
COOKING
& GASTRONOMY
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On a Most Ancient & Honourable Company — Presentation Copy
(A' Grocery Shopping We Will Go . . . )! Heath, John Benjamin. Some account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the city of London. London: Privately printed, 1854. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.55"). xvi, 580 pp.; 8 (1 fold.) plts.
$350.00
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Uncommon, privately printed second edition of this
illustrated history of the Company of Grocers — one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London — and some of its prominent members from its medieval origins through the early 1850s, written by Heath, governor of the Bank of England from 1845 to 1847. The illustrations include a map of Cheape Ward showing the Grocers' Hall and garden and an oversized, folding facsimile of the charter of incorporation, while the “Notices of Eminent Members” include renditions of their coats of arms. Also present are selections from some of the literature associated with the Grocers: speeches, plays, poems, etc.
Presentation copy: Half-title inscribed “Thomas Alex[ande]r Roberts Esq. [/] Presented by J.B. Heath July 1854.”
NSTC 2H15366; Cagle 736 (for first and third eds. only.); Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25858.17 (first ed.). Publisher's olive green textured cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, front cover with gilt-stamped armorial vignette, back cover with gilt-stamped device and motto, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, extremities mildly rubbed. Hinges (inside) of this hefty volume now cracked, with joints tender but holding. One plate (the map dated 1560) with pencilled annotations. Some plates faintly age-toned; pages with a few instances of light foxing. A work
full of valuable and interesting detail in a nice, clean, and (as handled with care) sound copy. (37084)



The Brigade of the Coarse Bran
Accademia della Crusca. Compendio del vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca. Firenze: Apresso Domenico Maria Manni, 1739. 4to (23 cm, 9.125"). 5 vols. I: x, 686 pp. II: [2] ff., 656 pp. III: [2] ff., 524 pp. IV: [1] f., 655, [1 (blank)] pp. V: [2] ff., 554 pp.
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The website of the Accademia della Crusca explains that “[t]he origins of the Accademia della Crusca can be traced back to the decade 1570 to 1580, and to the meetings of a group of friends who called themselves the 'brigata dei crusconi' ('brigade of coarse bran'). The fun with food words soon resulted in the “establishing the use of the symbology related to flour and to the process of bread-making, and giving the Accademia the purpose of 'separating the flour (the good language) from the bran (the bad language)', following the language model first advocated by Bembo and then by Salviati himself, a model that was based on the supremacy of the Florentine vulgar tongue, modelled on the authors of the 14th Century.” That is, the Academy dedicated itself in good Renaissance fashion to the study of the vernacular and to establishing — normatively and not prescriptively — what “good Italian” was. This involved selecting the best authors and combing their works for examples of usage. The result was the Academy's dictionary, which first appeared in print in 1612.
Offered here is a set of the first abridged edition of the fourth edition. In the fourth edition (1729–38) “the series of quoted authors was widened to include Sannazaro, Cellini, Menzini, Lorenzo Lippi and many others and the work of sorting was given more rigid rules. In particular, quotations taken from handwritten texts or from editions that were considered incorrect were checked over. This edition — like the previous ones — provoked endless debates and criticisms; with the intent of placating the stir caused, and also to satisfy the requests of the public, Manni himself abridged the Vocabulary in 1739" (Academy's website).
Volume V ends with “Autori citati nel Vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca” which is subdivided into “Autori o libri d'autori del buon secolo,” “Autori moderni citati in difetto, o confermazione degli antichi,” “Tavola delle abbreviature degli autori da' quali sono tratti gli esempi citati nel Vocabolario,” and “Indice delle voci e locuzioni latine.”
The work is handsomely printed and has woodcut title vignettes, initials, and head- and tailpieces.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Théodore de Bauffremont-Courtenay; later in the library at Haverford College, deaccessioned 2017.
Vancil, p. 2. 18th-century tan calf, plain sides, spine gilt extra; gilt roll on turn-ins, marbled endpapers. All edges carmine. Ex–Haverford College library with bookplates and usual librarians' pencilled notes on versos of title-pages; lower panels of spines with either call number or that area abraded from its removal. Vol. I front joint cracked, rear one partially; vol. IV with waterstain in upper inner corners of all leaves into text, covers exhibiting same stain as darkening of leather. (38908)

Medical Climatology
Arbuthnot, John; Pierre Boyer de Prébandier, trans. Essai des effets de l'air, sur le corps-humain. Paris: Jacques Barois, fils, 1742. 8vo (horizontal chain lines; 17 cm, 6.75"). xxiv, 320 pp.
$400.00
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Medical climatology and the causes of diseases are at the heart of Arbuthnot's work offered here in the second printing of Pierre Boyer de Prébandier's French translation. Arbuthnot (1667–1735), a Scottish medical doctor, political satirist, and friend and collaborator with Swift on several publications, was rather successful in all he turned his hand to.Boyer de Prébandier's translation is of An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, first published in London in 1733.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Of special note, at least as far as this cataloguer (DMS) is concerned, are the references on pp. 108–12 to
chocolate, coffee, and tea.
Wellcome Catalogue, II, 52. Contemporary polished tan calf, round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra; plain sides, marbled endpapers, all edges red, blue silk ribbon placemarker. Both joints (outside) open along top compartment; binding solid, however, with volume internally clean. A nice copy. (39841)

Early 20th–Century
AMERICAN Cookery Manuscript
Bishop, Mary Ellen. Manuscript on paper, in English.
Begins “Christmas pudding ...” [U.S.]: 1916. 4to (21.2 cm, 8.38"). [154 (70 used)] pp.
$200.00
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This manuscript recipe book mixes sweet and savory dishes with abandon; absent any categorization or sorting, it offers a “Parisian Salad” featuring potatoes, beets, and lima beans in an egg and anchovy–based dressing; “Eggs a La Cuban,” a deviled egg dish with minced sweet red pepper mixed in the yolks; “Jelly for Dessert,” a mold made with plain Knox gelatine with fruit and cream on top; “Chilie Sauce,” a tomato-based spiced relish; “Solid Chocolate Cake,” “Corned Beef a la Americaine,” and various breads, puddings, soups, salads, etc. The handwriting, while informal, is very legible; there is one laid-in recipe for grapefruit marmalade done in a different, likewise legible hand.
Plain paper wrappers with oilcloth shelfback; wrappers worn and stained. Pages with occasional ink smudges or spots, light waterstaining to small area of upper margins, otherwise clean. (38252)
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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.
$60.00
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Essential for all collections — institutional or private — that include American cookbooks. The Lilly has one of the great collections in this field; Cagle is Lilly Librarian Emeritus and Stafford is a former Lilly Library editorial employee. Temporal coverage here is 1739 to 1950 and all items are given professional bibliographical treatment, including collation. The work also includes illustrations.
New, in dust jacket. (29379)

Another
Tasty Cagle Bibliography
Cagle, William R., comp. A matter of taste a bibliographical catalogue of international books on food and drink in the Lilly Library, Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 8vo (24.9 cm, 9.8"). xxiii, [1 (blank)], 991, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
$80.00
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Expanded and revised second edition of Cagle's important 1990 bibliography of the Lilly's collection of European and British gastronomic literature, featuring books printed from 1475 through 1962. Included are a number of facsimiles of title-pages and illustrations.
New, in dust jacket. (29380)

“Waes Hael” Indeed In a Nicely “Thematic” Binding by Amy Richards
Chase, Edithe Lea, & W.E.P. French. Waes Hael, the book of toasts; being, for the most part, bubbles gathered from the wine of others' wit, with here and there, an occasional humbler globule believed to be more or less original. New York: Grafton Press, 1904. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 303, [1] pp.
$30.00
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“And, lo, sweet friend! behold this cup, / Round which the garlands intertwine; / With Massic it is foaming up, / And we would drink to thee and thine. / And of the draft thou shalt partake.”
A book of toasts and quotations for all occasions organized by categories (love, the army, colleges, sports, particular quaffs, life's joys, etc.) presented in a merry, decorative (and signed) binding.
Binding: Publisher's yellow/tan cloth with yellow-stamped lettering to spine, purple and yellow-stamped lettering bordered by black on front board with purple grapes, green leaves and yellow tankards and goblets surrounding a giant steaming punchbowl as decoration. Top edge gilt, black ribbon bookmark included. Signed “AR” (i.e., Amy Richards).
Bound as above; edges lightly rubbed, parts of text on spine rubbed, faint spots of soiling to front board. Light spotting to fore-edge, a few random finger smudges, soiling to gutter of p. 98.
Wassail in a fitting decorative binding! (38318)

Falsely Claiming WILD Popularity!
Child, Lydia Maria. American frugal housewife, dedicated to those who are not ashamed of economy. New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 1838. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.5"). Frontis., 130 pp.
[SOLD]
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First printed in 1829 under the title The Frugal Housewife, this work received its added national designation in order to distinguish it from Susannah Carter's earlier work by that name; despite the title-page's “twenty-second edition,” this is actually the twelfth printing of the fourth edition (for more information on the various printings, see Cagle & Stafford's introduction to this book).
Present here is much information on domestic thrift, mixed with some recipes.
Provenance: Pencilled inscription “M.E. Pratt to Ella Sandford,” dated “Prattsville, June 12th 1850.”
Bitting 86; Cagle & Stafford 154; Lowenstein 212–13. Publisher's linen shelfback with printed paper over boards; rubbed and worn with small areas of loss of cloth or paper covering. Foxing and stained with kitchen use; a few clippings (one, a “Remedy for Diptheria”) laid in. A good copy. (37004)

Scarce 19th-Century Massachusetts Women's Aid Cookbook
Church of Christ (Millis, MA). Church Aid Society. The Millis cook book, a collection of tested receipts, contributed by the ladies of Millis. West Medway, MA: H.A. Bullard, 1894. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 100 pp.
$150.00
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First edition: Early New England example of the charitable fundraiser cookbook genre, assembled by the Church Aid Society of the Church of Christ of Millis, MA, with the wrappers bearing an engraved illustration of the church building and a horse and buggy out front; the usual array of local advertisements are present, along with a laid-in newspaper clipping on “Pickles that Will Add a Tang to Next Winter's Meals.” Pencilled annotations to the present copy include a list of ingredients for what appears to be a type of mince pie featuring apples, beef, and “all kinds spice”; a note on baking time for one recipe; and an addition of 2 lbs. sugar to a cucumber pickle recipe.
WorldCat reports
no institutional holdings of this first edition. Of the second edition (1895), WorldCat locates only one copy (at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center!).
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana; not in Cook, America's Charitable Cooks. Original printed paper wrappers as above; wrappers separated and much chipped (though not into cover vignette), with old cellophane tape repairs. Pages age-toned and slightly brittle, with some edges chipped or with short tears, some corners dog-eared. Annotations as above. Worn; still, an uncommon and evocative item. (38108)

From Soups to Sundries Plus SHAKESPEARE et al.
Congregational Church (Lenox, MA). Ladies. Cook book compiled by the ladies of the Congregational Church, Lenox, Mass. Pittsfield, MA: Eagle Publishing Co., 1897. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.15"). 56 pp.
$225.00
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SCARCE fundraising cookbook from a Massachusetts church group: 31 pages of recipes, each section opening with a
food-related literary quotation, followed by several pages of local advertisements and blank leaves for adding recipes (unused here). Each printed recipe is attributed. One handwritten sheet with recipes for lemon pie, sponge cake, “Pork Cake,” and piccalilli (here labeled “Picolillia,” and described as “capital”) is laid in.
WorldCat finds
no institutional holdings of this charitable publication.
Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, 116. Publisher's tan cloth–covered boards, front cover with decorative title stamped in olive; cloth dust-soiled and showing mild bubbling, with extremities rubbed. A few corners dog-eared. Occasional small pencil marks; scattered spots of staining. An uncommon item, showing only minimal kitchen wear. (38307)

Bancroft Library's Cookery
Craig, Dr. & Mrs. John C., collectors. 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, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987. Small 8vo (22.8 cm; 9"). 71, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
$18.00
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This bibliography of culinary rarities was issued as the guide to a marvelous exhibition of a portion of the Craigs' extensive collection. Useful for collectors of cookery, and interesting reading as well, it is
illustrated with a number of frontispieces, title-pages, and graphics from various works covered in the text.
Publisher's textured cream paper wrappers, top edge soot-darkened with this intruding intermittently into top or foremargins. Generally a clean, good copy. (36760)

“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.
$75.00
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Ephemeral
MIMEOGRAPHED DeMolay Cookbook
DeMolay Mothers' Club. Success is automatic with a DeMolay Mother's Club cook book. [U.S.: ca. 1950?]. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [26] ff.
$55.00
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Recipes from women associated with the DeMolay fraternal organization, founded in Kansas City in 1919. This small-scale, lovingly
self-produced mimeographed booklet — presumably a fundraising effort — opens with Spiced Peach Salad Molds (leading a pack of other gelatin-based salads and molds), and includes Fisherman's Pie (made of tuna fish, hard-boiled eggs, a can of peas, and a can of mushroom soup topped with mashed potatoes), along with a recipe for oven-fried chicken to serve 50 and a range of desserts including Maple Pecan Chiffon Pie, a variation on the classic Ritz [Cracker] Pie, and Busy-Day Cake with Lazy Daisy Frosting. The cover, although now faded, appears to have borne
a hand-drawn design, and there is no publication information provided; however, many of the recipes were contributed by Hilda Stone, Priscilla Carroll, Virginia Sanborn, Arlene Curtis, Doris Crouse, and Alma VanHorn.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Front wrapper says “Mother's Club,” but all online references to the organization give either “Mothers' Club” or “Mothers Club.”. In original hand-inked wrappers, on original plastic rings; wrapper design faded, edges worn with short tears. Pages clean, unmarked, and unstained.
A surely uncommon if not now unique item, with no holdings discoverable. (38138)

Getting Started with SWEETS
Everybody's confectionery book; containing the whole art of making cakes, buns, tarts, biscuits, pies, custards, cheesecakes, gingerbread, bride cake, &c., &c. London: William Nicholson & Sons Ltd., [ca. 1865–70]. 16mo (14.8 cm, 5.82"). 128 pp.
$225.00
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“Of beneficial advantage, not only to Confectioners, but also to Ladies, Housekeepers, &c.”: recipes for everyday baked goods (including some savory items) for the middle-class household, along with various fruit jellies, flavored creams, marmalades, blanc-manges, trifles, sugar candies, and fruit wines. Our estimated date of publication is based on the binding style and on other Nicholson items giving this Ivy Lane address.
This conveniently pocket-sized cookbook is now uncommon, with WorldCat locating only one U.S. institution reporting a copy (University of Pennsylvania) along with a scant handful of U.K. institutions.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early pencilled gift inscription to Miss M. Robertson of Loch Croft.
Not in Bitting; not in Cagle. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards, front cover and spine with title (abbreviated on spine) stamped in black; covers dust-soiled, spine and extremities rubbed, front and back joint starting from foot but holding, with hinges (inside) slightly tender. Pages age-toned; one corner dog-eared.
Pleasant for reading, sound for use. (40528)

Bringing
TEA to the British
Fortune, Robert. A journey to the tea countries of China; including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a short notice of the East India Company's tea plantations in the Himalaya Mountains. London: John Murray, 1852. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.875"). Col. frontis., add. illus. t.-p. (incl. in pagination), xv, [1], 398 pp.; 1 map., 1 col. plt., 1 plt., illus.
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First edition: a first-person account of the critical stage in the story of how the British first broke China's monopoly on tea production and established tea cultivation in India. Fortune (1812–80) was a Scottish botanist and plant hunter who, during his original trip to China (described in Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China), became the first European to discover that green and black tea come from the same plant. On his second trip, recounted here, he successfully purchased Camellia sinensis plants and seeds in areas of the country forbidden to foreigners, and then smuggled them out on behalf of the East India Company. In addition to his
world-altering corporate espionage, Fortune is remembered today for the numerous plants he introduced to the West, many named in his honor. Here, he describes not just his botanical experiences but also his
cultural adventures disguised as a native (successfully, according to him!) during the course of his travels beginning in 1848.
The volume is illustrated with a delicately tinted, lithographed frontispiece with a beautiful view of a mountainside tea plantation and a similarly rendered scene of ling fruit harvesting, both done by W.L. Walton; a decorative title-page featuring a red-printed gate; a map of the primary tea-growing districts; and a number of in-text engravings of plants, artifacts, the “mode of carrying common tea,” etc.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2F11546. Late 19th-century half black calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine gilt extra; front board and spine neatly and unobtrusively reattached with new gilt-stamped leather title-label, leather refurbished, sides and edges rubbed. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece recto with former owner's label partially removed from upper inner corner; upper outer frontispiece corner with small repair neatly done some time ago, offsetting onto previous and following leaves. Pages gently age-toned.
Like its author, showing signs of having travelled; like its subject, both enduring and attractive. (39766)
“Exotic Dishes” from
Foreign Lands
Frost, Heloise. A world of good eating. A collection of old and new recipes from many lands. [Newton, MA?]: Phillips Publishers, Inc., © 1951. 8vo. 128 pp.; illus.
$40.00
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Recipes from around the world, “tested in the kitchen of a New England housewife and published for the enjoyment of many American families.” This cookbook was illustrated by Ellen A. Nelson, who also contributed the Scandinavian recipes; each section opens with a full-page, color-printed image of children in various national costumes, and small illustrations both in color and black-and-white are scattered throughout. The volume closes with a section of regional American cookery including Ozark Pudding, Southern Pecan Pie, Creole Calas, Texas Gumbo, Alaskan Nuggets (a sort of salmon croquette), Salt Cod Dinner, and California Orange Bread.
This is an
uncommonly nice copy, still housed in its original publisher's box, which features the front cover image reproduced in color.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's spiral-bound wrappers, front wrapper color-printed with image of Dutch girls baking, in publisher's box (as above); one edge of box rubbed and corners of box bottom reinforced. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription and pencilled date (March 24, 1956). A clean, fresh, virtually unworn copy — and very uncommon as such. (29584)

DIFFERENCES Between France & Spain
& Frenchmen & Spaniards In ITALIAN
García, Carlos. Antipatia de francesi e spagnuoli. Venetia: Presso Cristoforo Tomasini, 1640. 12mo. 216 pp.
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An expatriate living in Paris, Carlos García (ca. 1575 – ca. 1630) wrote on a variety of topics and in different genres ranging from a picaresque novel to essays on politics. The original Spanish title of the work offered here in Italian translation is La oposicion y conjuncion de los dos grandes luminares de la tierra, and was first published in Paris in 1617. This translation first appeared in 1637 and is from the pen of Clodio Vilopoggio.
The subject of this work is the rivalry between Spain and France for political and religious supremacy in the Catholic realm of Europe, but the author also discusses national traits, as he sees them, such as manner of dressing, walking, eating, and talking.
Palau 97802. Recent boards covered with marbled paper; leather spine label gilt with title. Some lower margins irregular due to natural paper flaws. All edges speckled red. A very good copy. (25812)

Legal Aid for the
English Beer Industry
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc., 1760-1820 (George III). Anno regni Georgii III...undecimo.... [An Act for Granting a Bounty upon the Importation of White Oak Staves, and Heading, from the British Colonies or Plantations in America....] London: Pr. by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1771. Folio. [1] f., pp. 1227-1234.
$175.00
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One of the AIGA's “50 Books of the Year”
Hall, Walter. Spider poems. Madison, WI: Perishable Press, [1967]. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.6"). [34] pp.
$125.00
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First edition of this volume of poems, for which Walter Hamady received the American Institute of Graphic Arts' Fifty Best Books Award. Hamady says “This sequence of
poems about a short-order cook are delightful, I've liked them from the start when we were undergraduates together in Keith Waldrop's 'Creative Writing' class at Wayne State.”
The present example is
one of 250 copies printed, with the text in handset Palatino in red, brown, and black on Nideggen paper, and the brown cloth binding done by Elizabeth Kner.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 11. Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with title stamped in blind; spine and board edges faded. Very clean and nice. (31575)

“Emotionally Intense” Yet Subtle Cookery — “Authentic Indian-Mexican Recipes”
Hardwick, William. Authentic Indian-Mexican recipes. [Fort Stockton, TX: Pr. for the author], © 1965. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). [2], 26, 26a, 27–67, [2] pp.; illus.
$35.00
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Hardwick fell in love with the land around Santa Fe in 1939, and began this cookbook in 1951 “while spending a great deal of time with the Indians and Mexicans along the Rio Grande studying and photographing the various aspects of their cultures” (p. 1). The recipes here include sopapillas, “Zuni mush,” menudo, chile verde con carne, carne de olla, pavo relleno (the stuffing for which includes raisins, pinon nutmeats, and unsweetened chocolate), and many others. The cover and interior illustrations were done by Mrs. George Asa Jones.
Publisher's paper wrappers, printed in mauve and maroon; showing light shelfwear and traces of dust-soiling, with small area of light discoloration towards lower edge of front wrapper. Internally clean and fresh. (36145)
Not Perfect but
Evocative on Many Fronts
Hazlemore, Maximilian. Domestic economy: Or, a complete system of English housekeeping ... also, the complete
brewer ...likewise the family physician. London: J. Creswick & Co., 1794. 8vo. xxxii, 392 pp. (lacking pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, & 365–84 ).
$350.00
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Sole edition thus: Recipes, brewing instructions, menus suitable for a year of housekeeping, and a collection of home remedies “which will be found applicable to the relief of all common complaints incident to families, and which will be particularly useful in the country, where frequent opportunities offer of relieving the Distressed, whose situation in life will not enable them to call in Medical Aid” (p. 4).
Many of the recipes in the first portion of this book are attributed to such well-known names as Glasse, Raffald, and Mason. Oxford points out that both the extended subtitle and the overall contents of the work as a whole are strikingly similar to Mary Cole's Lady's Complete Guide of 1791, commenting “One wonders who was the real author.” Whatever its origins, the present volume as attributed to Hazlemore is now uncommon: WorldCat, ESTC, and Cagle cite only seven U.S. institutional holdings.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with ownership inscription and title-page with pressure-stamp of prominent cookbook collector Eloise Schofield; title-page also with early inked inscription of Charlotte Booty; front pastedown with early ticket of J. Rackham, a late 18th-/early 19th-century printer and bookseller in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
ESTC T93869; Cagle, Matter of Taste, 734; Oxford, English Cookery, 122. Not in Bitting. Incomplete copy. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, scuffed; spine label and extremities chipped, joints open and volume tender, front cover with spots of insect damage extending through to upper inner margins of first few leaves, touching two letters of title but no other text. Pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, and 365–84 excised with great neatness (and no, we cannot work out any theory of “why”). Scattered instances of early pencilled or inked marginal annotations, including alternate instructions in two cases and
a full recipe for dressed spinach inked at the end of the vegetables section, intended to replace the crossed-out printed recipe provided. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. An incomplete copy, priced accordingly, of a still interesting work. (29554)
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From a Caney, Kansas NYAL
Hill, Janet McKenzie. Nyal cook book. Practical recipes that have been tested in actual use. Detroit: Nyal Company, (copyright 1916). 12mo (19.4 cm, 7.625"). Frontis., [20], 228 pp.; 7 double-sided plts.
[SOLD]
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First edition. “For sale only at Nyal Quality Drug Stores,” this cookbook was compiled by one of the leading lights of the Boston Cooking School: Janet McKenzie Hill, editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine. The recipes are illustrated with a total of eight halftone process photographic pages — a frontispiece and seven double-sided plate leaves, each page with three images, each leaf with six — two halftone pages having been lightly rubber-stamped, as is the front free endpaper, by the Nyal Store of Caney, KS.
Binding: Publisher's sage green paper–covered boards with brown cloth shelfback, covers color-printed with a young woman wearing a frilly cap and apron mixing ingredients in a bowl.
Bitting, 228. Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Bound as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed; covers with small scuffs, front cover with thin scratch. One plate and attached leaf separated. Nyal stamps as above. A very few recipes with pencilled marks of emphasis, one page in dessert section with small stains and a dog-earned corner, pages otherwise clean. This is not a facsimile or reprint — it is a cleaner copy of the first edition than often seen on the market, with interesting commercial provenance. (38622)

Book of Designs for
Bakers & Confectioners
Hueg, Herman. Ornamental confectionery, and practical assistant to the art of baking in all its branches, with numerous illustrations. New York: H. Hueg & Co., © 1896. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). 48, 48 pp.; illus.
$175.00
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Illustrated promotional pamphlet: This
ephemeral sidekick to Hueg's popular
Ornamental Confectionery and the Art of Baking offers baking tips, recipes, and decoration patterns, combined with a product and book catalogue with price list. Some of the depicted cake structures and designs are jaw-droppingly ornate! Originally published in 1893, the pamphlet is now notably less common than its hardcover sibling.
Cagle & Stafford 389 (for first ed.). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, spine and edges rubbed, front cover with spots of discoloration; offsetting inside wrappers from staples. Pages very slightly age-toned.
Delightful for those who like to bake, those who like to eat, or those who just like to appreciate implausible confectionery accomplishments. (35008)

Children, THANKSGIVING, Glad Times!!
Irish, Marie, & Lenore K. Dolan. The glad time Thanksgiving book. Syracuse, NY: Willis N. Bugbee Co., © 1932. 12mo. 100 pp.
$40.00
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Children's collection of poems, recitations, playlets, dances, stories, and songs about thankfulness, especially thankfulness for various
seasonal delights. This is the sole edition (while WorldCat appears to list a 1923 printing, further exploration shows that to be a data entry error based on this edition's 1932 copyright date).
Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, front wrapper with cornucop ia design in navy and gold; back lower outer corner bumped, light dust-soiling to back wrapper. One page with small affixed sticker in upper portion, partially obscuring header but no other text. (30227)

An English Incunable Leaf — Wynkyn de Worde, 1498
Jacobus de Voragine. Golden legend [single leaf]. [Westmynster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498]. Chancery folio (27.3 x 19.5 cm; 10.75" x 7.675"). [1] f.
$1650.00
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The collection of saints' lives called the Legenda sanctorum, or Golden Legend (Legenda aurea) — “worth its weight in gold”! — was composed in the 13th century by the Dominican hagiologist Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230–98, elected Archbishop of Genoa in 1292), and first printed in Latin at Basle in 1470 with William Caxton printing the first English version in 1483. This is folio ccxlviii of the 1498 London (Westminster) edition
printed by Wynkyn de Worde (a.k.a., Jan van Wynkyn), England's first typographer and successor to Caxton, whose press he formally took over in 1495 after a difficult three years of litigation following Caxton's death.
This leaf of The Golden Legend has on its recto, and continuing on the verso, the final portion of account of the nativity of the Virgin, which recounts episodes from her mature adulthood and
shows the Mother of God as a powerful figure with a powerful sense of what is due her. She promises death within 30 days to a bishop who has removed from office an unsatisfactory priest that she appreciates as specially devoted to her (he is reinstated and the bishop lives); she intercedes in another vision with her “debonayre sone” to reverse the damnation of a “vayne and ryotous” cleric who, on the other hand, has been specially devoted to her and her Hours (he reforms). In a third case, she redeems from the grasp of hell a bishop's vicar who, disappointed of promotion in office, had engaged “a Jewe [who was] a magycyan” to facilitate his signing in his own blood a soul-sacrificing deal with “the devyll” (the vicar repented). The Marian section closes with an account of “Saynt Jherom's” devotion to her. All this is followed on the verso by the beginning of the life of St. Adrian of Nicomedia, who before his conversion to Christianity and subsequent martyrdom was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. He is the patron saint of soldiers, arms dealers, guards, victims of the plague, epileptics, and
butchers. The text is printed in double-column format in
English gothic type.
Provenance: From an offering of leaves from this edition of The Golden Legend by the Dauber & Pine Bookshops, New York City, in ca. 1928 .
English incunable leaves are increasingly difficult to obtain.
STC (rev. ed.) 24876; ESTC S103597; Duff 411; Copinger 6475; Goff J-151; ISTC ij00151000. Removed neatly from a bound volume. With a “cover leaf” in approximation
of a title-page, reading “The Golden Legende. J. de Voragine. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1498. Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc. New York.”
A striking relic recounting multiple miracles and presenting Mary as a most interesting personality. (40744)

TWO 18th-Century English Verse Poems about
HEALTH
& the Maintenance Thereof
Joannes, de Mediolano; William Combe, trans. The
oeconomy of health. [London]: Sold by Mr. Almond, & Messrs. Becket & De Hondt, & Mr. Newbery, [1776? 1780?]. 8vo (18.4 cm, 7.25"). Engr. t.-p. (incl. in pagination), xv, [3], 56 pp. [bound with] Armstrong, John. The art of preserving health: A poem. London: T. Davies, 1774. 8vo. [4], 96 pp.
$825.00
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First edition: William Combe's
rhymed, English-language rendition of the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, a medieval treatise on diet, exercise, hygiene, etc. long held to have been compiled at the ancient and venerable Schola Salernitana. A vignette on the
emblematic engraved title-page attributed to Delotte, after Cosway, shows Joannes, the alleged author — also known as John of Milan — gesturing towards a life-giving fountain with his manuscript in hand, as described in a note on preliminary p. v; while dedicatee Prince Robert of Normandy looks on rather dubiously with his arms crossed, perhaps partly in protection of the wounded one, and with his body inclined away from the author! At right a man at arms guards his armor, holding a palm frond representing the successful crusade in which it was worn; and in the
background is a small temple wherein stands Asclepius with his snake-entwined rod.
Although Wellcome gives 1776 for the date of publication, ESTC suggests 1780.
The second, similarly themed work — which closes with
a section praising music as beneficial to health — here includes its half-title, which notes this is “a new edition,” following the first of 1744. The author was a Scottish-born physician who published a number of poems, essays, and other pieces, including the scandalously explicit The Oeconomy of Love.
Joannes: ESTC T135836; Roscoe A389; Wellcome, IV, p. 494. Armstrong: ESTC T59726; Foxon A297 (for first ed.). Later half reddish-brown calf and chestnut cloth, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title, and gilt-stamped compartment fleurons; minor wear overall, boards carefully and unobtrusively reattached with new endpapers. First few leaves with edges chipped, a little staining, and one corner taken (away from text); otherwise the gently age-toned pages are clean with only one or two minor exceptions.
A pleasing pairing, of interest to scholars of both medicine and poetry. (39529)

“There Will Always be Music, Art, & Church Bells . . .
There Will Always be a Memorable Meal”
. . . in San Francisco
Junior League of Pasadena. The California heritage cookbook. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., © 1976. 8vo (26.6 cm, 10.5"). [8], 424 pp.; illus.
$60.00
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Impressive testament to California cuisine and wine, with brief essays describing the history of the state's different regions and regimes along with its various culinary influences — particularly Mexican. Chapters include “Monterey Peninsula,” “The Redwood Empire,” “San Francisco,” “The Sierra Nevada,” “The Missions,” “The Desert Valleys,” and “Napa”; this is the 16th printing.
The recipes show a penetration of Mexican cooking that extends beyond tacos, tamales, and guacamole to Mexican coffee, avocado soup, salad dressing, fish dishes, and even a soufflé. And it is notable that now the Mexican dishes are no longer segregated.
Publisher's tan cloth-covered boards in original dust jacket; jacket evenly sunned with a few edge nicks.
A very nice copy of an interesting, attractive, historically oriented cookbook. (36107)
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