Lille: d l’Imprimerie de P. S. Lalau, 1750. First edition. Rare Study of the Thermal Waters of Saint-Amand. Early study of the therapeutic properties of the thermal waters of St. Amand by a surgeon-physician at the military hospital of Lille. Read More about Essai physique sur les eaux de St Amand, où l’on examine la nature de ces eaux, leurs...

London: William H. Ainsworth, 1827. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. Third edition of a work originally published in 1820. "The book sits within an English tradition of publishing recipes for food and confectionery, but it reveals more about the techniques involved, and about the character of the author, than was..... Read More about The Italian Confectioner; or, Complete Economy of Desserts …

Paris: Giguet et Michaud, 1804. Troisiéme édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée d'un grand nombre de Pièces fugitives du mème auteur. Read More about La Gastronomie, ou l'Homme des Champs a Table. Poëme didactique en IV Chants

New York: 1944. SIGNED BY MARSHALL. Signed ("G. Marshall") in pencil on upper cover by Gen. Marshall. Dinner held Wednesday, 24 May 1944; medals were given to Bernard Baruch amongst others. Read More about Annual Dinner of the National Institute of Social Sciences The Waldorf-Astoria (Sert Room) ......

New Bedford: Charles Taber & Co, 1862. First edition was 1859. Read More about The New Bedford Practical Receipt Book

Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. No. 530 of 850 copies thus. Read More about The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper and a portion of her Cipher Journal. Edited by her...

London: R. Baldwin, 1782. Seventh edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The celebrated 18th-century cook book in its seventh edition. Elizabeth Raffald first published her Experienced English Housekeeper book in 1769. Raffald spent fifteen years in domestic service, married, and became an entrepreneur, starting an employment agency in Manchester, where she introduced..... Read More about The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First edition. MINT. Read More about Cross Creek Cookery

London: [William Heinemann, Ltd, 1959]. Second printing. INSCRIBED. With hand-written card taped to f.f.e.p.: “To J.(immy) Heineman / In appreciation of your affection & kindness to me for so many years. George Criticos.”. Read More about The Life Story of George of the Ritz as told to Richard Viner

[Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de Janeiro: October 1997 - December 2014]. ‘em este maravilhoso Cipriani’. Fine diverse autograph album of noted guests at the Cipriani restaurant in the Copacabana Palace Hotel, in Rio de Janeiro, often with sentiments inscribed to the manager, Hervé Jean Yves Schmidt, including Harald, king of..... Read More about Autograph album of the manager of the Cipriani Restaurant at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Rio de...

New York: M'Dermut & Arden, 1814. An early American edition of what has been called the "earliest manual of household management with any pretensions to completeness, it called forth many imitations" (DNB). Originally published 1806 or 1807 in London, and the first American edition in 1807 in Boston. "The first..... Read More about A New System of Domestic Cookery, formed upon principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of...

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844. First edition. A curious and delightful by one of 19th-century technological visionaries. The inventor and ethnologist Ewbank (1792-1870) emigrated to New York from England in 1819. "In 1820 he began the manufacture of metallic tubing in New York, and retired in 1836 to devote..... Read More about The Spoon; with Upwards of One Hundred Illustrations, Primitive, Egyptian, Roman, Mediaeval, And...

Berkeley: Ten Speed, [2000]. First edition. Signed on tipped-in card. Read More about Cooks at Home