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The New York International Antiquarian Book Fair

Park Avenue Armory, NYC • April 3rd – 6th, 2014 Below please find a list of rare culinary books and ephemera we will be bringing to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. These books represent six centuries of cookery and gastronomy, across several continents and cuisines. In addition to what you find on this list, we will be bringing a selection of recently purchased rare menus, culinary broadsides and handbills, and manuscripts. We hope you’ll join us with over two hundred American and international colleagues for the premier rare book event in the world. You can find us in booth E31. For more information on the fair, please visit NYBookFair.com. The books on this list are presented in rough chronological order. Terms at the end.

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includes the earliest recipe by a named author in any language

1. Athenaeus Naucratites; Bedrott, Jakob. Athenaiu Deipnosophiston Biblia Pentekaideka. Athenaei Dipnosophistarvm, Hoc Est argute sciteque conuiuio disserentum. Lib. XV, quibus nunc quantum operae ac diligentiae adhibitum sit satis fiedei erit. Basileae: Joannes Valderus, 1535. Quarto, [34], 333, [1]. Second edition. Text in Greek, Editor's notes in Latin and Greek. One of the most important works of late classical antiquity dealing with food, wine and table customs, dating from the third century A.D. The book is a fictionalized symposium of twenty one artists, writers, musicians and surgeons, discussing all things that, according to Greek custom, should adorn a banquet. The names of the most famous gastronomists and most celebrated cooks are recorded, and the text of a recipe from a lost cookbook by Mithaecus is quoted -- the earliest recipe by a named author in any language. The virtues and qualities of various wines are the subjects of lengthy discourses. Table ornament and decoration are also treated. Rebound in modern half-vellum, text-block trimmed. Generally very good, with a touch of foxing to some leaves, and pages supple. With the bookplate of Anne Willan, noted authority on French food, founder of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne and, together with her husband Mark, truly great cookbook collectors. This edition very scarce in the trade. [This edition not listed in Bitting, Cagle, or Vicaire]. $4500.00



a very early Welsh Noblewoman’s manuscript cookery book

2. [Caroline Manuscript Cookery Book]. Lettice Arnold, Her Booke, Given by the Lady G. 1639. [tete-beche with Miss Colt’s Cooking Book]. Monmouth, Wales. 1639 ff. Quarto, unpaginated [138 leaves/276 pages]. 21cm x 31cm. A single volume organized tete-beche or dos-a-dos style, with recipes on 129 pages, 105 running front-to-back, and 24 back-to-front; 361 recipes in all. Decorative gilt-stamped full-brown calf, paneled with florets and a floral decorated diamond flanked by the initials L.A. [Lettice Arnold] gilt-stamped on both front and rear boards; original compartmented spine panel laid-down on rebacked spine in 18th or early 19th century. Text block rubricated on all edges, but the color is mostly worn away along the fore and bottom edges. Paper features a watermark design of a cockatrice hovering above a shingled house, used 1626 in Porrentruy, Switzerland. (ARMS.1295.1, Gravell Watermark Archive). Margin-ruled paper with slight edge-wear. Some slight staining throughout, affecting the legibility of text in very few instances. First leaves from the rear show some professional paper repair. Two early leaves appear to have been removed. Generally very good condition. A Welsh noblewoman’s presentation manuscript cookbook, containing three hundred fifty nine predominantly Elizabethan recipes, given by a Lady Lettice G., to Lady Lettice Arnold, (birth unknown, died after 1640). Lady Arnold married Nicholas Arnold (1599-1665) on July 29, 1633.1 Nicholas Arnold entered Parliament in 1626 and 1628 and served as sheriff of Monmouthshire (1632-33). They lived at Llanvihangel Court, Monmouth, Wales. The presentation with the date “1639” is indicated on the front paste-down in gold ink. The free-front endpaper is inscribed, “Miss Colt” (alternately “A.S. Colt”), “Munderfield House, Bromyard, Herefordshire”. Also inscribed, faintly, is “London.” A.S. [Anne] Colt was the granddaughter, by marriage, of Lady Arnold, and the final recognized owner to make a sizable contribution to the recipe collection. The recipes themselves are in three main hands, the predominant and the earliest is neat, very readable, and likely that of a professional scribe. The scribe commits the majority of the recipes to the page for each section, leaving blank leaves between sections for additions. Eight leaves remain blank at the start of the volume, perhaps in anticipation of an index. At least three other hands contribute, certainly later and by subsequent owners (not scribes), as the handwriting of subsequent contributors is more ordinary and workaday. As the recipes recorded by the scribe were part of the book upon presentation, the majority of recipes date at or prior to 1639, and are thus predominantly late Elizabethan-style recipes. The text is arranged into sections comprised of like recipes. There are three hundred one recipes in the front-to-back portion of the text, divided into twenty sections: jellies, waters, preserves, marmalades, pastes, quiddany [a confection of quinces, in consistency between a syrup and marmalade], candies, marchpane [marzipan], breads and cakes, syrups and several miscellaneous recipes, conserves, cream recipes, boiling (meats, fish, and poultry), puddings; baking (meats, fish, poultry, and fruit), pies, stews, made dishes, sallats/salads, and sauces. Several of the culinary recipes indicate an international perspective, from dishes in a “Spanish Way” or “French Fashion”, to recipes for French and Italian bread and instructions “To make China broth”, which calls for “China rootes”.



The reverse book includes fifty-eight recipes, more for the stillroom and the infirmary than the kitchen, with some remedies, including salves, ointments, and poultices, as well as cordial waters, walnut brandies, and more. Quite a few of these recipes are attributed: “A Cure for Consumption by M. Bagnol”, “Mrs. Hobby’s Jeniperbery Water [!]”, “Dr. Stevens His Rare Water” and “Lucar Tellus Bolsom” [Lucatellus’ Balsam]. There is some professional paper restoration to some of the leaves of this section, and thus some recipe titles and instructions have been rendered less than legible. Some recipes in both sections are attributed to various members of the nobility: “To make Aquavite after my lorde of Killdare” (likely Gerald Fitzgerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, who is understood to have dabbled in alchemy), or “To make white marmalett after my Ladie Sommersett”; or to family members, “my daughter Anne Colt” or “Cosen Wood” [Cousin Wood]. Various symbols—”*” and “+”, for example—accompany many recipes, perhaps denoting a successful, or unsuccessful, recipe. A few recipes in a later hand have been crossed out altogether. Catchwords appear sporadically, usually in the scribe’s hand. Other pencil marginalia is in the hand of the last owner, and takes the form of text clarification and script identification, as well as a recipe count. Following the clearly delineated categories is a narration regarding The Great War:

“On the 4th of Aug.t 1914 began the Great War and, in the course of it, the supply of food in England became so short that the Government put the nation on “rations”. No one was allowed to buy or consume more than certain fixed quantities of victuals. The amount of meat corn sugar &c was strictly limited. Therefore the use of substitutes was necessary and new dishes were devised and came into use. A few recipes for them are here given…”

Sadly, no recipes are recorded, though after thirty blank leaves there is one page, (in the same neat hand), titled “Notes of Villagers remedies, Somerset 1918,” that includes six remedies for ailments such as boils, healing a wound, and how to counter the ill-affects experienced by glass workers.

The book, while hailing from within the boundaries of Wales, and remaining many years in Wales at Llanvihangel Court, Monmouth, contains recipes that are decidedly English, and do not represent folk or peasant cooking of Wales. The recipes are in keeping in both subject and style, with those of Elizabethan aristocratic cookery books. While reading and writing were rare skills among English women of this period, 17th century elite women were educated enough to read and write, as this cookery book testifies. In all, an historically significant manuscript cookery book from Wales, the earliest we have been able to identify from Wales, and of great significance as a source of culinary, medical and cultural information. $30,000.00

[genealogy and list of recipes available upon request] 3. Nonnius, Ludovicis. Diaeteticon sive De re cibaria libri IV. Antuerpiae: Ex Officina Petri Belleri, 1646. Quarto, [24], 526, [2] pages. Copper-engraved title page, depicting Diana, Ceres, Bacchus and Neptune offering gifts to Aesculapius on the throne. Dedicated to Thomas Lopes de Ulloa. This is the second printing of the second, much enlarged edition. The first edition of this work appeared in 1625, printed by the same printer. An important treatise on food and diet that contains a great deal on the nutrition of the Ancients. The first book is devoted to general considerations of meals, fruits and vegetables, and the second to meat, game and poultry, fish, and the third and last to drink, with



numerous interesting digressions on iced drinks, hot mixtures, wine and water, Empedocles' opinions about wine, and a magnificent praise of wine by Asclepiades. Additional writings on drink include mead, the diseases of wine, beer, palm wine, apple cider, and more. The author, whose real name was Nunez, was born in Antwerp in 1555, was a celebrated physician, traveled a great deal in Italy, and maintained relationships with many scholars of the time, including Justus Lipsius. Front edge of first forty leaves show moderate insect damage, not affecting text. In full, limp vellum, with with the front edges of both front and back boards restored. Good only. [B.IN.G. 1366; Cagle 19; Crahan 181a; Oberle 32; Bitting 344; Vicaire 626 (ed. 1645); Simon 1101 (ed. 1647); not in Notaker]. $2500.00

17th Century account of Indonesian natural phenomena, including foodstuffs and medicinal plants

4. Von Hellwig, Johann Otto. Introitus in veram atque inauditam physicam epistola ex India Orientali in Europam ad ... Academiam Naturae Curiosorum transmisa apertus ... Hamburg: Gothofredum Schultze, 1680. Octavo, 32 pages. The first European edition. The first edition of this work was published 1678 in Batavia, Indonesia, two years earlier. A Heidelberg edition was published by Joh. Michael Rudiger in the same year, with three supplementary letters. Physician and alchemist Baron Johann Otto von Hellwig (1654–1698) traveled to Indonesia seeking to accumulate information for the Saxon court in Gotha. His knowledge of things alchemical, medicinal and of exotic naturalia put him in great favor with Duke Friedrich I. This work offers eyewitness accounts of Indonesian natural phenomena, including foodstuffs and medicinal plants, described with a quasi-Arabic terminology. “Hellwig reframed European alchemy within tantalizingly global terms. He positioned himself both as a purveyor of Indonesian alchemical theory and of distant naturalia.” (Keller, Early Science and Medicine 17) In later full vellum, titles in ink on the spine, and with a later publication date in red ink added to the spine. Generally near fine. With the bookplate of distinguished author and collector of gastronomical works, Marcus Crahan. Rare. [Goldschmidt catalogue 118, Science, Magic, Medicine (item 61)]. $900.00

one of the rarest cookbooks in the English language

5. Rose, Giles. A Perfect School of Instructions for the Officers of the Mouth : shewing the whole art of a master of the houshold [sic], a master carver, a master butler, a master confectioner, a master cook, a master pastryman; being a work of singular use for ladies and gentlewomen and all persons whatsoever that are desirous to be acquainted with the most excellent arts of carving, cookery, pastry, preserving, and laying a cloth for grand entertainments; the like never before extant in any language; adorned with pictures curiously ingraven, displaying the whole arts / by Giles Rose, one of the master cooks in His Majesties kitchen. London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1682. Duodecimo, title leaf, [22], 563 pages [lacking pages 481-504]. With 41 pages of woodcuts of which a few illustrate table settings and the majority illustrate the carving of various fowl (capon, turkey, goose, duck, pigeon, woodcock, partridge, pheasant, etc.), veal, mutton, wild boar, pig, hare, fish, and lobster, and the decorative carving of fruit. First and only English edition of one of the most important titles of 17th Century French gastronomy, and one of the rarest cookery books in the English language. There are few recorded copies and most all existing copies



appear to be imperfect, i.e. primarily lacking pages. Bitting notes, “Despite the claim ‘The like never before extant in any language,’ the book is a translation of L’Escole parfaite des officiers de bouches, first published in 1662. The English translation is much scarcer than the original.” In six books, (here translated): “Steward of the Family”, “The great Master Carver”, “The Royal Butler”, “The Royal Confectioner”, “The Royal French Master Cook”, and “The Royal Pastry Man”. Verso of title page with margins strengthened and old repairs to pages 5-6 and 11-12 in the lower margin and pages 9-10 in the lower quarter with some little loss of text. Rebacked in full brown calf with spine label, with original boards. A good copy. [OCLC indicates 8 copies only; Bitting p. 407; Cagle 970; Wing R1933. ] $9000.00

a coffee, tea, and chocolate classic, fresh and untrimmed

6. Dufour, Philippe Sylvestre, (pseud.) [Spon, Jacob; Colmonero de Ledesma, Antonio; Marradon, Bartolomeo]. Tractatus Novi Potu Caphe, de Chinesium The, et de Chocolta. Parisiis: Apud Petrum Muguet, 1685. Duodecimo, [vi] 202 [3] pages. Frontispiece engraving, three engraved plates. First edition in Latin. Translated from the French edition issued under Spon's pseudonym of P. Sylvestre Dufour, by J. Spon. First published in French under title, De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate, Lyon, 1671, by Philippe Sylvestre Dufour. “Dufour upon coffee, tea and chocolate is a classic. It is the standard reference for the early history and methods of preparation.” (Bitting). A fresh, untrimmed copy of this rare work. As nice a copy as will ever likely be found. [OCLC locates 19 copies, only 7 in the U.S.; Bitting, pages 134-135; Vicaire 294-296; Mueller, W. Bibliographie des Kaffee, des Kakao, der Schokolade, des Tee und deren Surrogate, page 68]. $5000.00

Colonial American manuscript tavern license

7. [The Bristoll Arms]. Manuscript American Colonial Tavern Recognition. Massachusetts: 1697. One-page manuscript recognition. [19x30cm] A recognition or license, granted to Messrs. Jabez Howland Inholder, John Cary Carpenter, and Jeremiah Osborn, all of Bristoll County, New England. Bristoll County was created by the Plymouth County, and at this time included towns now found in Rhode Island, including Bristol. The Tavern Recognition is granted by John Saffin Esquire, a legal representative of King William III, and describes the fees paid and conditions of operating a “Common Inn Alehouse or Victualling House and to use Common Selling of wine Beer Ale Cider etc:”. The tavern was permitted to use the name “Bristoll Arms”. Hours of operation, currency to be used, the nature of employees and more are all spelled out. Of particular interest are clauses forbidding “...any playing of Cards dice tables Quoits loggetts Bowles Shufflebord Ninepins Billards or any other unlawful Game or Games in his house...”, and restricting the customer base; “Nor shall sell any wine Liquor or other strong drinks to any apprentices Servants Indians or Negros”. The document has a small note on the verso, “For Osborn, his recognition, 1697”. A bit of light staining and edgewear, otherwise in very good condition. While late 18th century tavern licenses and recognitions are seen in the market with some regularity, 17th century documents of this sort are rare. This dates from just six years following the end of the Plymouth Colony. $2500.00



“the first important work in the gastronomical literature of Canada”

8. Diereville, [N]. Relation du Voyage Du Port Royal De L'Acadie, Ou De La Nouvelle France. Ensuite de la Relation, on a ajouté le Détail d'un combat donné entre les François & les Acadiens, contre les Anglois. Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Humbert, 1710. Duodecimo, [18], 236, [8] pages. Frontispiece. Second edition, likely unauthorized. Not a great deal is known of the author of this voyage to Acadia, although in some of the botanical literature he is described as a surgeon of Pont-l’Évêque. He spent one year in Acadia, landing at Port Royal, Nova Scotia. He observed the French and Amerindian population, and collected many plant specimens. Fortunately, he was a keen observer. According to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, “He shows a particular interest in fauna, and recounts his hunting and fishing trips, the fine drifting snow (which he calls foudrille) of the Canadian winter, the methods of making spruce beer and maple sugar; he describes the country of the aboiteaux (dikes), the customs of the Indians (and particularly their way of reviving drowned people by enemas of tobacco smoke), and the cooking of the Amerindians, the Acadians, and the seafarers. Culinary memories stimulate this gourmet, and the space that he allots to them makes of his account the first important work in the gastronomical literature of Canada.” Originally, the book was planned to be entirely in verse, and about one-third of the book remains in verse, but there were concerns for the book's salability, and much was converted to prose. The condition of the book is good only, in worn brown calf, gilt decorated spine, with a later paper spine label. The free front endpaper and frontispiece are whole but detached. Otherwise internally sound. With a partial bookplate of the Neander Library, the library of the Berlin-based church historian, Augustus Neander. After Neander's death in 1852, the Neander Library was sold at auction and purchased by Rochester University, in New York State (later The University of Rochester). [Sabin 20128]. $1500.00 9. [Liger, Louis] [Nicolas de Bonnefons]. Le Menage des Champs, et le Jardinier Francois accommodez au gout des temps: Dans lesquelles on peut apprende faciliment a apreter tout ce qui est necessaire pour l'usage de la vie a la Compagne, & meme de la Ville; & la maniere de cultiver parfaitement les Jardins fruitiers, potagers, & flueristes, avec un traite de la Chasse & de la Peche; Ouvrage utile a toutes sorte de personnes. Paris: Michel David, 1711. Octavo, [6], 536, [8] pages. Frontispiece, five leaves of folding plates. Second printing of the first edition. Michel David issued the title originally in 1710. A compilation of two seventeenth century works by Nicolas de Bonnefons, here issued under a royal privilege granted to Louis Liger, sieur d'Auxerre (1658-1717). The work is divided into four books, the first three concerning cooking, the fourth dealing with gardening, and with an additional brief treatise on hunting and fishing. Liger's compilation of de Bonnefons' work continued to be revised and reissued after his death and well into the eighteenth century. And rightly so. De Bonnefons' work recognizes the primacy of excellent ingredients. The final section is considered to be the first work on the kitchen garden. John Evelyn, who translated the work in 1658, called it “the first and best work of that kind that introduced the use of the olitorie garden to any purpose.” Contemporary full-calf, compartmented spine with gilt-tooled ornaments and title. Some wear to foot of spine and corners, and one leather chip absent from the rear panel. Several contemporary ownership inscriptions to endpapers, some signed “Drouilly”. Inkblot to verso of frontispiece has penetrated, and is visible in the engraved image. Overall, near very good. [Bitting, pages 287-288; Cagle 285-85 (later editions); Oberlé



refers to the earlier publication of de Bonnefons' work, but not the Liger editions; Vicaire 522-523]. $1500.00

with directions for the making and ordering of hop grounds

10. Bradley, Richard. New improvements of planting and gardening. Both philosophical and practical; explaining the notion of the sapp and generation of plants ... [WITH] The Gentleman and Gardener's Kalendar : directing what is necessary to be done every month in the kitchen-garden, fruit-garden, nursery, management of forest-trees, green-house, and flower-garden. With Directions for the Making and Ordering of Hop Grounds. by Richard Bradley ... ; also the design of a green-house ... contriv'd purposely for the good keeping of exotick plants by Seignior Galilei of Florence. The 3rd ed., to which is now added an abstract of the several acts of Parliament to encourage the planting of timber trees... London: Printed for W. Mears at the Lamb without Temple Bar, 1719-1720 & 1720. Three volumes bound as one. Thick octavos, 71+ 136 + 290 [2] pages. Third editions, corrected. [&] [2], xv, 124 pages. [2] leaves of plates. Illustrated, in all, with 11 engraved plates. Third edition, corrected. New Improvements and the Kalendar were often bound together as such. Bradley (ca. 1688-1732) was an English botanist and gardener, appointed to be the first Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the first to publish a pineapple recipe in English. Fussell’s Old English Farming Books affords Bradley an entire chapter, but only on the grounds that Bradley was the most prolific author of the period 1700-1730. Very good, with all plates present, rebound in modern half-calf, with raised bands and ornamented compartments. [Fussell, page 108] $1500.00 11. [Glasse, Hannah]. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, by a Lady. London: printed for the author, 1748. Octavo, iv+[28]+330 pages. Third edition of the most successful and influential English cookbook of the eighteenth century. Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) was the wife of an attorney and the mother of eight children. She published the first edition of her Art of Cookery -- a work she boasted “far exceeds any Thing of the Kind ever yet published” -- in 1747. It went through eight editions in her lifetime and was not supplanted as a culinary authority until the work of Isabella Beeton appeared in 1861. Oberlé notes that the author “Severely condemns the extravagance of French cooking.” General wear and staining throughout. Original calf boards worn and crushed at corners. Rebacked with a now somewhat brittle calf, with raised bands and a gilt-stamped red morocco spine label. Still a good or better copy. All early editions of this title are scarce. [Bitting 187; McLean page 59; Oxford page 77; Simon BG 763]. $2500.00 12. Marine Society. [Engraved invitation] The favour of your company is requested to dine with the Right Hon.ble Earl Romnen, President [...] Circa 1756. Broadside, 26.3 x 20.6cm. Illustrated invitation to dine with the Marine Society. Invitation names the President, Earl Romney, and Vice Presidents, a group comprised of earls, lords, admirals and lawyers. Unnamed on the invitation are the Society's Governors. The Marine Society was established in 1756 by the British philanthropist Jonas Hanway to encourage poor men and



boys to join the navy by offering food and clothing and some educational preparation. The Society is still active today. Some edgewear, otherwise fine condition. $250.00 13. Glasse, H[annah]. The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy. To Which are Added, One Hundred and Fifty New Receipts, A Copious Index, and a Modern Bill of Fare, for each Month, in the Manner the Dishes are placed upon the Table. Edinburgh: Printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1781. Octavo, vi, [18], 440, [24] pages. Folding table. Index. Scarce Edinburgh edition of the most successful and influential English cookbook of the eighteenth century. The folding table that is published in this volume first appeared in a “new” edition in 1774. Later full leather, with corners clumsily refreshed, gilt-lettered spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, preliminary pages moderately foxed and with scattered light foxing to text, light additional wear, overall good. [OCLC locates only a single copy of this edition, at the Schlesinger Library; Cagle 695-706]. $1000.00 14. [Colonial Bar Tabs]. Tavern Keeper's Account Book. Sterling, Mass., December 1785-1786. Sterling, MA: 1785. Duodecimo, 24 pages of accounts. Waste-paper wrappers bound on cord. A drink-by-drink, day-by-day accounting of flips, toddies, slings, mugs of brandy, rum, etc. illustrating the drinking habits of 18th century New England. There are occasional entries for rum and brandy in larger amounts as well as meals, salt, sugar, paper, and in one instance, “one cake of chocolate”. While the keeper of these accounts remains anonymous, “Sterling” is written several times on the wrappers and an number of names here are to be found in that town’s early records. General wear and staining, but the condition is remarkable given its expected purpose and likely location in a business, behind the bar. We've seen before tavern or inn account books which record transactions with suppliers, but not the accounts, or “tabs” of customers, which gives us a better record of colonial American drinking habits. $1200.00 15. Stratton and Crouder. [Early Stove Broadside] Stratton and Crouder's Manufactory and Warehouse, Near the Magdalen, Blackfriers-Road, For the Following New and Patent Inventions. [London]: [circa 1795]. Broadside, 40.2 x 23.9/22.5 cm. Illustrated with elaborate engravings. Large broadside advertising the "Patent Anti-fuelist Smoak-Jack", the "Patent Magic Stove", and "Patent Alarums, to prevent House-Breaking or Accidents by Fire". With just a 12-inch fire, the "Patent Anti-fuelist Smoak-Jack, &c." can roast roast, boil, broil, and fry the length of 6 feet "at the same Time that it heats a large Oven", illustrating, seemingly, the influence of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford's 1790s experiments with radiant heat and various contemporary improvements to fuel-efficiency. discoveries regarding radiant heat. Good for laundry and also portable, "Cooking may be performed in the Field or open Air... a Machine, with Table and Cooking Apparatus, to dress Dinner for the most extensive purpose, may be packed up in 2 Feet 6 Inches square, and unpacked and heated ready for the above extraordinary purpose in 15 minutes." Detailed diagram with key illustrations various attributes, including the smoke-jack that enables spit-roasting vertically and horizontally. Large engraving of Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom appears at the top of the broadside. Printed on paper with 1795



watermark. Unevenly trimmed margin and fold creases, otherwise very good. [RLIN-ESTC indicates British Library only]. $2750.00

a rare Viennese cookbook for the middle class

16. Stocklinn, Franziska. Die Burgerliche Wiener Kuchinn, oder die Neue Wiener Kochschule, fur, Bergerfamilien aus der gebildeten Mittelklasse. Wien [Vienna]: Zu haben in R. Sammer's Buchhandlung, n.d. c. 1798. Small octavo, 300, [20] pages. The work was also issued with an alternate title, Neue Wiener Koch-Schule für Frauenzimmer, by Binz in 1798, and exists in one recorded copy at Gottingen. Perhaps the intention was to place the book within another market, as this issue is targeted to “Berger families from the educated Middle Class.” Stocklin was a cooking instructor, which is alluded to in the title here, and explicit on the title page of the other volume, where the book is described as, “after the private lessons of the famous Mrs. Franziska Stocklin.” Bound in three-quarter black cloth with gilt-decorated spine, with some wear to foot of spine. Original wrappers bound in. Some light soiling to wrappers and throughout, otherwise near very good. With the bookplate and ink signature of the hotelier Ferdinand Peter Sperl, who was born in The Hotel Bristol, Bern, Switzerland. Rare. [OCLC locates no copies under this title, and only one of Neue Wiener...; neither appears in Cagle, Bitting, Vicaire or Horn-Arndt]. $1200.00 17. Briggs, Richard. The New Art of Cookery; According to the Present Practice; Being a Complete Guide to all Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New; consisting of Thirty-eight Chapters .... With Bills of Fare for every Month in the Year, Neatly and Correctly Printed. Boston: Printed for W. Spotswood, 1798. Octavo, xxiii, [1], 444 pp. Twenty-four additional pages of illustrations of monthly bills of fare. Table of contents. Second American edition, improved. Briggs is identified on the title page as “many years cook at the Globe Tavern, Fleet-Street, the White Hart Tavern, Holborn, and now principal of the Temple Coffee-House, London.” The first edition of his English Art of Cookery was published in London in 1788, and the book quickly crossed the Atlantic to the newly independent United States. The first American edition of the New Art of Cookery was published in Philadelphia in 1792, and this improved, second American edition soon followed. An interesting case study in the transmission of texts; all early editions of Briggs's work are quite scarce. Period full leather, rebacked with modern leather and period gilt-lettered spine label. Paper age-toned, hinges repaired and reinforced, older leather well-rubbed, two leaves with closed tears, overall near very good. [OCLC locates 15 copies; Lowenstein 25; see also Axford, page 90; Bitting, page 60]. $2250.00 18. Collection of Original French Liqueur Labels. Labels circa 1800. 15.2 cm x 9 cm, unpaginated with 71 leaves/142 pages. Luxurious leather notebook used in a scrapbook-style to house a collection of French liqueur labels. 28 labels affixed to line-ruled pages. Labels are for the following liqueurs: Nectar des Mexicains, Crême de Bobelina, Eau-de-vie de Cognac, Creme de Noyaux, Broux de Noix, Huile de Cacao, Crême de Cedrat, Crême de Citron, Crême de Cachoux, Kirsch de la Forêt Noire, Creme de Framboises, Curaçao de Hollande, Creme de Canelle, Fine Orange, Élixie de Garus, Liquor de la Martine, Crême a la Giraffe , Creme d’Absinthe, Depiqueset des Piques, Crême de Menthe, and Eau de Fleur d’Orange. Sixteen labels are hand-colored and fourteen of the colored labels were engraved by Polier, a French engraver and printer active circa 1770-1800. Several labels have “Dr. Claude”



inscribed in pencil on their verso. Notebook is bound in rich green leather with a stamped spine and border design; gold stamp featuring three fleurs-de-lis arranged in a cartouche of flags topped with a crown is centered on the front and back covers. All edges gilt. Waxy pink endpaper has stationer’s ticket—Ruel, Md. Papetier, Rue St. Jacques, No.r 174, a Paris—on front pastedown; rear pastedown has pencil inscription from later owner. Slight bumping to corners; pages have some slight foxing, otherwise fine. $1200.00 19. M'Mahon, Bernard [McMahon]. American Gardener's Calendar; Adapted to the Climate and Seasons of the United States; Containing a Complete Account of all the Work Necessary to be Done in the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Flower-Garden, Orchard, Pleasure-Ground, Vineyard, etc, etc. Philadelphia: B. Graves for the author, 1806. Large, thick octavo, v, [1], 648 pages, plus folding table and [18] page index. First edition. “Bernard M'Mahon (1775-1818), an Irishman, came to America in 1796, and went at once to Philadelphia, where he founded a successful seed and nursery business. He served horticulture best by publishing in 1806, in Philadelphia, his excellent The American Gardener’s Calendar. For fifty years the book was the standard authority in America.” (Hedrick). Some foxing and a few stains to interior, with an early bookplate, “Princeton Library” and a later rubber stamp of an owner in Kewaunee Co. Wisconsin. In scuffed and worn full-calf, with red calf spine label. Generally good. [Rink 1647; Sabin 43560; Hedrick, page 197]. $800.00 20. Laurent Grimod de La Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar. Manuel des Amphitryons ; contenant un Traité de la Dissection des viandes à table, la Nomenclature des Menus les plus nouveaux pour chaque saison, et des Elémens de Politesse gourmande [...] Par l'auteur de l'Almanach des Gourmands. Paris: Chez Capelle et Renand, 1808. Octavo, [1-5] 6-384 pages. First edition. From the first restaurant reviewer and one of the great French gastronomes, this is a classic treatise on the carving of meats, proper creation of menus, and manners at table. In quarter red calf, with marbled boards, and black and gilt-decorated spine. Dark stain to front edge of several leaves, including six plates. Otherwise generally very good. [Bitting, 203; Vicaire 427-428; Simon, 805; Oberlé, 135]. $3500.00 21. Brillat-Savarin, [Jean-Anthelme]. One page ALS. 1818. One-page ALS, eighteen lines in the hand of and signed by the great epicure and gastronome, Brillat-Savarin, the author of the magnificent Le Physiologie du Gout. Brillat-Savarin was a lawyer and politician, and this letter finds its origin in his legal work. The letter bears three stamps of the Loi de 1816, a tax instituted to restore credit to the state after the financial turmoil of the First Empire. The letter is dated “le quinze novembre dix huit cent dix huit.” A tiny bit of foxing to the laid paper, and horizontal and vertical fold marks, otherwise in fine condition. $1500.00 22. [English Manuscript Cookery Book]. Dann’s Book, Susan Dann, 10 September 1821. N.p. [England]: 1821-1853. Octavo, 78 leaves. 150 pages of manuscript recipes in five or more hands. In full, ruled vellum, with remains of a clasp. A few pages



excised at both front and rear of volume. Dent to the fore edge of some pages. Some recipes tete-beche. The earliest dated recipe is “Diet Bread”, and the latest, “1853 Rice Cakes. Other recipes include: “Timballo di Macaroni”, “to brew porter”, “to brew Ale, very excellent”, “curry balls for mock turtle, veal, poultry…”, “to preserve oranges whole”, “cakes for schools”, and “mock ice cream”. Several festival menus are included as well, “Harvest Supper 1842” and “Cooked for the Sale 1851”. Medical recipes include, “American receipts for the Rheumation” and “Used by his Majesty George 4th for indigestion”. Overall very good. $500.00 23. Beauvilliers, A. B. [Antoine]. The Art of French Cookery. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824. Octavo, xv, 380 pages. First English edition of this important cookbook by “one of the most famous early nineteenth century Paris restaurateurs. ...Beauvilliers stands as the first and most easily recognized example of a restaurateur as a democratization of what had once been an aristocratic privilege.” (Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant). André Simon call this book, “at the time of its publication easily the best and most reliable both in French and in English.” (Bibliotheca Gastronomica). The author's famous restaurant, originally eponymous and later the Grandes Taverne des Londres, closed the year after this English edition was published. Internally with a bit of light foxing and a few light pencil check marks. Three quarters of an inch of corner of free front end paper torn away. Publisher's advertisement glued to front pastedown, and with the bookseller's ticket of Merridew in Warwick. In original blue paper-covered boards over brown paper spine with printed label. Much of the spine paper is perished, and the hinges are cracked, but the text block is solid, and the paper remains supple. Scarce in this edition. Only one copy has appeared at auction in the past several decades. [OCLC locates 12 copies of this edition; Bitting, page 31; Cagle 559; Oxford, page 155; Simon BG 184; Vicaire cites the French editions only]. $1000.00

the most famous treatise on gastronomy

24. Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. Physiologie du gout, ou meditation de gastronomie transcendante; ouvrage theorique, historique et a l'ordre du jour, dedie aux gastronmie parisiens. Paris: Sautelet et Cie., 1826. Two volumes, octavo, xiv, 390 & 442 pages. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards. Light wear at extremities, otherwise in very good condition. First edition of the most famous treatise on gastronomy. The Physiology of Taste was published in an edition of 500 copies, appearing only two months after the author's death. The book is a comprehensive philosophy of the palate and of the table, and far beyond, presented in a series of thirty meditations on subjects such as the senses, taste, appetite, gastronomy, restaurateurs, cooking, fasting, obesity, death, sleep, rest and dreams. An attorney and magistrate, Brillat-Savarin fled France during the Terror, living in Switzerland and New York until his return after the fall of Robespierre in 1796. The present work secured his eternal fame among gastronomes. M.F.K. Fisher commends the work for its straightforward and unornamented prose in an era of florid writing, but the intellectual range and invention of the work is anything but simple. At the very outset: “1. The Universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives eats. 2. Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating. 3. The destiny of nations



depends on how they nourish themselves.” It may be noted that Brillat-Savarin regularly refers to his gastronomic experience in America. [Cagle 98; Crahan 491; Oberle 144; Vicaire 116; Wheaton & Kelly 860]. $15,000.00

a presentation copy of the greatest chef's greatest work

25. Carême, M. A. Le cuisinier parisien : ou, L'art de la cuisine française au dix-neuvième siècle ; traité élémentaire et pratique des entrées froides, des socles, et de l'entremets de sucre ; suivi d'observations utiles aux progrès de ces deux parties de la cuisine moderne. Paris: Galerie de Bossange père, 1828. Octavo, 422 pages. Engraved title page and 24 leaves of folded plates illustrating elaborate pastry dishes. Second edition, revised, corrected and augmented, issued in the same year as the first edition. The most famous work of the greatest French chef of the 19th Century. In marbled boards over brown calf spine, with gilt and black-tooled ornaments. Some light foxing to a few pages. Hinges worn, and boards starting to pull. Scarce. Signed by the great chef, as called for on the advert page, but additionally inscribed on the half-title, “hommage affectieux de l'auteur.” [Bitting 74 (later editions); Cagle 120; Horn-Arndt 404; Oberlé 188; Vicaire 146]. $5000.00 26. [Temperance] New-Hampshire Society for the Promotion of Temperance. First Annual Report of the New-Hampshire Society for the Promotion of Temperance, ... June 2, 1830, ... with the Address of Rev. President Lord, upon the same occasion. Concord: Printed by Asa M'Farland, 1830. Octavo-sized pamphlet, 16 pages. First edition. some light foxing, otherwise very good, in plain wrapper. [OCLC locates 5 copies; Sabin 52887]. $100.00

“The first book ever published devoted entirely to mixed drinks”

27. Cook, Richard. Oxford Night Caps, being a collection of receipts for making various beverages used in the university. A new edition, enlarged. Oxford/London: for Henry Slatter; Longman & Co., and Whittaker and Co., 1835. Octavo in wrappers, iv, 43 pages. Third edition, following the first of 1827, and the second of 1835. "The first book ever published devoted entirely to mixed drinks." (David Wondrich in Punch) Although this book is clearly English, and intended for use by the already imbibing students of Oxford University, and printed by an Oxford printer, it provides an excellent glimpse into the general mixing of spirits in the period prior to the cocktail era signaled, although not started, by Jerry Thomas' very American Bar-Tender's Guide (1862). Drinks lean into the 18th century and earlier, with wine-based Cups, Metheglin and Sack Possetts, although a few items bring it more up-to-date. Original wrappers, rear panel abraided, with some loss to the text, which lists other publications of Henry Slatter. General soiling to wrappers, but still near very good. All editions are rare. [OCLC 5; Noling, Beverage Literature (later edition), page 114]. $2500.00



“The most influential cookbook of the nineteenth century” - Karen Hess

28. Randolph, Mary. The Virginia Housewife: or, Methodical Cook. Stereotype Edition, with Amendments and Additions. Baltimore: Published by John Plaskitt, 218 Market Street, 1836. Octavo, 180 pages. Fifth edition, Baltimore [1836] printing. Stereotyped plates for this edition were made in 1831 and used for later printings through 1860. The first edition was published in 1824. The first regional cookbook published in America. Karen Hess called this book “The most influential American cookbook of the nineteenth century... and a case may be made for considering it to be the earliest full-blown American cookbook” [from the introduction to the facsimile edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 1984]. Some contemporary ink death notices to front endpapers. Light foxing and a bit of staining throughout. Pinholes to front and rear blanks and one or two text pages from clippings, etc. In original full brown speckled calf, with gilt-ruled, but unlabeled spine. Some loss to the foot of the spine and a spot of loss to the head. Still, a not unattractive copy of a book scarce in the market in all early printings. [Bitting page 388; Cagle 629 (this edition, 1831 printing); Lowenstein 203]. $1200.00 29. Graham, Sylvester. A Treatise on Bread or Bread-making. Boston: Light & Stearns 1 Cornhill, 1837. 9.5x15cm. [2], [3]-131 pages + 12 ads. First edition. Sylvester Graham began his career as a temperance reformer but soon expanded his efforts to control the affairs of the stomach to beyond alcohol. Against the backdrop of fear that the European cholera epidemic would soon arrive on American shores, Graham developed a theory of healthy living which included well-ventilated rooms, exercise, and regular baths, as well as a vegetarian diet. The diet consisted mostly of fruits and vegetables and bread from unbolted flour or coarse ground grain. Graham had other, more controversial, theories as well, about sexual self-restraint and the connection between spirituality and physiology. His lectures frequently caused a commotion, including an 1847 altercation during which “a mob of Boston bakers attacked Graham while he was extemporizing on the evils of consuming commercially produced bread and the dietary value of unbolted flour. The riotous bakers were subdued when Graham's followers shoveled slaked lime from the windows of the lecture hall onto the crowd below.” (American National Biography). But it is for the Graham Cracker, loosely based on his bread from coarsely-ground grain, for which he is best remembered today. Foxing throughout, half-inch chip to the edge of one page, not affecting text, hinged reinforced, contemporary ownership blind-stamp to front fly, moderate edgwear and some chipping to the patterned, gilt-titled, brown cloth. Still sound and complete. Good plus. A scarce title. [American Imprints 4459; Axford page 397; Bitting page 197; Cagle 301; Lowenstein 211; Streeter 4186; Wheaton 2484]. $1500.00 30. [Temperance]. Opinions of the press in relation to the liquor traffic, and the morals of Boston. Boston: Temperance Standard Press, 1846. Octavo-sized pamphlet, 63, [1] pages. Index. First edition. The authors extoll the virtues of Boston, and discuss alcohol's effects on the progress of the city. “But amid all these blessings, there are many evils - evils of increasing magnitude and strength, which, unchecked, portend destruction. Prominent among them, is intemperance.” Near fine, in plain wrappers. [OCLC locates 14 copies; Sabin 6538]. $90.00



31. Franck, William. Traité sur les Vins du Médoc et les autres Vins Rouge et Blancs du Département de la Gironde. 3rd Edition. Bordeaux: P. Chaumas, Libraire-Editeur, 1853. Octavo, 326 pages, 5 folding tables, 24 plates. Lacking the folding map. One of a number of books that were published on the heels of the Restoration (the first edition of this work was 1824`). Clive Coates puts it among “the first comprehensive accounts of the wines of Bordeaux” (Grand Vins, 1995). Some light soiling internally, pulled at the title page/frontispiece, otherwise very good. In publisher's half green calf, over marbled boards. With the ownership signature, “Property of Frederick Wildman, NY City, Sept. 1933”. Dated three months before prohibition, and prior to the founding of the firm that was to become Frederick Wildman & Sons Ltd. (founded in 1934), the oldest, still-operating wine importer in the United States. [Simon BV page 95; Simon G page 69]. $1500.00 32. Brillat-Savarin, [Jean Anthelme]. The Physiology of Taste; Or Transcendental Gastronomy. Illustrated By Anecdotes of Distinguished Artists and Statesmen of Both Continents. Translated From the Last Paris Edition By Fayette Robinson. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1854. Octavo, xx, 237, [4] ads, pages. First American edition and the first English language translation of the greatest work on gastronomy. Internally very good, with the text block tight and clean. In publisher's gilt and blind stamped decorated brown cloth, with significant wear to the head and foot of the spine. This edition is fairly scarce in the trade, with only three copies coming to auction since 1965. [Cagle 103; Lowenstein 639; Not in Bitting, Horn-Arndt, Maggs, Oberlé, Simon, or Vicaire]. $500.00

a handsome and early facsimile edition of a classic of gardening literature

33. Lawson, William. A new orchard and garden:, or, the best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdom of England as in nature, reason, situation and all probablilite, may and doth appeare. : With the country housewifes garden for herbs of common use, their virtues, seasons, profits, ornaments, varietie of knots, models for trees, and plots for best ordering of grounds and walkes. : As also the husbandry of bees with their severall uses and annoyances, all being the experience of 48. yeeres labour, and now the third time corrected and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home and preservation. Printed at London by J. H. for Francis Williams. 1626. Philadelphia: Robert Pearsall Smith, 1858. Octavo, 39, [1] pages. Illustrated. This edition is drawn from that printed at London by J. H. for Francis Williams in 1626, and first printed 1618. A facsimile of the original orchardist's and pleasure garden manual, considered “among the treasures of early gardening literature... While making lots of suggestions about the practice of gardening and growing fruit trees, he is particularly interested in the layout and design of orchard and pleasure garden. There are some fine woodcuts of knot-gardens and a garden layout. He is also full of information about beekeeping. And at the end of the two main works, there are two contemporary pamphlets on grafting and on picking, packing and transporting fruit.” [text introducing the Prospect Books facsimile (2003)]. Some evidence of dog earring and



light soiling throughout. In limp blind ruled and gilt-stamped dark green cloth. Inscribed on the free front endpaper by John Jay Smith, father of the publisher Robert Pearsall Smith, to Elizabeth and Margaretta Morris, sisters and both significant scientists, the later the first female member of the American Academy of Science. $350.00 34. Root, Riley. Root's New Process for Clarifying Chinese & Other Cane juices. Patented October 8th, 1861. Galesburg, Ill: Charles Faxon, Book and Job Printer, 1861. Folded folio sheet. 7, [1] pages. From the author of Journal of Travels from St. Josephs to Oregon. Root was a pioneer and early settler of Log City, Illinois and later Galesburg, where he built, almost single handedly, the first grain mill. He also patented the rotary snow blower. Other inventions included the spirit-filled level and the glass fruit jar. With two pencil annotations, on the front page, “Dunbar” and along the edge of an interior page, “Put the Clay into the Cooler Instead of the Heater”. [OCLC locates only three copies, at the Huntington, Knox College, and UC Berkeley]. $400.00

Cafes et Cabarets de Paris, extra illustrated

35. Delvau, Alfred. Histoire Anecdotique des Cafes et Cabarets de Paris, Avec Dessins et Eaux-fortes de Gustave Corbet, Leopold Flamend et Felicien Rops [Extra-Illustrated]. Paris: E. Dentu, Librarie de la Societe des Gens des Lettres, 1862. Octavo, xvii, 298 pages. First edition. Frontispiece and six etchings in the text. Extra-illustrated with an autograph letter and thirty-one additional illustrations, mostly portraits of notable French men of letters, habitueés of the cafés mentioned in the text, bound in. The letter is from actor Augustin Dogemonot and bears the embossed seal of the Theatre du Palais-Royal. Bound in three-quarter brown morocco, spine with five raised bands, tooled gilt design, black spine label. Leather rubbed at extremities, but binding tight and hinges secure. Overall, near very good. With the bookplate of Edward Joseph Dent. $750.00

some early American food criticism

36. Barber, Joseph. Crumbs from the Round Table. A Feast for Epicures. New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1866. Small octavo, 106 pages + 6 ads. First edition. A collection of articles that appeared in the journal, “The Round Table” (1863-64). In a preface, the author is described as “a culinary critic, fisherman, and singer of country lyrics”. The collection includes some “Epigastric Poetry”; an interesting, and disapproving, essay on “Vegetarians and Vegetables”, and an attack on what he views as low habits of Americans which inhibit the development of a real cuisine (including a propensity to bake rather than roast). A fine copy, in publisher's gilt stamped green boards with beveled edges. From the library of Alan Davidson, with his bookplate, and with the additional bookplate of The Cookery Collection of Mrs. Thomas Scruggs and Margaret Cook. [not in Cagle or Bitting]. $350.00



37. De Voe, Thomas F. The Market Assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1867. Thick octavo, 455 pages + 15 ads. Illustrated. First edition, second printing. Thomas F. De Voe, was a butcher at Jefferson Market in New York's Greenwich Village, and he is depicted as such in the handsome frontispiece to the book. De Voe was working as a city butcher at just the moment when improvements in transportation brought increasing abundance to its open air food markets. Food historian Anne Vileisis, in her book, Kitchen Literacy, calls De Voe “no ordinary butcher. He might more aptly be described as an epicure naturalist, and it is this naturalist inclination that makes him so fascinating.” One small nick where a page was carelessly opened, otherwise a fine copy in publisher's blind ruled and gilt-lettered green cloth. $900.00 38. Mead, Peter B. An Elementary Treatise on American Grape Culture and Wine Making... Illustrated with Nearly 200 Engravings Drawn from Nature. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. Octavo, 483 pages. Illustrated. First edition. A classic of American grape culture and winemaking. Includes an interesting chapter on “Taste, as it Applies to Fruits” which which encourages a better understanding of flavor, and not decisions about what to plant not based solely on crop yield or hardiness. The illustrations, by Henry Holton, are handsome, and fit a book with “paper and typography of a quality uncommon in trade publications of the time” (Gabler). Previous owner inscription, some very light wear to head and foot of spine, otherwise very good in decorated gilt-stamped and beveled green cloth. [Amerine & Borg 2290; Cagle 529; Gabler G30586; Longone N-12]. $500.00 39. Ashworth, Thomas. The Salmon Fisheries of England, 1868, From Authentic Information Obtained from the House of Commons, to Which is Added Valuable and Exclusive Information, Extracted from the Reports of the Commissioners of Fisheries in France, America, Norway, & Russia. London/Bath: Longmans, Green, & Co./William Lewis, “Directory” Office, 1868. Small octavo, 17.6 x 11.3 cm, 117 pages. First edition. Color lithographed frontispiece. A digest of the issues and failing policies facing British salmon fisheries. Threats to fisheries throughout the North Atlantic arose in the 19th century, and despite many laws to regulate salmon in England, all proved ineffectual. Thomas Ashworth expands the issue beyond the British quandary to include extracts from the related and corresponding policies and solutions of New England (with specific reference to Maine), France, Norway, and Russia. Text, clean, unmarked, very minor toning. Half dark blue morocco, marbled boards, covers tooled in gilt, raised bands, spine titled and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; binding square and tight, minor rubbing. Inscription on one of the front blanks, “Alfred Denison May 15, 1868 with Major Scott's compliments.” Bound for Clan Melville, with their oval leather label, gilt device and border, at upper left of front paste down. Very good. [OCLC locates just three copies]. $600.00



40. Reasor, James A. Treatise on the Hog: His Habits, Breeds, Management, and Diseases. With special reference to the Disease called Hog Cholera. together with a Chapter on Trichina. Louisville, KY: John P Morton and Company, 1870. Octavo, 312 pages. Illustrated. First edition. From the history of the hog and its domestication, to physiology and diseases, a thorough guide from a Jefferson County, KY author. The author discusses various breeds, and illustrates plans for hog houses. But in particular, the author sets out to describe the disease known as Hog Cholera, and to offer his prescription for eliminating the disease. Some light damp staining to edges of a few pages, light foxing throughout, bit of wear to endpapers, otherwise very good, in blind- and gilt-stamped green cloth, with a tiny bit of wear to head of spine. Scarce in the trade. [OCLC locates 14 copies]. $500.00

the first Minnesota cookbook

41. Family Friend. [Cover title]; These recipes were collected by the Parish Aid Society of Ascension Church, for the benefit of the Church Furnishing Fund. Minneapolis [Stillwater]: Johnson & Smith, Steam Printers, [1874]. Octavo, 71 [1] pages. Ads throughout, and interleaved blanks. First edition of the first Minnesota cookbook, a church/charitable cookbook. Although the book was printed in Minneapolis, the Ascension Church was(is) located in Stillwater, and the ads are all for Stillwater businesses. The publication date of 1874 is drawn from an ad dated, “April, 1874”. A revised and expanded edition was issued in 1906, and at the time of Margaret Cook's research, was the only reference to this work. Many of the recipes are attributed. Sections include, “Soups and Meat”, “Biscuits and Bread”, “Cake”, “Puddings and Pies”, “Pickles”, and “Miscellaneous”. A few pages are dog-earred and there is occasional spotting and foxing throughout. One early and small ink correction to a recipe. In half-black calf, with marbled boards, and a printed title label pasted down. There is chipping to the spine, and the hinges have started, but still better than this sounds, and near very good. Rare. [OCLC locates one incomplete copy, lacking its boards, at Minnesota Historical; Cook describes the book as unlocated but referenced in the 1906 revised work]. $1500.00 42. Burnham, Geo. P. [George Pickering]. The game fowl : for the pit, or the spit : How to mate, feed, breed, handle and match them : with practical suggestions as to cures for their peculiar ills and ails. Melrose, MA: by the author, 1877. Octavo, 58 pages. Illustrated in the text, with two plates, plus one color frontispiece. First edition. A thorough, and early, survey of American game fowl, and their culinary and pugilistic applications. With images and descriptions of various steel gaffs for fighting use. Includes a directory of suppliers of various breeds of game fowl. The color frontispiece of “Earl of Derby, printed on blue paper stock, is quite handsome. Lower right corner a bit bumped, paper covered card stock soiled, with some loss at the spine. Still, better than good. In a red cloth slipcase, with chemise. Spine of the slipcase, with gilt stamped label, is sunned, Rare. [OCLC locates just one copy of this first edition, at the Huntington Library; Norris, Books on Poultry & Cock-Fighting 509].] $1200.00



43. Thayer & Co., Henry. Descriptive Catalogue of Fluid and Solid Extracts, also Pills, Resinoids, and Alkaloids, Prepared by Henry Thayer & Co. With Formulas and Receipts. Cambridgeport, Mass: Henry Thayer & Co. , 1877. Large octavo, 269 pages. First edition of this interesting collection of recipes medicinal and otherwise drawn from vegetable chemistry. Much of the book is arranged alphabetically by the name of the useful plant. Includes medicines, syrups, extracts, tinctures, infusions, concentrations, balms, ointments, washes, liniments, drops, powders, solutions, uses in wine, uses as food supplements, hair restoratives, creams, & hair dyes, hair pomades, deodorizing powder, skin creams, cough remedies, herbals, flowers, roots, seeds, sugar coated pills, fragrant oils, cooking extracts, teas, biscuits, puddings, sodas, dyes, ink, druggist colors, home remedies, and much more. With a section at the end of recipes drawn from John French's 1651 alchemical work, The Art of Distillation, including the famous recipe for “A Famous Spirit Made Out of Cranium-Mumanum.” Previous owner's name to front endpapers a few times, otherwise internally very good. Publisher's gilt stamped green cloth is bright, but has two good-sized chips out of the spine and some edgewear. $350.00 44. Tovey, Charles. Wine and Wine Countries: A Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers . . . New Edition. London: Whittaker & Co., 1877. Small octavo, viii, 519, [1], 7 pages. Photographic frontispiece portrait, engraved title page, 20 plates (one folding). Second edition, following the first which appeared in 1862. An attractive work on wines and wine producers, with a decidedly English slant -- port and sherries, Madeira, champagne, etc. --though the wines of France, Germany (and even Australia) come in for their due. André Simon writes that the author relies heavily on Henderson, Redding and others. Gabler reports that Tovey operated a still as a young boy, and “thus he acquired a lifelong acquaintance with various kinds of spirits...” Of this work, Gabler writes, “He combines these [classic] wine sources with his own knowledge of the subject. The blend makes for interesting reading.” Original decorated green cloth, gilt lettering. Edges of the text block foxed (with some foxing to the leaves around the lithographic plates, which are clean and attractive). Small chip from corner of the mount of the frontispiece (neatly repaired). Just a trifle rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. Scarce. [Gabler G41410; Simon, Bibliotheca Vinaria 10, 14; not found in Bitting or Vicaire]. $600.00 45. [Soda Fountain] James W. Tufts. Illustrations of James W. Tufts Arctic Soda Water Apparatus. Boston: John Wilson & Son/University Press, 1880. Duodecimo, unpaginated (~100 pages). Profusely illustrated. First edition. A beautifully produced trade catalogue of bottlers' machinery and soda water apparatus, predominantly illustrations. The first section is given over to the stunning Victorian soda fountains (and one understands why they are called “fountains”, including the Centennial Globe Apparatus for the Centennial Exposition. The last third of the catalogue contains the more mechanical aspects of soda water generation, including pumps, valves, siphon fillers, and more. Internally near fine, in illustrated wrappers with one corner chip and one dog ear. [OCLC locates one copy of this catalogue, at the University of Virginia; Romaine, page 153]. $500.00



46. [Soda Fountain] James W. Tufts . The Arctic Soda Water Apparatus, for Dispensing Bottling and Manufacturing. Boston: John Wilson & Son/University Press, 1888. Quarto-sized, stapled booklet, unpaginated (16 pages). Profusely illustrated. First edition. A beautifully produced trade catalogue of bottlers' machinery and soda water apparatus, predominantly illustrations. Each page contains a single item: The Nanon, Orleans, Mayflower, Norman, Dominion, Ursuline, Quincy, Western Queen, and the smaller Imperial and Franciscan. The text for each page is also engraved, with dynamic typography and background textures. The pages throughout show a crease line from having been folded, and there is some light edge wear and soiling, otherwise very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates one copy of this catalogue, at the Baker Library at Harvard Business School; Romaine, page 153 lists other Tufts catalogues]. $600.00 47. [Shaker] White, A.J. The Story of the Shakers and Some of Their Favorite Cooking Recipes. Calendar for 1882-3. New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, 1882. Stapled booklet, 32 pages. Illustrated throughout. The second of the A.J. White Shaker almanacs. These promotional booklets, advertising the “Shaker Extract of Root” was manufactured by the Mount Lebanon, New York United Society of Believers Community, but based on the recipes of Andrew Judson White, who contracted the Shakers to supply the tonic. Shaker Almanacs were produced by White for many years, but just a few of them are dedicated to cookery, at least in name. This booklet does contain a variety of recipes for Shaker culinary recipes, as well as stories of their history, and other bits typical of the almanacs, but much of it is given over to glowing testimonials for the Shaker Extract of Root. A tiny bit of foxing throughout, otherwise fine, in publisher's illustrated wrappers. [Richmond, Shaker Literature 20]. $250.00 48. [Shaker] White, A.J. New Favorite Cooking Receipts of the Shakers and Illustrated Almanac for 1883. The Story of an Accidental Discovery. New York: A. J. White, 54 Warren Street, 1882. Stapled booklet, 32 pages. Illustrated throughout. The third of the A.J. White Shaker almanacs. These promotional booklets, advertising the “Shaker Extract of Root” was manufactured by the Mount Lebanon, New York United Society of Believers Community, but based on the recipes of Andrew Judson White, who contracted the Shakers to supply the tonic. Shaker Almanacs were produced by White for many years, but just a few of them are dedicated to cookery, at least in name. This booklet does contain a variety of recipes for Shaker culinary recipes, as well as stories of their history, and other bits typical of the almanacs, but much of it is given over to glowing testimonials for the Shaker Extract of Root. A tiny bit of foxing throughout, otherwise fine, in publisher's illustrated wrappers. [Richmond, Shaker Literature 21]. $250.00 49. Brillat-Savarin, [Jean Anthelme]. Physiologie du Gout. A Handbook of Gastronomy. New and Complete Translation, with Fifty-two original etchings by A. Lalauze. New York: J.W. Bouton, 1884. Thick octavo, 516 pages. First edition of this translation, the first complete edition in English. The book is a comprehensive philosophy of the palate and of the table, and far beyond, presented in a series of thirty meditations on subjects such as the senses, taste, appetite, gastronomy, restaurateurs, cooking, fasting,



obesity, death, sleep, rest and dreams. While there is no limitation indicated, the simultaneous U.K. edition, issued by Nimmo & Bain, was limited to 300 copies. The etchings by Lalauze were first issued in the 1879 Paris edition. All three editions contain a fine preface by the editor, Charles Monselet. Some very light foxing throughout, otherwise very good. Original blue cloth somewhat spotted and soiled, but near very good. [Bitting page 61; Cagle & Vicaire, other editions only]. $500.00 50. [Hearn, Lafcadio]. La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes, From Leading Chefs and Noted Creole Housewives, Who Have Made New Orleans Famous for its Cuisine. New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885. Octavo, 268 pages. First edition, state “A” according to BAL. A classic American cookbook, and one of the great classics of Creole cuisine. The first book on the subject, it was anonymously printed in 1885, but it is substantially accepted that Lafcadio Hearn is the author. This work has been almost continuously in print since this original issue. Some light wear to textblock at edges, a bit shaken. Some scuffing and edgewear to the brownish-green cloth with gold and black title and decorations to front board, dusty pink endpapers. Overall, a near very good copy. This copy comes from the extensive Hearn collection compiled by Grinnell Jones and contains a receipt dating from 1945 from Goodspeed's Book Shop selling the book to Mrs. Grinnell Jones for $60, as well as the original Goodspeed's price in pencil to the front pastedown. [Perkins, Lafcadio Hearn, A Bibliography, page 10; Johnson, American First Editions, page 94; BAL 7913; Bitting, page 221; Cagle 348; Uhler 115 (later edition)]. $4500.00 51. [Soda Fountain]. Smith, J. Gilbert; United Kingdom Mineral Water Trade Review & Guardian. The Mineral Water Maker's Manual for 1885. Being a Useful Handbook and Vade Mecum for the Trade. London: J. Gilbert Smith, 1885. Octavo, 111 pages. Profusely illustrated ads throughout. The second annual 'Manual' issued by this trade journal. Includes a section of recipes and formulae (syrups, cordials, brandies, meads, extracts, etc.), a descriptive list of trade marks, hints on bottle washing, coloring, the carbonation of cider, and more. Also includes a profile of Dublin mineral water manufacturers Cochrane and Cantrell, with an original photographic portrait of Henry Cochrane. By far, the star of this manual is the advertising, with many illustrated full-page ads for aerating and bottling machinery. Edges bumped and a bit dogeared, front hinge started, otherwise very good, in lightly soiled lavender paper-covered boards, over green cloth spine. Scarce. [OCLC locates 5 copies in all editions, just one in the US, at the National Library of Medicine; Noling, Beverage Literature cites 1887 edition]. $350.00 52. Monzert, L. The Independent Liquorist; or, the Art of Manufacturing and Preparing all kinds of cordials, syrups, bitters, wines, champagne, beer, punches, tinctures, extracts, essences, flavorings, colorings, Worcestershire sauce, club sauce, catsups, pickles, preserves, jams, jellies, etc., etc. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [n.d. circa 1886]. Octavo, 193 pages + 12 ads. Later printing. The ads include an announcement for Dick's Comic Dialogues, which were not published until 1886; thus our date. A thorough manual for the many stillroom items mentioned in the title, including bitters and cordials. The author studied



under chemist and botanist V.J. Moner, and operated as a wine merchant on New York's Bowery. His failure as a wine merchant he blames on “the inability of the South to meet its liabilties.” Some edgewear to the endpapers, some soiling to text block edges, and some wear and rubbing to the publisher's green cloth boards. Gilt spine lettering faded. Overall near very good. [OCLC indicates 21 copies of the 1866 first edition, and only 2 of this 1886 printing; Noling, Beverage Literature page 294]. $900.00 53. Ladies' Church Aid Society, M.E. Church. The Ladies' Handbook and Household Assistant : a manual of religious and table etiquette, a selection of choice recipes for plain and fancy cooking, and a compend of rules, tables, and suggestions of infinite value in every household. Keene, N.H.: Published in behalf of the Ladies' Church Aid Society, M.E. Church/Co-operative Pub. Co., Claremont, N.H. 1886. Octavo, 79, [12], pages. Ads. First edition. Includes information on etiquette of dinner parties, weddings, funerals, etc., followed by the recipes. Co-operative Publishing produced this title for many churches, varying prefaces and advertisements by denomination and town. Margaret Cook lists this title published in Hinsdale, Lebanon, Manchester and Portsmouth, all the same year and publisher. Printed mustard colored boards lightly soiled, otherwise very good or better. [OCLC locates only one copy, at the Schlesinger Library; Cook, page 159 identifies a copy at AAS]. $250.00 54. A Daughter of the Old Church. The Home Budget. Scraped Together and Tied Up for the Edification of Housekeeper's and Their Friends. And to Help Build the New Congregational Church, in Wakefield. Wakefield: Citizen and Banner Press, 1888. Large octavo, 68 pages. Ads. First edition. A charitable fundraising cookbook, but apparently authored by a single “Daughter of the Old Church”. According to Cook, there are no charitable books listed for Wakefield, including this one. Handsomely produced, with nicely designed pages, and an attractively decorated paper wrapper. Small tears at head and foot of wrapper spine, otherwise near fine. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; not in any of the relevant bibliographies]. $250.00 55. [Sample Book]. Cooke, Maud C. Three meals a day: A choice collection of valuable and reliable recipes in all classes of cookery and a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the home ... and a thousand facts worth knowing. [WITH] Die Tafel und die Kuche, ein sammlung... Chicago: Educational Company, 189_. Large octavo, approximately 150 pages. Sample book, with selections of pages from the much larger originals of this work in English and separately in German. Illustrated in the text and with several full page plates, printed in blue. Includes two pieces of folding ephemera advertising the book and a sale on same. Rear hinge pulling, a few pages dogearred, otherwise very good, in publisher's decorated cream color cloth. [OCLC locates no copies of the sample book]. $250.00



56. [Manuscript Cookery School Book] Manisier, Emily. West Ham Girls' School. Emily Manisier. Cookery Book. Class A. Commenced March 14th 1890. West Ham, England: 1890. Small quarto notebook, 44 pages. Manuscript cookery book of a student at the West Ham Girls' School, located in the London Borough of Newham. Genealogical evidence indicates that the author, Emily Manisier, found work as a housemaid in Staffordshire, and we hope her lovely handwriting kept her in good stead with her employer. The book, divided into two school semesters, records, in black and red ink and in a very neat hand, some simple recipes, each divided into 'Ingredients' and 'Method', including 'To Boil a Joint', 'Queen's Pudding', 'Boiled Apple Pudding', 'Shrewesbury Cake', and 'To Clean an Iron Sauce Pan'. Marbled boards over brown cloth spine, with a handwritten label pasted down. Generally very good. $400.00

an unrecorded soda water supply trade catalogue 57. [Soda Fountain]. Benton, Myers & Co. Manufacturers of Soda Water Supplies. Cleveland , O. Cleveland: n.p., c. 1889-1904. Small octavo, 47 pages. Illustrated with four chromolithograph plates. Trade catalogue, issued by the wholesale druggists and soda water supply company, Benton, Myers. & Co. (1882-1904). With a list of products from hot sodas to chocolate extracts, soda syrups, phosphates, ginger ales, “Cafola, a new kola drink” and much more. And with luscious chromo plates of a port wine and a non-sparkling champagne, both produced by the Duroy Wine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, as well as the beautiful “Crushed Fruit Bowl”, printed in silver, yellow and white, and another of “Bottles of Grape Juice” and “Buckeye Root Beer”. Very near fine, with a few pages with tiny dogears, and some rusting to the stapled text block, in beautiful multi-color chromolithographed wrappers. WITH; a four page leaflet, listing all wholesale houses throughout the US carrying the Benton, Myers wares, printed in red and black. Also fine. Rare. [OCLC cites no copies; not in Romaine]. $1250.00 58. Schmidt, William. The Flowing Bowl. When and What to Drink. Full Instructions How to Prepare, Mix and Serve Beverages. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co./Press of Jenkins & McCowan, 1892. Octavo, 294 pages + ads. First edition. Copyright 1891 but first published 1892. A classic cocktail recipe book, by the self-styled “Only William”, a German immigrant who opened the Bridge Saloon at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1884. He has been called the “Godfather of Modern Mixology” - an endlessly creative bartender who created drinks on a whim with imaginative ingredients. The hinges on this copy were cracked, and a sound but obvious repair is in evidence. Otherwise, a near very good copy, with the punchbowl decorating the silver and gilt-stamped illustrated boards bright. [Noling, page 363]. $500.00 59. Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini. Eight manuscript kitchen menu notebooks, and five menus. Rome: c. 1896-1931. Manuscript notebooks with menus for daily luncheons and dinners from the grand Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini, Rome. Five menus for presentation in the kitchen are also included. Over 1600 pages of manuscript menus in all. Despite the



Italian location of the Casino, all menus are all written in French and feature traditional French dishes (exception noted below): an example of the dominance and influence of French cuisine throughout the world. The déjeuner menus include, e.g.: Potage au tapioca, Oeufs en cocottes p. d’asperges, and Salade de legumes. From the diner menus: Consommé aux quenelles, Filet de boeuf garmé, and Glace à l’orange. Lunch features three to five items; dinner five to seven. Earlier notebooks are labeled, “Meunier”. One notebook dates to one month prior to the commencement of World War I; another includes guest lists featuring various shades of royalty. Each notebook is filled with as many menus as pages in a given volume, and each feature one hand, with occasional margin comments or menu adjustments in an alternate. Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini stands within Palazzo Pallavicini Rospiglios in Rome, which dates to the early 17th century. Built for the Cardinal Scipione Borghese over the ruins of the Baths of Constantine, the casino is home to an impressive collection of art, including paintings, sculptures and frescoes, and is still owned and operated by Rospigliosi-Pallavicini family today. Condition varies, but overall is good. • Mr. Meunier, 1896. 16.5 cm x 12.5 cm, unpaginated with 125 leaves/250 pages. Black

boards with paper label affixed to front. Boards discolored and binding very loose. Edges rubricated. Paper line-ruled.Some slight discoloration and staining to text, several pages torn.

• Mons. Meunier, 1897. 17.2 cm x 12 cm, unpaginated with 105 leaves/210 pages. Three-quarters into the text, for 13 pages, the daily menus change from French to Italian: déjeuner becomes colazione [breakfast] diner becomes pranzo [lunch]. Dishes are written in Italian, but still French in spirit. Black cloth boards with paper label affixed to front. Patterned end paper. Paper line-ruled.Text discolored slightly with age.

• Monsieur Meunier, 1899. 17 cm x 12 cm, unpaginated with 69 leaves/138 pages. Marbled end papers; marbled edges. Stationer’s stamp on front paste down. Purple image of a man’s head stamped on first page. Black boards with paper label on front are discolored. Paper line-ruled with some foxing.

• 1912. 18 cm x 13.2 cm, unpaginated with 93 leaves/186 pages. Paper line-ruled with “Menu” printed in blue on recto (blank verso). Black boards embossed with “Menu” and stationer’s name. Text all but separated from boards. Last three pages torn; notes/sketches appear on end pastedown.

• 1914. 18.5 cm x 13.5 cm, unpaginated with 102 leaves/ 204 pages. Paper line-ruled with “Menu” printed in blue on recto (blank verso). Black boards discolored and binding loose. Text with very slight foxing.

• 12 to 25, Avril-20, 1919-1920. 18.5 cm x 13.5 cm, unpaginated with 76 leaves/152 pages. Paper line-ruled with “Menu” printed in blue on recto (blank verso). Black boards with “Menu” embossed and paper label affixed to front, with some chipping and discoloration. Blue-gray end paper with some staining. Text slightly browned with age.

• 1930-1931. 18.5 cm x 13 cm. unpaginated with 81 leaves/162 pages. Five guest-lists are pasted-in throughout, featuring 7-9 names including various counts and dukes, and Princepessa Altieri [Princess Altieri]. Paper line-ruled with “Menu” printed in blue on recto (blank verso). Black cloth boards with a loop for writing implement. Six leaves are stuck together, slight staining throughout.

• Undated. 16. 5 cm x 11.5 cm, unpaginated with 91 leaves/182 pages. Paper line-ruled with “Menu” printed in blue on recto (blank verso). Brown cloth boards embossed



with “Menu” on the front. Boards discolored and binding very loose. Slight foxing and staining throughout.

Five menus, all handwritten on Aurora Pallavicini menu stationery. Staitionery includes a cartouche featuring a sepia-toned engraving of “L'Aurora” which was frescoed by Guido Reni (1613-1614) in the central hall of Casino dell’Aurora Pallavicini.

• Dejeuner XX-V-MCMXXVI [Lunch May 25, 1926], 19.5 cm x 10.7 cm. Features: Pompadours de crevettes, Còtelettes d’agneau Metternich, Feves à la crème, Grenadins de chevrenil Cumberland, Clunysois à l’orange.

• Dejeuner VII-II-MCMXXVII [Lunch February 7, 1927], 16.5 cm x 9 cm. Features: Oeufs Bohèmienne, Suprèmes devolaille Ivoire, Pointes d’asperges à la crème, Selle de chevrenil Chasseur, Gateau Excellence.

• Dejeuner VII-III-MCMXXVII [Lunch March 7, 1927], 16.5 cm x 9 cm. Features: Oeufs Aurore, Suprèmes de bècasses, Pointes d’asperges à la crème, Selle de prè salè Maraichèze, Clunysois à l’orange.

• Dejeuner XXI-III-MCMXXVII [Lunch March 21, 1927], 16.5 cm x 9 cm. Features: Croustades Règence, Suprèmes Yorchire, Pointes d’asperges à la crème, Longe de veau Rivernaise, Gateau Bibesco.

• Dejeuner 31. MCMCXXI [Lunch, 1931], 16.5 cm x 9 cm. Features: Filets de soles Chevaliere, Medaillons Nemrod, Longe de veau Princesse, Champignons ause fleurons, Vactrerin Bibesco.

For the collection, $3500.00

~ ~ ~ 60. Meyer, Ernest, editor. Meyrina Revue Economique Universelle Annuelle. Guide, Catalogue et Repertoire General des Denrees Coloniales, Epicure Fine, Conserves Alimentaires, Vins Fins, Liqueurs, Droguerie, Porduits Chimiques et Techniques, Coleurs et Vernis, Parfumerie, Specialites Pharmaceutiques, Eaux Minerales, etc. Geneva: Administrations et Redaction, [1893]. Quarto, 207 pages plus index and errata. Illustrated advertisements throughout. Numbered “17” on front pastedown, and presumably one of a number of presentations copies. A scarce Swiss economic review of food, wine, liquor, medicinal products, and fragrances world-wide. Original gilt- and black-stamped blue cloth has some bumping, endpapers include some marks from prior booksellers, but otherwise in very good condition. Inscribed at length by Meyer to the British Prime Minister and bibliophile, William Ewart Gladstone, on the half-title. [OCLC locates 1 copy only, at the Bibliotheque Geneve]. $500.00 61. Miksa, Aczél. American Bar. Utmutato az amerikai husito es hevito italok keszitesehez. [Guide for making American hot and cold beverages]. Budapest: Kapheto Aczél Miksa, 1899. Octavo, 96, iv, [ads], pages. Illustrated. First edition of this rare Hungarian cocktail manual, written and published by the famous eponymous cafe/bar. The recipes and other text is in Hungarian, but the cocktail names are in English, and one can get a good sense of not only the cocktails which had appeared in Budapest, but the available



ingredients. The author urges those who would embrace foreign visitors to Budapest to be aware that high quality food and drink will be expected, and that the cocktail need be available. The illustrations depict required barware, and the ads a variety of luxury food and drink items available in Hungary. Small closed tear to rear panel, otherwise near very good, in publisher's printed brick red wrappers which have been professionally restored at the spine. Rare. While there is a modern facsimile edition available in Hungary, no copy appears in OCLC, and none on any of the lists of major collections which have been made public. [OCLC locates no copies; not in relevant bibliographies]. $2000.00 62. Sellers, Charles. Oporto, Old and New. Being a historical record of the port wine trade, and a tribute to British commercial enterprise in the north of Portugal. London: Herbert E. Harper, 1899. Quarto, [8], 314 + x pages. Illustrated throughout. First edition. One of the best and most useful books about the history of port wines and their trade, by an insider, an Englishman who lived much of his life in Oporto. The author seeks to “present to the public a historical record of the British families more especially connected with the shipping of Wine from the North of Portugal, embracing a period of nearly three hundred years...” (from the preface). The names of most of the great Port wine shipping firms remain familiar to us today: Dow, Offley, Sandeman, Warre, Cockburn, Forrester and others, and the extensive genealogy of each is laid out in detail. Sellers contends that while the Portuguese deserved credit for the viticulture of the north or their own country, the English were responsible for the viniculture, and therefore were the “originators and disseminators” of Oporto's excellent wines. Oporto, Old and New remains one of a very short list of truly great books about wine and the wine trade in Portugal. But Sellers' work edges out the other classic study, Vizetelly's Facts About Port and Madeira, by virtue of his intimate knowledge as a “member of the 'portocracy'“, and by a clearly apparent spiritual connection to his subject. “He wrote his book as a book on port should be written, retiring into the back office after lunch with a bottle of tawny”. (Bradford). A truly fine copy, with only the tiniest bit of rubbing to the burgundy, cloth-covered, beveled boards. The front board bears the gilt-stamped city arms of Oporto. Rare in such fine condition. Interestingly, this book does not appear in the catalogue of the Instituto do Vindo do Porto, or in either of the two supplements to the catalogue, although a collector has informed us that it is indeed in the collection. [OCLC 17 copies; Gabler 2nd ed., G38010I; VP 2769: indicated as not included in the IVP library]. $2250.00

a “Shaker” cocktail book?

63. Wilkes, Don. The Bachelor Book: A Goodly Collection of Recipes for Compounding Divers Delectable Mixtures, with Toasts Proper to the Ceremonial Drinking of the Same. To Which Is Added Some Chafing Dish Menus Right Seemly for the Creation and Appeasement of Appetite; Also a Chapter on the Art of Carving in Good Company; a Dissertation on the Philosophy of Clothes in Modern Life; and Finally Some Minor Offences. London: A. J. White, [circa 1903]. Octavo, 64 pages. Printed throughout in red and black. First edition. In addition to a handy collection of cocktails, punches, cobblers juleps and slings, The Bachelor Book contains advice on proper dress, how to carve, and a selection of chafing dish recipes. Drinking songs and philosophical musings also included.



With forty cocktail recipes. This little promotional book was produced by the A.J. White Company to encourage use of their Seigel's Syrup, also known as “Shaker's Extract of Roots”. While the Shakers are not mentioned in this booklet, the product is, in fact, the same. Andrew Judson White had marketed the Shaker Extract, Shaker Cordial, or Mother Seigel's Syrup, which was indeed a product of the Mount Lebanon Shakers, via the Shaker Almanacs in the US, touting the Shaker lifestyle. Here, in the British Bachelor Book, White has taken the opposite tack, aligning the patent medicine instead with that of a young, libidinous gentleman on the prowl. Some age toning to the text block, silver and black printed burgundy wrappers are a bit edgeworn, but still overall near very good. [OCLC locates 4 copies, 2 in the British Library, and one each in Oxford and Cambridge, none in the US; Noling, Beverage Literature page 445 notes a British Library copy; not in Richmond, Shaker Literature]. $300.00 64. Maison Jules Mareschal. Grande Usine a Vapeur, pour la Construction de Materiel a l'usage de Boucherie, Charcuterie & Salaisons... Paris: Maison Jules Mareschal, 1904. Folio, 48 pages. Illustrated throughout. An unrecorded trade catalogue of shop implements and shop front structures for butchers and delicatessens. Beyond the shop front, Mareschal offers tables, butcher blocks, ice boxes, display cases, and all of the ecoutrement: from knives, hooks, and grinders, to clothing, like the stylish 'chaussons d'abattoir'. Closed tear to title page. Pages somewhat brittle throughout with a number of closed tears. Printed red wrapper is a bit edgeworn, otherwise good. Rare. [OCLC locates no copies]. $350.00 65. J. L. Reno Women's Relief Corps, no. 14, Auxiliary G. A. R. The Household Cook Book : Tried and found good. Spokane, WA: J. L. Reno Women's Relief Corps, no. 14, Auxiliary G. A. R., 1905. Octavo, 155, [3] pages. Ads. Table of contents. First edition. A rare charitable cookbook from the Pacific Northwest, published by the women's auxiliary of the Grand Army of the Republic. The hundreds of recipes are attributed, including one for Corn Bread in verse, contributed by Mrs. N.N. Graves. Some recipes marked with an 'X' in pencil, a few pages dog eared. The first leaf, containing ads, has been torn, likely removing a previous owner's signature, and lacks a one-inch high segment of the page. Some abrasion from erasure to front panel of wrapper, which is printed in black and yellow. [OCLC locates just one copy, at Texas Women's University; Cook cites the book, but states it has not yet been found, page 262]. $500.00

nice association copy

66. Rorer, Sarah Tyson. Mrs. Rorer's Every Day Cook Book. Giving a Menu for Every Meal in the year; Weddings, Dinners, Receptions, and many other social functions; with illustrations of appropriate decorated tables. Philadelphia: Arnold & Company, 1905. Octavo, 300, [8 ads], pages. First edition. Includes menus for every meal of the year, and includes descriptions of meals for special occasions, illustrated with photographs of tables set for such occasions, and with a special section of meals without meat. With the bookplate of the Sontheimer Foundation, and inscribed to Carl Sontheimer by food writer and cookbook collector Cecily Brownstone, “Carl - She's one of the “great ladies” Jim [James



Beard] dedicated his “American Cookery” to - Cecily.” Brownstone and Sontheimer co-authored Classic Cakes and Other Great Cuisinart Desserts. Somewhat soiled and edgeworn in publisher's white-stamped brown cloth. Good only. [Brown 4047; not in Bitting or Cagle]. $250.00 67. Ali-Bab (Babinski, Henri). Gastronomie Pratique. Etudes Culinaires Suivies du Traitement de l'Obésité des Gourmands. Paris: Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, 1907. Large octavo, 314 pages. First edition. One of the most celebrated of twentieth century French cookbooks, by the distinguished gastronome and mining engineer. It is said that Babinski's interest in food and cooking was inspired by the bland and repetitive diet he subsisted on during his years in the mining camps of French Guyana, California and Brazil. This grand work, in later editions expanded to over 1100 pages, went on to be one of the best records of early 20th century French cooking, alongside Escoffier and Prosper Montagné. Front hinge restored, half-title chipped, some edgewear to textblock, otherwise very good, in publisher's gilt-stamped burgundy moiré. Carl Sontheimer's copy, with the bookplate of the Sontheimer Foundation. Quite scarce in the first edition. $500.00

cans, cans, cans, cans…

68. [Trade Catalogues]. American Can Company/Erie Can Company. Ten Tin Can Company catalogues, predominantly from the American Can Company. Circa 1908 and undated. Mostly uniform in size-19 cm x 12.5 cm-though page counts do vary from 14 to 155. Each also contains an index. As a collection, in very good condition. Each catalogue is illustrated and most include select full-color images. Incorporated in 1901, the American Can Company was a member of the “Tin Can Trust” that controlled a large percentage of the tin market. In 1913 the U.S. Government sued the Company on the grounds of monopoly. Less is known about the Erie Can Company, though this provides an example of an American Can Company competitor. Four general catalogues cover a broad range of products; three are specific to syrup cans; and the remainder feature one specific type of product or another.

• American Can Company. American Steel Lead Kegs. New York: American Can Company, circa 1908. 24 pages. Steel kegs for lead manufacturers and lead users; features product descriptions for five unique kegs and over 25 testimonials from consumers across the country. Illustrated cover. Cream wrappers with black/red text, bound with red ribbon and staple. Slight discoloration and creasing, otherwise very good.

• Tin, Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 16. No date. 147 pages plus index. Features Canco trademarked products, also manufactured by American Can Company. In total over 275 unique products featured. Gray wrappers with embossed type. Rounded edges. Slight bumping to spine, otherwise fine condition.

• Tin, Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 17. No date. 155 pages plus index, interleaved with graph paper. Very nearly same content as #16, but this edition is interleaved with graph paper presumably for consumers to mark their notes. Bound in black vinyl with gold print. Rounded edges. “E. Hoffman” printed on the cover. Edges of cover chipping, but text is in fine condition.



• Tin, Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 18. No date. 123 pages interleaved with graph paper. Same as #17, with variations in featured products. Bound in blue vinyl, cover has white paint (?) stain and printed name is scratched out. Otherwise very good.

• Druggists’ Tinware; Catalogue No. 21. No date. 98 pages. Illustrated throughout with select full-color images. Has ninety-nine unique products for druggists: arnica salve boxes, cosmoline cans, insect powder guns, tooth powder boxes, herb cans, and more. Gray wrappers with green and gray text, company name embossed on front cover and monogram embossed on back. Some pencil marks and slight discoloration on wrappers, text in fine condition.

• American Can Company. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 43. No date.15 pages. Illustrated throughout. Indexed catalogue of cans for syrups. Features twelve unique cans in variety of sizes and shapes. Light gray wrapper with red and black print. Interior text has some water staining.

• American Can Company. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 45. No date.14 pages. Almost identical to #43 in form, condition, and content. Illustrations vary just slightly and this catalogue does not feature the “‘Chelco’” Metal Swing Seal”, thus features just eleven products.

• Syrup Cans; Catalogue 47. No date.14 pages. Same as #45.

• Seamless and Pieced Boxes, Hinged, Slip and Sliding Covers; Catalogue No. 56. No date.37 pages. Thirty-eight seamless and pieced boxes in oblong, square, and miscellaneous shapes with slip, hinge, or sliding covers. Also highlights location of manufacturer: Brooklyn, Richmond, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis. Gray wrappers with green and black text, pencil marks on back cover; water stains throughout.

• Erie Can Company. Illustrated Catalogue, Sheet Metal Specialties including Tea, Coffee and Spice Cabinets, Cans and Caddies and Sample Room Goods, Etc. Chicago: Erie Can Company, no date. 27 pages. Features 33 unique products from painter’s pots and brush safes to display cabinets and coffee caddies. In cream wrappers with some discoloration and slight edge chipping. Text slightly discolored by staple binding.

For the group: $1800.00 69. Fabrica Ancora. [Portuguese Alcohol Label Sample Album]. Lisboa: c. 1910. Folio. Accordion-fold, fifteen-panel presentation album, with two hundred original labels mounted to both rectos and versos. The labels, for wines, liqueurs, syrups, bitters and more, all produced by the Fabrica Ancora distillers, exhibit a wide variety of styles and printing techniques, including steel engraving, chromolithography and metallic inks. The first few panels have text from the printers urging the use of these quality labels to help differentiate their real product from adulterated or pirated products in the marketplace. First and final panels with stained, stamped green cloth, and metal brads. Some foxing throughout the album, otherwise very good. Handsome. [OCLC locates no copies]. $1500.00



an unrecorded haut cuisine manual

70. Morin, Victor. La Cuisine Decorative Moderne: Dressage Formules pour l'Execution; Cent Pieces Illustres e Anotees avec preface par Chatillon-Plessis et Introduction Historique. Paris: Bibliotheque de l'Art Culinaire, 1913. Quarto, xxix, [3], 48 pages. Text illustrations. Index. First edition. A monument to French culinary excess, with illustrations of elaborate sculptural presentations suitable for royal banquets and other formal occasions. Includes instructions for dishes such as “Tonneau Abondance” and “Volcan Norwegien”. Original pictorial wrappers bound into contemporary half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with raised band and gilt-lettered spine. Some wear to edges and corners. A bit of discoloration to the bottoms of a few pages, otherwise near fine. Rare. [No institutional copies found (OCLC or BN); not in Bitting, Cagle, Vicaire, Oberlé, etc.]. $1500.00 71. Raskin, Xavier. The French Chef, in Private American Families. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1922. Octavo, 700 pages. First edition. A very interesting cookbook for the American family cook seeking to replicate the French food they may have experienced in finer restaurants or clubs. The recipes are by no means exclusively French, with “String Beans Mexican”, “Cottage Cheese and Pear Salad”, and “Pigs Tail with Split Pea Soup” drawn from something else altogether. One tiny dog ear, otherwise fine, in the very scarce dust jacket. $400.00 72. Hungerford, Edward. The Story of the Waldorf-Astoria. Illustrated. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1925. Octavo, 283 pages. First edition. “No business is more intimate with human nature than the hotel business. And no record of a hotel more resplendent of contacts with human nature than this record of distinguished tradition - the Waldorf-Astoria.” Fine in original royal blue cloth. In the scarce dust jacket, complete but rubbed and with a bit of edge chipping. $400.00

inscribed by the great chef

73. Nignon, Edouard. Les Plaisirs de la Table. Où, sous une forme nouvelle, l'Auteur a dévoilé maints délicieux secrets et recettes de bonne Cuisine, transcrit les précieux avis de Gourmets fameux et de fins Gastronomes, conseillers aimables et sûrs de l'Art du Bien-Manger. Préface de Robert de Flers. Dessins de P. F. Grignon. Paris: by the author and J. Meynial, [c. 1926]. Small quarto, 333 pages. First edition, trade issue on verge antique. A “remarquable livre de recettes.” (Oberlé. Le Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus). Nignon was chef to the Tsar, and to the Austrian Emperor, before cooking at the grand Parisian restaurant, Larue. His cookbook is filled not just with recipes redolent of the finest French cooking, but also many historical culinary anecdotes. Bound in a drab brown cloth, with leather spine label, original wrappers bound-in. Inscribed by the author on a front preliminary, “a Monsieur William Brewster, Respecteux hommages de l'auteur, E. Nignon”. [Oberlé 277; Cagle cites the second edition of 1930 only]. $500.00



charming anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables, one of seven copies only

74. Bodenheim, Nelly (illustrator). Verses by Lizzy Ansingh. Een Vruchtenmandje. [A Fruit Basket]. Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1927. Folio, [48] pages, 21 handcolored plates, All the plates are on a sturdy, thick card stock and measured 11.5 x 8 inches (29x21 cm). First edition, signed and limited. Roman numeral III of a limitation of seven copies in portfolio form, signed by Bodenheim. With an additional inscription dated 1941, signed by Bodenheim and Ansingh. There was also an edition of 100 copies, in book form, bound in a Japanese style and printed on Japon Van Gelder. Drawings by Nelly Bodenheim with rhymes by Lizzy Ansingh. Fruits, nuts and vegetables are represented, including lemons, grapes, pears, radishes, red pepper, almonds, blackberries, apricots, cherries and leeks. The vignette on the folio and many of the plates look as if they were not printed at all but rather were entirely done by hand. The illustrations are rich in color and originality, with a naive style and an accessible, wry humor. Bodenheim was a popular book illustrator in the Netherlands in the early twentieth century and she and Ansingh teamed up on numerous projects. Plates well preserved and clean. The folio ledger has light soiling on its boards and wear along its joints and flaps' cloth edges. Very good. Rare. [OCLC locates four copies of the work in book form, none of this more limited issue; Cotsen 488 (of the issue in book form only)]. $5000.00 75. Leiding, Harriette Kershaw. Street Cries of an Old Southern City. With Music and Illustrations. Charleston, SC: The Daggett Printing Company, 1927. Octavo-sized stapled booklet, [14] pages. Illustrated with duotones. Second edition, following the original of 1910. A lyrical description of the street cries of various African American vendors. Charleston, SC, the “City by the Sea”, was experiencing a period of renaissance at this time. Many of the street cries are, of course, food related, including honey, charcoal, eggs, oysters, ground nut cakes, raw shrimp, she crabs, vegetables, hoppin' john cakes and more. Some light soiling to printed, illustrated, tan wrappers, otherwise very good or better. $120.00 76. Scott, Natalie [Vivian]. Mirations and Miracles of Mandy. New Orleans: by the author/printed by the Robt. H. True Co., 1929. Octavo, 61 pages. First edition. A classic Louisiana cookbook. Natalie Vivian Scott (1890-1957) was a decorated war hero, celebrated journalist, award-winning playwright, historic preservationist, and author of several books on New Orleans regional cuisine and Mexican cooking. The cover art is by New Orleans painter and graphic artist Olive Leonhardt. Very light wear and soiling to the edges of the pictorial wrappers, otherwise fine. [Axford page 217; Bitting page 424; Brown 1165]. $350.00 77. [Trade Catalogue – Ice Cream] Rizzi, Fratelli. Mastelli di sughero di vari tipi per la conservazione del gelato ditributori automatico per coni e palettine. Vicenza: c. 1930's. Oblong octavo-sized, cord-bound wrappers with 14 pages, illustrated throughout. Sales catalogue for cork for the storage of ice cream and automatic distributors for cones and spoons. $350.00



78. Nignon, Edouard. Les Plaisirs de la Table. Où, sous une forme nouvelle, l'Auteur a dévoilé maints délicieux secrets et recettes de bonne Cuisine, transcrit les précieux avis de Gourmets fameux et de fins Gastronomes, conseillers aimables et sûrs de l'Art du Bien-Manger. Préface de Robert de Flers. Dessins de P. F. Grignon. Paris: Chez l'Auteur et chez Lapina, Editeur, 1930. Small quarto, 333 pages. Illustrated. Second, revised edition, with a new introduction by the original dedicatee, Robert de Flers. One of 2000 copies on verge, from a total of 2150 copies. A “remarquable livre de recettes.” (Oberlé. Le Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus). Nignon was chef to the Tsar, and to the Austrian Emperor, before cooking at the grand Parisian Restaurant Larue. His cookbook is filled not just with recipes redolent of the finest French cooking, but also many historical culinary anecdotes. In original salmon-colored wrappers with an art-deco design in black and gold. A bit of sunning and one small closed tear to the foot of the spine, otherwise fine. Inscribed by the author to Newport, R.I. resident Andrew Chalmers Wilson. [Oberlé 277; Cagle cites this second edition of 1930 only]. $1200.00 79. [Held Jr, John]. Forty Famous Cocktails : Being a Compendium of Reliable Recipes Carefully Compiled For Use In This Arid Era. Engraved with Humble Apologies to that Master Engraver John Held Jr. [Title from recto]. New York: Colonial Sales Corp., n.d. circa 1930. Two pieces of printed pictorial cardboard, glued together on three sides and with view windows cut on both sides, and with double-sided sliding cardboard insert with printed recipes. 19 cm. x 29 cm. A movable cocktail recipe book featuring humorous illustrations in the style of celebrated barroom artist John Held (engraved by John Boland), and an imaginative sliding display for the cocktail recipes. The illustration on the verso of this piece is captioned, “The Road to Perdition or a Scene from the Back Room when Life Was Simple.” The mention of “this arid era” in the title suggests a pre-repeal publication date. Light wear to cardboard edges, with additional wear to insert pull-tab at top, some light staining, else very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates only a single institutional copy of this work, at SMU's DeGolyer Library]. $1200.00

the same in the mini-version

80. [Held Jr., John] engraved by John Boland. Forty Famous Cocktails : Being a Compendium of Reliable Recipes Carefully Compiled For Use In This Arid Era. Engraved with Humble Apologies to that Master Engraver John Held Jr. [Title from recto]. New York: Colonial Sales Corp., n.d. circa 1930. Two pieces of printed pictorial cardboard, glued together on three sides and with view windows cut on both sides, and with double-sided sliding cardboard insert with printed recipes. 9.5 cm. x 14 cm. The smaller and simultaneously issued version of the otherwise identical movable cocktail recipe book. Fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates only a single institutional copy of either versions of this work, at SMU's DeGolyer Library]. $1000.00 81. Crockett, Albert Stevens (Leighton Budd, illustrator). Old Waldorf Bar Days, with the Cognomina and Composition of Four Hundred and Ninety-one Appealing Appetizers and Salutary Potations Long Known, Admired and Served at the Famous Brass



Rail; ...also... A Glossary for the Use of Antiquarians and Students of American Mores. New York: Aventine Press, 1931. Octavo, 242, [5] pages. First edition. With bar history, as well as profiles of some of the illustrious customers, and explanations of how some of the cocktail recipes came to be. Front hinge repaired, otherwise very good in original decorated silver cloth. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. $600.00 82. Rombauer, Irma. The Joy of Cooking. A compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Illustrations. St. Louis, MO: by the author/printed by the A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931. Octavo, [32] + 395 pages. Privately published by the author in an addition of 3000 copies. First edition of the most iconic of American cookbooks. Closed tear to page 211. A bit of staining to front edges of a few pages. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth professionally rehinged with original spine laid down. Overall near very good. Laid-in is a page, inscribed by the author “To Louise, with many thanks for her contributions. Lovingly, Irma”. Judging from the dimensions, the page is likely a preliminary from the 1936 edition of the same title. Also included is a three page ALS, from Rombauer's nephew, Paul Albert Hoeffer, addressed to Mrs. Guida, and speaking about the death of Rombauer, and of other matters. $5000.00 83. Belloc, Hilaire. An Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine. London: Peter Davies/Curwen Press, 1932. Quarto, 10 pages. First book edition, number 34 of 100 signed and numbered copies. Originally issued as a Christmas keepsake for the author's friends in 1931. A great wine poem, from the great Catholic essayist and lover of good food and wine. Pages a bit age-toned, and with a previous owner's name attractively inked to front paste-down. Bound in red paper covered boards, with printed label. Corners a bit bumped and a bit of abrasion, otherwise very good. [Gabler G9284]. $500.00 84. Finebouche, Marie-Claude [pseudonym of Madame Jean Ajabert]. La Cuisine de Madame. 299 recettes eprouves par l'auteur et ses Amis. Paris: Librarie Gallimard, 1932. Quarto, 180 pages. First edition, numbered and limited. One of 220 numbered hors commerce copies, stamped S.P. [service de la presse], from a total of 1589 copies. Printed in red and black and with text decorations throughout. Marie-Claude Finebouche is the pseudonym of Madame Jean Alabert, wife of the celebrated author and gourmand. Born in 1879, she published several cookbooks in the 1930s and 40s celebrating the pleasures of traditional French domestic cuisine, as practiced by the women of her grandmother's generation. All were issued in somewhat limited editions, and all are rather scarce in American collections. Publisher's advertisement and author's photograph laid in; Some light foxing to a few pages, otherwise fine, in illustrated wrappers. Inscribed at some length by the author, using her real name, to Jean Ernest-Charles. [OCLC locates 8 copies, only 4 in the US; Bitting page 158; $750.00 85. [Ocean Liner Menu - Adolph Hitler], Hamburg-Amerika Line. An Bord des Motorschiffes “Milwaukee”, Freitag, den 20. April 1934; Zum Geburtstage des Herrn



Reichskanzlers Adolf Hitler. 1934. Half-fold menu, 20.5 x 14.7 cm. Cover illustration. Menu for dinner honoring the birthday of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler aboard the Milwaukee, a Hamburg-Amerika ocean liner. Later this year, Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany under the title, “Fuhrer”. Five years later, in 1939, Eva Braun was aboard the same vessel during which time she took film footage documenting, among other things, the passengers giving the Nazi salute to the ship. We've seen photographic evidence that the portrait on the cover of the menu, appeared in a larger format, framed aboard the Hamburg-Amerika ship S.S. Hamburg. Menu printed on cream stock and cream paper in black ink, includes silk cord ornamentation. Slight edge wear, otherwise very good condition. $250.00

the perfectors of the daiquiri

86. Bar Florida Cocktails. Obispo y Monserrate, La Habana, Cuba. La Habana, Cuba: Tipografía Lloret, (1934). Duodecimo-sized, stapled booklet, 67 pages. Ads. Illustrated. Text in English and Spanish. First edition. The promotional cocktail recipes collection of the storied Bar Florida, originator of the Daiquiri and a favorite Havana haunt of Ernest Hemingway. The bar and fish restaurant was founded in 1819 as La Piña de Plata. In later years, the name changed to La Floridita. This little booklet was published without an explicit date of publication, and there were various versions of the wrapper illustrations, and the specific ads included. But the introduction includes a mention of the history of the bar, ‘“The Silver Pine”, “La Florida” cafe - 1819-1934 - through the ages, always the same...’. Later copies we've examined state, “1819-1935”, “1819-1950”, etc., and we are using this 1834 date as an indication of this copy’s priority. There are no mentions of printings, or even rumors of printings prior to 1934, and the earliest institutional holding we have seen is 1935. Noling's Beverage Literature cites this title with same pagination in 1915, which we consider to be erroneous. A few small dog ears, otherwise fine in illustrated wrappers. Rare. [OCLC locates only one copy of any edition, at UC Davis; Noling Beverage Literature, page 463]. $900.00 87. Bourke-White, Margaret. Coffee Through The Camera's Lens. A Project on Brazil. Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White. Home Economics Department. New York: American Can Company, 1936. Printed card folio with pocket holding contents. Twelve reproductions with captions on loose plates (18x32cm) plus additional sheets of the same size with map of Brazil, and classroom assignments on the history and production of coffee. Published at the height of the Depression, these images of heroic workers doing it the old way are here put to overtly didactic use as part of a social studies lesson on the history and production of coffee in Brazil. For Parr and Badger, Coffee Through The Camera's Lens illustrates the Bourke-White 'conundrum': the photographer of hard-hitting social documentary such as You Have Seen Their Faces who earned far more than most women in the country for doing high paying commercial and industrial work. A scarce Depression-era document. Some light wear to a few pages, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates only one copy, at the University of Maryland; Parr & Badger]. $450.00



88. McNeil, Blanche & Edna. First Foods of America. Los Angeles/San Francisco/New York: Suttonhouse Ltd., 1936. Octavo, 150 pages. First edition. This book draws recipes both from Mexico, especially Minititlan, on Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, and from early Texas history, based on oral and manuscript sources. Strehl, in One Hundred Books on California Food and Wine states, “based on family recipes brought from Mexico during the late nineteenth century, this book addresses the Indian origins of Mexican food. Probably the first and best work to present an accurate and non-romantic approach to this influential cuisine.” An exceptional, truly fine copy, in publisher's decorated red cloth, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. [Bitting 303; Brown 186; Strehl 35]. $750.00 89. Misner, Vivian E. Parties: Party Scrap Book, Home Economics Project. [1936]. Large imperial octavo (8.5 x 11.75), 52 unbound pages. Manuscript/scrapbook created as a home economics project by a 15-year old Vivian Misner (1921-1979), a sophomore at Napavine High School in Washington. Text is comprised of handwritten, typed, and clipped-published content. The book is organized into nine sections—Parties for February; St. Patrick’s Suggestions; Easter; April Fools Day Fun; Halloween Suggestions; Thanksgiving Entertainment; December Parties; Announcements, Showers, Anniversaries; Suggestions for New Parties—and each section contains ideas for invitations, decorations, entertainments, favors, and recipes (and pranks for the April Fools Day Fun). Party plans for Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, and Halloween to more unique gatherings like “A Little Bird Told Me Lunch (a unique way to announce an engagement)”, “Kitty Shower”, “Camp Fire Shower”, “Indian Summer Shower”, “A Mock Canteen Party”, “Bacon Bat: A Country Picnic”, and “Smile Social: For a Church Party”. The December Parties section just includes instructions for “A Twelfth Night Revel”—no other Christmas or holiday suggestions. Handmade blue and white gingham cover embroidered with “Parties” and the author’s initials “V.E.M.” with very minor discoloration due to age, otherwise very good. Pages slightly age-discolored , with a small inkblot affecting the edge of several pages, otherwise very good. $300.00

a Rombauer letter with recipe - truly rare

90. Rombauer, Irma. One page ALS. St Louis. MO: undated, c. 1940. One page autographed letter signed, from Irma Rombauer, author of The Joy of Cooking, and a major figure in the history of American cooking. Addressed to Louise [Diallo],The last name was supplied by the seller and is not indicated on the letter itself. In black ink on cream colored stationery printed in brown, “Mrs. Edgar Rombauer - 5712 Cabanne Avenue - St. Louis - Mo. The letter contains regrets for not staying longer at an event and, most interesting, a full recipe. The recipe, for “Bran Biscuit,” appears in very close form in the 1936 edition of the Joy of Cooking and in later editions, and contains both the ingredients list and the step-by-step instructions. With one fold, otherwise fine. Romabuer manuscript material is very rare, and we have not been able to locate another record of it entering the marketplace. $4000.00 91. MacNiel, Stanley S. Zodiac Cocktails: Cocktails for all Birthdays. New York: Mayfair Publishing Co., 1940. Octavo, 55 pages. Illustrated. The author, a “vagabond cocktail collector,” has observed that “all peoples of the world have one thing in common,



and that is an interest in astrology, the oldest sciences.” This novelty cocktail book offers recipes tailored specifically for each astrological sign and includes a brief sketch of the characteristics and temperaments (including a list of great people born in that sign). There is also a section for autographs and recipes, for you to add and collect signatures and cocktails from your favorite zodiac signs. Painted wooden boards with metal hinges, bound with leather strap in very good condition; text block has some age toning, otherwise in very good condition. Scarce. $450.00 92. Seagram's Limited. And So to Bed. Being the Diary of a Mixer of Cocktails. [With apologies to Samuel Pepys]. Montreal: Distillers Corporation, Seagrams Limited/The Ronalds Co. Limited, n.d. c. 1940. Duodecimo, 32 pages. First edition. A humorous cocktail recipe booklet, with thirty recipes, all for use with specific Seagram's products. Facing pages contain an illustration of the product, handsomely printed in chromolithography, with a short description of the product on the left, and facing, a faux diary entry, loosely in the style of Pepys, (a collection of Pepys culinary anecdotes of the great diarist was collected by S.A.E. Strom and issued under the name, And So to Dine), and several recipes using the particular spirit. Some offsetting from the chromos to facing pages, and a bit of very faint staining to the panels of the reptile-textured black and red printed gray wrappers. Scarce. [OCLC locates 2 copies; not in Noling, Beverage Literature]. $300.00 93. Kander, Mrs. Simon. The Settlement Cook Book : Tested recipes from the Milwaukee Public School Kitchen Girls Trades and Technical High School, Authoritative Dietitians and Experienced Housewives. Milwaukee, WI: The Settlement Cook Book Co., 1941. Octavo, xlvi+623 pages. Twenty-fourth edition, revised and enlarged. A much later edition this influential and massively successful cookbook, originally published in 1901. The emphasis is American, with a smattering of hearty Jewish Eastern European fare. In earlier editions, the Jewish/Eastern European influence was more prevalent. This copy is extraordinary, in unused condition bright and fresh, with the original white, washable boards shiny and clean, the original publisher's green dust jacket, with white bland and red printed text and decoration is equally exceptional. Fine, and rare thus. [Axford, p. 363; DuSablon, America's Collectible Cookbooks, pages 65-67]. $350.00 94. Geisel, Theodor [Dr. Seuss]. “Bravely into the Post-War World.” Original pencil drawing, signed, on menu. 1945. Original menu, folded card stock. 52 x 42 cm. A menu from the Shoreham Hotel of DC, now the Omni Shoreham, a frequent meeting place of politicians and other power lunchers. The menu is dated August 25th, 1945, just ten days after VJ Day, and features a original pencil drawing by Ted Geisel, of “Faith” and “Skepticism” moving forward in the post-War world. The drawing is titled by Geisel in the lower right-hand corner, and signed “lt. general T.S. Geisel” in the lower left. The pencil drawing was executed while Geisel was in the employ of the US Army, working for the Animation Dept. of the Motion Picture Division. Prior to that he had been a political cartoonist for the left-leaning political magazine PM, and other periodicals. Stylistically, the image feels more like the Seuss of children's books than the slightly more staid caricature of



the political cartoons. One small half-inch closed tear to the open edge of the folded menu, not affecting the drawing, otherwise in fine condition. $9000.00

the edible fishes of Vietnam

95. Institut scientifique et technique des pêches maritimes. Principaux poissons comestibles d'Indochine. 60 espèces de mer et d'eaux douces. Saigon: Léon Feuillet, 1945. Octavo, [1], 71 pages. Illustrated. Text in French. First edition. Each page is dedicated to a different fish, and headed with an illustration by Tran Thuong-Tin or Trinh Van-Nam. Title page printed in red and with a notice pasted at head of cover-title: “Haut commissariat de France pour l’Indochine. Commissariat fédéral aux affaires économiques. Institut océanographique (Nhatrang-Annam)--Service de la marine marchande (pêches maritimes).” Internally near very good, with just a bit of light foxing. Color-illustrated wrappers worn at spine, and generally soiled, but otherwise near very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates 9 copies, just five in the US]. $750.00

photographic record of ocean liner refrigeration

96. Bailey Refrigeration Company, Inc. S.S. City of Lisbon, Air Conditioning of Main Dining Saloon. Installed by Bailey Refrigeration Company, Inc, 340 Hamilton Ave. Brooklyn. Tel: Main 5-6866. Brooklyn, NY: Bailey Refrigeration Company, Inc. , 1947. Ring bound cardstock. Title page, plus 5 original photographs, laid down on card stock, and hand colored cover photo illustration. Depicts the main dining room and related equipment room for the air conditioning apparatus. Presumably made in a very small number as a promotional piece for the firm. Leaves are pulling away from the rings at the holes (not affecting the photographs, except for the cover). Otherwise very good. Unrecorded. $250.00 97. Old Denmark Restaurant. Gæsteporten. [New York Restaurant Guest Book with seventy-five autographs]. [New York]: 1947-1993. Wooden guestbook in the shape of a door, wooden metal hinges, leaves sewn with pink cord, with 75 holograph signatures, nearly 40 of which we have been able to identify. The Old Denmark was a casual restaurant, at 135 East 57th Street, and later, 113 East 65th Street, on New York’s Upper East Side. A 1964 gave the restaurant one star, and described it as “first and foremost a purveyor of Scandinavian delicacies for the retail trade, but it also boasts one table where customers may dine on Danish salads. There is a seating capacity for eight guests at a time and the table is shared by other customers. The food served consists primarily of salads such as cucumber, mushroom, crab, beet and herring, but there is also liver paté and smoked salmon…” Identified amongst the signators are: Ingrid Bergman, 1948 Louise Allbritton, 1947 (actor, “Son of Dracula”) Virginia Field, no date (British-born actor) Mario Lanza, no date (singer/actor) Groucho Marx, 1948 Marlene Dietrich, 1948 Carl Brick, no date (composer)

Helen Traubel, no date (opera singer) Miriam Hopkins, no date (actress) Elsie D. Alexander, no date Ruth Bryan Rohde, no date (politician) Eleanor Roosevelt, no date Robert St John, no date (broadcaster) Edward Arnold, no date (radio personality)



Thomas H-, no date (actor, “Kiss Me Kate”) Gertrude Berg, no date (actor, “The Goldbergs”) Betty Walker, no date (actor, “The Goldbergs”) Kim Hamilton, no date (actor) Gregory Ratoff, 1952 (actor) Princess Revé de Bourbon, 1952 Stan Fisher, 1952 (musician) Tom Ewell, 1952 (actor) Albert Decker, 1956 (actor) Hans Conried, 1953 (comedian/voice actor) Martha Lou Harp, no date (singer) Lillian Gish, no date (actor)

Joel Grey, no date (actor/singer/dancer) Milt Kamen, no date (comedian/actor) Lillian Hellman, no date (dramaturg) Faye Dunaway, 1981 (actor) Bill Murray, 1982 (actor) Sergio Franchi, 1983 (actor/singer) Ron Howard (actor/director) Shirley Hazzard, 1992 (author) Gary Maddox, 1987 (athlete) Mildred Natwick, no date (actor) Garrison Keillor, 1988 (radio personality) Camilla Roos, no date (Danish actor)

$5000.00

“Can I Please Have Your Menu as a Souvenir?”

98. The Menu Collection of Dr. Paul Meyer. 1950. 224 Menus and related ephemera. Mostly New York City, with four out of five boroughs represented, but also Long Island, New Jersey, Upstate New York and Cape Cod. Late 1930s through 1969. Various sizes and shapes. Overall the condition of the collection is very good to fine. There are a few menus with small stains, some have been folded, and one or two have tears or separation at a fold. Dr. Paul Meyer was a Queen’s, New York orthodontist, born in 1904. In addition to his successful practice, he authored Headgear Orthodontics. The doctor was also a man of many passions and talents outside his profession. He was a serious amateur photographer, and did self-portraits in costume, predating Cindy Sherman’s photographic experiments with identity. He also photographed his patients before and after their treatments. He loved music, particularly the recordings of Dame Joan Sutherland, and he played the violin. He taught himself Old-English lettering, collected the furniture of the Eames’ and of Russell Wright, and amassed books on his favorite artists, Manet, Degas, Van Gogh and Renoir. He also liked to eat in restaurants. He completed his meals with the simple request, “Can I please have your menu as a souvenir?” Dr. Meyer’s collection is a small but remarkable record of dining in New York City from the late 1930s through the end of the 1960s. Witnessed by more than two hundred thirty menus, the doctor explores the cuisines: (Chinese, Kosher, Italian, French, ‘Continental’, Roumanian, Hungarian, Polynesian, Russian, etc.), and the many types of eating establishments: (the delicatessen, the department store lunch counter, the ethnic neighborhood staple, the steak house, the Tiki lounge, and the resort restaurant, as well as ocean liner dining room). He covers the geography of New York: Times Square, the Upper East and West Sides, the Theatre District, the Lower East Side, Little Italy, Chinatown, the Financial District and Greenwich Village. Beyond the city, his dining maps the motorists’ diaspora that took place in the 1950s and 60s. With the new mid-century prosperity and the mobility offered by the private automobile, New Yorkers set out to discover the wilderness of Long Island, the Catskills, New Jersey, and beyond. With their travels a new type of restaurant popped up on roadsides and in destination towns. Dr. Meyer enjoyed a good number of these as well. Menu collections are almost always a fascinating window into graphic and information design, and this one is no exception. From the simple mimeographed daily specials sheet to the silk-corded, velour-covered, fine dining book, these menus represent the many stylistic



and practical considerations that went into their designs. Price changes and ingredient changes have been executed with finesse or a ham fist (one menu is heavily pen-marked with corrections and price changes, until not much of the original menu remains). The collection covers the period when many dining innovations appeared and some are recorded here, sometimes as real first appearances, such as Bernstein’s, the first Kosher Chinese Restaurant; the famous Reuben sandwiches at Reuben’s restaurant; validated parking; the acceptance of credit cards; and even the design-conscious restaurant that lists the architect and the lighting designer on the cover of the menu. Some restaurants appear more than once in the collection, but almost always with different menus: supper and lunch, different dates, different graphic designs. Only a few times do the same menus appear in pure duplication. $4500.00

six non-culinary titles from Julia Child’s first Paris apartment

99. Child, Julia. Collection of six books from Julia & Paul Child's Paris apartment library. 1950. Various sizes and editions. All signed by Julia Child. The final volume listed above is signed “Paul Child” but in Julia's hand, and one is signed, “Paul & Julia Child, Paris, 1950”, also in Julia's hand. Includes: Rimbaud. Oeuvres (Paris: Mercure de France, 1950; Le Chanson de Roland (Paris: Piazza, 1947); Honore de Balzac (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, 1950); de Maupassant. Contes (Paris: Piazza, 1930). La Legende de St. Germain des Pres (Paris: Roulotte, 1950). Guide Commode de la Banlieue de Paris (Paris: Andre Leconte, 1950). Julia and Paul were married in 1946 in Pennsylvania and moved to Paris in 1948. They lived on the Left Bank, at 81 Rue de l'Université, just off Boulevard St.Germain. These six simple and otherwise unremarkable books seem exactly the sort of thing a young couple in Paris might purchase while wandering the city. Titles such as these are now common fare for the bouquinistes, but most of these works were new publications during this time. La Legende de St. Germain des Pres, with photo illustrations of the youth, artists literary lights, and nightlife of the Left Bank, forms a backdrop to our picture of Paul and Julia establishing themselves in Paris. All volumes in generally very good condition, with the exception of the Guide Commode, with some hinge wear and inking to the spine. An artifact of an important moment in America’s love affairs with Paris, and with Julia Child. $3500.00 100. Jackson, Henry A.C. Boletus Flavus L. Collected L'Islet County, Que. 1950. [Original watercolor with convolute of related materials]. 1950. Original watercolor, 17 x 22 cm. Labeled, signed and dated by the artist in pencil. On watercolor paper which had been mounted on a thicker card stock, now de-laminated, but in remarkably fine condition. Henry A.C. Jackson (1877-1960) was one of Canada's outstanding amateur naturalists. He was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson, and while A.Y. achieved great fame through his art, Henry chose to quietly document his mycological journeys in Quebec through copious note taking and watercolor paintings of the collected specimens. After his death in 1960, much of his work was donated to the National Gallery of Canada. In 1979 The National Gallery mounted an exhibition of the watercolors, and produced the catalogue, Mr. Jackson's Mushrooms which reproduces forty-odd images, and accompanies them with excerpts from his field notes. Very few of Jackson's mushroom watercolors have reached the market, with only a few having been given to friends and neighbors over the years. A small convolute of related materials accompanies the watercolor, including: The Fungus Records of



Mr. H.A.C. Jackson From L'Islet Co., Quebec 1941-1960, offprint from The Canadian Field Naturalist, vol. 7, no. 4 (1963); Notes on the Higher Fungi Collected in Lasalle, Que., 1930-1940, offprint from C.F.N., vol. 62, no. 5. (1948); 18 pages of original manuscript and typescript of Jackson's Field notes from 1932 and 33; three original photographs, 6 x 9cm each. Two of the photos depict the artist, at a youthful age, in the field. The third depicts an unidentified fungus on a log. $3500.00 101. Kriendler, John Carl & Charles A. Berns. Jack and Charlie's Twenty-One Wine List. New York: by the restaurant/B.R. Doerfler Company, 1954. Folio, 71 pages. Thumb indexed. First edition, number 371 of 1000 copies. The beautifully produced wine list for the legendary 21, at 21 West 52nd Street in New York City. The list is printed throughout in black and red on Brentwood Vellum paper. Typograhy and mise-en-page by the great book designer James Hendrickson. The wine list was produced by Maxwell Kriendler, with assistance by Alexis Lichine and Frank Schoonmaker. Various wine geographies are presented, each accompanied by an overview and map. Both a stunning modern book design and an appropriately impressive wine list. Fine, in gilt and blind-stamped bright red cloth, with original mylar wrapper, and lightly faded and worn slipcase. $750.00

[Note: we will also be exhibiting a selection of important and early wine and cocktail lists.]

102. Beard, James (editor, and with an introduction by). Cooking with Stevenson, Kefauver & Wagner, or, Brining Home the Bacon. A collection of recipes contributed by members of the Nationalities Division, New York State Committee for Stevenson, Kefauver & Wagner. New York: New York State Committee for Stevenson, Kefauver & Wagner., [1956]. Mimeographed, stapled booklet, on standard letter-sized paper, 16 pages. I presume this was used as a type of fundraising tool for the ultimately unsuccessful campaign of Adlai Stevenson. With a one-page introduction by James Beard about the value of eating across various ethnic cuisines. The recipes, each attributed, are each credited to a national cuisine, including Israel, Peru, Lithuania, Austria, Jamaica, China, etc. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; not in any of the relevant bibliographies; no references online]. $200.00 103. [Wine Labels]. Vine Products Ltd. Schedule Showing Specimens of a Number of British Sherry Labels with Details of Origin and Dates of Commencement of Usage in the United Kingdom. 1967. Folder bound with ribbon, 9.5” x 13.5”. 4 typed pages with table of contents, plus 33 actual labels attached to sheets of paper with thin pins; seven letters from manufacturers and distributors; and one folding chart from the “Trademark Journal.” A printed cover label, with details in ink, states, “High Court of Justice Chancery Division, Mr. Justice Cross, The 14th Day of Feb'y, 1967, Vine Products Ltd. v. Mackenzie & Co Ltd. This exhibit parked p. 30 was produced at the Trail of this Action on the examination of James Edward Mitchells, illegible).” A typed label inside the front cover states, “South African Wine Farmers Association (London) Ltd.” A little light soil, overall very good. $1200.00



104. Child, Julia. From Julia Child's Kitchen. London: Jonathan Cape Limited, 1978. Thick large octavo, 640 pages. First British Edition. A useful guide to more precise cooking, filled with recipes which are supplemented with advice on buying the ingredients, storing the foods, and making the most of your cooking. A very good or better, nice clean and tight copy of the unusual British first edition, in a clipped dust jacket, with a neat closed tear to the front hinge, otherwise very good. Signed by Julia on the half-title. $350.00 105. Dali, Salvador Domenech Felipe Jacinto & Max Gerard. Dali: the Wines of Gala. Translated from the French by Olivier Bernier. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1978. Quarto, 296 pages. Profusely illustrated. First edition in English, following the French publication one year earlier. Printed by Draeger Freres in France, and lavishly illustrated on almost every page. Dali created this exploration into fine wine, and a companion gastronomic work, The Diners of Gala, for his wife and muse, Gala. In printed pictorial cloth, in a fine illustrated foil dust jacket, without the usual abrasions. In the original paper shelf wrapper and shipping box. A truly fine copy. [Gabler G17920]. $450.00 106. Percy, Walker. Bourbon. Palaemon Press Limited, 1981. Octavo, unpaginated. Letter “B” of 26 lettered copies, signed by the author. First published in Esquire in 1975, this essay by a drinker, not a connoisseur, flies uncomfortably close to the truth. “Anyone who messes around with gin and egg whites deserves what he gets. I should have stuck with bourbon and have from that day to this.” In decorated paper boards over tan cloth, with a paper spine label. Fine. $550.00 107. Harrison, Jim. The Raw and the Cooked. New York: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1992. Octavo, 29, [4] pages. Illustrated. First, limited edition. Number 36 of 100 signed and numbered copies (there were also 26 lettered copies). Three essays on food which originally appeared in the pages of Esquire, and which were included in the much expanded trade collection of essays under the same name. Three quarter pink paper over boards, quarterbound in bright red cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Fine. $400.00 108. Baldessari, John. Choosing: Green Beans. Milan: Edizioni Toselli, 1972. Octavo, unpaginated (28 pages). First edition, limited to 1500 copies. Illustrated with offset color lithography. Text in Italian and English. In this, Baldessari's second artists' book, the text is comprised of a description/instructions for a game of choosing (in this case green beans). This is accompanied by nine photographs in which an anonymous finger points to one of three green beans. Stiff white wrappers with very slight discoloration to staples, else in fine condition throughout. Scarce. [Parr & Badger vol. 2]. $2200.00



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