
COOKING
& GASTRONOMY
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19th-Century Cookery “On the Fire” in the Household of a
Widely Active Lancashire Executive
(Mrs. Rawlinson's Manuscript Compilations)
(A Receipt Collection *&* a Social History). Rawlinson, Mary Ann. Manuscript on paper, in English. [Cookery]. Burnley, Lancashire: [ca. 1884]. 2 vols (16.1 cm, 6.34"; 15.7 cm, 6.18"). I: [32] ff. II: [24] ff.
$1250.00
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Two notebooks of recipes compiled by Mary Ann Rawlinson of Burnley, Lancashire. Rawlinson (1841–1912) was the wife of Joshua Rawlinson (1841–1896), a prominent figure in the Burnley community — having trained at his father's cotton mill, he went on to become an accountant and successfully directed or managed a jaw-dropping number of businesses and business concerns in the area, including the Burnley Paper Works, the Burnley Carriage Company, the Burnley Ironworks, the Nelson Room and Power Company, etc. He also became a well-known authority on the cotton trade, founding or serving in various positions in the Burnley Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association, the Todmorden Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association, the Padiham Masters' Association, the Colne and District Coloured Goods Manufacturers' Association, and many other organizations; his obituary in The Accountant periodical noted his widespread influence in trade matters, and his position as “one of the best-known men on the Manchester Exchange . . . well known and respected throughout commercial circles in Lancashire.” In addition, he was one of the founding members of the Victoria Hospital, assisted in that capacity by Mary Ann.
Mrs. Rawlinson recorded these recipes in standard format with ingredients listed first, and although her page-filling, uninterrupted, and only lightly punctuated paragraphs sometimes obscure that convention, her strong, slanting handwriting is very decipherable. The dishes she chose to preserve here (unseparated by any categorization) include British classics as well as dishes showing overseas influences; among them are Genoise pudding, maccaroni cheese [sic], curry, baked haddock, marmalade pudding, ragout of rabbit, milk rolls, lobster cutlets, beef olives, amber pudding (using apples, dried cherries, and lemon rind), Charlotte Russe, stewed steak, potato croquettes, Mulligatawny soup, lentil purée, beef hash pie, orange fritters, stewed kidney, kedgeree, German pudding, oyster patties, and many others. In the middle of one volume are a few pages bearing dessert recipes given in several different hands, one recipe being attributed to Mrs. Carr and one dated 1884.
This gathering of recipes provides
a great deal of information regarding the dietary habits and preferences of the prosperous couple, as well as the culinary techniques available to Mrs. Rawlinson — everything here was prepared “on the fire,” as Burnley did not have electricity until 1893.
Contemporary oilcloth limp wrappers, now housed in a plain box with printed paper label on lid; box extremities lightly rubbed, wrappers rubbed and worn, text block all but detached from spine in smaller volume; Mrs. Rawlinson's name inscribed in each volume. Larger volume with offsetting to first and last pages; a very few instances of spotting, pages overall very clean.
Interesting provenance/context, and interesting content. (41147)
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On a Most Ancient & Honourable Company — Presentation Copy
(A' Grocery Shopping We Will Go . . . )! Heath, John Benjamin. Some account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the city of London. London: Privately printed, 1854. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.55"). xvi, 580 pp.; 8 (1 fold.) plts.
$350.00
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Uncommon, privately printed second edition of this
illustrated history of the Company of Grocers — one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London — and some of its prominent members from its medieval origins through the early 1850s, written by Heath, governor of the Bank of England from 1845 to 1847. The illustrations include a map of Cheape Ward showing the Grocers' Hall and garden and an oversized, folding facsimile of the charter of incorporation, while the “Notices of Eminent Members” include renditions of their coats of arms. Also present are selections from some of the literature associated with the Grocers: speeches, plays, poems, etc.
Presentation copy: Half-title inscribed “Thomas Alex[ande]r Roberts Esq. [/] Presented by J.B. Heath July 1854.”
NSTC 2H15366; Cagle 736 (for first and third eds. only.); Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25858.17 (first ed.). Publisher's olive green textured cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, front cover with gilt-stamped armorial vignette, back cover with gilt-stamped device and motto, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, extremities mildly rubbed. Hinges (inside) of this hefty volume now cracked, with joints tender but holding. One plate (the map dated 1560) with pencilled annotations. Some plates faintly age-toned; pages with a few instances of light foxing. A work
full of valuable and interesting detail in a nice, clean, and (as handled with care) sound copy. (37084)


Medical Climatology
Arbuthnot, John; Pierre Boyer de Prébandier, trans. Essai des effets de l'air, sur le corps-humain. Paris: Jacques Barois, fils, 1742. 8vo (horizontal chain lines; 17 cm, 6.75"). xxiv, 320 pp.
$400.00
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Medical climatology and the causes of diseases are at the heart of Arbuthnot's work offered here in the second printing of Pierre Boyer de Prébandier's French translation. Arbuthnot (1667–1735), a Scottish medical doctor, political satirist, and friend and collaborator with Swift on several publications, was rather successful in all he turned his hand to.Boyer de Prébandier's translation is of An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, first published in London in 1733.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Of special note, at least as far as this cataloguer (DMS) is concerned, are the references on pp. 108–12 to
chocolate, coffee, and tea.
Wellcome Catalogue, II, 52. Contemporary polished tan calf, round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra; plain sides, marbled endpapers, all edges red, blue silk ribbon placemarker. Both joints (outside) open along top compartment; binding solid, however, with volume internally clean. A nice copy. (39841)

The Reference Book for
The Counterculture
Brand, Stewart, ed. The next whole Earth catalog. Sausalito, CA: Point, 1980. Folio (36.5 cm, 14.4"). 608 pp.; illus.
$75.00
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Stated first edition, first printing of the revised version — after a long gap in printing — of a legendary guide to tools for “individuals to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share the adventure with whoever is interested.” More than a catalogue, this is a compendium of reviews, extensive excerpts, and analyses of some of the most empowering books and products of the 20th century, leavened with bits of poetry, meditations, and musings on modern life. The preface here notes that only 11% of the material here is repeated from the Last Whole Earth Catalog, and that about 975 items are reviewed here for the first time.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; spine and lower front corner creased, edges showing mild shelfwear. Lower margin of first page with faint rubber-stamped numeral. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean, with all tear-out cards still present. Outstanding both as sociological insight and as general reading. (32344)

These Cooks Really Set Their
HANDS to This Production
Brooklyn Methodist Home.
Brooklyn Methodist Home cook book. [Brooklyn, NY]: Brooklyn M.E. Church Home, (copyright 1939). 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.33"). 320 pp.; illus.
$65.00
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“A cook book sponsored by the managers of the Methodist Home,” a shelter for the elderly, in tribute to the Home's 56th anniversary. Unlike some generically mass-produced charity cookbooks of the era, this delightful spiral-bound volume successfully reproduces
the feel of a cherished handwritten collection: Each page offers a copy of a manuscript or typed recipe (sometimes two), many with small accompanying doodles. Some items are much more legible than others, but all were clearly loved by the contributors, all of whom — including the current chef at the home — provided their names and in some cases their addresses, the latter including Scranton, PA; Ridgewood, Maplewood, and Midland Park, NJ; Lynbrook, Hempstead, and Albany, NY; Mansfield, MA; North Scituate, RI; Des Moines, IA; Thorburn, Nova Scotia; and the Canal Zone, as well as Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Original spiral-bound printed textured paper wrappers, front cover printed in black; wrappers slightly dust-soiled with extremities showing minor wear. First and last leaf with light offsetting and last few leaves with light waterstaining to lower margins, pages otherwise clean and unmarked.
Not just a nice example of early 20th-century American cookery, but also a glimpse into the personalities of these charitable-minded ladies of New York, New Jersey, and beyond. (40941)

Another
Tasty Cagle Bibliography
Cagle, William R., comp. A matter of taste a bibliographical catalogue of international books on food and drink in the Lilly Library, Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 8vo (24.9 cm, 9.8"). xxiii, [1 (blank)], 991, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
$80.00
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Expanded and revised second edition of Cagle's important 1990 bibliography of the Lilly's collection of European and British gastronomic literature, featuring books printed from 1475 through 1962. Included are a number of facsimiles of title-pages and illustrations.
New, in dust jacket. (29380)

Scarce 19th-Century Massachusetts Women's Aid Cookbook
Church of Christ (Millis, MA). Church Aid Society. The Millis cook book, a collection of tested receipts, contributed by the ladies of Millis. West Medway, MA: H.A. Bullard, 1894. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 100 pp.
$150.00
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First edition: Early New England example of the charitable fundraiser cookbook genre, assembled by the Church Aid Society of the Church of Christ of Millis, MA, with the wrappers bearing an engraved illustration of the church building and a horse and buggy out front; the usual array of local advertisements are present, along with a laid-in newspaper clipping on “Pickles that Will Add a Tang to Next Winter's Meals.” Pencilled annotations to the present copy include a list of ingredients for what appears to be a type of mince pie featuring apples, beef, and “all kinds spice”; a note on baking time for one recipe; and an addition of 2 lbs. sugar to a cucumber pickle recipe.
WorldCat reports
no institutional holdings of this first edition. Of the second edition (1895), WorldCat locates only one copy (at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center!).
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana; not in Cook, America's Charitable Cooks. Original printed paper wrappers as above; wrappers separated and much chipped (though not into cover vignette), with old cellophane tape repairs. Pages age-toned and slightly brittle, with some edges chipped or with short tears, some corners dog-eared. Annotations as above. Worn; still, an uncommon and evocative item. (38108)

From Soups to Sundries Plus SHAKESPEARE et al.
Congregational Church (Lenox, MA). Ladies. Cook book compiled by the ladies of the Congregational Church, Lenox, Mass. Pittsfield, MA: Eagle Publishing Co., 1897. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.15"). 56 pp.
$225.00
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SCARCE fundraising cookbook from a Massachusetts church group: 31 pages of recipes, each section opening with a
food-related literary quotation, followed by several pages of local advertisements and blank leaves for adding recipes (unused here). Each printed recipe is attributed. One handwritten sheet with recipes for lemon pie, sponge cake, “Pork Cake,” and piccalilli (here labeled “Picolillia,” and described as “capital”) is laid in.
WorldCat finds
no institutional holdings of this charitable publication.
Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, 116. Publisher's tan cloth–covered boards, front cover with decorative title stamped in olive; cloth dust-soiled and showing mild bubbling, with extremities rubbed. A few corners dog-eared. Occasional small pencil marks; scattered spots of staining. An uncommon item, showing only minimal kitchen wear. (38307)

Bancroft Library's Cookery
Craig, Dr. & Mrs. John C., collectors. Four hundred years of English diet & cookery[:] a selection of books printed between 1541 & 1939 from the collection of Dr. & Mrs. John C. Craig. Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1987. Small 8vo (22.8 cm; 9"). 71, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
$18.00
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This bibliography of culinary rarities was issued as the guide to a marvelous exhibition of a portion of the Craigs' extensive collection. Useful for collectors of cookery, and interesting reading as well, it is
illustrated with a number of frontispieces, title-pages, and graphics from various works covered in the text.
Publisher's textured cream paper wrappers, top edge soot-darkened with this intruding intermittently into top or foremargins. Generally a clean, good copy. (36760)

“NEW, USEFUL, & ENTERTAINING”
Daboll, Nathan. New-England almanac, for the year ... 1808 ... By Nathan Daboll. New-London [Conn.]: Pr. by Ebenezer P. Cady, [1807]. 12mo. [18] ff.
$75.00
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Wine as a “Necessity of Life” — Curwen Press in Dust Jacket
Davis, J. Irving. A beginner's guide to wines and spirits. London: Stanley Nott Ltd. (pr. by the Curwen Press), 1934. 12mo (19 cm, 7.48"). [10], 93, [1] pp.; illus.
$75.00
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First edition and in the uncommon dust jacket: an appealingly opinionated introduction to wine connoisseurship from the Curwen Press, with spirits addressed in briefer fashion at the back of the volume. Wines “of the British Empire,” the U.S.S.R., Africa, the Americas, and “The Rest of the World” are included, as is a glossary; the text is illustrated with drawings of bottles and wineglasses and with six
very attractively rendered maps showing the wine territories of Europe.
Publisher's green cloth–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title, clean and fresh; dust jacket sunned and lightly worn with spine head minorly chipped. Pages age-toned and a few with instances of light staining.
An unusually nice copy. (41474)

Ephemeral
MIMEOGRAPHED DeMolay Cookbook
DeMolay Mothers' Club. Success is automatic with a DeMolay Mother's Club cook book. [U.S.: ca. 1950?]. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [26] ff.
$55.00
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Recipes from women associated with the DeMolay fraternal organization, founded in Kansas City in 1919. This small-scale, lovingly
self-produced mimeographed booklet — presumably a fundraising effort — opens with Spiced Peach Salad Molds (leading a pack of other gelatin-based salads and molds), and includes Fisherman's Pie (made of tuna fish, hard-boiled eggs, a can of peas, and a can of mushroom soup topped with mashed potatoes), along with a recipe for oven-fried chicken to serve 50 and a range of desserts including Maple Pecan Chiffon Pie, a variation on the classic Ritz [Cracker] Pie, and Busy-Day Cake with Lazy Daisy Frosting. The cover, although now faded, appears to have borne
a hand-drawn design, and there is no publication information provided; however, many of the recipes were contributed by Hilda Stone, Priscilla Carroll, Virginia Sanborn, Arlene Curtis, Doris Crouse, and Alma VanHorn.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Front wrapper says “Mother's Club,” but all online references to the organization give either “Mothers' Club” or “Mothers Club.”. In original hand-inked wrappers, on original plastic rings; wrapper design faded, edges worn with short tears. Pages clean, unmarked, and unstained.
A surely uncommon if not now unique item, with no holdings discoverable. (38138)

Very Quick & Easy
Duran, Helen C. Mexican recipe shortcuts or casserolization of the classics (a quick & easy Mexican cookbook). Palmer Lake, CO: Filter Press, 1983. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). viii, 40 pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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First edition. Written by “a busy mother of four and author of Blond Chicana Bride's Mexican Cookbook,” this extremely entertaining guide to Americanized shortcut versions of classic Mexican dishes opens with a recommendation for kids' parties: “tacos” where the seasoned meat, along with sauce and cheese, is poured directly into cut-open bags of corn chips — a strikingly early, if not the first, printed recipe for the walking taco, a.k.a. frito pie, a dish which made its debut at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The booklet is illustrated with images taken from a number of 19th-century travel books and periodicals, along with pen and ink sketches by Helen Mattison of Albuquerque.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, front wrapper with two small, faint spots of staining and slight smudging. Small area of faint staining to upper edge of some leaves, one page with spots of staining, otherwise clean.
An amusing combination of the “harried housewife” genre and the growing American appetite for Mexican-ish foods. (36189)

Getting Started with SWEETS
Everybody's confectionery book; containing the whole art of making cakes, buns, tarts, biscuits, pies, custards, cheesecakes, gingerbread, bride cake, &c., &c. London: William Nicholson & Sons Ltd., [ca. 1865–70]. 16mo (14.8 cm, 5.82"). 128 pp.
$225.00
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“Of beneficial advantage, not only to Confectioners, but also to Ladies, Housekeepers, &c.”: recipes for everyday baked goods (including some savory items) for the middle-class household, along with various fruit jellies, flavored creams, marmalades, blanc-manges, trifles, sugar candies, and fruit wines. Our estimated date of publication is based on the binding style and on other Nicholson items giving this Ivy Lane address.
This conveniently pocket-sized cookbook is now uncommon, with WorldCat locating only one U.S. institution reporting a copy (University of Pennsylvania) along with a scant handful of U.K. institutions.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early pencilled gift inscription to Miss M. Robertson of Loch Croft.
Not in Bitting; not in Cagle. Publisher's plain paper-covered boards, front cover and spine with title (abbreviated on spine) stamped in black; covers dust-soiled, spine and extremities rubbed, front and back joint starting from foot but holding, with hinges (inside) slightly tender. Pages age-toned; one corner dog-eared.
Pleasant for reading, sound for use. (40528)

Recipes by WWII POWs Who Dreamed of These Foods
Foods from a Striking Array of Ethnic Backgrounds
Fowler, Halstead Clotworthy, comp.; Dorothy Wagner, ed. Recipes out of Bilibid. New York: George W. Stewart, 1946. 8vo (21 cm, 8.27"). x, [2], 81, [4] pp.
$100.00
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First edition: “The American soldiers imprisoned and hungry for three years in notorious Bilibid turned their conversation irresistibly to the food they had once relished and were determined to enjoy again . . . Colonel Halstead C. Fowler collected their most cherished recipes.” One section consists of Chinese dishes, taught to an American officer by a Chinese mestizo chef; other recipes are Filipino, French, British, Italian, Javanese, Mexican, Polish, and American. Wherever contributors' names are known, brief biographies are supplied, and a number of military anecdotes are also included.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's red cloth, in original dust jacket; dust jacket showing small signs of onetime dampness, price-clipped and taped (some time ago) into Mylar wrapper, with spine sunned and extremities worn, volume extremities slightly rubbed. Front free endpaper with small annotation darkly inked out; back pastedown with bookseller's small ticket. Pages gently and evenly age-toned with scattered small checkmarks by some recipes, otherwise clean.
A solid copy of an interesting, even touching collection. (41353)
“Exotic Dishes” from
Foreign Lands
Frost, Heloise. A world of good eating. A collection of old and new recipes from many lands. [Newton, MA?]: Phillips Publishers, Inc., © 1951. 8vo. 128 pp.; illus.
$40.00
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Recipes from around the world, “tested in the kitchen of a New England housewife and published for the enjoyment of many American families.” This cookbook was illustrated by Ellen A. Nelson, who also contributed the Scandinavian recipes; each section opens with a full-page, color-printed image of children in various national costumes, and small illustrations both in color and black-and-white are scattered throughout. The volume closes with a section of regional American cookery including Ozark Pudding, Southern Pecan Pie, Creole Calas, Texas Gumbo, Alaskan Nuggets (a sort of salmon croquette), Salt Cod Dinner, and California Orange Bread.
This is an
uncommonly nice copy, still housed in its original publisher's box, which features the front cover image reproduced in color.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's spiral-bound wrappers, front wrapper color-printed with image of Dutch girls baking, in publisher's box (as above); one edge of box rubbed and corners of box bottom reinforced. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription and pencilled date (March 24, 1956). A clean, fresh, virtually unworn copy — and very uncommon as such. (29584)

California Cookery — A Collector's Copy of This Check List
Glozer, Liselotte F., & William K. California in the kitchen. An essay upon, and a check list of, California imprints in the field of gastronomy from 1870(?) – 1932. [Berkeley]: Privately printed (lithographed by David Brothers), 1960. 8vo. ix, [1], 43, [3] pp.; 3 plts.
$87.75
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Sole edition of this useful and important bibliography, limited to 500 copies. The work is illustrated with two images of title-pages and one reproduction of a depiction of “Turtle soup service for a $2,500 per plate dinner.”
Laid in here is a copy of the prospectus.
Provenance: Mrs. E. P. Kravetzry's copy with her handwritten list of additional California culinary works and three 70s-era postcard sales quotes of the same offered by San Francisco and Berkeley booksellers.
Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; spine sunned, extremities rubbed; prospectus a little large for the binding into which it's laid, and so sunned and crumpled at edges. Pencilled check marks and a handful of annotations to bibliography, pages otherwise clean. (29792)

Legal Aid for the
English Beer Industry
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc., 1760-1820 (George III). Anno regni Georgii III...undecimo.... [An Act for Granting a Bounty upon the Importation of White Oak Staves, and Heading, from the British Colonies or Plantations in America....] London: Pr. by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1771. Folio. [1] f., pp. 1227-1234.
$175.00
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One of the AIGA's “50 Books of the Year”
Hall, Walter. Spider poems. Madison, WI: Perishable Press, [1967]. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.6"). [34] pp.
$125.00
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First edition of this volume of poems, for which Walter Hamady received the American Institute of Graphic Arts' Fifty Best Books Award. Hamady says “This sequence of
poems about a short-order cook are delightful, I've liked them from the start when we were undergraduates together in Keith Waldrop's 'Creative Writing' class at Wayne State.”
The present example is
one of 250 copies printed, with the text in handset Palatino in red, brown, and black on Nideggen paper, and the brown cloth binding done by Elizabeth Kner.
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 11. Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with title stamped in blind; spine and board edges faded. Very clean and nice. (31575)
Evocative on Many Fronts
Hazlemore, Maximilian. Domestic economy: Or, a complete system of English housekeeping ... also, the complete
brewer ...likewise the family physician. London: J. Creswick & Co., 1794. 8vo. xxxii, 392 pp. (lacking pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, & 365–84 ).
$350.00
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Sole edition thus: Recipes, brewing instructions, menus suitable for a year of housekeeping, and a collection of home remedies “which will be found applicable to the relief of all common complaints incident to families, and which will be particularly useful in the country, where frequent opportunities offer of relieving the Distressed, whose situation in life will not enable them to call in Medical Aid” (p. 4).
Many of the recipes in the first portion of this book are attributed to such well-known names as Glasse, Raffald, and Mason. Oxford points out that both the extended subtitle and the overall contents of the work as a whole are strikingly similar to Mary Cole's Lady's Complete Guide of 1791, commenting “One wonders who was the real author.” Whatever its origins, the present volume as attributed to Hazlemore is now uncommon: WorldCat, ESTC, and Cagle cite only seven U.S. institutional holdings.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with ownership inscription and title-page with pressure-stamp of prominent cookbook collector Eloise Schofield; title-page also with early inked inscription of Charlotte Booty; front pastedown with early ticket of J. Rackham, a late 18th-/early 19th-century printer and bookseller in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
ESTC T93869; Cagle, Matter of Taste, 734; Oxford, English Cookery, 122. Not in Bitting. Incomplete copy. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, scuffed; spine label and extremities chipped, joints open and volume tender, front cover with spots of insect damage extending through to upper inner margins of first few leaves, touching two letters of title but no other text. Pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, and 365–84 excised with great neatness (and no, we cannot work out any theory of “why”). Scattered instances of early pencilled or inked marginal annotations, including alternate instructions in two cases and
a full recipe for dressed spinach inked at the end of the vegetables section, intended to replace the crossed-out printed recipe provided. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. An incomplete copy, priced accordingly, of a still interesting work. (29554)
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Book of Designs for
Bakers & Confectioners
Hueg, Herman. Ornamental confectionery, and practical assistant to the art of baking in all its branches, with numerous illustrations. New York: H. Hueg & Co., © 1896. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). 48, 48 pp.; illus.
$175.00
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Illustrated promotional pamphlet: This
ephemeral sidekick to Hueg's popular
Ornamental Confectionery and the Art of Baking offers baking tips, recipes, and decoration patterns, combined with a product and book catalogue with price list. Some of the depicted cake structures and designs are jaw-droppingly ornate! Originally published in 1893, the pamphlet is now notably less common than its hardcover sibling.
Cagle & Stafford 389 (for first ed.). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, spine and edges rubbed, front cover with spots of discoloration; offsetting inside wrappers from staples. Pages very slightly age-toned.
Delightful for those who like to bake, those who like to eat, or those who just like to appreciate implausible confectionery accomplishments. (35008)

Children, THANKSGIVING, Glad Times!!
Irish, Marie, & Lenore K. Dolan. The glad time Thanksgiving book. Syracuse, NY: Willis N. Bugbee Co., © 1932. 12mo. 100 pp.
$40.00
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Children's collection of poems, recitations, playlets, dances, stories, and songs about thankfulness, especially thankfulness for various
seasonal delights. This is the sole edition (while WorldCat appears to list a 1923 printing, further exploration shows that to be a data entry error based on this edition's 1932 copyright date).
Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, front wrapper with cornucop ia design in navy and gold; back lower outer corner bumped, light dust-soiling to back wrapper. One page with small affixed sticker in upper portion, partially obscuring header but no other text. (30227)

An English Incunable Leaf — Wynkyn de Worde, 1498
Jacobus de Voragine. Golden legend [single leaf]. [Westmynster: Wynkyn de Worde, 1498]. Chancery folio (27.3 x 19.5 cm; 10.75" x 7.675"). [1] f.
$1650.00
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The collection of saints' lives called the Legenda sanctorum, or Golden Legend (Legenda aurea) — “worth its weight in gold”! — was composed in the 13th century by the Dominican hagiologist Jacobus de Voragine (ca. 1230–98, elected Archbishop of Genoa in 1292), and first printed in Latin at Basle in 1470 with William Caxton printing the first English version in 1483. This is folio ccxlviii of the 1498 London (Westminster) edition
printed by Wynkyn de Worde (a.k.a., Jan van Wynkyn), England's first typographer and successor to Caxton, whose press he formally took over in 1495 after a difficult three years of litigation following Caxton's death.
This leaf of The Golden Legend has on its recto, and continuing on the verso, the final portion of account of the nativity of the Virgin, which recounts episodes from her mature adulthood and
shows the Mother of God as a powerful figure with a powerful sense of what is due her. She promises death within 30 days to a bishop who has removed from office an unsatisfactory priest that she appreciates as specially devoted to her (he is reinstated and the bishop lives); she intercedes in another vision with her “debonayre sone” to reverse the damnation of a “vayne and ryotous” cleric who, on the other hand, has been specially devoted to her and her Hours (he reforms). In a third case, she redeems from the grasp of hell a bishop's vicar who, disappointed of promotion in office, had engaged “a Jewe [who was] a magycyan” to facilitate his signing in his own blood a soul-sacrificing deal with “the devyll” (the vicar repented). The Marian section closes with an account of “Saynt Jherom's” devotion to her. All this is followed on the verso by the beginning of the life of St. Adrian of Nicomedia, who before his conversion to Christianity and subsequent martyrdom was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. He is the patron saint of soldiers, arms dealers, guards, victims of the plague, epileptics, and
butchers. The text is printed in double-column format in
English gothic type.
Provenance: From an offering of leaves from this edition of The Golden Legend by the Dauber & Pine Bookshops, New York City, in ca. 1928 .
English incunable leaves are increasingly difficult to obtain.
STC (rev. ed.) 24876; ESTC S103597; Duff 411; Copinger 6475; Goff J-151; ISTC ij00151000. Removed neatly from a bound volume. With a “cover leaf” in approximation
of a title-page, reading “The Golden Legende. J. de Voragine. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1498. Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc. New York.”
A striking relic recounting multiple miracles and presenting Mary as a most interesting personality. (40744)

“There Will Always be Music, Art, & Church Bells . . .
There Will Always be a Memorable Meal”
. . . in San Francisco
Junior League of Pasadena. The California heritage cookbook. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., © 1976. 8vo (26.6 cm, 10.5"). [8], 424 pp.; illus.
$60.00
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Impressive testament to California cuisine and wine, with brief essays describing the history of the state's different regions and regimes along with its various culinary influences — particularly Mexican. Chapters include “Monterey Peninsula,” “The Redwood Empire,” “San Francisco,” “The Sierra Nevada,” “The Missions,” “The Desert Valleys,” and “Napa”; this is the 16th printing.
The recipes show a penetration of Mexican cooking that extends beyond tacos, tamales, and guacamole to Mexican coffee, avocado soup, salad dressing, fish dishes, and even a soufflé. And it is notable that now the Mexican dishes are no longer segregated.
Publisher's tan cloth-covered boards in original dust jacket; jacket evenly sunned with a few edge nicks.
A very nice copy of an interesting, attractive, historically oriented cookbook. (36107)
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