Grosses Restaurations-Kochbuch. Ein Hand- u. Nachschlagebuch der modernen Restaurations-Küche hervorgegangen aus zwei Preisausschreiben des Internationalen Verbandes der Küche Sitz Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt: Fachschriften-Verlag des Internationalen Verbandes der Köche, 1910. Quarto, 650, [6] pages. Advertisements. Profusely illustrated. Second Edition, enlarged and revised. A complete guide to restaurant management, from provisioning and menu pricing, to menu design, to classic German recipes. Over one hundred pages of color facsimiles of German restaurant menus. The menu examples cover many styles. A tiny bit of pulling at the front hinge, otherwise near fine. In publisher's half black calf, with art deco gilt design to spine.... Read More

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Seasons Greetings 1963. Rx, Eat, Eten, Comer, Taberu, Kooshut, Mangiare, A Manger, Essen... 25 December 1963

by [6550th USAF Hospital, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida]

[Cocoa Beach, Florida], 1963. Octavo-sized, metal post binding (21.5 x 14 cm), [100] leaves printed rectos only. Illustrated. Author, title, and publication information from cover. A community cookbook, with recipes attributed, from the airmen and airmen's spouses living at Patrick Air Force. Patrick AFB is a significant location in the history of the American space program, and 1963 just two years after the first manned space flight (Gagarin), and the first human-piloted space flight (Shephard). Patrick Air Force, base... Read More

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Bills Paid, Sundry Parties, for labor & material, furnished for the building of the New Bake House, 1866 & 1867

by [Account book – Bake House (Staten Island, N.Y.)]

Staten Island, N.Y., 1866. Small cord-bound booklet, [44], [12 blank] pages. A small, but very interesting account book for the construction of a new Bake House. In the mid-19th century, the term "bake-house" was often used to mean a cooking facility in what we would a social service facility, an orphanage, home for the indigent, etc. And we believe that's what was being referred to here. The previous bake house appears to have been destroyed by fire, and a policy... Read More

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A Treatise on Adulteration of Food, and Culinary Poisons, exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy. And methods of detecting them

by Accum, Frederick

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; [Joseph Mallet, Printer], 1820. Octavo (18 x 11 cm.), xxiv, 360 pages. Stated "Second Edition", published the same year as the first edition. One of the earliest culinary works on the chemistry of cooking and adulteration of food. In A Treatise on Adulterations German chemist Frederick Accum denounced the addition of chemical additives to food. The work marked the beginning of an awareness of the need for food safety oversight. Accum was... Read More

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Kochbuch. 1824. [German manuscript]

by Achleithner, Maximiliane

German. [Austria?], 1824. Large square duodecimo in 4s, (21 x 17.5 cm.), 644 pages. Manuscript text in German. Pages are ruled and dated, and the recipes are numbered as well. Table of contents; index. A handsome, large, and very comprehensive collection of handwritten recipes, containing eight hundred twenty-five recipes, with a forty-eight page table of contents and a nearly one hundred page index. The recipes provide instructions for soups, cakes and other baked goods, side dishes, eggs, puddings, French... Read More

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The African Cook Book. Menus are from the Tree Houses Restaurant of the Pavilion of Africa, New York World's Fair, 1964-65

by [African-American: Tree House Restaurant, Pavilion of Africa, New York World's Fair]; Bea Sandler

New York: Harvest House, 1964. Small quarto in comb binding (25.5 x 18 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook of regional African recipes by Bea Sandler, restaurant consultant and food magazine editor. An expanded edition was released in 1970 by World Publishing Co. with the contracted title African Cookbook and re-issued again in 1993. The introduction to the 1993 edition notes that “The first publication of this book was ... the first volume on African cooking... Read More

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Three Hundred Tested Recipes. Contributed by Many Good Cooks. [Compiled by] Miss A. Alden and Miss A. Adams. Second edition, issued December, 1895

by Alden, Ada; Alice Adams

Springfield, Mass: Cyrus W. Atwood, Printer, 1895. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 80 pages. Advertisements. Cover title: The A. A. Cook Book, Containing Three Hundred Tested Recipes. Publisher's name and date of publication from cover. Index is actually a table of contents. ~ Stated Second Edition. Not a charitable cookbook (though included in Cook), but rather a functionally anonymous compilation of unattributed recipes, numbered 1-350. A survey eminently of its time: croquettes, meat pies, biscuits, griddle cakes, pickles, cookies,... Read More

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[New Favorite Cooking Receipts of the Shakers and Illustrated Almanac for '83 & '84. The Story of an Accidental Discovery]

by [Almanacs – Shaker] White, A.J.

[New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, 1883. Stapled booklet (19.5 x 15 cm.), 28 pages (plus wrappers). Title from cover. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout. The ephmeris begins with April 1883 and runs through March 1884. One in the short series of A.J. White Shaker almanacs with a culinary theme. The text includes a letter of Mary Carr. These promotional booklets, advertising the "Shaker Extract of Root", were manufactured by the Mount Lebanon, New York United Society... Read More

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Farmer's Almanac, and Housekeeper's Receipt Book. For 1851

by [Almanac – culinary]; Eagelmann, Charles F. [(i.e. Charles Frederick Egelmann); J.W. Bond & Co., Publisher]

Baltimore: Published by J.W. Bond & Co., No. 44 Baltimore Street, 1850. Booklet, sewn on cord (20 x 17 cm.), [36] pages including wrappers. Illustrated with woodcuts. Each month has a vignette, and there are an additional six larger woodcuts in the text. Title and publication information from cover. Author from note on page [2], a note by the calculator, "Charles F. Eagelmann". FIRST EDITION of this early American culinary almanac, just the second listed in David O'Neal's catalogue... Read More

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Warner’s Safe Cure Almanac for 1890. Cooking Recipes, from Warner’s Safe Cook Book

by [Almanac – culinary]; Warner, H. H.; 1842-1923; (Hulbert Harrington Warner)

[Rochester, N.Y.]: H.H. Warner & Co. Stecher Lith Co, 1889. Octavo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (22 x cm.), 51, [1] pages. Illustrated. Index. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST EDITION of the eleventh annual almanac advertising Warner’s patent medicines, with the standard elements – ephemeris, glowing testimonials, illustrated advertisements for the various cures, including Warner’s Kidney & Liver Safe Cure, Log Cabin Sarsaparilla, Benton’s Hair Grower. The cooking recipes, themselves an advertisement for Warner’s Safe Cook Book, run... Read More

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1886, Burdock Blood Bitters. Almanac and Key to Health

by [Almanac – Bitters; Foster Milburn & Co. (Buffalo, N.Y.)]

Buffalo, N.Y.: Foster Milburn & Co.; [G.H. Dunston Lith.], 1885. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (20 x 14.5 cm.), 32 pages. An almanac advertising Burdock Blood Bitters, with the standard calendars, ephemeris, testimonials, and advertisements for other related products, including "Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberries". With remarkable duo-tone lithograph wrappers, depicting an image of an older man with a collared shirt and bald pate, and bursting through the paper a young child. "At three years and at sixty", it... Read More

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The Centaur Company's Receipt Book: Breakfast, Dinner & Tea [cover title]

by [Almanac – patent medicine]; Centaur Co. (New York, N.Y.)

New York: The Centaur Co, 1880. Stapled booklet (16 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A small promotional cookbook in the form of an almanac, from the makers of Centaur Liniments, with recipes, testimonials, and descriptions of the applications of this miraculous cure from lands far and wide. As is typical of these books, the recipes are very brief and uncredited. Short closed tear to fold of wrappers decorated in black, red, and yellow, depicting a Near... Read More

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Dr. Leon's Family Receipt Book, on the nature, utility, and beauty if hair. Remarks relative to the treatment of young children for the housewife. Dr. Leon's celebrated preparations... With a Calendar Almanac for 1868

by [Almanac – Culinary & patent medicine; Ziegler & Smith (Philadelphia, Pa.)]

Philadelphia: Ziegler & Smith, Sole Proprietors, 1867. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (16.5 x 12 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. While an almanac, there is no evidence of other issues. A promotional almanac and recipe book, for the patent medicines produced by Dr. Leon, specifically his Infant Remedy and Electric Hair Renewer. The promotion of the remedies is interwoven with culinary and household recipes, Soft Gingerbread, Winter Herbs, An Easy Method of producing Mushrooms, Apple Fritters, Lady... Read More

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The Moosewood Cookbook. Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant. In the Dewitt Mall, Ithaca, New York

by [The Moosewood Collective; [Mollie Katzen et al]

Ithaca, (NY): Moosewood; [printed by Glad Day Press], 1974. Comb-bound quarto (28 x 22 cm.), 79 pages. Illustrated. Second Printing of the original self-published edition of this classic of counterculture cooking. The Moosewood Cookbook was published in a trade edition by Ten Speed Press in 1977 with significant expansion and revisions from these earlier works and went on to become one of the bestselling cookbooks of all time. The restaurant opened in 1973, originally as a worker's collective, and... Read More

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Nuevo Arte de Cocina, Sacado de la Escuela de la experiencia economica... dedicado á San Diego de Alcalá

by Altimiras, Juan

Madrid: D[on] Francisco Martinez Dávila, 1814. Duodecimo (14 x 9.5 cm.), xxvi (sic, should be xxii), 152, [1] pages. Illustrated with a single wood engraved plate depicting twenty-one kitchen tools. A later edition of Altimiras' classic Spanish cookbook. Originally published in 1745 (that first edition known only by a single copy), this book revolutionized Spanish cuisine in the 18th century. Anne Willan writes that Spain, "with its empire faltering, and only one notable cookbook emerged." It reflects such popular... Read More

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Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts, Constituting a complete and universal practical library relative to..

by An American Physician; Mackenzie, [Colin]

Philadelphia; Pittsburgh: James Kay, Jun. & Brother; C.H. Kay & Co., 122 Chestnut St, 1834. Octavo (22.5 x 14 cm.), 456 pages. Index. Early printing, styled "A New American from the Latest London Edition. Printer's slug to title page: "Kay's Improved & Enlarged Edit." Copyright statement says 1829, no date on title, but the publisher, James Kay, Jr., and Brother, was located at the 122 Chestnut St. address, from 1834 or 1835 through 1843. (Shoemaker 39366). A comprehensive manual,... Read More

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Phantom Flowers. A Treatise on the Art of Producing Skeleton Leaves

by [Anonymous; Tilton, J.E., (publisher)]

Boston: J. E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), 96 pages. Illustrated with six tissue-guarded plates, head pieces, and historiated initials. FIRST EDITION with this title; originally published in 1863, by Edward Parrish of Philadelphia, under the title Phantom Bouquet: Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed Vessels. Producing skeletonized leaves was a fashionable Victorian pastime which involved removing chlorophyll from leaves to create intricate designs which imitated those left by insects and larvae. The designs were used as... Read More

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[Vernacular photograph – Tavern interior]

by Anonymous

[N.p. New England (?), 1890. Original photograph on board (16.3 x 22 cm.). Photographic print of tavern interior, with five men gathered around a bar and a wood or coal stove. The men include the bar or tavern keeper in jacket behind the bar, a waiter in white apron with a tray at the ready, and three customers: one warming his hands at the fire, another sporting a shot and apiece of currency, and the third astride a chair... Read More

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ECHO Mushroom Plant. Troy, N.Y.

by [Manuscript – mushrooms; Anonymous]

[Troy, N.Y., 1895. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is focused on mushroom propagation and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some age-toning to endpapers. In textured brown calf, lined, and with... Read More

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Confectioner's Hand-Book

by [Candy Manual; anonymous]

New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1881. Octavo (17 x 11 cm.), 79, [1],[16] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A small but thorough manual of sweets cookery, from blancmange to sugar spinning. One closed tear and a few very small chips to the edges of the illustrated wrappers; small dog ears to the upper right corner, otherwise near fine. Scarce. [OCLC cites five copies of this 1881 edition, and three of an early 20th century printing; Bitting page 535; not... Read More

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L'art d'accommoder les restes dédié aux petites fortunes, par un gastronome émérite

by Par un Gastronome Emerite; [Anonymous]

Paris; [Abbeville]: Achille Faure, Libraire-Editeur, 23 Rue Saint-Martin; [Imprimerie de P. Briez], 1866. Duodecimo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 180 pages. FIRST EDITION. Not so much a recipe book, but a collection of three hundred eleven culinary observations and recommendations – often on specific dishes – with a calendar. Despite the popularity of this little work, and the many reprint editions it has endured (including one as recent as 2017 (Centre Pompidou), the author remains uncredited. He did write a... Read More

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AO&: Fall Residency NYC; AO& for Katia and Gerold Schneider; AO& Imtal; Summer Residency; AO& For ARche Noah; Momenti Mori Tour; AO& for Fred Loimer; AO& for Pepi Helm; Late Winter Residency; Feed the Rich; Nonvaleur; Harvest Trojice; Fall/Winter 2009; Heimsuchung Schweiz; Weimsuchung; Ganz; Kurpfusch; Brot und Tod; Leben und Sterben in den Bergen; Alimentary; Prigglitz; Natura and Obscrura; General Statement; Specifications

by AO&; Furtenbach, Philipp; Phillip Riccabona; Thomas A. Wisser

[Vienna: AO&, 2010. Folio, [78] pages. Full color and black and white photographs. FIRST EDITION. This book documents approximately twenty interventions by the Austrian art collective AO& between 2009-2010. Consisting of its founding members, Philipp Furtenbach, Phillip Riccabona, and Thomas A. Wisser, AO& explores the intersection of food and place, taking inspiration from sources as diverse as Fluxus and molecular gastronomy. According to their own manifesto, “AO& is a semi-nomadic organization […] living and working with such diverse themes... Read More

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Apicii Coelii De Opsoniis et Condimentis..

by Apicius, Marcus Gavius; [Martin Lister; Theodoor Jansson Almeloveen]

Amsterdam: Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1709. Small octavo (19 x 11 cm.), [xxxiv], 277, [44] pages. Illustrated frontispiece designed and engraved by J. Goeree. The image depicts a Roman kitchen with a staff of five preparing a meal. EDITION. LARGE PAPER COPY? The early cookbook compiled by Apicius, known as a gourmet at the time of the Emperor Tiberius. The work is a compilation from the 4th or 5th century, incorporating parts of his original work, parts of a similar... Read More

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Apicius: Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome: A bibliography, critical review and translation of the ancient book known as "Apicius de re Coquinaria"

by Apicius, Marcus Gavius; [Vehling, Joseph Dommers, translator]

Chicago: Walter M. Hill, 1936. Quarto, xxi, [1], 301 pages. Illustrated. List of Subscribers. Bibliography. FIRST EDITION. Limited, number 204 of 500 copies printed on Arnold hand-made paper, from a total of 530 copies. The 30 copies of the edition de tete were printed on Hurlbut ivory custom laid deckle edge paper. The first translation into English of this famous ancient cookery book dating back to 4th or early 5th century AD Rome. "It is not probable that any... Read More

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The Ladies Delight Cook Book. Number Two. A collection of valuable and reliable recipes, which have been thoroughly tested by the most skillful housekeepers of Dorchester and vicinity

by A.P. Ordway, Proprietors of Sulphur Bitters

Boston: A.P. Ordway & Co, 1889. Small octavo, 32 pages. FIRST EDITION. The second cookbook issued by Ordway Co. to promote use of Sulphur Bitters. And promote it does! Each short recipe comes with a final line of text proclaiming another fantastic quality of the tonic, perhaps the only honest one being "What Sulphur Bitters have done for others, they will do for you." The recipes are interspersed with glowing testimonials. Very tiny edge wear to blue-printed wrappers, otherwise... Read More

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