The Creole Cookery Book by LA Edited by the Christian Woman\'s Exchange of New Orleans - 1885

Coventry: Merridew & Son, 1812. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 372 pages. Improved system of domestic economy; containing above eight hundred valuable receipts, many of which are entirely original; the whole forming a most useful economical companion. Rebound with three quarter leather and marbled boards..

Paris: Michel David, 1711. Octavo, [6], 536, [8] pages. Frontispiece, five leaves of folding plates. Second printing of the First Edition. Michel David issued the title originally in 1710. A compilation of two seventeenth century works by Nicolas de Bonnefons, here issued under a royal privilege granted to Louis Liger, sieur d'Auxerre (1658-1717). The work is divided into four books, the first three concerning cooking, the fourth dealing with gardening, and with an additional brief treatise on hunting and fishing. Liger's compilation of de Bonnefons' work continued to be revised and reissued after his death and well into the eighteenth century. And rightly so. De Bonnefons' work recognizes the primacy of excellent ingredients. The final section is considered to be the first work on the kitchen garden. John Evelyn, who translated the work in 1658, called it "the first and best work of that kind that introduced the use of the olitorie garden to any purpose." Contemporary full-calf, compartmented spine… Read More

London : J Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St Paul's Churchyard; and F Newbery, in Pater-noster-Rows, 1767 First edition of an extremely rare early cookery book in contemporary binding. In addition to recipes there is an appendix 'containing a dissertation on the different kinds of food, their Nature, Quality and various uses, by a Physician'. Also a 'Marketing Manual' 'and other useful Particulars' by the Editor. The full leather binding has raised bands to spine and the remains of gilt lining to the boards. It is scuffed and worn, but currently sound. Internally the fep is missing and the first page is the title page. Contents: title page; preface pp iii-iv; Marketing Manual pp v-xxii; Marketing table pp xxiii-xxiv; recipes and index 284pp; Finis. The rear free endpaper is torn with the bottom half missing. Contents slightly shaken; pages generally clean - some with light browning; some page corners have been turned over. There is a small ink note at the bottom of p… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2016.. Edition of 5. 7 x 9.25"; 20 pages. Pop-ups. Flutter book construction. Monotype silkscreen prints and monotype gelatin plate prints. Handcut and handcolored with ink and colored pencil. Handwritten text. Cloth bound flat-backed case with an onlay beneath the cloth on the front cover. Rebecca Goodale: "After years of walking in the woods, studying, and eating mushrooms, this is my first book about some of the most delicious mushrooms in my town."

[United Kingdom, 1920. Quarto-sized spring-back binder (29 x 24 cm.), [10], 84 pages, numbered by hand. Detailed table of contents. Title from cover. Many leaves are carbon, with a few the original, and most leaves have a few holograph edits. Paper watermarked "Silver Line". An illustrated advertisement for the "Rekarts Instantaneous Spring Back Binder" pasted-down to front interior binding panel. Laid-in is an original photograph (20.5 x 16 cm.), signed by the photographer "Thos. Tindall, Hancock?" (the subject of the photo is presumably the compiler, R.H. Murphy). ~ A "manuscript" cookbook with more than three hundred eighty recipes in ditto or mimeograph (alternating blue or black ink), many with holograph edits. Based on the style of edits (textual and not culinary) and the detailed Table of Contents, it seems likely this was a compilation being prepared for publication. We have not, however, been able to identify a published work that corresponds with this text. After the nine page table of… Read More

Coventry: Merridew & Son, 1812. Book. Good. Three-Quarter Leather. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 372 pages. Improved system of domestic economy; containing above eight hundred valuable receipts, many of which are entirely original; the whole forming a most useful economical companion. Rebound with three quarter leather and marbled boards..

Paris: Michel David, 1711. Octavo, [6], 536, [8] pages. Frontispiece, five leaves of folding plates. Second printing of the First Edition. Michel David issued the title originally in 1710. A compilation of two seventeenth century works by Nicolas de Bonnefons, here issued under a royal privilege granted to Louis Liger, sieur d'Auxerre (1658-1717). The work is divided into four books, the first three concerning cooking, the fourth dealing with gardening, and with an additional brief treatise on hunting and fishing. Liger's compilation of de Bonnefons' work continued to be revised and reissued after his death and well into the eighteenth century. And rightly so. De Bonnefons' work recognizes the primacy of excellent ingredients. The final section is considered to be the first work on the kitchen garden. John Evelyn, who translated the work in 1658, called it "the first and best work of that kind that introduced the use of the olitorie garden to any purpose." Contemporary full-calf, compartmented spine… Read More

London : J Newbery, at the Bible and Sun in St Paul's Churchyard; and F Newbery, in Pater-noster-Rows, 1767 First edition of an extremely rare early cookery book in contemporary binding. In addition to recipes there is an appendix 'containing a dissertation on the different kinds of food, their Nature, Quality and various uses, by a Physician'. Also a 'Marketing Manual' 'and other useful Particulars' by the Editor. The full leather binding has raised bands to spine and the remains of gilt lining to the boards. It is scuffed and worn, but currently sound. Internally the fep is missing and the first page is the title page. Contents: title page; preface pp iii-iv; Marketing Manual pp v-xxii; Marketing table pp xxiii-xxiv; recipes and index 284pp; Finis. The rear free endpaper is torn with the bottom half missing. Contents slightly shaken; pages generally clean - some with light browning; some page corners have been turned over. There is a small ink note at the bottom of p… Read More

Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2016.. Edition of 5. 7 x 9.25"; 20 pages. Pop-ups. Flutter book construction. Monotype silkscreen prints and monotype gelatin plate prints. Handcut and handcolored with ink and colored pencil. Handwritten text. Cloth bound flat-backed case with an onlay beneath the cloth on the front cover. Rebecca Goodale: "After years of walking in the woods, studying, and eating mushrooms, this is my first book about some of the most delicious mushrooms in my town."

[United Kingdom, 1920. Quarto-sized spring-back binder (29 x 24 cm.), [10], 84 pages, numbered by hand. Detailed table of contents. Title from cover. Many leaves are carbon, with a few the original, and most leaves have a few holograph edits. Paper watermarked "Silver Line". An illustrated advertisement for the "Rekarts Instantaneous Spring Back Binder" pasted-down to front interior binding panel. Laid-in is an original photograph (20.5 x 16 cm.), signed by the photographer "Thos. Tindall, Hancock?" (the subject of the photo is presumably the compiler, R.H. Murphy). ~ A "manuscript" cookbook with more than three hundred eighty recipes in ditto or mimeograph (alternating blue or black ink), many with holograph edits. Based on the style of edits (textual and not culinary) and the detailed Table of Contents, it seems likely this was a compilation being prepared for publication. We have not, however, been able to identify a published work that corresponds with this text. After the nine page table of… Read More