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"I WILL FIRST ENDEAVOR TO GIVE SOME INFORMATION AS TO THE MANNER OF STRICTLY KEEPING A JEWISH HOUSE": Rare First Edition of The First Jewish Cookbook Printed in America
LEVY, Esther.
Jewish Cookery Book, on Principles of Economy, Adapted for Jewish Housekeepers, with the Addition of Many Useful Medicinal Recipes, and Other Valuable Information, Relative to Housekeeping and Domestic Management.
Philadelphia: W.S. Turner, 1871.
Rare first edition of the first Jewish cookbook published in America, with extensive instructions on keeping a kosher household in addition to recipes. Octavo, original cloth. In very good condition, rebacked. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. First editions are exceptionally scarce of this milestone in American Jewish history.
Price: $22,000.00 Item Number: 74060
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"the first alphabetically arranged culinary encyclopaedia to appear in the United States"; Rare First Edition, first issue of The Cook's Own Book
LEE, N.K.M..
The Cook’s Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia: Consisting of All Valuable Recipes For Cooking Meat, Fish, and Fowl.
Boston: Munroe and Francis; New York, Charles S. Francis, and David Felt; Philadelphia, Carey and Lea, and Grigg and Elliot, 1832.
First edition, first issue, of “the first alphabetically arranged culinary encyclopaedia to appear in the United States” (Oxford Companion to Food, 17), and one of the most popular American cookbooks of the 19th century; with the woodcut diagram showing cuts of beef on page xxxii, no mention of Lyman Thurston & Co. on the copyright page, and 1832 as the date of both printing and copyright (Lowenstein, 160; Cagle & Stafford, 447). Octavo, bound in full contemporary calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, red morocco spine label. In very good condition with period recipes affixed to the front free endpaper with a pin. Scarce and desirable.
Price: $2,250.00 Item Number: 99347
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Rare First Edition of H. Graham Aldous' The Beer Duty; Containing analyses and discussions on the taxation of beer
ALDOUS, H. Graham.
The Beer Duty.
London: Privately Printed, c. 1901.
Rare first edition of this collection of discussions and charts analyzing the effects of taxation on the beer trade in early 20th century England, in the midst of the Temperance Movement. Octavo, original leatherette covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, all edges marbled, illustrated with charts, tables and graphs including a diagram showing the upward or downward movement of Trade, Drink and Crime. Appendix. In very good condition. Rare.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 100125
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Second edition of Charles Gerard's L'Ancienne Alsace a Table
GERARD, Charles.
L’Ancienne Alsace a Table.
Paris: Berger-Levrault et Cie, 1877.
Scarce second edition of Charles Gerard’s authoritative work on the culinary traditions of the former region of Alsace. Octavo, original wrappers as issued, advertisements to the rear panel. In very good condition. Housed in a custom velvet-lined half morocco clamshell box.
Price: $950.00 Item Number: 96166
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Rare Cuban Cigar Band Collection Folio.
c. 1920, .
Rare folio containing nearly 400 Cuban cigar labels, produced during the “Golden Age” of cigar label art. Ten panels bound into a collector’s folio. Label brands include Romeo y Juleita, Cuaba, Jose Gener, and La Corona. Full-color portraits featured on a selection of labels include King George V., King Edward VII, and Simon Bolivar. Each label is in near fine to fine condition. A unique example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 89057
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First edition of Leadership and Motivation: Essays of Douglas McGregor; inscribed by fellow M.I.T. Management Professor Edgar H. Schein who edited the work
MCGREGOR, Douglas. Edited by Warren G. Bennis and Edgar H. Schein with the collaboration of Caroline McGregor.
Leadership and Motivation: Essays of Douglas McGregor.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1966.
First edition of this collection of essays on the “dilemmas of a managerial society” by former M.I.T. management professor Douglas McGregor. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by one of the editors, Edgar H. Schein on the half-title page, “We must become better at asking and do less telling in a culture that overvalues telling. Ed Schein author of Humble Inquiry.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited by Warren G. Bennis and Edgar H. Schein with the collaboration of Caroline McGregor
Price: $650.00 Item Number: 88145
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Rare collection of New Orleans Cookbooks and Culinary Brochures
New Orleans Souvenir Cookbook and Culinary Brochure Collection.
Rare collection of six souvenir New Orleans cookbooks and culinary brochures. The cookbooks and brochures include “Gourmet’s Guide to New Orleans” (1941), “New Orleans Carnival Cook Book” (Women’s Republican Club of Louisiana, 1941), “Brer Rabbit’s New Orleans Molasses Recipes For Delicious Desserts, Candies, Beverages, and other Tasty Foods”, “New Orleans Recipes” by Mary Moore Bremer (1932), “The Secret of Creole Cooking”, and “good old Creole Recipes”. In fine condition.
Price: $500.00 Item Number: 117533
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Limited Librarie Dardel Edition of Lucien Tendret's La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin
TENDRET, Lucien.
La Table Au Pays De Brillat-Savarin.
Chambery: Librairie Dardel, 1934.
Limited Librarie Dardel edition of Tendret’s best-known work, published posthumously by his direct descendants as a strict reproduction of the original 1892 printing. Octavo, original wrappers, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Tendret in 1885. One of 1750 numbered copies, this is number 1390. In near fine condition.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 110841
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First Edition of Judith Barrett's From An Italian Garden; Signed by Her
BARRETT, Judith.
From An Italian Garden.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992.
First edition of this wonderful collection of recipies. Octavo, original boards. Signed by the author on the half-title page, “Best wishes Judith Barrett.” Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Joyce Patti. Jacket design by Wendy Bass.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 119829