COOKING
& GASTRONOMY This page is dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Harold Perilstein
Part I - Authors A-E | Part II - Authors F-M | Part III - Authors N-Z
COOKING
& GASTRONOMY 
Sugar
Castles &
Fruit Fantasias
(A
is for “Arte”). Mata, Juan de la.
Arte de reposteria, en que se contiene todo gènero de hacer dulces secos,
y en lìquido, vizcochos, turrones, natas: Bebidas heladas de todos generos,
rosolis, mistelas, &c. con una breve instruccion para conocer las frutas,
y servirlas crudas. Madrid: Josef Herrera, 1786. 4to. [2] ff., 208 pp.
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any image where the hand appears on
Gastronomic Masterpiece ILLUSTRATED — Limited Edition Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. Physiologie du goût ou meditations de gastronomie transcendante. Paris: Les Arts & Le Livre, 1926. 2 vols. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). I: xlii, [2], 252 pp.; illus. II: [4], 300, [2] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Front pastedown of vol. I with bookplate of Francis de Neufville Schroeder, a descendent of the first mayor of New York.
• Not in Bitting. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped author and title; corners and joints showing some shelf wear, spines slightly darkened. Vol. I front pastedown with bookplate as above. Original yellow wrappers in near-perfect condition; overall, a lovely set. (25885)
As
Bibliographies Go, DELICIOUS!
Cagle, William R., & Lisa Killion Stafford, comps. American books on food and drink: A bibliographical catalog of the cookbook collection housed in The Lilly Library at the [sic] Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 8vo. xviii, 794 pp., illus.
Second U.S. Edition: An Influential Classic Carter, Susannah. The frugal housewife: Or, complete
woman cook. Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). 132 pp.; 2 plts.
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Provenance: Flourishing old signatures of “J. Lowry” to pastedown and title-page.
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Bancroft
Library Cookery
(Craig "Diet &
Cookery" Collection). Four hundred years of English diet &
cookery[:] a selection of books printed between 1541 & 1939 from the collection
of Dr. & Mrs. John C. Craig. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library,
1987. Small 8vo. 71, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
• Publisher's textured cream paper wrappers, with a little light soil; top edges of booklet darkened. Generally a clean, good copy.
San Francisco Cookery in aHigh-Flying Era Craig, John C., ed. The recipe book of
Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Introduction by Carol Hart Field. Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. 8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 5–65, [5 (3 blank)] pp. 
The recipes collected by Mrs. Coit reflect the “cosmopolitan character of San Francisco” during the 1870's and 1880's and show “the influence of the French, Spanish, Mexican, and English traditions in the cookery of the period.”
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and one additional illustration.
• Paperback. Fine. (5461)
“New, Useful, & Entertaining” Daboll, Nathan. New-England almanac, for the year ... 1808 ... By Nathan Daboll. New-London [Conn.]: Pr. by Ebenezer P. Cady, [1807]. 12mo. [18] ff.
• Charcoal tooth-powder, orchards, and butter making.
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• Drake 707; Shaw & Shoemaker 13185. Removed from a nonce volume and resewn. (9489)
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Uncommon
— Printed
in Fraktur
(Danish/Norwegian
Cookery). Gullichsen, Clen. Husholdningsbog. En sikker
veiledning i kogekunsten. Udgivet efter flere Vars Dvelse og Erfaring for husmødre
og husholdersker. Frederikstad, 1872. Large 12mo. 348, xxvii, [1] pp.
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NO
copies of this item were located in searches of RLIN, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956
.
• Contemporary half calf over boards, all quite worn and abraded, spine peeling. Shaken with hinges cracked, some pages loosening from sewing; pages age-toned with small stain (possibly of insect origin) to bottom of a few. Ownership inscription pencilled on front free endpaper. Volume fragile, contents fascinating.
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