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1928382<p><i>Visitors Map and Hotel Directory of New York. Special Edition Prepared for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Affiliated Societies December 27 1928 to January 2 1929. </i>New York: Hotel Association of New York City 70 cm x 42.5 cm. On the verso of the large map of New York City are two smaller maps showing the "Principal Hotel District" with the various hotels marked. The hotel rates per day are also published on the back as well as a small map of the tri-state area: New York-New Jersey-Connecticut. The large map shows points of interest as well as all transportation routes including the names of the steamship and commercial shipping lines associated with each pier. Creasing from folds on the large map noted the condition is good.</p> New York Hotel Association books
1927SGG213B-17Del Monte CA:: Del Monte Properties Company circa 1927. Paperback. Very Good. William H. Bull 1861-1940. Stapled Folding Brochure. 9 x 4 inches closed. Two sheets of paper stapled together at the center fold 24 panels opens at the center-fold to 24 x 9 inches. Illustrated with water-colors and black-and-white photographs decorative initials the center-fold consists on 1 large color map of the Monterey Peninsula drawn by W. H. Bull; text clean unmarked. Folding brochure of self-wraps with colored drawings; binding square and tight rubbed especially at the folds. Laid in is an invoice from the Hotel del Monte rubber stamped "Paid" and dated January 31 1927 total charge is for $30.00 including room and board charge of $6.00 per night. Very Good. Del Monte now incorporated into the City of Monterey was a resort established by Charles Crocker one of California's Big Four railroad barons. The grounds of the luxury resort hotel were created through the Southern Pacific Railroad's property division Pacific Improvement Company which completed the first hotel on the property in 1880. The Hotel Del Monte included the hotel parkland polo grounds and a golf course as well as the seventeen-mile drive from the hotel to Pebble Beach which was developed as another portion of the resort. This brochure includes a color map illustrated by William H. Bull 1861-1940 a prolific and successful commercial artist. The Southern Pacific Company hired Bull as their first commercial artist and by 1915 he also produced work regularly for Sunset Magazine. He lived in San Mateo and produced illustrations for chamber of commerce publications. REFERENCE: Kurutz and Kurutz California Calls You pp. 98 164-165. Del Monte Properties Company, paperback books
1936144619New York: Hotel Astor 1936. Original lunch menu from the Times Square Hotel Astor in New York City dated Wednesday October 7 1936.<br/><br/>The successor to the Astor family's Waldorf-Astoria hotel an essential element of Times Square's growth into an entertainment location and a widely-known bar for pickups the Hotel Astor notably encouraged gay men to frequent the bar for pickups as well. The hotel was in operation from 1904 through 1967 featuring many well known musicians including Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra with big band leader Vincent Lopez and his orchestra advertised on this menu. <br/><br/>The menu dates from a year after the hotel's first renovation and features an extensive partially French inspired cuisine including a Philadelphia Pepper Pot broiled mackerel turkey wings and a tomato cheese and asparagus cold salad as the daily specials. The hotel's location is now occupied by a 54-story office tower. <br/><br/>Single fold three-color menu 9 x 12 inches. Very Good plus with light soil. Hotel Astor unknown books
19106753San Francisco: Putney Haight Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company 1910. Octavo 24 x 16 cm. 31 67-307 pages. Advertisements. Illustration of the Hotel on page 3. Portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap on page 6. ~ FIRST EDITION stated subscription issue. One of the more important and influential early California professional cookbooks marking San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center. Divided between a menu section Part 1 with two hundred menus and "Extraordinary and Secret Compositions in Culinary Art" Part 2 with more than two thousand recipes. A dose of hyperbole can be assumed regarding the claim to secrecy as at least some of the recipes had appeared in the author's column in The Evening Post whose collaboration is acknowledged on page 18. A sampling: Austrian Soup Bread Berliner Pfannkuchen English Crumpets Velvet Soup Cream of Chicory Soup Green Walnut Confit Bar le Duc Crème au Kirsch Coup St. Jacques Chiffonade Salad Salad Eugenie Okra and Sweet Peppers mistakenly printed twice Tripe à la mode Caen Baron of Lamb Squab Michels Quail Forestiere Fondue Savarin Pineapple Omelette Bohemian Eggs String Beans with Raisins Viennese Carrots Raspberry Souffle Cream Puffs St. Francis. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food and Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 and thus endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. ~ The didactic "models" presentation of L'Art culinaire is likely intended as a counter to Escoffier's Le guide culinaire a reference text that had recently appeared in an abridged English translation in 1907. Hirtzler's subscription edition of 1910 which includes a list of the patrons who underwrote its publication has become quite scarce. Stamped "Subscription Edition" on the front cover; includes the list of patrons that according to the edition note on page 9 was reserved for subscribers; all of these copies are missing two signatures which accounts for the pagination gap. ~ In publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. Light rubbing and extremity wear to covers. The front paste-down bears an ownership inscription in red pencil "Property of Marge deYoung Portland Ore." and the free front endpaper a rubber-stamped name and address of an Oregon paperback exchange. Good. OCLC locates thirteen copies of the subscription edition; Bitting page 230; Brown 95 undated; Glozer 127; Strehl 19; Cagle 362; not in Stoner. Putney Haight, Telegraph Press; Printed and Bound by the Hicks-Judd Company hardcover books
19195838Chicago: Published by The Hotel Monthly Press John Willy Inc 1919. Large octavo 26 x 17.5 cm. iv 430 iv pages. Photographic portrait of the author in chef's whites and smoking cap frontispiece. Publisher's advertisements. Indexes. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A handsome reminting of selected material originally presented in the author's Hotel St. Francis Book of Recipes and Model Menus: L'Art culinaire of 1910 an important and influential professional cookbook that marked San Francisco's emergence as a world culinary center; includes too a sampling of menu files for corporate banquets and luncheons catered by the kitchen staff of St. Francis between 1915 and 1919 that is after the publication of L'Art culinaire. Composed as a series of menus ordered according to the calendar year at the head of each page followed beneath by recipes - some detailed some perfunctory - for selected items from the menus. The scope may be reasonably described as considerable. That the general index lists two hundred named recipes alone for preparing eggs conveys some idea of Hirtzler's manifestly irrepressible capacity for invention. ~ It is useful to remember that a century and more ago many of the compilers of local cookery books could claim intellectual ownership of what they published only by stretching the notion of authorship beyond all recognition. Maids and cooks were the relevant repositories of knowledge and disseminators of practice. And when the privileged class traveled - sometimes staying in one place for weeks months or seasons - hospitality service was for all intents and purposes an elaboration of home. Staff including those supervising the great hotel and resort dining rooms of the age were servants. Chefs may have been well regarded even fêted but today it is easy to forget that in yesterday's world the road to celebrity was paved by servitude. ~ But their cookbooks were the expression of their own authorial voices. In this they must be counted as unrepresentative of early cookbook publishing broadly however much their intricate arrangements garner attention. They may nonetheless be representative of place revelatory of both the preferences of a community and of the extensive apparatus built to satisfy it. ~ The bibliographer Dan Strehl identified the Alsatian Victor Hirtzler 1874-1931 some time ago in One Hundred Books on California Food & Wine Los Angeles: The Book Collectors 1990 page 21. as "one of the earliest celebrity chefs." Among other means of attracting restaurant clientele "Hirtzler presented seasonal menus demonstrating the highly sophisticated hotel dining of the time" with menus heavily influenced by the haute cuisine of European royal courts. After a sidereal career that included posts at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and the royal Belém Palace in Lisbon he had arrived at the St. Francis on Union Square in 1904 endured the catastrophes of 1906 and remained after the city's rebuilding until 1925 when he retired to Strasbourg. A fuller account is available in David Shields's The Culinarians Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2017 pages 526-529. Thus it would not be far off the mark to describe the Hotel Monthly Press edition published in Chicago as a sort of monument or Gesamtausgabe honoring the career and achievement of an admired artist. ~ Near fine in publisher's green boards lettered and bordered in gilt. OCLC locates ninety copies; Bitting page 231; Brown 843; Cagle 363; not in Stoner. Published by The Hotel Monthly Press, John Willy, Inc hardcover books
1920390Fifth Avenue Shopping District Map <i>circa</i>1920. Hotel Seville<i>. The Fine Art of Good Service. </i>John F. Garrety Manager. A promotional brochure 14 cm x 9 cm illustrated in color with a fold-out color map 27 cm x 20 cm of the "Fifth Avenue Shopping District" from Twenty-Sixth Street up to Forty-Second Street. A northern extension of Manhattan's famous "Ladies' Mile" of the Gilded Age up Fifth Avenue above Twenty-Third Street to Herald Square this early twentieth century area was called the "Fifth Avenue Shopping District." With street numbers on Broadway and Fifth Avenue printed in red; and subway stations stores churches insurance companies banks as well as the original Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and Thirty-Ninth Street all labeled this booklet is believed to be have been printed for the Hotel Seville about 1920. It is not later than 1924 when Saks & Company moved to Fifth Avenue and Forty-Ninth Street and became Saks Fifth Avenue. On the recto of the street map is a floor plan of the hotel with prices showing the footprint of each room. The back cover has a coat of arms with the motto: <i>Virtus Laudem Imperat</i>. Paper covers 12 pages. Fine almost as new. Hotel Seville books
19097574Minneapolis Minn: New Hotel Dyckman 1909. Duodecimo-sized booklet single-stapled in wrappers 11 x 6.5 cm. 44 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional drink manual promoting Minneapolis' very fine Dyckman Hotel. One hundred-one recipes for cocktails are listed including some lesser-known gems: American Beauty Careless Love Bijou Charlie Horse Opalescent and the Electric Eel. Pages a bit age-toned and staples somewhat oxidized; a few small dog ears. In publisher's black wrappers titled in silver. Very good. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling. New Hotel Dyckman unknown books
19356045841935. 8" x 11"; 4 pages printed on heavy stock with tipped-on pictorial silver foil label on the front cover. Very good few creases. 1935. Signed by: Dorothy Parker; Edward G. Robinson and his wife Gladys Lloyd Robinson; James Cagney; Morgan McLeod; Pat O'Brien; Jeanne Ackerley; Rose Bissonetto; Frank Albertson; And others. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. unknown books
1922867171922. HOTEL DROUOT. COLLECTION CH. HAVILAND. Paris: 1922. A series of auction catalogs of the collections of Japanese Art ceramics illustration and illustrated books including descriptions for the items as well as a total of 64 plates. The volumes comprise all Haviland auctions pertaining to Japanese Prints & books in a total of seven volumes. All catalogs are bound in paper covers some with slight soiling or tears all with spine reapairs in binder's tape. Interiors and plates bright and clean. First Sale November 27th-29th 1922: 20 plates 98p. Tenth Sale 2nd part June 4th-6th 1923: 16 plates 107p. Fourteenth Sale Febuary 4th & 7th 1924: 8 plates 88p. Fifteenth Sale October 20th-23rd 1924: 6 plates 70p. Sixteenth Sale March 2nd-4th 1925: 6 plates 62p. Seventeenth Sale June 15th-17th 1925: 4 plates 53p. Eighteenth Sale June 2nd-4th 1927: 4 plates 90p. An extensive group of volumes for reference research or historical interest Good condition. unknown books
