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ANON: The New Domestic Cookery. By a Lady.
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London: for Joseph Smith, 1828. 12mo (6 x 3 1/4 inches), pages 143:(1, contents), original printed boards. Title-page stitched in back to front. Lacking one leaf, page 97/98. Lacking backstrip, crudely re-stitched, boards very darkened and rubbed, browning or foxing within, stitching slack, piece of blank margin torn away. Poor but very rare; no copy on Copac. £28.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 13946
BELLAMY, W.H. (By Permission of J. Williams): Simon the Cellarer.
London: Castell Brothers, n.d. ca. 1890. Three coloured plates and three coloured illustrations. 6-leaves within the original coloured pictorial card wrappers, silk tie bound. Verse. Rare.
£25.00
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FERRE, FELIPE: Il Caffe.
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Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper and with a very narrow strip of fading to front of dustwrapper along edge of spine (barely noticeable), else in all other respects, an excellent copy. £25.00 |
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FERRE, FELIPE: Il Caffe.
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Silvana Editoriale, 1988. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.256, original cloth in dustwrapper; dustwrapper corners rubbed and slight shelf-rubbing to back of dustwrapper, else in all other respects, an excellent copy. £25.00 |
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HENDERSON, ALEXANDER: The History of Ancient and Modern Wines.
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First edition. Engraved title vignette, other engraved vignettes and pictorial initials. 4to (11 1/2 x 9 inches), pages: xvi:408, the half-title is present. Attractively bound 20th Century 3/4 tan calf, marbled boards, spine gilt ruled and with burgundy lettering piece, uncut. A good large copy. Some light foxing, discolouration from damp affecting the lower blank fore-corner of a few leaves; overall good.
£495.00
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KEEN, ROBINSON & CO. (Publishers): Gossip about London City 1742-1892. Presented in Commemoration of their Third Jubilee by Keen, Robinson & Co.
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London: Keen, Robinson & Co. 1892. Plates (including reproductions of their advertisements for Keen's Mustard over the years). Small 8vo (7 x 5 1/4 inches), 63-pages. Original green cloth gilt; a very good copy. £15.00 |
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PERESSUT, LUCA BASSO; DORIGATI, REMO; and GINELLI, ELISABETTA: L'Architettura del Caffe. Tradizione e progetto in Europa. Abitare Segesta Cataloghi.
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Italy: Lavazza, 1994. Italian text. Illustrated in colour and black & white. Folio, pp.287, original cloth in clipped dustwrapper; some slight shelf-wear to dustwrapper and short tear to bottom edge of front dustwrapper, else an excellent copy. £20.00 |
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SMITH, ELIZA: The Complete Housewife: or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion. Being a Collection of upwards of Seven Hundred of the most approved Receipts in Cookery, Pastries ... Custards ... Syrups ... Brewing. With copper plates, curiously engraven ......
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London: for J. Buckland [& others], 1773. Frontispiece and 4 engraved plates as called for. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches), pages: (40):400, contemporary full dark tan calf; rubbed, backstrip very chipped. Blank lower fore-corner of one leaf torn away without loss, another leaf torn also without loss. Crack at one inner gutter but firm. Hinges cracked but holding. Generally internally very good. Early name, Mrs Arthur Hobby, and address on recto of frontispiece.
£260.00
Enquire - please quote Item No. 17755
SMITH, ELIZA: The Compleat Housewife, or, Accomplished gentlewoman's companion : being a collection of upwards of five hundred of the most approved receipts in cookery, pastry, confectionary, preserving, pickles, cakes, creams, jellies, made wines, cordials : with copper plates curiously engraven for the regular disposition or placing the various dishes and courses, and also bills of fare for every month in the year : to which is added, a collection of near two hundred family receipts of medicines viz. Drinks, Syrups, Salves, Ointments, and various other Things of sovereign and approved Efficacy in most Distempers, Pains, Aches, Wounds, Sores, etc. never before made public; fit either for private Families, or such public spirited Gentlewomen as would be beneficient to their poor Neighbours. by E.S.
J. Pemberton, London, 1728. Second edition. 8vo (7 3/4 x 5 inches) pages: xv:318:(2, Pembertons list). Old calf, rubbed, broken. Very slight occasional marginal worm trait. Corners rounded, some browning. Overall internally good. The 6 folding plates detached and with some marginal damp marking and browning. First published the preceding year.
In need of rebinding and priced to allow for such.
£580.00
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TAKNET, D.K: The Heritage of Indian Tea. The Past, the Present, and the Road Ahead.
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Jaipur: IIME ( Indian Institute of Marwari Entrepreneurship ), 2002. First edition. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. 4to, pp.264, original black cloth; headbands slightly bumped but generally a very good copy indeed in like dustwrapper. With a prospectus for the work and a letter from the publisher loosely inserted. £50.00 |
Enquire - please quote Item No. 10111