Georgian Wine
1989. Folio. Color photographs. Text in English and Russian. More
Food & Drink
Morelto Liquid Chocolate: Tested Recipes
London: Choclate Products, Co. Original Wraps. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. More
Azerbijan Cookery=Azarbaijan Kulinariiasy
Baku: Izd-vo "Ishyg" 1987. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 232 pages, text in English, Azerbaijani and Russian. With 115 color photographs of the foods of Azerbaijan ranging from the classic items typical of the Near East to the exotic deserts. More
Lecithin; Its Industrial Application in Confectinery
London: A. Boake, Robrts & Co, Ltd, 1933. Orginal Wraps. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 24p. introduction to importance of Lecithin, advances, and recipes back cover lacks 1.4 of back cover (no text lacking) interior clean. More
Gastronomic Bibliography (facsimile)
Mansfield, CT: Maurizio Martino Publisher. Limited Edition. Cloth. Octavo (7¾" - 9¾" tall). 719pp. Limited edition facsimile of 1939 original edition, a richly annotated classic with illustrations and title pages. Index. Bound in red cloth boards, with gold title. Fine. More
A Treatise on the Laws Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
Saint Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., 1892. First Edition. Thick Octavo. liii, 711pp.This is the first treatise dealing with the subject of intoxicating liquors. The author tells us that his constant aim has been to make a thoroughly practical treatise "a useful tool for the working lawyer." including a large... More
The British Housewife: or, the Cook, Housekeeper’s, and Gardiner’s Companion. Calculated for the Service Both of London and the Country; And Directing What is Necessary to be Done in the Providing for, Conducting, and Managing a Family Throughout....
London, Nd(ca.1760]: For S. Crowder and H. Woodgate. Octavo. (title continued) the Year. Containing a general account of fresh provisions of all Kinds. Of the several foreign Articles for the Table, ... and the different Kinds of Spices, ... and other Ingredients used in Pickling and Preserving at Home: ..... More
The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice; Being a Complete Guide to All Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New; Consisting of Thirty-Eight Chapters.....
Dublin: For P. Byrne, 1791. 12mo. Second edition. 533pp., 24 pages of Bill of Fare for each month which includes the first course then on verso, the second course each with table placement. The author must have been a gret cook as he covers nearly every food imaginable, Puddings, pickling... More
Catalogue; Charles and Co.
New York City: Charles & Co., 1933. Octavo. 385pp. catalogue filled with food items, fruit olive oils, meat and sea food, cigars and tobacco vegetables, bird feed, wines, toiletries....just about anything you could imagine. Illustrated ads, bound in green art deco designed cloth. Faint damp staining to outer edges of... More
The Savannah Cook Book; a Collectionof Old Fashioned Recipts from Colonial Kitchens
Charleston, SC; (1933): Published By the Author. Octavo. xviii, 186 pages. With an introduction by Ogden Nash. A delightful item with the caricature of the large black mammy followed by a black cat. An original long poem with references to the book, the author, and many puns such as the... More
Every Man His Own Butler
London: Whittaker and Co., 1839. First Edition. Small Octavo. Unopened copy. Vignette title page, 200pp. "This work was designed for eveyone who buys wine. The chapter on fermentation, is necessary to be thoroughtly understood by everyone who keeps wine in his cellar. The dealer in wine can be no master... More
Report on a Visit to the Cocoa Zone of Bahia Brazil
Bournville: Cadbury Brothers Ltd, 1954. Original Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 32 p., 1954 official report on glossy paper by Cadbury Brothers Ltd. Two maps of the Brazil Cocoa Zone. 50 Black-and-white illustrations of cocoa growing, transportation and processes. Reports on the Cocoa Zone of Brazil, along... More
R.C. Gorman's Nudes & Foods in Good Taste
Sante Fe, NM; (1994): Clear Light Publishers. First Edition. Quarto. Inscribed by the author to Bev & Earl [Vance] who owned the famous Ranch Kitchen Restaurant in Farmington, New Mexico on route 66, a close friend of Gorman and contributed two recipes for this book. 129(2)pp., with 55 illustrations and... More
The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book
New York (1948): Harper & Brothers. First Edition. Octavo. All the popular recipes of the most famous regional cooking in the United States and has become quite scarce. 213pp., bound in green cloth, title on upper board and spine black over red, pictorial endpapers, a lovely copy, near fine in... More
VINES IN THE SUN a Journey Through the California Vineyards
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1949. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by the author and the illustrator, 253pp., bound in gray cloth pictorially stamped in red depicting a cluster of grapes, pictorial spine lettered in red, previous owner's name and inscription otherwise a very nice copy in clipped pictorial dust jacket. More
Photograph of Crane's Ice Cream Horse-drawn Wagon (circa. 1930)
Photograph measuring 9 1/2" x 7 1/2" of Crane's Orangekiss Ice Cream in horse drawn wagon. The photographer Harry B Leopold (1890-1977) produced images for the Baltimore Sun in the period circa 1920 of train wrecks, public buildings, etc. Crane's won the Ice Cream Badge from the Sesqui-Centennial International Exhibition... More
Bibliography of American Cookery Books 1742-1860
Worcester and New York: American Antiquarian Society and The Corner Bookshop, 1972. Ocatvo. 132pp. A revision of Waldo Lincoln's American Cookery Books 1742-1860 who was at one time the president of The American Antiquarian Society. Bound in green cloth, spine lettering gilt. A lovely copy, near fine. More
Mrs. A.B. Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes
London; (nd ca.1900): Marshall's School of Cookery. Quarto. Fourth thousand, 656pp.,illustrated, 28pp. illustrative ads at rear, bound in green cloth over beveled boars lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt, yellow endpapers, a very good copy with gilt just about rubbed off, rear inner hinge is a bit weak. According to..... More
Normas Technicas Para o Cultivo Do Cacau No Reconcavo Baiano
Ilheus, Brazil: Plano De Lavoura Cacaveira, 1980. Original Paper Wrps. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 43p. w/errata slip. Portuguese Language. Important work on production of Cocoa with many illustrations. More
Earl Percy Dines Abroad, a Boswellian Episode
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924. Limited Edition. Octavo. Limited to 550 copies.The present copy is number 290. 46pp. illustrated, The author published in 1907 a book entitled Earl Percy's Dinner-Table, an imaginary dinner given by his Lordship in Boston in 1775. The present work is an actual dinner given in... More
Chocolate Nestles
Zurich, Switzerland: Fretz Freres S.A. Original Wraps. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Untitled 35 p. booklet from Nestle written in French. Color wraps. Great full-page, full color cover illustration of cows in the Swiss Alps. Nice back cover color illlustration. 17 inside black-and-white photos of the chocolate factories... More
La Cuisine Est Un Jeu D'enfants (Preface By Jean Cocteau)
Paris: Plot, 1963. First Edition. Quarto. 48 pages, French text, illustrated of Michel Oliver's cookbook for children with a preface by Jean Cocteau. A beautifully illustrated book for children on how to prepare in the delightful style of French cuisine. Cocteau says that both children and poets are inclined to... More
A Day in Biscuit Land
London: Peek Fream & Co., Ltd., 1931. Original Wraps. 24 p. Color Wraps. Sections include What I Learned when I visited Biscuit Land; My Tour among the Biscuits; A Word about Meltis; Final Thoughts. 12 attractive line drawings of rooms, machinery and equipment seen on the tour of Biscuit Land... More
The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, & C. Written Purely from Practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton.
London: Printed for the Author, Sold By R. Baldwin, 1780. Octavo. 7th edition. 412pp., (14)pp. index. After marrying Lady Warburton's gardener, Raffald moved to Manchester where, over the next 18 years, she reportedly ran two pubs, two coffee shops, an indoor and outdoor catering business and an agency supplying domestic... More
Paris Restaurants
New York. Nd(ca.1927): Brentano's. 16mo. 127 pages. Warren S. Miller's copy. He was the Chairman of Hayden, Miller of Cleveland who joined J.P. Morgan and others at for dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria to discuss how to stop the spread of investor protection laws. Hayden said the laws were paternalistic and..... More