BRIGGS, Richard

The New Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice; Being a Complete Guide to All Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New; Consisting of Thirty-Eight Chapters...

Philadelphia, W. Spotswood, R. Campbell, and B. Johnson, 1792. First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4-1/8" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary calf leather with gilt rules on the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; xiii, xii-xvi, 557, [1-advertisement for Spotswood's books] pages, as issued. Originally issued in London in 1788, this is ONE OF THE EARLIEST COOKBOOKS PRINTED IN AMERICA. The chapters include material on wine and wine making, cordials, brewing, "proper rules to be observed in marketing," "rules for trussing," sauces, baking, broiling, and everything else. Briggs's prefatory remarks are dated 1788 and addressed to his readers "in hopes that they will find the Directions and Receipts more intelligible than in most Books of the Kind." BITTING, p.60, citing this Philadelphia edition as the main edition, and noting the other editions (including the two later Boston and Philadelphia editions of 1798); EVANS 24145; LOWENSTEIN 14. Bookplate of the noted Americanist Michael Zinman on the front pastedown. Front free endpaper lacking; early owner name to top of title and the first page of text; light to moderate foxing; one gathering bound upside down; about five leaves trimmed closely, occasionally affecting a word or letter. Binding quite nice with partial splits on both covers which are holding firm. Very Good and quite scarce, especially in this complete, unmutilated condition .

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N° du livre: 020848

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Cookbooks, Brewing, Wine Making, Gastronomy, 18th Century, American Imprints, Cookery, Americana Cookbooks Americana American Imprints Cookery

BROWN, Eleanor & Bob

Culinary Americana: Cookbooks Published in the Cities and Towns of the United States of America During the Years from 1860 Through 1960

(Staten Island), (Martino), [1996]. Reprint. Hardcover. Red cloth (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"); xiv, 417 pages. Limited to 125 copies. Describes 4447 American cookbooks. As new .

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N° du livre: 007120

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Gastronomy, Cookery, Reference Americana Cookery Reference Gastronomy

CHEYNE, George

An Essay of Health and Long Life

London, George Strahan, 1725. Second Edition. Hardcover. Blindstamped paneled calf leather; xx [24] 232 pages. Chapters on proper diet, exercise, sleeping, etc. Aimed at the lay reader, much of Cheyne's advice was based upon his own hypochondria and continual struggle with obesity--at one time he weighed over 440 pounds. In another work Cheyne described his hypochondria, which he blamed on the English weather, and estimated that a third of his patients were neurotic. Bitting (p. 86) cites only the 1727 French edition, noting it as rare. Crahan 268; Heirs of Hippocrates 761; Osler 2303; Wellcome II, p. 338. Modern bookplate of Nellie Madeleine Brown, M.D. on the front free endpaper; spine label partly present. Some rubbing and edgewear, short splits in joints. Nice copy .

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N° du livre: 002982

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Health, Cookery, Medicine, 18th Century, Gastronomy Health Medicine 18th Century Gastronomy

[COOKERY]

Food and Drink Through the Ages 2500 B.C. To 1937 A.D. A Catalogue of Antiquities, Manuscripts Books, and Engravings Treating of Cookery Eating and Drinking, Including Books from the Library and with the Bookplate of Robert Viel, the Famous Paris Restauranteur

London, Maggs Bros. Ltd. 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps (7" x 9-1/2"); more than 200 pages including Language, Subject, and Author indexes. Illustrated. Covers a little soiled. Very Good .

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N° du livre: 021174

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Cookbooks, Illustrated Books, Cookery, Gastronomy, Reference Cookbooks Illustrated Books Gastronomy Cookery

[COOKERY]

Manuscript Recipe Book

Reading [UK], 1839. Hardcover. Calf-backed boards, 6-1/2" x 7-3/4". An English Manuscript Recipe book signed on the front pastedown "Mrs Garrard/Friar St./Reading/Berks 39" consisting of 100 pages, mostly not numbered and nearly all of which are filled in with manuscript recipes, with the first two pages being a numbered index, as well as a dozen or so loose pages of recipes in various hands laid in. Included are wines, pies, cakes, etc. Some examples are Pickled Mushroom Sauce, Baked Apple Pudding, Spunge Cake, Walnut Catsup Soy, Oyster Sausages, Siberian Crabs, Ginger Beer, Ginger Wine, etc. Roughly about 150 recipes in all. Fairly clean and readable; spine lacking, boards loose but holding. Good .

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N° du livre: 020853

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Cookbooks, Wine, Manuscript Recipes, Cookery Cookery Manuscript Recipes Cookbooks Wine

[COOKERY]

New American Cookery, or Female Companion. Containing Full and Ample Directions for Roasting, Broiling, Stewing, Hashing, Boiling, Preserving, Pickling, Potting, Fricasees, Soups, Puff-Pastes, Puddings, Custards, Pies, Tarts, & C. Also, the Making of Wines and Cheese. Peculiarly Adapted to the American Mode of Cooking

New York, D. D. Smith, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in original full sheep leather (3-3/8" x 5-3/8") with gilt rules on the spine; 180 pages. The second American cookbook, preceded by Amelia Simmons's much better known AMERICAN COOKERY, printed four times before the publication of this volume, which is much scarcer than the Simmons. It is also distinguished as the first American cookbook published in New York. In addition to the recipes for broiling, hashing, preserving, pickling, fricasees, soups, puddings, pies, etc. there are 20 pages devoted to the making of wine, quite early for an American book. Bitting page 581: "There are some unusual recipes, one for spinach, a forerunner for the spinach of today, cooking with no added water, garnished with poached eggs, and unusual for that period; oranges cut in quarters." Lowenstein 36 cites another New York imprint of T. B. Jansen in the same year. Lacking the endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attractive, unsophisticated copy in original binding of a scarce and important book .

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N° du livre: 017831

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Cheese, Gastronomy, Cookbook, Cookbooks, Rare Early American Imprints Americana American Cookery Wine

FINCK, Henry T.

Food and Flavor: A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living

New York, The Century Co. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated cloth, octavo, xviii, 594 pages. Illustrated by Charles Chapman. Bitting p. 157. The author claims that his is the first book in any language devoted to flavor rather than the nutritive aspects of food. Hinges cracked but tight. About Very Good .

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N° du livre: 001830

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Cookery, Food, Cooking, Gastronomy, First Book Gastronomy Food First Book Cookery

[COOKERY] LACAM, Pierre & CHARABOT, Antoine

Le Glacier Classique Et Artistique En France Et En Italie

Paris & Vincennes, Chez Les Auteurs, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary red morocco leather and marbled boards (5-1/4" x 8-1/2"); (iv), 374 pages with 28 illustrations in the text. One of the first thousand printed with stamped signatures of the authors on the verso of the half title. Extremely rare and sought-after treatise on ice cream, confectioners, and pastry from the 13th to the end of the 19th century. Pierre Lacam was head pastry chef and ice cream maker to His Highness S. Charles III, Prince of Monaco, and Antoine Charabot was pastry chef and ice cream maker at the Grand Hotel Quirinal in Rome, the Savoy, and other establishments. After the foreword and the biographies with engraved portraits of the great modern glaciers (Procope, Tortoni, Appert, Chevet, Lulli), the authors discuss various ingredients for cooking and baking and list 406 recipes developed by the authors. Not in BITTING, VICAIRE, or other bibliographies, with the exception of CAGLE 255 which does not, however, mention the 2 out-of-text portraits that some copies seem to include and which are not present here. With the bookplate on the front pastedown of Carl and Shirley Sontheimer, founders of Cuisinart and noted antiquarian cookbook collectors. Toning to text, some leaves a bit soiled or loose with one repaired at gutter with tape and frayed a bit at edges. Binding sound. Good to Very Good and quite scarce .

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N° du livre: 021729

Catalogue: Cookery

Mots-clés: Cookery, Gastronomy, 19th Century, Ice Cream, Desserts Cookbooks Ice Cream Desserts Cookery