128 items on food and drink from the 16th to the 21st century. Art Nouveau cakes, Mexican cantina menus, 16th century humoral dieting for Spanish kings, Michoacán cuisine, Japanese seasonal menus and manuscript illustrations of desserts, butter churn broadsides and much (much) more.
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Mexico: Ediciones Trucco, 1955. Later Edition. Softcover. Undated, ca. 1950s - first edition was 1949. A nice Italian cookery for middle class Mexicans. Cocktails, canapes, . 352pp Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000760. More
Vienna: Carl Gerold, 1828. Later Edition. Softcover. Original card covers, heavily worn, torn, spine loose, still sound overall; scattered mostly minor foxing and browning internally. WIth frontis and 4 plates of table settings. xxiv, 480pp, 4 leaves of plates at rear. Cagle 4 (1810 edition) Styled the 32nd edition of this..... 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
Mexico: Ed. Rodriguez y Co. / Ed. Dublany Comp. 1893. José Guadalupe Posada. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 1/4 acid calf over cloth boards, corners worn and bumped, binding sound. Modest age toning internally, otherwise clean and unmarked and in unusually good condition overall. Two volumes in one, the appendix..... More
Paris: René Bonnel, 1933. First Edition. Softcover. Original printed wrappers with glassine. A bit of wear and darkening to the glassine. Clean internally and largely uncut. 371 of 679 copies. lxxvii, 322pp. Bitting 13. A fine scholarly translation of Apicius and the first translation into French. "A veritable mine of information..... 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
New York: Will H Coleman, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. The work is anonymous but by Lafcadio Hearn who collected rather than authored the recipes. Quite worn at corners, worn at edges, a little shaken, joints tender, a few old dog ears and pencil marks, small hole and tear to pages..... More
Nordhausen: Killinger, 1925. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Light rubbing to boards, a touch shaken, recipe insert present and in fine shape. Illustrated in bw and color throughout. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000731. More
Hong Kong: The Local Printing Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original red cloth, browning to endpapers, pencil notes to rear endpaper; bright copy. 87pp A lovely copy of this book aimed at teaching the basics of Chinese cookery to English speakers in Hong Kong. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1..... More
1863. Softcover. Original stitched wrappers with printed labels affixed to cover. 4.25" x 6.25", dated Bunkyu 3 (1863). 110 pages of recipes for seasonal meals with 2 woodblock illustrations. A popular late Edo collection of recipes for Kaiseki, the traditional multi-course Japanese meal. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... 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
London: Frederick Warne, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, worn at the corners, hinges a little rubbed but quite sound overall. Lacking everything before the table of contents including the color frontispiece, but otherwise complete. (2), 364pp. Bitting 246. In text illustrations and 7 chromolithograph plates. Size..... 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: 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
Passaic, NJ: Thurston & Barker, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Wide format, cloth backed illustrated boards. Corners slightly bumped, small dampstain to cover, inner joints cracked; fine internally. 114pp with 8pp of ads at front and rear and 12pp of blanks at rear. Cook (America's Charitable Cookbooks) 164 Cakes, puddings, sick recipes..... More
Naples: Domenico Antonio Parrino and Michele Luigi Muzio, 1694. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, soiled, worn in spots, but sound. Pastedowns torn, old signatures on front blank and an old inscription to verso of portrait. Plates torn and a little rumpled, repairs on verso of cutlery plate, but negligible..... More
Paris: Desaint, 1772. Later Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). 2 volumes in contemporary sheep, worn at the edges, loss at spine ends, surface scrapes, but sound overall. Scattered minor foxing and soiling, minor dampstain in the gutter towards the end of vol 2 - quite clean overall internally. 38 plates.[2]..... 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
Alcala de Henares: Joan de Brocar, 1542. Second Edition. Disbound. Disbound, part 1 only (of 3), comprising only the Banquete de Cavalleros presumably disbound from Remedio de cuerpos humanos and Libro de pestilencia with which it was issued. Lacking title and first invocatory leaf as well as leaves 87 and..... 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
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
Karlsruhe-Baden: 1914. Hardcover. Cloth backed paper covered boards, worn but sound. Very neatly done internally with a few recipes on most pages, 246 numbered pages with scattered blanks, index at end. Titled in a later hand with a Odessa Florida address label on the first page of Hans Meier (and..... More
Denver: Smith-Brooks, 1915. Third Edition. Hardcover. Wear at edges of printed cloth, inscribed by author and dated 1917. Inner joint a bit weak, slightly shaken. light dampstain to bottom edge. 240pp First published in 1897 - chafing dishes, an interesting section on tropical cooking (ice cream, heart of the cocoanut tree..... More
Denver: Smith-Brooks, 1915. Third Edition. Hardcover. Wear at edges of printed cloth. Inner joint a bit weak. 240pp First published in 1897 - chafing dishes, an interesting section on tropical cooking (ice cream, heart of the cocoanut tree salad, bamboo shoot salad, curry, shrimps and condiments). Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1..... 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