leaves, with letterpress text, or engraved illustration, "celebres au burin par Gautier-Constant". FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Number seventy-four of one hundred numbered copies. A guide to appropriate behaviors for those involved in active flirtation and seduction, from the chef/owner of Le Grand Vefour, one of the greatest of French restaurants of its day. The virtues include "tact", "discretion", "la pudeur", "la bonne humeur", "patience", and others. Most images are accompanied by... Read More
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Recettes Pour un Ami. Préface et illustrations de Jean Cocteau. Introduction de Emmanuel Berl
by Oliver, Raymond; Cocteau, Jean
Paris: Galerie Jean Giraudoux, 1964. Quarto, unpaginated. Twenty original illustrations in red on ivory cloth pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 800 copies, with this being number 64 of 770 unsigned copies. A collection of recipes by the chef of Le Grand Vefour, the first really magnificent restaurant of Paris, which originally opened in 1784. The restaurant was revived with Oliver in charge in 1948, having been closed in 1905. It was awarded a third Michelin star in 1953. In... Read More
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Margery Gray, Or a Witch Unmasked. an Old New England Ballad, by an Unknown Author. With an Interpretive Drawing By Vrest Orton and a New Introduction By Walter John Coates
by Orton, Vrest
North Montpelier, VT: The Driftwind Press, 1930. Octavo-sized, cord-sewn booklet in wrappers (22 x 14 cm.), vii, [1], 10. Illustrated with a full-sized abstract woodcut by Orton. FIRST EDITION; limited to 150 handset copies. "Driftwind Monograph Number Two, " reproducing a poem that first appeared in The Farmers' Museum, or Literary Gazette, in 1800. Vrest Orton was the founder of the Vermont Country Store and author of The American Cider Book and The Forgotten Art of Building A Good... Read More
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Plantation Cookery of Old Louisiana
by Ott, Eleanor
New Orleans: Harmanson, Publisher, 333 Royal Street, 1938. Octavo in wrappers (20 x 14.7 cm.), 96 pages. Illustrated with decorations by Mary Evans Isom. Index. FIRST EDITION. A nostalgic cookbook from Eleanor Ott of Fair Oaks Plantation in the memory of her grandmother Mary Simmons Leggett. Many of the recipes are taken from her Grandmother's Old Plantation Cook Book. Internally clean and sound. In publisher's black-decorated gray wrappers. Some light dusting to wedges, otherwise near fine. [OCLC locates forty... Read More
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Ottolenghi: The Cookbook
by Ottolenghi, Yotam; Tamimi, Sami
London: Ebury Press, 2008. Quarto (28.5 x 19 cm.), 288 pages. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Index. FIRST EDITION. The first of the nine cookbooks that made Yotam Ottolenghi's mouthful of a name into a household word, at least in households that like to cook. The book's inventive yet simple dishes are inspired by the childhoods of Sami and his business partner Sami Tamimi in West and East Jerusalem respectively, and based on culinary traditions from North Africa, Lebanon, Italy... Read More
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A Key to Cooking: that will unlock many kitchen mysteries: wrought out and made ready for public use.Price 25 Cents
by Owen, Catherine
Springfield, Massachusetts: Clark W. Bryan & Co.; Trade supplied by C.A. Montgomery & Co, 1886. Octavo in wrappers (16.5 x 13 cm.), 56 pages. Illustrated, and with fanciful initial letters for each chapter. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. One of the many of cookbooks from the domestic economist Catherine Owen, with much of the culinary advice drawn from the author's column in Scribner's Magazine. Some light soiling to some leaves. In publisher's gray wrapper, with decorated title to front panel. Some... Read More
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Oxford Grange Cook Book. Consisting of Receipts Contributed by Ladies of the Grange. November, 1898. Price 25 cents
by [Oxford Grange (Oxford, Mass.); Howe, M.F. & M. Wakefield (editors)]
[Oxford, Massachusetts: Geo. Chaffee, Printer], 1898. Duodecimo, 40 pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. An early Grange community cookbook from the central Massachusetts town of Oxford. Recipes are attributed, and the sections are familiar: Bread, Soups, Pie, Pudding, Cake, and a miscellany with pickles and candy. Original printed, cloth-backed wrappers backed in brown cloth. Lightly soiled, with a bit of foxing mostly at the verso of the wrappers. Near fine. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Brown or Cook].
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The Recipes of Marcel Pagnol
by [Pagnol, Marcel; Jacqueline Pagnol; Alice Waters (preface)]
New York: Film at the Public, 1988. Letter-sized, corner-stapled booklet (21.5 x 28 cm.), 22 unnumbered pages. Printed on pale yellow paper. Illustrated. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. An unusual cookbook, produced on the occasion of a festival of films directed by the great novelist, playwright, and filmmaker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974). The nine film retrospective was presented by Joseph Papp at the Public Theater. Some light age-toning to the paper stock; tiny bit of wear to the edges, otherwise fine. Very... Read More
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De Re Rustica Libri XIIII
by Palladii, Rutilii Tauri Aemiliani [Palladius, Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus]
Luguni; [Lyon]: Sebastien Gryphe, 1549. Octavo (16 x cm.), [1-2] 3-184, [8] pages. Collation: 2A-2M8. With decorative initials, printer's devices to title page and final page. Text in Latin. An early Lyon edition. A Roman agricultural treatise from the late 4th or early 5th century, well-known throughout the medieval period, also called Opus Agriculturae. Palladius tells us that he owned land in the Neapolitan countryside and in Sardinia and that he directed the farming himself. This work is the... Read More
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Snow, Frost, and Ice. Cornell Rural School Leaflet, Winter 1947-48
by [Palmer, E. Laurence; [cover illustrations by Wilson A. Bentley; New York State College of Agriculture Cornell Rural School Leaflet]
Ithaca, N.Y.: New York State College of Agriculture. Rural Education Department, 1947. Volume 41, Number 3. Booklet, stapled in wrappers, 31 pages. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs. FIRST EDITION. Issued in the aftermath of the Great Blizzard of December 1947. Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley was a pioneering photographer, famous for taking incredibly detailed pictures of snowflakes; he developed a method of quickly photographing them as they lay on a blanket of black velvet. Together with his co-author W.J. Humphreys,... Read More
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Travels of the Shaker Salt Doll in the Royal Table Lands of the World
by [Paper dolls – Diamond Crystal Salt Company (St. Clair, Mich.)]
St. Clair, Mich: Diamond Crystal Salt Co, 1911. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrappers (13 x 18 cm.), [16] pages. Chromolithograph illustrations throughout. Title from cover. FIRST EDITION. A promotional item for Diamond Crystal Salt offering descriptions of child life in different countries accompanied by paper dolls and costumes corresponding to each country. Bright and clean in chromolithographic wrappers. Fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates three copies (Hagley, Hamilton College, Princeton)].
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Kids Are Natural Cooks. Child-tested recipes for home and school using natural foods
by [Parent's Nursery School (Cambridge, Mass.)] Ault, Roz; Liz Uraneck; Lady McCrady (illustrator)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Quarto (24 x 21 cm.), 129 pages. Illustrated; index. FIRST TRADE EDITION, early printing, following a smaller, privately published edition issued in 1972 by the parents themselves. The original was a fundraising cookbook for the school, but was expanded and re-illustrated for the trade edition. The cookbook presents a variety of simple recipes based on natural foods with information on nutrition and basic cooking techniques. In publisher's illustrated yellow cloth; in an unclipped dust... Read More
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Grand Magasins de la Samaritaine – Tabliers Confectionnés Pour Dames et Hommes
by [Trade Catalogue – Aprons]; Samaritaine (Paris)]
Paris: Imprimerie de la Samaritaine, 1914. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm.), 15 pages. Illustrated throughout. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A small trade catalogue featuring aprons of every type, offered by Paris' famous Samaritaine department store. The aprons are divided into men's and women's. Women's aprons include those for trade, kitchen, nurse, and baker. For men, the aprons include those for gardener, valet, military, grocer, wine merchant, chef, doctor, and veterinarian. Small aprons for valet boys... Read More
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Choice Receipts and Specimen Pages from Miss Parloa's New Cook Book. Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen
by Parloa, [Maria]
Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1881. Small octavo, 32 unnumbered pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. Includes a page of press notices. Sample book with specimen pages for the author’s New Cook Book. Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book was written during the time she was lecturing at the newly established Boston Cooking School, funded in 1879 by the Women’s Education Association. not long after the book was published, she left Boston for New York, where she established Miss Parloa’s School of Cooking. While... Read More
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The Ills of Indigestion, Their Causes and Their Cures, In Three Essays
by Partsch, Herman
North Berkeley, California: Cumbernauld Co., Publishers, 1896. Sextodecimo, 338 pages. FIRST EDITION. A notable contribution toward understanding the relationship between nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract, well before advances made during and after World War I in electrogastography and in managing bacterial pathogens. Having established a reputation for the treatment of seasickness, Dr. Herman Partsch (1849-1934), a physician in San Francisco, turned next to summarizing what he had encountered in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal distresses. "In writing this... Read More
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![[Ransom’s Family Receipt Book, 1883]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/503/810/1376810503.0.l.jpg)
[Ransom’s Family Receipt Book, 1883]
by [Patent medicine – D. Ransom, Son & Co. (Buffalo, N.Y.)]
Buffalo, N.Y.: Published by D. Ransom, Son & Co.; Press of Baker, Jones & Co, 1883. Booklet, sewn on cords in wrappers (16.5 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. A single year from the annual almanac promoting the “Celebrated Family Medicines” of Ransom, Son & Co. (series 1874 – c. 1923). The booklet consists of a series of alternating pages of recipes (culinary, household, medicinal, dyeing, etc.), with facing pages each advertising an individual patent medicine (Trask's Magnetic,... Read More
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The Country Kitchen Cook Book.Completely revised. A book of recipes and information for the farm woman
by [Webb Book Publishing Co. (St. Paul)]
St. Paul, Minnesota: Webb Book Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 151 pages. Illustrated. Revised edition; originally published in 1911, and reprinted in 1917. Many printings followed, and in 1942, the book was revised and expanded "containing, in addition to all usual features, a new nutrition section treating fully of vitamins, calories, proteins, and minerals, together with sixty-three carefully prepared menus analyzed for vitamin and calorie content.” The 1934 edition was revised by Farmer's Wife Magazine under... Read More
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Radiant Smiles: Desserts
by Peacock, C.B. [Christina B. Peacock]
Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 17 Princes Street; [printed by R. Mitchell & Sons, 18-20 Clyde Street, 1928. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), 32 pages. Index. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A small Scottish cookery book of largely simple desserts. It begins with lists of 'Suggested Necessary Equipment', and 'Suggested Necessary Goods to be Kept in Stock', both of which include some items with brand names. Lots of whipped things. Some light spotting to text; staples oxidized and text... Read More
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![And So to Bed. Being the Diary of a Mixer of Cocktails. [With apologies to Samuel Pepys]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/023/553/1742553023.0.l.jpg)
And So to Bed. Being the Diary of a Mixer of Cocktails. [With apologies to Samuel Pepys]
by Seagram's Limited; Samuel Pepys
Montreal: Distillers Corporation, Seagrams Limited / The Ronalds Co. Limited, 1930. Stapled booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.5 x 8 cm.), 35, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. A humorous promotional cocktail recipe booklet, with thirty recipes, all for use with various Seagram's products. An illustration of the product, handsomely printed in chromolithography and with a short description of the spirit appears on the left page. The facing page contains a faux diary entry in the style of Samuel Pepys (a... Read More
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![Pickles. Vol. IV, No. 3. June 15, 1900. [Atlantic City Edition, MCM]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/975/087/1414087975.0.l.jpg)
Pickles. Vol. IV, No. 3. June 15, 1900. [Atlantic City Edition, MCM]
by [Periodicals – H.J. Heinz Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.)]
Pittsburgh, Pa: [H.J. Heinz Company], 1900. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [24] pages. Illustrated. Single issue of the promotional periodical of the H.J. Heinz Company, published "in the interest of their employees and friends.” A selection of articles, including short fiction, "A Love Tangle”, and a corporate profile, “The Business of H.J. Heinz Co.”, a description of a “Supper to the Philadelphia Branch” with the menu, and some Personals supplied by employees. The issue features the... Read More
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Journal of Mycology January, 1885; Vol. 1, No. 1
by [Periodicals – Mycology; Kellerman, W.A., Ellis, J. B., Everhart, B. M. (Editors)]
Manhattan, Kansas: Mercury Publishing House, Printers, 1885. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (21 x 14 cm.), 16 pages. FIRST EDITION of the first issue of the first American periodical dedicated to mycology. Includes a statement of purpose for the new journal, and reports of new-found fungi (in this case new fungi from Kansas and from Iowa. Also included is a separate article, "North American Geasters", and a review of new literature in the field. The Journal of Mycology was founded... Read More
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The Vital Question, and Our Navy, 1898. Third edition of one hundred thousand each
by [Perky, Henry D. (Worcester, Mass.); Harriet A. Higbee (recipes by)]
[Worcester, Mass.; Providence, R.I.: H.D. Perky; Providence Albertype Company, Printers and Binder, 1897. Quarto-sized, cord-tied booklet (25 x 20.5 cm.), 42 pages (the Index on pages 33-42 is printed on slightly smaller paper, and appears to have been typeset separately – likely a later addition to the already-printed text pages). Illustrated with two leaves of chromolithograph depictions of dishes. Title from cover. Stated "Third edition of One Hundred Thousand Each." A promotional cookbook from the company that brought us... Read More
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Cooking Chats with Luigi Trianni, by Milan V. Petrovic. E adesso cari amici vi Auguro, "Buon Appetito", Luigi
by Petrovic, Milan V.; Luigi Trianni
New York: [Milan V. Petrovic, 155 East 38th Street, 1948. Comb-bound octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 71 pages (printed and numbered rectos only). Publisher and date of publication from table of contents. FIRST EDITION. It's hard to find the "cooking chats" in this book, as it contains nothing but recipes; no preface, no introduction, no other text at all. Occasionally, however, a second voice creeps into the recipes, "Ask Luigi to cut up a tender young chicken for frying..."... Read More
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