Paris: Éditions de la Sirene, 1920. First Edition. Softcover. Wrappers a little chipped, lacking glassine and with a plastic cover instead, fresh internally and mostly unopened; small bookplate on rear endpaper. 223pp Size: 12mo . One volume of the 3-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category..... More
Belgium: 1906. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Menu scrapbook in an oblong contemporary cloth binding. hinge slightly cracked, with 50 thick paper inserts each with 2 or 3 menus and a few loose menus. A few event programs and menus, 1 restaurant insert, but otherwise all printed or manuscript private dinner party..... More
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Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1860. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Leather backed marbled boards, leather dry, chipped, front hinge cracked, but binding still sound otherwise. Extracted from the longer work published the same year in Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Bound with Pasteur's work critiquing Bernard's work published in 1879. 106pp;..... More
Paris: J.P. Roret, 1829. Fourth Edition. Softcover. Original printed wrappers, later glassine jacket. With the carte gastronomique de la France. Light scattered foxing and browning - a nice copy of the 4th edition. 342pp. Cagle 398 (1827 1st ed.), Vicaire 729 Size: 12mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under..... More
Paris: Méquignon, 1809. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary full speckled calf, wear to tail of spine, remains of owner label on marbled endpapers, slight browning to endpapers; quite bright overall. With the half title and errata. xv, (1), 310, (1)pp. Cagle 377 (1810 3rd ed.) , Bitting 357, Oberle..... More
Paris: Desaint, 1790. Later Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). 2 volumes rebound in full (probably simulated) acid tree calf. Scattered foxing, old owner name cropped from title, scattered minor dampstains in margins and gutter. Nice, clean copy overall. 40 (of 42) plates (lacking plates 16-17 in vol 2) and other..... More
1906. Softcover. Printed wrappers, wide format, slight wear to spine, paper spine covering lacking at top. Slight foxing internally but generally bright. Two catalogues in 1 bound back to back, one mostly shop fronts, one fittings, 76 and 34pp. 4 color illustrations, black and white throughout. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1929. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Facsimile of the 1837 first edition limited to 125 copies. Light scuffing to binding, marginal browning to endlleaves, old gift inscription, otherwise fine. 15 color illustrations, 256pp Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine..... More
London: Marshall's School of Cookery (Ward & Lock), 1926. Later Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Publisher's green cloth, binding slightly rolled, but otherwise very good. Very slight scattered foxing. 661pp. Cagle 856 (earlier edition) A much expanded edition of Marshall's popular cookbook. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo..... More
London: various, 1800. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Volumes of uniformly bound up reports from the early to mid 19th century (w/ one bill from 1792). Volumes on Hop Duties (with folding tables of land under cultivation for hops, report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the..... More
London: 1808. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Five volumes uniformly bound up in modern two toned cloth. Dating from 1802 (Sugar Imports and Exports) to 1847-48 (3 vols: Sugar and Coffee Planting). Report of the Committee on the Distillation of Sugar and Molasses dated 1808. The Sugar imports is..... More
1803. Sheet. ca. 10" x 14" sheet, hand colored etching depicting a tiny Napoleon on King George III and Queen Charlotte's dinner table which holds a single blancmange (they were famous - and famously mocked - for their restrained eating habits). Napoleon: "If I could but get over this dish..... More
Germany: Karl August Böttiger, 1803. Sheet. From the magazine London und Paris, Plate No. XIX. XX. A redone continental version of Gillray's famous engraving "The corsican pest" with Napoleon on a fork over the fire defecating - here replaced by the Gallic cock. Beelzebub is shown as a racist African..... More
London: Ield & Tuer, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Neatly rebound in old marbled paper, fragment of old lettering piece retained, slight browning internally, old bookseller label to endpaper.. 137pp with ads at rear - crack 'em and try 'em", "Large silver eels!". Woodcut illustrations throughout - a nice collection of cries..... More
London: Frederick Warne, 1880. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Original illustrated cloth, spine worn with small tear at head and hinges starting, a few short marginal tears internally, scattered dog ears, generally very good internally but binding a bit shaken. With color frontis, 3 color plates and in text illustration..... More
London: MacMillan, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original olive cloth, light wear, faint browning internally. 158pp 2 pages of ads at rear Published by the Edinburgh School of Cookery founded in 1875. Uncommon - just a few copies in OCLC of any edition, two of the first. Christian Edington Guthrie..... More
London: 1778. Single sheet. Front (unused portion) torn in spots with loss (but not to text). One folded quarto sheet of laid paper with a watermarked capital B. One side on one page filled, with 3 lines and signature on verso. Addressed to Newton Gordon Holinston (?) in Madeira from..... More
London: A.K. Newman, 1828. Sixth Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Contemporary half leather, joints cracked, corners rubbed, binding loose but holding. Extra engraved title, frontis, and 4 plates. 287pp. Cagle 722, Bitting 211 (1818 ed.) First edition was 1816. A popular collection of recipes, household tips and medical receipts. Size: 12mo... More
London: J. White, 1807. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Rebound in full leather, modest foxing and browning, a few old dog eared pages, quite clean overall. (16), 349pp, additional ad leaf at rear. Scarce, rarely seen in commerce for some reason, just 11 copies in OCLC. A new translation of..... More
London: R. Baldwin, 1806. 13th Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary gilt calf, light wear at edges and corners, attractive marbled endpapers. Old signature to title, scattered mostly minor foxing and browning, With a frontis of Raffald, a folding plate of a stove and two folding plates of place settings, small..... More
London: NP, 1768. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary gilt ruled calf, joints cracked, inner hinge weak but holding, lettering piece torn, surface scrapes, front endpaper almost loose, old provenance note to pastedown. Scattered very minor foxing - a very fresh copy internally. (x), 410pp. Bitting 598 (1827 ed.) The very..... More
Newcastle Upon Tyne: I. Thompson and Company, 1758. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full plain calf, rebacked with new spine, new endpapers, first and last few pages worn, scattered foxing, stains and browning, heavy in spots but still very good overall. (16), 322, (32)pp. Bitting 458, Cagle 1019. Thacker was cook..... More
Leedes: Griffith Wright, 1764. Ninth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary blind ruled calf, rebacked, new endpapers, scattered browning, fading, small tears in the gutter to a few pages in the appendix, wear to a few page edges; very good overall. 203, (1), 25, (1), (22)pp. Contemporary recipes for "a gentle..... More
London: J. Nicholson, 1726. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Half red leather over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. In text illustrations and 2 plates, 1 folding. A wealth of information on livestock from belching in cattle to vvhezing in horses, distilling, bees, home remedies, etc. Old Lawes Trust stamp to title..... More
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Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Chipping to wrapper corners with a bit of loss, endpapers browned, slight browning internally, but otherwise fine. xi, 45, 1pp Prepared from Thomas Newington's notebook ca. 1719 - a collection of pickling recipes (French beans, walnuts), remedies (bee stings, the plague), dishes (furmety..... More