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19102810881910. Map. Original color lithograph. 25.5 x 34 inches. In very good condition. Paper mounted on linen.<br/><br/> Outstanding bird's-eye view of New York Harbor one of the largest natural harbors in the world. Includes the East River Bridge which was formally re-named the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915. The top of the Buttermilk channel is shown with wonderful detail on Governors Island including Fort Jay and Castle Williams which are considered among the best remaining examples of First System Fort Jay and Second System Castle Williams American coastal fortification. Jersey City and Hoboken are included as well as the beginning of the Long Island Sound labelled in the upper right of the East River. Atmospheric printing of this sophistication indicates the map was printed in Germany as well as the word 'und' included in the title runner below the image. Attributed to M. Molitor based in Leipzig who made school maps. Hard to find.<br/><br/> unknown books
19083046031908. Photographs measuring 2-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. some a little faded. Manuscript captions in white ink in an album with 12 leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary black cloth album. Photographs measuring 2-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. some a little faded. Manuscript captions in white ink in an album with 12 leaves. 1 vols. 8vo. RARE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH CHINA. An excellent group of images documenting a tour though the little known and rarely photographed mining districts of northern China. The photographer was likely attached to the Anglo-French Quicksilver and Mining Concession which had claims in the Guizhou province. Among the photographs is an image of Henry Brelich who was the chief engineer of the Concession.<br/><br/>Commencing at Kainsk the photographer travelled on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Lake Baikal Harbin then via Mukden to the coal mining towns of Fushun the coal capital Kang-shan and Tung-Hwa. There are shots of mines at Ta-miao-erh-kou Tung-hua Ta-maio-kou and Fushun as well as "Korean Miners at Chi-tao-kou" "Ta-miao-erh-kou Placer Washing Gold" and "Ssu-tao-chiang coal pits"<br/><br/>There are shots of the expedition in action: "Crossing the Hun - tributary of the Yalu" "The Expedition en route outside Mukden." "An accident en route" a group shot of the servants. Then some images of local interest such as street scenes at Mukden and Tung-hwa the "Shrine outside Ling-kai" "Inn at Kwei-tai-mao-tze" a Manchurian farm. Other images include the floating dock at Lake Baikal views of the Hun Valley the Kao-li-mutze-ling pass and the Loh chuen valley.<br/><br/>The group provides a fascinating insight into this remote part of China at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Anglo-Chinese Treaty of 1902 paved the way for English developers as it included a revision of existing mining regulations. However the new regulations which didn't come into effect until the end of 1907 were such that it proved nearly impossible for any foreign firm to gain a foothold making this expedition one of the very few to gain a concession. unknown books
191541758Shanghai 1915. 8vo. 18 pp. text and 13 pp. pamphlet. Folding color map. Accordion-fold b/w lithograph plates. <br /><br />First edition. Each of the 85 pagoda images has a description in Chinese and English with a detailed Index on pastedowns. Laid in as issued is a 13 page pamphlet in English titled "Chinese Pagodas." The images were taken from models made by Chinese boys in Shanghai's Tushanwan orphanage. No copies online and none at auction for the past 30 years. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Very good condition. hardcover books
17147280London: For Richard Wilkin 1714. Octavo 19 x 12.5 cm. 16 218 13 pages. FIRST EDITION. "Mary Kettilby's collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies from a tasty "green-pease soop without meat" to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth for pickling and collaring rather than ragouts. Where Hannah Woolley had led plenty of female cooks with their eye on the profitable middle market followed with books like Mary Kettilby's collection of recipes 1714 and Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife 1734" Colquhoun Taste: The Story of Britain through its Cookery 2015. Kettilby's book purported to be a collective effort: the preface stating that 'a Number of very Curious and Delicate House-wives Club'd to furnish out this Collection'. Maclean however pages 79-82 doubts this and notes that evidence from later editions indicate Kettilby to be the main author. Apart from the Preface there is no introduction of any sort: the recipes follow immediately after the chapter headings. The book is clearly divided into chapters of recipes for food and for remedies but within the chapters there is no definite structure. For example the first chapter begins with six recipes for soups followed by recipes for collared beef 'French-Cutlets' collared mutton stewed pigeons broiled pigeons dressed turbot and then patties 'for a Dish of Fish'. The recipes are given either as goals as 'To make Hogs-Puddings' or as titles sometimes with descriptions as 'A very good Tansy'. Quantities are given in whichever units are convenient as 'a Gallon of grated Bread' 'three Pounds of Currants' or 'nine Eggs'. Often quantities rely on the cook's judgment as 'as much Sugar as will make it very sweet'. Temperatures and timings are given when necessary as 'a cool Oven: Half an Hour bakes it'. Later binding in 19th century style. Half-calf gilt-decorated spine marbled endpapers. The front paste-down contains the bookplates of two significant culinary collections: Thomas Scruggs & Margaret Cook and Marian Hatch. The Hatch bookplate was designed and engraved by British engraver Alfred J. Downey. With the bookseller's ticket of Philip C. Duschnes to the rear pastedown. Ink ownership mark to half-title "1718 Eliseab; and inscription on final page of text "illeg. near New College Oxford". OCLC locates eighteen copies; Bitting page 258; Cagle 789; Maclean pages 79-82; Oxford page 54; Wellcome II page 389. For Richard Wilkin hardcover books
18300046431830. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Very Good. An exquisite manuscript copy of plates from the 1644 work by Wencelaus Hollar. While a copy the pen-and-ink work here is absolutely exceptional requiring a loupe or magnifying glass to fully appreciate the niceties of detailing achieved by the artist copier. It is also clear that this copier did not merely trace the original work. Heightening the pen-and-ink work are touches of watercolor. 8vo. 173 by 117 mm. Unpaginated half-title page with a handwritten copy of the verse from "The Merchant of Venice entitled "The Folly of Fashion the Deceit of Ornament or Appearance" second title copied from the 1644 work followed by 36 mounted pen and ink copies of fashion etchings from the 1644 work and a final page with a drawing of a trophy and two musings written out. The drawings besides being meticulous with near-microscopic detail are austere with the pen and ink work heightened with only touches of flesh color for the women's faces and tiny dabs of gold for jewelry buttons and the like. The austerity we would stress is befitting the fashions represented as the early and mid-17th century was a time that garments tended to be more monochromatic and sober meant to suggest piety as any student of portraits from this era coincident with the Puritan Revolution and religious wars on the continent would have absorbed. And we would add the austerity is not just of the dress but also the expression on the women depicted here. The flesh color applied to the faces and also hands is just as nuanced as everything else about these portraits. There is a gradient of coloration capturing very realistically the actual pigment of human flesh. The one exception to the limited color usage is a depiction of a woman from Virginia a Native American whose bare garment is painted red and who is wearing jewelry that is captured with bolder applications of gold. This exotic specimen also shows a woman with a tattoo on her arms something that was completely alien from European cultures at the time. The Virginian is not the only non-European depicted however as there is a woman from Algiers a Moresco woman an Argentinian. Also shown is a Turkish woman and the dress shown is from different strata of the societies represented. Short cursive handwritten captions identify for us where the model is from. All the handwriting including on the title the poem etc. is rendered in a tight minute script. Unfortunately there is no indication who the artist copyist was other than the initials PC by several of the drawings. In the front there is an ownership inscription of an Elizabeth Cobbett. There is a watercolored bookplate with the Hillman family crest. <br/><br/> unknown books
6345One fine folding engraved plate & one large astronomical woodcut illus. in the text. 19 i.e. 31 pp. Small 4to modern wrappers. N.p.: 1681. First edition of this rare and highly detailed anonymous observation of the famous comet of 1680-81. Apart from its brightness this comet is notable as the first to be observed using a telescope by Gottfried Kirch in Coburg. Other well-known observers included Robert Hooke Flamsteed Newton and John Evelyn. The author of this work clearly had a scientific background; he provides very detailed descriptions of the appearance of the comet its path and significance. The fine folding plate depicts the comet's path through the constellations. Fine copy and scarce. ❧ Kronk Cometography I pp. 369-73. unknown books
1900CAT0007261900. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 3 1/4" x 6 1/2" silk covered card covers worn 192 pages most filled with water colors of confections with scattered text pages and a few blanks. Undated ca. turn of the century Meiji period. A remarkably lovely collection of illustrations of sweets. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000726. unknown books
1682CAT000081Paris: Jean Ribou 1682. Fourth Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf lightly worn corners a little bumped. Two small tears one in the preliminaries one later on obscuring a few letters a few minor stains - a very attractive copy overall with 42 mostly full page woodcuts often copied according to Vicaire within the pagination. viii 480 28pp.Cagle 179 the 1662 1st ed. Vicaire 339 Notaker 625.7.<br/><br/>A popular and likable plagiaristic jumble of cookery texts put together by the anonymous author with bits from Le Maistre d'Hostel 1659 Le Patissier and Confiturier François 1653 de Lune's Cuisinier 1656 and Livre fort Excellent 1555 along with quite a few original recipes. It was translated into English in 1682. All of the 17th century editions are scarce. Size: 8vo octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000081. Jean Ribou hardcover books
1810290008562c1810s. come all ye little ones and quick draw near. A gift I offer for the approaching year. A little doll who boasts a pretty face And wondrous strange! her clothes a moral trace". Wraps. 8 pages. Each page is a different scene from the original book of the History of Little Fanny Exemplified in A Series of Figures. This manuscript adaptation paraphrases the original toy book with different original watercolor costume for each scene. it focuses on the morality lessons. A single head and neck is moved from scene to scene. Includes five 5 of the seven 7. Measures 9 1/4" x 7 1/4". <br/><br/> hardcover books
1888CAT000740Puebla: M. Corona 1888. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. String bound no wrappers likely as issued chipped at edges but otherwise fine and untrimmed. 138 4pp.<br/><br/>As rare as the many editions of the La Cocinera Poblana published from 1877 well into the 20th century are ubiquitous. Just four copies in OCLC three in CA and one at UTSA. No auction records. Mostly European influenced with Mexican recipes mixed in: Salsa bretona inglesa genovesa robert chile rellenoslengua estofada croquetas tortas mayonesas - a interesting and rare cookbook. The cover brag of 50000 copies is undoubtedly exaggerated by a couple orders of magnitude. Size: 12mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000740. M. Corona unknown books
1860CAT0007231860. Scroll. Near Fine Condition. 8" x 12' scroll illustrating place settings and plated food designs. Slight wear at a few spots where pages were joined to form the scroll 15 sheets form the scroll. Undated ca. late Edo period. Text at start and end color added to a number of the illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000723. unknown books
19382Ca. 1937. 179 images 5 missing ranging in dimension from 2-1/2" x 2" to 3-1/2" x 5-1/2". Artfully arranged and almost fully captioned in white ink with names of subjects and locations; a few items dated 1937 & 1938. C.C.C. Company 297 moved from Kanona New York to Heppner Oregon in late 1936. The images in this album document the cross-country move in detail including way-stops in Denver and Boone Colorado. Includes many captioned of the lads at work laying dams and bridges cutting wood preparing meals etc. A tipped-in meal coupon is issued to one "Joseph Accurie" likely Accurio whom we speculate was the compiler of the album. An unusually well-conceived and captioned CCC scrapbook documenting a significant piece of a single company's history; substantially complete and in excellent condition. unknown books
170851699London: printed and sold by J. Morphew 1708. Folio pp. 12; removed from binding; small withdrawn stamp at the base of A2 light soiling short tear at the top gutter; all else very good. Foxon C-541. Not found in CBEL or NCBEL. Apparently rare: ESTC locates only 3 copies: British Library Guildhall Library and the National Library of Scotland. OCLC adds Minnesota this copy and the only copy in America and the National Library of Sweden. COPAC finds three more: Manchester York and Leicester. <br/><br/> printed and sold by J. Morphew unknown books
1900CAT0004561900. 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 wars and a few referencing them a number of the menus appear to be from an RAF chef whose identification card is included in the collection. Like many collections of this sort while it was clearly collected first hand in part it's hard to tell which menus the collector gathered at the time and which were collected later or if perhaps the earlier group was passed down and added to. 146 pieces in all a remarkable collection that stretches from the height of 19th century French cuisine well into the 20th century - a tumultuous period in Europe to be sure but one where at least some people evidently continued to entertain. Held in three binders. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000456. unknown books
1746mon0000163041Paris: D'Houry 1746. BOUND FOR THE DUKE OF ORLEANS - THE CORTLAND BISHOP COPY. 1 vol. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8" engraved bookplate of Louis Philippe D'Orleans to front pastedown. Bound in fine full dark red French morocco over cords gilt decorated spine spine panels with d'Orleans arms covers ruled in gilt covers with the gilt crest of Louis Philippe I Duc d'Orleans gilt dentelles all edges gilt hinges fine head and foot of spine fine. Leather bookplate of Cortland Bishop to front pastedown his sale April 27 1938 Lot #1679. rnLouis Philippe "le gros" was born at Versailles in 1725 and became Duke of Orleans and head of the House of Orleans upon the death of his father on 1752. Paris: D'Houry hardcover books
178555306Newport 1785. Three-page folio manuscript approx. 13" x 16"; previous folds paper toned considerable dampstaining but the text remains legible; several short splits at the folds; good. Joanna Brown was the daughter of Nicholas and his wife Rhoda Jenckes Brown. Sadly Joanna died at the age of nineteen apparently of a flu-like illness. Nicholas Brown Sr. 1729-1791 was a Providence merchant who co-founded the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations which was renamed Brown University after Brown's son Nicholas Brown Jr. in 1804. Brown was a active supporter of both the College and of the First Baptist Church in America throughout his life. Upon his death in 1791 Rev. Dr. Samuel Stillman of Boston gave his eulogy. This manuscript opens with: "Memorandum of the state of mind & sum circumstances of Joanna Brown Daughter of Nicholas Brown & Rhoda his whife sic. In her last Illness. She Departed this Life January the 18th at abt 4 after two in the morning aged nineteen years wanting five Days--with a Consumption. On blank day of June being Sunday & a remarkably hot day Joanna was out that afternoon to meeting abt 3 OC there came up a Hard squall of wind & sum rain after meeting she went up to her Aunt Pages and is said she wet her feet however in the evening she went with sum of her young company Sat out under Capt Pages buttonwood trees in his yard and caught such a cold as not to be able to go out of chambers the next day the next day had sum complaints of pain in her side with a fever." Joanna was taken to Newport "for a Sea Upland air" and had an herbal medicine prescribed by Dr Stiles of New York "called by them boneset" but after a visit to "Uncle John B and his wife Nabby" in "Popersquash" in Bristol for several days in July she was no better. "She had taken the P. herb according to direction with such others means as thot advisable while in Newport by Drs Eyers & Easton during which time we had many letters from Dr Eyers & herself most of which rather gave her case to be mending tho with no grait Incouragement at any time However in my own opinion she was no better when returned." Joanna's illness lasted over six months before she died and the writer gives much detail concerning both her illness and the question of how to relay to her that she was likely to die. "About the 22nd of December I wrote a friend that she was very low & as to her state of body could not continue but a little while.Was much wasted and could not sit at the table by herself. She was ready for Gods call & expected grait Love for Christ & Trusting in God.she died with great tranquility of mind.yet Satan was busy about her often darkning & discouraging her tho' afterwards for sum weeks before her end was much more releaved from the influence of the Adversary--see copy of 2nd letter to Mr Stillman ." Presumably Rev. Samuel Stillman had been contacted concerning her imminent demise. The manuscript is unsigned but it was probably written by someone very close to her in her last illness--possibly either a nurse or housekeeper or perhaps some lower level Baptist preacher--not James Manning then pastor of the First Baptist Church-- judging by the spelling. The provenance according to Dan Seigel is "from William Goddard's papers" but the handwriting is not his nor her father's or step-mother's. <br/><br/> unknown books
1839CAT000735Newark: Benjamin Olds 1839. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Original leather backed drab boards light water stain to top edge at beginning moderate foxing a few dog ears pencilled name to rear endpaper - a nice copy overall. 144pp. Lowenstein 238 not in Cagle or Bitting. A second edition was published in 1840 also in Newark. 10 copies in OCLC.<br/><br/>The first cookbook printed in New Jersey and one of the first I have not found an earlier temperance cookbooks. Lots of sweets - doughnuts puddings gingerbread whipt cream but also gammon salt cod cured mutton and tongue a long section on economical meat purchasing classic mock recipes for making mutton taste like venison a carry over from Britain where venison was reserved for wealthy owners of deer parks and mock turtle soup and sections on economy soap making. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000735. Benjamin Olds hardcover books
1790CAT000091Paris: Hotel de Bouthillier 1790. First Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Later 1/4 morocco over boards. light wear at corners. Slight offsetting to text otherwise quite clean internally. xxxvii 121 5 109 3. Vicaire 348-9.<br/><br/>Scarce tract on the history trade use and chemical properties of coffee. At the end is a rather charming long poem on coffee translated from the Latin of Abbé Massieu. Size: 8vo octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; History. Inventory No: CAT000091. Hotel de Bouthillier hardcover books
1902CAT0007271902. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Purple string tied softcover collection of pochoir plates of Japanese confectionary designs; modest wear rear wrapper lacking foxing to covers. Measures 7 x 9 1/2. Finely rendered depictions of sweets. Date Meiji 35 1902. Intriguing collection that includes a number of European and American confections. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000727. unknown books
1780042451London: E. Newbery 1780. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. First edition of the Newbery miniature bible approx. 2" x 1 3/4". Contemporary calf modestly worn at edges front board cleanly neatly reattached. Lacking front endpapers but otherwise complete with 2 engraved titles and 14 engraved plates. Light age toning and slight offsetting to the plates - an attractive copy of the Newbery thumb bible. Title in first state with miniature spelled "minuiture". 256pp Size: 64mo. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory No: 042451. E. Newbery hardcover books
1900CAT000547Vienna 1900. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Rebound in teal leather and laid into a silver case with chain. The world's smallest cookbook - undated ca. 1900.<br/><br/> Size: Miniature less than 3''. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000547. hardcover books
1769CAT000092Amsterdam: Steven van Esveldt 1769. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Attractively bound in ca. early 19th century wallpaper three volumes in one each with a separate title and frontispiece - only the third title page with a date. Slight occasional foxing and age toning first and last pages slightly soiled otherwise a fine bright copy. xxii blank 148 xx 140 xii 143 1. With a folding table in the first book and two folding plates of carving instruction in the second. Oberle 107 1755 edition Cagle 1098.<br/><br/>An attractive copy of the most popular Dutch cookbook of the 18th century - compared by Oberle to Le Cuisiniere Bourgeoise. Size: 8vo octavo. 3-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000092. Steven van Esveldt unknown books
1863CAT000739Mexico: M. Villanueva 1863. Third Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in red leather backed marbled boards - boards worn a touch of foxing here and there but generally fine internally. Previous owner's stamps on endpapers 557 xxii pp; 685 24 xxxv pp.<br/><br/>Listed as the third edition no earlier editions located in OCLC. Two copies of an 1868 edition one 1869 two 1871. An exhaustive book of secrets covering minor medicine household tips paints varnishes and hundreds of tips for food and drinks. Lots of information on distillation including appropriate for a book of secrets the medieval mulled wine ypocras. Long section of desserts in volume two. Size: 12mo . 2-volume set complete. Text is in Spanish. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Spanish Language; Medicine & Health. Inventory No: CAT000739. M. Villanueva hardcover books
1330Silver print 9 5/16" x 8 4/16" mounted. Some silvering. Ca. 1930s. Genthe on his horse. A rare portrait. unknown books
1743044749Antwerp: Architypographia Plantiniana 1743. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf rubbed with some surface marks but sound and with clasps and catches intact. Attractively printed in red and black - quite clean internally; later pamphlet tipped in between page 328 and 329 a few pencil notes. Old manuscript note on the rear endpapers. 555pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044749. <br/><br/> Architypographia Plantiniana hardcover books
