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Item 220975Color Lithograph: Advertising poster for “Bloomer Cut Cigar,” depicting two turn-of-the-century women wearing bloomers, seated, smoking cigars.

(Cigars).

Price: $1,000

Boston: Eastern Specialty Mftg. Co, ca. 1900. Read More Item Details for Color Lithograph: Advertising poster for “Bloomer Cut Cigar,” depicting two turn-of-the-century women wearing bloomers, seated, smoking cigars Add to Wish List

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Item 302498[Album of 48 cognac labels].

(Cognac) Tricoche & Co.

Price: $750

Cognac: c.1900. Specially produced by the Tricoche company and bound in Cognac, this lovely assortment of labels commemorates a firm first established in 1820. Read More Item Details for [Album of 48 cognac labels] Add to Wish List

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Item 55480A Dictionary of Etiquette. A Guide to Polite Usage for all Social Functions.

(Etiquette) Green, W.C.

Price: $100

New York: Brentano’s, 1912. Later edition. Read More Item Details for A Dictionary of Etiquette. A Guide to Polite Usage for all Social Functions Add to Wish List

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Item 250572The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy.

Fessenden, Thomas G[reen].

Price: $1,250

Bellows Falls, [Vermont]: Printed by Bill Blake & Co, 1820. First edition. Vermont Imprint on Gastronomy. Practical compendium of recipes by Thomas Green Fessenden (1771-1837), stirical poet, inventor, and lawyer. “Between 1809 and 1822 Fessenden divided his residence between Brattleboro and Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he renewed his interests in..... Read More Item Details for The Husbandman and Housewife. A Collection of Valuable Recipes and Directions, relating to Agriculture and Domestic Economy Add to Wish List

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Item 259495Manuel du Vigneron en Algérie et Tunisie.

Gaillardon, B.

Price: $500

Paris: Challamel Ainé, 1886. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title, “A Monsieur Paul Vibert …”. Read More Item Details for Manuel du Vigneron en Algérie et Tunisie Add to Wish List

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Item 5429129 Original Ink and Pencil Drawings for Apicius: Cookery and Dining in Ancient Rome. A Bibliography, Critical Review and Translation...

(Gastronomy) Vehling, Joseph D.

Price: $3,500

Chicago: Walter Hill, 1936. Read More Item Details for 29 Original Ink and Pencil Drawings for Apicius: Cookery and Dining in Ancient Rome. A Bibliography, Critical Review and Translation. Depicting Ancient Stoves, Cooking Utensils, Interiors, Serving Dishes, etc Add to Wish List

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Item 54320On Alcohol. A Course of Six Cantor Lectures Delivered before the Society of Arts.

Richardson, Benjamin W.

Price: $100

London: Macmillan and Co, 1877. Read More Item Details for On Alcohol. A Course of Six Cantor Lectures Delivered before the Society of Arts Add to Wish List

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Item 303393Simple Cooking Precepts for a Little House.

(SIGNED) Conrad, Jessie.

Price: $1,650

[np: privately printed, 1921]. One of 100 signed by Conrad. Conrad's Preface to his wife Jessie's Cookbook was privately printed before the cookbook's publication. Read More Item Details for Simple Cooking Precepts for a Little House Add to Wish List

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Item 233440Manhattan Oases. New York’s 1932 Speak-Easies with a Gentleman’s Guide to Bars and Beverages by Gordon Kahn.

(Speakeasies) Hirschfeld, Al.

Price: $500

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, [1932]. First edition. Scarce group of reviews of New York’s night spots, each with cocktail recipe. Read More Item Details for Manhattan Oases. New York’s 1932 Speak-Easies with a Gentleman’s Guide to Bars and Beverages by Gordon Kahn Add to Wish List

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Item 302392The Good Wine.

Tyler, Gillian.

Price: $500

Thetford, Vt: Gillian Tyler at the Cricket Press, 1965. No. 19 of 22 copies. Read More Item Details for The Good Wine Add to Wish List

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Item 302172Watercolour of 3 women and man crushing grapes wine and pressing.

Price: $450

19th century. Read More Item Details for Watercolour of 3 women and man crushing grapes wine and pressing Add to Wish List

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Item 259502L’Art de Faire le Vin.

(WINE) Chaptal, [Jean-Antoine-Claude, comte de Chanteloup].

Price: $1,000

Paris: Deterville, 1819. “Deuxième édition” [i.e. third edition]. The third edition of this French manual on wine production, first published in 1801, followed by a second edition in 1807. Here in its original rose paper wrappers, uncut and unopened. Chaptal (1756-1832) was an important figure in the application of chemistry..... Read More Item Details for L’Art de Faire le Vin Add to Wish List

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