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BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste;Philadelphia : 1854
First edition in English, an epicurean collection of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes written by one of the most influential food writers ever. According to Vicaire it was first issued in December 1825, two months before Brillat-Savarin's death, though Cagle notes it was first published in Paris in 1826. "For the French and outsides alike, this work... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119657
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(ABSINTHE.) Catalogue Général - Distillerie Pontissalienne - Fabrique d'Absinthe Supérierue.Pontarlier, Doubs : c.1900
Attractive brochure with full catalogue of products and prices from a leading manufacturer in "la capitale de l'absinthe" at the turn of the century. Superb chromo. endpapers by A. Waton of St. Etienne, who were specialists in labels and catalogues; Michael Twyman noting that their work "transforms everyday items into objects of beauty." (A History... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 141557
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MARKHAM, Gervase. The English Hous-Wife,London : 1660
Later edition of this popular 17th-century guide to housewives. The work is in two parts: the first offers a guide to domestic medical recipes, including to whiten teeth, aid conception, ameliorate venereal diseases and cure drunkenness; the second part acts mostly as a cook book, alongside guides to brewing drinks and preparing cloth. The work was... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 129225
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(COCKTAILS.) DE FLEURY, R. 1700 Cocktails From the Man Behind the Bar. [Together with] 1800 and all that. Drinks - Ancient & Modern.London : 1934 & 1937
First editions, first impressions, both of de Fleury's scarce but classic cocktail recipe books presented together with the very scarce dust jackets over the publisher's full leather bindings. At the time de Fleury's 1700 Cocktails was the most comprehensive to be included in one book. The author's note in his follow up volume 1800 and... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 134199
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JENKS, James. The Complete Cook:London : 1768
First edition of this practical book of recipes and domestic management. As with many cookbooks of the period this work combines traditional English recipes with French cuisine with dishes replicate "in the French manner", as well as introducing more exotic dishes, such as "Turtle the West-Indian way" (p. 117). The work also contains medicinal recipes,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 135997
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BOYLE, Patrick. The Publicans' Daily Companion;London : [1797?]
First edition of this guide for publicans. A wide ranging handbook, Boyle's work covers duties and the storage of drink, offers recipes for various mixed drinks, gives a process called "The Doctor" to disguise the taste of drinks that have gone bad, narrates how to make wine from turnips, birch and cowslip, and warns young publicans of the rogues and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 130661
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HENDERSON, Alexander. The History of Ancient and Modern Wines.London : 1824
First edition of "the first book in English that describes in detail what are today called modern wines" (Gabler). Alexander Henderson (1780-1863) was a Scottish doctor and man of letters, whose expertise on wine and its production was based on observations made during visits to the wine-growing districts of France, Italy, and Germany, and to the sherry-producing... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139156
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BEETON, Mrs Isabella. The Englishwoman's Cookery-Book.London : 1863
First edition of the first of Beeton's "cookery" books; the affordable spin-offs from her Book of Household Management (1861). Although the Book of Household Management is largely remembered as Beeton's legacy it was primarily these cheaper "part-issues, spin-offs, and extracts" which most influenced English cooking habits (Beetham,... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 133857
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WHITE, John. A Treatise on the Art of Baking,Edinburgh : 1828
First edition of this comprehensive and wide-ranging study of baking, tying in the history of agriculture, the growing and milling of wheat, the baking of bread, biscuits and pastries, and the current state of baking in Britain. The work is now uncommon, with 8 copies listed by Copac in British institutions.
Provenance: The Lawes Agricultural Library,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 129237
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KITCHINER, William. The Cook's Oracle;London : 1829
Later London edition, uncommon in the original boards, of the most famous of Kitchiner's cookery books, "an acknowledged source of inspiration for Mrs Beeton, and mined by the writers of other household guides" (ODNB). First published in London in 1817, The Cook's Oracle "was written in a down-to-earth style, and demonstrated Kitchiner's familiarity... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 113405
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SPEECHLY, William A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine.York : 1790
First edition. William Speechly (c.1740-1821) was gardener to the third Duke of Portland at his Welbeck Abbey estate in Nottinghamshire. Encouraged by the duke Speechly started writing down and publishing his knowledge and experience in gardening; in 1776 he had contributed to Alexander Hunter's edition of Evelyn's Silva, which was shortly followed... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 120229
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RAFFALD, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper,London : 1793
A later edition of this popular Georgian-era cookery book, first published in Manchester in 1769; there were some twenty further editions before the turn of the 19th century, of which only twelve were authorised. Elizabeth Raffald (1733-1781) was born in Doncaster and spent some fifteen years in the service of Lady Elizabeth Warburton at Arley Hall,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 124697
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(COOKERY.) A Boston Lady. The Dessert Book.Boston : 1872
First edition. This cookery book, designed for a mass audience using products readily available, notably features a section on chocolate and its uses as a beverage. This work provides a useful insight into the practice of sellers adulterating chocolate "with a variety of starch grain items" to meet ever-increasing demand. The author cautions readers... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 118484
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(WHISKY.) Report from the Committee upon the Distilleries in Scotland. Reported by the Right Honourable Sylvester Douglas, 11 June 1798.London : 1803
First collected edition of these fifteen parliamentary reports, including Sylvester Douglas's indispensable two-part survey of the Scottish whisky industry, and three further reports, together illustrating the culmination of parliament's continued attempts to regulate the Scottish distilleries over the course of the eighteenth century following the... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 114846
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TOKLAS, Alice B. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.London : 1954
First edition, first impression, of one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time, notorious for its inclusion of the "Hashich Fudge" recipe on p. 259 that was given to Toklas by Brion Gysin, and which was expurgated from the US edition, published two days later.
Weaving together traditional French recipes and entertaining anecdotes of Toklas's life... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 140900
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TOKLAS, Alice B. The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.New York : 1954
First US edition, first printing, of one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time. Weaving together traditional French recipes and entertaining anecdotes of Toklas's life with Gertrude Stein in Paris, The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book is considered the counterpart to Stein's Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) which had catapulted Toklas to fame.
Harper,... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 133986
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CURTIS-BENNETT, Noel. The Food of the People, being The History of Industrial Feeding.London : 1949
First edition, deluxe limited issue, number 51 of 100 copies, presented to Eric Simonds by the directors of Peter Merchant Ltd, with their numbered presentation bookplate. A highly attractive copy of this study of the history of the feeding of employees in the workplace, from the middle ages to the factory canteen. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 128771
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(COCKTAILS.) [VERMEIRE], Robert. Cocktails. How to Mix Them.London : 1922
First edition, first impression, including what may be the first appearance in print of the recipe for the Sidecar. Also included are various recipes for medicinal drinks, such as the usual hot toddy for a cold, but also absinthe for a headache and champagne for seasickness. The author was the Belgian bartender Robert Vermeire (1891-1976), who worked... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 121318
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[HESSUS, Helius Eobanus.] De generibus ebriosorum, et ebrietate vitanda:[Frankfurt : 1557
The German humanist scholar Eobanus Koch (Coccius) (1488-1540) was considered the foremost Latin poet of his age. His prose work "On the species of drunkards" is a mock-quodlibetical speech that applies the scholastic method of argumentation, first printed anonymously in 1515. His first bestseller, the satire was reprinted in 1516 and 1550 and afterwards... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 108213
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CARÊME, Marie Antonin. Le Patissier Royal Parisien,Paris : 1815
First edition of Carême's first book, signed by the author at the foot of the explanation of the frontispiece, decidedly uncommon: Copac cites only the copies at the British Library and Wellcome among British and Irish institutional; OCLC notes another 15 copies in international holdings.
"Carême 1784-1833 is one of the most famous chefs in... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 124938
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XENOPHON. Xenophons treatise of House holde.London : 1573
Sixth edition in English of Xenophon's Oeconomicus, first published by Thomas Berthelet in 1532, this edition the first to be published by John Allde, at his busy establishment at the Long Shop next to St Mildred Poultry, London. The text is a Socratic dialogue principally about household management and agriculture, one of the earliest works on economics... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 127728
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PARLOA, Maria. Home Economics.New York : 1898
First edition, first printing. Parloa's eighth book covers a range of topics ranging from the maintenance of pantries to the digestive system. Parloa was a "pioneer in home economics education", sometimes described as a founder of the discipline, and was arguably America's first celebrity cook (ANB). Her first work, The Appledore Cook Book,... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 120633
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(SPOONS.) Catalogue of a Remarkable Collection of 16th and 17th Century Provincial Silver Spoons,London : 1935
The catalogue for Sotheby's sale of the Ellis collection of spoons, held on 13 and 14 November 1935. The catalogue remains an important reference work for provincial spoons of the period. With a photocopied obituary for G. E. P. How, who worked on the catalogue, loosely inserted. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 131527
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LEYEL, Hilda Winifred Ivy, Mrs. C.F. Cold Savoury Meals.London : 1927
First edition, scarce in the delightful Kathleen Hale jacket. One of Leyel's cleverly targeted series of themed books on cooking and presentation, issued under the banner "The Lure of Cookery" - "most serviceable and attractive little books" Daily Telegraph - part of a 1930s renaissance of interest in English food.
"It taxes the ingenuity of... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 141556
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[REDDING, Cyrus.] Every Man his Own Butler.London : 1839
First edition of this handbook for the amateur wine enthusiast. "Redding's involvement with wine, and French wine in particularly, came about by accident. In 1814 he was sent to Paris as correspondent for The Examiner... Redding spent this time visiting the vineyards of France and Italy and recalled... 'I cannot look back without pleasure to seasons... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 130413
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LEYEL, Hilda Winifred Ivy, Mrs. C.F. Picnics for Motorists.London : 1936
First edition, extremely uncommon in the attractive Alex Jardine jacket. One of Leyel's cleverly targeted series of themed books on cooking and presentation, issued under the banner "The Lure of Cookery" - "most serviceable and attractive little books" Daily Telegraph - part of a 1930s renaissance of interest in English food.
"There are many... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 141555
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LESLIE, Eliza Miss. Directions for Cookery.Philadelphia : 1837
First edition of "the most popular cookbook of the nineteenth century" (ANB). Leslie's first cookery book, Seventy-five recipes in Cakes, Pastry and Sweetmeats, was published in 1827. The work was highly successful and encouraged Leslie to write a variety of juvenile stories, children's books, magazine articles and novels alongside her "domestic... Learn More£1,200.00Stock Code: 110601
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(WINE.) Weingroßhandlung Carl Wiewels Trier seit 1847.Trier : [1846-1948]
A unique collection of papers and photographs documenting the history of a family-owned German wine business across two centuries. Beginning with a photograph of Ernst Ferdinand Cronenbold, who founded the company in 1847, this extensively illustrated scrapbook charts the growth of what would later become known as Carl Wiewels, a wholesale wine merchants... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 116915
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BURTON, Richard F. Four autograph Indian recipes:[c.1850]
A brief but fascinating list of Indian recipes attesting to Burton's absorption of the culture of the subcontinent. Burton's father was a colonel in the Indian Army and in 1842 finally "acquiesced to his son's requests and purchased a commission for him in the Bombay army. Burton arrived in India on 28 October 1842 and was posted to the 18th regiment... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 127294
