New York: Scribner and Welford, 1879. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxviii,280pp. Publisher's blue cloth blocked in black and gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Cloth well worn and soiled, especially the corners, spine tips and spine; rear inner hinge cracked; else a good copy with a very good textblock. More
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, n.d., ca, 1884. Early Edition. Hardcover. Thick 8vo. xv,(1),372,(8)pp. Red cloth spine, black lettering, pictorial boards. Illustrated. The three full page plates are present. Beautifully rebacked to style; boards well worn at edges and rubbed; text block stained in places. A good copy only but scarce. More
(London: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790). Hardcover. Published as part of 'A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations of the Royal Household, made in divers reigns, from Edward III to William and Mary, and also Receipts in Ancient Cookery'. 4to. This copy does not retain the..... More
New=York: Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1829. First US edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Two frontispieces, (6), 9- 212,(2)pp followed by 2pp of ads. Contemporary red leather spine, with gilt title and rules; paper over boards. Two frontispieces after sketches by Robert Cruikshank, repeated as plates in the text. Binding a...... More
London: Bernard Lintott, (1708). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (8), 160 pp. Half-title present. Contemporary paneled calf boards, nicely rebacked in polished calf with a red morocco lettering piece, gilt. Some browning to the text block, wear to the edges and corners and leather boards rubbed else this is a very..... More
London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1789. Hardcover. A New edition, in which are inserted some celebrated Receipts by other Modern Authors. 8vo. iii,(1),384,(14) pp. Engraved frontispiece of the author. Three folding plates. Early black polished calf, the boards tooled in blind at the borders, and the spine with gilt bands..... More
London: Whittaker and Co., 1839. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xv,(1),200pp. Original purple ribbed cloth blocked with a gilt design and title on the upper board. Yellow endpapers. Redding was a journalist and wrote from Paris of the defeat of Napoleon. Thereafter he traveled and obtained first hand information on French..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Asbury edition. Hardcover. 8vo. li,(3),169,(1)pp. Yellow cloth printed in Aquatone by the Edward Stern Co. Top edge stained green. Illustrated. Index. This is the first cocktail recipe book published in the United States, first appearing in 1862. The 1928 edition is the..... More
