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[Dumfries]: printed for the author, 1760. Small octavos in 4s (15 x 9 cm.), 186 pages. FIRST EDITION, though priority not firmly established. MacLean states "another ed. Edinburgh: printed for E. Wilson at Dumfries, [c.1760]" (though that edition is dated, "M.DCC.LX" at the foot of the title page); the Wilson issue has 136 pages. Cagle refers to the Wilson issue as "Second Edition". Both editions display the misspelled author's surname, as "Thomas Houldston" is almost certainly Thomas Huddleston. MacLean quotes William McDowall', 'Education in other useful occupations was also promoted by the [Dumfries Town] Council. On the 24th of December, 1753, Thomas Huddleston, cook and confectioner, was admitted a freeman and burgess [of Dumfries] on condition that he should teach three poor girls "the arts of cookery and confectionery or paistry [sic]" (History of Dumfries (Edinburgh, 1867), page 598). Dumfries, in the south of Scotland, is best known as the home of Robert Burns for the second half of his… Leer más

London: Printed by R. Y. [R. Young] and to bee sold by James Boler; Printed for Arthur Johnson, dwelling near the great North dore of Paules, 1635. Two works bound as one. Delights: duodecimo (12.5 x 7 cm.), [190] unpaginated; A-H12; complete, with the final bordered blank at H-12. Text in ornamental woodcut borders throughout. Index. Author from printed signature at end of preliminary epistle in verse. [With:] Closet: 16mo. (12.5.7 cm.), 1-190 pages; A-M8. Also with woodcut borders (though a slightly different design) throughout, but pages numbered. The printing has been attributed to Thomas Purfoot (cf. STC) ~ Using Notaker as a guide, this would be the fourteenth of all printings of Platt's Delights, and the second with R. Young as the printer (H. Lownes and R. Young issued two printings together (1628 and 1630). A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, originally printed by Arthur Johnson in 1608, is often bound together with Delights, but attribution to Hugh Platt as author or compiler remains not… Leer más

London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1682. Duodecimo (15 x 9 cm.), title leaf, [22], 563 pages. Illustrated with forty-two pages of woodcuts of which a few depict table settings and the majority 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 & ONLY EDITION IN ENGLISH. One of the most important titles of 17th Century French gastronomy, and to some, one of the rarest cookery books in the English language. There are few recorded copies and almost all existing copies appear to be imperfect, i.e. primarily lacking pages, while this copy is complete. 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." Simon Gough states with insight in one of his wonderfully… Leer más

Paris: Sautelet et Cie, 1826. Two volumes, octavo, xiv, 390 & 449 pages. 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. A comprehensive philosophy of the palate, the table, and far beyond, the book is presented in a series of thirty meditations on subjects including the senses, taste, appetite, gastronomy, restaurateurs, cooking, fasting, obesity, death, sleep, rest and dreams. Brillat-Savarin was an attorney and magistrate who 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 - whose translation of Brillat-Savarin's work still stands as the best - commends this book 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… Leer más

St. Louis, MO: [the author]; A.C. Clayton Printing Co, 1931. Octavo (20.5 x 14 cm.), [32], 395 pages. Illustrated with chapter silhouettes and with a dust jacket design by Marion Rombauer. FIRST EDITION, privately published by the author in an edition of 3000 copies, and illustrated by the author's daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, who also designed the dust jacket depicting St. Martha of Bethany, the patron saint of cooking, who took up a mop to fend off the dragon Tarasque. Irma von Starkloff Rombauer, the daughter of Max von Starkloff, an affluent St. Louis doctor, studied art at Washington University, and enjoyed a brief romance with the writer Booth Tarkington before marrying Edgar Rombauer, a lawyer, in 1899. As she wrote in her introduction to The Joy of Cooking, "Will it encourage you to know that I was once as ignorant, helpless and awkward a bride as was ever foisted on an impecunious young lawyer? Together we placed many a burnt offering upon the altar of matrimony." After her husband… Leer más

Weimar-Munchen: Bauhausverlag, 1923. Squarish quarto, 226 pages. 20 color plates, and 147 halftone illustrations. FIRST & ONLY EDITION of the famous Bauhaus manifesto, issued in 2,000 copies, on occasion of the Bauhaus exhibition in August and September 1923. The coloured plates include nine original lithographs by Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, L. Hirschfeld-Mack (2), R. Paris, P. Keler and W. Molar, K. Schmidt (2), and F. Schleifer. The texts are by Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer. Tiny abrasions to the corners at the head of spine, otherwise unfaded and fine throughout. Rare.

Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 83, N. Second-Street, 1796. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), [xiii], 14-132 pages. Index. Illustrated with three plates; two engravings depicting carving and a third woodcut depicting "Arrangement of a Supper Table". ~ Third American edition, first printing. Carter's popular English cookbook (circa 1765), became one of the very earliest cookery books printed in the United States. The American printings preceding this one were: Boston: Edes & Gill of 1772 (Lowenstein 4), and New York: Berry & Rogers of 1792 (Lowenstein 7) and 1795 (Lowenstein 8b). The Edes & Gill issue of 1772 was just the second American cookbook, following the 1742 Alexandria printing of Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife. The two Berry & Rogers printings contained a number of changes which better reflected the American context of these books, and which greatly influenced Amelia Simmons in the creation of her foundational American Cookery of 1796. In a statement "To the readers" (page [ii]), it is… Leer más

[Santa Barbara; Cambridge, 2003. A convolute of correspondence, photographs, and other materials documenting the relationship between American icon Julia Child, and Beverly Jackson, reporter, novelist, collector, and a legend of the social circles of Santa Barbara. The two were long-time friends, and neighbors in Santa Barbara's Montecito. ~ Contents: Fifteen original notecards or postcards, typed or handwritten, signed by Julia Child; one TLS; one fax, and one TLS in photocopy. Some on Child's Montecito Shores, Santa Barbara stationery, some on notecards of Julia Child Productions (SB), and some on notecards from the Irving Street, Cambridge home. Most of the correspondence is short, polite "thank yous" and quick inquiries, for visits, meals shared, etc. ~ Eight original photographs (various sizes & dates), including black and white press print by Alan Berliner (of Julia with Robert Mondavi and Robert Balzer); Julia with Reginald Faletti (1978) by Jackson; color snapshots of Julia in her kitchen,… Leer más

London: Printed by Ja. Fl. for Rich. Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St. Dunstans Church-Yard, 1650. 16mo. (14 x 9 cm.), [4], 188, [9], pages. Index. Containing: [1.] A new book of cookerie; [2.] The second booke of cookerie. Stated "the seventh time printed, with new additions"; Notaker remarks that the text has remained unchanged since the third edition (1628/29) which itself is the first appearance of the grouping of texts found here. John Murrell (active 17th century) "is considered the first person to reveal the important changes that took place in French cuisine in the beginning of the seventeenth century" (Notaker referencing Lehman). Some paper repair to edges of leaves throughout, most not affecting text. Few leaves (Table of Contents) at rear with significant restoration and loss to text. In full brown calf, with some of original boards present; gilt-titled red morocco spine label. Contemporary ownership inscription to rear blank, "Anne Jones, her Book". Additional ownership… Leer más

Poughkeepsie, NY: Paraclete Potter / P&S Potter, Printers, 1815. 24mo. (14.2 x 9 cm.), iv, [1], [5] 71 pages. The eighth edition of Amelia Simmons' American Cookery, originally issued Hartford, 1796. The book is widely considered to be the first American cookbook, authored by an American and printed and published in the US. Contemporary one-quarter brown calf, with marbled paper over boards; Hinges sound, but calf split on front panel, light foxing throughout; early owner's ink inscription to preliminary leaf. Rare. [OCLC locates sixteen copies of this printing; Bitting, page 435; Shaw and Shoemaker 33843; Lowenstein 68].

Philadelphia: Published by Joseph Yeager; printed by Charles Woodward, 1821. Engraving, etching and aquatint with hand-coloring and mezzotint on buff wove paper (plate: 50.5 x 66 cm.; image: 42.5 x 59 cm.). Second state, in which it is added that the view was "taken from M. Carey & Sons Book Store. S.E. corner of 4th and Chestnut Sts". There is no known extant copy of the first state, but it is referred to and described in Stauffer & Fielding's American Engravers upon Copper and Steel (page 556). "The procession of butchers with their carts carrying meat from a cattle market show was organized to encourage the breeding of cattle and attracted 300,000 people if the Philadelphia Gazette is to be believed. It took one hundred carts to carry 86,731 pounds of meat, including bear and deer meat. The butchers and victualers proudly flew their banner, 'We feed the Hungry.'" (Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory). ~ "[T]he most popular of local views in aquatint was the… Leer más

Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1927. Portfolio (29 x 21cm), [48] pages, with twenty one hand-colored plates, all on a sturdy, thick card stock . FIRST EDITION, limited & signed, Roman numeral III of seven copies in portfolio form, signed by Bodenheim. There was also a state with 100 copies, in book form, bound in a Japanese style and printed on Japon Van Gelder. Rhymes by Lizzy Ansingh, with drawings by Nelly Bodenheim of anthropomorphic fruits, nuts and vegetables, including lemons, grapes, pears, radishes, red pepper, almonds, blackberries, apricots, cherries and leeks. The vignette on the folio and many of the plates appear 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… Leer más

London: Printed by Bernard Alsop, and are to be sold at his house in Grubstreet, near the Upper Pump, 1653. Duodecimo (15 x 10 cm.), [2], 251, [8] pages. Table of contents at rear. Printer's name from Wing. Stated Third Edition corrected, first published in 1669. A classic of seventeenth-century English food writing from the English courtier, diplomat, respected natural philosopher, and founding member of the Royal Society. He was a also a pirate and the lover of Marie de Medici, a man of such achievement he was described as the "Magazine of all Arts and Sciences, or (as one stiles him) the Ornament of this Nation" by the antiquary John Pointer in his Oxoniensis Academia (1749). The work was published posthumously, edited by a close servant, the work is considered an excellent source of recipes for beverages and for various forms of food preservation. What is considered the first printing of a recipe for bacon and eggs is present, as well as a recipe for capons fed on the flesh of vipers. ~… Leer más

Oppenheim: Par Iean Theodore dé Bry marchant libraire & bourgeois d'Oppenheim qui est sur le Rhin, 1619. Small quarto (19.5 x 14 cm.), [7], 8-72 pages, five plates engraved on copper, one folding. ~ FIRST FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION and FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. The first book on individual heating using stoves. A rare work on improvements in fireplaces and stoves, featuring five plates of ornate examples. It was published by the copper engraver and publisher Jean Theodore de Bry (1561-1623), born in Strasbourg, who settled in Oppenheim in 1609. The text was published by the same publisher the previous year in German as part of a larger work by the author and titled Holzsparkunst. Franz Keslar or Kessler (circa 1580 - circa 1630) a painter from Frankfurt, describes several models of heating previously unrecorded in France. Keslar's innovation was a response to the dwindling supply of wood for heating and cooking throughout the Continent, promoting a transition from the use of hearths to the more efficient… Leer más

London: Printed by D. Maxwell, and are to be sold by Robert Horn at the Turk's Head in Cornhill [illegible], 1659. Small octavo (12 x 7 cm.), [2], 155 [10], 2-31, [1] pages. A2, B8, C-I12, K3 (-K4, and ?K5) of "table for preserving, conserving, candying and perfuming, &c."). Stated eighth edition enlarged. The final edition of Murrell's 'two books' consisting of The First Book of Cookery, The Second Book of Cookery, and A New Book of Sewing and Carving, the second book with a separate title page. The New Book... was cribbed from The Boke of Kervynge (London 1508) [see Oxford, pages 1ff.]. One of Murrell's major contributions to English culinary literature was to bring French recipes to England some forty years before the competition. This and the previous edition (1650) are the only editions of Murrell that are contemporary with the other leading English cookery texts of the 1650s: The French Cook of La Varenne (1653 and 1654) and Marnette's translation of Le Patissier François (The Perfect Cook of… Leer más

[New Hampshire, 1901. Thirty-one different menus, plus four related promotional pieces (35 pieces together,) all assorted broadsides, broadsheets, and bi-folds (various sizes). Some are illustrated with engravings, others with chromolithograph or hand-colored illustrations. Some of the menus are both printed and manuscript; most are print only. Condition varies but is mostly very good to fine. Five decades of menus and other items from the Golden Age of New Hampshire hotels. Hotels include: Mount Pleasant House, Senter House, Twin Mountain House, Profile House, Crawford House, The Oceanic, Intervale House, Farragut House, Franklin House, Winnecummet House, Prospect House, The Wentworth, Lafayette House, The Kearsarge, House of Seven Gables, Strawberry Hill House, the Moosilaukee (sp?), Forbyen House (sp?), Boar's Head House, Van Ness & American Hotels, Ormand, Pearson's House, Everett House, and Lakeside House. ~ Condition is largely very good to fine, though a few items show adhesion marks or stains… Leer más

Philadelphia: Printed by James Carey, 83, N. Second-Street, 1796. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), [xiii], 14-132 pages; three plates; two engravings depicting carving and a third woodcut depicting "Arrangement of a Supper Table". ~ Third American edition, first printing. Carter's popular English cookbook (circa 1765), became one of the very earliest cookery books printed in the U.S. The American printings preceding this one were: Boston: Edes & Gill of 1772 (Lowenstein 4), and New York: Berry & Rogers of 1792 (Lowenstein 7) and 1795 (Lowenstein 8b). The Edes & Gill issue of 1772 was just the second American cookbook, following the 1742 Alexandria printing of Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife. The two Berry & Rogers printings contained a number of changes which better reflected the American context of these books, and which greatly influenced Amelia Simmons in the creation of her foundational American Cookery of 1796. In a statement "To the readers" (page [ii]), it is explained that the sections on Gravies… Leer más

Coloniae (Koln): Ex officina Eucharistu; [Ex officina Eucharij, apud Eucharium Ceruicornum procurante M. Godefrido Hittorpio ciue Coloni], 1529. Octavo (17 x 11 cm.), ccclxviij, [4] leaves. Errata list at rear. Title within architectural woodcut border. Ornamental initials for each book. ~ Printed in Koln by Gottfried Hittorp, an early 16th century edition of what is considered the first cookery book to be printed, first issued circa 1470. Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi) examines the mode of living most beneficial to the human body, the pleasures of the table, and how to best enjoy one's meals and have good health. He discourses upon the quality of various meats, fish, fruits and vegetables, the best manner to prepare them, and the correct sauces to be served with various dishes. An entire chapter on wine and vinegar is included as well. Internally sound and clean; corner of C6 torn off, and small closed tear to P4 (neither effecting text). Fairly early rebind in tan, paper-covered boards; simple,… Leer más

Philadelphia: Caxton Press of C. Sherman, Son & Co, 1864. Slim octavo (18.7 x 13 cm.), 144 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. Written by the author as a pastime, A Poetical Cook-Book was published in 1864 and sold to benefit the Civil War's wounded, widowed, and orphaned. The book features a wide-ranging collection of recipes inspired by famous poems. For many years it was considered the first cookbook sold for a charitable cause (Cook). "A small, plain volume, it featured the standard food of that period-johnnycakes, hasty pudding and the like. The idea worked... because 'a cookbook was something women could create themselves. And the formula reflected the American ethic. Something needed to be done, and everybody pitched in" (Barbara Haber, Schlesinger Library, Food and Wine). Cookbooks such as this one were written by concerned women and then sold at so-called "sanitary fairs" to raise money for the casualties of the Civil War and their families. Internally clean and sound, with only a tiny bit of… Leer más

Basileae: Joannes Valderus, 1535. Quarto, [34], 333, [1]. Second edition. Text in Greek, editor's notes in Latin & 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 gastronomers 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 internally, 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… Leer más