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19282287022Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First thus. Boards a bit soiled small ink number stamp on rear free endpaper. 1928 Hard Cover. li 3 169 3 pp. 8vo. 1928 reissue of the famous 1862 original considered the first American cocktail book edited with a new introduction by Herbert Asbury author of Gangs of New York etc. Jerry Thomas was the principal bartender at the Metropolitan Hotel in New York City and at the Planters' House in St. Paul. His work helped formalize and codify what until that point were recipes preserved by word of mouth and general reputation rather than a written system and the use of measurements. This edition also notable because it was released during Prohibition includes the introduction to the first edition and Asbury's new introduction provides biographical information about Thomas as well as historical context for the original work. A wide range of drinks are covered includes punches which were the earliest examples of cocktails juleps fizzes smashes shrubs cobblers sours etc. etc. Also included are chapters on: syrups essences tinctures colorings etc.; and temperance drinks. Illustrations including a frontispiece of Thomas preparing his renowned Blue Blazer are reproduced from the originals. An index follows the text which makes locating individual drinks much easier. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
18162208Paris: Chez Tardieu-Densesle 1816. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Marbled boards spine tooled in gilt raised bands label in gilt. Good. 352 pages. 17.5 x 10.5 cm. Three plates: Frontispiece confectioner's laboratory and 2 plates illustrating kitchen utensils and motifs/decorations. The author the widow of a renowned pastry chef opened her shop in Berlin at the end of the 18th century and was able to establish herself as a refined pastry chef later moving her establishment to Paris. The book contains recipes and advice on how to make jams marmalades and various preserves. Instructions on distillation and the composition of liqueurs and creams. Also includes how to prepare chocolate coffee tea syrups lemonade punch ice cream and sorbets. With marbled boards end papers and edges this French recipe book has some rubbing and wear to the edges with a 1 cm. loss to the tail of the spine. Some worming to top of spine not affecting structure soiling to pages 323-336. CAGLE 195. <br/><br/> Chez Tardieu-Densesle hardcover books
18711247Wells VT 1871-1873. Leather bound. Leather account book with pocket. Good. 72 pages written 62 blank. 15.5 x 10 cm. Leather notebook with flap and pocket property of R.M.W Lewis Wells VT. Handwritten notebook with 16 additional daily accounts using "Lake Austin Woolen Mill" letterhead for this cheese factories daily tally. Ledger describes what seems to be a cheese co-op with dividends divided per day report of the season most milk received in one day June 16th - 9195 gallons days cheese was made per year 207 etc. Wells VT rests on the edge of Rutland county and in 1870 the populations total was 430 people. In the early 1800's a dam was built on Lake St. Catherine which enabled industry such as a woolen mill wood working shop and cheese factory to thrive. Covers worn joints cracked but holding 2 cm. loss of leather to tail of spine. <br/><br/> hardcover books
19474101947. Large French Menu dated May 25 1947. 75 x 54 cm 108 cm. open This menu was made for a First Communion painted on front and back covers as well as the interior. The menu was signed by family and friends that were present at the event. The front cover depicts a religious figure on a train along with a large religious figure with many bottles of wine. Roughly translates: "Jeannot Leclerc/First Solemn Communion/Menu/In time the Lord said: "Woe to St. Lo"/and we venerate this holy day our great Patrons/St.Estephe/St. Emilion/Ste. Croix du Mont/Amen.the bottle!" Depicted on the first interior page is an illustration of a scroll and a large man smoking a cigar. Translates: "It is a treat to see my first's communion/If you are really well happy and cheerful/Praise the stove/Thank the master of the house/and in memory of this memorable precious day/Leave me a sly autograph/ So you are able to write." Under this illustration and writing is the signatures of over 10 people with a couple of longer notes. On the facing page many cheeky illustrations depicting the Menu which is also illustrated on this page. Translates: "First as a prelude/a light breakfast enough to maintain an outfit for vespers/ Les hors d'oeuvres - traditional/Hen/ The Rice/Salad of our gardens/Whipped cream as a large Steeple/Mocha/Now that the ceremonies are completed it is worth giving serious attention/This famous dinner we will enjoy/Winter Soup/The Salmon Canapé Louis XIII epic/The Lamb/Chicken/the Mushrooms of the dead/The other salad/The assorted cheeses-delights the boss/The Pies-super comfort/The Fruits-First Headlines/The bomb/To properly finish this meal/Champagne/Contraband Coffee/liqueurs/And all these good things pleasantly watered by/Bergerac St. Estephe Cote d'Or 1942 Chateauneuf du Pape/Bon Appetit!!"/ Depicted on the back cover is a man with a finished meal and a easel. Translated: Poverty is often the ransom Engineer/The order of the day N. Lemaine railroaders/With wishes of genuine affection/for his family young Communicant Jeannot/25.5.47/First Solemn Communion" with the signature of the artist. A fabulous one of kind item! <br /> <br/><br/> unknown books
19882296New York: Alfred A. Knopf/Harper Collins 1988/1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue boards. Very good in Very good dust wrappers. 193 & 224 pages. From the collection of the late bookseller Barbara Farnsworth 1934-2018. Laurie Colwin a novelist and short stories writer was well known for her wit and especially for her food columns in Gourmet Magazine. Colwin died suddenly at the age of 48 in October 1992. Colwin was a part-time resident of West Cornwall CT where she struck up a friendship with Barbara Farnsworth. These two first editions are accompanied by two personal correspondence between the two and clipped articles invitations and Colwin's obituaries - all annotated with dates by Farnsworth. <br /> <br />List of laid in items: Beatrix Potter post card from Laurie to Barbara 3/11/92 Letter from Laurie to Barbara 9/23/88 NYT Magazine article 11/02 NYT Book Review 10/93 Gourmet Article 8/01 Gourmet "You Asked For It" 9/87 New Yorker Fiction 10/93 Kirkus Review - Home Cooking Supplement Card 1988 With Compliments of the Author Card - Alfred A. Knopf Index Card with Laurie's NY address Postcard to Barbara for Laurie's Memorial Service at Symphony Space 2/9/93. Four clipped obituaries. <br /> <br />ln 1992 Andrew Malcolm describing Farnsworth's Books and bookstore in the New York Times quoted Barbara as saying "Nobody runs an old bookstore to get rich. It just legalizes my compulsion to own lots of books on lots of subjects and to put my own mark on the store." <br /> <br />Home Cooking is clean and crisp More Home Cooking is lightly foxed with an annotation in pencil Katharine Hepburn's Brownies. <br /> <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf/Harper Collins hardcover books
18571313London: G. Routledge & Co. 1857. Hardcover. Rebound embossed red boards illustration in gilt. Good. 597 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Rebound. Book plate on front free end paper - "Margaret Allen Hall Memorial - The Finer Arts of Home Making Battle Creek College Presented by: Lenna F. Cooper". <br /> <br />Alexis Soyer was a chef and entrepreneur originally from France whose life was filled with some pretty extraordinary twists and turns. Soyer cooked in the French noble kitchens on the eve of the uprising then found his way to England cooked and designed kitchens and kitchen appliances wrote cookbooks and reorganized the cooking facilities in Crimea during the Crimean War; this book being the culmination of those endeavors. <br /> <br />Jump to America in the early 1900's and we find Lenna F. Cooper a dietitian who worked under Ella Kellogg at Battle Creek's Sanitarium was the dean of home economics at Battle Creek College and in 1930 became the food service director of Michigan State University also becoming the chief dietitian at Montefiore Hospital in New York City. Cooper wrote the book The New Cookery with her fellow Battle Creek Sanitarium dietitian Margaret Allen Hall. Inscription on verso of front cover in pen - "Presented by Lenna F. Cooper." <br/><br/> G. Routledge & Co. hardcover books
18486102Boston: Dickinson Printing Establishment Damrell & Moore 1848. Octavo 22.5 x 14 cm. 60 pages 1 folded leaf of plates; illustrated. With one folding copper-engraved plate and 12 text figures. Interleaved with blanks throughout. FIRST EDITION. Record of a patent infringement case between two neighboring stove foundries in Troy New York. The plaintiffs Elias Johnson and David B. Cox who owned the Clinton Foundry later owned by Fuller & Warren sued their neighbors Peter Low and George W. Hicks. The attorney for the plaintiffs William Whiting explains that the defendants "flooded the market with a stove so nearly resembling the patented stove both in name form size ornaments and construction as to deceive any person of ordinary discrimination." They even named the stove the "American Hot Air" while the Johnson and Cox stove was the "American Air Tight. "The Defendants desiring not only to take away the fruits of Pierce's invention but of his taste also actually directed their pattern makers to imitate Pierce's stove in every particular even to the ornamental carving of the pattern and the shape and position of the legs on the stove so that it would be easy to pass off their stove for Pierce's" page 12. Low and Hicks saw the strength of the suit and settled. Contemporary calf over marbled boards with black morocco cover label with the name "William Whiting" stamped in gold. Whiting's copy who was one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs in this interesting American patent trial. OCLC locates three copies NYHS Boston Athenaeum Houghton Library. Dickinson Printing Establishment, Damrell & Moore hardcover books
2221570<p>FINEST COPY EXTANT </p><p>Second edition so stated. Octavo. Original gilt and blind stamped green cloth pictorial spine with stag head seated woman with trout; yellow coated endpapers. Small ticket of book binder Josiah Westley London. Few small spots to cloth but an exceptionally tight clean fresh copy. Frontispiece portrait and illustrated title page; a few small vignettes in text. No dust jacket. Very good. 441 pages 14 pages of ads.</p><p>Printed by Savill and Edwards 4 Chandos Street Covent Garden.</p><p>Cagle 1004.</p><p>Oxford page 180.</p><p>Bitting page 443.</p> Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. hardcover books
17601530London: A. Millar J. & R. Tonson W. Strahan P. Davey and B. Law 1760. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Orig. calf rebacked. Very good. 384 pages - 24 ind. First published in 1747 the book was reprinted within its first year of publication - 20 editions in the 18th century followed. It was not uncommon for a female scribe to keep her identity hidden but by using the title "A LADY" erroneous claims of authorship flourished. Unfortunately for Glasse her financial situation was never secure and she filed for bankruptcy and even spent some time in debtors prison. OXFORD 77 BITING 189. Expertly rebacked portions of the original backstrip preserved. Interior crisp. <br/><br/> A. Millar, J. & R. Tonson, W. Strahan, P. Davey and B. Law hardcover books
19282221869<p>First edition thus. Octavo. With 24 b/w illustrations. Edited and with five page introduction by Herbert Asbury. Original gilt stamped red cloth over green boards with green silk ribbon. No dust jacket. Fine. 169 pages.</p><p>No. 43 of 160 copies signed by Asbury. No other signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Enclosed in the original green board slipcase with printed spine label short cracks. Rare thus.</p> Alfred A Knopf hardcover books
18101847Paris: Louis Tenré/Patris et Cie 1833 1810. Fifth Edition/First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half-calf and decorated boards. Very good. 454 pages/116 pages. 21 x 13 cm. La Cuisinier: Covering all aspects of cooking of post revolutionary France. Includes engraved frontispiece titled "intérieur d'une cuisine bien ordonnée" and 3 plates depicting ovens and cooking utensils. Albert was former chef de cuisine for Cardinal Fesch Napoléon's Uncle. L'art de Conserver: Appert's signature on verso of title page. One folding plate. Appert a confectioner chef and distiller developed the first method of preserving food by enclosing it in airtight sealed containers. Pasteur later admitted his pasteurization process was largely derived from Appert's earlier methods. Appert was rewarded with a prize of 12000 francs by the French Directory Napoléon who needed to supply the growing armies with stable sustenance. CAGLE 28 36. Some foxing to interior. Covers rubbed at corners otherwise very good. <br/><br/> Louis Tenré/Patris et Cie hardcover books
