The Frolie Grasshopper Circus
by [Quaker Oats; American Cereal Co. (Chicago, Il.)]
[Chicago: American Cereal Co, 1898. Booklet, stapled in wrapper (14 x 9 cm.), 15, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout in chromolithograph and chromotypograph. Chromolithographs by "Forbes New York Boston Chicago"--Page [16], with lithographer's device (gothic letter F). Title and publication data from wrappers. FIRST EDITION (though some records indicate 1895, this is erroneous, and likely based on a trademark statement, “copyright, 1894, 1895, The American Cereal Co., Frolie, trade mark". Advertisement for Quaker Oats breakfast cereal featuring anthropomorphic grasshoppers dressed... Read More
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The Experienced English Housekeeper. For the use and ease of ladies, housekeepers, cooks, &c., Written purely from practice. Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper..
by Raffald, Elizabeth
London: Printed for J. Brambles, A. Meggitt, and J. Waters, by H. Mozley, Market-place, Gainsborough, 1805. 24mo. (18 x 10.5 cm.), vii, [1], 282 pages. Frontispiece depicting a kitchen table laden with fish, flesh and fowl; one folding plate, depicting the stove fires; lacking the two plates of table settings. Stated “New Edition, in which are inserted some celebrated Receipts by other modern Authors”, in a handy small format. Originally published in 1769, The Experienced English Housekeeper was one... Read More
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1853-4. Abridged Descriptive Catalogue of Select Fruit Trees, ornamental trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennial plants, &c. cultivated and for sale at the nursery of H.S. Ramsdell, Thompson, Conn
by Ramsdell, Hezekiah S.; Downing, A.J.
[Thompson, Conn.]: H.S. Ramsdell, 1853. Bi-folio (25 x 25 cm.), [1], 2-4 pages. A nursery catalogue with more than one hundred eighty varieties in all, of apples, pears, apricots, peaches, plums, cherries, grapes, raspberries, currants, strawberries, gooseberries, quince, as well as hedge plants, peonies, irises, lilies, roses, moss roses, and hardy climbing roses. The list includes the namesake apple, the "Ramsdell Sweet, large red, tender, rich, great bearer. Dec.-Jan." The Ramsdell Sweet – originally the Ramsdell's Red Sweeting (1845),... Read More
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The Practical Shepherd: A Complete Treatise on the Breeding, Management and Diseases of Sheep. Twelfth edition
by Randall, Henry S.
Rochester, N.Y.: D. D. T. Moore, Union Buildings, 1863. Octavo (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), 454, [2] pages. Illustrated frontispiece and engravings in the text. Index. Publisher's advertisement at rear. Stated "Twelfth Edition". A thorough manual to the various breeds of sheep, the breeding and raising of sheep, and the nutritional and veterinary care of the same. Randall was also the author of Sheep Husbandry in the South, and Fine-Wool Sheep Husbandry. Light foxing throughout. In publisher's gilt and blind-stamped... Read More
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Uncooked Foods & How to Use Them, A Treatise on How to Get the Highest Form of Animal Energy From Food. With Recipes for Preparation, Healthful Combinations and Menus
by [Raw Food]; Christian, Mr. & Mrs. (Eugene & Mollie Griswold Christian)]
New York: The Health-Culture Company, 1904. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 246 pages. Stated Second Edition (from author's preface) of this early raw food cookbook. The authors' argument tends to be twofold: that early man ate raw foods and it was good enough for him; and that cooking saps food of its nutrients. Includes an interesting collection of recipes, primarily, though not entirely, vegetarian. Internally clean and sound. Publisher’s gilt-stamped, dark blue cloth is dampstained, otherwise very good.... Read More
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Elisha Sears' Inn, Hartford
by [Receipt for Board; Elisha Sears' Inn (Hartford, Conn.)]
[Hartford, Conn, 1823. Printed and holograph receipt for board (14.5 x 8.5 cm.), single sheet printed recto only. Simple typographical border. The upper date limit is based on external evidence (the Inn was sold to a new owner who renamed it The Eagle Tavern in 1823(Conn. History online)). Receipt for the expenses of an unidentified client who ran up a bill of $21.27 for twenty breakfasts, eighteen dinners, and twenty suppers, as well as an unspecified amount of spirits,... Read More
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Bacco in Toscana. Ditirambo. Colle Annotazioni Accresciute
by Redi, Francesco (1626-1697)
Firenze [Florence]: Per Piero Matini, 1691. Small quarto (23 cm), (8), 46; (2), 251, pages. Title page in red and black with printer’s vignette; decorative head- and tail-pieces, and ornamental initial caps. Text in Italian. ~ Third Edition, improved. Franceso Redi (1626-1697) used the form of Ditirambo (dithyramb), a poetic meter of the ancient Greeks in the form of a song, here a paean praising the benefits of wine, particularly Tuscan wine. "Redi's poem is thought to have its... Read More
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Anno Quadrageismo Tertio. Georgii III Regis. An Act for more effectually securing certain Duties on Malt, and for preventing Frauds by Makers of Malt from Beer or Bigg in Scotland
by [Acts & Ordinances: Malt Fraud]; Georgii III Regis
[London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty], 1803. Quarto, two bi-folds, bound with cord (31.4 x 19 cm.), [1477]-1483 pages (8 pages total). Original printing of this Royal English Act for "more effectually securing certain Duties on Malt, and for preventing Frauds by Makers of Malt from Beer or Bigg in Scotland." Very light creases from folds; some light soil to edges of first page, otherwise fine.
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Madeira: A Guide Book of Useful and Varying Information, by William and Alfred Reid, Hotel Keepers and Wine Merchants by Appointment to HRH the Duke of Edinburgh
by Reid, William & Alfred
London: Sprague & Co, 1898. Thin octavo (13 x 19 cm.), 41, [2] pages. Illustrated with photographic illustrations (Funchal Bay from Reid's New Hotel, Reid's Hotel, Carmo Garden), plus an unindexed black & white folding map of the Island of Madeira;. Stated "Third Issue". One of a series of issues of this guide book, each featuring revisions to Steamer changes and variations in rates. A guide to the island of Madeira, focused on the several hotels owned by the... Read More
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1709 Toll House Menu for Boys and Girls
by [Menu – Toll House Restaurant]
[Massachusetts: the restaurant, 1950. Die-cut menu (16 x 12.5 cm.), [2] pages. Illustrated. Hand-colored "cover" illustration printed in red. This special menu, for "children of twelve years or under", contains three multi-course selections at three prices, fifty, seventy-five, and ninety-five cents, names the Humpty Dumpty Luncheon, the Jack and Jill Dinner, and the Boy and Girl Scout Dinner. Somewhat ironically, the foot of the menu contains the "Mass Old Age Tax 5%" statement. Small closed pull to one edge,... Read More
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Manuscript Notebook of a San Francisco Cellarman
by Reveyron, J.B.
[San Francisco], 1901. Duodecimo, about 50 pages. Manuscript in pencil and ink. Small, blank account book for a dry goods store, repurposed as a cellar book for A J. B. Reveyron, who is identified by Crocker-Langley's San Francisco Business Directory (1899), as a "cellarman" located at 135 Perry Street in San Francisco. The book, written in both French and English, records personal expenses, amounts of wine and spirits moving in and out of inventory, formula for blended and compounded... Read More
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A Few Rice Recipes. Respectfully Dedicated to Madam Good Housekeeper by The Rice Association of America
by [Rice Association of America (Crowley, Louisiana)]
Crowley, La: [The Association; Printed by] Signal Printing Co, 1911. Small booklet (14.75 x 9 cm.), 20 pages. Illustration. Printer from page [1]. Date range of publication determined from internal and external evidence. Cover title: The World Food, Rice: Eaten By All Peoples, Adapted to All Climes. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. An attractive collection of recipes from Cajun Country (or Acadiana, as it has been dubbed since the 1960s), intended for distribution by mail upon request, and designed to... Read More
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The Cook not Mad, or Rational cookery; being a collection of original and selected receipts, embracing not only the art of curing various kinds of meats and vegetables for future use, but of cooking, in its general acceptation, to the taste, habits, and degrees of luxury, prevalent with the American publick, in town and country. : To which are added, directions for preparing comforts for the sick-room; together with sundry miscellaneous kinds of information, of importance to housekeepers in general, nearly all tested by experience. (Motto, Gen. Chap. 27, V. 1, 2, 3, 4.)
by [Knowlton & Rice]
Watertown [New York]: Knowlton & Rice, 1830. Duodecimo (13.5 x 17.5 cm.), v, 120 pages. Table of contents at rear. FIRST EDITION. It has been suggested that the authors of this book are George Willard Knowlton (one half of the team of Knowlton & Rice) and his wife, Elizabeth Carroll. The book is clearly intended for the "American Publick" as it states in the introduction. Within you will find no “English, French and Italian methods of rendering things indigestible,... Read More
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Appareils de Cuisine et de Chauffage au Gaz et au Carbon
by [Trade Catalogue – Stoves]; Etablissement Brachet & Richard
Lyon: Brachet & Richard; [Imprimerie Leon Sezanne, 1935. Velour, post-bound catalogue (21.5 x 17 cm.), unpaginated. Illustrated. Printed throughout in red and black. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue of gas and coal stoves and heating appliances. Attractive, Art Deco-style design throughout, with red velour stiff wrappers, debosed and titled in gold. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies].
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For Bitters Only
by Ring, Carlyn
Wellesley, Massachusetts: The Pi Press, 1980. Quarto (28.5 x 19.5 cm.), [2], 543, [2] pages. Profusely illustrated throughout in black & white, and with eight pages of color illustrations. Printed in brown ink throughout. FIRST EDITION. A detailed listing of collectible bitters bottles, with line drawing illustrations of many of the bottles. An essential resource. In white cloth, printed in tan and brown; corners a bit bumped, otherwise fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Richard... Read More
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The Pennsylvania Farmer; Being a Selection from the Most Approved Treatises on Husbandry, Interspersed with Observations and Experiments
by Roberts, Job
Philadelphia: Published and sold by Jacob Johnson & Co., Sold also by C. Pierce, and W.& D. Treadwell, Portsmouth; W.P.& L. Blake, Boston; Beers & How, New-Haven; Whiting, Backus & Whiting, and C.R.& G. Webster, Albany; O. Penniman & Co., Troy; Thomas & Whipple, Newbury-port; George Hill and Warner & Hanna, Baltimore ; R.& J. Grey, Alexandria; and S. Pleasants, and W. Prichard, Richmond; A. Bartram, Printer, 1804. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), v, (3), [5]-224 pages. Index. FIRST... Read More
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Arte de Cozinha, dividida em quatro partes... correcta, e emendada nesta ultima edição
by Rodrigues, Domingos
Lisbon: Na Impr. de J.N. Esteves, e Filho, 1834. Duodecimo (15.5 x 10.5 cm.), 272 pages. Later edition, revised and corrected. Originally issued in 1680, Rodrigues' Arte de Cozinha was the first Portuguese book dedicated to cookery, and remained the only cookbook for one hundred years, until the publication of Rigaud's Cozinheiro Moderno in 1780. A touch of foxing. Full calf, gilt-decorated spine with red and green morocco spine labels. Very good. With the bookplate of John Fuller, Director... Read More
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Root's New Process for Clarifying Chinese & Other Cane Juices. Patented October 8th, 1861
by Root, Riley
Galesburg, IL: Chares Faxon, Book and Job Printer, 1861. Quarter-folded single sheet with pages uncut (23 x 15.7 cm.), 7 pages. FIRST EDITION. Instructive text outlining Root's new process for clarifying can juice by means of native clay. Some annotations to text in pencil. Slight foxing throughout and minor edgewear, else very good. Rare. [OCLC records just three copies (Huntington, UC Berkeley, Knox College)].
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The Food of France. With an Introduction by Samuel Chamberlain
by Root, Waverley
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Large, thick octavo (24 x 14.2 cm.), 487, xxx pages. Index. Designed and illustrated by Warren Chappell. FIRST EDITION. Root's sixth book, but the work that established him as a significant writer on food and on Europe. Root had spent almost thirty years in Europe, much of it as a correspondent for the legendary Paris Tribune. In this work, Root famously divides France up by the sources of fat employed in cooking (butter,... Read More
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Dainty Dishes, for all the year round. Part I. [cover title]
by Rorer, Mrs. S.T. [Sarah Tyson Rorer]; North Brothers Mfg. Co
Philadelphia: North Brothers Mfg. Co, 1895. Duodecimo-sized booklet, 104 pages. Later printing, originally issued 1890. Another of the many books of Sarah Tyson Rorer, Director of the Philadelphia Cooking School, and author of Mrs. Rorer's Cook Book. The book's publishers were the manufacturers of the Gem Freezer, and ice cream maker, and the recipes are for ice creams and ices. Also includes descriptions with illustrations, of a variety of kitchen tools and machines sold by North Brothers. Some small... Read More
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Dainty Dishes, for all the year round. Recipes for Ice Creams, Water Ices, Sherbets, and other Frozen Desserts
by Rorer, Mrs. S.T. [Sarah Tyson Rorer; North Brothers Mfg. Co. (Philadelphia)]
Philadelphia, Pa: North Brothers Mfg. Co, 1919. Duodecimo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (17 x 10.5 cm.), 64 pages. Photographically illustrator. Later printing, originally issued 1890. Another of the many books of Sarah Tyson Rorer, Director of the Philadelphia Cooking School, and author of Mrs. Rorer's Cook Book. The book's publishers were the manufacturers of the American Twin Freezer and ice cream maker, and the recipes are for ice creams and ices. Includes descriptions – with illustrations – of a... Read More
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Service: A Trilogy on Colonization. A Budding Gourmet, McTowers Maid, Tijuana Maid
by Rosler, Martha
New York: Printed Matter, Inc, 1978. Oblong perfect-bound book (12.7 x 20.3 cm.), [unpaginated]. FIRST EDITION, from an unnumbered edition of 1000. Three postal or mail art works by Martha Rosler combined into one offset printed artist's book. Contains "A Budding Gourmet," "McTowers Maid," and "Tijuana Maid." "This is a book of three novels and one translation. In their original form the novels were sent through the mail as postcard series, one card about every five to seven days.... Read More
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Dainties, Salads and Clever Hints. [Compiled by Members of the] Royal Neighbors of America Crown Camp 4224 New Albany
by [Royal Neighbors of America; Crown Camp No. 4224 (New Albany, Ind.)]
New Albany, Ind: [Printed by The Tribune Company(?), 1916. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 44, [iv] pages. Advertisements. Author from cover. Printer and date of publication from external evidence. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A contract community cookbook undertaken "in answer to the demand among church and club women for something new" - a reference to "relishes, garnishes, and much [else that] will appeal to the women seeking a pleasing change" (from the anonymous prefatory paragraph headed "Popular Dainties" on... Read More
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The Royal Baker & Pastry Cook
by [Royal Baking Powder Company]; Rudmani, Prof. G[iuseppi, compiler], Late Chef de Cuisine of the New York Cooking School
New York: Royal Baking Powder Co, 1878. Stapled, octavo-sized booklet (23.5 x 15cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Front wrapper verso with product reviews dated 1878. Includes a wood engraving showing twenty figures of diverse pans used in baking. “The recipes in this book are new, and formulated by one of the most experienced Professors in the art of scientific and practical cookery, especially adapted for the use of "Royal" Baking Powder and "Royal" flavoring Extracts. These preparations are... Read More
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An Essay on Calcareous Manures. Second Edition
by Ruffin, Edmund
Shellbanks, VA: Published at the Office of the Farmers’ Register; Robert Ricketts, Printer, 1835. Octavo, lacking original wrappers (24.5 x 16 cm.), viii, [9]-116 pages. Printed in double columns (after the Preface); errata notice at foot of final page. ~ Stated “second edition”, following the first edition of 1832, published in Petersburg, VA; this edition also appeared in some bound copies of the Farmers’ Register, Volume 2, of which the author was editor. Edmund Ruffin (1794-1865) was a Virginia... Read More
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