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1894WRCLIT74696Camp Interlaken Penn. 1894. 4pp. Folio leaflet 15" x 12 1/8" ; 38 x 31 cm. Text printed in four columns. Horizontal fold with small break at margin at fold slight tanning at edges and along fold faintly in excess of the uniform tan tone of the wove paper stock faint tidemark at extreme lower corner of top sheet otherwise an unusually nice copy of a very fragile item. One of the black tulips of Crane collecting being his second separate publication albeit with some likely contribution by L. C. Singer Jr. The .PUZZLE . is a 4 page mock newspaper formatted as a parody of a small town newspaper written by Crane at an adult camp Twin Lakes where he spent part of the summers of 1894 and 1895. The text is based on the experiences Crane and his cohorts had while at the camp and during their return trip. The paper was set up and printed for them by the staff of the PORT JERVIS UNION. On September 7th THE PORT JERVIS UNION printed an appreciative notice of the PIKE COUNTY PUZZLE's appearance and content. An account of the circumstances is contained in THE CRANE LOG. Much of the content is jocular in nature including Crane's identification of himself as "office boy" and in an advert on the last page as "Drink Mixer." Among the other content is a "stenographic" report of "Dinner-Time Conversations": "Miss Pronk with a sudden rush of courage. - 'Mr. Crane dont you like the Lays of Ancient Rome I think they are awfully sweet. Crane:- 'My uncle had a hen named Ancient Rome once and her eggs were popular all over the county. Yes Miss Pronk you are undoubtedly right.'" Personal advertisements "Telegraphic News" from other locales and similar tongue-in-cheek texts round out the mix. Until a clearly identified facsimile was published in 1967 by THE STEPHEN CRANE NEWSLETTER in an edition of 300 copies including 70 on white laid paper this original edition was the sole printing in this format. While not an absolute rarity in the strictest sense -- OCLC locates 19 copies at institutions not likely to have commingled entries for the facsimile with entries for the real thing -- it is scarce in the market place. WILLIAMS & STARRETT 43. Wertheim and Sorrentino THE CRANE LOG pp.109-113. BAL 4069. OCLC: 8523158 etc. unknown books
1900118687A. romagnol, dix 1900 art déco, aussourd Paris, Librairie de la Collection des dix, A. Romagnol, 1900, 1 volume in-4 de 170x275 mm environ, frontispice, (2) ff. (faux-titres), page de titre, 240 pages, (1) f. Exemplaire sur papier Japon, complet du frontispice et des 7 hors-texte. Il manque la page de justification du tirage et notre exemplaire ne contient pas les trois états des illustrations normalement présent dans les 20 exemplaires sur papier Japon. Élégante reliure au dos mosaïqué, d'inspiration Art déco, signée par René Aussourd. Demi-maroquin à coins orangé dans son étui bordé assorti, dos à quatre nerfs portant titres dorés, caissons de tête et de queue ornés d'un scarabée noir et vert, papyrus stylisés dans les tons crème et vert dans une composition au centre du dos, fers floraux dorés, tranche de tête dorée, gardes marbrées. Un petit frottement sur une aile de scarabée, sinon très bel exemplaire, bon état.
189515352Paris, Chamuel, 1895 ; in-12, broché ; 177 pp., (1 bl.), (2) pp. de catalogue, couverture crème rempliée, illustrée, imprimée en vieux-rose et noir, petites figures.
188640862Sous étui. Reliure plein maroquin bleu nuit. Dos à nerfs. Toutes tranches dorées. Couverture conservée.Papierd'une très grande fraicheur. Illustré d'un portrait de Balzac en frontispice, gravé par Boisson d'après Julien, et de 6 compositions de Delort gravées par Boisson, dont un en-tête, un cul-de-lampe et 4 hors-texte.
190019386Compositions de Paul-Albert Laurens. Gravures à l'eau-forte de Léon Boisson.Tirage limité à 300 Exemplaires numérotés à la presse. Celui-ci (N°55) sur vélin de cuve d'Arches contenant 2 états (dont 1 avec remarques) des 50 illustrations dans le texte, et 3 états des 7 hors texte (dont 1 avec remarques).Enrichi d'un portrait signé par l'artiste et une LAS (Lettre Autographe Signée de F. Ferroud (1934), au sujet de cet exemplaire qui est pour lui une énigme!).Spécimen de l'édition illustrée relié in fine.Paris, Librairie de la Collection des Dix, A. Romagnol - 1900 - 240 pages.Très belle reliure à la bradel, demi-maroquin rouge à coins signée E. Carayon. Dos lisse avec décor floral en couleurs mosaïqué. Titre, auteur et date en pied dorés. Filet doré bordant les plats. Non rogné. Couverture et dos illustrés conservés. Pas de rousseur. Parfait état. Format in-4°(27x19).
185756060New York: C.M. Saxton & Co. Agricultural Book Publishers No. 140 Fulton St. 1857. 8vo. 106 pp. plus 11 1 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. 1 text engraving. Original printed softcovers minor chipping head & foot of spine slight chipping couple lower corners dustsoiling still a VG bright copy. First edition of one of the earliest American studies on Chinese Sugarcane Sorghum and the possibilities that this was the sorghum plant that American farmers hoped would grow in the Northern United States and definitive work on growing harvesting and distilling sorghum. A variety of “Chinese Sugarcane†was imported by Father Du Halde from Sichuan China in 1851 where it was quickly adopted also under the name of “Northern Chinese or Shanghai Sugarcane†as a crop to provide sugars for alcoholic products filling the void left by the grape crop failure in the 1850s. Chinese Sugarcane seeds were first brought into United States by Jay Browne Esq. in 1854 and a few intrepid American nurseries began planting and determining if it could be planted and harvested profitably in the North. Hyde writes that in his test crop he was able to secure a dark sugar from the cane molasses and notes that it will be of tremendous value in producing alcohol and confectionaries and that the Sorghum remnants could be fed to livestock. Hyde 1825-1898 worked with his father James Hyde in developing the very successful nursery emphasizing fruit trees ornamental trees and cash crops. He was a pioneering environmentalist who founded the first improvement society in the United States the Newton Centre Tree Club whose purpose was to emphasize beautifying the roads and commons in Massachusetts. He was Newton MA first mayor after the city was incorporated in 1873 and was also successful in persuading the Boston & Albany RR to acquire the existing single-track line of the Charles River Railroad to aid his nursery business. Original editions of this work have become quite scarce in the trade. See: Deborah Jean Warner Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose pp. 252-253; Watts Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches 1869 Vol. V p. 354; Newton’s First Mayor: A Hard Act to Follow Historic Newton 2019; Walnut Grove Nursery The New England FarmerVol. IV 1852 p. 538 C.M. Saxton & Co., Agricultural Book Publishers, No. 140 Fulton St., paperback
185517022Paris, Curmer, 1855 ; in-8, demi veau havane, dos lisse à faux nerfs et titre dorés (reliure de l'époque) ; XIX, 239, 368, 32 pp. , frontispice et titre illustré gravés.
189359948Chicago & Boston MA: North Packing & Provision Co. Alfred Mudge & Son Printers 24 Franklin St. Swift & Co. 1893. Small 4to. 64 pp. Photo-illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers birds-eye view of Packing House on Medford Street in Somerville colour labels of all the company’s meat products on the back cover minor creasing to spine age wear slight scuffing at fore-edge very small closed tear at upper fore-edge still a VG bright copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce promotional catalogue for the Swift & Co.’s newly opened subsidiary packing house in Boston MA featuring on the rear cover all the New England market specific product labels. The new packing house in Somerville MA included 6 acres of cold storage for dressed meats and packaged meats brought into the East from Chicago as well as maintaining local stockyards and slaughter house operations in and around Boston. Swift 1839-1903 had originally grown up and worked in West Sandwich Cape Cod MA and in the 1870’s moved to Chicago where he became a driving force in the meatpacking industry. He was the first to employ refrigerated cars over protests of other butchers and major railroads which rightly believed the refrigerated systems would threaten their lockhold on stock cars and animal pens. By the 1890’s Swift & Co. had established North Packing & Provision Co. and were transporting over 3000 carcasses a week into Boston forcing other firms such as Armour & Co. to copy their methods. The subsidiary also allowed him to overcome resistance from East Coast meat retailers who questioned safety of frozen meat and so vastly did he increase production the packing house was able to dominate the Eastern markets. No copies located in Worldcat. North Packing & Provision Co., Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 24 Franklin St., [Swift & Co.], paperback
182010256Très rare. Broché Très bon Aix Mouret 1820 1 volume in-8°
187862378Boston: Graves Locke & Co. 1878. 12mo. 234 2 pp. plus 24 pp. of blank ruled paper intended for the cookbook user’s own notes & recipes. Dark plum-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed & lettered in black & gilt front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing edgewear very slight tear to ffep. still VG bright copy from the library of Eleanore Weinstock. Second edition of Parloa’s famed cookbook filled with recipes intended for both young housekeepers and hotel restaurant commercial kitchens. She details many New England favorites and includes recipes for fish soups meats vegetables breads cakes puddings pies poultry venison dishes for the sick & invalid preserves pickles and more. Many of these recipes were favorites of the Appledore House Isle of Shoals restaurant as well as the Rockingham House in Portsmouth NH the Pavilion Hotel in Wolfborough NH and McMillan House North Conway NH. She does include health tips such as suggesting the use of butter rather than lard in pie crusts as it “is more healthful than lard. . . if you can afford it use it.†Parloa 1843-1909 was by 29 years old a longtime cook at the Appledore House in Kittery Maine and published the first edition of this cook book in 1872. By 1873 it appears she had moved to Mandarin Florida to teach for Harriet Beecher Stowe’s school and had finished rewriting this edition according to her prace in April 1877. By 1880 she was teaching cookery in Boston and living on Wayne St. and by 1900 had moved to New York. See: Patrick Tierney Wild The Mysterious Early Life of Maria Parloa The Bethel Grapevine 2024. Graves, Locke & Co., hardcover
18490018141849 Lunel, Hamelin, 1849. In-8 (147 X 220) demi-chagrin aubergine, dos six faux-nerfs sertis de filets à froid, titre doré (reliure de l'époque) ; 529 pages.
1899RO40139655Gauthier-Villars, Paris. 1899. In-8. Broché. A relier, Plats abîmés, Dos abîmé, Fortes mouillures. 149 pages. Ouvrage en très mauvais état. Couverture trèa abîmés, fortement tachée, et détachée. Cahiers détachés. Parties supérieure et inférieure des 50 premières pages fortement tachées, sans altération de la lecture.. . . . Classification Dewey : 641-Nourriture et boisson
186963221London: Houlston & Sons Paternoster Square 1869. 12mo. xvi 368 pp. Embossed & decorated red publisher’s cloth gilt illust. front cover gilt lettering on spine advertising on endpapers minor dustsoiling darkening to spine slight shelfwear still a VG bright copy. Revised & expanded edition of this Victorian handbook which served as precursor to the modern-day search engine and offered concise quick researched facts about food cookery food science chemistry heating & ventilation cleanliness women’s medicine pediatrics and more. Philp 1819-1882 was an organizer and contributor to the Chartist Movement in the UK pushing for universal male suffrage secret ballots annual parliamentary elections and other reforms but is perhaps best remembered as the very successful publisher of his handbooks on practical everyday topics which originally launched in 1856 with “Enquire Within†and later in 1867 with the early version of this title. Houlston & Sons, Paternoster Square, hardcover
18881200738Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1888. 16, 567, (1) S. m. 17 Abb. Hldrbd d. Zeit m. Rückenvergoldung (Einbd am Kopf m. Einriß u. kl. Fehlstelle, Kanten beschabt, Vorsätze randgebräunt u. etwas leimschattig).
1895R240083027ASSELIN & HOUZEAU. 1895. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 157 pages - ouvrage recouvert d'un plastique transparent - étiquette collée sur le 1er plat - titre + auteur + filets dorés sur le dos.. . . . Classification Dewey : 641-Nourriture et boisson
184363219Boston: Joseph Dowe 22 Court St. 1843. 12mo. 62 pp. Tan-colour cloth w/ original printed covers mounted front & back covers minor chipping & soiling to fore-edges some scuffing light foxing to first & last leaves shaken still G- copy. Third edition revised & enlarged of this Antebellum period handbook on cookery health and household receipts first issued in 1842. The author & compiler has incorporated facts and recipes for coffee chocolate cocoa tea breads -- such as “Indian Flap Jacks†from corn meal Johnny Cakes Waffles and others. Also addressed are roasted fowl lamb cod haddock a variety of oyster dishes along with cakes & pastries. Of additional interest are the several recipes for treating and feeding ill patients along with pickling making ice cream treting sore eyes curing chilblains and even making black ink. See: Lowenstein Bilbiography of American Cookery Books 1742-1860 305. Joseph Dowe, 22 Court St., hardcover
189063446Rochester NY: American Public Health Association 1890. 8vo. viii 188 pp. Plum-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed covers gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear rubbing j& scuffing minor sunning still a VG- copy inscribed by Henry Lomb 1828-1908 founder of Bausch & Lomb with John Jacob Bausch and later the Mechanics Institute of Rochester NY now RIT with a special focus on providing 8th-grade girl graduates in and around Rochester with free cooking courses at the Mechanics Institute as well as the sponsor of the Lomb Prize presented to Mary Helena Brayton 1848-1922 longtime cooking & public health instructor at the Mechanics Institute. Second printing of this excellent Progressive Era cookbook which became a standard reference for cooking schools and particularly focused on training poor girls often working in factories as child labor to learn not only employable skills but raise their health and standards of living by eating and cooking more nutritious foods at home. See: Mary Hinman Abel: A Revolutionary in Domestic Science Food for Thought 2025. American Public Health Association, hardcover
189463280London: Charles Griffin & Co. Ltd. 1894. Thick 8vo. xvi 570 pp. plus 6 pp. publisher’s ads. With 144 text woodcut engraved illustrations diagrams. Maroon-coloured publisher’s cloth embossed borders on covers gilt lettering on spine minor sunning to spine edgewear dustsoiling to upper fore-edge slightly shaken still VG copy from the library of James Warne Chenhall d. 1914 perhaps best remembered as the engineer who oversaw the construction and fabrication of the Anaconda Smelting Works in the Montana Territory in 1883 in the U.S. w/ ownership stamp on verso of ffep. First edition of this noted and exhaustive work on preparation and manufacturing of a variety of oils fats butters and waxes from animals and vegetables including explanations of a myriad of uses for beeswax cooking oils soaps for health & hygiene a myriad of oils for uses in perfumes and cosmetics and more. Wright 1844-1894 was the founder of the Royal Institute of Chemistry and perhaps best remembered as the first to synthesize heroin in 1874. Charles Griffin & Co., Ltd., hardcover
185215575Saintes, Fontanier (Poitiers, Imprimerie de A. Dupré), 1852 ; in-8 ; demi-basane fauve, dos lisse à faux-nerfs dorés, pièce de titre roange, fleurons à froid (reliure de l'époque) ; (4), 307, (1) pp.
1884R260183289JOUVET ET CIE. 1884. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos fané, Intérieur acceptable. VI + 256 pages augmentées de nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Plats jaspés - Traces legeres de mouillure en tout debut de volume.. . . . Classification Dewey : 641-Nourriture et boisson
18848259Paris, Librairie Fischbacher, 1884. In-8 de [2]-VII-568 pages, pleine percaline rouge ornée du titre doré, fleurons, filets et roulettes dorés au dos et au premier plat, à froid au second. Rousseurs sur tranches, éparses dans le livre mais plus nombreuses aux premiers et derniers feuillets, coins et mors légèrement frottés, nom de possesseur sur garde.
184215062511842. Gr.-8vo. 14, 155, (1) S. (Oekon. Chemie 1). Lwdbd d. Zeit (beschabt, braunfl., leichte Gebrauchsspuren, St. a. T.).
18631198159Dresden, Ehlermann, 1863. 12, 309 S. Ppbd d. Zeit (bis etwa S. 100 m. kleiner werdender Nässespur im Oberrand).
18911100717Berlin, Parey, 1891. 8, 164 S. m. 96 teils ganzseitigen Textabb. Hlwd (beschabt, Rücken m. kl. Einr., St. auf Titel).
188852768Bellows Falls VT: Vermont Farm Machine Co. 1888. 8vo. 16 pp. Numerous woodcut-engraved text illustrations. Yellow colour-tinted printed softcovers woodcut engraving cover art of industrial swing churn on front cover Eureka Butter Worker on back cover 1 leaf w/ small tear at upper margin affecting only a couple letters still an excellent bright copy. First edition of this scarce and fascinating dairy machinery catalogue which included butter presses different sizes and varieties of swing churns which enabled dairies to produce quality butter in larger quantities as well as insulated butter boxes for storing and carrying the produced butter. Of particular interest is the treadmill attachment which could be used with dog sheep or goat although one suspects small children often running it in order to more efficiently churn butter. The company was founded in 1868 as the Hartford Sorghum Machine Co. but by 1873 was incorporated as the Vermont Machine Company and within a few years became one of the largest dairy equipment manufacturers in New England. Vermont Farm Machine Co., paperback
