Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

[Chicago: American Cereal Co, 1898. Booklet, stapled in wrapper (14 x 9 cm.), 15, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout in chromolithograph and chromotypograph. Chromolithographs by "Forbes New York Boston Chicago"--Page [16], with lithographer's device (gothic letter F). Title and publication data from wrappers. FIRST EDITION (though some records indicate 1895, this is erroneous, and likely based on a trademark statement, "copyright, 1894, 1895, The American Cereal Co., Frolie, trade mark". Advertisement for Quaker Oats breakfast cereal featuring anthropomorphic grasshoppers dressed in pantomime or commedia dell'arte costumes. Nursery rhymes in verse. Fine. [OCLC locates nine copies].

[St. Paul, Minn: The Farmer's Wife, 1920. Duodecimo, stapled in wrappers (16 x cm.), 31 pages. Illustrated throughout. "Reprinted from The Farmer's Wife" (cover title). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. The author, Mignon Quaw, was an extension specialist at Montana State College, daughter of Thomas B. Quaw, a Serbian capitalist, who founded Belgrade Montana. The author used plays and film as educational tools to teach Extension Service lessons as efforts to get farmers to modernize. During the 1920's she was "loaned" to the USDA to produce educational films about agriculture. This booklet includes the script for a children's play with illustrations of costumes with patterns. One of a series of three. Some oxidation to the staples, otherwise internally clean and sound. Some light soil to wrappers and rubbing to the spine. [OCLC locates two copies only (UMinn, Mont State)].

Milwaukee, WI: Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, 1943. Octavo, 119 pages. Later printing. "This book was written because 999 out of every 1000 people lack proper nutrition." The author, one of American's foremost authorities on deficiency diseases, clarifies what our dietary needs are and how to satisfy them, why we need vitamins and minerals, and what can be done about widespread deficiency diseases. Medical studies cited throughout, including reference to studies exploring non-Western diets, including Japanese and Native American. Good copy in slightly worn dust jacket with small tear.

Amsterdam et Paris: chez Durand & Pissot, 1749. Octavo (16.5 x 10 cm.), [1] f., 203 pages. ~ FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH & FIRST BILINGUAL EDITION. The French prose translation printed in roman type on versos facing the Latin poem, in italic type, on rectos. Originally published in Leiden in 1655, the poem, on the "art of producing beautiful children," was the only published work of Quillet, an abbot and physician of free-thinking tendencies. The work was an unexpected and long-lived success, widely translated and frequently reprinted. Two further French translations were published before 1800. Quillet's poem, in four books, presents a "curious mixture of modern science and ancestral prejudices, Galenic medicine, already contested at this period, astrological convictions, and racism pure and simple. As the title states, it deals with producing beautiful children, in order to produce superior citizens for the state.... Quillet was a practitioner of the new, more empirical school of medicine" (Taussig).… Read More