Author: STRAUB, JACQUES
Title: Straub's Manual of Mixed Drinks - a Complete Manual of Mixed Drinks for All Occasions
Description: Chicago: R. Francis Welsh Publishing Company, 1913. First Edition. . "Straub was born in Switzerland to a distilling family, and became one of the most famous wine and spirits experts of his era. [This work] follows the pocket reference format of John Applegreen’s book, while tersely cataloguing a vast number of mixed drink recipes probably seeded by his friend Oscar Tschirsky at the Waldorf-Astoria." - Cocktail Kingdom Library. Contains over 675 clear and accurate directions for mixing all kinds of popular and fancy drinks, served in the best hotels, clubs, buffets, bars and homes. Added to this is a splendid introduction on wines, their medicinal value, when and how to serve them, kinds and styles of glasses to use and other valuable information and facts of great importance to every user of wines and liquours. 159 p. Index. Tight, clean and unmarked with moderate wear to marroon buckram. Floral endpapers. Occasional black and white illustrations. Lacking pages 3-6 which contained a portrait and biographical information about the author, otherwise an attractive and worthy example of the rare first edition.; 12mo. Good .

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