Twenty-Seven Recipes, requiring the use of good mustard
by [Stickney & Poor Spice Company (Boston, Mass.)]
[Boston, Mass: Stickney & Poor Spice Company, 1900. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 8.5 cm.), 12 pages. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely-produced product cookbook for Stickney & Poor's mustard, with twenty-seven recipes, including lots of salads and sandwiches. Very light soil to brown printed tan wrappers, otherwise fine. One handwritten recipe to interior wrapper panel, Scotch Wood-Cock, Ethelynde Smith". [OCLC locates just one copy (Historical Society of Penn)].
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Cook Book. Compiled by ladies of St. John's Episcopal Church, Ensley, Alabama
by [St. John’s Episcopal Church (Ensley, Ala.); Ladies of the Church]
Ensley, Alabama: [The Church; Printed by] Garrison Printer, 1915. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 89, [i] pages. Advertisements. Index and “Index of advertisements.” Date of publication estimated from external evidence. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook from a once independent municipality at the moment of its absorption into greater Birmingham. Nearly three hundred recipes, some of them attributed; including: English Currant Bread, Poached Eggs with Creamed Celery, Fried Okra with Onions, Artichoke à la Barigoile (i.e., Barigoule), Creamed Parsnips,... Read More
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Peg Woffington: Choice Recipes by Experienced Housewives of St. John's Guild, Pleasantville, New York
by [St. John's Guild (Pleasantville, New York)]; Goodwin, Annie M. (compiler)
Brooklyn, New York: The Pearl Press, 375 Pearl Street, 1908. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 87 pages. Advertisements throughout. FIRST EDITION. An attractive community cookbook, from the aptly named Westchester County hamlet of Pleasantville. It's unclear the connection between Pleasantville's St John's Guild and Peg Woffington. Margaret "Peg" Woffington was a popular 18th century English actress, linked romantically to David Garrick. A tea house in Teddington, UK, with a two hundred fifty year history, was established by Woffington, but... Read More
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The Granite Iron Ware Cook Book... Price 25 cents
by [St. Louis Stamping Company (St. Louis, Mo.)]
St. Louis, Mo.; New York: St. Louis Stamping Company; [chromolithography by Donaldson Brothers], 1887. Small pamphlet, stapled in wrappers (12.75 x 8.75 cm.), 64 pages. Wood engraved illustrations throughout, and chromo-lithographically illustrated wrappers. Publication date from front wrapper panel. FIRST EDITION. A small but beautifully produced promotional cookbook, advertising the full line of iron ware kitchenware from the St. Louis Stamping Co. Includes testimonials, recipes, and lots of illustrations of the many products they produced. The illustrated wrappers depict... Read More
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Carolina Rice Cook Book. Compiled by Mrs. Samuel G. Stoney
by [Louisa Cheves Smythe Stoney]; Mrs. Samuel G. Stoney
Charleston, S.C.: Carolina Rice Kitchen Association; Presses The Lucas-Richardson Co, 1901. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (lacking) (18.5 x 11.5 cm.), 91, [13] pages. Advertisements. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. Margaret Cook records this as the first South Carolina community cookbook. At least two other non-community cookbooks from the Palmetto State precede this book by some decades: The Carolina Receipt Book by a “Lady of Charleston” (1832) and Sarah Rutledge’s Carolina Housewife (1847). A third book, clearly a community cookbook, Old... Read More
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Espargne-Bois C'Est a Dire, Nouvelle Et Parci-Devant Non Commune, ni mise en lumiere, invention de certains et divers fourneaux artificiels. par François Keslar ... Maintenant publiee en françois pour le bien ... de tous ceux qui usent de ceste langue
by [Stoves]; Keslar, Francois [Franz Kessler]
Oppenheim: Par Iean Theodore dé Bry marchant libraire & bourgeois d'Oppenheim qui est sur le Rhin, 1619. Small quarto (19.5 x 14 cm.), [7], 8-72 pages, five plates engraved on copper, one folding. FIRST FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION and FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. The first book on individual heating using stoves. A rare work on improvements in fireplaces and stoves, featuring five plates of ornate examples. It was published by the copper engraver and publisher Jean Theodore de Bry (1561-1623), born... Read More
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Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook
by Princess Pamela [Pamela Strobel]
New York: New American Library/Signet, 1969. Mass market paperback (18 x 10.5 cm.), [20], 21-248 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION, stated first printing; issued as a mass market paperback only. A cookbook from the chef and owner of one of Craig Claiborne's favorite "soul food spots", Princess Pamela's Little Kitchen. The author, Princess Pamela Strobel, is never identified by her full name, only as Princess Pamela, but the dedication, a poem to the author's mother, Beauty Strobel, allows the reader... Read More
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Famous Recipes By Famous People. Compiled and edited by Herbert Cerwin. Illustrated by Sinclair Ross
by [Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte]; [John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, Zane Grey, H.L. Mencken, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Walt, Disney, Gertrude Stein, William Beebe, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Rube Goldberg, et al.]; (Cerwin, Herbe
San Francisco, Calif: Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte, 1940. Large octavo, 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second Edition, originally published under the slightly different title, Famous Recipes of Famous People, and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes, with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, Rube... Read More
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Your Work Room, Equipped for better cooking with less work (title from cover)
by [Super Maid Cook-Ware Corp. (Chicago, Ill.)]
[Chicago, Ill: Super Maid Cook-Ware Corp, 1930. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (22 x 14.7 cm.), 16 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white photo-illustrations and vignettes. Index. Title from cover. FIRST EDITION. A well-illustrated promotional brochure from Super Maid Cook-Ware, "The Aristocrat of Cooking Utensils", provides recipes for preparation in the company's pots and pans. Minor soiling to the edges of the wraps, otherwise very good. Ink inscription at the foot of the front wrapper panel reads, “Mrs. [ill.] I called... Read More
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The Principles and Practice of Brewing
by Sykes, Walter J.; Ling, Arthur R.
London: C. Griffin and Company, Limited, 1907. Thick octavo ( x cm.), xviii, 588 pages. Illustrated. Index. Publisher's advertisements. Stated Third Edition, "thoroughly revised by the author and Arthur R. Ling". The first edition was issued in 1897, and the second in 1902 (with 511 pages). In a review of this new edition published August 1907, the journal Nature stated, the work in its present form stands easily first among books in our language devoted to a consideration of... Read More
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A Pacific Bibliography. Printed matter relating to the native peoples of Polynesia, Melanesia and Micronesia
by Taylor, C.R.H.
Wellington, N.Z.: The Polynesian Society, 1951. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volume 24. Small quarto (25.5 x 16 cm.), xxx, 492 pages. Frontispiece, folding map at end (with small correction sticker laid on), appendices, index. FIRST EDITION. "This volume includes 65 pages of references under 26 subjects, on the Maori of New Zealand. Every island group in the Pacific is covered similarly. It is a guide and handbook to writings on Oceania and its peoples" (jacket text). Red cloth,... Read More
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The Concord Cook Book, comp. by Mrs. Adolph Guttman and Mrs. Levi Oppenheimer, for the benefit of the Ladies' Auxiliary, Society of Concord, Syracuse, N.Y. 1915, First Edition
by [Temple Society of Concord]; Guttman, Marilla Goldstein; Etta Goldberg Oppenheimer (compilers)
Syracuse, N.Y.: Dehler Press, 1915. Octavo (19.5 x 14.5 cm.), 1 preliminary leaf, xvii, [1], 339 pages. Index; advertisements. Stated FIRST EDITION. A Jewish community cookbook from Temple Society of Concord, established in 1839, and now known as Temple Concord, a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue in Syracuse, New York, one of the oldest Jewish congregations in America. Marilla Goldstein Guttman (1862-1922) was the wife of Dr. Adolph Guttman, the leader of the congregation from 1883-1918. His tenure was... Read More
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![Thayer's One Hundred Formulas, a Handbook of special and practical information and knowledge. Price one dollar. [with:] Twelve Sample Receipts from..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/376/267/1606267376.0.l.jpg)
Thayer's One Hundred Formulas, a Handbook of special and practical information and knowledge. Price one dollar. [with:] Twelve Sample Receipts from..
by Thayer, S.A. [Samuel A. Thayer]
Boston: J.H. Hartley, Printer, 71 Olive Street, 1883. Two pieces. Octavo-sized booklet (18 x 12.5 cm.), 30 pages. With: a hand bill for same. Bifold (21.7 x 14 cm.), [4] pages. FIRST EDITION. An interesting collection of recipes medicinal, household, and otherwise useful, drawn from vegetable chemistry. Includes medicines, syrups, extracts, tinctures, infusions, concentrations, balms, ointments, washes, liniments, drops, powders, solutions, uses in wine, uses as food supplements, hair restoratives, creams, & hair dyes, hair pomades, deodorizing powder, skin... Read More
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The Allardt Cook Book.The way to a man's heart
by The Allardt Presbyterian Missionary Society (Tenn.)
Allardt; Jamestown, Tenn: Printed by Cumberland Printing Company, 1959. Quarto-sized booklet, stapled in cloth-backed wrappers (27.5 x 21.5 cm.), 85 pages. Mimeographed. Stated "Fifth edition, revised", though the same publication info appears on a 1953 edition (which contains 76 pages, and was printed by Lola Gernt and June Bagse). A scarce Tennessee community cookbook, with recipes attributed. Allardt is a a small town in north central Tennessee, about halfway between Nashville and Knoxville.Ink correction to one recipe; small stain... Read More
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The Vital Question Cook Book. Being a discussion of the food problem and its relation to health and happiness
by [The Natural Food Company (Niagra Falls, N.Y.)]
Niagara Falls; Buffalo: The Natural Food Company; The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1908. Duodecimo (20.5 x 15.5 cm.), 62, [2] pages. Illustrated with four pages of chromolithograph images of shredded wheat dishes, and with black and white photos. Index. FIRST EDITION. "Series no. 1" (rear wrapper panel). A product cookbook from the company that brought us Shredded Wheat. Almost every recipe, from Blueberry Shortcake to Welsh Rarebit, contains Shredded Wheat. The final leaf contains twelve images of interior views of "The... Read More
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Tried Recipes. A cook book compiled by the ladies of the Presbyterian Church of North Vernon, Indiana
by [The Presbyterian Church (North Vernon, Indiana); Ladies of the...]
North Vernon, Indiana: North Vernon Plain Dealer, Book & Job Printers, 1906. Octavo (22.3 x 15.3 cm.), 193 pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A second edition was issued in 1926. A church cookbook with recipes in narrative form. Many of the recipes are attributed. Very scarce. [OCLC locates one copy (Indiana State Library); Cook, page 74; not in Brown; a single copy of the second edition of 1926 resides at Kansas State U.].
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Games for a Children's Party
by [The Welch Grape Juice Company (Westfield, N.Y.)]
Westfield, N.Y.: the company, n.d.. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (12.5 x 10 cm.), 24 pages. Illustrated. Printed throughout in red and black. A promotional party book and cookbook, with instructions for party games like Hide the Thimble, Twenty Questions, Spinning the Platter, Pin the Tail on the Donkey, etc. Sections include Games that Test the Faculties, Old Favorites for Indoors, Games for Indoors or Out, Joker Games, The "Goodest" things to Serve at the Children's Party, Good Things Good... Read More
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How to Mix Drinks, or, the Bon-Vivant's Companion, containing clear and reliable directions for mixing all the beverages used in the United States, together with the most popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish recipes, embracing punches, juleps, cobblers, etc. etc. etc., in endless variety. . . To which is appended A Manual for the Manufacture of Cordials, Liquors, Fancy Syrups, &c., &c., . . . Illustrated with Descriptive Engravings, the Whole Containing Over 600 Valuable Recipes. By Christian Schultz
by Thomas, Jerry
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, no. 18 Ann Street, 1862. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 243, [8] pages; publisher's advertisements at rear. FIRST EDITION, later printing, with no price stated on the front cover, and with the title How to Mix Drinks... on the title page. The title had been The Bar-Tender's Guide... for the earliest appearances of the book, and the earliest three printings had prices of $1.50, $2.00, and $2.50 on the front panel of the cloth... Read More
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The Times Cook Book --- No. 2. 957 Cooking and other Recipes by California Women .... Brought out by the 1905 series of prize recipe contests in the Los Angeles Times
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co, 1908. Octavo, 105, [1] pages. The second printing, with the price of 35 cents on the printed cover. The second in a series of five collections of prize-winning recipes issued under the Los Angeles Times imprint between 1902 and 1917. According to Glozer, this volume was first published in 1908, although others indicate 1905 or '06. This collection offers, according to the front cover, "One Thousand Toothsome Cooking and other Recipes, Including Seventy-nine Old-Time California,... Read More
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The Times Cook Book --- No. 2. 957 Cooking and Other Recipes by California Women .... Brought out by the 1905 series of prize recipe contests in the Los Angeles Times
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co, 1908. Octavo, 105, [1] pages. The second printing, with the price of 35 cents on the printed cover. The second in a series of five collections of prize-winning recipes issued under the Los Angeles Times imprint between 1902 and 1917. According to Glozer, this volume was first published in 1908, although others indicate 1905 or '06. This collection offers, according to the front cover, "One Thousand Toothsome Cooking and other Recipes, Including Seventy-nine Old-Time California,... Read More
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The Grocer’s Answer Book
by Todoroff, Alexander
Chicago: The Grocery Trade Publishing House, 1933. Small octavo, 19.3 x 12.7 cm, 64 pages. Later printing. Illustrations throughout. Three hundred twenty-one grocery related questions and answers in the following twenty-one categories: canned fish and shellfish, canned fruits, canned milk, canned soups, canned vegetables, canned goods—general, cereals and beans, cocoa and chocolate, coffee, cooking oils, dried fruits, flavoring extracts, flour, honey, macaroni and kindred products, nuts and nut products, olives, pickles and kraut, preserves, salt fish, spices, sugar, syrups... Read More
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New Vernon Recipes Old and New. Published for the benefit of the Harding Township Parent-Teacher Association
by [Parent-Teacher Association (Harding Township)]
New Vernon, [N.J.]: [publisher not identified], 1950. Booklet, stapled in a patterned oil-cloth wrapper, (23 x 14.5 cm.), 39, [2] mimeographed pages. FIRST EDITION. A mimeographed community cookbook, produced as a P.T.A. fundraiser. Some recipes are attributed. The preface quotes at length from Paul Reboux entry on gastronomy in the Encyclopedia Britannica – "a perfect art" – and jumps right to Best Tomato Soup Ever (My Mother's Recipe). Some light staining and age-toning throughout. Small, ink ownership signature to... Read More
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Johnson Machinery: Machines for Manufacturing Crown Corks, Screw Caps, Regular Bottle Corks and Cork Discs, also Crowning Machines
by [Trade catalogue – corks, bottling; A. Johnson Machine Works (Brooklyn, N.Y.)]
Brooklyn: A. Johnson Machine Works, 1910. Octavo, 68 pages. Illustrations throughout. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue featuring machines for manufacturing of crown corks, crowning machines, machines for manufacturing of corks and cork discs, machines for screw caps, and special machines which include a friction capping machine, automatic rotary cap spinning machine, single head cap spinning machine, and an automatic rotary screw cap capping machine. Each item includes detailed rendering, as well as description, mechanical and output details. In brown wrappers... Read More
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Cream Raising and Butter Making. A explanation of the process of cream raising by the cold, dry air method, as employed in the Ferguson Bureau Creamery; also the concussion method of churning, whereby the butter is obtained in granular form, and is wholly freed from butter milk, by the use of the Ferguson Concussion Churn, and Improved Butter Worker
by [Trade catalogue – Butter; Ferguson Manufacturing Co, (Burlington, Vt.)]
Burlington, Vt: The Ferguson Manufacturing Co, 1881. Cord-sewn booklet (17.5 x 13 cm.), [14] pages (including. Illustrated. Date from various testimonials. Trade catalogue, advertising the bureau creamery, with testimonials, price lists, and more. An advertisement for the Automatic Milk Faucet, also sold by Ferguson, and for Wells, Richardson and Co., Perfected Butter Color. Very light edge wear, otherwise fine. [OCLC locates no copies].
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The Celebrated "Perfect" Heating Furnaces and Cooking Ranges: "Perfect" Manufactured by Richards & Boynton Co. Catalogue 53
by [Trade Catalogue – Furnaces and Stoves; Richardson & Boynton Co.]
New York: Bartlett & Company, The Orr Press, 1896. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 97 pages. Date derived from Water Street address on title page. An extensively illustrated trade catalogue of heating furnaces and cooking ranges. Before the 1830s, gravity hot-air furnaces were produced according to the specifications of individual buildings. The first mass-market manufacturer in the United States was Richardson & Boynton, established in 1837 (and in business for more than a century thereafter). The company survived the... Read More
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