Vingt Plats qui Donnent la Goutte (Unice ad usum Medicorum), conseillés par la Pipérazine Midy, l'anti-urique type
by de Pomiane, Edouard; [Giroux, André (illustrator)]
Paris: Editions Paul-Martial pour la Pipérazine Midy, 1935. Squarish octavo (22.5 x 16.5 cm.), 96-(4) pages. Table of contents. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook as pharmaceutical promotion, from the great French founder of "gastrotechnie". The twenty rich recipes – any one of which may be sufficient to bring on "the drop" – are followed by a twenty-first, a dose of the medicine Pipérazine Midy which, it was claimed, would undo the effects of the meal. Very light soiling... Read More
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La Goutte au compte-gouttes ou 47 adaptations gastronomiques
by de Pomiane, Edouard; [Laboratoires Midy (Paris)]
[Paris: Editions Paul-Martial]; Laboratoire Midy, 1940. Octavo (21 x 13.5 cm.), 47, [1] pages. Illustrated with woodcut frontispiece and vignettes throughout by L. Danet. FIRST EDITION. Another promotional "cookbook" from the famous medical doctor, gastronome, and radio personality, Edouard de Pomiane, author of Vingt Plats qui Donnent la Goutte. This work is in the service of Thioderazine Midy, a product of the French pharmaceutical firm Midy. Publisher's tan wrappers with French flaps, printed in red and yellow; wrappers toned.... Read More
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Victory Banquet, to 1938 Taylor St. Yard Champions, Crafts' Manor. Seven P.M. April 8, 1939
by [Menu-Fishing Derby]
[No place], 1939. Folded menu (12 x 16.5 cm.), 4 pages, plus wrapper. Manuscript menu for a dinner in honor of the winners of the fishing derby of a private club in an unidentified location. The menu includes the names of the new and previous champions, as well as the list of dishes served, along with two pieces of fishing doggerel. The wrapper includes a hand-drawn image of a fisherman's bag, with a chromolithograph image of a rainbow trout... Read More
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The Market Assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes
by De Voe, Thomas F.
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1867. Thick octavo, 455, 15 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. First edition, second printing. Thomas F. De Voe was a butcher at Jefferson Market in New York's Greenwich Village, and he is depicted as such, top-hat and all, in the handsome frontispiece to the book. De Voe was working as a New York butcher at just the moment when improvements in transportation brought increasing abundance to the city's open air food markets. In her book, Kitchen... Read More
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Elsie De Wolfe's Recipes for Successful Dining
by De Wolfe, Elsie (Lady Mendl)
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, 1934. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 102 pages. Index. Photographically illustrated. FIRST EDITION. William Heinemann issued the book in England the same year. A work on dining and entertaining from one of the most prominent American socialites of the early 20th century, immortalized in the lyrics of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. She's been credited, though not entirely accurately, with having invented the profession of interior design. Some light foxing to text-block edges; Fore... Read More
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The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened Whereby is Discovered Several Ways for Making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &C. together with Excellent Directions for Cookery as also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &C... published by his son's consent. The third edition corrected
by Digby, Kenelme, Sir (1603-1665)
London: Printed by H.C. [Henry Cruttenden] for H. Brome, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1677. Duodecimo (15 x 10 cm.), [2], 251, [8] pages. Table of contents at rear. Printer's name from Wing. ~ Stated Third Edition corrected, first published in 1669. A classic of seventeenth-century English food writing that belies the author's youthful adventures as handsome courtier, ardent lover, swordsman, pirate, and possible double agent. Later, more serious pursuits include those of naval administrator, scientist, inventor, bibliophile,... Read More
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101 Drinks and How to Mix Them
by Direct Mail Associates; Geer, Dean & Miles Kimball
Osh Kosh, WI: Direct Mail Associates, Inc, 1935. Tall booklet, stapled in wrappers (22.5 x 10 cm.), [16] pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cocktail recipe book, although it is unclear what it is promoting, as no specific products are mentioned. It was issued by the Direct Mail Association, an early innovator in the field of marketing through the mail. The piece itself is not dated, but laid-in is a signed letter from Miles Kimball, President of the Miles Kimball... Read More
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Gourd Growers of the South Seas: An Introduction to the Study of the Lagenaria Gourd in the Culture of the Polynesians
by Dodge, Ernest S.
Boston: The Gourd Society of America, 1943. Ethnographical Series No. 2. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), xiii, 119 pages. Illustrated with thirty three plates in black and white. Large folding chart of use categories; bibliography. FIRST EDITION. The second publication of The Gourd Society of America, following Gourds of the Southeastern Indians by Dr. Frank G. Speck. With sections on the place and people, the plant and its fruit, gourds as containers, as musical instruments, their decoration and use... Read More
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Over One Thousand Recipes. The Lakeside Cook Book. A complete manual of practical, economical, palatable, healthful and useful cookery
by [Donnelley, Naomi]
Chicago: Donnelley, Loyd & Co, 1878. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrapper (21 x 15.6 cm.), 47, [1] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. In September of the same year, a second volume was issued by Donnelley, Gasette, & Loyd, "containing an entirely new collection of recipes for household use". The second volume carried the changed subtitle: a manual of recipes for cooking, pickling, and preserving, and other useful information for the housekeeper. In 1885, The Lakeside Cook Book was issued... Read More
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The Household Guide and Family Receipt Book: The perusal of this pamphlet will amply repay the reader
by [Dr. Hooker's Cough & Croup Syrup; Leet, C. D. (publisher)]
[Springfield, Mass: C.D. Leet, publisher; Samuel Bowles & Company, Printers, 1867. Cord-sewn booklet (18.5 x 11 cm.), 24 pages. Calendar. Advertisements. At head of title: "Take one". Evident FIRST EDITION. A product cookbook with testimonials for advertised products, some cooking recipes, etc., for C.D. Leet’s Patent medicines. Includes promotional literature for Dr. Hooker's Cough and Croup Syrup and Dr. Miller's Soothing and Healing Balsam or Nature's Assistant. Moderate foxing throughout; some water stains to a few leaves. In publisher's... Read More
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Price List. American Drinks. The New York World's Fair 1939
by [Drinks list – World's Fair; Le Restaurant Francais, French Pavilion (New York)]
New York: [Imprimerie Chauvelot, 149 West 21st Street], 1939. Bi-fold menu (18 x 14.2 cm.), [4] pages. FIRST EDITION. It does seem a bit ironic to find a list of "American Drinks" at the French Pavilion, an exhibit dedicated to delivering the best of French food and drink to some of the forty-five million visitors to the 1939-40 World's Fair. The French Pavilion was a pivotal event in American culinary culture, bringing a new level of fine French dining... Read More
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Gastronomie Nivernaise
by Drouillet, Les Freres
Moulins: Crepin-Leblond, 1939. Octavo, 137 pages. First Trade or Ordinary Edition, following a limited edition of 100 copies. Small bookseller sticker on colophon, otherwise very good in publisher's black, green and red printed wrappers. Uncommon.
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La Riviera D'Alain Ducasse, Recettes au Fil du Temps
by Ducasse, Alain & Marianne Comolli
Paris; Reims: Albin Michel; l'Atelier du Livre, 1992. Preface S.A.S. Le Prince Rainer III de Monaco. Large quarto (32 x 18 cm.), 294 pages. Illustrated with photographs by Jean-Louis Bloch-Lainé. FIRST EDITION. The first cookbook of Chef Alain Ducasse, with recipes for dishes served at his restaurant Le Louis XV in Monaco's Hotel de Paris. Fine in dust jacket. [OCLC locates thirteen copies].
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The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts, respectfully dedicated to the friends and patrons of the Detroit Home of the Friendless
by Duffield, M.B. [Mary B. Duffield]; I.G.D.S. [Isabella Duffield Stewart]
Detroit: E.B. Smith, 1873. Octavo ( x cm.), [6], 5-137 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of the home. FIRST EDITION of Detroit’s first cookbook. A second edition was published in 1878. In the early days of the Civil War, Rev. George Duffield, Minister of the First Presbyterian Church, located at the corner of State and Farm Streets in Detroit, convened a meeting of the women of the church. He called on them to help the “worthy and indigent persons... Read More
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A collection of late 19th and early 20th century Egyptian Menus
by [Menu collection – Egypt]
[Egypt: various dates, 1903. Various sizes. Twenty-nine printed menus with specific offerings printed or in manuscript. On various papers, some with chromolithograph illustrations; some with embossed, debossed or die-cut elements; some with edges beveled and gilt. Texts in Arabic, French, German, and English. An unusual group of Egyptian menus from a moment when the British, Germans, and Austro-Hungarians were jockeying for Power in the region, and the last of the Khedive rulers was in power. The collection includes menus... Read More
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Preisgekrönte Torten - Verzierungen. Tortenverzierungen. 54 moderne Vorlagen mit Erläuterungen und einer Garnierschule
by [Eikmeier, F.W. (Hofkonditor; Court Confectioner); Killinger, Heinrich]
Leipzig und Nordhausen: Heinrich Killinger, Konditoreibucherverlag, 1908. Tall quarto (31 x 20.5 cm.), 16, [2], 40 chromolithograph plates, most double-page, sewn on tabs so as to lay flat. FIRST EDITION. Fifty-four examples of prize winning cake decorations, with explanations and instructions for garnishing. The garnishing instructions are supplied by Court Confectioner F.W. Eikmeier, author of numerous works on confectionery and cake decoration. while the decorations are clearly typical of the late 19th/early 20th century, the colors are bright; some... Read More
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The Elm City Free Kindergarten Receipt Book. Compiled by Mrs. Mary Twining Gridley, with the assistance of the Board of Officers and friends
by [Elm Tree Free Kindergarten Association (New Haven, Conn.)]. [Mary Twining Gridley]
[New Haven, Conn.]: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1909. Small octavo (18 x 11 cm.), xi, 102, [xxviii] pages. Advertisements. Date of publication from prefatory note. Errata slip laid-in. Evident FIRST EDITION. A compact school community cookbook with nearly three hundred recipes, the majority of them attributed. Notable among them: Cucumber Soup, Creamed Sardines, Fig Sandwiches, Cymling, Cabbage Pudding, Lemon Wafers, Belgrader Brod (i.e., Brot), Kum Baba Cake, Nanepashemet Fruit Cake, Rice and Apple Pudding, Current Meringue Pie,... Read More
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The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. New Revised Edition. Ilustrated by Nathan Gluck
by Embury, David A.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc, 1958. Octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 362 pages. Third Edition, Revised. Perhaps the last of the classic cocktail books, a bookend of sorts to all of the pioneers that came before. Embury was nothing if not opinionated and blunt about expressing himself, so it comes as no surprise that David Wondrich puts him squarely in the "You may not know it, my friend, but you're drinking horse piss" school of drink... Read More
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The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion: being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials : with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses, and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines ... by E.S.
by E.S. [Smith, Eliza]
London: Printed for J. Pemberton, 1727. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), [16], 326, [16] pages. Signatures: A-X Y ( -Y4) a . Index. Illustrated with woodcut vignettes in the text, and with [6] folded leaves of plates; lacking part of plate no. 1, after the first fold. Bitting notes the "plates are not usually present until the 9th edition and those that follow" (page 438). Other titles: Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion; Compleat Housewife. FIRST EDITION. An important cookbook. "After Hannah... Read More
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How to Cook Rice. Presented by the Louisiana Rice Exhibit, New Orleans
by [New Orleans Board of Trade; Department of Agriculture; Louisiana Rice Exhibit]
[New Orleans]; New York: [The Board of Trade; Printed by] H. R. Elliot & Co., Printers and Embossers, 1910. Stapled booklet (10.25 x 15.25 cm.), [14] unnumbered leaves; printed text decorated with red borders, on rectos only. Cover title: Recipes for Cooking Rice. Author information inferred from external evidence. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional publication designed “to create a greater interest” in a foodstuff that had yet to become a staple in... Read More
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Airport Cafe: An Exhibition about Art and Food, San Francisco International Airport, April 14-July 21, 1986
by [Exhibitions Program, San Francisco International Airport; Feinstein, Diane]
San Francisco: International Airport/Community Arts, 1986. Small octavo in wrappers (16.5 x 13 cm.), 80 pages. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. FIRST EDITION. In 1980, the San Francisco International Airport developed an exhibitions program to "humanize the airport environment and to showcase the Bay Area's unique cultural life." This 1986 exhibition catalogue includes the one hundred sixty-nine item exhibition list with over thirty recipes from area restaurants, including Alice Water's Chez Panisse and Fog City Diner. Introduction by... Read More
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Merrimack Hotel, (sign of James Wolfe, Esq.), State Street.... Newburyport
by [Bill of Fare]
Newburyport, [Mass.], 1822. A printed, single-leaf bill of fare, (15.5 x 9 cm.), with price, date and innkeeper's name in manuscript. Typographical border. Ink note to verso. This bill of fare contains the usual list of possible expenses for the traveler staying at this inn or tavern: Board, Breakfast, Dinner, Supper, Lodging, Liquor, Wine, Cigars, Horsekeeping, Horsebating [sic], and Provender. The charge, for "$1.50" was billed to a "Capt. L[xx]" by the manager, J. Gilman, Jr. The Merrimack Hotel... Read More
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The South Church Cook Book. [Compiled by Ladies of the South Church]
by Fenn, Mrs. C.T.; [South Congregational Church (Pittsfield, Mass.); Ladies of the Church]
Pittsfield, Mass: [The Church]; Chickering & Axtell, Steam Printers, 1877. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 87, [i] pages. Advertisements. Cover title: Cook Book. FIRST EDITION. An attractively printed church cookbook from the seat of Berkshire County in the westernmost region of Massachusetts, with some three hundred fifty unattributed recipes. Warranting notice: Black Bean Soup, Onion Pie, Vegetable Plum Pudding, (Baked) Raspberry Sandwich, Whortleberry Cake, Rice Meringue, Brandy Peaches, and Blackberry Wine. The graceful Congregational Church at 110 South Street... Read More
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Mexican Cookbook. Illustrated by Valentin Vidaurreta
by Fergusson, Erna
Santa Fe, N.M.: The Rydal Press, 1934. Octavo (21 x cm.), 119 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. The book was re-issued in 1940, 1945, and 1973, with a total of three different illustrators. While the title is "Mexican Cookbook", the book has a strong focus on the cuisine of New Mexico. It captures the unique blend of Native American, Spanish, and Mexican culinary influences that define this regional cooking style. In doing so, it helped to solidify the identity... Read More
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The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It. Revised edition, with supplements
by Filippini, Alessandro
New York: The Merriam Company, Fifth Avenue, 1895. Thick octavo (23.5 x 15.5 cm.), [iv], 505 pages. All edges green. Indices. Stated "Revised Edition, with Supplements"; originally issued in 1889. A cookbook associated with, but not exclusively drawn from, the great New York restaurant Delmonico. In a facsimile of a letter to Charles Delmonico, the author states he was employed by the restaurant for twenty-five years, although it has been said he worked there as chef de cuisine for... Read More
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