The Book of Bread
by Simmons, Owen
London; [Edinburgh]: Maclaren & Sons, 37 and 38 Shoe Lane; [Printed by Turnbull & Spears, 1903. Quarto (29 x 23 cm.), 360 pages. Illustrated, with twelve full-page color illustrations, eight tipped-in half-tones; and two tipped-in gelatin silver prints; additional illustrations in the text. Advertisements. Index. FIRST TRADE EDITION, first or "subscribers' issue", differentiated from the second or ordinary issue by twenty-four additional pages, mostly advertisements and a list of subscribers to the deluxe edition with decorated endpapers (which in... Read More
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The Star Chamber Dinner Accounts, being some hitherto unpublished Accounts of Dinners provided for the Lords of the Privy Council in the Star Chamber, Westminster, during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I of England
by Simon, Andre L.
London: George Rainbird for the Wine and Food Society, 1959. Quarto (27.5 x 19.5 cm.), viii, 88 pages. Index; bibliography; illustrated with four facsimile plates of accounts. FIRST EDITION. "Hitherto unpublished accounts of dinners..." from Simon's personal collection of two hundred fifty Star Chamber dinner accounts he has chosen "the fifty from 1567 to 1605 which cover Shakespeare's life because of the added literary interest which they obviously possess for Shakespeare scholars." Simon has also included a few contemporary... Read More
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Bottlescrew Days. Wine Drinking in England During the Eighteenth Century
by Simon, André L.
London: Duckworth, 1926. Thick octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 273, [1] pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Publisher's advertisement at rear. FIRST EDITION; a U.S. edition was issued the following year by Maynard Small of New York. The author conceived this work as a followup to his massive three volume History of the Wine Trade in England, which covered the wine trade from the Roman Invasion to the end of the Seventeenth Century. The "bottlescrew" of the title... Read More
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![The American Book of Cookery: Containing more than five hundred receipts in every variety of cookery never before published. Together with the family cleanser and dyer, Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Cleaning and Dying Clothing and Goods of Every Description; Adapted to the Use of Families. Also, a New Theory and Practice of Family Medicine, Never before Offered to the Public, the Receipts of Which Cost More Than $500; and the New Mode of Washing, with Receipts for Making the Popular Washing Fluids Now in Use, and Sold at a High Price. [cover title: New American Book of Cookery, and the Housekeeper's Assistant]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/379/038/992038379.0.l.1.jpg)
The American Book of Cookery: Containing more than five hundred receipts in every variety of cookery never before published. Together with the family cleanser and dyer, Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Cleaning and Dying Clothing and Goods of Every Description; Adapted to the Use of Families. Also, a New Theory and Practice of Family Medicine, Never before Offered to the Public, the Receipts of Which Cost More Than $500; and the New Mode of Washing, with Receipts for Making the Popular Washing Fluids Now in Use, and Sold at a High Price. [cover title: New American Book of Cookery, and the Housekeeper's Assistant]
by Skinner M.D., H.B.; [Henry Burchstead Skinner]
Boston: Published by J.B. Hall, No. 15 Brattle Street, 1853. Duodecimo, 110, [2] pages. Final leaf contains "Table of Contents of the American Ladies' Memorial". Wrapper title is "New American Book of Cookery...". Second printing; originally issued in 1850. This work is divided into four parts: recipes; family cleanser and dyer; family medicine; and new theory of washing. Includes recipes for various cleaning fluids. Soiled throughout, and with some damp-staining and dog-ears, but text block is sound. Six cm.... Read More
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![The American Book of Cookery: Containing more than five hundred receipts in every variety of cookery never before published. Together with the family cleanser and dyer, Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Cleaning and Dying Clothing and Goods of Every Description; Adapted to the Use of Families. Also, a New Theory and Practice of Family Medicine, Never before Offered to the Public, the Receipts of Which Cost More Than $500; and the New Mode of Washing, with Receipts for Making the Popular Washing Fluids Now in Use, and Sold at a High Price. [cover title: New American Book of Cookery, and the Housekeeper's Assistant, Price 25 Cts.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/414/267/1606267414.0.l.jpg)
The American Book of Cookery: Containing more than five hundred receipts in every variety of cookery never before published. Together with the family cleanser and dyer, Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Cleaning and Dying Clothing and Goods of Every Description; Adapted to the Use of Families. Also, a New Theory and Practice of Family Medicine, Never before Offered to the Public, the Receipts of Which Cost More Than $500; and the New Mode of Washing, with Receipts for Making the Popular Washing Fluids Now in Use, and Sold at a High Price. [cover title: New American Book of Cookery, and the Housekeeper's Assistant, Price 25 Cts.]
by Skinner M.D., H.B.; [Henry Burchstead Skinner]
Boston: Published by J.B. Hall, Sold at Skinner's Publishing House, 1851. Duodecimo (16.8 x 10 cm.), 110, [2] pages. Final leaf contains "Table of Contents of the American Ladies' Memorial". Wrapper title is "New American Book..." FIRST EDITION. This humble housekeeping manual is divided into four parts: recipes; family cleanser and dyer; family medicine; and a new theory of washing. Included are recipes for various cleaning fluids. Some staining throughout with dog-ears and a closed tear to the final... Read More
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Fruits and Farinacea, The Proper Food of Man. Being an Attempt to Prove, from History, Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry, That the Original, Natural, and Best Diet of Man is Derived from the Vegetable Kingdom... from the Second London Edition
by Smith, John; Trall, R.T.
New York: Fowler and Wells, Publishers, no. 389 Broadway; [Edward O. Jenkins, Printer & Stereotyper], 1864. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), xix, 314, [4] pages. Advertisements. Illustrated with engravings in the text, but lacking the hand-colored frontispiece that appears in the first American issue. Publication date from date of issue of American Phrenological Journal advertised in rear. Second printing of the first U.S. edition, from the second London Edition. An early and important work in the history of vegetarianism.... Read More
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What Does Your Cup Reveal
by Smith, Kizzie Everhart
[San Pedro, California: Trade Winds Publishing Co. Inc.; Schindler Printing Company, Inc, 1948. Quarto, stapled in wrappers (26 x 20 cm.), [32] pages. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of author. FIRST EDITION. A guide to reading leaves in a tea cup. Illustrated with fifteen images of tea leaves, photographed from above, surrounded by text with the author's interpretation. Includes a glossary of images with interpretations. Some light soiling, and a light tideline to top and bottom edges. Red wrappers, illustrated in... Read More
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Fur Or Feather: Days With Dog and Gun
by Smith, Lawrence B. (Lon); Paul Brown (illustrator)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. Small quarto (26 x 18.5 cm.), 144 pages. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Paul Brown. FIRST EDITION. Lawrence B. Smith or "Lon Smith" was the author of many books on hunting and shooting, including Modern Shotgun Shooting, Shotgun Psychology, and Modern Gun Dogs. This book focuses less on technical aspects of shooting or hunting and more on the pleasures of the sport, including the satisfactions of the relationship between a hunter and his... Read More
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Temperance Cook Book. Written by Mrs. Mary G. Smith, for the Benefit of all Housekeepers
by Smith, Mary G.
San Jose, Cal: Mercury Book and Job Printing House, 1887. Small quarto (22 x 15 cm.), [4], [1]-261. Advertisements printed on pink paper; and two additional advertisements printed on pink paper and bound in with the text; there is a two-page advertisement for The San Jose Mercury. Stated "Second Edition"; first thus (see below). Glozer claims this is the second edition, printed the same year as the first, and with the same pagination. However, we have found no records... Read More
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The Baptist Church Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Baptist Church, San Francisco, Cal
by [First Baptist Church (San Francisco (Calif.); Ladies’ Aid Society]
San Francisco: Matthews, 1910. Octavo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 165 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). “Table of contents” is actually an index. Subtitle on cover: Containing 600 Recipes Tried and Proved. Illustration of the Church on the title page. FIRST EDITION. A compact but generous church cookbook with six hundred attributed recipes, entirely addressed to an anglophone readership expecting fritters and puddings. Potential stand-outs among them: Cream of Onion Soup, Panned Oysters with Green Peppers, Mutton Turnover, Stewed Tripe, Chicken... Read More
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Soda Fountain Formulas
by [Soda fountains – J. Hungerford Smith Co. (Rochester, N.Y.)]; Sayles, Dan
Rochester, N.Y.: J. Hungerford Smith Co, 1925. Stapled booklet (21.5 x 13 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Index. Printed throughout in black and red. Date from interior panel of front wrapper. FIRST EDITION. A book of recipes for soda fountain drinks made with the flavored "true fruit" syrups of the Hungerford Smith Company. Included are recipes for soda fountain drinks, sundaes, ice creams and desserts. The book was published following a trade catalogue of the same name which included illustrations of... Read More
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![Bought of S. Hart & Son, Manufacturers of and Dealers in Stone Ware, Rockingmam [sic] Ware, Fire Brick, &c](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/970/774970262.0.l.jpg)
Bought of S. Hart & Son, Manufacturers of and Dealers in Stone Ware, Rockingmam [sic] Ware, Fire Brick, &c
by [Billhead – Stoneware]; S. Hart & Son
Fulton, NY, 1870. Billhead (35.7 x 21.5 cm.). Illustrated with small cuts of various wares including jugs, molasses jugs, preserve jars, butter pots, cake pots, churns, chambers, spittoons, horse feed boxes, mixing bowls, pie plates, water filters, and flower pots. By 1878, the Samuel Hart, the company’s founder, retired and S. Hart & Son became Hart Brothers. Some creasing, light foxing, and glue spots to right edge, otherwise good. Along bottom edge is printed (typed?), “From the collection of... Read More
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The Philosophic Anatomy of the Tongue
by Souchon, Edmond
[Chicago: the author; American Medical Association, 1909. Offprint, stapled in wrappers (21.3 x 14 cm.), 7 pages. [Title from cover]. Reprinted from The Journal of the American medical association, May 1, 1909. v. 52. p. 1397 and 1398. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. A short but fascinating description of the tongue as an organ, one of very few which has more than solely its sense function. "The tongue, the nose, and the skin are the only organs of special sense which... Read More
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Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes: Old Creole Cookery. Book by H. M. Mayo
by [Southern Pacific Company (Firm: San Francisco, Calif.); Henry Monroe Mayo; Elizabeth Kettenring Bégué; Bégué’s (Restaurant: New Orleans, La.)]
[San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros, 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet (14.75 x 8.5 cm.), 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits (Monsieur and Madame Bégué). Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings, including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants, offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route (San... Read More
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Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes: Old Creole Cookery. Book by H. M. Mayo
by [Southern Pacific Company (Firm: San Francisco, Calif.); Henry Monroe Mayo; Elizabeth Kettenring Bégué; Bégué’s (Restaurant: New Orleans, La.)]
[San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros, 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet (14.75 x 8.5 cm.), 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits (Monsieur and Madame Bégué). Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings, including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants, offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route (San... Read More
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[The Practical Cook Book], Published under the Auspices of the South Presbyterian Church. Compiled by ..
by [South Presbyterian Church]; Mrs. H.B. Peck, Mrs. F.W. Peck, Miss Bowen
Horseheads, N.Y.: Chemung Valley Reporter Print, 1915. Small octavo ( x cm.), 56 pages. Title from cover with subtitle from what would be a title page. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, from the Presbyterian Church of Horseheads, New York, in Chemung County near Elmira. The book contains recipes, mostly attributed, in short, narrative form. Includes handy instructions for helping those struck by lightning, snakebite, mad dog, fainting, or cinder in the eye. Damptstain along fore edge, otherwise text block... Read More
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![A Kitchen File. [Sold for the Benefit of the Refugee Children in Care of the American Friends' Service Committee]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/313/325/1717325313.0.l.jpg)
A Kitchen File. [Sold for the Benefit of the Refugee Children in Care of the American Friends' Service Committee]
by [Spahr, Mary]
[Ithaca: William A. Church Co, 1938. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 61 pages. FIRST EDITION. A fundraising cookbook, published in aid of refugee children on the eve of the Second World War. Originally compiled (but not published) as a Christmas greeting to her friends, the author revised the book "as a means to helping as many as possible of those children to reach a peaceful part of the world where they may enjoy Christmas once again"... Read More
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Likero-Vodochniye Izdeliya. [Wine and Liquor Products]
by [Trade Catalogue – Russian spirits]
N.p.: Ministerstvo Pishevoy Promishlennocti, 1950. Octavo-sized, accordion fold (25 x 18 cm.), [24] pages. Illustrated with seventeen color plates by C.B. Popov. FIRST EDITION. A trade catalogue of Russian liquors, issued by the Russian Ministry of Food. The spirits are of all types, with a wide range of vodkas, but also a rich variety of cordials, brandies and dessert liqueurs. The handsome color plates all stand out for their single color backgrounds, and the printing process would appear to... Read More
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An Anecdoted Topography of Chance; done with the help of his very dear friend Robert Filliou and translated from the French and further anecdoted by their very dear friend Emmett Williams, enriched with still further anecdotations by their very dear friend Dieter Roth (translated out of the German for the first time by Malcolm Green), with 100 reflective illustrations by Topor
by Spoerri, Daniel; (with Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, and Roland Topor)
London: Atlas Press, 1995. Near-square octavo (23.5 x 21 cm.), unpaginated. Housed in publisher's two-chamber slipcase together with the separately printed fold-out photo-collage "Cubist View of My Room," here in the form of a six-color screenprint by Uldry Serigraphie printed on 105g Tyvek, in printed and embossed chemise and wraparound band. Number 48 of 100 copies, published in the series Atlas Arkhive, documents of the avant-garde. Signed on the embossed front wrapper by Spoerri, Roth, Williams, and Topor (Filliou... Read More
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The Ladies' Superior Cook Book. Compliments of S. Silliman, Successor to J. F. Waterhouse, Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries and Delicacies
by [S. Silliman Company (Oakland, Calif.)]
Oakland, Cal: Enquirer Publishing Co, 1899. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Commissioning parties from cover, the words "S. Silliman, Successor to" applied by ink stamp. FIRST EDITION. Previously unrecorded advertising pamphlet containing "recipes devised by skilled cooks for practical use" (title page). Seventy unattributed entries, some of which merit notice for the detail of their directions, which–despite the context–in the aggregate give an impression of polish, if not elegance. Green Cabbage, for instance, should be cooked... Read More
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Five Hundred Ways to Prepare California Sea Foods. Compiled by State Fish Exchange, California Department of Agriculture
by State Fish Exchange, California Department of Agriculture; [Florence, B.B., Secretary]
Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1928. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 24 cm.), 119 pages. Text printed vertically, while the covers are displayed horizontally. Second Printing; the original was issued in 1927, and it was issued almost every year until 1935. More than eighty California seafood varieties, listed in alphabetical order, with recipes for each. Some wear to edges, and bit of soil to a few leaves; generally near very good, in attractive, color printed wrappers. [OCLC... Read More
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Five Hundred Ways to Prepare California Sea Foods. Compiled by State Fish Exchange, California Department of Agriculture
by State Fish Exchange, California Department of Agriculture; [Florence, B.B., Secretary]
[Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1932. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 24 cm.), 119 pages. Text printed vertically, while the covers are displayed horizontally. Later printing; the original was issued in 1927 and it continued to be issued annually until 1935. More than eighty California seafood varieties, listed in alphabetical order, with recipes for each. Some wear to edges, and bit of soil to a few leaves; generally near very good, in attractive, color printed wrappers. [OCLC... Read More
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The New England Test Kitchen. Interior View
by [Stereoscopic view – James, W.E.]
New York: the photographer; John D. Chase, Optician, 1864. Albumen silver print stereograph (8.5 x 17.5 cm.). Two prints mounted on card. The photographer is identified in a copyright registration statement. "The New England Kitchen", in The Brooklyn & Long Island Sanitary Fair, February 22, 1864, pages 72-78 states that this demonstration kitchen, not of contemporary cooking methods, but of old fashioned hearth cooking, was a hit with the crowds at the fair and a significant financial success. An... Read More
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Bouquet
by Stern, G.B. [Gladys Bronwyn Stern]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1933. Octavo (18.5 x 13.7 cm.), xii, [2], 263, [1] pages. Thirteen black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Stated Third Printing. Record of "a motor journey through the wine country of France, and adventure devoted chiefly to Bordeaux and Burgundy" (from the jacket flap). Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890-1973) was the author of more than a dozen novels and short story collections. Clean and sound in pale green cloth-covered boards, decorated in yellow and... Read More
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![Revere House. Paran Stevens. Boston July 17, 1847. [Menu & Wine List]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/380/362/1507362380.0.l.2.jpg)
Revere House. Paran Stevens. Boston July 17, 1847. [Menu & Wine List]
by [Menu – Revere House (Boston); Paran Stevens]
Boston, 1847. Broadsheet menu (31 x 13.6 cm.), [2] pages. Illustrated with an engraving of the hotel from across Boston's Bowdoin Square. A menu and wine list for the hotel restaurant of Revere House, issued in the hotel's inaugural year. Built on the site of home of Boston's Kirk Boote, Revere House became one of the city's leading hotels, hosting guests that included Charles Dickens, Jenny Lind, and Walt Whitman, and Daniel Webster addressed audience from the steps of... Read More
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