New Orleans Recipes. By Mary Moore Bremer
by [Mary Moore Bremer]
New Orleans: Published by Dorothea Thompson, 1955. Octavo-size (21 x 14.5 cm.), [ii], 86, [iv] pages. Illustrated. Table of contents. Index. Title and author from cover. Date of publication from edition statement on preliminary page [ii]. Photo-reproduced engravings depicting historic buildings throughout. ~ Stated Sixteenth Edition. A later entry in the sequence of editions of an admired cookbook, first published in Waveland, Mississippi in 1932 (under the author’s imprint), and at the same time a document of what was... Read More
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New Orleans Recipes. By Mary Moore Bremer
by [Mary Moore Bremer]
New Orleans: Published by Dorothea Thompson, 1955. Octavo-size (21 x 14.5 cm.), [ii], 86, [iv] pages. Illustrated. Table of contents. Index. Title and author from cover. Date of publication from edition statement on preliminary page [ii]. Photo-reproduced engravings depicting historic buildings throughout. ~ Stated Sixteenth Edition. A later entry in the sequence of editions of an admired cookbook, first published in Waveland, Mississippi in 1932 (under the author’s imprint), and at the same time a document of what was... Read More
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Observations on a Bill to Permit the General Sale of Beer, by Retail in England, Most Respectfully Submitted to the Members of the House of Commons
by A Country Brewer
London: Printed by W. Sears, 11, Budge Row, Walbrook, 1830. Booklet, sewn in wrappers. Octavo (22.5 x 14.5 cm.), 16 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A response to the impending Beer Act of 1830, from a "Country Brewer". The commercial policy called the Beer Act would open brewing and cider making up to all householders who paid a modest fee, and the existing brewers, all licensed by local magistrates, were pushing back. The argument made within claims that quality... Read More
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Muck & Peat and Outcrop
by Bridwell, Tom
[Dennis, Mass.]: Salt-Works Press, 1974. Chapbook, stapled in wrappers (13.75 x 10 cm.), [15], 6, [3] pages. FIRST EDITION, limited to 250 copies. An early work of the poet/printer Tom Bridwell. The poems are amongst very the best modern American works in the Georgical tradition. Bridwell ran Salt-Works Press with his then wife, Marilyn Kitchell, publishing Lyn Hejinian and Ted Enslin among others. Brown wrappers, lettered on the front panel in black. Some light spotting to fore edge, otherwise... Read More
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Physiologie du gout, ou meditation de gastronomie transcendante; ouvrage theorique, historique et a l'ordre du jour, dedie aux gastronomie parisiens
by Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
Paris: Sautelet et Cie, 1826. Two volumes, octavo, xiv, 390 & 449 pages. FIRST EDITION of the most famous treatise on gastronomy. The Physiology of Taste was published in an edition of 500 copies, appearing only two months after the author's death. A comprehensive philosophy of the palate, the table, and far beyond, the book is presented in a series of thirty meditations on subjects including the senses, taste, appetite, gastronomy, restaurateurs, cooking, fasting, obesity, death, sleep, rest and... Read More
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The Handbook of Dining; or, Corpulency and Leanness Scientifically Considered... Comprising the art of dining on correct principles consistent with easy digestion, the avoidance of corpulency, and the cure of leanness, by Brillat-Savarin. Translated by L.F. Simpson
by Brillat-Savarin, [Jean-Anthelme]; (Leonard Francis Simpson, translator)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, 1865. Small octavo (18.5 x 12 cm.), 200, [4] pages. Advertisements. The First American Edition of Leonard Francis Simpson's English language translation of Brillat-Savarin's magnificent Physiologie du Gout. The earliest English language translation was that of Fayette Robinson, published in Philadelphia in 1854. Simpson's translation here is quite unfaithful to the original, admitting in the Introduction that "Many parts are, however, condensed, others omitted, as not suited to the... Read More
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The "Perfection" Paper Bag, Wrapping Paper, and Twine Holder
by [Broadside – Bags; F.H. Melville, Commission Merchant (New York City)]
New York: F.H. Melville, Commission Merchant, 1883. Broadside (29.8 x 21.5 cm.). Illustrated advertisement for the "Perfection" paper bag, wrapping paper, and twine holder. Includes description, dimensions, and directions. Stamped with the name and location of "F.H. Melville, Commission Merchant" the purveyor of the holder. Fold creases and small spot of discoloration, otherwise fine condition. [OCLC locates no copies].
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Railroad Mills Extra Wheat Barrel Label
by [Broadside advertisement; Edson, F.M.]
Rochester, N.Y.: Rochester Daily Advertiser Print, 1850. Broadside (21.9 x 25.4 cm.). An advertisement for F.M. Edson's Railroad Mill in Le Roy, Genesee County, New York. Flour manufactured from local wheat and "equal to any manufactured in the world!" It notes that new machinery ensures clean wheat and thus pure flour. Freeman Edson was one of the founding Directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Printed on plain cream-colored paper (we've handled them printed on salmon-colored paper as well).... Read More
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![Kingery's Celebrated Peanut Roaster and Warmer Combined [and] Peerless and Giant Freezers](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/041/424/723424041.0.l.jpg)
Kingery's Celebrated Peanut Roaster and Warmer Combined [and] Peerless and Giant Freezers
by [Broadside]; Kingery, S.S.
Cincinnati, OH, 1882. Two-sided advertising broadside, (29.8 x 22.2 cm.). Illustrated advertisement, printed on both sides. For Cincinnati, Ohio purveyor S.S. Kingery. On one side, Kingery promotes a combined peanut roaster and warmer. Includes description, capacity, ordering options, and testimonials. The other side advertises two types of ice cream makers, the "Giant Freezer" and the "Peerless Freezer". Some very slight edge wear and fold creases, fine condition. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Romaine].
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The Brockton Hospital Cook Book: Better than the Best. Published by The Brockton Hospital Ladies' Aid Association. [Compiled by Mrs. Charles C. Merritt. Edited by George Clarence Holmes.] 1910 [i.e., Second] edition
by [Brockton Hospital (Brockton, Mass.); Ladies' Aid Association]; [George Clarence Holmes]; [Mrs. Charles C. Merritt]
Brockton: Standard Printing Company, 1910. Octavo in wrappers (21 x 15 cm.), 239 pages. Advertisements. Blanks. Photograph of the Hospital by G. C. Holmes on title page. Cover title: Brockton Hospital Cook Book 1910. Presumed second edition, parallel wrappered issue. A sizable charitable cookbook of seven hundred fifty attributed recipes, over six hundred of which were "not in the 1906 edition", according to a note on the title page. Evidently a second edition, then, though the first remains unreported.... Read More
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New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915
by Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1940. Octavo (22 x 15 cm.), [8], 557 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. The Continuation of Van Wyck Brooks' Flowering of New England, now focused on American literary figures post-Civil War through 1915. Red cloth boards over tan cloth; decorated in gilt and brown. Some light soiling to boards and very light wear to head and foot of spine. Very good in a very good dust jacket. With the ownership signature of Julia... Read More
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A Treatise on Foreign and Native Herbal Remedies
by Brown, O. Phelps; [Dr. Oliver Phelps Brown]
[Jersey City, N.J.: Dr. O. Phelps Brown, no. 21 Grand St., Jersey City, 1871. Booklet (18.5 x 12.2 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Cover illustration signed in the print "J. Karst". Running title: Treatise on Herbal Preparations. Date of publication from testimonials. Later edition; originally published in 1863. In the same year, Dr. O. Phelps Brown published a much larger work The Complete Herbalist. Both served as promotional literature for herbal preparations by Brown, remedies intended for household use, nominally... Read More
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The Farmer’s Manual: being a plain practical treatise on the art of husbandry, designed to promote an acquaintance with the modern improvements in agriculture, together with remarks on gardening, and a treatise on the management of bees
by Butler, Frederick
Weathersfield; Middletown [Conn.]: Published by the author; Clark & Lyman, Printer, 1821. Duodecimo (17 x 10.5 cm.), [2], 224 pages. Table of contents. Second Edition, originally published in Hartford, by Samuel Goodrich in 1819. An early handbook for the American farmer, with advice on vegetable and fruit gardening, as well as a section on the management of bees. Frederick Butler (1766-1843) extols a balance between the too rapid adaptation of novel new methods, and a stubborn backwards point of... Read More
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Letters on Public-House Licensing: Showing the errors of the present system; (originally printed in the Times newspaper) Together with a proposal for their cure. By a Magistrate for Middlesex
by by a Magistrate for Middlesex; [Beaumont, John Thomas Barber (1774–1841)]
[Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified], 1816. Pamphleteer, vol. vii, no. xiii, ii. Pamphlet, disbound from larger octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), pages [107]-126. Author attribution from the BL catalogue. Following the appearance of these letters in the Times, there appear to have been three versions of this title: the present one, paginated as part of a larger compilation of pamphlets; another issue also in 1816, paginated 1-33; and a third issue, with 19 pages, and addressed... Read More
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[Cabinet Card Photograph of Mary Whitcher]
by [Cabinet card – Shaker] Whitcher, Mary; W.G.C. Kimball (Concord, N.H.)
[Concord, N.H.: W.G.C. Kimball, Chase Block, 15 North Main Street, 1882. Cabinet card photograph (10.5 x 6 cm.). Photograph of Mary Whitcher by W.G.C. Kimball of Concord, N.H. Mary Whitcher was a member of New Hampshire's Canterbury Shaker community, a poetess, and the author of Mary Whitchers Shaker Housekeeper (1882), which is recognized as "the earliest cookbook in Shaker culinary literature, and the first to give bills of fare, or menus, for each day of the week together with 150... Read More
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![A Dissertation on the Gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered : as proceeding from the same causes, what those causes are and a rational and natural method of cure proposed ... [One line of Latin quotation], by William Cadogan, Fellow of the College of Physicians](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/410/578/1288578410.0.l.jpg)
A Dissertation on the Gout, and all chronic diseases, jointly considered : as proceeding from the same causes, what those causes are and a rational and natural method of cure proposed ... [One line of Latin quotation], by William Cadogan, Fellow of the College of Physicians
by Cadogan, William
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by R. Aitken at his Book-Store, nearly opposite the London-Coffee-House, in Front Street, 1772. Octavo, dis-bound from larger work (18 x 11.5 cm.) iv, 39, [1] pages. Publisher's advertisement to final page. Second edition; originally issued together with – but now separated from – Buchan, William, Domestic medicine; or, The family physician... Cadogan's Dissertation on the Gout has separate paging and a special title page with imprint. Aitken used this imprint from 1770 until 1773.... Read More
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Mushroom Book (signed limited edition)
by Cage, John, Lois Long and Alexander H. Smith
New York: Hollanders Workshop, 1972. Portfolio (56 x 38 cm.), [30] leaves (10 double sheets folded once, 10 single sheets)+ [2] title & colophon leaves. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Limited to 75 copies from a total edition of 90. A unique collaboration between the great avant-garde composer John Cage, the textile artist and instructor at Pratt Institute Lois Long, and the distinguished botanist and president of the Mycological Society of America, Alexander H. Smith. This portfolio is perhaps the peak... Read More
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Anne Foster Caldwell's Book of Southern and Creole Home Cooking
by Caldwell, Anne Foster
Nashville, Tennessee: [the author; Benson Printing Company, 1929. Octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), 215 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes, gathered "from hither and yon" by the compiler, Anne Foster Caldwell, founder of the Nashville chapter of the Housewives League of America, and head of the Home Department of the Centennial Club, was head of Victory Gardens of Nashville. Internally clean and sound. In publisher's white cloth, gilt-titled on the spine and front panel. Light soil and... Read More
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Dainty Dessert Dishes. Prepared expressly for the D. Ghiarardelli Co. by Frank Bock, Pastry Chef, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal
by [California – Ghirardelli Chocolate Company;] Bock, Frank, compiler
San Francisco: Ghirardelli Chocolate Company, 1900. Stapled booklet (15 x 12.5 cm.), [16] pages. Illustrated, and printed in halftone throughout, in black, red, and gray. FIRST EDITION. A collection of recipes for chocolate ice cream, cookies, puddings, jumbles, kisses, and more. “Chocolate Bretzles” and “Chocolate Africans” are among the more interesting inclusions. Publisher’s stapled, illustrated and blind-embossed wrappers, with some light edgewear. Otherwise fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates five copies].
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The Cantabrigia Club Cook Book, Containing Favorite and Tried Recipes Solicited from Club Members by the Home Economics Committee of 1923-1924
by [Cantabrigia Club (Cambridge, Mass.)]
Cambridge, Mass: Cambridge Publishing Company, 30 Brattle Street, 1924. Small octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 192 pages. table of contents. Advertisements. Compilation of attributed recipes written in narrative format, including "A Recipe for Cooking Husbands" and a chapter of recipes from Miss Margaret Weimer's cooking class at the Washburn-Crosby Company. A women's club, the Cantabrigia Club is threefold “social, literary and humanitarian. In its work it shall endeavor, not only among its members, but in the community, to promote... Read More
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Mrs. John G. Carlisle's Kentucky Cook Book, Containing Recipes Never Before Published
by Carlisle, Mrs. John G., [Mary Jane Goodson Carlisle], Mrs. Walter Q. Gresham, Mrs. General Crook, Mrs. W. A. Dudley and others
Chicago, [Il.]: F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher, 1893. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), 249 pages. Table of contents. Evident FIRST EDITION. An anthology saluting Kentucky fare, assembled under the guidance of a hostess transplanted from her native Covington to the District of Columbia, and issued just as the great Panic of 1893 paralyzed the American economy at the outset of Grover Cleveland’s second term. With one hundred twenty-five recipes (a few of them attributed), including: Gumbo Soup, Griddled Oysters, Kentucky... Read More
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Bonne double bierre
by [Wallpaper advertising broadside - Beer; Paulot & Carré]
[París, France: Paulot & Carré, 1828. Wallpaper broadside (45 x 51 cm.), with seven-color woodcut (black, orange, green, blue, white, gray, and brown). Printed on a brown paper coated with a pale blue pigment. The text states, "Bonne double bierre", and the scene depicts four soldiers in uniform being waited on by a woman. She pours a seated soldier a drink while another stands with his hand draped around her shoulder. Two more soldiers share a smoke, appearing to... Read More
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The Frugal Housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands, with cleanliness, decency and elegance, is explained in five hundred approved recipes... to which are added, various bills of fare, and a proper arrangement of dinners, two courses, for every month in the year
by Carter, Susannah, of Clerkenwell
Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 83, N. Second-Street, 1796. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), [xiii], 14-132 pages; three plates; two engravings depicting carving and a third woodcut depicting "Arrangement of a Supper Table". ~ Third American edition, first printing. Carter’s popular English cookbook (circa 1765), became one of the very earliest cookery books printed in the U.S. The American printings preceding this one were: Boston: Edes & Gill of 1772 (Lowenstein 4), and New York: Berry & Rogers of... Read More
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The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
by Castaneda, Carlos
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968. Octavo (23.5 x 16 cm.), x, 196 pages. FIRST EDITION. Castaneda's first book, a first-person narrative documenting his interactions with Mexican shaman don Juan Matus between 1960-65. The text was submitted as Castaneda's doctoral thesis in Anthropology at UCLA. 'The book is divided into two sections. The first section, The Teachings, is a first-person narrative that documents Castaneda's initial interactions with don Juan. He speaks of his encounters with Mescalito... Read More
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Castelar Crèche Cook Book. Edited and Compiled by The Board of Directors for the Benefit of The Castelar Crèche, A Home for Homeless Babies
by [Castelar Crèche (Los Angeles, Calif.). Board of Directors]; [Mary Agnes Connell]
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1922. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 296, [xl] pages. Index. Advertisements. An ambitious anthology of some one thousand recipes, all but a few attributed, directed at an audience familiar with canapes, caviar, and cheese from Neufchâtel-en-Bray. A number were sent in by well-known chefs, presumably on request – for instance, Apricots With Rice and Delice Joseph Relish , both from Joseph Boggia of The Plaza in New York. The family of Secundo... Read More
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