De Re Culinaria Libri Decem - De Tuenda Valetudine - De Facultatibus alimentorum Tractatus
by Apicius; Platina; Paulus Aegineta
Lyon: Sebastian Gryphius, 1541. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full 18th century calf, rubbed, hinges splitting but held by cords, lacking the lettering piece. Title stained, light marginal dampstain at beginning and end, paper edges browned, tiny worm trails in the margins, small tear in the margin of the first page, but clean overall. 314, (xiv) pp including the printer's device at the end. Bitting 11, Vicaire 31, Cagle 32, Simon 123. Collects not... Read More
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Large Archive of Menus and Related Documents from Europe, late 19th and Late 20th Century
by anon
1900. Some restaurant menus, but most for occasions (weddings, first communions, royal dinners, and various other festivities) as well as countless dinner parties, some very professionally printed, some handwritten in a variety of styles. The bulk of the material is from 1890-1920 and the early 1930s into the 1950s, almost all in Europe, though it trickles into the late 1990s. England, Belgium, Germany, France and many from Luxembourg. It includes a number of menus from during the two world... Read More
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Dictionnaire Portatif de Cuisine, D'Office, et de Distillation
by anon
Paris: Chez Lottin, 1772. Nouvelle. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf, repair to leather on upp right, surface rubbing, bottom corners worn through, but sound and attractive overall. Scattered browning, foxing, old bookplate of Bernard Junisc (?) inside front cover, top corner of first few dozen pages v. slightly nibbled, marbled endpapers. Two volumes in one, bound without the second title. xiv, (2), 372, 367pp. A nouvelle edition. Often noted as having been first... Read More
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Recetas Selectas de Cocina
by anon
Mexico: Manuel León Sánchez, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Original blue cloth, rubbed, worn at corners, water stain to rear, hinges a little tender. Slight age toning internally. 208pp Menus, Numbered recipes by type (soups, eggs, fish, guisados, dulces, etc), then sections on hygiene and domestic medicine. Interspersed with advertisements - an interesting book of household management. It's unusual to see medical and household receipts mixed with cookery in Mexican cookbooks - usually this... Read More
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Lo Scalco alla Moderna
by Latini Antonio
Naples: Domenico Antonio Parrino and Michele Luigi Muzio, 1694. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Contemporary vellum, soiled, worn in spots, but sound. Pastedowns torn, old signatures on front blank and an old inscription to verso of portrait. Plates torn and a little rumpled, repairs on verso of cutlery plate, but negligible loss; scattered minor browning - still a very good copy of the second edition of Latini's rare cooking manual, a reprint of the 1692 first... Read More
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Le Cuisinier Gascon: Nouvelle Edition, A laquelle on a joint la Lettre du Patissier Anglois
by Bourbon, Louis-Auguste (attributed)
Amsterdam (Paris), 1747. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf, respined. Light wear at the corners, scattered light foxing and toning internally, endpapers browned - a clean, bright copy overall. With an armorial bookplate on the front pastedown and the bookplate of food bibliographer Eleanor Lowenstein on the front free endpaper. The second edition, the first with the Lettre du Patissier Anglois. viii, 244. Oberle 112, Simon 421, Cagle 1082, Vicaire 234 The... Read More
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La somme rurale
by Boutilier, Jean
Paris: Antoine Vérard or Pierre Levet, 1488. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. The first Parisian edition rebound in 19th century full leather. First published in 1479 and written around 1370. Scattered minor finger marks, first page worn and repaired on verso, first few pages modestly browned and stained, last leaves with minor staining; quite clean otherwise. Attractively rubricated copy lacking the 12 and 6 leaf indexes preceding the two parts, but otherwise complete. 208... Read More
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Scriptores rei rusticae (Opera Agricolationum, De re rustica)
by Cato, Varro, Columella, Paladius
Reggio Emilia: Franciscus de Mazalibus, 1499. Fifth Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Very Good Condition. Attractively rebound in modern full calf in an antique style, added endpapers, front blank with old notes. Slight soiling here and there, heavier to title page and a few others, marginal notes and marks throughout in an early hand, a few just slightly trimmed when rebound, a few marginal repairs on final leaf, fine woodcut initials throughout. 244 leaves. Goff S350, is00350000 ... Read More
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The Household Manager: Being a Practical Treatise Upon the Various Duties in Large and Small Establishments, From the Drawing-Room to the Kitchen
by Pierce Charles
London: George Routledge, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt, light wear at edges. viii, 370pp. Bitting 371.Inscribed by Pierce to the great 19th century pastry chef Émile Bernard. Bernard was the pastry chef to Napoleon III and co-authored La Cuisine Classique with Urbain Dubois. A terrific culinary association; with Bernard's bookplate to front pastedown. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Signed by... Read More
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Il Cuoco Francese, ove viene insegnata la maniera di condire ogni sorta di vivande, e di fare ogni sorta di Pasticcierie, e Confetti
by de la Varenne François Pierre de
Bassano: A spese Remondini di Venezia, 1787. Later Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Contemporary blue card wrappers, contents coming detached, scattered modest browning and foxing. Styled the third edition: In three sections, continuously paginated: Cuoco, Pasticciere, Confettoriere. 310pp. Originally published in French in 1651 and in Italian in 1682. Pennell 118-119 (1703 ed.), Notaker 918 (earlier eds)La Varenne's groundbreaking French cookbook rippled through Europe for centuries and was directly responsible for French haute cuisine taking over in Italy for... Read More
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Phonurgia nova sive Conjugium Mechanico-physicum Artis & Naturae paranympha phonosophia Concinnatum
by Kircher, Athanasius
Kempten: Rudolhum Dreherr. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Rebound in modern calf in an antique style, endpapers refreshed, lacking original final blank and half title, otherwise complete with engraved title (with a tear and loss in the margin, repaired with paper), portrait and two plates. Some browning and degradation to bottom edge of title and following leaf (apparently from the removal from previous ownership marks), largish stain running from 205-212 but nor really affecting legibility,... Read More
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Archive of typed and collected recipes from a prominent Mexican politician and ambassador
by Luis Ignacio Rodríguez Taboada et al.
mexico, 1950. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Collection of 7 volumes of recipes, most typed, some clipped and laid down. Collected for and/or by Mexican politician Luis Ignacio Rodríguez Taboada (1905-1973), a governor and Senator from Guanajuato and later Ambassador to France during World II tasked with evacuating Spanish citizens displaced by Franco to Mexico (this effort was curtailed after the German occupation). A mix of paper, some volumes using Luis I. Rodríguez. Embajador de México stationary, some Poder... Read More
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[Archive] Letters and documents relating to Casa Editorial Antonio Vanegas Arroyo in Mexico City 1892-1922
by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo; Vicente A. Gallicia; Pedro Martinez
Good Condition. 66 letters, largely orders -- often quite detailed -- for various publications. The letters come from all over Mexico and a couple from the US -- AZ and TX -- with a number of repeat orders. Almost all including the original stamps and envelopes and marked "Paid" with a date. Letters date from 1897-1922 (with one later order from 1943) with the largest number, 49 letters, from late 1921 and early 1922 when Antonio Vanegas Arroyo's... Read More
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Missa Gothica seu Mozarabica, et officium itidem Gothicum
by [Mozarabic Missal]
Angelopoli (Puebla): Typis Seminarii Palafoxiani, 1770. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. José de Nava. Contemporary full calf, wear at edges, surface scrapes to leather, old paper spine label and private library label to spine, paste paper endpapers, stamp from library of Rev. L. Kenzel and a printed in Germany stamp to verso of title. SLight browning to page edges, some offsetting and acidification from the ink used in the musical notation and engravings; generally a... Read More
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Enciclopedia Doméstica : colección de procedimientos y de recetas concernientes a las artes y oficios, economía rural y doméstica, en que se comprende la casa rústica ... la verdadera medicina sin médico ... la química para todos ... el arte de cocina ... el arte del destilador ... secretos de artes y oficinos
by Navarro, Juan R (ed, trans)
Mexico: Juan Navarro, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover (Imitation Leather). Good Condition. 2 volumes rebound in modern quarter leather, covers scuffed. Dampstains to first quarter of both volumes, heavier early on then fading but never obscuring text, small tear in gutter to title page to volume 2. Browning to text block. 758pp; 616pp. 1853-54 Arranged alphabetically and well indexed, the Enciclopedia Doméstica is comprehensive and wide ranging covering medicine, food, rural economy, science and everything in between. Dagueerotypes,... Read More
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Monografia: Las Obras de José Guadalupe Posada Grabador Mexicano
by Posada, José Guadalupe; Rivera, Diego (intro)
Mexico: Mexican Folkways, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Ex-library with spine label, embossed stamp to endpaper, call number written on endpaper, stamp to rear endpaper, small paperlift from something being removed from rear pastedown. Spine worn and hinges cracked, pages more or less uniformly browned, pages a bit fragile, a few with small tears and chipping at edges and in gutter, a few small wormtrails in the gutter, two pages with long repaired tears but... Read More
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Via lactea, seu vita candidissima S. Philippi Nerii
by Ramirez, José (attr); Juan de la Pedrosa (alternate attr.)
Mexico: María de Benavides, 1698. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Near Fine Condition. Full contemporary vellum, ties largely intact. Light wear, light green stain near spine, scattered slight foxing, browning; a fresh wide margined copy. With the striking title page of the star filled sky and one engraving of Neri astride an eagle in flight. (40), portrait, 222, (12)pp. Palau 246730-III; Sabin 67647. First Mexican edition of a biography of 16th century Italian saint Philip Neri. Doña Maria... Read More
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Opera
by Tacitus, Publius Cornelius; Franciscus Puteolanus (ed.)
Milan: Antonius Zarotus, 1487. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 19th century red morocco, gilt, hinges and spine rubbed and a little weak, but still generally sound and attractive. Added marbled endpapers and a description of the edition and a note on the binding penned on added blank endpapers. The second edition of Tacitus, much improved by Puteolanus from the first, and the first printed with The Life of Agricola (first published by Zarotus in a... Read More
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Collection of Mexican Tourist Restaurant Menus and Table Cards (33)
by various
1970. Very Good Condition. Large collection of menus and table cards for 1970s tourist joints in Mexico. A nice group including a wide range of places from Harry's in Acapulca (A Sunny Place for Shady People) to British Pubs in the DF, roadside dives, Tijuana haunts, and hotel restaurants. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000766.
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![Medicyn-boeck, daerinne alle gebreken des menschelijcke lichaems,,,[with] Eenen seer schoonen/ ende excellenten Coc-boeck [and] Een singuliere ende voortreffelijcke observatie](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/347/491/1394491347.0.l.jpg)
Medicyn-boeck, daerinne alle gebreken des menschelijcke lichaems,,,[with] Eenen seer schoonen/ ende excellenten Coc-boeck [and] Een singuliere ende voortreffelijcke observatie
by Wirtsung, Christophorum (ie Christoph Wirsung); Battus, Carollus (Carel Baten); Hilden, G.F.
Amsterdam: Ian Evertsen Clojpeburg, 1627. Later Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Good Condition. Rebound in contemporary paper covered boards with a spine made of old red leather, new endpapers. Title in facsimile on old paper, scattered browning, foxing, minor stains, some minor repairs with Japanese paper all mostly early on; generally a very good copy. (18), 676, (96), (26), (blank leaf), (4) pp, 24, (1) leaves. Notaker 405 & 406 (for the cook book) Wirsung's medical book was... Read More
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