NY: Adolph Mariani, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. 24pp; illustrated throughout from photographs of opera singers and musicians who frequented the Asti Restaurant, where the waiters sang opera while you dined. Bound in pictorial yellow wrappers, 8.5" x 5.5" The Asti Italian restaurant on 12th Street, a Greenwich Village landmark for..... More

Peoria, Illinois: Manual Arts Press, 1923. First Edition. Original Cloth. 128pp w/ index; full-page and text illus from photographs. Light shelf wear to corners. 8.75" x 5.75" Chapters: The Art of Entertaining and Being Entertained; The Choice of Equipment for the Dining-room; The Rules of Table Service; Principles of Menu..... More

1873. Original document. One page, octavo, printed form, accomplished by hand. Application is made to the Board of Commissioners, Middlesex County, Connecticut in September, 1873. Signed by E.W.N. Starr, Town Clerk, by the applicant, and by the guarantor. Docketed on the verso. 8" x 5" More

v.l. v.n., 1880-1890s. Original documents. Includes: John Devoe dealer in Fish, Oysters, Clams..., Brooklyn, NY; Hires Root Beer (concentrate); Ferndell Gelatine for the Palate and the Purse; Pettit Flouring Mill, Minneapolis; Horlick's Malted Milk...No Cooking or Milk Required; Charles H. North Pork, Beef, Lard, Hams, Bacon, Live & Dressed Hogs........ More

New York: Curtis & Brown, 1870. First Edition. Softcover. 32pp. Contains recipes for puddings and pies, breakfast and tea cakes, dessert cakes, side dishes and relishes, pickles and preserves, and home remedies, along with ads and testimonials for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Brown's Bronchial Troches and Vermifuge Comfits or Worm..... More

Philadelphia: Drawer Publishing Co., 1888. First Edition. Printed Self-wrappers. (6)pp. Pictorial covers and inserted "Christmas" plate printed in full color. The cover states Vol. 1, No. 2, although this is a prospectus for a planned publication. One page of text, in part: "... It is designed mainly to be a...... More

Savannah: Evans Printing, Circa 1950. Original. Broadside, printed in black ink on salmon stock; photo of chickens on rotisserie. 8" x 5.5" More

New York: The Typophiles, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. (4)pp, printed in black and orange. 7.25" x 4.75". The occasion featured Paul A. Bennett as Master of Ceremonies, an address by Carl Purington Rollins, a quiz by Ben Grauer, and a menu of Goudy's favorite foods. More

Chicago: Harper-Wyman Mfg. Co., 1935. First Edition. Softcover. 12pp; illustrated throughout text in yellow and blue. Bound in pictorial wrappers. 8.5" x 6" "Harper Burners were formerly made in the familiar cast iron star shape. Now the modern and more efficient round burner is usually made of aluminum. The simmering..... More

Boston: D. Lothrop, (1888). First edition thus. Original Cloth. (48)pp; frontispiece portrait, 11 plates. Bound in half-maroon and patterned cloth, gilt pictures and decorations, all edges gilt; bright and near fine. 7" x 5.5" More

Cleveland, OH: New Process Stove Co., 1920. First Edition. Softcover. 46pp; illustrated from photographs. Bound in tan & brown pictorial wrappers. 8" x 4.5" This trade catalog of 14 New Process Gas Ranges with Lorain Oven Heat Regulator includes recipes written to allow home cooks to adapt their "own special..... More

Philadelphia: v.p., 1888-89. Original manuscripts. Engraved billheads, accomplished by hand. One is from Githens Rexsamer & Co. ("Olives and Olive Oil a specialty"). Two are from Krause, Ingham & Hester ("Packers of the Home Delight Coffee"), each with an engraving of their premises, delivery wagons out front. All are 8.5"..... More

Buffalo, N.Y. D. Ransom, Son & Co., 1891. First Edition. Softcover. 32pp; woodcuts in text, including one of the label for Dr. A. Trask's Magnetic Ointment. Bound in printed, pink wrappers; edges of covers chipped, text block tanning. 6.25" x 4" "It contains, besides cooking receipts, pages for invalids...painting...antidotes for..... More