RECENT ARRIVALS:
THE LITTLE TEA BOOK. Arthur Grey. WALLPAPER. Ackerman. THE COMPLETE WEATHER GUIDE. 1820. A FIRE IN THE KITCHEN. Florence White, 1938. HERBAL DELIGHTS. Mrs. C.F. Leyel, 1950. DIET AND DIET REFORM. Gandhi, 1987. RUSTIC ADORNMENTS FOR HOMES OF TASTE. Shirley Hibberd, 1856. THE SECRETARY'S ASSISTANT; EXHIBITING THE VARIOUS AND MOST CORRECT MODES.... Sir Hugh Charles Owen,1826. THE TAILOR'S CAKE. Noël Devaulx,1945. WD50. Dufresne, 2017. LA MAIN ET SON MYSTERE. Marion. 1928. FAR EASTERN COOKERY. M. Jaffrey, signed. AN INVITATION TO INDIAN COOKERY. M.Jaffrey, signed. NO HALT AT SUNSET, THE DIARY OF A COUNTRY HOUSEWIFE, 1951. SIMPLE FRENCH FOOD. 1974. LE LIVRE DES ÉPICES, DES CONDIMENTS & DES AROMATES, 1968. BEATING AUSTERITY IN THE IN THE KITCHEN, 1952. ADVENTURES IN TASTE: THE WINES AND FOLK FOOD OF SPAIN, 1972. A VINDICATION OF A NATURAL DIET, Shelley, n.d. SEE ROME AND EAT. Pepper, 1960. MAY BYRON’S PUDDING BOOK, 1923. THE WINDOW FLOWER GARDEN, Heinrich, 1880. FRENCH PROVINCIAL COOKING. David, 1986. DIVERSIONS IN SICILY. Jones, 1909. THE FLAVOR OF ITALY. Chamberlain, 1965. PILLSBURY’S BEST 1000 RECIPES. BEST OF THE BAKE-OFF COLLECTION, 1959. AL DENTE, Parasecoli, 2014. TEA-ROOM RECIPES. Richards and Treat, 1925. KNIFE/FORK/SPOON. Walker Art Center, 1951.
A SMALL FRAMED INVITATION TO QUEEN VICTORIA'S CORONATION DINNER. One of many dinners, this in Cambridge on Parker's Pieces, June 28th, 1838. 12,000 invited, some very light paper toning. 4x5". The name Ducknell & Daughters is on the back of the invitation that is a light weight card stock. It's in a small oak frame that adds about 2" more all around. $465.
G.A. Jarrin, confectioner. The ITALIAN CONFECTIONER. London: E.S. Ebers and Co., 1841.Frontiis portrait of Jarrin, 256 pages, 568 recipes, 2 folding plates, vi full pages of Bills of Fare of table settings. from the private library of Richard Olney, signed by Olney on the FEP as well as paper markers for some recipes No.110. Orgeat Syrup; No. 318. Peaches in Brandy. Three other markers. $750. RIGHT SIDE OF THE PICTURE
G.A. Jarrin. THE ITALIAN CONFECTIONER; OR, COMPLETE ECONOMY OF DESSERTS: CONTAINING THE ELEMENTS OF THE ART….London: William Ainsworth, 1827. frontis portrait of Jarrin, 276 pages +3, No. 556 recipes, 2 folding plates. a very nice clean copy 1/4 leather with raised bands. marbled boards. $1100.
John Evelyn.Esq. SYLVA, OR A DISCOURSE OF FOREST-TREES, AND THE PROPAGATION OF TIMBER IN HIS MAGESTIES DOMINION... London: John Martyn, 1679. third edition. 412 pages + 38 Kalendarium Hortense + errata page. a very good, very clean, very readable book of advice for the forrester and gardener. a VG disbounded copy, needing restoration.