Frohner's Hotel Imperial, Wien. am 24 Januar, 1900
by [Menu] Frohner's Hotel Imperial (Vienna)
Wien, [Vienna]: Druck von Paul Gerin, Wien II, Circusgasse 13, 1900. Menu booklet (25.5 x 17 cm.), [8] pages. Printed in blue and gold, with dishes mostly in manuscript. An extensive menu for Vienna's grand Hotel Imperial. The sections (titled in German, French, and English) include Luncheon, Hors d'Oeuvres, Soupes, Fishes, Beefs, Vegetables, Entrees, Roasts, Salade, Sweetmeats, Dessert, and on the rear panel, the "Menu du Jour, a K6". One hundred thirty-two dishes in all, most handwritten. From the... Read More
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Grand Hotel Vienne, Menu
by [Menu] Grand Hotel Vienne
Wien [Vienna]: Druck von Paul Gerlin, 1908. Broadside menu (17.5 x 11 cm.), [1] page, printed recto only in black and titled in gilt and embossed; gilt-edged. Menu for dinner at the Grand Hotel Vienne. William Pembroke Fetridge's American Travelers' Guide described the Grand Hotel as a "Splendid first-class Hotel, situated in the most fashionable and frequented part of the town, in close proximity to the Imperial Grand Opera, the Imperial Palace..." with "300 rooms from 1 floor upward".... Read More
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Arte Cisoria, ó, Tratado del arte del cortar del cuchillo, que escrivio Don Henrique de Aragon, Marques de Villena: la da a luz, Con Licencia del Rey nuestro Senor, La Bibliotheca Real de San Lorenzo del Escorial
by Villena, Enrique de
En Madrid: En la oficina de Antonio Marin, 1766. Small quarto (19.6 x14.6 cm.). [xxiv], 197, [1, blank] pages. Title-page with woodcut border, nine woodcuts in the text, ornamental head-piece and seven tail-pieces. FIRST EDITION. The oldest cookery and etiquette book in the Spanish language, by Don Henrique de Aragon, Marques de Villena (1384-1434). The original manuscript, written in the 1423, resides in the Library of El Escorial and remained unpublished until this publication in the 18th century. The... Read More
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Facts About Port and Madeira, with notices of the wines vintages around Lisbon, and the wines of Tenerife
by Vizetelly, Henry
[Otley, West Yorkshire: Peter Willis; Smith Settle], 1990. Thick octavo (24.7 x 15.5 cm.), 261, [14] pages. On thick stock. Illustrated. Advertisements. Top edge gilt. Facsimile of the first edition, DELUXE ISSUE, numbered "XXXIX" of 60 copies. An additional 510 standard copies were issued. The original was published by Vizetelly in 1880. Vizetelly, an Italian-born British publisher and journalist, spent enough years in Paris as correspondent to the Illustrated London News to turn him into a bon-vivant and connoisseur... Read More
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Walgreen's Fountain Formula Book [cover title]
by [Soda Fountains]; Walgreen's
[Chicago]: Walgreen's, 1936. Stapled booklet (23.5 x 14.5 cm.), [1], 27 leaves, printed rectos only. Index. Illustrated. An employee manual for the soda fountains popular at Walgreen's drug stores (now Walgreens, sans apostrophe to aid silly Americans). The manual covers "Sandwiches, Beverages and Fountain Specialties that are always of the highest quality carefully prepared and attractively served" (the preface). Also included are directions for the uniform and comportment for "soda men" and "girls" ("bright polish on nails prohibited"). Sections... Read More
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Catalogue of Bee Books, Collected and Offered for Sale by Lt.-Col. H.J.O. Walker, Westholm Mains, Budleigh Salterton, Devon
by Walker, Lt.-Col. H.J.O.
West Yorkshire: Northern Bee Books, 1985. Small octavo, 144 pages. Reprint of the 1929 catalogue, a bibliography of bee titles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Bulgarian, and Latin. In blue wrappers, spine faded and small stains to front. Near very good.
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Dinner Menu, June 28, 1937
by [Menu – Rotary Club (San Francisco); Bert Walker]
San Francisco, Cal, 1937. Bi-fold menu bound with cord and mounted on wrapper, as issued (22.5 x 29 cm.), [2] pages. Illustrated by Wyman Taylor (1890-1972). Banquet menu for a dinner honoring Bert Walker, President of the San Francisco Rotary Club. The fanciful menu purports to be a radio broadcast "being broadcast over station B.U.R.P. in the Owl Room of the Bohemian Club. The sound effects are all genuine..." The illustrations depict one of the celebrateés reading the text... Read More
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Choice Recipes. [Compiled by members of the] Walpole Mother's Club. [cover title]
by [Walpole Mother's Club (Walpole, Mass.)]
Walpole, Massachusetts: [The Club], 1938. Octavo (20.5 x 13.25 cm.), 94, [xiv] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook from Walpole, Massachusetts, in east-central Norfolk County, of five hundred attributed recipes with their ingredients listed prior to instructions. There is an emphasis on luncheon and buffet dishes. Warranting a second look: Peanut Butter Bread, Chicken and Asparagus Loaf, Swedish Cabbage Rolls, Rice Omelette, Pineapple and Cabbage Salad, Cocoanut Tapioca Pudding, Hoosier Apple Pie, Gingerbread Waffles, Pineapple Meringue Cake, and... Read More
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How to Make Candy. A Complete Hand Book for Making all Kinds of Candy, Ice Cream, Syrups, Essences, etc., etc.
by [Warford, Aaron]
New York: Frank Tousey, Publishe (sic), 1884. Stapled booklet with printed wrappers. 60, [4] pages. FIRST EDITION. The author is supplied by the LOC records. Warford was the author of a long list of “How To” books in fields as varied as cookery, magic, religious belief and more. With an LOC copyright stamp to the titles page and wrappers, both dated August 22, 1884. Small chip missing from rear panel and one adjacent leaf, bit of wear to lower... Read More
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Antiquitates Culinariae; or Curious Tracts relating to the Culinary affairs of the Old English. With a preliminary discourse, Notes and Illustrations, By the Reverend Richard Warner, of Sway, near Lymington, Hants
by Warner, Richard
London: Prospect Books, 1981. Quarto, [2] lx, 137, [1 blank] pages. Illustrated with two images, "A Saxon Entertainment", and "The Peacock Feast" (the later double-paged). Warner was a prominent English antiquarian and divine. Number 129 of 400 numbered copies. FACSIMILE; originally published 1791. This work was one of the first to examine the history of early English cookery, at the forefront of a scholarly movement that developed over the last three centuries of the Eighteenth Century. The book contains:... Read More
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Supplement to Bitters Bottles
by Watson, Richard
Camden N.J.: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1968. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 160 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. FIRST EDITION. Information collected by the author after the publication of his Bitters Bottles, together, the standard reference on the field. Endpapers with green page copies from Vinegar Bitters Almanac for 1874 and 1889. Maroon cloth, gilt-titled to spine. Dust jacket, unclipped, with some rubbing, but near very good. Small ownership label to free front end paper.
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The Drunkard's Looking Glass. Reflecting a Faithful Likeness of the Drunkard, in Sundry very interesting Attitudes..
by Weems, M.L. [Mason Locke Weems; Parson Weems]
[Philadephia]: For the author, 1818. Octavo-sized pamphlet ( x cm.), 63 pages. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION, overall the Sixth, Improved Edition. With an engraved frontispiece, possibly by William Charles, depicting a drunken rider felled by a low hanging branch. Thirteen woodcuts in the text by William Mason. The rare wrapper, here with the front panel present only, contains yet another woodcut, likely also by Mason. A temperance tract, by the famous Parson Weems, inventor of the George Washington cherry tree... Read More
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Baker's Guide; or, The Art of Baking. Designed for practical bakers and pastry cooks. With full explanations and appropriate remarks
by Weild, John
Boston: Published by the Author, 1870. Octavo, (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 191 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Index. All edges red. FIRST EDITION. A small, thorough guide to baking of all sorts, written by a professional baker, who worked both coasts of Canada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands. The author differentiates the skills of bread baking from those of cake making and pastry, but endeavors to teach it all. With sections on jellies,... Read More
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Archive of the Professional Kitchen Supply Firm W.H. Davenhall
by [W.H. Davenhall. (Boston, Mass)]
Boston: various, 1929. Archive. One medium-sized file box containing approximately six hundred twenty-five items, including: commercial brochures (121), samples (11), posters (3), typed letters signed/TLS (304), autograph letters signed/ALS (149), postcards & telegrams (29), and periodicals (5). The commercial or trade brochures are mostly small booklets, bi-folds, and tri-folds, graphically illustrated with images of the equipment on offer, and frequently printed in two colors or in duotone. A small but deeply engaging archive depicting the business activities of the Boston,... Read More
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Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering-in Five Parts... Sixth edition
by Whitehead, Jessup
Chicago: Jessup Whitehead & Co., Pubs, 1903. Thick octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), v, 464, 29, [7] pages. Publisher's advertisements. Illustrated. Sixth Edition. Jessup Joseph Whitehead (1833-1889) emigrated from England as a young man with his widowed mother and brothers, settling in Kansas Territory in the early 1850s. From 1853 he is known to have worked as a cook on steamships and in hotels. In August 1862 he enrolled in the Union Army in Kansas City, alongside his brother... Read More
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Racism is an Art of Another Colour, Pope.L, 1.01.01
by William Pope.L.
2000. Segment of desiccated sugar cane (19 x 2.5 cm.), with text in Magic Marker by the artist. Signed and dated. The sugar cane segment is dried, but sound and not brittle; magic marker text is clear and legible. A food object by the visual and performance artist William Pope.L (1955-2023), the self-described "friendliest black artist in America". This work was likely produced as part of the artist's eRacism series of performances, which stretched from 1991-2000. Direct, but sometimes... Read More
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Eat Notes. Eating the Wall Street Journal, 2000, Volume 2
by William Pope.L.
[the artist], 2000. Plastic comb-bound book (15 x 10 cm.), 16, [1] pages. Illustrated in black and white and with color ink jet prints pasted down onto blank leaves; a yellow Post-it with handwritten note, "vomit", and a short handwritten text, "other side of the hole" with a pinhole by the artist in the final leaf (note the copy reproduced in Bessire's monograph has no modifications). Signed by the artist, "Pope L." and with a small sticker with the... Read More
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The Last French-Fried Potato and other poems
by Williams, Emmett
[New York: Something Else Press, 1967. A Great Bear Pamphlet. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14 x 22 cm.), 16 pages. Checklist of works in the series on rear wrapper panel. Title from cover. FIRST EDITION. "A small bouquet of typical recent works by one of the founders of Concrete Poetry" (from the checklist). Dick Higgin's Something Else Press published the Great Bear Pamphlets between 1965 and 1967. The contributors were a who's who of the sixties avant-garde, including George... Read More
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A California Cook Book
by Williamson, Sarah M. (compiler); [Lionel Josaphare (illustrator)]
San Francisco: Published by Town Talk Press, 88 First Street, 1917. Tall octavo (28.5 x 18 cm.), 47, [3] pages. Illustrated wrappers with envelope fold. Includes the cancel leaf tipped-in at the rear, "Some War Recipes and Others". FIRST EDITION. An early and attractively produced San Francisco cookbook, issued as the city was finally putting the Great Earthquake behind it, but the nation was on the brink of entering the Great War. Recipes are attributed, and a separate list... Read More
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Murphy Hash. Dinner in Honor of Mr. Patrick Francis Murphy by Mr. George Thomson Wilson, on Wednesday the Third of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Six at Delmonico’s
by [Menu – Delmonico’s Banquet; Tiffany Studios (New York City); Patrick Francis Murphy; George Thomson Wilson]
New York: Tiffany Studios, 1906. Quarto-sized, ribbon-tied menu, (25 x 21 cm.), [8], [8] pages. Illustrated. A lavish menu for a testimonial banquet for Patrick Francis Murphy (1855-1931). The elaborate title page created by Tiffany Studios of New York, consists of an oval photo-portrait of Murphy pasted onto the stiff paper. Surrounding Murphy's black & white photo is a fanciful hand-colored jamboree of jesters, balloons, golf clubs, a wise old owl, &c., all accomplished in original watercolor, pen and... Read More
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Lutèce Carte des Vins
by [Wine List]; Surmain, André and André Soltner
New York, 1962. Large folio, unpaginated [22] leaves, printed rectos only. Printed text from a hand-lettered original; columns for handwritten prices not entered. An early wine list from the legendary Manhattan restaurant Lutèce (1961-2004). The list opens with an introductory statement to diners from the restaurant’s founder, André Surmain, who thanks the restaurant’s seven suppliers, a rare credit on modern wine lists, and Alexis Lichine, the author of The Wines of France. Displaying a fine selection of Bordeaux, Rouges... Read More
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St. Denis Hotel, New York. D. Julien, Proprietor. Clarets, from Finke & Merman, Bordeaux, Sole Agents, Schmidt, Schmidt & Co., 18 Beaver Street
by [Wine List – St. Denis Hotel, New York]
[New York]: Lith. of W. Faust, 105 Nassau St, 1860. Broadside wine list (25.5 x 15.5 cm.), [1] page. Porcelain card decorated in chromolithograph with text in blue and red. A very early wine list from an important New York hotel and dining establishment. The hotel was at the corner of Broadway and Eleventh Street, across from Grace Church and Rectory. Both the hotel and the church were designed by the architect James Renwick Jr. Named for its original... Read More
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The Compleat Cook: Expertly Prescribing the Most Ready Wayes, Whether Italian, Spanish, or French, for Dressing of Flesh, and Fish, Ordering of Sauces, or Making of Pastry
by [W.M.]
London: Printed for Nath. Brook at the Angel in Corn Hill, 1662. Duodecimo (15 x 8.5 cm.), 123, [5], [14] pages. Table of contents. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Title within rule border. Printer's name from British Library record. Attributed to "W.M. " by Wing. Fourth printing; originally issued in 1655 by Nathaniel Brooks. Generally considered to be the final of the three parts of The Queen's Closet Opened, also first issued by Brook (1655), the other parts being The... Read More
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The Woman's Club Souvenir Cook Book
by [Woman's Club (DeFuniak Springs, Fla.)]
DeFuniak Springs, Fla: [the club], 1923. Octavo-sized book, cord-tied in wrappers (22 x 14.5 cm.), [1], 20 pages. Illustrated with four full-page photographs and one woodcut tail-piece. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook from DeFuniak Springs, a Florida Panhandle town northeast of Pensacola. The short recipes, most attributed, are presented in two columns. While the book includes no title page or explanatory text, it does contain photographs of the town, including the Railway Depot... Read More
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Dragon Fare. Issued by the Women's Corona Society, Hong Kong Branch which is to donate the profits from this first edition to the Association for Mentally Handicapped Children
by [Women's Corona Society, Hong Kong Branch]
Hong Kong: Government Press; [printed by S. Young at the Government Press], 1966. Octavo (21 x 15 cm.), ix, 82 pages. Illustrations by Margaret Gregg. List of contributors. Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook "produced by the Hong Kong Branch of the Women's Corona Society. As the members of this Branch have links with many lands, the recipes contributed to this book cover a wide range of cooking styles and should be of use in many kitchens, both here... Read More
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