French Country Cooking by David, Elizabeth - 1952

Millers Point, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2012. Second-hand hardcover. Shewry, Ben. Origin: the food of Ben Shewry. [FIRST EDITION] Murdoch Books: Millers Point, Australia 2012. 4to (320x295mm) qtr bnd black cloth, dec emb bds xii,[1],288,[2]pp. (photography by Colin Page) [SIGNED with dedication] Near Fine/- light edge wear Shewry, Ben. Origin: the food of Ben Shewry [FIRST EDITION] Sydney, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2012. 4to (320x290mm) HC Half Bound Black Gilt Embossed Cloth, decorative pictorial blind stamped boards xiii,[1],288,[2]pp. (photography by Colin Page; design by Reuben Crossman) Near Fine/Fine.  very discrete rub marks to several cnrs. Winner Australian Book Design Awards Illustrated Book 2013. Ben Shewry is the chef patron of Melbourne's award-winning restaurant Attica and is one of Australia's most significant and influential chefs.  Under his direction, Attica has become one of Australia's best restuarants repeatedly winning awards,  Attica was ranked for a number of years in… Read More

1869 1ed Harriet Beecher Stowe Woman's Home Economics Cooking Americana

"There is nothing which has a more abiding influence on the happiness of a family than the preservation of equable and cheerful temper and tones in the [mother]."
― Catharine Esther Beecher

"The American Woman's Home", originally published in 1869, was one of the late nineteenth century's most important handbooks of domestic advice. The result of a collaboration by two of the eras most important writers, this book represents their attempt to direct women's acquisition and use of a variety of new household consumer goods available in the post-Civil War economic boom. It is an update to Catharine Beecher's influential "Treatise on Domestic Economy" and incorporates domestic writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in The Atlantic in the 1860s.

This first edition, in a beautiful green cloth binding, features a lovely frontispiece as well as 77 in-text illustrations throughout!
Item number: #13885
Price: $499
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Melbourne: E W Cole Book Arcade, 1889. Second-hand hardcover. Payne, A G (ed). Cole's Popular Cookery. E W Cole, Book Arcade: Melbourne, Australia [ca.1889] 8vo (190x125mm) HC dec red cloth bds, gilt lettered [4],iv,[2],360,[10 adverts]pp.  PAYNE, A G [Arthur Gay (1840 - 1894)] (ed) Cole's Popular Cookery Melbourne : E W Cole Book Arcade, [1889].  Printed by Cassell & Co, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London Octavo (190x125mm)  red cloth, black decorated with plates, bowls and a jug, and gilt lettered, boards, ii-v,[1],iv,[2],360,[10 publisher's catalogue - Cassell & Co]pp. Four colour plates, including the frontispiece. Light offset/age-toning to front and rear end-papers. Spine faintly sunned, some faint flecking to the boards; a small blemish and folded corner (not affecting the text) to p.315 (plum cake recipe). Else an uncommonly fine copy with no other signs of use. Although undated, the publisher's advertising is marked 8/89 and the printer's mark on p.360 "200/789" suggest a date of… Read More

Gainsborough, UK: H Mozley, 1803. Second-hand hardcover. Raffald, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper...: a new edition in which are inserted some celebrated receipts by other modern authors. H Mozley: Gainsborough, 1803. 8vo (180x110mm) half calf marbled bds, frontis, vi,[2],364pp, 3 folding plates. RAFFALD, Elizabeth [Whitaker, (1733 - 1781)] The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the use of ladies, housekeepers, cooks &c. Written purely from practice; dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper: consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print.... A New Edition: in which are inserted some celebrated receipts by other modern authors. Market-place, Gainsborough: H Mozley, 1803.  Printed by H Mozley, Market-place, Gainsborough. Octavo (180x110mm) later half bound calf over marbled boards; spine in 7 compartments ruled in gilt, raised bands, black title and author labels in gilt; all edges red;… Read More

London: David Bogue, 1846. Second-hand hardcover. [Audot, Louis-Eustache]. French Domestic Economy, combining elegance with economy...in twelve hundred receipts. [FIRST EDITION - UK] David Bogue: London, 1846. 8vo (170x105mm) rebound qtr calf, tan cloth, gilt lettered xi,[1],339,[1]pp. [AUDOT, Louis-Eustache (1783-1870)] French Domestic Cookery, combining elegance with economy; describing the new culinary implements and processes; the management of the table; instructions for carving; French, German, Polish, Spanish and Italian cookery; in Twelve Hundred Receipts. Besides a variety of new modes of keeping and storing provisions, domestic hints &c. Management of Wines &c. with many engravings. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION London: David Bogue, 1846. Printed in London, by J Unwin, Bucklesbury Octavo (170x105mm) quarter bound calf, tan cloth, gilt lettered spine (erroneously dated 1866), new end-papers, xi,[1],339,[1]pp.  Approximately 70 engravings mostly of kitchen equipment.  A few very small signs of… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Book. Illus. by Renny, Juliet. Good. Hardback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 493 pages. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground, pictorial design to upper board in red, red top-stain. With the rare dust jacket which has been professionally restored. Pages 247-250 have been re-stitched by a professional bookbinder. First edition, first impression of the author's most influential work, some light staining to bottom edge. David (1913-1992) taught herself Mediterranean-style cooking while living abroad during the early 1940s, and began writing a food column for Harper's Bazaar in 1949, to her amazement the only place you could buy olive oil in England at that time was the chemist!.

New York: Atheneum, 1974. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket/Very Good. Illustrated by the Author. Signed and inscribed to a named individual by Richard Olney on the title page. Clean and bright except for one light fingerprint on the foreedge of the page block and one faint gray spot on the red topstain; square, secure binding, full white cloth hard cover modestly softened and rubbed at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. Dust jacket bears a tiny, closed tear at the top front, lines of mild toning around the top and bottom rear, a long crease to the front interior flap, very shallow crimping at spine ends, and gentle shelfwear at spine ends and corners, otherwise clean and lovely, not priceclipped, now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author.

Millers Point, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2012. Second-hand hardcover. Shewry, Ben. Origin: the food of Ben Shewry. [FIRST EDITION] Murdoch Books: Millers Point, Australia 2012. 4to (320x295mm) qtr bnd black cloth, dec emb bds xii,[1],288,[2]pp. (photography by Colin Page) [SIGNED with dedication] Near Fine/- light edge wear Shewry, Ben. Origin: the food of Ben Shewry [FIRST EDITION] Sydney, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2012. 4to (320x290mm) HC Half Bound Black Gilt Embossed Cloth, decorative pictorial blind stamped boards xiii,[1],288,[2]pp. (photography by Colin Page; design by Reuben Crossman) Near Fine/Fine.  very discrete rub marks to several cnrs. Winner Australian Book Design Awards Illustrated Book 2013. Ben Shewry is the chef patron of Melbourne's award-winning restaurant Attica and is one of Australia's most significant and influential chefs.  Under his direction, Attica has become one of Australia's best restuarants repeatedly winning awards,  Attica was ranked for a number of years in… Read More

Melbourne: E W Cole Book Arcade, 1889. Second-hand hardcover. Payne, A G (ed). Cole's Popular Cookery. E W Cole, Book Arcade: Melbourne, Australia [ca.1889] 8vo (190x125mm) HC dec red cloth bds, gilt lettered [4],iv,[2],360,[10 adverts]pp.  PAYNE, A G [Arthur Gay (1840 - 1894)] (ed) Cole's Popular Cookery Melbourne : E W Cole Book Arcade, [1889].  Printed by Cassell & Co, Limited, La Belle Sauvage, London Octavo (190x125mm)  red cloth, black decorated with plates, bowls and a jug, and gilt lettered, boards, ii-v,[1],iv,[2],360,[10 publisher's catalogue - Cassell & Co]pp. Four colour plates, including the frontispiece. Light offset/age-toning to front and rear end-papers. Spine faintly sunned, some faint flecking to the boards; a small blemish and folded corner (not affecting the text) to p.315 (plum cake recipe). Else an uncommonly fine copy with no other signs of use. Although undated, the publisher's advertising is marked 8/89 and the printer's mark on p.360 "200/789" suggest a date of… Read More

Gainsborough, UK: H Mozley, 1803. Second-hand hardcover. Raffald, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper...: a new edition in which are inserted some celebrated receipts by other modern authors. H Mozley: Gainsborough, 1803. 8vo (180x110mm) half calf marbled bds, frontis, vi,[2],364pp, 3 folding plates. RAFFALD, Elizabeth [Whitaker, (1733 - 1781)] The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the use of ladies, housekeepers, cooks &c. Written purely from practice; dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, whom the author lately served as housekeeper: consisting of several hundred original receipts, most of which never appeared in print.... A New Edition: in which are inserted some celebrated receipts by other modern authors. Market-place, Gainsborough: H Mozley, 1803.  Printed by H Mozley, Market-place, Gainsborough. Octavo (180x110mm) later half bound calf over marbled boards; spine in 7 compartments ruled in gilt, raised bands, black title and author labels in gilt; all edges red;… Read More