[DRINKING] Professional Mixing Guide. - : Vintage pocket cocktail book with comic illustrations.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of America, 1980. hardcover, dust jacket. 6 x 9.25 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 568 pages. To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Bibliographical Society of America, this retrospective collection of articles seeks to represent, in the broadest possible way, the diverse contributions of the members of the Society to its Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. The pieces demonstrate to the highest degree of excellence - articles of critical importance that have moved forward the art of bibliography. This volume contains 39 articles that strongly suggest that the practice of bibliography in America during the past three-quarters of a century cannot be easily categorized. Instead, the articles range over the entire spectrum of the world of books. An interesting characteristic of the selection is the preponderance of articles concerned with the relationship between books and people - especially with collectors rather than with those… Read More

Manchester: George Nicholson, 1797. First Edition of an Early Work on Vegetarianism [NICHOLSON, George]. On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals, &c.. [Within] The Literary Miscellany. Manchester: Printed and sold at the office of G. Nicholson 1797. [Together with] [FRANKLIN, Benjamin]. Preceptive, moral and sentimental pieces. Prose. On Education, by Pratt. On Gymnastics, by Madame de Sillery. On a new Mode of Bathing; on Swimming; on Sleeping; by Dr. Franklin, &c. Printed and sold at the office of G. Nicholson; Manchester, 1797. [And] [Anonymous]. On Clothing. Printed and sold at the office of G. Nicholson; Manchester, 1797. First Edition of On the Conduct of Man. All titles bound together in one sixteenmo volume of The Literary Miscellany. (5 x 3 1/6 inches; 126 x 77 mm). [2], 8, 26; 48; 134, [1, contents], [1, blank] pp. With separate title-pages for each section. Each title-page with an engraved vignette. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco spine label,… Read More

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROTHERS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. HOLE-DRILLED. ANTIQUARIAN. Good USED condition/ No DJ Included. USED. Front paper paste-down is scuffed. Binding is tight and all plates look in good shape. Finger marks noted. 7 3/8 X 8 7/8. This is so much fun! Like watching animation go by one frame at a time. And we're off, like a shot!

Rochester, N.Y: Joseph Harris / Office of the Genesee Farmer / Dewey & Dutton, Printers, Daily American Office, 1857. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. On the front endpaper is the name Thomas T. Newby in pencil. Newby was an Indiana Quaker and vocal abolitionist. Boards rubbed, leather drying, joints weakening, several pages appear to have been excised from the end of the 1858 and 1859 volumes. 1857 Half-Leather. viii, 132; vi, 106; vi, 108; vi, 100; iv, 100 pp. Five annual issues of this agricultural periodical, bound in one volume. Engraved illustrations throughout. Includes: The Rural Annual and Horticultural Directory: for the Year 1857: Containing Treatises on Rural Architecture, Laying Out and Managing Fruit, Flower and Kitchen Gardens, with Practical Suggestions on Various Subjects Connected with Rural Pursuits. Also, Brief Hints of the Rearing and Management of Poultry, List of Fruits Recommended by the American Pomological Society. Lists of Nurserymen and Agricultural Implement Makers in… Read More

Thomas D. Cutler, 1922. Hardcover. Good. 12 bound issues of The Ice cream Journal, January - December, 1922. The official organ of many ice cream trade associations. Includes numerous technical articles, equipment reviews, formulae, processes, machinery reviews, photos, illustrated ads and more. Sample articles include: Viscolizing the Ice Cream Mix, J. B. Johnson's New Ice Cream Plant, Layout and Design of a Modern Ice Cream Plant, Eskimo Pie and Export Trade, New Process for Making Sirup, Practical Standardization of Ice Cream Mixes, Does Carbon Dioxid in Ice Cream Destroy Bacteria, Determining Adulterants in Butter Fats, Advantages and Correct Uses of Powdered Milk, The Condensation Process of Preparing the Batch, Calculating the Ice Cream Formula, Effect of Steaming Upon Germ Life in Milk Cans, Proportioning Mixes Made Easy, How Plants Keep a Check on the Hardening Room, Going Beyond Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry, Physical Properties of the Ice Cream Mix, Raising Solids of Ice Cream by… Read More

Vienna; Bratislava, 1891. Contemporary scrapbook (25 x 18.5 cm.), 32 leaves containing thirty-one menus, mounted rectos only. This collection of menus is mostly sourced from Vienna, in large part from the Metropole Hotel and Frohner's Hotel Imperial, but there are also four from the Palugyay Palace in Bratislava. Although the menus come from only a few hotel restaurants, there is variety of design style, with some of the menus printed, and others handwritten on a pre-printed card. A few menus contain original photographic portraits, and others exhibit a striking Orientalism. One of the menus serves as a place card, and has the name "Carl Von Oberleithner" inked on the verso. Von Oberleithner was a successful businessman in the Hemp and Flax industry, and perhaps this was his collection. The menus are ordered chronologically, covering a ten-year period starting in 1881. A bit of fading and soiling to some of the menus, but overall in very good condition. The gilt-titled and decorated binder has some… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated with 12 full-page hand-colored engravings illustrating 24 species of amaranthus. Folio. Modern ¼-leather-backed marbled boards. Turici (Zurich): impensis Ziegleri et fil, 1790. First Edition. The only edition of a specialist botanical work on the species of amaranthus by Carolo Willdenow, director of the Berlin Botanical Garden. The engravings are designed and engraved by R.J. Schellenberg. Willdenow is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. He was also a mentor of Alexander von Humboldt, one of the earliest and best known phytogeographers. Willdenow was interested in the adaptation of plants to climate, showing that similar climates had plants with common characteristics. His herbarium, containing more than 20,000 species, is preserved in the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Occasional foxing; title page browned; plates in very good condition.

Half dark blue morocco over decorative boards; 5 dual raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Floral decorative endpapers; top edge gilt. Original wraps bound in. French text throughout. Spine sunned to brown; light wear to paper boards (see image). 1281 pp. 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches.

Due parti in un volume in-8°, cc. 71, [1]. Bell'esemplare, con legatura coeva in pergamena. L'opera del Lando è legata con Symeoni, Comentario alla Tetrarchia di Vinegia, 1548.
Provenienza: al frontespizio, antiche annotazioni manoscritte e nota di possesso; Collezione Maria Paola Moroni Salvatori.
Rarissima terza edizione (la princeps, priva di dati tipografici: Venezia 1548). Paleari Hensselr, 414. B.IN.G., 1080.
Il Commentario del Lando - tra i più geniali poligrafi rinascimentali, traduttore in italiano dell'Utopia di Tommaso Moro (1548) - è inoltre assai celebre in quanto alcune sue pagine "illustrano un ideale itinerario gastronomico per le città d'Italia, con riferimento a cibi e vini di cui l'autore mostra di aver acquisito conoscenze di prima mano" (L'arte della cucina in Italia, a cura di E. Faccioli, Torino 1992, p. 275).
"Questo testo costituisce un catalogo etnico-socio-gastronomico estremamente eterogeneo, inserito in un itinerario quasi iniziatico che si snoda attraverso la… Read More

Limited to 3,000 copies. Black paper covered boards with matching dustjacket. Spanish text. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce.
9.5 x 11.25 in