Recent Arrivals from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

[New Orleans]; New York: [The Board of Trade; Printed by] H. R. Elliot & Co., Printers and Embossers, 1910. Stapled booklet (10.25 x 15.25 cm.), [14] unnumbered leaves; printed text decorated with red borders, on rectos only. Cover title: Recipes for Cooking Rice. Author information inferred from external evidence. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION.… Read more about this item

[Montreal: Printed by La Patrie Pub Co., Limited, 1920. Duodecimo-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (16 x 9 cm.), [8] pages. Printed in green and illustrated throughout, with "Brownie"-like cartoon characters. Publication date from inclusion of the "1920 Cocktail". Stated "6th Edition" from wrapper cover; but no other copies of other printings known. A promotional cocktail book, issued by Hiram… Read more about this item

Lyon: Librairie de P. Masson, 1928. Large octavo (24 x 19 cm.) 136 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. n° 505 of 900 examples on vélin blanc, from a total edition of 1040. A year earlier, the author issued a twenty-three page booklet with the same title. "Treats of the old Lyonnaise innkeepers, cabarets, and famous restaurants; the Lyonnaise cookery, accompanying… Read more about this item

Chicago, Ill: Published by B. Heller and Co., Chemists, 1929. Octavo ( x cm.), 440 pages. Index. Advertisements. Illustrated throughout, with engravings in the text depicting the process of raising and slaughtering hogs, then butchering, curing, and packaging meats. ~ Stated Eighth Edition, "entirely rewritten and enlarged"; originally published in 1904. A description of industrial and back yard meat… Read more about this item

[New York: the company]; Neuman & Dinglinger, Lith, 1881. Trade card (15.5 x 8.7 cm.). Recto is a chromolithograph printed in red, pale blue, and gold; verso printed in red and black. A trade card advertising the G.H. Mumm Champagne imported by Fred de Bary & Co., located at the time at 43 & 44 Warren Street in New… Read more about this item

Denver, Co: [Denver Printing & Publishing Company], 1907. Octavo (19 x 13.7 cm.), 122, [6], pages. Index. Advertisements. Blank pages for handwritten recipes interspersed. Printed photographic image of the church, with an exhortation to patronize the advertisers has been pasted to the free front end paper. Evident FIRST EDITION. An early community cookbook from Colorado, issued by the First… Read more about this item

Luzarches: Daniel Morcrette, 4 Avenue Joffre, 1977. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 443, [2] pages. Index. Top edge gilt. Facsimile Edition of the original 1928 Paris issue. An important collection of regional French recipes, from the writer, musician, folklorist, and gastronome Austin de Croze, friend of Verlaine, Huysman, and collaborator with Maurice Ravel. His writings were varied, encompassing magic,… Read more about this item

Stockholm: Zetterlunds Boktr; C. Löfvander: I distribution, A. Rietz bokh, 1910. Duodecimo (16 x 10 cm.), 104, 31 pages. Advertisements. Errata slip. Text in Swedish. All edges red. The second section on blue paper. Second Edition of the first title (originally issued in 1907), and the FIRST EDITION of the second. A Swedish gastronomic dictionary (Gastronomic glossary: handbook for… Read more about this item

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989. Octavo ( x cm.), 292 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION. "Explores the strange and pernicious link between alcohol and creativity among American artists, a mix that is rarely evident among their European counterparts." Focused on the drinking lives and literary lives of Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway and Eugene O'Neill. Some light age-toning to text block,… Read more about this item

Dixon, Illinois: Printed by Rogers and Owen, 1898. Cord-sewn duodecimo (14 x 11.5 cm.; wrappers 16 x 12.5 cm.), [16] pages. Pages [13-16] left blank for "Additional recipes". We are aware of two cover designs: this one with a line drawing of a woman, and a second on crepe-style paper with the title only. The priority of the two… Read more about this item

Paris: Flammarion, 1935. Duodecimo (18 x 11.5 cm.), 79 pages. Advertisements. Later printing; originally issued in 1927 with 72 pages and just "120 recettes pour l'accommoder". Date of printing from printer's slug in rear. This small work by the great chef proposes to rediscover the merits of rice and offers one hundred thirty recipes to cook with rice. Escoffier… Read more about this item

Lima: Publicaciones S.A., 2012. Folio (35 x 26 cm.), 416 pages. Illustrated in color throughout. Text in Spanish. FIRST EDITION. "This book shows what has never been seen of Peruvian cuisine: the best chefs in the world dwarfed by the greatness of the true protagonists of the Peruvian gastronomic phenomenon: the products that define the extraordinary biodiversity of the… Read more about this item

Paris; Montpellier: Ch[arles] Delegrave et Ce Libraires-Éditeurs; Imprimerie Centrale du Midi Hamelin Frères, 1875. Bibliotèque agricole du Midi, 4. Small octavo (18.5 x 11.5 cm.), 451 pages. Illustrated. Fifth Edition. An unassuming handbook for gardeners, and at the same time a summation of horticultural knowledge by a leading pedagogue in the French tradition. Beginning with a calendar of activities… Read more about this item

Peoria, Ill: Corning & Company Distillers, 1907. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (12.5 x 7.4 cm.), [48] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A promotional brochure for various gins produced by Peoria-based Corning & Company Distillers, the "Largest Independent Distillery in the United States", with information about the jenever-style DeRuyter, Coronet Dry Gin, and Coronet Old Tom. Includes essays on Dry Gins… Read more about this item

[Boston, Mass: The Jackdaw Press, 1984. Stapled booklet, Octavo (21.5 x 13.5), 24 pages. FIRST EDITION. One of John Thorne's attractive little booklets, this one on the subject of pickles, detailing the equipment, ingredients, and practice of pickling. Largely cucumber-oriented, with brief mention given to a variety of other fruits and vegetables. Contains much of Thorne's personal philosophizing on… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Clark Memorial Library; [the authors], 1980. Octavo-sized booklet, sewn on cord (20 x 13 cm.), [6], 11, [3] pages. Illustrated with a title-page ornament by Eric Gill, and a woodcut to the wrapper. First separate edition, limited to 400 copies. A private press Christmas keepsake reprinting an excerpt from 'Round About our Coal Fire', an anonymous pamphlet… Read more about this item

Devon, England: Prospect Books, 1983. Quarto (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), 218 pages. Glossary. Index. List of subscribers. FIRST EDITION thus; the Prospect Books facsimile of the original 1747 edition. The Art of Cookery was the most successful and influential English cookbook of the eighteenth century. Hannah Glasse (1708-1770) was the wife of an attorney and the mother of eight… Read more about this item

New York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 140 Fulton Street, 1857. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), vii, 120 pages. Illustrated with ten plates containing black & white lithographs. Appendix. Second Printing; first issued in 1856. The Appendix lists prices realized for bushels of cranberries sold from 1850-1855. This work by the Reverend Benjamin Eastwood, spurred an explosion of… Read more about this item

Berkeley; San Francisco: the author; [printed by the Mercury Press], 1943. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 13.5 cm.), 16 pages. Title from cover. Evident Second Edition; first published in Claremont, Calif. in 1940. A small cookbook of simple Chinese dishes prepared by Anna Kong Mei based on recipes she used to introduce thirty women in Claremont, Calif. to… Read more about this item

[Concord, N.H.: Republican Press Association, 1891. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 39, [1]pages. Index. Publisher's advertisements throughout and on the wrappers. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Recipes in narrative form and unattributed They are also provided in no particular order, with Graham Bread, Creamed Oysters, and Fruit Jumbles all appearing on… Read more about this item