U.P. Hedrick. THE PEARS OF NEW YORK. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1921. Twenty-ninth Annual Report— Vol.2 Part II. Sixth in the series of hardy fruits issued by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 636 pages, bound in green cloth covered sturdy boards. Gilt title on spine and front, tissue guard between frontis and title page. minor scuffing. a very good copy. full page color illustrations. $300. 

U.P. Hedrick. THE PLUMS OF NEW YORK. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1911. Eighteenth Annual Report— Vol.3— Part II. third in the series of hardy fruits issued by the New York Agricultural Experiment Station. 616 pages, bound in green cloth covered sturdy boards. Gilt title on spine and front, tissue guard between frontis and title page. minor scuffing. a very good copy. full page color illustrations. $300.

Robert Buist. THE FAMILY KITCHEN GARDENER, CONTAINING PLAIN AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE DIFFERENT SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF CULINARY VEGETABLES; WITH......New York: A.O. Moore, Agricultural Book Publisher, 1858. illustrated with 25 engravings. Toning to the pages but a very nice copy gilt decorative front cover. $250.

House of Representatives. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE YEAR 1862. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. A wide range of agricultural  reports: agriculture of Maine & Florida; The Wheat Plant; Apples and Pears; On the Culture of the Sweet Potato; Sheep Husbandry; Health of the Farmer’s Family; Preservation of Food and many other subjects. 632 pages. XLVII Plates and many illustrations within the text. A very good solid copy.  $90.

John M. Ives. NEW ENGLAND BOOK OF FRUIT; CONTAINING AN ABRIDGEMENT OF MANNING’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE MOST VALUABLE VARIETIES OF THE PEAR, APPLE, PEACH PLUM, AND CHERRY, FOR NEW ENGLAND CULTURE. TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE GRAPE, QUINCE, GOOSEBERRY, CURRANT, AND STRAWBERRY WITH OUTLINES OF MANY OF THE FINEST SORTS OF PEARS… Salem: W & S.B. Ives, Publishers, 1847. c. third enlarged edition. originally published as THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK OF FRUITS CONTAINING THE APPLE, PEAR, PEACH, PLUM, CHERRY, GRAPE &c. by Robert Manning, 1832. 16mo. 144pp. with 2 title pages and frontis of the original 1832 edition. with directions for pruning, grafting, and general modes of culture. burgundy colored cloth with gilt stamped fruit. illustrated with outlines of fruit shapes. rubbed edges, a pleasing copy. $225.

Beverley Nichols. DOWN THE GARDEN PATH. NY: Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc., 1932. 1st American edition. "Several years ago he found a cottage a mile from the Great North Road in Huntingdonshire...Armed with a seed catalogue and no experience he made the garden over into his own." "...Amusing, witty and gay" as these books tend to be but charming as well. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. with a dust jacket. $75.

 Beverly Nichols, Compton Mackenzie, Marion Cran, V. Sackville West. HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1935. 127 Pages. gardening essays by the authors. a bright little book inside and out. Scarce. $450.

Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. GARDENS OF DELIGHT. London: The Medici Society, 1934. these long gone English ladies and gents and their beautiful gardens. with a dust jacket that has a 'tipped in' image- a tapestry at Angers- of Saint Maurille, the gardening saint. 308 pages illustrated with black and white photographs. arranged month by month a year of gardens and the flowers blooming then. Lovely gardens. gilt upper and deckled edges. $125.

Jules Remy. CHAMPIGNONS ET TRUFFES. Paris: Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique,1861. 173pp. 12 color plates.Comestibles, identification, culture and utilization (recipes) bound in ¼ leather, marbled boards. A beautiful copy. Bitting 393. Vicaire 737. $500.

Charles H. Peck. PECK ON FUNGI. REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST. 1894. New York State Education Department: Albany, 1894. 8vo. ½ leather with brown cloth. 337pp Report of the State Botanist being a description of the fungi. some marginalia, plus 43 linen backed, full page chromolithograph plates of fungi. 39 edible, 3 poisonous and 1 unwholesome. rare first compilation of this study. as 1 volume and the first issue of this report. scarce in this presentation. $425.

[Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland.] SIX LITTLE COOKS OR AUNT JANE’S COOKING CLASS. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1877. 236 pages. 207 numbered recipes presented within a story book for children and Aunt Jane as the characters. Frontis of the girls together. Blue cloth cover scuffed and faded at the front edge. Insides clean and unmarked. Quite a good copy. $125.

BETTY CROCKER’S COOK BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition, first\ printing.  Metal spiral binding. Color photographs, drawings, color blocked recipes, a very good clean copy. $50.

Lenora Mattingly Weber. THE BEANY MALONE COOKBOOK.  NY: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972.  277 pages. exlib with pockets and stamps. Dust jacket. the family cook  ever since she was big enough to stand on a chair and stir a pot of fudge.  $25.

Shirley Parenteau and Barbara Douglass.  A SPACE AGE COOKBOOK FOR KIDS. Engelwood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979.  Recipes with ‘out of this world’ names. 216 pages, Breakfast to Gifts. A VG/VG unused copy. $45.

Tasha Tudor. THE TASHA TUDOR COOKBOOK.  NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First edition. 123 pages.  enchanting illustrations. More than 80 recipes. Near new copy. DJ. $30.

Jane Eayer Fryer. THE MARY FRANCES COOK BOOK. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1912. A cook book for GIRLS !—Chapter stories, pots and pans that talk. Delightful illustrations. A very good copy, penciled recipes on the end pages, with a bright but tatty dust jacket. $150.

Harriet Langsam Sobol. COSMO’S RESTAURANT. NY: MacMillan Publishing, 1978. a children’s picture, with photographs, story book about Cosmo Sammarone whose father and mother own a restaurant, New Port Alba, on Thompson Street. Buying meat and vegetables from the wholesale markets, cooking them for the restaurant and arranging the pastries from Rocco’s on Bleecker Street for the desserts, the customers and the menus—a look at Greenwich Village in the long ago 1970’s. with a dust jacket in a protective sleeve. $22.

Michel Oliver. LA CUISINE EST UN JEU D’ENFANTS. Paris: Plon, 1963. delightful, bright colors, simple recipes. unpaginated, a very good plastic comb, light bumps to cover. clean, clean copy. a gift inscription dated 2003.

IN FRENCH, of course. $75.

Mrs. Harriet J Willard.  FIMILIAR LESSONS FOR LITTLE GIRLS: FIRST BOOK OF THE ART OF COOKERY. FOR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS AND FOR HOMES. Chicago: Geo. Sherwood & Company, 1886. 63 pages. 18 Chapters of essays in Instruction, from making the fire to Making a Simple Dinner, the last chapter being Songs of Cooking: Custard Song, The Praise of Potatoes, Bread Making, What Shall Weary People Drink. blind stamped from the J H Kellogg Library. with a paper ex libris on first paste down. Bitting 497. $165.

BLOMSTER OG FRUGT ALPHABET. Kjobenhavn: Bing & Son, ca 1860. Using flowers and fruit to learn the alphabet. Paper, 4 sewn pages, screen & block printed. bold and striking design --basic colors on black backgrounds. $600.

Eleonore Horn. PUPPEN KOCHBUCH. Reutlingen, CA. 1900. paper covered boards. Small, 5 x 3 3/4”. 64 pages. Recipes written in old German script. A nice little copy pencil underlining for 2 recipes. $250.

Julie Bimbach. KOCHBUCHLEIN FUR DIE PUPPENTUCHE. Munich: I. F. Schreiber, n.d. 35^th printing, ca. 1920's. Bright, tight, small edge scuffs, slight bow. $250.

From the Shaker Communities:

Henry C. Blinn. GENTLE MANNERS.  East Canterbury, 1899. 3rd edition.1899. 79 pages. from at East Canterbury, N.H.  $225.

The Late Lord Chesterfield. PRINCIPLES OF POLITENESS AND OF KNOWING THE WORLD. CONTAINING EVERY INSTRUCTION NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE GENTLEMAN AND MAN OF FASHION—….TO WHICH IS ANNEXED GREGORY’S LEGACY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH. Dover (New Hampshire): Jesse Varney and Co., 1814. small  32mo, paper over wood, text block heavily foxed, sturdy copy. a title with many imprints, beginning first in 1774 by Eugenia Stanhope spouse of the illegitimate son of Lord Chesterfield to whom these letters were addressed— covering such topics as Ignorance and Vice; posture; Wrangling and quarreling; Conversations; Friendship, Love and Marriage. $90. 

Giovanni Della Casa. GALATEO OR THE BOOK OF MANNERS.  Middlesex: Penguin, 1958. R.S. Pinecoffin, new translation. near 'as new' Penguin PB copy. 131 pgs. $20.

HOW GIRLS CAN HELP THEIR COUNTRY. HANDBOOK FOR GIRL SCOUTS. Adapted from Agnes Baden-Powell and Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s Handbook. 1917. Blue flexible cover, 154 pages. Patriotism for girls in the WW1 era. In 3 parts covering the the history and laws; badges and qualifications. The 3rd part covers the subjects that merit badges, gardening, camping, stars. Part 4 covers sanitation and homelife.  Part 5  is First Aid and  Part 6 covers Patriotism and a bibliograpy of books to read.   $110.

Henri de Montety. LE  MARIAGE MUSULMAN EN TUNISIE. Paris: SAPI editions, 1941. limited edition #45/100. in French. illustrations by de Roubtzoff, Aly Ben Salem and René de Souza,  hand painted aquarelles, uncut pages, 8 designs, 6 handpainted, p.88 has printing error, with tissue page overlay. covering all aspects of the ceremony from Henri’s perspective. 137 pages. $175.

Jean Latham. THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1972. A History of Manners and Meals. Some Diarists and Letter Writers, Children’s Meals, Manners and Nursery Life, Royal Occasions, Some Meals and Entertainment in the Kitchen, several more chapters. Illustrated, bibliographies. 179 pages. dj. Vg/vg. $45.

Michael Nelson. NOBS AND SNOBS. London: Gordon & Cremonsei, 1976. an 'amusing and revealing study of the English upper class.' an observation of how they dress, what they eat, how they speak, their education and their attitudes towards sex and marriage, more observations covered ! a bright, though chipped jacket over a fine copy. $45.

Esther B. Aresty. THE BEST BEHAVIOR. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1970. Her collection of etiquette books---Perhaps not a scholarly history or Curtesy, yet her formidable collection of books also on gastronomy went to  the University of Pennsylvania Library. A good reference, illustrated and a bibliography of some of her collection. a perfect copy with a dust jacket. $55.

John Trusler 1735-1820). THE HONOURS OF THE TABLE, OR RULES FOR BEHAVIOUR DURING MEALS; WITH THE WHOLE ART OF CARVING, ILLUSTRATED BY A VARIETY OF CUTS. TOGETHER WITH DIRECTIONS FOR GOING TO MARKET, AND THE METHOD OF DISTINGUISHING GOOD PROVISIONS FROM BAD; TO WHICH IS ADDED A NUMBER OF HINTS OR CONCISE LESSONS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF YOUTH, ON ALL OCCASIONS IN LIFE. Bath: G. Robbins, 1803. 12mo. 72pp. the third edition. illustrated with meat cuts. a lovely copy in original paper covered boards, an owner’s signature on front cover. tight and clean light foxing spots. $1200.

Experienced Hands. TIPS ON TIPPING. London:  Frederick Warne & Co., 1933. Small cloth covered book.127 pages.  $50.

NOTHING TO DO WITH COOKING  etc.,

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William A. Woodbury. HAIR DRESSING AND TINTING. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1915. 85 pages + advertising. with a dust wrapper. illustrations and valuable formulas. for the home experimenter. scarce. $165. 

Aage Thaarup and Dora Shackell. HOW TO MAKE A HAT. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1957. first publication. 96 pages. with dust wrapper. $60. 

Thomas D. Gratz. PALMISTRY MADE EASY. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1909. 57 pages. illustrated paper covered boards with a blue cloth covered spine.  illustrated line drawings. entertaining. $95.

Frances Sheafer Waxman. A SHOPPING GUIDE TO PARIS AND LONDON. New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1912. 108 pages. d.j. $250.

[Sidney Grimaldi.] THE TOILET. London: The Author, 1821, second edition. A book of good virtues for young girls. Good virtues encouraged in charming ways— Constructed as a “flap” book- unpaginated. In relatively very good condition, one  flap and one tissue guard missing. Original paper covered boards, centered title with simple decorative border. fragile sewn binding holding. hand colored flaps and virtue engravings.

Table of Contents:

1.The Enchanting Mirror. 2. A was to smooth Wrinkles, 3.An universal Beautifier.tissue, 4.Matchless Ear Rings,

5.Best White Paint, 6.Superior Rouge, 7.A mixture to Sweeten the Voice, 8.Fine Lip Salve, 9.The late King’s Eye Water.  $650.

Society of Gentlemen. THE ART OF CONVERSING. Boston: James French, 1850. 94 pages + publisher’s advertising. Colored frontis with tissue guard, gilt edges. Written for the instruction of youth in the polite manner and language of the drawing-room. $150.

THE LADY’S ALMANAC FOR 1864. Boston: George Coolidge, 1863.Small, 32mo., unused, save for gift inscription, 128+ several pages of advertising for ladies—washing machines, sewing machines, clothing shops, toiletries-- gilt edging, mostly gardening, inspirational thoughts and poetry, a memoranda page for each month of the year along with moon phases and sun rise and set tables. Plus 2 pages of recipes. Embossed cloth, faded at the edges, with decorative gilt titling. Full page illustration of a Union Soldier. A sweet copy. $75.

An American Lady. THE LADIES' VASE OR POLITE MANUAL FOR YOUNG LADIES. Hartford: H.S. Parsons and Co., 1849. foxing to the pages. gilt edges. $150.

Madame Roxey A. Caplin. HEALTH AND BEAUTY OR CORSETS AND CLOTHING. London: Darton and Co., [1856]. second edition. Keeping women’s bodies healthy without corsets or constrictions. The idealized natural Venus. Theories of posture and body development by Ms. Caplin. A WELL USED Kellogg Library copy. gilt decorations on deep blue textured cloth cover. illustrations. very loose cracked spine. scarce. $300.

SMALL folding RIMMEL FAN. 6 panels with brass grommet, astrological caricatures. from the Rimmel shop, London or Paris. $95.

Eugene Rimmel. THE BOOK OF PERFUMES.  London: Chapman and Hall, 1871. seventh edition. 266 pages. gilt edges. gilt stamped front cover and spine. more than 250 illustrations, 1 colour plate. a history in 12 chapters. It’s perfume !! Love it. $125. 

G.W. Septimus Piesse. THE ART OF PERFUMERY, AND THE METHODS OF OBTAINING THE ODOURS OF PLANTS, WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF PERFUMES FOR THE HANDKERCHIEF... etc., etc. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. 287 pgs. + several pages of publishers advertising. in dark blue cloth, blind stamped, with gilt stamped front cover and spine designs. 1st edition, numerous illustrations. 17 Sections, from history and introduction to Animal Perfumes- ambergris, civet & musk, to Soaps, Tooth Powders, to Hair Washes and an Appendix of many essays. with 2 tipped in pages of neat handwritten recipes for perfumes. rubbed edges and notations from the previous owner in that neat cursive hand. $450.

another copy: Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakston, 1856. in red blind stamped cloth, rubbing to ridges and top spine loss. overall tight. gilt titles on spine. some foxing and a worm tunnel through 8 pages. $350.

Campbell Morfit. PERFUMERY: ITS MANUFACTURE AND USE WITH INSTRUCTIONS IN EVERY BRANCH OF THE ART, AND RECIPES FOR ALL THE FASHIONABLE PREPARATIONS. THE WHOLE FORMING, etc., etc. Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird, 1853. second edition, revised and improved. illustrated with numerous woodcuts. The history, the trade, the laboratory, the raw materials, pomades, infusions, oils, powders. essences, tinctures.... much, much more. 62 chapters. 379 pages. + 24 publ. adv.
some foxing, top gutter damage. binding split at page 120. though all else holding well. $200.

Mary Aylett. ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HOME-MADE WINES. London: Odhams Books Limited, 1965. wine, beer, cider and mead. fruits and nuts. penned in dates next to some recipes, presumably when batches were made. with DJ, clean. $35. 

Peggy. Hutchinson. HOME-MADE WINE SECRETS. London: Foulsham & Co., 1960. 124 pages. no DJ. wine, beers and minerals, from Almond to Tonic Stout. $22.

Florence B. Jack. 100 HOME BREWED WINES. SIMPLE RECIPES FOR EVERY HOUSEWIFE. LOndon: Country Life, Ltd., 1928. second impression. 56 pages. some foxing. alphabetically arranged. $60. 

Florence Jack. 100 HOME BREWED WINES; 100 PICKLES AND RELISHES; 100 JAMS AND JELLIES; 100 DRINKS AND CUPS. London: Country Life Ltd., 1927, 1928. Almost new. Some paper toning. Pristine. Flexible covers, uniform in size, charming. $165.

Wholesale Curer of Comestibles. THE ART AND MYSTERY OF CURING, PRESERVING, AND POTTING ALL KINDS OF MEATS, GAME AND FISH; ALSO THE ART OF PICKLING….. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864. 184 pages. a very good, sound clean 1st edition. covering meats and fish, dried and smoked, potted, pickled, preserving fruits and vegetables as pickles, ketchups or jams. a scarce title. 2 book seller stamps on front paste down. Welsh Dried Salmon; Fine Dutch Salmon; Superior Kippered Salmon; Kippered Mackerel; Cape Breton, or Digby Herring; Aldborough Smoked Sprats; British Anchovies; Italian Cincerelli; Jersey Black Pudding; Potted Lobsters; Young Pig Collared; Potted Moor Game; Potted Eels; Essence of Anchovies; Tomato Catsup; Bengal Chetna, West India Preserved Green Ginger; Lemon Pickle— very thorough directions from an enthusiastic pickler and briner. $325.  

Nell B. Nichols. FREEZING & CANNING COOKBOOK. NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964. 350 pages. “Prized Recipes from the Farms of America” $30. 

Alice Crang. PRESERVES FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Hammondsworth: Penguin Books, 1946. Paperback. 136 pages.  covering bottling, jam making, fruit jellies and marmalades, storing fruits and drying them, pickles and chutneys and a harvest calendar. $35. 

Mrs Beeton. JAM-MAKING. PRESERVES, MARMALADES, PICKLES AND HOME-MADE WINES. London: Ward, Lock & Co., ltd., n.d. ca. 400 recipes. DJ & a bit of foxing. $90. 

William Cobbett. COTTAGE ECONOMY. London: Printed by the author, 1824. a new edition. Brewing beer and other homesteading essays, with a final chapter on English Grass and Grain for the purpose of making Hats and Bonnets. paper-covered boards.  $125. 

Freda  Murray. COUNTRY PICKLES. CHUTNEY AND PICKLE RECIPES. 16 recipes, one per page. Chap book size.  A charming little self published book. from the charming town of Lacock.  $35. 

Nicolas Appert. L’ARTE DE CONSERVER, PENDANT PLUSIERS ANNEES, TOUTES LES SUBSTANCES ANIMALES ET VEGETALES. Paris: Chez Patris et Cie, 1811. deuxieme edition. c. 1810. Bitting 13- the second edition is not mentioned, but the third and the fourth as well as the British edition of 1811, the German translation of 1811 and 1812 and the Swedish edition of 1811. Wildly famous scientific discoveries, in print, spreading from (professional) kitchen to kitchen.  

225 pages, original grey green paper wraps with the paper title on spine, some worming from the back of the book ending in a small hole to p 71. last leaf has the bottom third removed. 

one folding plate after the second title page. a very nice clean copy, holding very well- no loose pages or cracking in the structure of the book. $975.

Charlotte Turgeon. SMALL BATCH CANNING & FREEZING COOKBOOK. Indiana: Curtis Publ., 1979. inscribed by Turgeon. $35. 

Cyril Grange. F.R.H.S. THE COMPLETE BOOK OF HOME FOOD PRESERVATION FRUIT, VEGETABLES, POULTRY, MEAT, FISH, EGGS AND THE MAKING OF JAMS, JELLIES, PICKLES, CHUTNEYS, SAUCES, KETCHUPS, VINEGARS, WINES, BEERS & CIDERS. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1949. third printing. with illustrations. with dust wrapper. a clean bright copy with a little shelf wear to the jacket. $65.