Books About Food

Lyons Press, 2012. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x0x9. Signed. HARDCOVER SIGNED BY OLIVIA and PROFESSIONALLY AUTHENTICATED by PSA/DNA. Also briefly inscribed to Sandra as shown. A lovely and scarce hardcover first printing in VG+ condition with a pristine interior but mild bumping on the extremities. Issued with a decorative cover in lieu of DJ. VERY scarce with certified signature! Expedited and international shipping are welcome. Bk 3, signed by author.

Guadalajara, Mexico:: Impronta Casa Editora,, 2019.. Edition of 100. Sheet size 11 x 15"; 20 sheets. Text composition completed on an Intertype C-4 with Typeface Futura 14pts. Titles set on a Ludlow Typographic machine in Goudy 36 pts and Tempo 92 pts. Printed on a Chandler & Price 12 x 18 ca1882. Images printed on a Risograph RZ 390. Loose sheets laid in 11.5 x 15.5" portfolio of chipboard covers and red cloth spine with black ribbon tie closure. Numbered. Sandra Trujillo: " I received a grant to work in Mexico and the work culminated in an artists' book ... with the assistance of Impronta Casa Editora in Guadalajara, Mexico. Impronta Casa Editora specializes in small artistic productions using rare vintage 19th century intertype and letterpress printing processes. ... The printed graphics in the book are toned Risographs prints of paper collages ... with a cover aesthetic inspired by experiences and trends of printing in Mexico today and rare 19th century portfolios.… Read More

McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A., 1950. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Ninth Printing. 1st hardbound edition, bound red cloth boards with white Pennsylvania Dutch design in white. 463 pp. including index. Loose-leaf pages in 5 ring metal binder with heavy stock and metal text protectors front and back. Card stock yellow tabbed dividers (20) are crisp and unbent. Text is clean and in like new condition. Recipe note added in pen on page 189. No previous owner attribution. Brown end pastedowns with white decoration. Illustrations on almost every page, mainly line drawings, B&W photographs and several full color photographs. This is General Mills first hardcover cookbook, published in 1950, which quickly became a national best seller and is now a family heirloom for many. This book contains illustrations and unique tips to "dress up food for eye appeal" fitting for dinner parties of the 1950s. A First Edition in this condition is rare. Note: pictures… Read More

Orlando FL, Harcourt Inc, 2000, hardcover children's picture book (10" x 10"), First Edition stated, First Printing by letter code, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, tiny split to bottom corner, slight wear to spine-ends. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light spine-end and corner nicks, short closed tear to rear panel near spine, looks great in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author/illustrator of the Caldecott Honor winner Color Zoo, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Cuckoo/Cucú: A Mexican Folktale/Un cuento folklórico Mexicano and Leaf Man, presents a rhyming trip to the town square market colorfully illustrated throughout with a feast of folk art from around the world, most of it from her own collection. ISBN 9780152021580

Warner-Jenkins Mfg. Co., St. Louis, 1924. First Edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 134 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Illustrated with many b/w photographs and b/w drawings. Prior owner attributions on front free endpaper. A "textbook covering a variety of subjects including bacteriology, chemistry and physics, of which some knowledge is indispensable in modern methods of manufacture." This early primer on the science of ice cream making is rare in part because: "This book will not be broadcast to the trade as the cost is too great, but a copy will be mailed free to any of our customers applying for one. A charge of $1.00 will be made if a second copy is wanted. To all those who are not on our books as customers, the price is $2.00."

Thomas D. Cutler, 1922. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1922. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Viscolizing the Ice Cream Mix, J. B. Johnson's New Ice Cream Plant, Layout and Design of a Modern Ice Cream Plant, Eskimo Pie and Export Trade, New Process for Making Sirup, Practical Standardization of Ice Cream Mixes, Does Carbon Dioxid in Ice Cream Destroy Bacteria, Determining Adulterants in Butter Fats, Advantages and Correct Uses of Powdered Milk, The Condensation Process of Preparing the Batch, Calculating the Ice Cream Formula, Effect of Steaming Upon Germ Life in Milk Cans, Proportioning Mixes Made Easy, How Plants Keep a Check on the Hardening Room, Going Beyond Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry, Physical Properties of the Ice Cream Mix, Raising Solids of Ice Cream by… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1921. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1921. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Ice Cream Courses at the University of Illinois, Value of Brick Ice Cream as a Trade Builder, Methods of Manufacturing Ice Cream, Computing Formula Using Butter and Powdered Milk Standardising Condensed Milk, Values of Trailers for Transporting Ice Cream, The Value of Ice Cream in the Diet of Children, Proportioning the Ingredients for Ice Cream, Eliminations of Germs From Dairy Utensils, Artistic Side of Ice Cream Neglected, New Ice Cream Can Washer, Refrigeration for Ice Cream Plants, Advertising Ice Cream, Homogenizing the Entire Mix, Selling Brick Ice Cream, The Cost of Manufacturing Artificial Ice, Condensed Skim and Condensed Whole Compared, A Formula Using Cane Sugar,… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1920. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1920. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Interior Finish of Ice Storages, The Examination of Gelatine, Increasing Solids Other Than Fats in Ice Cream, Proportioning Ice Cream Batches, Sugar as a Stimulant, The Manufacture of Pure Food Gelatine, Ice Storage House Construction and Operation, Corn Sugar and Corn Syrup for Better Ice Cream, The Manufacture of Butter, Standards for Sweetened Condensed Milk, The Laboratory in the Ice Cream Plant, Ice Cream Formulas for the Factory, The Layout of an Ice Cream Plant, An Epidemic of Ropy Milk, Honey in Ice Cream, Formulas Using Sweetened Condensed Milk, Formula Using Butterfat Milk Powder, New Sealright Can Filler, What We Have Learned in Ten Years About Hardening Rooms and… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1925. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1925. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Refrigerated Cabinet or Fountain? The Importance of Non-Fat Milk Solids, Texture: What Determines It and How? Advantages and Disadvantages of the Iceless Cabinet, The Ice Cream Driver as a Chauffeur, How Mix Ingredients Affect Freezing, Proportioning Mixes by Arithmetic, Which Is It? Viscosity or Plasticity, Germany Starts an Ice Cream Industry, Unsolved Problems of Body and Texture, A Study of the Freezing Point, Facts and Figures in Sherbets and Ices, Material Handling in the Hydrox Plant, Turning Skim Milk into Horse-Power, Using Egg Yolk in Plain Ice Cream Making Nesselrode Pudding, Two “Typical” Mixes, The Manufacture of Ice Cream: A Concise… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1927. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1927. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Solidified Carbon Dioxide, Can Density Be Controlled? Gelatine and Mix Viscosity, How Corn Sugar in an Ice Cream Mix Affects the Hardening Process, An All-Purpose Batch Method, How Much Sugar? What Kind? Preventing Sherbet Defects, Profits in Window Display, Dehydrating Yolk in America, Making Window Displays Pay, Recipes for Fancy Ice Cream, What Factors Affect Whip, How to Make Imitation Forms and The Butter and Dry Skim Mix. Tight, clean ex-library copy with minimal shelf wear, 4" x 2" North Dakota Agricultural College library label to front pastedown and NDAL stamps to edges of text block. Photographs of or additional information about this item are available on… Read More

Limited to 3,000 copies. Black paper covered boards with matching dustjacket. Spanish text. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
9.5 x 11.25 in

Roorkee: Department of Agriculture and Commerce, 1882. [Published 1882 - 1883]. Two volumes, quarto, illustrated with 69 fine botanical line drawn plates by the artist H. Hormusji (numbered 1 - 64 + 5 bis plates) including 7 double-page plates, pp 87; 63, duplicates from Museum of Science and Art Edinburgh, with their small stamp on the title pages (and also the stamp of the Cleghorn Memorial Library) and the front endpaper, and neat stamps on the verso of the plates, otherwise clean internally, original cloth-backed boards a little worn, [the spines do not match but they are original]. RARE. A third volume was published later, but this seems even more elusive. [The plates are impressive, drawn by H. Hormusji, a Parsee artist who apparently trained at Bombay School of Art.]. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Good. Illus. by H. Hormusji.

Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. Second edition. Illustrated with 10 engraved folding plates slightly foxed, pp xiv, 479, [9], a signature and date on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, original leather covers, rubbed, re-backed with a new leather spine, new cream endpapers. [The final hundred pages comprise the Duke of Bedford's "Account of the results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different grasses and other Plants Used as the Food of Animals".]. . Second edition. Full Leather. Good.

London: Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 2000. Second impression. Well Illustrated, large thick quarto, pp xxii, 682, very clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, ina dustwrapper with the very slightest signs of use. ["This comprehensive book represents the first attempt to write a world history of people's use of social bees: how bees' nests were initially hunted for their honey and wax and, later, how the bees were kept in purpose-made hives. Evidence survives from early times in the form of artefacts, pictures and written records, and also human traditions of dealing with bees. Since 1949 the author has had opportunities to travel in over sixty countries, and to see traditional and modern hive beekeeping and also honey collection from nests. She learned much that helped her to piece together some of the long history in the different continents."]. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

Dublin: John Exshaw, 1778. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps and ten engraved plates (some folding), octavo, pp xvi, 118; 128; 132; 95; [13], a few folded corners, a little used and age-toned internally with a few paper imperfections and marks, the front endpaper slightly marked and lacking a corner, contemporary calf sound but rather worn at the edges, lacking tiny pieces at the head and tail of the spine, the spine dull and lacking its label, the joints cracking and peeling. [Of great value for the extensive notes on agriculture, botany, medicine and herbalism. Martyn {1699-1768} was born in London, the son of a merchant. He attended a school in the vicinity of his home, and when he turned 16, worked for his father, intending to follow a business career. He married Marie Anne Fonnereau, daughter of Claude Fonnereau, a Huguenot refugee who had settled in England and became a successful merchant. He abandoned this idea in favour of medical and botanical studies. His interest in botany came… Read More