Food & Drink
ANON: The New Domestic Cookery. By a Lady.
| |
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 |
BALL, DANIELA U. [Editor]: Coffee in the Context of European Drinking Habits.
|
Zurich: Johann Jacobs Museum, 1991. English and German text. Black & white plates. Large 8vo, pp.247, original cloth in dustwrapper; generally an excellent copy. £16.00 |
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
CRAIG, ELIZABETH [Editor]: The Stage Favourites' Cook Book. Four Hundred British, American, and Continental Actresses have contributed to this volume, and every recipe has been edited and tested by Elizabeth Craig.
|
London: Hutchinson, 1923. 4to (10 x 7 1/2 inches), later linen backed marbled boards with burgundy morocco gilt lettering piece. Some foxing and browning to the text; good. £30.00 |
DALLAS, ENAEAS S: Kettner's Book of the Table. A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical, Historical.
London: Dulau: 1877. First edition. 8vo (8 x 5 1/2 inches), 500-pages. Original green cloth. Some rubbing and spotting to the binding, headband bruised and snagged, inner joints and some inner gutters cracked but firm. Anon.
£40.00
FERRE, FELIPE: Il Caffe.
| |
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 |
FERRE, FELIPE: Il Caffe.
|
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 |
HENDERSON, W.A: The Housekeeper's Instructor or Universal Family Cook, Being a Full and Clear Display of the Art of Cookery in All Its Branches, to Which is Added, The Complete Art of Carving.
London: J. Stratford, 1811. Poor; lacks plates. 8vo, 448-pages plus index. Upper inner hinge cracked but firm, lower portion of last leaf of index cut away, some soiling & browning. Old full calf crudely rebacked in unlettered calf.
£15.00
JOSEPH TETLEY & CO. (publishers): Tetley's Centenary History, 1837 - 1937.
London: Joseph Tetley & Co. 1937. Illustrations. Large 8vo, pp.(24), original green wrappers gilt, with silk ties. Title foxed else good. A history of this tea importer.
£20.00
KEEN, ROBINSON & CO. (Publishers): Gossip about London City 1742-1892. Presented in Commemoration of their Third Jubilee by Keen, Robinson & Co.
|
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. £25.00 |
ROBERTS BUTTERMAN & CHEESEMONGER: Engraved billhead for Roberts, Butterman & Cheesemonger to His Majesty. 7 Great Marylebone Street and 6 Vere Street Cavendish Square.
|
London: circa 1830. Engraved bill-head, 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches, filled out by hand, made out to the Marchioness of [indistinct] & dated October 1832? Indistinct. Marginal browning, central light horizontal fold. Contemporary calculations to the reverse. £35.00 |
TAKNET, D.K: The Heritage of Indian Tea. The Past, the Present, and the Road Ahead.
|
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 |
WARD, EDWARD: A Vade Mecum for Malt=Worms: or, a Guide to Good Fellows. Being a Description of the Manners and Customs of the most Eminent Publick Houses, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster. With a Hint to the Props (or Principal Customers) of each House. In a Method so plain that any Thirsty Person (of the meanest Capacity) may easily find the nearest Way from one House to another. Illustrated with proper Cuts. Dedicated to the Brewers.
|
London: T. Bickersteth circa 1866. Woodcuts throughout. 8vo (9 x 5 3/4 inches), 48-pages, original brown cloth; small ink mark on backstrip, headbands rubbed, overall good. (Anon.). £50.00 |
