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THE HOUSE SERVANT'S DIRECTORY, OR A MONITOR FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES: COMPRISING HINTS ON THE ARRANGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF SERVANTS' WORK, WITH GENERAL RULES FOR SETTING OUT TABLES AND SIDEBOARDS IN FIRST ORDER; THE ART OF WAITING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; AND LIKEWISE HOW TO CONDUCT LARGE AND SMALL PARTIES WITH ORDER; WITH GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING ON TABLE ALL KINDS OF JOINTS, FISH, FOWL, &C. WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLEANING PLATE, BRASS, STEEL, GLASS, MAHOGANY; AND LIKEWISE ALL KINDS OF PATENT AND COMMON LAMPS: OBSERVATIONS ON SERVANTS' BEHAVIOUR TO THEIR EMPLOYERS; AND UPWARDS OF 100 VARIOUS AND USEFUL RECEIPTS, CHIEFLY COMPILED FOR THE USE OF HOUSE SERVANTS; AND IDENTICALLY MADE TO SUIT THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH FRIENDLY ADVICE TO COOKS AND HEADS OF FAMILIES; AND COMPLETE DIRECTIONS HOW TO BURN LEHIGH COAL by ROBERTS, Robert

Boston & New York: Munroe and Francis; Charles S. Francis, 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name of Katherine Laurence dated 27 March 1827 on the front endpaper. Two leaves (pages 73-76) neatly detached and laid in; contents complete and very cl...

From Charles Agvent

$31,250.00

NEW AMERICAN COOKERY, OR FEMALE COMPANION. CONTAINING FULL AND AMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR ROASTING, BROILING, STEWING, HASHING, BOILING, PRESERVING, PICKLING, POTTING, FRICASEES, SOUPS, PUFF-PASTES, PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS, PIES, TARTS, & C. ALSO, THE MAKING OF WINES AND CHEESE. PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO THE AMERICAN MODE OF COOKING by [COOKERY]

New York: D. D. Smith, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attractive, unsophisticated copy in original binding of a scarce and important book. Twentyfourmo (3-3/8" x 5-3/8") boun...

From Charles Agvent

$21,875.00

E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, For the Use of his Scholars. Who teaches at his School in Queen Street, near St. Thomas Apostles On Monday, Tuesdays & Wednesdays in the Afternoon .. by Kidder, Edward

[London, 1723. Later issue. [52] leaves, entirely engraved throughout, including frontispiece portrait of the author in wig (presumed 2nd state) by Robert Sheppard, and 8 engraved plates (three folding) of patterns and ornamental designs for pies and pas...

From James Cummins Bookseller

$5,000.00

Een Vruchtenmandje. [A Fruit Basket] by Bodenheim, Nelly (illustrator). Verses by Lizzy Ansingh

Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1927. Folio, [48] pages, twenty one hand-colored plates, All the plates are on a sturdy, thick card stock (29 x 21cm). First edition, signed and limited. Roman numeral III of a limitation of seven copies in portfolio form, signed ...

From Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

$5,000.00

Serve It Forth [signed First edition] by Fisher, M. F. K. [Mary Frances Kennedy]

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First Edition, First Printing . Peach Cloth, Gilt. Very Good +/ Near Fine Book/Very Good DJ. 253 Pp. First Book On Food By M F K Fisher. Book Is Bright And Clean, All Gilt Brilliant, Rubbing At Top And Bottom Of Sp...

From Arroyo Seco Books

$3,600.00

The Accomplisht Cook, or, the whole art and mystery of cookery, fitted for all Degrees and Qualities by May, Robert

London: Obadiah Blagrave, 1685. Fifth Edition. Very Good. Pp. 15 leaves, 461, [10] p. + [9] p. publisher's ads. Engraved in-text illustrations, restored frontispiece, two double page woodcut plates are supplied in facsimile and bound in correct plac...

From Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

$3,500.00

Au Pied De Cochon - The Album by Martin Picard

Montréal, QB: Restaurant Au Pied De Cochon, 2006. Hardcover. As New. CD still in original, sealed pouch at the back of book. Original Promo Slip Cover still on book - has tear on back. Book in original, New condition...

From 10908Digital

$3,000.00

Nouvel Almanach des Gourmands, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère. Dédié au Ventre. Par A.B. de Périgord. Première année [Deuxième année] [Troisième année] by (Gastronomy) [Raisson, Horace]

Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1827. First edition, all published. Each volume with frontispiece and engraved Carte gastronomique de la France (folded). Prospectus bound in at front of vol. I. Pp. [iv], iv, xxiv, 234, [221]-224; [xx], 264; [xx], 246. 3 v...

From James Cummins Bookseller

$3,000.00

The Way To Cook ; Julia Child On Videotape (poster) by Child, Julia

New York: Knopf, 1985. Fine. Full color promotional poster measuring 21 x 30 inches (53.3 x 76.2 cm.) depicting Her Highness in the Kitchen promoting her six hour video course on cooking. Boldly signed by the author with her trademark "Bon Appeti...

From James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)

$2,880.00

The Way to Cook; Julia Child on Videotape !: Promotional Poster by Child, Julia (SIGNED)

New York: Knopf Video Books, 1985. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and world-acclaimed chef Julia Child in blue marker "Bon Appetit ! Julia Child". A SCARCE poster promoting "The first complete home-video cooking course". Distributed in limited supp...

From Dale Steffey Books

$2,000.00

Antiquitatum convivialium libri III.: In quibus Hebraeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum aliarumque nationum antiqua conviviorum genera, mores, consuetudines, ritus ceremoniaeq́[ue] conviviales atque etiam alia explicantur; & cum ijs, quae hodie cúm apud Christianos, tum apud alias gentes, a Christiano nomine alienas, in usu sunt, conferuntur: multa grammatica, physica, medica, ethica, oeconomica, politica, philosophica deniq[ue] atq[ue] historica cognitu jucunda simul & utilia tractantur: plurima sacrorum prophanorumq́[ue] auctorum veterum loca obscura illustrantur, corrupta emendantur: deniq[ue] desperatus deploratusq́[ue] nostrorum temporum luxus atq[ue] luxuria gravi censura damnatur by STUCKI, Johann Wilhelm

1597 Cooking & Cuisine FEASTS Stucki Antiquitatum Convivialium Greek Ceremonies Johann Wilhelm Stucki was a 16th-century Swiss historian and theologian who published an important treatise on the development and history of ancient ceremonies and banquets....

From Schilb Antiquarian Rare Books

$1,950.00

Book of Household Management by Beeton, Isabella Mary

London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. 1112 pages + xxxix index and coloured plate list. Lacks free front endpaper otherwise a good tight book. Half of spine is missing. With some careful restoration this would be a very good example of this rare work.. First Editio...

From Books & Bygones

£1,500.00

The Savoy Cocktail Book. Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and vastly appreciated in this year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wine and their special occasions. Being in the particular an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality. [Signed] by CRADDOCK, Harry (1875-1963)

London: Constable, 1933. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Second Printing of the Second Edition, new and enlarged (pp. 282-86 list "New and Additional Cocktails"), of this classic mixology guide. Signed by Craddock, in very elegant script, on c...

From Fine Editions Ltd

$1,865.00

APHORISMES, MENUS & VARIÉTÉS by Brillat-Savarin, [Jean-Anthelme], and Mario Avati [illus]

[Paris]: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961. 109,[8]pp. Large octavo (24.5 x 16cm). Loose gatherings laid into printed wrappers. Frontis and 24 illustrations in mezzotint, with supplementary plate laid in. Fine in lightly worn chemise and velvet covered slipc...

From William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB

$1,750.00

Family Cookery Book, The by An Experienced Housekeeper

Coventry: Merridew & Son, 1812. 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 le...

From Books & Bygones

£1,200.00