Cake.

Providence, Rhode Island: The Rumford Chemical Works, N.d. 0. Soft cover. Small duodecimo. 16 pages. Wrappers, with some chips and tears. Spine mostly gone. With string to attach it still present. Very early Twentieth-Century imprint. Uncommon. Good.

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Book number: 1649

Catalogue: Gastronomy

Keywords: Cooking

Dainty desserts and confections flavored with Burnett's pure extracts and tinted with Burnett's standard color pastes.

Boston: Joseph Burnett Co. [between 1894 & 1914]. 0. Soft cover. Tall slim octavo. 30pp. paper wrappers, Upper cover soiled; lower cover with some loss of text. Pasted to the inside of the upper cover, a double-page spread on "Jell-O Ice Cream Powder" in color, described by 'The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Culinary Collection,' in the Special Collections of Michigan State University Libraries as: "The front features Rose O'Neil's "The JELL-O Girl" in a pink dress carrying two servings of ice cream on a tray. A couple is seated in the background. At the top, the title "JELL-O Ice Cream Powder" is state din brown and red lettering. Back cover features an illustration of a "Strawberry Brick" with a box of Ice Cream Powder in the lower right corner. The inside panels contain numerous promotions written in blue and red lettering for JELL-O Ice Cream Powder," and dates c. 1906. A clean tear through the upper part of the first page of the spread. Good.

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Book number: 1380

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Gastronomy

Atkyns, Arabella [pseudonym].

The Family Magazine: in Two Parts Containing Useful Directions in all the Branches of House-Keeping and Cookery.

London: printed for J.Osborn 1741. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, [ii], 123, [iii], [ii], 324pp. First edition. Part II has a separate title-page, pagination and register. Contemporary calf, repaired. Illustrated in the text. Oxford, English Cookery Books. Oxford p. 71; Maclean p. 49; Bitting p. 550; Cagle 673; Pennell p.150; Simon 658; ESTC T87836 Good.

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Book number: 776

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Gastronomy, Medicine

Callender, James Thomson.

The Political Progress of Britain; or an Impartial Account of the Principal Abuses in the Government of this Country, from the Revolution in 1688. The whole tending to prove the ruinous Consequences of the popular System of War and Conquest. Part First.

London: printed for T. Kay, No. 332, Strand; and Robertson & Berry, No. 39, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 1792. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 80pp. "Part First" is misleading as this is a stand alone text. Disbound. ESTC T173344; Sabin 63795. Hole in lower portion of title-page, not affecting text. Ink notation on piece of paper glued to page 9. Good.

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Book number: 1069

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Gastronomy

Kitchiner, William. [PRESENTATION COPY]

Apicius Redivivus; or the Cook's Oracle. Being 600 Receipts instituted in the Kitchen of a Physician.

London: Printed for Samuel Bagster, 1817, 0. Hardcover. Small octavo. Unpaginated. 52pp. of preliminaries (Preface, Contents, and Advice to Cooks) and [364]pp. First edition. Contemporary sheep; repaired. With four engravings, two engraved illustrations and two engraved pages of explanatory text. Presentation copy. Signed on the front pastedown: "To Harriet, a token of Esteem from her friend the Author, Feb. 19 1817" This first edition is quite scarce. Good.

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Book number: 2665

Catalogue: Gastronomy

Petrarca, Francesco.

Trostspiegel in Gluck und Ungluck.

Getruckt zu Franckfort am Meyn: bey Christian Egenolffs Erben, 1572. 0. Soft cover. Single Leaf From Petrarch's "Trostspiegel in Gluck Und Ungluck," with woodcuts by the Petrarch Master, i.e. Hans Weiditz. Very Good.

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Book number: 2434

Catalogue: Illustrated Books, Juvenilia, Gastronomy