Food History
From Provence A-Z to The New Taste Of Chocolate a Cultural & Natural History Of Cacao With Recipes, from The True History Of Chocolate to Provence a - Z, we can help you find the food history books you are looking for. As the world's largest independent marketplace for new, used and rare books, you always get the best in service and value when you buy from Biblio.co.uk, and all of your purchases are backed by our return guarantee.
Top Sellers in Food History
Provence A-Z
by Peter Mayle
The ultimate "dictionary" for lovers of Provence: Peter Mayle's personal selection of the foods, customs and words he finds most fascinating, curious, delicious, or just plain fun.Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. In more than 170 entries, Peter Mayle--bestselling author of A Year in Provence--writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin). And, of course, he...
Read more about this item
The New Taste Of Chocolate
by Maricel E Presilla
MARICEL E. PRESILLA is a culinary historian, author, and chef specializing in the cuisines of Latin America and Spain. She studied medieval Spanish history at Spain’s University of Valladolid and at New York University, where she received her PhD. Formally trained in cultural anthropology, she has done extensive research on the food crops of the Americas and taught at New York University and Rutgers University. Presilla is a frequent contributor to Saveur, Food & Wine, and Gourmet, and...
Read more about this item
Food History Books & Ephemera
La Fleur de la Cuisine Francaise. Tome II: La Cuisine Moderne (1800-1921)
by Guegan, Bertrand
Paris: Aux Editions de la Sirene 1921. 8vo. Volume 2 only. xxxii, 579 pp. Original printed paper wrappers. Spine and leaves age-darkened. Many leaves uncut. Text in French. . Very Good. Wraps. 1921.
Item Price
£50.00
The 'Ideal' Cookery Book : A Reliable Guide to Home Cooking
by Clarke, Lilian
Hull: Brumby & Clarke, Limited [circa 1900s]. 12mo. 89, (2) pp. Original pictorial boards. Some slight scuffing and loss to the tail of the spine. Binding slightly shaken with block spine visible. Some scattered spotting, with pencil notes to the memoranda papges at the rear. 'Containing 249 useful and dainty recipes.' . Very Good. Pictorial Boards. Tenth Edition. 1910.
Item Price
£45.00
The Invalid's Own Book: A Colletion of Recipies from Various Books and Various Countries
by The Honourable Lady Cust
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans 1853. 16mo. xx., 144 pp., First edition. Half burgundy morocco binding with marbled boards. Book in good condition, with some wear to the spine and boards - particularly the edges of the boards. Gilt lettering and detail on the spine. Owner's name in ink to the front endpapers. . Good. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1853.
Item Price
£125.00
The Food Mood Connection
by Larry B. Christensen
Second Printing of the first edition. One page corner creased. Light wear to wrapper. Several small red marks on half title page and for edge. Light use, no writing inside.
Item Price
£8.12
The Handbook of Dining, or How to Dine, Theoretically, Philosophically, and Historically Considered. Based chiefly upon the Physiologie du Gout of Brillat-Savarin.
by Simpson, Leonard Francis
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. 1859. Small 8vo. xi, 244, 24 [ads.] pp. Unusual textured black cloth with even gilt spots all over and gilt lettering to spine. Some loss to the spine ends with splits to the joints, particularly the rear. Slight lean to the spine with webbing visible at the hinges. Generally internally clean with occasional marks in pencil and ink, plate of W. H. Smith's subscription library to the front board. Primarily an English Translation of...
Read more about this item
Item Price
£95.00
Gleanings of Cookery
by A Mother and Daughter
London: Horace Cox 1898. 8vo. vi, 149 pp. Original cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Spine darkened & boards marked. Internally clean. Frontis. 'Including over One Hundred and Fifty Quite Original and Unpublished Recipes.' . Good. Cloth. 1898.
Item Price
£35.00
Tirosh Lo Yavin; or, the Wine Question considered in an Entirely Novel Point of View; with a Scheme of Hebrew Wines, and Illustrations (Philosophical and Critical) of the Principal Passages of the Bible connected with the Subject
by [Stubbin, J.]
London: J. Pasco 1841. 12mo. [v], 187, [3] pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Slight wear to spine ends and corners and a few small holes to joints, a couple of scratches and marks. Light scattered spots throughout. A long presentation-letter to ffep. from Frederic Richard Lees, English temperance advocate and vegetarian. Fold-out table at rear going through Hebrew references to drinking, alcohol, food etc. Analysis of the Old Testament in the light of temperance. Simon - Bibliotheca...
Read more about this item
Item Price
£225.00
Biscotti : Storia per Immagini di una Dolce Tradizione
by Buccellati, Graziella
Milan: Franco Maria Ricci Editore 1982. 4to. 141 pp. Publisher's cloth with colour pictorial onlay to front board. In patterned solander box with paper title label to spine. Slight chipping to label. Text in Italian, English, French and German. Numerous colour illustrations. . Near Fine. Pictorial Cloth. 1982.
Item Price
£50.00
Indulgence
by Paul Richardson
London: Little Brown & Company, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Item Price
£10.00
ARDENNES CUISINE Through the Season
by Caerdinael, Frederic and Maurice
Belgium: RENAISSANCE DU LIVRE 2003. 4to. The less common English Text version of this very popular regional cookery book. 2804608468 . Very Good. Hard Cover. First Edition in English. 2003.
Item Price
£48.00
Gastronomie alsacienne t2
by Hertzog Jeanne
saep, 1980. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. This book is in good condition. Tanning to the cover and one of the pages is creased. Otherwise a good clean copy with pages close to very good, free from inscriptions, markings or wear.
Item Price
£3.99
Recipes and Suggestions from TreeSweet
Santa Anna, CA: TreeSweet Products Co. Near Fine. N.D.. Third Edition. Softcover. No date. Bright tight copy. About FINE with minor edge wear and along the staple line. 24 pages. Illustrated. 6 1/4" X 3 3/8" ; 8vo .
Item Price
£6.53
Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cookbook
by Amy Vanderbilt
811 pages . Inside Near Fine, Exterior Fair condition . Top edge of spine damaged . bottom board beginning to split . A couple of stains on foredge . Bottom corner dusty other bottom side sun faded . Paper split at back spine . May need to be taped if this complete book is your "daily driver ".
Item Price
£12.25
Modern Cookery, for Private Families, Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers have been as much as possible applied and explained
by Acton, Eliza
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts 1858. Small 8vo. xlvii, [+ 7 plates], 643, 32 ads. pp. Full maroon morocco with gilt lettering to spine; decorative endpapers, all edges speckled red. Slight wear to spine ends and corners, a few light marks to boards, spine a little faded. Slight splitting to front hinge, light foxing and offsetting to prelims, minor wear to endpapers and occasional minor spots within; ink name to prelim. Frontispiece and seven plates, as well as numerous black &...
Read more about this item
Item Price
£125.00
Social Etiquette : The Art of Cookery and Hints on Carving
by Anon
London: Houlston and Sons N.d. [c. 1860's]. Small 8vo. 80, 9-248, (8) pp. Publisher's blind-stamped & gilt decorated cloth. Small area of stain to rear board. Ink owner's name to front endpaper. Some leaves age-darkened. Eight-page publisher's adverts at rear. Clean copy. 1860's volume but with later adverts. . Very Good. Cloth. 1860.
Item Price
£95.00
The Experienced English Housekeeper for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks Etc, Written Purely from Practice, and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton, Whom the Author Lately Served as Housekeeper.
by Raffald, Elizabeth
London: R. Baldwin 1806. 8vo. pp, [frontis], [iv], iv, [4 folding plates], 397., Bound in a full nut brown morocco. Binding quite fragile, indeed the front board has been detatched, and re-attatched by way of a strip of masking tape to the f.e.p. Corners bumped, extremities worn with loss, spine cracked slightly, Slight tanning to the first and last pages, slight waterstaining to frontis, but the text block is generally very good and clean . Good. Full Morocco. 1806.
Item Price
£150.00
The Home Book of Household Economy : Or Hints to Persons of Moderate Income; Containing Useul Directions for the Proper Labours of the Kitchen, The House, The Laundry, and the Dairy
by Household Economy
London: G. Routledge & Co. 1855. 12mo. 8, 182, 2 pp. Orange laminated paper covers with place lettering. Bound with a pink ribbon bookmark, somewhat grubbied and crinkled. Creasing and some marking to covers. Pages darkened, with some staining on 30-31 pp from a foil slip. White markings to inside covers and an ink inscription dated 1859 to first free endpaper . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1855.
Item Price
£150.00
My Goodness! My Gilbert and Sullivan
by Guinness and with text by Stanley Penn
London: Printed by W. S. Cowell Ltd. (1961). 8vo.Pamphlet. Unpaginated [16 pp., including pictorial wraps]. Colour pictorial wrappers in original card sleeve. Minor bumping to the corners and covers fresh. Clean and bright internally. Colour illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. Guinness promotional booklet that plays on Gilbert and Sullivan songs. In near fine condition, scarce thus. . Near Fine. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1961.
Item Price
£50.00
Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery - with Over 2000 Practical Recipes
by Beeton, Mrs Isabella
London: Ward, Lock & Co. Limited N. d. [ca. 1940]. 8vo. 640, 16 [advts] pp. Green cloth with blind stamped decoration and black lettering. Nearly 250 black and white illustrations. Other than some foxing to page edges, clean inside and out. . Very Good. Cloth. New Edition. 1940.
Item Price
£45.00
Britaines Busse...States Proclamation Concerning Herring-Fishing : London 1615. The English Experience Number 690
by E. S
Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Ltd. 1974. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with gilt-lettered blue title label to front board & spine. Cloth clean. Internally clean. No ownership names. STC 21486. Facsimile edition. 902210690X . Near Fine. Cloth. Facsimile Edition. 1974.
Item Price
£60.00
Alice, Where Art Thou? More Guinness Carrolling
by Guinness
Leeds: Printed by John Waddington [1952]. 8vo.Pamphlet. Unpaginated [16 pp., including wraps] Pictorial paper wraps with original card sleeve. Covers fresh and generally internally clean and bright with minor spotting to the centre fold. A Guinness promotional pamphlet based on the story of Alice in Wonderland. Illustrated throughout in colour by Antony Groves-Raines. . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. 1952.
Item Price
£95.00
The Cambridge World History of Food
by Kiple, Kenneth F. And Kriemhild Conee Ornelas (edited)
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press 2000. 4to. 2 volumes in a slipcase. xlii. & xii. 2153 pp. Monumental work on the history of food and nutrition through human history. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 0521402166 . Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. 2000.
Item Price
£125.00
All My Own Work - The Guinness Do it Yourself Book
by Penn, Stanley
London: Arthur Guinness Son & Co. 1964. 8vo.Illustrated. Unpaginated [16 pp. including pictorial wraps] A scarce Guinness promotional title in its original card sleeve. Covers fresh with a small mark to the spine. Internally generally clean and bright with minor marks to the binding due to the usual corrosion of the staples. . Very Good. Illustrated Paper Covers. First Edition. 1964.
Item Price
£75.00
Practical Treatise on The Grape Vine
by Thomson, William
London: William Blackwood and Sons 1867. 8vo. ciii, 79, [39]pp. Fifth Edition, Enlarged. Green cloth binding with gilt lettered front board. Some wear and loss to the spine and slight rubbing to the boards. Binding slightly shaken with wear to the front hinge and webbing visible. Light scattered spotting, with occasional pencil marks and pencil inscription to the front board. Illustrated in black and white . Good. Gilt Lettered Cloth. Enlarged Edition. 1867.
Item Price
£35.00
The Best Midwest Restaurant Cooking
by Guthrie, Margaret E
Association Copy - "To Tim (last name) good friends Bon Appetit! Buon Appetito! Margaret E. Guthrie" Book Near Fine - chips along bottom edge of actual book. DJ VG-, worn w/small tears along top & bottom edge with small prieces misiing. Backside has about a 2" tear with crease where it folded over. Main portion of dj. okay.
Item Price
£16.29
