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The Physiology Of Taste
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was born in France in 1755 and died in 1826.Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, author of The Art of Eating, was born in 1908 and died in 1992.Bill Buford, author of Heat, lives in New York City.
Handbook Of Practical Cookery For the Use Of Household Science Classes In the Public Schools Of Toronto
by Board Of Education
Gastronomy Books & Ephemera
The Physiology Of Taste
by Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin was born in France in 1755 and died in 1826.Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, author of The Art of Eating, was born in 1908 and died in 1992.Bill Buford, author of Heat, lives in New York City.
Dinner and music festival. A salute to Oscar Hammerstein, II on behalf of Welcome House
by Hammerstein, Oscar II
Philadelphia, 1959. Bifolium program and menu with folded leaf of typescript lyrics inserted, pink stiff card, vignette cover, photo of the Hammerstein family with children from the House on final page. Participants included Ed Sullivan, who served as toast master, and Pearl S. Buck as a presenter. Light fold to top right corner, else fine. The Welcome House was foundation dedicated to international adoption, focusing on "hard-to-place children, without prejudice as to a child's American-Asian birth and...
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£46.55
![有機報告 / You ji bao gao [= Organics report] (Hansheng vols 91-93)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/257/241/1550241257.0.b.jpg)
有機報告 / You ji bao gao [= Organics report] (Hansheng vols 91-93)
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1996. 4to, 3 vols, pp. 132; 136; 128; text in Traditional Chinese; color text illustrations thoughout; printed paper wrappers; corners a little bumped, else fine, with vols. 1 and 2 in the original cardboard slipcase and vol. 3 accompanying as issued. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971 as the English magazine ECHO before shifting towards the Chinese-speaking...
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£18.62
The banana its cultivation, distribution and commercial uses ... with an introduction by Sir Daniel Morris ... Second and enlarged edition
by FAWCETT, WILLIAM
New London: Duckworth and Co, 1921. 8vo, pp. x, [2], 299, xii (ads for West Indies merchants); 9 plates plus a few other illustrations in the text; original gray cloth lettered in black on upper cover and spine. Published under the auspices of the West India Committee (incorporated by Royal Charter). The book was first published in 1913, and largely based on the material contained in the 1912-13 Circular of the West India Committee.
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£69.82
Gastronomical bibliography
by BITTING, KATHERINE GOLDEN
San Francisco: [the author], 1930. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 718; original blue buckram, brown leather label stamped in gilt on spine; very light wear to extremities, the label a little scuffed with a few small chips out at edges, and the hinges a little tender; overall, a very good copy. A comprehensive bibliography of some 6,000 books from the 15th to the 20th centuries with detailed bibliographic information for each, plus numerous annotations. The most important reference in the field.
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£279.28
CULINARY CULTURES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
by Zubaida, Sami and Richard Tapper (Editors)
London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 1996. Trade paperback. Very good. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy.
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£16.19
FPBA Banquet 2 November 2013 Saint Giles, Oxford
by Fine Press Book Association
[Stockholm, Wisconsin: printed at Midnight Paper Sales for the Fine Press Book Association, 2013. Tall bifolium (approx. 14" x 5¾") dinner menu for the annual event. The chore of printing the menu falls to a different printer each year. This copy with a small dimple on the front, but otherwise fine.
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£46.55
Elivi's Gulyás
by Ervin, Andrew
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2010. 6½" x 9½" recipe broadside printed to celebrate the publication of Extraordinary Renditions, 2010.
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£13.96
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOS ANGELES DAIRY PLANTS
by [Culinary - Milk and Ice Cream]
Two pairs of albums including 227 photographs documenting the construction in 1955 of two dairy processing plants in Los Angeles, California, from the laying of the foundations through completion. Comprised of 88 images of the Lucerne Milk Plant and 139 of the Regal Ice Cream Company. Silver prints, the images measuring 4 ½" x 6 ½", most mounted recto/verso, each with a caption, and nearly all with the direction photographed, in the negative; 14 loose. Quarto, four volumes. Original gray paper...
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£607.12
![四川倒糖餅兒 / Sichuan dao tang bing er [= Sichuan candy sculptures] (Hansheng 68)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/403/241/1550241403.0.b.jpg)
四川倒糖餅兒 / Sichuan dao tang bing er [= Sichuan candy sculptures] (Hansheng 68)
by Wu, Meiyun, ed
Taipei: Hansheng Magazine, 1994. 4to, pp. 96; text in Traditional Chinese; illustrated throughout; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. Hansheng Magazine is an award-winning project dedicated to highlighting a specific aspect of Chinese cultural arts with each issue. It was founded in 1971 as the English magazine ECHO before shifting towards the Chinese-speaking audience, and is focused on preserving folk art, research, and high production values. This issue covers edible sugar sculptures, Huaxi Miao...
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£18.62
Fruits and their cookery
by NELSON, HARRIET S
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1921. First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [2], 209; dust jacket a little soiled, else a very good, sound copy. "The hundreds and hundreds of recipes in this volume will be a revelation to the majority of people ... Physicians of the present day place strong reliance on the daily use of fruit, and a book such as this has long been wanted..." (jacket blurb).
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£139.64
Elivi's Gulyás
by Ervin, Andrew
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 2010. 6½" x 9½" letterpress recipe broadside printed to celebrate the publication of Extraordinary Renditions, 2010.
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£13.96
A collection of seven hundred tested recipes published by the Rutheans of the High Prairie M. E. Church of Muscatine, Iowa
by Rutheans
Muscatine, Iowa: [Press of Conway-Schaefer, 1912. 8vo, pp. 156; numerous advertisements throughout; original tan printed wrappers; spine perished, worn, soiled, spotted, and stained, a number of annotations throughout, but sound and complete. Not in OCLC.
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£209.46
Food consumption. Quantities, costs, and nutrients of food-materials
by WRIGHT, CARROLL D
Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co, 1886. First separate edition, 8vo, pp. iv, [239]-326 [i.e. 87 pages]; numerous tables in the text; original tan printed wrappers; one or two very small chips out at the extremities, else fine. Reprinted from the 17th Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor.
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£32.58
LET'S GO OUT AGAIN: Interiors for Restaurants, Bars and Unusual Food Places
by Galindo, Michelle (Editor)
New York: gestalten, 2015. Hardcover. Fine. ...comprised of six chapters, each of which exemplifies an aesthetic and conceptual point of view: Understatement, Modern Musings, Rough and Local, Progressive, Graphic Spaces, and Dramatic. Each of these approaches goes beyond the visual to buoy and amplify the philosophies of the kitchens and bars that they help define." Profusely illustrated, largely in color. Quarto: 256 p. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new,...
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£40.48
The American wheat culturist. A practical treatise on the culture of wheat, embracing a brief history and botanical description, with full practical details for selecting seed, producing new varieties, and cultivating on different kinds of soil
by TODD, S. EDWARD
New York: Taintor Bros. & Co, 1868. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-viii, 432; 80 wood engravings (some full-p.); original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; a very good, sound copy. Binder's ticket of Geo. W. Alexander, New York.
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£60.51
LES CLASSIQUES DE LA TABLE, a l'usage des practiciens et des gens du monde
by Fayot, Frederic (Editor)
Paris: Se vend Chez Martinon, 1844. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. A gastronomical classic, originally published in sixty parts and presented here complete. Includes selections from Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste, a selection of Bacchic songs, La Gastronomie of Joseph Berchoux, The Marquis de Cussy's L'Art Culinaire, etc. IV, XXII, (4), 609 [printer's numbering error: 567-582, collated complete], 4. Frontispiece portrait, with a title page vignette, 23 plates, and ten textual engravings....
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£202.38
Breakfast, dinner, and tea: viewed classically, poetically, and practically. Containing numerous curious dishes and feasts of all times and all countries. Besides three hundred modern receipts
by [ANDREWS, JULIA C.]
New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1859. First edition, square 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 351; original blindstamped pebble-grain green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; rebacked, old spine laid down and faded; all else very good.
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£232.73
GROWING CHART FOR LITTLE PEOPLE ON THE WAY UP: Eat Plenty of Bread, Freihofer's Perfect Loaf Builds Strong Bodies
by The Freihofer Bread Company
Philadelphia: The Freihofer Bread Company, 1934. Folding brochure and children's growth chart extolling the virtues of Freihofer's Perfect Loaf: "wheat plus milk equals health." Printed in black and red on heavy off-white card stock. Five panels, which measure 3" x 8 1/2 " folded and extend to 44 inches with measurements up to five feet when the growth chart is hung, as instructed, two feet up from the bottom edge. Some light toning on one panel; otherwise very good. Includes instructions for use of...
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£101.19
Pouring vessel vagaries
by PICKMAN, DUDLEY LEAVITT
Cambridge: the Mythology Company, 1938. First edition, 12mo, pp. 200; frontispiece, plates, numerous illustrations in the text; fine in original black cloth gilt with pictorial paper cover label, original glassine with some chips, pink paper-covered slipcase with printed paper label a bit faded. A history of pouring vessels covering America, China, Crete, Egypt, England, France, Iran, Italy, Japan, Peru and many others.
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£55.86
Articles of partnership made and entered into the twentieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six between Robert Chaloner Critchley Long of Erlands Crondell in the county of Hants gentleman of the one part, and Alfred Napier Barry of 85 Belgrave Road in the county of Middlesex..
London [?], 1886. Manuscript folio document on parchment, 10 pages (the last 3 blank except for the docket on the verso of the final leaf), in a neat, secretarial hand, ruled in red throughout, with a 10-shilling Royal Court of Justice stamp affixed to the first page, and the 2 wax seals of Long and Barry, with their signatures and those of the witnessing solicitor on page 7. Very good and legible. "Whereas the said ... Long has entered into a contract dated the sixth day of October one thousand eight...
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£186.18
Java and mocha in the United States, and the peculiar relations between them and the National Association of pure food and dairy departments in 1902, 1903 and 1904
by GANS, AUGUST E
Washington: Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, 1904. First edition, 8vo, pp. 15; original gray printed wrappers; library sticker on front cover, pamphlet creased once vertically; otherwise very good. Issued in conjunction with the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904.
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£41.89
The Town Room. Providence Biltmore
[Providence: Saturday & Sunday, January 23-24, 1943. Two bifoliate menus (approx. 10½" x 8"), full dinner menus printed in red and black with bar suggestions, a notice on rationing, and the evening's entertainers; 2 small adhesion marks on the back, else fine. "Because of wartime restrictions, we can serve only one portion of butter and one cup of coffee with each meal. Please do not ask for more."
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£46.55
![Description of the educational exhibit of cocoa and chocolate... [Together with:] Educational exhibit. Cocoa and chocolate prepared by Walter Baker & Co](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/874/861/836861874.0.b.1.jpg)
Description of the educational exhibit of cocoa and chocolate... [Together with:] Educational exhibit. Cocoa and chocolate prepared by Walter Baker & Co
Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co., Ltd, 1913. Oblong 8vo, pp. 39, [1], followed by 6 high-quality chromolithograph plates of Walter Baker products; 5 other full-page illustrations; fine in original maroon cloth, gilt-lettered on upper cover. The educational exhibit consists of what presumably is a salesman's wooden lacquered case (approx. 9½" x 5½" x 3½"), with a hinged lid on top, and a brass plaque and pull; mounted inside the lid are 4 Baker products, and inside the box itself are four apothecary...
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£1,861.85
Honey & rhubarb. Recipes from Marjorie Kreidberg
by Kreidberg, Marjorie
Minneapolis: Cleora Press, 1987. Edition limited to 100 copies, this being no. 4, 8vo, pp. [8]; peach paper wrappers, paper label separated from upper wrapper but present, text clean and bright, very good. Four simple recipes using honey & rhubarb. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
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£18.62
The Physiology Of Taste
by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Folio Society, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. 2008. First Edition Thus. 362 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Grey cloth with decorations and slipcase. Colour illustrated plates throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Boards have light edgewear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Slipcase has moderate edge wear with markings to panels and scuffing to edges.
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£15.48
