Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012

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The 36th Annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair November 16-18, 2012 Show List

Enclosed please find a partial list of titles we will be bringing to the 2012 Boston Book Fair. We will be located in booth 217. For more information on the fair, please visit BostonBookFair.com. We hope to see you there. In addition to the titles listed here, we will be bringing a selection of unusual and uncatalogued culinary ephemera, trade catalogues, manuscript cookbooks, and more. The books on this list are presented in chronological order.

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1. [Apicius] Caelii Apitii. SUMMI ADULATRICIS MEDICINAE ARTIFICIS, DE RE CULINARIA LIBRI DECEM. B. PLATINAE CREMONENSIS DE TUENDA UALETUDINE, NATURA RERUM, & POPINÆ SCIENTIA LIBRI X. PAULI ÆGINETÆ DE FACULTATIBUS ALIMENTORUM TRACTATUS. Lugundni [Lyon]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1541. Octavo, 314 + [14] pages. Index. One of the earliest printed editions of this important collection of recipes from the late Roman Empire, originally titled, De Re Coquinaria. The book is arranged into ten books each on a separate subject, much like a modern cookbook. It is a wonderful source for cooking in the Mediterranean basin prior to the introduction of foodstuffs of the New World, and also of some of the exotic ingredients of late Ancient cooking. Full period vellum, with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Front joint started, evidence of worming to spine, unobtrusive marking of prior ownership but overall a clean tight copy of this desirable work. [Bitting, page 11; Cagle 32; Crahan 3; Simon 123; Vicaire 31]. $5000.00

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2. Markham, Gervase. THE ENGLISH HOUSE-WIFE. CONTAINING THE INWARD AND OUTWARD VERTUES. AS HER SKILL IN PHYSICK, SURGERY, COOKERY, EXTRACTION OF OYLES, BANQUETING STUFFE. AND ALL OTHER THINGS BELONGING TO AN HOUSHOLD. London: Nicholas Oakes for Iohn Harison, 1631. Quarto, [x], 252 pages. First edition thus. The fourth edition revised and enlarged, and the first separately published, of Markham's popular handbook for housewives, a significant source for information on the workings of 17th century households. The work contains a huge variety of detailed recipes, much of it concerning the preparation of food and drink, with smaller sections on medicine, household remedies and weaving. The substantial chapter on cookery starts with a description of how to maintain a kitchen garden. Chapter sections include 'Sallets', 'Fricases and Quelquechoses', 'Puddings and Sausages', 'Boiled meats', and 'Pottages', 'Roast meats', etc. Further chapters include information on distillation, the making of perfumes, the keeping and preserving of wine, a short chapter on weaving and dying of wool, dairy work and cheesemaking, the making of malt and breadmaking, how to brew beer, ales, cider and perry. Fine in half calf, with raised bands, gilt decorated spine. With the bookplate of Prince Henry, the Duke of Gloucester, and a second, smaller plate of Charles Whibley, English literary journalist and author. [STC 17353; ESTC S109817; not in Bitting (the 1675 edition only), Vicaire or Oberlé]. $3500.00

One of the rarest cookbooks in the English language

3. Rose, Giles. A PERFECT SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE OFFICERS OF THE MOUTH : SHEWING THE WHOLE ART OF A MASTER OF THE HOUSHOLD, A MASTER CARVER, A MASTER BUTLER, A MASTER CONFECTIONER, A MASTER COOK, A MASTER PASTRYMAN; BEING A WORK OF SINGULAR USE FOR LADIES AND GENTLEWOMEN AND ALL PERSONS WHATSOEVER THAT ARE DESIROUS TO BE ACQUAINTED WITH THE MOST EXCELLENT ARTS OF CARVING, COOKERY, PASTRY, PRESERVING, AND LAYING A CLOTH FOR GRAND ENTERTAINMENTS; THE LIKE NEVER BEFORE EXTANT IN ANY LANGUAGE; ADORNED WITH PICTURES CURIOUSLY INGRAVEN, DISPLAYING THE WHOLE ARTS / BY GILES ROSE, ONE OF THE MASTER COOKS IN HIS MAJESTIES KITCHEN. London: Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1682. Duodecimo,Title leaf, [22], 563 pages [lacking pages 481-504]. With 41 pages of woodcuts of which a few illustrate table settings and the majority illustrate the carving of various fowl (capon, turkey, goose, duck, pigeon, woodcock, partridge, pheasant, etc.), veal, mutton, wild boar, pig, hare, fish, and lobster and the decorative carving of fruit. Verso of title page with margins strengthened and old repairs to pages 5-6 and 11-12 in the lower margin and pages 9-10 in the lower quarter with some little loss of text. First and only English edition of one of the most important titles of 17th Century French gastronomy, and one of the rarest cookery books in the English language. There are few recorded copies and most all existing copies appear to be imperfect, i.e. primarily lacking pages. Bitting notes, “Despite the claim ‘The like never before extant in any language,’ the book is a translation of ‘L’Escole parfaite des officiers de bouches,’ first published in 1662. The English translation is much scarcer

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 2. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 than the original.” In six books, (here translated): "Steward of the Family", "The Great Master Carver", "The Royal Butler", "The Royal Confectioner", "The Royal French Master Cook", and "The Royal Pastry Man". [Worldcat indicates 8 copies only; Bitting p. 407; Cagle 970; Wing R1933. ] $7500.00

4. [Liger, Louis]. LE MENAGE DES CHAMPS, ET LE JARDINIER FRANCOIS ACCOMMODEZ AU GOUT DES TEMPS: DANS LESQUELLES ON PEUT APPRENDE FACILIMENT A APRETER TOUT CE QUI EST NECESSAIRE POUR L'USAGE DE LA VIE A LA COMPAGNE, & MEME DE LA VILLE; & LA MANIERE DE CULTIVER PARFAITEMENT LES JARDINS FUITIERS, POTAGERS, & FLUERISTES, AVEC UN TRAITE DEL LA CHASSE & DE LA PEHCE; OUVRAGE UTILE A TOUTES SORTE DE PERSONNES. Paris: Michel David, 1711. Octavo, [6], 536, [8] pages. Frontispiece, five leaves of folding plates. Second printing of the first edition. Michel David issued the title originally in 1710. A compilation of two seventeenth century works by Nicolas de Bonnefons, here issued under a royal privilege grated to Louis Liger, sieur d'Auxerre (1658=1717). The work is divided into four books, the first three concerning cooking, the fourth dealing with gardening, and with an additional brief treatise on hunting and fishing. Liger's compilation continued to be revised and reissued after his death and well into the eighteenth century. Contemporary full-calf, compartmented spine with gilt-tooled ornaments and title. Some wear to foot of spine and corners. Several ownership inscriptions to endpapers, some signed "Drouilly". Inkblot to verso of frontispiece has penetrated, and is visible in the engraved image. Overall, near very good. [Bitting, pages 287-288; Cagle 285-85 (later editions); Oberlé refers to the earlier publication of de Bonnefons' work, but not the Liger editions; Vicaire 522-523]. $1500.00

5. [Glasse, Hannah]. THE ART OF COOKERY MADE PLAIN AND EASY, BY A LADY. London: printed for the author, 1748. Octavo, iv+[28]+330 pages. Third edition. One of the most famous cookbooks of 18th Century England. Oberlé notes that the author "Severely condemns the extravagance of French cooking." General wear and staining throughout. Original calf boards worn and crushed at corners. Rebacked with a now somewhat brittle calf, with raised bands and a gilt-stamped red morocco spine label. Still a good or better copy. All early editions of this title are scarce. [Bitting 187; McLean page 59; Oxford page 77; Simon BG 763]. $3000.00

6. Raffald, Elizabeth. THE EXPERIENCED ENGLISH HOUSE-KEEPER. FOR THE USE AND EASE OF LADIES, THE HOUSE-KEEPERS, COOKS, &C., WROTE PURELY FROM PRACTICE. DEDICATED TO THE HON. LADY ELIZABETH WARBURTON, WHOM THE AUTHOR LATELY SERVED AS HOUSEKEEPER... Manchester: Printed by J. Harrop for the author, 1769. Octavo, iv+362 + xii pages. Two engraved folding plates of table settings. First edition. One of the most celebrated and popular of 18th century cookery books, placing the author in the same sphere as Hannah

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Glasse. In addition to her position as housekeeper to Lady Warburton, Raffald operated the Bull's Head Pub in Manchester, and the King's Head in Salford, both notable inns, helped found a newspaper, operated a confectionery shop and ran a cooking school. All this after having provided her husband, John Raffald, with many daughters (as many as sixteen depending on your source). Among the interesting recipes is one "To spin a Silver Web for covering Sweet Meats", and "Directions for a Grand Table." Internally, there is a fair amount of light foxing throughout. Bound in old calf, and rebacked some while ago in compartmented, gilt-ruled and labeled calf. [XXXX] With the author's signature to page one, in an attempt to foil the cookbook pirates. [Cagle 944; Maclean, page 121; Oxford, page 99; Simon BG 1249]. $2500.00

7. Maciver, [Susanna]. COOKERY & PASTRY. AS TAUGHT AND PRACTICED BY MRS. MACIVER, TEACHER OF THOSE ARTS IN EDINBURGH. A NEW EDITION. TO WHICH IS ADDED, FOR THE FIRST TIME, FIGURES OF DINNER & SUPPER COURSES, FROM FIVE TO FIFTEEN DISHES. ALSO, A CORRECT LISTING OF EVERYTHING IN SEASON FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR. Edinburgh/London: C. Elliot/G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1787. Duodecimo, [i-v] vi-xii [13] 14-264. Sixth edition. Together with Mrs. Frazer, Susanna Maciver ran one of the few cookery schools in Edinburgh. Mrs. Frazer's book, The Practice of Cookery, is largely based on this work. For this edition, the author has added menus for dinners for five to fifteen people, as well as lists of ingredients in season month by month. The book is missing its free front endpaper, and is lightly soiled, but is otherwise internally sound and solid. In full brown calf, which is starting at the hinges and 'cracked' across the boards. With a gilt-titled red morocco spine label. [Cagle 842; Maclean page 92; Vicaire 546; Worldcat cites 8 copies of this edition, only 3 in the US]. $500.00

Royal Household Service and Recipes

8. [Royal Household]. A COLLECTION OF ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS, FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD, MADE IN DIVERS REIGNS. FROM KING EDWARD III. TO KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY. London: Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790. Quarto, xxii + 476 pages. [leaf containing pages 169/170 in duplicate]. First edition of this collection of English Royal Household Manuscripts. The text discusses the duties and management of all of the staff of a royal household, including wages. The book concludes with the first printing of a collection of Fifteenth Century and earlier recipes, "From a Ms. in the Library of the Royal Society, Arundel Collection, no. 344, page 275-445." Recipes inclue 'Nombules of a Deer', 'Farsure for Hares', 'Browet of Alemayne', 'Pejons Stewet', 'Goos in Hochepot' and many others. Internally very clean and fresh, with just a touch of light foxing. In full tree calf, rebacked and with a gilt-titled spine label. With a paper label indicating provenance pasted on to the rear endpaper. From the library of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, English Shakespearean scholar and antiquarian. Halliwell-Phillips, son-in-law by his first wife to the

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 4. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 great antiquarian Thomas Phillips, was banned from the British Library under suspicion of theft of manuscripts from Trinity College Cambridge. [Bitting page 532; Maclean page 30; Oxford page 119]. $1200.00

9. Warner, Richard. ANTIQUITATE CULINARIAE; OR CURIOUS TRACTS RELATING TO THE CULINARY AFFAIRS OF THE OLD ENGLISH. WITH A PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE, NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS, BY THE REVEREND RICHARD WARNER, OF SWAY, NEAR LYMINGTON, HANTS. London: Printed for R. Blamire, Strand, 1791. Quarto, [2] lx, 137, [1 blank] pages. First edition. Illustrated with two aquatints, 'A Saxon Entertainment", and "The Peacock Feast" (the later double-paged). Engraved title page. Warner was a prominent English antiquarian and divine. This work was one of the first to examine the history of early English cookery, at the forefront of a scholarly movement that developed over the last three centuries of the Eighteenth Century. The book contains: Warner's detailed introductory notes; “The Forme of Cury,” copied from an ancient vellum roll thought to have been compiled about 1390 by the master cooks of Richard II; "Ancient Cookery, A.D. 1381," another collection of recipes from the same vellum roll; "Ancient Cookery," a collection of recipes from a fifteenth century manuscript but which almost certainly dates from a much earlier period; “Ancient Recipes to Preserve Fruits,” from the mid-Seventeenth Century; and account of the enthronization feasts of George Neville as Archbishop of York in the reign of King Edward IV, and of William Warham of Archbishop of Canterbury in 1504. Nineteenth Century three-quarters roan leather and boards, with gilt-lettered spine, recently re-backed with the original spine laid- down. Some minor spotting, otherwise very good. [Bitting 485; Cagle 1049; Crahan 446; Simon 1607]. $2500.00

10. Briggs, Richard. THE NEW ART OF COOKERY; ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT PRACTICE; BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ALL HOUSEKEEPERS, ON A PLAN ENTIRELY NEW; CONSISTING OF THIRTY-EIGHT CHAPTERS...WITH BILLS OF FARE FOR EVERY MONTH IN THE YEAR, NEATLY AND CORRECTLY PRINTED. Philadelphia: Printed for H.&.P Rice and sold by J. Rice and Co., Baltimore, 1798. Octavo, xxiii, [1], 444 pages. Twenty-four illustrations of monthly bills of fare. Second American Edition, improved. One of the earliest cookbooks to be printed in America. The first edition of Briggs' English Art of Cookery was published in London in 1788 and the work quickly crossed the Atlantic to the newly independent United States. The first American edition was published in Philadelphia in 1792, and this improved second American edition soon followed. There was a concurrent printing of this edition in Boston by Spotswood. All early editions are scarce. Two small rectangles have been cut from the top of the title page, likely excising a former owner's name. The second signature a bit loose and therefore a bit worn on the edges. Some discoloration to edges of first few pages from acid in the boards, otherwise internally very good. In scuffed and somewhat brittle brown calf, with gilt titled and edged red morocco spine label. With the contemporary bookplate of John A. Parker,

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Eastern Shore, Virginia. In a custom cream-colored clamshell box. [Worldcat locates 11 copies of this edition]. Lowenstein 25; Bitting p. 60; not in Cagle]. $1800.00

11. Raffald, Elizabeth. THE EXPERIENCED ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER. FOR THE USE AND EASE OF LADIES, HOUSEKEEPERS, COOKS, &C., WRITTEN PURELY FROM PRACTICE. DEDICATED TO THE HON. LADY ELIZABETH WARBURTON, WHOM THE AUTHOR LATELY SERVED AS HOUSEKEEPER. London: T. Wilson & R. Spence, 1806. Octavo, 397 pages. With three folding plates. A later, "New Edition, in which are inserted some celebrated Receipts by other modern Authors." Originally published in 1769, The Experienced English Housekeeper was one of the most celebrated and popular of 18th century cookery books, placing the author in the same sphere as Hannah Glasse. In addition to her position as housekeeper to Lady Warburton, Raffald operated the Bull's Head Pub in Manchester, and the King's Head in Salford, both notable inns, helped found a newspaper, operated a confectionery shop and ran a cooking school. All this after having provided her husband, John Raffald, with 15 daughters (or 16 depending on your source). Among the interesting recipes are, "To spin a Silver Web for covering Sweet Meats", and "Directions for a Grand Table." Internally fine, in original gilt-ruled, mottled calf boards. Handsomely and professionally rebacked in tan calf with gilt compartments and decorations. [Cagle 944-953 (earlier editions); Maclean, page 121]. $1200.00

12. [Simmons, Amelia]. Emerson, Lucy [Reed], compiler. THE NEW-ENGLAND COOKERY, OR THE ART OF DRESSING ALL KINDS OF FLESH, FISH, AND VEGETABLES, ; AND THE BEST MODES OF MAKING PASTES, PUFFS, PIES, TARTS, PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS AND PRESERVES, AND ALL KINDS OF CAKES, FROM THE IMPERIAL PLUMB TO PLAIN CAKE. : PARTICULARLY ADAPTED TO THIS PART OF OUR COUNTRY. Montpelier, [VT]: Printed for Josiah Parks, (Proprietor of the work.), 1808. 24mo., 81, [3] pages. First edition of the first cookbook published in Vermont. Like a number of other American cookbooks of this period it is essentially a pirated edition of Amelia Simmons' American Cookery (Hartford, 1796), the first cookbook by an American author. In the preface, Lucy Emerson states, "It is with diffidence that I come before the public as an authoress, even to this little work; I have no pretensions to the originality of the whole of the receipts herein contained, it is due to those ladies who have gone before me. ... L.E. Montpelier, 21st March, 1808." According to Lowenstein "much of the text is a verbatim copy of the Troy edition of 1808." In worn, paper covered boards, contents good. With the ownership inscription of Betsy Willard. Scarce in the trade. [Worldcat locates 26 copies; Bitting page 144; Cagle 235; Lowenstein (3rd ed.) 48; Shaw & Showmaker 1808, 14937; Wheaton & Kelly 1953]. $4500.00

13. Brillat-Savarin, [Jean-Anthelme]. ONE PAGE ALS. 1818. One-page ALS, eighteen lines in the hand of and signed by the great epicure and gastronome, Brillat-Savarin, the author of the magnificent Le Physiologie du Gout. Brillat-Savarin was a lawyer and politician,

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 6. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 and this letter finds its origin in his legal work. The letter bears three stamps of the Loi de 1816, a tax instituted to restore credit to the state after the financial turmoil of the First Empire. The letter is dated "le quinze novembre dix huit cent dix huit." A tiny bit of foxing to the laid paper, and horizontal and vertical fold marks, otherwise in fine condition. $1500.00

14. Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. PHYSIOLOGIE DU GOUT, OU MEDITATION DE GASTRONOMIE TRANSCENDANTE; OUVRAGE THEORIQUE, HISTORIQUE ET A L'ORDRE DU JOUR, DEDIE AUX GASTRONMIE PARISIENS. Paris: Sautelet et Cie., 1826. Two volumes, octavo, contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards Light wear at extremities, otherwise in very good condition. First edition of the most famous treatise in gastronomy. The Physiology of Taste was published in an edition of 500 copies, appearing only two months after the author's death. The book is a comprehensive philosophy of the palate and of the table, and far beyond, presented in a series of thirty meditations on subjects such as the senses, taste, appetite, gastronomy, restaurateurs, cooking, fasting, obesity, death, sleep, rest and dreams. Brillat-Savarin was an attorney and magistrate who fled France during the Terror, living in Switzerland and New York until his return after the fall of Robespierre in 1796. The present work secured his eternal fame among gastronomes. The charming American writer and translator of Brillat-Savarin, M.F.K. Fisher, commends the work for its straightforward and unornamented prose in an era of florid writing, but the intellectual range and invention of the work is anything but simple. At the very outset: "1. The Universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives eats. 2. Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating. 3. The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves." It may be noted that Brillat-Savarin regularly refers to his gastronomic experience in America. [Cagle 98; Crahan 491; Oberle 144; Vicaire 116; Wheaton & Kelly 860]. $15,000.00

15. Stavely, S.W. THE NEW WHOLE ART OF CONFECTIONARY, SUGAR BOILING, ICEING, CANDYING, JELLY MAKING, &C. Liverpool: G. Wood, 1828. Octavo, 60 pages. Seventh edition. A slim but thorough guide to confectionary. Rebound in original boards with leather spine label. [Worldcat locates only one copy of this edition; not in Oxford, Bitting or Simon; Cagle cites the 11th edition]. $350.00

16. Martin, E. ART DE LA CONSERVATION DES SUBSTANCES ALIMENTAIRES. Paris: Audot, 1829. Duodecimo, 122 pages. First edition. Extremely scarce French text on food preservation in the era prior to refrigeration and widespread use of canning. The text covers a variety of methods of preserving vegetables, fruit and meat, including pickling, boiling, smoking and salting. Issued as part of the publisher's Guide de la Menagere series. Original printed yellow wrappers. Chipping to edges, spine rebacked with original printed backstrip laid-on, scattered light foxing to text, otherwise very good. Very scarce. [Worldcat locates only three copies of this title, none in United States; Vicaire 571]. $600.00

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"The most influential cookbook of the nineteenth century" - Karen Hess

17. Randolph, Mary. THE VIRGINIA HOUSEWIFE: OR, METHODICAL COOK. STEREOTYPE EDITION, WITH AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS. Baltimore: Published by John Plaskitt, 218 Market Street, 1836. Octavo, 180 pages. Fifth edition, Baltimore [1836] printing. Stereotyped plates for this edition were made in 1831 and used for later printings through 1860. The first edition was published in 1861. The first regional cookbook published in America. Karen Hess called this book "The most influential American cookbook of the nineteenth century... and a case may be made for considering it to be the earliest full-blown American cookbook" [from the introduction to the facsimile edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 1984]. Some contemporary ink death notices to front endpapers. Light foxing and a bit of staining throughout. Pinholes to front and rear blanks and one or two text pages from clippings, etc. In original full brown speckled calf, with gilt ruled, but unlabeled spine. Some loss to the foot of the spine and a spot of loss to the head. Still, a not unattractive copy of a book scarce in the market in all early printings. [Bitting page 388; Cagle 629 (this edition, 1831 printing); Lowenstein 203]. $1200.00

18. Graham, Sylvester. A TREATISE ON BREAD OR BREAD-MAKING. Boston: Light & Stearns 1 Cornhill, 1837. 9.5x15cm. [2], [3]-131 pages + 12 ads. First edition. Sylvester Graham began his career as a temperance reformer but soon expanded his efforts to control the affairs of the stomach to beyond alcohol. Against the backdrop of fear that the European cholera epidemic would soon arrive on American shores, Graham developed a theory of healthy living which included well-ventilated rooms, exercise, and regular baths, as well as a vegetarian diet. The diet consisted mostly of fruits and vegetables and bread from unbolted flour or coarse ground grain. Graham had other, more controversial, theories as well, about sexual self-restraint and the connection between spirituality and physiology. His lectures frequently caused a commotion, including an 1847 altercation during which "a mob of Boston bakers attacked Graham while he was extemporizing on the evils of consuming commercially produced bread and the dietary value of unbolted flour. The riotous bakers were subdued when Graham's followers shoveled slaked lime from the windows of the lecture hall onto the crowd below." (American National Biography). But it is for the Graham Cracker, loosely based on his bread from coarsely-ground grain, for which he is best remembered today. Previous owners' names to front end papers, some light foxing throughout, a few tiny pin holes to patterned, gilt-titled brown cloth, otherwise fine. A truly lovely example of a scarce title. [American Imprints 4459; Axford page 397; Bitting page 197; Cagle 301; Lowenstein 211; Streeter 4186; Wheaton 2484]. $3500.00

19. Graham, Sylvester. A TREATISE ON BREAD OR BREAD-MAKING. Boston: Light & Stearns 1 Cornhill, 1837. 9.5x15cm. [2], [3]-131 pages + 12 ads. First edition. Another copy. Foxing throughout, half-inch chip to the edge of one page, not affecting text, hinged reinforced, contemporary ownership blind-stamp to front fly, moderate edgewear and some

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20. Ratcliffe, Mrs. THE YOUNG WOMAN'S COMPANION: BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO EVERY ACQUIREMENT ESSENTIAL IN FORMING A USEFUL MEMBER OF SOCIETY. Aberdeen: George Clark & Sons, 1842. Duodecimo, 320 pages. Later printing. Perhaps an unauthorized issue, with an Aberdeen title page, but printed by J.S. Platt in Yorkshire. An interesting manual of etiquette and comportment for young women. With a frontispiece portrait of the attractive and friendly looking author. Contemporary ownership inscription to front end paper. Some light soiling throughout, small repair to front fly. Professionally and neatly re-backed at an early date, with the ticket of an Inverness binder. Rare. [Worldcat locates no copies of this Aberdeen edition, and only four copies of all other printings, two in the US]. $400.00

21. Cocks, Charles. GUIDE DE L'ETRANGER A BORDEAUX ET DANS LA GIRONDE - BORDEAUX SES ENVIRONS ET SES VINS CLASSES PAR ORDRE DE MERITE. Bordeaux: Feret Fills et Cie, 1850. Small octavo, 319 pages. Illustrated with four engravings and a folding map. First edition. This is the original publication of Feret and Cocks’ classic Bordeaux et ses Vins, which is still in print in modern revisions today, and which is the most thorough single volume reference on the wines and winemakers of the region. In 1846, Michel-Edouard Feret approached Charles Cocks, an Englishman living in Bordeaux, and asked him to write a guide to the wines of Bordeaux, with historical observations and assessments of the various vintages. The book was published the same year. A translation was requested, and this volume, with many revisions and additional information on the orders of merit, was the result. Its appearance in 1850 preceded the official Bordeaux Wine Classifications by six years. Cocks classified Lafite, Latour, Margaux, and Haut-Brion, as First Growths, leaving out Mouton (now Mouton Rothschild), which was included in the 1855 classification. With some wear to the contemporary half-calf binding. The folding map of Bordeaux is worn and partially separated along one fold, otherwise internally fine. The book is substantially interleaved with blanks, and on two blanks someone has attempted a translation of pieces of the text. The hand is that of John K. Miller, whose ownership signature is found on the front paste down. Miller was the son of T. Ewing Miller, an Ohio Industrialist and U.S. Consul to Bordeaux. John K. Miller was a U.S. Senator. A second ownership signature, of David M. Ewing, indicates the book stayed in the family for some generations. Rare. [Simon, Bibliotheca Vinaria, page 95]. $5500.00

22. Allen, J. Fisk. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND TREATMENT OF THE GRAPE VINE: EMBRACING ITS HISTORY, WITH DIRECTIONS FOR ITS TREATMENT, IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, IN THE OPEN AIR, AND UNDER GLASS STRUCTURES, WITH AND WITHOUT ARTIFICIAL HEAT. THIRD

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EDITION - REVISED AND ENLARGED. New York: C.M. Saxton & Company, 1855. Octavo, 330 + 6 [ads] pages. Frontispiece, two plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Later printing. Gabler notes that several printings in several cities claim to be the "Third Edition - Revised and Enlarged". Allen, a grape grower in Salem, Massachusetts, produced the first widely distributed hybrid of labrusca and vinifera. Pinney, in A History of Wine in America, states that the hybrid was "the first such grape actually to be distributed for cultivation, and so had the important functioning of establishing the fact against all doubters that the native vinifera-cross could be made practical." With a contemporary owner inscription of Henry Quinby of Mendon [Mass.]. Small water stain to front board of original blind-stamped and gilt-titled brown cloth. [Gabler G7232 (1st ed.)]. $300.00

some early American food criticism

23. Barber, Joseph. CRUMBS FROM THE ROUND TABLE. A FEAST FOR EPICURES. New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1866. Small octavo, 106 pages + 6 ads. First edition. A collection of articles that appeared in the journal, "The Round Table" (1863-64). In a preface, the author is described as "a culinary critic, fisherman, and singer of country lyrics". The collection includes some "Epigastric Poetry"; an interesting, and disapproving, essay on "Vegetarians and Vegetables", and an attack on what he views as low habits of Americans which inhibit the development of a real cuisine (including a propensity to bake rather than roast). A fine copy, in publisher's gilt stamped green boards with beveled edges. From the library of Alan Davidson, with his bookplate, and with the additional bookplate of The Cookery Collection of Mrs. Thomas Scruggs and Margaret Cook. [Not in Cagle or Bitting]. $350.00

24. Hill, Georgiana. HOW TO COOK OR SERVE EGGS IN A HUNDRED DIFFERENT WAYS. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Small octavo, 63 pages. Third edition. Surprisingly scarce English household manual on egg cookery, one of a series of "cheap manuals" written by Hill and sold for sixpence. Publisher's original limp cloth. Bit of insect or rodent damage to upper cover edges, light cover soil and wear, otherwise very good. [WorldCat locates no copy in the U.S.; Bitting, p. 228; Cagle 746, listing other Hill titles]. $150.00

25. [Anonymous]. THE ART OF CONFECTIONERY: WITH VARIOUS METHODS OF PRESERVING FRUITS AND FRUIT JUICES; THE PREPARATION OF JAMS AND JELLIES; FRUIT AND OTHER SYRUPS; SUMMER BEVERAGES, AND DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING DESSERT CAKES. ALSO DIFFERENT METHODS OF MAKING ICE CREAM, SHERBET, ETC. THESE RECEIPTS ARE FROM THE BEST NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, AND BOSTON CONFECTIONERS, AND INCLUDE A LARGE NUMBER FROM THE FRENCH AND OTHER FOREIGN NATIONS. Boston: J.E. Tilton & Co., 1866. Octavo, 346 pages. T.e.g. First edition. Much of this book was taken

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 10. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 from Francatelli's Royal Cook and Confectioner (London, 1862) with 26 of 44 chapters reprinted verbatim, although assembled in a different order. As complete and thorough a confectionery book as was published in America in the 19th Century, with sections on candy, bon-bons, jellys, ices, fruit compotes, tinctures, essential oils and colorants. With a previous owner's pencil signature to free front end paper, otherwise fine in gilt-stamped, green, pebbled cloth. While present in many institutional collections, this book is quite scarce in the marketplace, especially in such fine condition. [Bitting p. 518; Cagle 48; Brown 1496; Wheaton & Kelly 265]. $750.00

26. Weild, John. BAKER'S GUIDE; OR, THE ART OF BAKING. DESIGNED FOR PRACTICAL BAKERS AND PASTRY COOKS. WITH FULL EXPLANATIONS AND APPROPRIATE REMARKS. Boston: Published by the Author, 1870. Octavo, 191 pages. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. First edition. A thorough little guide to baking of all sorts, written by a professional baker, who worked both coasts of Canada, San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands. The author differentiates the skills of bread baking from those of cake making and pastry, but endeavors to teach it all. With sections on jellies, crackers, ice-cream & water-ices, beyond cakes and bread. Some signs of kitchen use throughout, including light staining and a few marginalia. Number stamp to end blank. Previous owner's name and address on free front endpaper. Hinges starting, edges of brown cloth boards rubbed and a little chipped. The front board bears a handsome gilt-stamped emblem of two bakers, scales, a sheaf of wheat and a basket of round loaves. Less than very good, but a scarce baker's manual. [Worldcat locates only 4 copies; Bitting page 490; not in Cagle]. $350.00

27. Buell, J.S. THE CIDER'S MAKER'S MANUAL. A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK WHICH EMBODIES TREATISES ON THE APPLE, CONSTRUCTION OF CIDER MILLS, CIDER PRESSES, SEED-WASHERS, AND CIDER MILL MACHINERY IN GENERAL... REVISED EDITION WITH ADDITIONS. Buffalo: Haas, Nauert & Co., 1874. Octavo, 183 pages + 7 index. Illustrated. Second, revised and enlarged edition. Perhaps the best of 19th Century American cider manuals, and an important reference for all interested in reviving this most American of thirst quenchers. Previous owner's library label to front paste down, small closed tear to the fly leaf opposite. A few leaves slightly dog eared, otherwise a clean and bright, near fine copy in like dimpled and ruled brown cloth. $450.00

on the mechanization of foie gras production

28. Martine, Odile. JARDIN D'ACCLIMATATION DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE. ENGRAISSEMENT MÉCANIQUE DES VOLAILLES. SYSTÈME... ODILE MARTIN,... Paris: Paul Dupont, 1874. 16mo., 16 pages. Illustrated. First and only edition. A small trade catalogue of apparatus for gavage, or the mechanical fattening of poultry, with four

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 11. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 engravings illustrating operators force-feeding chickens and geese in rotating racks of 12, 30, 60 and 210 birds. Gavage when done by hand one bird at a time, or with an apparatus like this, is the controversial technique that is used to fatten a goose's liver for the production of foie gras. Fine, in fine illustrated wrappers. Rare. [Worldcat locates only one copy, at the Bibliotheque Nationale]. $350.00

29. Dingens Brothers (compiled and edited by). THE COSMOPOLITAN COOK AND RECIPE BOOK, CONTAINING RECIPES FOR THE PREPARATION OF AMERICAN, FRENCH, GERMAN, ENGLISH, IRISH AND OTHER NATIONAL DISHES, BOTH COSTLY AND ECONOMICAL, ALSO HOUSEHOLD RECIPES, MEDICAL RECIPES, RULES OF HEALTH, TABLES OF DISTANCE, MEASURES, WEIGHTS, STATISTICS, ETC., ETC. Buffalo, N.Y.: Printing House of E.H. Hutchinson, 1882. Octavo, 410 pages + blank pages for "Additional Recipes" at end. Ads printed on colored stock throughout. First edition. An unusual household recipe book, issued by the great Buffalo victualer Dingens Brothers. A similar book was issued in Rochester by the firm of Moore & Cole, and it is likely the same title masquerading as its own issue. This volume includes a 34-page catalogue of goods offered by Dingens Brothers, from washboards to brandy. One unusual aspect of this book is the prominence given to cooking and preparation times. Immediately adjacent to the recipe title, in capital letters, the recipes state, “[TIME.-ONE HOUR.]” or the like. This is one of the earlier appearances of exact timings we've seen, certainly with timings given such prominence. With one manuscript recipe, and one newspaper clipping recipe neatly inserted in the Additional Recipe section. Fine in publisher's black and gilt-stamped decorated maroon cloth. Scarce. [Worldcat indicates only 2 copies of this edition]. $450.00

the first collection of Creole recipes

30. [Hearn, Lafcadio]. LA CUISINE CREOLE: A COLLECTION OF CULINARY RECIPES, FROM LEADING CHEFS AND NOTED CREOLE HOUSEWIVES, WHO HAVE MADE NEW ORLEANS FAMOUS FOR ITS CUISINE. New York: Will H. Coleman, 1885. Octavo, 268 pages. First edition, state "A" according to BAL. A classic American cookbook, and one of the great classics of Creole cuisine. The first book on the subject, it was anonymously printed in 1885, but it is generally accepted that Lafcadio Hearn is the author. This work has been almost continuously in print since this original issue. Some light wear to textblock at edges, a bit shaken. Some scuffing and edgewear to the brownish-green cloth with gold and black title and decorations to front board, dusty pink endpapers. Overall, a near very good copy. This copy comes from the extensive Hearn collection compiled by Grinnell Jones and contains a receipt dating from 1945 from Goodspeed's Book Shop selling the book to Mrs. Grinnell Jones for $60, as well as the original Goodspeed's price in pencil to the front pastedown. [Perkins, Lafcadio Hearn, A Bibliography, page 10; Johnson, American First Editions, page 94; BAL 7913; Bitting, page 221; Cagle 348; Uhler 115 (later edition)]. $4500.00

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"Man kills himself, rather than dies."

31. Henderson, Mary. DIET FOR THE SICK. A TREATISE ON THE VALUES OF FOODS, THEIR APPLICATION TO SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE, AND ON THE BEST METHODS OF THEIR PREPARATION. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Octavo, 234 pages+[4] ads. First edition of the author's second book, following her popular Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving of 1877. Henderson and her husband John B. Henderson, Senator from Missouri, were wealthy land speculators and early real estate developers, first in St. Louis, and then in Washington D.C., where she was instrumental in creating the Meridian Hill neighborhood. While this book is not strictly vegetarian, it recommends avoiding meat, and holds certain meats suspect, e.g. "livers, on theoretical grounds, should be avoided." As her interest in vegetarianism grew, so did her advocacy of temperance. When her husband died in 1913, she emptied his entire wine collection into the street. The rear endpaper has been removed, otherwise this volume is in fine condition, in the black and gilt decorated publisher's cloth binding. Signed by the author on the front paste-down, and underneath that by her 5th cousin, Bessie Foote Conrad, who gives a short genealogy in ink on the rear paste down, and has pasted in a newspaper article about a planned tribute to the author. $600.00

32. [Bedford, John Thomas]. ROBERT, OR NOTES FROM THE DIARY OF A CITY WAITER. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHARLES KEENE. [FIRST AND SECOND SERIES]. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co., c. 1885-1888. Octavo, vi, 122 + vii, 144 pages. Likely a remainder issue of the 1885 printing of the First Series and the 1888 issue of the Second Series, here issued together in a single binding. With 14 wood engravings in the text of series one, and 20 in the text of series two. With a bookseller's catalogue entry pasted in to the gutter of the title page. Some light soiling throughout. Original black and red pictorial cloth shows some light wear, and a bit of rolling at the spine. Still near very good. Inscribed by the author on the title page. [Worldcat locate 8 copies of both series bound as one; not in Bitting or Cagle]. $350.00

an unrecorded soda water supply trade catalogue

33. Benton, Myers & Co. MANUFACTURERS OF SODA WATER SUPPLIES. CLEVELAND, O. Cleveland: n.p., c. 1889-1904. Small octavo, 47 pages. Illustrated with four chromolithograph plates. Trade catalogue, issued by the wholesale druggists and soda water supply company, Benton, Myers. & Co. (1882-1904). With a list of products from hot sodas to chocolate extracts, soda syrups, phosphates, ginger ales, "Cafola, a new kola drink" and much more. And with luscious chromo plates of a port wine and a non-sparkling champagne, both produced by the Duroy Wine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, as well as the beautiful "Crushed Fruit Bowl", printed in silver, yellow and white, and another of “Bottles of Grape Juice” and "Buckeye Root Beer". Very near fine, with a few pages with tiny dogears, and some rusting to the stapled text block, in beautiful multi-color chromolithographed

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 13. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 wrappers. WITH; a four page leaflet, listing all wholesale houses throughout the U.S. carrying the Benton, Myers wares, printed in red and black. Also fine. Rare. [Worldcat cites no copies; not in Romaine]. $1250.00

34. Lamb, Charles. [Browne, W.G.R.]. TOASTED LEAVES, OR "TUDOCES FRAGRANS", AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN OF TEA, BY THE SHADE OF CHARLES LAMB. HUMOROUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY W.G.R. BROWNE. London: Edmund Evans, 1890. Small quarto, unpaginated. Illustrated with line drawings in the page, and with 17 full-page chromolithographs. This strange pseudo-explanation of the origins of Assam tea seems to have escaped the attention of history, with the exception of a small mention in Malone's magnificent 1949 work, The Semantics of Toast. Binding a bit tender, but otherwise very near fine, in publisher's stamped and printed decorated binding. [Worldcat cites only 2 copies: at Harvard and at the National Library of Australia]. $500.00

35. Swett, Lucy Gray. NEW ENGLAND BREAKFAST BREADS, LUNCHEON AND TEA BISCUITS. Boston: Lee & Shepard Publishers, 1891. Oblong octavo, 129 pages. Second printing, first issued in 1890. As the author mentions in here preface, these recipes derive from a single New England family over a half-century. Each recipe is given one full page, with multiple recipes for the same item, including five for Brown Bread, four for Rye Drop Cakes, and four for Johnny Cakes. There are also 12 different Griddle Cake recipes, including Griddle Cakes with Bread, Squash, Sweet Corn, Hominy, Rice, and more. Some extremely light spotting on a few pages, otherwise fine. [Bitting page 454; Brown 2012 (this printing); not in Cagle; $120.

36. Marshall, Mrs. A.B. MRS. A.B. MARSHALL'S LARGER COOKERY BOOK OF EXTRA RECIPES. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO H.R.H. PRINCES CHRISTIAN. London: Marshall's School of Cookery & Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1891. Thick quarto, 656, 28 [ads] pages. Frontispiece portrait and illustrations in the text. First edition. Errata slip tipped-in, previous owner's name to half-title. Publisher's original dark green cloth, blind and gilt-stamped. Hinges restored, some edgewear to cloth, bit of bumping to corners, otherwise very good. [Axford, page 279; Bitting page 310; Cagle 85a]. $350.00

37. Young, H.M. [Liebig Company]. LEIBIG COMPANY'S PRACTICAL COOKERY BOOK. A COLLECTION OF NEW AND USEFUL RECIPES IN EVERY BRANCH OF COOKERY. London: Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Limited, 1893. Small octavo, 104 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Practical recipes, as long as one enjoys meat extract in nearly everything. Justus von Liebig's Meat Extract was produced in Uruguay and sold worldwide, promising health and vitality. An unsigned exlibris bookplate has been tipped in, and the hinges have been neatly repaired. Cloth backed boards, with chromolithograph illustrated front and rear pastedowns. [Worldcat locates 11 copies, only 4 in the US]. $150.00

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37a. SAXE'S NEW GUIDE, OR HINTS TO SODA WATER DISPENSERS. COMPLETE AND MODERN, FORMULAE, FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND DISPENSING OF ALL CARBONATED DRINKS, CONTAINING FULL AND EXPLICIT DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING ALL THE LEADING POPULAR DRINKS OF THE AGE, AND GIVING MY, PRIVATE FORMULAE FOR FANCY SYRUPS AND FANCY MIXED DRINKS, CONTAINING VALUABLE INFORMATION... THIRD EDITION. Chicago: The Saxe Guide Publishing Company, 1894. Octavo, 128 +[4] ads. Illustrated. All edges gilt. Third edition. A marvelous compendium of soda fountain knowledge, illustrated throughout with images of soda fountain layouts, and most interestingly, the specific actions, and positions behind the fountain, of the soda jerks. With 201 recipes for soda drinks and ingredients, many with alcohol. The most complete collection of soda recipes we've seen. A few pages dogearred, and one with the ear chipped off, otherwise very good, gilt-lettered maroon cloth, with only a bit of discoloration to the cloth. Scarce. [Worldcat locates only ten copies of all printings of this title]. $500.00

38. Faxon, Henry H. LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS RELATING TO INTOXICATING LIQUORS, COMMON NUISANCES, GAMING, INNHOLDERS, AND COMMON VICTUALLERS, LORD'S DAY, PENALTIES FOR DRUNKENNESS, ETC... REVISED EDITION. Boston: by the author, 1894. Small octavo, 316 pages. Advocates prohibition through the strict enforcement of laws. With: 3-page pamphlet, "Changes in Mass. Liquor Laws... 1895." With: 22-page pamphlet, "Supplement. Changes... 1895-6, and Additional Supreme Court Decisions." Front and back hinges starting, some soiling of a few pages, otherwise very good in gilt titled brown cloth. $150.00

39. Bryant, William Baily. NINETEENTH CENTURY HANDBOOK ON THE MANUFACTURE OF LIQUORS, WINES AND CORDIALS WITHOUT THE AID OF DISTILLATION. ALSO THE MANUFACTURE OF EFFERVESCING BEVERAGES AND SYRUPS, VINEGAR AND BITTERS. PREPARED AND ARRANGED EXPRESSLY FOR THE TRADE. Owensboro, KY: Industrial Publishing Company, 1895. Octavo, 310 pages. With a six-page insert, “Stuck’s Formula”. First edition. A manual of liquors, including cordials, brandies, fermentation, vinegar and more. Interesting lists of ingredients, with descriptions, include the uses of ambergris, cochineal, hot peppers, snakeroot, ground animal bones and much more. Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with gilt spine lettering (professionally recased). Spine lettering faded and binding cloth soiled. Hinges renewed. A near very good copy. Scarce. [Worldcat locates two institutional holdings (only one in the US) of the first edition; not in Cagle; Gabler 2nd G11360; Noling, Beverage Literature, page 85]. $1200.

40. Lincoln, Mary J[ohnson], [Mrs. D.A. Lincoln]. MRS. LINCOLN'S BOSTON COOK BOOK. WHAT TO DO AND WHAT NOT TO DO IN COOKING. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897. Octavo, 536 + [22] ads. Later ed. Originally published in 1884, although

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 15. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 copyright 1883. The milestone cookbook from the first principal of the Boston Cooking School and a student of Maria Parloa. She was also the teacher of Fannie Farmer. This work is considered one of the first American cookbooks to provide scientific information about cooking and nutrition, and helped set the pattern of rational organization for cookbooks to come. Near fine, but for a bit of edgewear to the paper-covered boards over brown cloth. [Bitting, page 288 (1896 ed.) Cagle 478 (later ed.)]. $250.00

Inscribed by Maria Parloa

41. Parloa, Maria. MISS PARLOA'S YOUNG HOUSEKEEPER. DESIGNED TO AID BEGINNERS. ECONOMICAL RECEIPTS FOR THOSE WHO ARE COOKING FOR TWO OR THREE. ILLUSTRATED. Boston: Dana Estes and Co., 1900. Octavo, 405 pages. First edition, later printing. Originally issued in 1893. While many of the author's earlier books included both economical and "rich" dishes, often clearly demarcated, this book collects solely the economical recipes. Some light age toning and rubbing to the publisher's black and silver decorated gray cloth, otherwise very good or better. With the bookplate of the Sontheimer Foundation. Carl Sontheimer was the founder of Cuisinart and a collector of culinary books. His collection resides at the Schlesinger Library. Inscribed by the author on the free front endpaper, "Miss Darling, with the Compliments of Maria Parloa". [Bitting 357; Brown 1543; Cagle 496]. $350.00

42. Lowe, Paul E. DRINKS AS THEY ARE MIXED. A MANUAL OF QUICK REFERENCE CONTAINING UPWARDS OF 300 RECIPES FOR MIXING AND SERVING DRINKS. AN INVALUABLE COMPANION TO ALL WHO ARE ENGAGED IN THE LIQUOR BUSINESS. INCLUDING TOASTS AND SENTIMENTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS. ILLUSTRATED. Chicago: Frederick J. Drake and Company, 1904. Tall duodecimo, 135, [1] pages. Text illustrations, and with an alphabetical thumb-index. First edition. An early vest pocket bartender's guide, enlivened with comical illustrations provided with the "courtesy and affability" of the Heublein corporation. Original red pictorial cloth- covered cardboard wrappers. Light rubbing and wear to covers, previous owner's neatly written name to front free endpaper, near very good. Quite rare in the first edition. [Worldcat cites only one copy of the first edition, at UC Davis, and one copy of the 1909 second printing (also at UC Davis), and a few copies of printings from the 1920s and 1930s; Noling, Beverage Literature page 263]. $500.00

43. Wyvern. [Kenney-Herbert, Col.]. WYVERN'S INDIAN COOKERY BOOK, BEING A NEW AND REVISED EDITION OF CULINARY JOTTINGS FROM MADRAS. Madras and London: Higginbotham and Simpkin, Marshall, [1904]. Octavo, xii + 571 pages. Seventh edition, first of this revised and more complete edition, and the first with the new title. Originally published in 1878 as Culinary Jottings from Madras, Colonel Kenney-Herbert's work stands as one of the great Anglo-Indian cookbooks. As much a description of Victorian

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 16. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 high cuisine as a guide to 19th century dishes of India, it sought to inform English expats in India on how to run a kitchen staffed by Indian servants to get edible English and French as well as local foods out of it. This book was highly praised by Elizabeth David, particularly in Spices, Salts and Aromatics in the English Kitchen. A few tiny chips to several page edges, otherwise very good in blue cloth decoratively stamped in black. $450.00

French decorative desserts, signed by the author

44. Laurey, Alfred. L'ENTREMETIER MODERNE : 600 RECETTES ET TABLEAUX; ENTREMETS DE PATISSERIE ENTREMETS CHAUD, ENTREMETS FROIDS, PETITS FOURS & GLACES. OUVRAGE ILLUSTRE DE NOMBREUSES GRAVURES TEXTE ET HORS TEXTE. Paris: Bibliotheque de l'Art Culinaire, 1908. 10x15cm, xxxi, [1], 190, [2] pages. Frontispiece and 16 additional leaves of plates, portraits, text illustrations. Index. First edition. A wonderful look at the French art of decorative dessert making, as practiced by a master chef. Original brown pebbled cloth, with gilt-lettered and decorated front cover. Front cover a trifle rubbed, with light wear to the spine ends, otherwise fine. Signed by the author on the declaration page, that indicates all unsigned copies as counterfeit. Scarce. [Worldcat cites four copies, with only one in the US (New York Academy of Medicine); not in Bitting, Cagle, Simon, Vicaire, etc.] $1250.00

45. Killinger, Heinrich. PREISGEKRONTE. TORTEN-VERZIERUNGEN. 54 MODERN VORLAGEN MIT ERLAUETERUNGEN UND EINER GARNIERSCHULE. Leipzig und Nordhauser: Heinrich Killinger, n.d. c. 1910. Quarto, Fifty-four double page chromolithograph plates of prize-winning cake decorations. The plates are lovely, and the styles vary widely, from Vienna Secessionist to more traditional. With some adhesion to a few plates, otherwise the plates are bright and generally very good. Some soiling to edges of text block, and a bit of rubbing to the decorated blue cloth boards. $750.00

46. GROSSES RESTAURATIONS-KOCHBUCH. EIN HAND- U. NACHSCHLAGEBUCH DER MODERNEN RESTAURATIONS-KÜCHE HERVORGEGANGEN AUS ZWEI PREISAUSSCHREIBEN DES INTERNATIONALEN VERBANDES DER KÜCHE SITZ FRANKFURT AM MAIN. Frankfurt: Fachschriften- Verlag des Internationalen Verbandes der Köche, n.d. c. 1910. Quarto, 650 pages+[6] ads. Profusely illustrated. Second enlarged and revised edition. A complete guide to restaurant management, from provision and menu pricing, to menu design, to classic German recipes. With over 100 pages of color facsimiles of menus of German restaurants of many styles. A tiny bit of pulling at the front hinge, otherwise near fine. In publisher's half black calf, with Art D eco gilt design to spine. [Worldcat locates 4 copies of this printing, and only one in the US; 6 copies of the first edition, only 3 in the US; not in Cagle]. $250.00

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an unrecorded haut cuisine manual

47. Morin, Victor. LA CUISINE DECORATIVE MODERNE: DRESSAGE FORMULES POUR L'EXECUTION; CENT PIECES ILLUSTRES E ANOTEES AVEC PREFACE PAR CHATILLON-PLESSIS ET INTRODUCTION HISTORIQUE. Paris: Bibliotheque de l'Art Culinaire, 1913. Quarto, xxix, [3], 48 pages. Text illustrations. Index. First edition. A monument to French culinary excess, with illustrations of elaborate sculptural presentations suitable for royal banquets and other formal occasions. Includes instructions for dishes such as "Tonneau Abondance" and "Volcan Norwegien". Original pictorial wrappers bound into contemporary half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with raised band and gilt- lettered spine. Some wear to edges and corners. A bit of discoloration to the bottoms of a few pages, otherwise near fine. Rare. Unrecorded. [No institutional copies found (Worldcat or BN); not in Bitting, Cagle, Vicaire, Oberlé, etc.]. $1500.00

an unrecorded cocktail manual

48. Connoisseur, A. THE ART OF MIXING THEM. Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, ca. 1914. Small stapled duodecimo, 64 pages. Index. First edition. Rare pre-Prohibition vest pocket-sized bartending manual, this issue "presented by Indianapolis Brewing Co., Indianapolis, Ind.," the makers of "Gold Medal Duesseldorfer" beer. Original colored pictorial cardboard wrappers. Wrapper spine perished, covers rubbed and faded, otherwise very good. Rare. Unrecorded. [Worldcat locates no copies; not in Noling]. $350.00

49. Coquelet et Tissier (Medames). RÉGIME VÉGÉTALIEN UTILISANT LES GRAISSES ANIMALES. RECETTES DE CUISINE. Paris: Editions d'Art Edouard Pelletan, 1914. Quarto, 406 pages. First edition, number 26 of 1133 copies, hors commerce on vélin teinté. One of the first French cookbooks to use vegan recipes outside a purely convalescent food context. Sumptuously illustrated throughout by the great Art Nouveau designer Henri Bellery-Desfontaines, who died in 1909 before the book was completed. His friend, Henri Rapin, finished the illustrations. A bright and fresh copy. Signatures a tiny bit loose in the original black and red illustrated wrappers. Fine. [Worldcat locates 14 copies worldwide; Bitting 99; Oberlé 717]. $600.00

50. Duc D'Harcourt, [Ernest de Ganay, introduction]. TRAITE DE LA DECORATION, DES DEHORS, DES JARDINS, ET DES PARCS. PUBLIE ET PRECEDE D'UNE INTRODUCTION PAR MONS. LE COMTE ERNEST DE GANAY. Paris: Chez Emile- Paul Freres, 1919. Duodecimo, 253 pages. First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on velin fin de Voiron. Written in 1774, but not published until 1919. With a lengthy life of d'Harcourt by de Ganay. D'Harcourt was an amateur, and created by himself the gardens at his eponymous chateau in Calvados, Normandy. Professional repair to a closed one-inch tear to top front hinge of publisher's pink wrappers, otherwise very good. $350.00

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50a. Cushing, Frank Hamilton. ZUNI BREADSTUFF. New York: Museum of the American Indian, 1920. Indian Notes & Monographs Vol. VIII. Small thin octavo, 673 pages. First edition in book form of this important survey of the food traditions of the Zuni tribes. 'Feeding America' calls it one of the most "thorough and comprehensive" examinations of Native American foodways. The author "lived as an adopted member of the Zuni tribe from 1879 to 1884. During this time he examined and recorded information respecting not only the food products of the Zuni but also their methods of food preparation, and the myths, ceremonies, and daily customs pertaining thereto." Although lacking his bookplate or other physical indications, this is Alan Davidson's copy. Small hole to bottom of several early pages near gutter, otherwise fine in publisher's red printed tan cloth. Scarce. $350.00

51. Seutter, Carl A. DER MIXOLOGIST : ILLUSTRIERTES INTERNATIONALES GETRAENKE-BUCH. Nordhausen: Heinrich Killinger, Verlagsgesellschaft M.B.H., circa 1925. Octavo, 103 pages. Frontispiece, text illustrations. Index. Fifth edition. German collection of alcoholic beverage recipes, exhibiting a distinct American influence (as evidenced by the frontispiece illustration of a "Moderne amerikanische Bar"). The title is one of the earliest uses of the term "mixologist" we've encountered, predating the word's English usage by a couple of decades. Original half-cloth and printed paper-covered boards. Light cover stain and wear, otherwise very good. Scarce. [Worldcat locates only 7 copies of all early printings] $400.00

52. [Post, Charles William, dedicatee]. THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE: A PERSONALLY CONDUCTED JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF GOOD HEALTH BY THE ROUTE OF RIGHT LIVING. Battle Creek, Michigan: The Postum Cereal Company, 1926. Quarto, 103 pages, with a full-color frontispiece by Myron Perley and illustrated with diagrams and decorations. First edition of this book dedicated to C.W. Post, founder of the Postum Cereal Company, inventor of Grape Nuts and father of Marjorie Merriweather Post. Post had died thirteen years earlier, apparently by his own hand. The book includes an essay on nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, recipes, recommendations for a household library and a hilarious chart of the “tragic significance of age 31”, after which it is apparently all down hill. Post’s life, along with that of his mentor Kellogg, were the basis of 1993 T. C. Boyle novel (and, later, the film directed by Alan Parker). A truly fine copy, with printed paste-down on paper covered boards. Original glassine jacket and slightly dented box included. $500.00

53. CORDIAL COCKTAIL CONFIDENCES. New York: B. B. Dorf & Company, n.d., circa 1929. Small, stapled pamphlet, [24] pages. With full-page color illustrations. First edition. An attractively printed piece of Prohibition-era cocktail ephemera. The Dorf firm billed itself the "foremost importers of non-alcoholic beverages in the United States," and here offers a collection of drink recipes utilizing Holloway's London Dry "jin" and other non- alcoholic products. The Dorf product line (including Caloric - a rum substitute with a flavor similar to Bacardi, Old Maryland Non-Alcoholic Rye, and Brandiac) is pictured in color.

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Original pictorial wrappers, stapled, three-hole punched and tied with ornamental cord along spine. Separation starting to wrapper spine ends, light additional cover soil and edge wear, otherwise very good. Very scarce. [Worldcat locates only a single institutional copy (at UC Davis); Noling, Beverage Literature, page 136]. $350.00

54. Scott, Natalie [Vivian]. MIRATIONS AND MIRACLES OF MANDY. New Orleans: by the author/printed by the Robt. H. True Co., 1929. Octavo, 61 pages. First edition. A classic Louisiana cookbook. Natalie Vivian Scott (1890-1957) was a decorated war hero, celebrated journalist, award-winning playwright, historic preservationist, and author of several books on New Orleans regional cuisine and Mexican cooking. The cover art is by New Orleans painter and graphic artist Olive Leonhardt. Very light wear and soiling to the edges of the pictorial wrappers, otherwise fine. [Axford page 217; Bitting page 424; Brown 1165]. $350.00

a "Joy" in a jacket, a legendary rarity

55. Rombauer, Irma. THE JOY OF COOKING. A COMPILATION OF RELIABLE RECIPES WITH A CASUAL CULINARY CHAT. ILLUSTRATIONS. St. Louis, MO: by the author/printed by the A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931. Octavo, 395 pages. First edition of the most iconic of American cookbooks, in the exceedingly scarce dust jacket. The jacket, designed by Rombauer’s daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, depicts, in high deco style, St. Martha of Bethany slaying the dragon of kitchen drudgery. The end papers and final blank pages have a number of recipes penned or pasted in, and with a small closed tear to the bottom of the title page, otherwise very good. The dust jacket has had significant tape repair to the edges and spine, and the final “R” in Rombauer is slightly eclipsed from the repair, but there is almost no loss to the jacket, and as such is the best dust jacket we’ve seen to date. Exceptionally rare in the dust jacket. $12,000.00

56. Rombauer, Irma. THE JOY OF COOKING. A COMPILATION OF RELIABLE RECIPES WITH A CASUAL CULINARY CHAT. ILLUSTRATIONS. St. Louis, MO: by the author/printed by the A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931. Octavo, [32] + 395 pages. Privately published by the author in an addition of 3000 copies. First edition. Closed tear to page 211. A bit of staining to front edges of a few pages. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth professionally rehinged with original spine laid down. Overall near very good. Laid-in is a page, inscribed by the author "To Louise, with many thanks for her contributions. Lovingly, Irma". Judging from the dimensions, the page is likely a preliminary from the 1936 edition of the same title. Also included is a three-page ALS, from Rombauer's nephew, Paul Albert Hoeffer, addressed to Mrs. Guida, and speaking about the death of Rombauer, and of other matters. $5000.00

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the first mojito in print, inscribed by the author

57. De Baralt, Blanche Z. CUBAN COOKERY. GASTRONOMIC SECRETS OF THE TROPICS, WITH AN APPENDIX ON CUBAN DRINKS. Havana, Cuba: Molina & Cia, 1931. Octavo, 158 pages. Illustrated with line drawings by Conrado Massaguer. A later but early edition of the first Cuban cookbook printed in English. De Baralt was the American wife of a Cuban doctor who moved to Havana around the turn of the century. She clearly felt at home there, as she refers to Cuban food as "our" cuisine throughout. She also exhibits a notable understanding of other world cuisines in her introduction, in which she tries to locate Cuban cooking relative to others - favorably of course. The book contains an appendix of fifty-three cocktails and refrescos, including what is the first printed recipe for a Cuban mojito, here called a 'Cuban Mojo'. The mojito is widely considered to have appeared and become popular in Cuba in the 1920s, but this is its first appearance in print. Tiny bit of wear to the publisher's printed red pasted-down label on black cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, "To Dean Gildersleeve, Whom the university women of Cuba are so proud to have met. May she return to us someday! Blanche Z. de Baralt, Havana, Nov. 22/41." The recipient was Virginia Gildersleeve, President of Barnard College and member of the United Nations Charter Committee. [OCLC locates 7 copies]. $1500.00

A short break… Rum Cocktail (Cuban Mojo)

In medium size glass put : One teaspoonful sugar Juice and rind of a green lime Sprig of mint One jigger Bacardi Rum Several pieces of ice Fill glass with soda water. Serve with a long spoon.

58. [Held Jr., John]. FORTY FAMOUS COCKTAILS: BEING A COMPENDIUM OF RELIABLE RECIPES CAREFULLY COMPILED FOR USE IN THIS ARID ERA. ENGRAVED WITH HUMBLE APOLOGIES TO THAT MASTER ENGRAVER JOHN HELD JR. New York: Colonial Sales Corp., n.d. circa 1930. 19 cm x 29 cm. First edition. A movable cocktail recipe book featuring humorous illustrations in the style of celebrated barroom artist John Held (engraved by John Boland), and an imaginative sliding display for the cocktail recipes. The illustration on the verso of this piece is captioned, "The Road to Perdition or a Scene from the Back Room when Life Was Simple." The mention of "this arid era" in the title suggests a pre-repeal publication date. Very light wear to cardboard edges, otherwise fine. Unusual in such fine condition. [OCLC WorldCat locates only a single institutional copy of this work, at SMU's DeGolyer Library]. $350.00

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59. DRINK MIXER. [Caption title]. New York: E. K. Madan, circa 1931. Single piece of cardboard, 15.5 cm. x 11.5 cm, with recipe instructions printed on one side, distributor's advertisement and calendar for 1932 printed on verso. Housed in printed colored pictorial slotted acetate holder. A rare piece of Prohibition-era cocktailiana, presenting recipes for 72 concoctions, listed alphabetically from Alexander to Woodstock, in an interesting "slide rule" format. This piece was distributed "compliments of Nat M. Leff, Boxing Promoter, boxers furnished for entertainments, smoker, etc., twenty-four hour service." rare. Unrecorded. [WorldCat locates no institutional holdings for this title]. $350.00

60. Finebouche, Marie-Claude [pseudonym of Madame Jean Ajabert]. LA CUISINE DE MADAME. 299 RECETTES EPROUVES PAR L'AUTEUR ET SES AMIS. Paris: Librarie Gallimard, 1932. Quarto, 180 pages. First edition, numbered and limited. One of 220 numbered hors commerce copies, stamped S.P. [service de la presse], from a total of 1589 copies. Printed in red and black and with text decorations throughout. Marie-Claude Finebouche is the pseudonym of Madame Jean Alabert, wife of the celebrated author and gourmand. Born in 1879, she published several cookbooks in the 1930s and 40s celebrating the pleasures of traditional French domestic cuisine, as practiced by the women of her grandmother's generation. All were issued in somewhat limited editions, and all are rather scarce in American collections. Publisher's advertisement and author's photograph laid-in; Some light foxing to a few pages, otherwise fine, in illustrated wrappers. Inscribed at some length by the author, using her real name, to Jean Ernest-Charles. [Worldcat locates 8 copies, only 4 in the US; Bitting page 158]. $750.00

an association copy

61. Nignon, Eduoard. ELOGES DE LA CUISINE FRANÇAISE. PRESENTATION DE SACHA GUITRY. Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza, 1933. Quarto, 444 pages. Illustrated with designs and ornaments by Pierre Courtois. First edition. Nignon was chef to the Tsar, and to the Austrian Emperor, before cooking at the grand Parisian Restaurant Larue. This is one of the great expressions of French cooking between the wars. Bound in full green morocco, with raised bands, gilt-titled and ruled compartments, and a gilt decorative design around the borders of the front and rear boards. Top edge gilt. A bit of light foxing throughout, otherwise near fine. From the library of distinguished Northern California chef Jeremiah Tower, with his signature to the front paste down. A lovely copy and a nice association. [Bitting, page 273; Cagle 363; Oberle 279]. $1500.00

62. FASHIONS IN COCKTAILS. Los Angeles: Old Word Importers, Inc. (printed by the T. V. Allen Co.), n.d., but circa 1933. Stapled pamphlet, 20 pages. Text illustration from black-and-white photograph. 18 cm. First edition. Scarce piece of post-Prohibition cocktailiana, published by a Los Angeles importer of wines and liquors and attractively printed with striking art deco cover art. "This book is designed to be the guide, counselor

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 22. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 and friend of those who like and appreciate a good glass of wine gracefully served, a fine cocktail skillfully mixed or an exquisite liqueur as a benediction. It is dedicated to those who hope, as we do, that these arts may be reborn." Includes cocktail recipes for the “Eagles Scream”, the “Bosom Caresser”, the “Liar’s Cocktail”, and the “Maiden’s Prayer”. Original colored pictorial wrappers. Light to moderate cover soil and wear, else VG+. Scarce. [Worldcat locates no copies]. $300.00

an unrecorded Peruvian cookbook in two volumes

63. Ferrer, Juan Boix. COCINA AL DIA, CRIOLLA Y EXTRANJERA, CON INFINIDAD DE RECETAS VEGETARIANAS, ADAPTADA A LOS PAISES HISPANO- AMERICANOS... CON GRAN PROFUSION DE GRABADOS Y UNA LAMINA EN COLORES. Lima: Libreria e Imprenta Gil, S.A., 1934. Two volumes, large octavos, stapled in wrappers, 130 & 160 pages. Illustrated in the text and each volume with a full- page color lithograph. While the word does appear in the title, these two volumes contain vegetarian recipes alongside lots of recipes that include meat. The recipes are aimed at introducing an element of European cuisine into the homes of Peruvians, and the recipes and illustrations project a simple gentility and a degree of European manners. Recipes include "Civet de Venado" or deer stew, and "Lomo a la Wellington", but there also quite a few Peruvian dishes, indicating that the Old and New World Cuisines were well on their way to coexistence. Some small tears along edges of a few pages, light staining to edges of text blocks on both volumes. General edgewear to lithographed wrappers, but overall still very good. Unrecorded. Rare. [Worldcat locates no copies]. $500.00

64. A Prosperous Head Waiter. WAITING AT TABLE, BY A PROSPEROUS HEAD WAITER. London: Universal Publications Ltd., c. 1936. Small octavo, 87 pages + ads. First edition. A English service manual, intended in part as a guide to career advancement in the front of the house. With sections on table service and dignity, bad habits, carving and cleanliness. Some light soiling throughout, spine of original orange printed wrappers is a bit rolled, but sound. The additional red white and blue printed dust jacket is lightly soiled, but still handsome. Scarce. $150.00

65. Inches, Howard V.H. THE FORCES OF FOODS. A SCIENTIFIC CHART FOR NUTRITIONAL DATA, WITH OTHER DIETETIC MATERIAL. Boston: American Dietetic Research Foundation/Hampshire Press, 1936. Octavo, 123 pages. Illustrated with folding chart. First edition. A work intended to bring the idea of vitamins and nutritive elements of foods to the general public. Small bump to the foot of the publisher's illustrated wrappers, otherwise very good. $50.00

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66. Turnbull, Grace H. FRUIT OF THE VINE. A SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL DRINKING. AS SEEN BY MANY WITNESSES OF ALL TIMES. Baltimore: the author, 1950. Octavo, 165 pages. First edition of this interesting compilation of historical “evidence” against alcohol. Turnbull, a sculptor and historian of the ancient world, pulls quotes and snippets from figures including Plato, Chaucer, Franklin, Johnson, Poe and others, many of whom more than enjoyed a tipple. In a way, a drinker’s anthology, albeit one twisted by the logic of prohibition’s search for “freedom.” A fine copy, in a fine dust jacket, with a handsome illustration of grapes. With a one page TLS laid-in from the Methodist Church Board of Temperance recommending the book. $500.00

an original mycological watercolor, by the distinguished Canadian naturalist

67. Jackson, Henry A.C. BOLETUS FLAVUS L. COLLECTED L'ISLET COUNTY, QUE. 1950. [Original watercolor with convolute of related materials]. 1950. Original watercolor, 17 x 22 cm. Labeled, signed and dated by the artist in pencil. On watercolor paper that had been mounted on a thicker card stock, now de-laminated, but in remarkably fine condition. Henry A.C. Jackson (1877-1960) was one of Canada's outstanding amateur naturalists. He was the elder brother of landscape painter A.Y. Jackson, and while A.Y. achieved great fame through his art, Henry chose to quietly document his mycological journeys in Quebec through copious note-taking and watercolor paintings of the collected specimens. After his death in 1960, much of his work was donated to the National Gallery of Canada. In 1979 The National Gallery mounted an exhibition of the watercolors, and produced the catalogue, Mr. Jackson's Mushrooms that reproduces forty-odd images, and accompanies them with excerpts from his field notes. Very few of Jackson's mushroom watercolors have reached the market, with only a few having been given to friends and neighbors over the years. A small convolute of related materials accompanies the watercolor, including: The Fungus Records of Mr. H.A.C. Jackson From L'Islet Co., Quebec 1941-1960 - offprint from The Canadian Field Naturalist, vol. 7, no. 4 (1963)); Notes on the Higher Fungi Collected in Lasalle, Que., 1930-1940 - offprint from C.F.N., vol. 62, no. 5. (1948); 18 pages of original manuscript and typescript of Jackson's Field notes from 1932 and 33; three original photographs, 6 x 9cm each. Two of the photos depict the artist, at a youthful age, in the field. The third depicts an unidentified fungus on a log. $3500.00

68. Mitchell, Joseph. THE BOTTOM OF THE HARBOR. Boston: Little Brown and Company. , 1951. Octavo, 243 pages. With a dust jacket design by Saul Steinberg. First edition. The third book by the great New Yorker writer, a classic study of New York's fish markets, with an emphasis on the bounty of the bottom of the harbor, oysters. A source for Mark Kurlansky's The Big Oyster. A personal favorite. $300.00

69. Weising, George P. ICE CARVING PROFESSIONALLY. Fairfield, CT: by the author/Fairfield County Publications, 1954. Large octavo, 372 pages + 6 page tipped-in

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"supplement". Illustrated throughout. First edition. Perhaps the greatest of ice carving manuals. If you've ever wondered why the naked woman carved from ice is so muscle-y, look no further. Instructions include guidance to leave the arms extra thick to account for melting. The six-page supplement is creased, and there are small stains from the adhesive used with the supplement, otherwise near fine. Inscribed at length by the author on the free front endpaper. $300.00

70. Child, Julia, Louisette Bertholle & Simone Beck. MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. Quarto, 684, xxxii, pages. First edition, first printing, in a first state dust jacket, with all points. The classic book that started the career of the most famous of American food personalities. Small crush mark and tear to the bottom edge of a half dozen pages. Some light soiling to original boards, in a price clipped dust jacket with a few small chips to the edges. Overall near very good, and difficult to obtain in the true first state. $1200.00

a Surrealist menu

71. Mesens, E. L. T. MENU FOR LA COLOMBA. Venezia: La Colomba, 1962. 13 x 13 inch single sheet with screen printed typo-pictorial design in colors. Verso with food offerings and prices. A menu designed by the important Belgian surrealist, probably created for the famed art bistro's design contest, and quite possibly a mock-up. Signed and dated 1962 by Mesens in the lower left hand corner. This is further inscribed in 1964 by Mesens to his long time friend and accomplice, the surrealist jazz musician and all around bohemian and eccentric George Melly. "For Diana and George, who should go to eat by gondola in Venezia! Look at the prices. . . Ted. 1964." A fantastic association. Melly was introduced to surrealism by Mesens, and worked for a time in his important surrealist gallery in London, where he developed a close and complicated three-way relationship with Mesens and his wife Sybil. Melly would go on to write the biography of Mesens, entitled "Don't Tell Sybil." The "Diana" of the inscription is Diana Moynihan, George's second wife. Folded twice, with overall creasing, still about very good. Likely unique. $900.00

72. Long, E Rodriguez & Jewel B. Groves. EL ASADO CRIOLLO. ROAST SPIT- BARBECUE. Buenos Aires: S.A. Editorial Bell, 1963. Octavo, 117 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos by Debora, and line drawings. Text in Spanish and English. First edition, simultaneous wrappered issue. An incredible journey into the meat fest that is Asado, which has been recently brought to the attention of Americans by Chef Francis Mallman of Buenos Aires and Uruguay. If you've ever wanted to spatchcock a cow, this book is for you. Slight edgewear to printed wrappers, otherwise near fine, in a similar dust jacket with the same printed image. Food historian Alan Davidson's copy. $750.00

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73. Petroleum Women's Club, Tripoli Libya. GOURMET CLUB DINNER MENUS. 1964-1965. Tripoli, Libya: Petroleum Women's Club, 1965. Strap-bound quarto, approximately 70 pages. A collection of menus and recipes sourced from around the world by the very multicultural members of the Petroleum Women's Club or Tripoli. From Irish to Hawaiian, Chinese to Creole, the club endeavored to try it all. "The Gourmet Club was organized in September, 1964 for the purpose of learning to prepare and savor foods from all over the world... Our members represented many nations: Canada, Egypt, England, Greece, Holland, India, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Scotland, Sweden, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela." (from the introduction). Some wear to binder card covers, otherwise fine. [Worldcat locates one copy only, at Michigan State]. $350.00

74. Child, Julia with Louisette Betholle and Simone Beck. MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING [VOLUMES 1 & 2, BOTH SIGNED]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. Quarto, 684 + xxxii pages & 555 + liv pages. First edition, twelfth printing and first edition, third printing respectively. Both volumes of the great classic, each signed by both Paul and Julia Child. The first volume a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket, with just a touch of edgewear and soiling. The second volume with a touch of tape residue to front and rear free endpapers, otherwise fine, in a fine dust jacket. Both in individual custom made slipcases. Each signed by both Julia and Paul Child on the half-title. $2500.00

75. Schultes, Richard Evans and Albert Hofmann. THE BOTANY AND CHEMISTRY OF HALLUCINOGENS. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1973. Octavo, 267 pages. First edition. The monumental and definitive study of plant hallucinogens, by Albert Hoffman, the first to synthesize LSD, and Schultes, the father of modern ethno-botany. Some light foxing to a few pages and to fore edges, otherwise very good, in a very lightly soiled dust jacket. Overall very good. $500.00

76. Bernard, Genoveva. COCINA VASCA. Barcelona: Editorial Bruguera, S.A., 1974. Thick octavo, 543 pages. Text in Spanish. First edition of this cookbook of traditional Basque food, with over 1000 recipes. Fine in publisher's green cloth. In dust jacket with some light edgewear to the near very good dust jacket. With the bookseller's ticket of John Lyle of Devon, and the bookplate of the great food historian Alan Davidson. $90.00

a miniature cookbook of Hungarian herdsmen’s recipes

77. HERDSMEN'S-COOKING AND MEALS. Debrecen (Hungary): Alfoldi Nyomda, 1986. A miniature book, 41 mm. x 68, 96, [5] pages. First edition. Number 161 of an unspecified limitation. A fascinating miniature book on a little-explored aspect of Hungarian cuisine. "This book ... describes ... the cooking and eating habits and the food of herdsmen in the Hortobagy puszta, in some cases with recipes and with the unwritten rules

www.rabelaisbooks.com Page 26. Rabelais – Fine Books On Food & Drink Boston Fair Show List 2012 of making food. The description is completed with the introduction of cooking utensils in the puszta." Original pictorial cloth, with colored printed acetate (teeny-tiny) belly band. Fine. Scarce. [WorldCat locates only two copies]. $200.00

78. Olney, Richard. ROMANEÉ-CONTI. Paris: Flammarion, 1991. Large quarto, 192 pages. Illustrated. First edition. Text in French. Originally published in this French translation, by Jean Forberger. The English language edition was published four years later. A joyous exploration of the gran cru Burgundy from the Cote de Nuits, of which the critic Clive Coates said, "a yardstick with which to judge all other Burgundies." A touch of very light spotting to textblock edges, otherwise fine, in a fine dust jacket. $150.00

79. Ducasse, Alain & Marianne Comolli. LA RIVIERA D'ALAIN DUCASSE, RECETTES AU FIL DU TEMPS. Paris: Albin Michel, 1992. Preface S.A.S. Le Prince Rainer III de Monaco. Large quarto, 294 pages. First edition. Illustrated with photographs by Jean-Louis Bloch-Lainé. The first book of Chef Alain Ducasse, with recipes for dishes served at his restaurant Louis XV in Monaco. Fine in dust jacket. $200.00

80. Higounet, Charles [translated and adapted by Edmund Penning-Rowsell]. CHATEAU LATOUR. THE HISTORY OF A GREAT VINEYARD, 1331-1992. Kingston upon Thames, UK: Segrave Foulkes, 1993. Thick quarto, 572 pages. First edition, #344 of 1500 copies. A grand history of one of the grandest of Bordeaux chateaux, originally written by the French medievalist Charles Higounet in the 1970s. Here it has been expanded and translated by Edmund Penning-Rowsell, the great British wine correspondent. Fine in publisher's red half morocco binding. A beautifully illustrated and sumptuously produced volume. Already quite scarce. $500.00

81. Gissinger, Hans and Marc Meneau. LA CONVERSATION / THE CONVERSATION. Phoenicia, NY: Woodstock Editions, 2000. Two volumes, unpaginated, with black and white photographs. Quarto, boards covered in butcher paper, boxed. First edition, one of 2000 copies, signed by Gissinger and numbered. This book, an exchange in words and images between photographer Hans Gissinger and chef Marc Meneau, provides a sharp contrast to what is usually considered "food photography". The black and white images reveal the grisly process of haute cuisine; slaughtering animals, force feeding geese, stuffing sausages. Parallel to their meditation on food and its cultural significance are Gissinger's gripping photographs which find beauty, depth, and humanity in our relationship with what we eat and how it gets to the plate. Text in French and English. Fine. $450.00

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82. Bras, Michel. ESSENTIAL CUISINE. MICHEL BRAS. LAGUIOLE . AUBRAC . FRANCE. Woodbury, CT: Ici La Press, 2002. Quarto, 269 pages. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. First English language edition. The undeniable masterwork from the three-star chef who has proven that purity and complexity can go hand in hand. He's been called "France's most venerated chef", and his book is essential for the shelf of all serious modern chefs. Very near fine, in a like dust jacket. $350.00

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