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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Buen provecho! Bilingual Cook Book
by [Women's Society for Christian Service, Union Church (San Salvador, El Salvador C.A.)]
San Salvador: Reprocentro, una division de SIGMA, S.A., 1976. Comb-bound octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 131, [19] leaves. Index. Facing pages with same numbering. Text in Spanish and English facing. Final unpaginated leaves are lined blanks headed "Notas/Notes". A similarly titled work was issued by the same organization in 1969. It is unclear if this is an updated version of that, and thus a second edition, or if it is a new work offered by the same organization. An... Read More
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Bees. Their Habits, Management and Treatment. A new edition, with illustrations. From the series: Books for the Country
by Wood, Rev. J.G.
London: George Routledge & Sons; [printed by] Wyman & Sons, 1863. Small octavo (17 x 10.5 cm.), [3], 114, [12] pages. Illustrated with frontispiece, “The Aviary”, and black & white illustrations in the text. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Both Harding and Richardson indicate that several issues of this “new edition” follows the stated second edition, and thus our date range. Later printings have various different paginations. "Rev. John Wood was a popular lecturer on many subjects and wrote many... Read More
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Henry's Universal Cook Book
by [Almanac – John F. Henry & Co. (New York)]
New York: Published by John F. Henry & Co., 24 College Place, 1881. Booklet, sewn on cords (16.4 x 10 cm.), [30] unnumbered leaves, including the wrapper. Illustrated. Title and imprint from wrapper; date inferred from a calendar for 1882 printed on the rear wrapper panel. FIRST EDITION. A little promotional cookery almanac from the patent medicine firm of John F. Henry & Co. of New York City. Recipes are mixed with advertisements for proprietary remedies including: Oxygenated Bitters, Dr.... Read More
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Henry's Cook Book and Household Companion
by [Almanac – John F. Henry & Co. (New York)]
New York: Published by John F. Henry & Co., 24 College Place, 1882. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( 16.4 x 12.4 cm.), [16] unnumbered leaves. Illustrated. Title and imprint from chromolithograph wrapper; a calendar for 1883 is printed on the back of the wrapper. A little promotional cookery almanac from the patent medicine firm of John F. Henry & Co. of New York City. Recipes are mixed with advertisements for proprietary remedies including: Oxygenated Bitters, Kellinger's Infallible Ointment, and... Read More
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Drinks and Dishes Wholesome and Delicious
by Borden's Condensed Milk Company (New York)
New York: Borden's Condensed Milk Co, 1904. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14 x 11 cm.), [16] pages, including wrapper. Illustrated; printed throughout in blue and gold. Title from cover; date of publication from inside rear wrapper panel. FIRST EDITION. A small but elegant product book, promoting Borden's Condensed Milk through recipes. The recipes are in narrative form. Internally clean and sound. Small closed tear and some light soiling to front wrapper panel. Very good or better. Scarce. [OCLC locates... Read More
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Dainty Desserts: Plain and Fancy
by [Butterick Publishing Co. (London; New York)]
London; New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., Limited, 1898. Metropolitan Pamphlet Series: vol. XI, no. 3. Large octavo-sized booklet (24 x 17 cm.), 56 pages. Publisher's advertisements at rear. Third Edition, following the first of 1891 (vol. 2, no 4.), and the second of 1892 (vol. 5, no. 2), both of 32 pages. A quirky book, likely because its contents were pulled from a variety of professional cookbooks in sections. Short sections of recipes include: Dessert Wafers, Fruit Waters,... Read More
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Importations of Champagne Wines into the United States in 1880, According to Bonfort's Wine & Liquor Circular of Jan. 10, 1881
by [Trade card – champagne; G.H. Mumm & Co. (New York)]
[New York: the company]; Neuman & Dinglinger, Lith, 1881. Trade card (15.5 x 8.7 cm.). Recto is a chromolithograph printed in red, pale blue, and gold; verso printed in red and black. A trade card advertising the G.H. Mumm Champagne imported by Fred de Bary & Co., located at the time at 43 & 44 Warren Street in New York City. The card lists the comparative quantities of champagnes brought into the United States by various importers. Of a... Read More
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Cook Book of the Young Ladies Cooking Club, Monroe, Mich
by [Young Ladies Cooking Club (Monroe, Mich.)]
[Monroe, Michigan]: Monroe Democrat Print, 1884. Octavo (23.75 x 15.25 cm.), 35, [i] pages. Title from cover. Index. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A community cookbook with one hundred eighty recipes, the majority of them attributed. Arranged as a series of "bills of fare" for meals, headed Breakfast, Lunch Party, Coffee, High Tea, Supper (and one Hallow e'en Party). Some repetitions occur therefore (both Fig Cake and Charlotte Russe, for instance, are deemed compatible with several menu lists). Examples of... Read More
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The Old Virginia Cook Book of 600 tested and proved recipes: furnished by noted Virginia housewives, few, if any, having ever before appeared in print. Published under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A., Petersburg, VA
by [Young Men's Christian Association (Petersburg, VA.); Spotswood, Isabella Matoaca Dunlop (1848-1922)]
Petersburg, Va: Fenn & Owen, Printers & Binders, 1894. Octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 206 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Indices to recipes and to advertisers. Author attribution from bibliographical records. Evident FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook produced in support of the YMCA Building Fund of Petersburg, Va. The recipes, in short narrative form, are attributed with formal names, and include: Confederate States Pudding, Eggs on Foam, Marguerites, Zimmet Kitchen Buns, Old Billy Bonner's Way to Barbecue Shoat, the Charleston Way... Read More
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