The Accomplished Housekeeper, and Universal Cook. Containing all...
London: Printed for J. Scatcherd, 1797. First edition. The plates show suggested first and second courses by month... Read More
Price: $1,000
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Aerated Beverages (Including Cordials, Brewed Beers, etc.) and All About Them.
London: Barnett & Foster, [1900]. First edition. Read More
Price: $125
Chromolithographic Broadside "Polly , want a cracker?"
New York: American Biscuit and Mfg. Co. West St. from Bethune to 12th St, before 1898. American Biscuit was formed in 1889-90 by Adolphus Green and in 1898 it was amalgamated into N.B.C. Read More
Price: $100
INSCRIBED
The Gentleman’s Companion.
New York: Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, no. 478 of 1250 copies. INSCRIBED. Vol. I: Being an Exotic Cookery Book or, Around the World with Knife, Fork and Spoon. Vol. II: Being an Exotic Drinking Book or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask One cookery/drink book that has... Read More
Price: $1,000
Boodle's 1762-1962. A Short History.
London: Privately Printed for Members of the Club, 1962. First edition, Number 626 of a limited edition for "John Watts" Read More
Price: $150
![The Handbook of Dining; or, Corpulence and Leanness Scientifically Considered. Comprising the art of dining on correct principles consistent with easy digestion, the avoidence of corpulency, and the cure of leanness; together with special remarks … on these subjects. By Brillat-Savarin. Translated by L[eonard] F[rancis] Simpson. Brillat-Savarin, Jean-Anthelme.](/pictures/thumb/252490.jpg?v=1438725108)
The Handbook of Dining; or, Corpulence and Leanness Scientifically Considered. Comprising the art of dining on correct principles consistent with...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1865. First American edition of the Leonard Francis Simpson translation (First published in London in 1859). “When the first edition of the Handbook of Dining was published, it was not written with a view to elucidate the two great questions —Corpulency and Leanness —... Read More
Price: $500
A collection of Candy Coupons consisting of : six one-half coupons, three one-coupons; five One-Half Certificates which represent two and...
N. P: Happiness Candy Stores, Inc, n. d. Each bearing the notation that they are “Redeemable at any United Profit-Sharing Redemption Station according to Terms of Catalog of United Profit-Sharing Corporation”. Read More
Price: $150
TURKISH TROPHIES-HAMILTON KING GIRLS-PREMIUM CIGARETTE CARDS
Cards for Turkish Trophies . Complete set of 25 costumes dated 1700-1903,
New York: S. Anargyros, c. 1903. TURKISH TROPHIES-HAMILTON KING GIRLS-PREMIUM CIGARETTE CARDS. Fourth Series: Period Costumes: ATC HamiltonKings Girls 27-61 1700, 1710, 1730, 1763, 1780, 1787, 1790, 1794, 1800, 1810, 1814, 1820, 1824, 1829, 1839, 1849, 1860, 1864, 1870, 1875, 1882, 1890, 1896, 1900, 1903. Read More
Price: $450
Règles sur la Santé, et sur les moyens de prolonger la vie.
Paris: Chez Rollins; Bruxelles, Jean Léonard, 1726. First French edition, English first edition was published in 1724. First French edition of Cheyne’s famous “Essay of Health and Long Life.” The author, who at one time weighed over 400 pounds, sets out rules for healthy living. Read More
Price: $500
Inscribed by Julia Child, Meryl Streep and Nora Ephron
Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Third printing. Inscribed by Julia Child, Meryl Streep and Nora Ephron. INSCRIBED by Julia Child and later SIGNED by Meryl Streep (who played Child in Julie and Julia) and Nora Ephron (who directed the film). Sold to benefit the Writers of America East Foundation... Read More
Price: $750
Appetite for Life. The Biography of Julia Child (1912-2004).
New York: Doubleday, [1997]. First edition. Signed on bookplate on ffep "Bon Appétit/ Julia Child." Also inscribed on half-title "To John Ferrone with admiration. Noel Fitch 30 Sept 97." Read More
Price: $225
Appetite for Life. The Biography of Julia Child (1912-2004).
New York: Doubleday, [1997]. Bound Galleys. Notes in John Ferrone's hand. Read More
Price: $75
The American Frugal Housewife.
New York: Samuel & William Wood, 1838. Twenty-Second Edition, Enlarged and Corrected by the Author [actually 4th edition, 12th printing]. Read More
Price: $225
![De triclinio, sive De modo convivandi apud priscos Romanos, & de conviviorum apparatu. Accedit Fulvii Ursini Appendix. et Hier. Mercurialis De Accubitus in coena Antiquorum origine, Dissertatio … [bound with:] MAGIUS, Hieronymus. De Tintinnabulis Liber Postumus. Franciscus Sweertius F. Notis illustravit. Accedit ejuisdem Magii Equuleo Liber, cum notis J. Jungermanni …. Petrus Ciacconius, Pedro Chocón i e.](/pictures/thumb/255877.jpg?v=1438725170)
Roman Gastronomy, Bell Ringing, and Torture
De triclinio, sive De modo convivandi apud priscos Romanos, & de conviviorum apparatu. Accedit Fulvii Ursini Appendix. et Hier. Mercurialis...
Amstelaedami: Apud Henricum Wetstenium, 1689. Fifth edition of DE TRICLINO; third edition of DE TINTINABULIS (but the first to include Magis’ treatise on the rack). Roman Gastronomy, Bell Ringing, and Torture. Read More
Price: $1,500
The Derrydale Cook Book of Fish and Game.
New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First edition, "Unnumbered for Review" of 1250 copies. With mimeographed copy of Biography of De Gouy (with some damage) for Reviewers, born in France, learned under his father. Read More
Price: $400
Presentation from Orville Wright
The Derrydale Cook Book of Fish and Game.
New York: Derrydale Press, [1937]. First edition, 810 of 1250 copies. Presentation from Orville Wright. With a Xmas card from Orville Wright. With a note "From Uncle Orv - Feb. 7, 1940" Read More
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M.F.K. Fisher Introduction to Second Edition
The Derrydale Game Cook Book. [3 page Introduction to the New Edition by M.F.K. Fisher.].
New York: Greenberg: Publisher [Copyright by Mrs L.P. De Gouy], [1950]. New Edition. [Second Edition]. M.F.K. Fisher Introduction to Second Edition. 'Its prose is not deathless. There are many better written books on both theory and practice of gastronomy, but..." Introduction We have never seen this edition before. Read More
Price: $150
![Rime et prose…in quest' ultima edizione…tradotto in lingua latina del celebre Nicolo Fierberto [Nicholas Fitzherbert]. Giovanni Della Cassa, Archbishop of benevento.](/pictures/thumb/32791.jpg?v=1478319769)
Etiquette
Rime et prose…in quest' ultima edizione…tradotto in lingua latina del celebre Nicolo Fierberto [Nicholas Fitzherbert].
Naples: Presso Domenico Pianeso, 1781. Etiquette. Contains his treatise on medieval etiquette and manners “Gatateo.” Fitzherbert left England to be able to openly practice Catholicism, he matriculated at the University of Douay and studied civil law in Bologna. Tried for treason in England for his catholic interests he resided in... Read More
Price: $350
J.L. Denman's Price List of Wines; from France, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Portugal, Sicily, Spain Wine Merchant.
London: 20, Piccadilly and 11, Abchurch Lane City, c. 1875. A lovely little catalogue of wines imported from Europe and South Africa. In an introductory note, Denman makes a strong case for Hungarian and Greek wine: "The flavour is pure and delicate; they do not require to be assisted by... Read More
Price: $250
The Gentleman's Cellar and Butler's Guide.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1902. Second Edition. Read More
Price: $200
The Practice of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary; In Three Parts.
Edinburgh: Printed for Peter Hill, 1806. Fifth edition, improved and enlarged. Read More
Price: $400
29 Original Ink and Pencil Drawings for Apicius: Cookery and Dining in Ancient Rome. A Bibliography, Critical Review and Translation...
Chicago: Walter Hill, 1936. Read More
Price: $3,500
Pristine Copy, Uncut in Wrappers
Manuel des amphitryons; contenant un traité de la dissection des viandes à table, la nomenclature des menus les plus nouveaux...
Paris: Capelle et Renand, 1808. First edition. Pristine Copy, Uncut in Wrappers. A stunning uncut copy in wrappers of the first edition of this seminal guide to the art of entertaining by the great gourmand and father of food writing, Grimod de la Reynière (1758-1837). Manuel des Amphitryons includes sections... Read More
Price: $5,000
IN DUSTJACKET
A Handbook of Hospitality for Town and Country.
Boston: Dana Estes, [1909]. First Edition. IN DUSTJACKET. From the Introduction: "We of the Anglo-Saxonrace still believe in slaying the fatted calf, to which there is surely no objection...In the sudden deveolpment of enormous wealth in our own country, there is some danger that we shall be dazzled by the... Read More
Price: $250
Rare Study of the Thermal Waters of Saint-Amand
Essai physique sur les eaux de St Amand, où l’on examine la nature de ces eaux, leurs propriétés et la...
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
Price: $750
Eat Book.
London and West Burke, VT: Gefn Press and Janus Press, 1990. Limited edition, Number 40 of 150 copies signed by Meynell and Johanknecht. “A sardonic poem about food, love and nursery rhymes with six duotones of the poet’s photographs of cherries, sausages, and white bread” (from the prospectus). Read More
Price: $350