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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
18251354New York: Evert Duyckinck George Long E. Bliss & E. White. 1825. First American Edition. Hardcover. Faux quarter bound gray boards with white spine. Good. 2 v-xii 371 pages. 19 x 11 cm. Title conclusion Also The Art of Composing the Most Simple and Most Highly Finished Broths Gravies Soups Sauces Store Sauces and Flavoring Essences: Pastry Preserves Puddings &c. and An Easy Certain and Economical Process for preparing PICKLES By which they will be ready in a Fortnight and remain good for Years. The Quantity of each Article is ACCURATELY STATED BY WEIGHT AND MEASURE; The whole being the result of ACTUAL EXPERIMENTS Instituted in the Kitchen of a Physician. The whole work has again been carefully revised by the author of "THE ART OF INVIGORATING LIFE BY FOOD" &c. "Miscuit utile dulci." The author William Kitchiner M.D. 1775-1827 was a wealthy physician of London who did not practice his profession but was a food science and music enthusiast. An early devotee of mastication Masticate denticate chump grind and swallow Kitchiner purportedly did most of his own cooking and cleaning. First published in 1817 this extensive guide for the domestic cook took the UK and US by storm making Kitchiner a household name and an inspiration for many later cookbook authors including Mrs. Beeton who lifted a number of her recipes directly from his book. Owner's inscription on title page. Rebound with one page of index missing. Usual foxing throughout. LOWENSTEIN 99 <br/><br/> Evert Duyckinck, George Long, E. Bliss & E. White. hardcover books
17711529Bruxelles: Chez Francois Foppens 1771. Hardcover. Full marbled calf gilt flower design to spine with title. Good. 408 pages. 17 x 10 cm. Primarily written for female cooks in bourgeois households. The author intentionally points to the difference between the ordinary bourgeois and the "bas peuple" favoring cuts of meat and types of game favored by the upper-middle class. Bookplate on front endpaper - "SE VEND A BORDEAUX chez les Freres LABOTTIERE Imprimeur - Librairies Place du Palais." Printing under the Kings licensee at the time the Labottiere brothers who founded the Journal de Bordeaux were both printers publishers journalists and booksellers - which eventually got them into hot water. Corners rubbed with some loss rubbed at head and tail of spine with some loss covers cracked at joint. <br/><br/> Chez Francois Foppens hardcover books
18462556West Point NY 1846. Cream paper creased. Good. 25.5 x 19 cm. Margaret Stebbins Scammon writes her brother from West Point where her husband E. Parker Scammon is an officer with the United Army Corps of Topographic Engineers. Parker would later command the 23rd Ohio Regiment during the Civil War. <br /> <br />Good Friday Morn. 1846 <br /> <br />My Dearest brother <br /> <br />Parker fully intended to cover this envelope to you but as he was about doing it the Quartermaster must needs send for him to come to the Library for some important briefings: and so he begs me to write for him and apologize to the best of my ability for the non-appearance of your beer. You must have thought him very neglectful and tho' it is rather an awkward task I will tell you the whole truth. If you will have patience to wait till the end of this month it shall then be forthcoming. He expected to order it on the 1st but our cook took it into his head to go back to the city to live and as we had at his own request kept back the quarter part of his wages for 18 months you must know our last month's pay went with a rush and as we are so involved on every side we wont borrow and therefore all parties ourselves included must wait till after another visit from the Paymaster for our good beer. I have thus most frankly stated to you the case and I hope you will excuse it. We remember that we are still considerably in your debt so that it is with great pleasure that P. will attend to your order just so soon as circumstances will permit. I think the value of the empty half barrels returned is $1.50 each and they quite well have them as money. They are returned at any time and credited to sender. <br /> <br />We are looking forward to your visit in June or July with impatience. Do not disappoint us. <br /> <br />Your very aft sister <br /> <br />Margaret <br /> <br /> <br />The letter is addressed to Margaret's brother - Mr. John B. Stebbins Care of Homer Foote & Co. Springfield Mass. We know the merchant her brother worked for Homer Foote had become a very wealthy retailer in Springfield and assume that John B. was successful as well. <br />Letter has some foxing and tears in areas where there is creasing. Red West Point stamp is faint along with the number 5. <br/><br/> unknown books
18662221890<p>First edition. Octavo. Original brown cloth stamped lettering in blind on both covers; gilt stamped spine ends chipped; worn at joints. No dust jacket. Ink signature of E. S. Ramsay on front free endpaper. Good a few light stains in text. 298 pages 2 pages of ads at end.</p><p>Not located in Bitting.</p><p>Printed by W. Clowes and Sons.</p> Richard Bentley hardcover books
18111793London: John Murray 1811. Second Edition. Hardcover. Brown leather Very good. 440 pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. A comprehensive household manual filled with what seems to be very helpful receipts and some of a dubious nature. Chapters filled with constructive advise on rearing livestock making butter brewing and the management of malt liquors the management of plants seeds and the greenhouse while other advice such as using a bush held by a rope to clean a chimney as opposed to employing a child children will damage the interior bricks seem a bit outdated. Accredited to Mrs. Rundell of New Systems of Domestic Cookery fame but there are many who think this is a false theory due to her well published falling out with the John Murray. All edges gilt dentelle edging and blindstamped Missing 1 cm. of leather at the head of spine. Interior crisp and clean. Owners signature present on front boards 1819. <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover books
18432080Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1843 and 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Black boards paper spine label. Very good. 196 & 154 pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. The Complete Cook highlights the art of carving accompanied by illustrations. The Complete Confectioner contains one page of illustrations featuring modeling tools - last ten pages filled with period advertisements. Pages tanned edges rubbed otherwise text clean no markings. LOWENSTEIN 302 & 320. <br/><br/> Lea and Blanchard hardcover books
17810000533Paris: Chez Clousier 1781. First edition. Binding rubbed & scuffed shallow losses at spine extremities joints cracking free endpapers excised text lightly toned & occasionally foxed lacking the folding plate about Good & still quite serviceable. 8vo 8" x 5" viii 1 & 4-512 with tables occasional woodcut illustrations and woodcut headpieces throughout. LACKING THE FOLDING PLATE. Publisher's full calf the spine decorated in gilt with a gilt-lettered maroon morocco spine label. Text in French. <br/><br/>In the Preface Casaux describes his credentials on the subject of growing sugarcane: born in France in 1727 he migrated to the then-French island of Grenada in 1757; he remained there and took English citizenship after the Treaty of Paris ceded the island to the British in 1763 serving George III as Deputy for the French population of the colony until his return to Europe in 1777. He joined the Royal Society there in 1780 and was also a member of the Academy of Agriculture in Florence. During his years in the Caribbean he interested himself in the cultivation of sugarcane; he became especially concerned with methods for producing the same amount of sugar with many fewer “Negres†and “treating them more gently.†Casaux additionally writes of methods to produce quality sugar from inferior grades of cane and maintaining equal quantity and quality of sugar from “exhausted†plots of land. Casaux leaves no aspect of growing cane and extracting the sugar untouched; much can be learned about colonial plantation practices regarding not only sugar but agriculture in general. He includes a history of sugar and discusses “new†species of cane hybrids formed from crossbreeding; he also includes a table of rainfall for Grenada for the year 1773 and advises the use of such tables “to be kept by public appointment for the improvement of agriculture†elsewhere. Casaux was an influential thinker on subjects other than agriculture including politics economics and social issues and was a member of the Jacobin Club; after Mirabeau’s death in 1792 he moved from France to London and died there in 1796. Chez Clousier, unknown books
19332014Chicago: John F. Driscoll 1933. First Edition. Staplebound. Tan illustrated wraps. Very good. 63 pages. 15 x 10.5 cm. "How to prepare and mix all popular American Alcoholic Drinks commonly served according to the Accurate and Standard Methods used by Skilled and Experienced Bartenders throughout the U.S.A. previous to the enactment of the Prohibition Law." Covers rubbed interior clean. <br/><br/> John F. Driscoll paperback books
20181680London: The Everyday Press 2018. Pink silk screen paper covers. Near fine. 42 x 30 cm. Limited Edition 75 copies - Artist Proof. Lavish and lovingly produced by artist Simon Popper with handwritten recipes by Jeremy Lee using potatoes as the main ingredients. Includes hand painted title bands on pink coloured paper covers each Potato insert was cut hand tinted and tipped in individually. Jeremy Lee known for his dedication to British seasonal produce and simple but delicious cuisine has been at the helm of the Quo Vadis in Soho since 2012. <br/><br/> The Everyday Press unknown books
19062222192<p>First edition Small octavo. Pictorial red gilt stamped cloth with onlay of a man perched on the edge of a large cocktail glass ready to jump in. Pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial half title page reads: "Thor' The Rye" A Guide For Thirsty Pilgrims In The Rye-Field. Fourteen illustrations by Forrest Halsey Tom Browne Jean Paleologue A. G. Learned Reo Bennett Charles Forbell Eugene T. Parker Albert Levering and J. Aquila Kempster. Text with green pictorial borders depicting a naked woman frolicking among grape vines. Very good. 95 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>Pictorial endpapers with spider web design.</p> Henry Altemus Company books
18951846Pittsburgh: Murdoch Kerr & Co. c. 1895. Hardcover. White oil cloth covered boards. Very good. 128 pages. 19 x 14 cm. 22 pages local advertisements. An array of dishes with some surprises such as a recipe for "Hot Tamales" from a contributor Helen E. Pelletreau who had traveled to Corpus Christi. Chapters include: Soup Fish & Oysters Meats and Entrees and Meat Sauces Vegetables Eggs & Omelets Salads and Salad Dressing Relishes Yeast & Bread Breakfast and Tea Cakes Pies and puddings Desserts Cakes Small Cakes Drinks and Ices Invalid's Tray Fruits Pickles Candy Nice Things to Know and Miscellaneous. Numerous local advertisements illustrated. <br /> <br />Helen Pelletreau was the third president of the Pennsylvania College For Women and the first woman to hold the office. Pelletreau was chosen as Acting President after the prior person to hold the office resigned and while trustees searched for a replacement. The committee citing her exceptional business insight then elected Miss Pelletreau as President a title she kept for 14 years until her retirement in 1894. Pages lightly toned. <br/><br/> Murdoch, Kerr & Co. hardcover books
18532285London: Dean & Son 1853. Sewn binding. Pink blind-embossed wrappers. 84 pages. 16 X10 cm. In the 19th and early 20th century it was common for middle and upper class households to employ a maid dedicated to helping the family cook. This concise booklet defines the primary functions of the maid previous and prior to preparing food and the best methods to carry out such duties. The second half of the book focuses on food preparations and the elementary steps in order to assist the cook. Early owner's ink signature to title-page. Fading to paper binding joints expertly secured. Interior clean. <br/><br/> Dean & Son unknown books
1846340Teterow Germany: Gedruckt und zu haben bei A. D. E. Beig 1846. Hardcover. Brown cloth gilt title. Good. 144 pages. 10.5 x 9 cm. Scarce German cookbook with 13 sections. A fashionable book with a diversified selection of recipes and preparations. Text in German. Front board gilt-stamped "Louise Prestin" and back board "1847." Pencil inscription on front endpaper "Mother Hamp's Cook Book." Light rubbing and staining to boards publisher's reinforced title page light staining to leaves along fore-edge one leaf with older paper mend. <br/><br/> Gedruckt und zu haben bei A. D. E. Beig hardcover books
19102218c. 1910. Two individual 20 x 12.5 cm. hand drawn mock-ups illustrations presumably for pamphlet cover art; done in pencil. One 20 x 12.5 cm. color printers proof of pamphlet cover art and Nine identical pamphlets - Reliable Measuring Cup - an offshoot of the Reliable Flour Company a Boston based business. <br/><br/> unknown books
