Between Farm and Table: The Production and Marketing of Food

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“Now, we find, ‘the market-place’ assumes another aspect – a change which time and circumstances have created. The producer is often hundreds of miles in one direction, while the consumer may be hundreds of miles in another, from the mart at which the productions are sold and purchased. Through the course of the year, the products of North, South, East and West, are to be formed in our large public market-places; from which great quantities are disposed of, to be consumed in other towns, cities, villages, or on the many ocean or river steamers or other vessels, as well as in foreign countries.” Thomas DeVoe, The Market Assistant. (1866)

Thomas DeVoe, The Market Assistant. 1866

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Rabelais Fine Books on Food & Drink

Catalogue 4 Between Farm & Table: Food Production & Marketing

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Between Farm & Table

Much attention of late has been given to the idea that we have become alienated from our food: alienated by distance, by process, by commoditization, and by adulteration with chemicals and preservatives. In various ways, parts of a contemporary food movement have arisen to address this alienation. The organic movement, now more than seventy years old, addresses, among other things, the use of chemicals in agriculture and food production. Local food advocates have pushed for a return to knowing our farmer, purchasing from local markets, and membership in CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture).

When Michael Pollan recommends we “eat around the edges of a supermarket” he urges us to walk away from processed foods. He warns that our grandparents wouldn’t recognize many of these packaged foods in the aisles, and goes on to tell us how processing has made them something other than ‘food’.

Despite these warnings, we crave these foods. Through a combination of engineered flavors and increasingly sophisticated and pervasive marketing, the American diet is more processed, packaged, and marketed than any on earth at any time in history. The medical community warns us of the devastating health effects that a diet rich in these processed foods might bring. But how did we get here? When did food production move from the kitchen to the factory and why do simple fruits have brand names?

Beginning in the late 18th century and accelerating through the 19th, processes as diverse as preserving, packaging, and labeling, many of which had roots on the kitchen table, were scaled up to small commercial and later industrial operations. These new food businesses required equipment, transport, and marketing. Meats, fruits, and vegetables that once were traded in town and city central markets now traveled longer distances. Some required refrigeration and other preservative methods, or needed labels and marketing to distinguish themselves in the crowded supermarket aisle. Grocers and other food purveyors sought new methods of handling and presenting the foods to an audience of consumers now distant from the foods’ roots.

The items in the catalogue seek to illustrate this transformation. Included are printed and manuscript materials produced by and for the food industry: handbooks, trade catalogues, advertising art, labels, photographs, ephemera, and more. And we’ve divided this catalogue up into the primary activities that occur ‘between farm and table’, stopping just short of the home or restaurant kitchen, as the kitchen will be the subject of a future catalogue.

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hermetically sealed jars. Just two years PRESERVE later, the second edition of this booklet adds the words "in the Gem and Hero jars" Fresh from the farm or garden, to the title. The Mason was the first of the stream or ocean, many foods cannot re-sealable glass jars, invented and patented just ten years prior to this survive much more than a quick trip pamphlet by New Yorker, John Mason. to the kitchen. To help them last While we think of the glass as the until they reach market, or to keep dominant component of these jars, it was the threaded metal top which was the the harvest’s bounty edible and tasty innovation. The pamphlet includes a table through the winter, preservation is with amounts of sugar to be added to necessary. And so we have drying, various fruits and vegetables. Original printed wrappers show signs of folding to salting, freezing and refrigeration, rear panel. Bit of dog earring, otherwise “putting things up” in jars, and later very good. Rare. [OCLC locates only three commercial canning. Food copies of this first edition]. $150.00 preservation is the first of many 2. The Coleman Evaporating and Fruit interventions and alterations to Preserving Company of Western Maryland. which ingredients are subject. Coleman combined evaporator, baker and refrigerator : a portable fruit drier, baker and 1. An Experienced Preserver. A treatise safe combined. Hagerstown, MD: McCardell on the art of preserving fruits and vegetables & Futterer, Printers, [1890]. Oblong hermetically : containing a precise method for stapled pamphlet, 7 pages, with three full- preparing all kinds of fruits, tomatoes, corn, page illustrations. Small trade catalogue for etc., etc., also, instructions for selecting the best this cabinet-sized fruit drier. A bit of self-sealing jars. Philadelphia: Chase & dampstaining to a few pages at rear, Town, Printer, 142 South Fourth otherwise very good. [OCLC locates five Street,Year, 1868. Octavo-sized stapled copies]. $90.00 booklet, 11 pages. First edition. A small, practical manual on preserving using

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She preserves their form, color and flavor, and University of Geissen, where Justus von her own temper and strength Liebig lectured. Very light wear to printed wrappers, otherwise near fine. Unrecorded. 3. John L. Gaumer Co. A Few Facts [OCLC locates no copies]. $120.00 About Canning. [Circa 1895]. Oblong booklet, 8.9 x 16.2 cm, 8 pages. Illustrated 5. Zavalla, Justo P. The Canning of Fruits with photographs and engravings. and Vegetables. Based on the methods in use in Promotes the Mudge Patent Canner, a California, with Notes on the Control of the household canning processor that “does Microorganisms Effecting Spoilage. New away with the stewing kettle” and is “the York: John Wiley & Sons, 1916. Octavo, 214 cheapest, most efficacious and economical pages + ads. First edition, one of one system of putting up high-standard goods thousand copies. A thorough study of that has ever been invented.” The Boston canning as practiced in California, Cooking School Magazine reviewed the illustrated with drawings and diagrams of device saying, “a great point in its favor is equipment, furniture, and the cans that, by the use of the canner, fruit or themselves. With an appendix reproducing vegetables are not subjected to long the Pure Foods Act. A fine copy, with the cooking, and thus flavor, color and form are ink ownership mark of “The California Pear preserved. Another consideration is that, Growers Association, April 1, 1920.” by this process, no dishes are required, as $90.00 the fruit to be ‘put up’ is put at once into the jars…” Stapled in green wrappers. 6. Federal Trade Commission. Food Fine. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no Investigation. Report of the Federal Trade copies]. $75.00 Commission on Canned Foods, General Report and Canned Vegetables and Fruit. May 15, 4. Voelcker, J. Augustus. The Drying of 1918. Washington, DC: Government Fruits and Vegetables. With Four Illustrations. Printing Office, 1918. Octavo, 103 pages. London: Royal Agricultural Society, 1897. First edition. A detailed report on the Octavo, 24 pages. Illustrated. First edition. history and state of canning in the U.S. With particular attention paid to the fruit includes sections on the process itself, school at Geisenheim. Voelcker was an detailed information on costs, and more. A agricultural chemist who studied at the

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company’s Cedar Grove, Maine location. Some creases, minor discoloration, and small tear to centerfold, else very good. $25.00

9. [Periodical - Ice]. Cold Storage and Ice Trade Journal. Volumes 35-36, (12 issues in all). New York & Chicago: 1908. Thick quarto. Twelve issues of this professional journal for the ice trade. Profusely illustrated with ads for businesses related to ice-making and refrigeration. Contents include articles on large scale refrigeration installations, various technical matters, regional association activities, trade conventions, etc. Text block sound and very good, but three-quarter brown morocco binding is split at the hinges and quite rubbed. Scarce in the trade. $300.00

10. [Trade Catalogue - Ice]. Machines Douane. Glace & Refrigeration, pars le #4 Machines Douane. Ingnieur Constructeur. Paris: J. Céas et Fils, 1910. Folio, stapled in wrappers, 32 pages. Illustrated wrappers by

bit of wear to printed wrappers, otherwise near fine. $50.00

7. U.S. Department of Labor. Women’s Employment in Vegetable Canneries in Delaware. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1927. Bulletin of the Women's Bureau, no. 62. Octavo, 47, [ii], pages. First edition. Detailed report on the activities, conditions, and compensation of women working in Delaware canneries. Includes descriptions of the specific equipment and processes in which they were involved. Some wear and edge tearing to printed wrappers, otherwise very good. $50.00

8. [Billhead - Ice]. Oles, W. H. and Cochran-Oler Ice Company. Autograph Letter, Signed. Baltimore, MD: Cochran- Oler Ice Company, 1885. 28 x 21.5, ALS, from W.H. Oles, President of Cochran- Oler Ice Company, on illustrated billhead addressed to Edward N. Banker regarding his appointment as superintendent at the

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PROCESS

It’s hard not to think of almost all food as “processed”. Cooking, after all, radically transforms ingredients, changing flavors and textures, and allowing ingredients to blend together into entirely new tastes. But food processing has become both commonplace and, in some circles, highly disparaged. The 19th century saw many home or small-scale processes move to a commercial, and later, industrial scale, requiring new equipment, a large labor force, and some radical new methods. Trade catalogues, ephemeral handbills, and photographs document this new segment of #11 industry, and illustrate the material culture of food processing.

11. [Broadside]. Stratton and Crouder. Philippe. First edition. Unrecorded trade Stratton and Crouder's Manufactory and catalogue by the innovative French ice and Warehouse, Near the Magdalen, Blackfriers- refrigeration company, Douane. Road, For the Following New and Patent Descriptions and illustrations of the Inventions. [London]: [circa 1795]. machinery available, from hand-cranked ice Broadside, 40.2 x 23.9/22.5 cm. Large machines to a railroad car fitted out for illustrated engraved broadside advertising icemaking on the Trans-Siberian Railroad the “Patent Anti-fuelist Smoak-Jack”, the (who needed ice in Siberia?). Small printed “Patent Magic Stove”, and “Patent Alarums, paper slip tipped onto page to illustrate the to prevent House-Breaking or Accidents by inside and outside of a refrigeration box Fire”. With just a 12-inch fire, the “Patent with a reveal. Some soiling throughout, two Anti-fuelist Smoak-Jack, &c.” can roast pages have some blue pencil scribble to roast, boil, broil, and fry the length of six text. Handsomely illustrated wrappers are feet “at the same Time that it heats a large edgeworn and have a few closed tears. Still Oven”, illustrating, seemingly, the very attractive. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates influence of Sir Benjamin Thompson, no copies; not in the relevant Count Rumford’s 1790s experiments with bibliographies]. $500.00 (see frontispiece). radiant heat and various contemporary

improvements to fuel-efficiency. Good for

laundry and also portable, “Cooking may be performed in the Field or open Air... a

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Machine, with Table and Cooking 1850s. Broadside, 21.9 x 25.4 cm. Apparatus, to dress Dinner for the most Advertisement for F.M. Edson’s Railroad extensive purpose, may be packed up in 2 Mill in Le Roy, Genesee County, New York. Feet 6 Inches square, and unpacked and Flour manufactured from local wheat and heated ready for the above extraordinary “equal to any manufactured in the world!” purpose in 15 minutes.” Detailed diagram Additionally notes that new machinery with key illustrations various attributes, ensures clean wheat and thus pure flour. including the smoke-jack that enables spit- Freeman Edson was one of the founding roasting vertically and horizontally. Large Directors of the Western Union Telegraph engraving of Royal Coat of Arms of the Company. Printed on salmon-colored United Kingdom appears at the top of the paper that has some edge-wear and broadside. Printed on paper with discoloration, otherwise very good. Rare. watermark dated to 1795. Unevenly trimmed $300.00 margin and fold creases, otherwise very good. Rare. [RLIN-ESTC indicates British 13. Root, Riley. Root's New Process for Library only]. $2750.00 Clarifying Chinese & Other Cane Juices. Patented October 8th, 1861. Galesburg, IL: “... perfectly clean from all the foul stuff” Chares Faxon, Book and Job Printer, 1861. 23 x 15.7 cm, 7 pages. Single sheet, quarter- 12. Edson, F.M. “Railroad Mills Extra.” folded with pages uncut. Instructive text Wheat Barrel Label. Rochester, NY: that explains Root’s new process for Rochester Daily Advertiser Print, circa clarifying sugar cane juice by means of

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“Best in the World”

14. Myhan, Schenk & Co. Bushfield’s Patent Self Feeding Excelsior Smoked Beef Cutter. New York: Myhan, Schenk & Co., 1875. Half-fold booklet, 14 x 8.4 cm, 1 leaf. Illustrated advertisement for beef slicer that, “cuts the Beef neatly and cleanly in slices of any degree of thickness which may be desired, and that it saves time.” Includes thirteen testimonials, directions for use, and price. Manufactured and for sale by Myhan, Schenck & Co., fish, salt and provision dealers in New York. Printed on light blue paper with some light discoloration and edgewear. Very good. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies]. $50.00

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15. [Handbill - Butter]. Muir, Thomas. The Gilt-Edge Butter Worker. Margaretville, export to the United States, “particularly NY: Utilitarian Job Print, 1878. Bi-fold with reference to the degradation of the booklet 12.7 (h) x 7.6 (w) cm. An advertising color of such sugars for the purpose of piece for a butter worker - a specially defrauding the customs revenue.” The designed machine consisting of a working report summarizes the various component and table that is used to manufacturing processes at fifteen estates; produce a smooth and consistent butter with particular emphasis on soil texture. The Gilt-Edge Butter-Worker is components and techniques, machinery, "made of the best materials" and and temperatures employed throughout the guarantees to reduce labor. Includes three process. Various sugar samples are testimonials from farmers and references to analyzed and rated according to the Dutch other satisfied farmers and butter Sugar Color Standards passed by the U.S. merchants. Near fine. Unrecorded. [OCLC Congress in 1861. Appended are locates no copies]. $30.00 testimonials from planters, certificated pan- boilers, managers, patent-holders, and 16. Chamberlin, S.E., H.J. Abbott, and merchants examining and explaining the F.M. Endlich. Report on the Methods of character of the sugar. Also included is a Manufacturing Sugars in West India Islands supplemental report, further exploring the and British Guiana. Washington: Treasury issue of artificial coloring. Gray wrappers Department/Government Printing Office, with ink staining to front and back as well 1880. Octavo, 61 pages. First edition. An as some foxing. Title page has slight foxing, investigation into sugar plantations located otherwise very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates in the West Indies and British Guiana that five copies]. $90.00

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17. [Trade Catalogue - Mills & Presses]. medical application of milk” explains the The Higganum Manufacturing Corporation. chemical composition of milk and its Illustrated Catalogue of Cider Mills, Wine importance to development, particularly Presses, Lard Presses, Wagon Jacks, &c. during infancy. Since there are “difficulties Higganum, Conn.: Higganum of obtaining good fresh milk,” and Manufacturing Corporation, circa 1880. “disadvantages arising from wet-nurses,” Small octavo, 12 pages. A handsome small the author thus concludes the “advantages trade catalogue illustrated throughout with of the milk contained in Nestle’s Milk steel engravings of cider mills, wine Food”. Gray wrappers flaking along edges; presses, a lard press and more. Some wear stamped and embossed “Franklin Institute to pink paper wrappers, with steel engraved Library” on cover and throughout, also illustration on the front panel, otherwise stamped “Duplicate, College of Physicians, very good. Scarce. [OCLC shows four of Philadelphia” with additional numerical listings for various years]. $175.00 inscriptions along top edge and underlining

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18. Lebert, H. A Treatise on Milk and on cover. Besides stamps, text clean. Good. Henri Nestle's Milk Food, For the Earliest Scarce. [OCLC locates two copies, at LOC Period of Infancy and in Later Years. Vevy, and at Duke Medical Center Library]. $350. Switzerland: Henri Nestle, 1881. Octavo, 32 pages. An early promotional booklet for 19. [Handbill - Meat Processing Nestle’s Milk Food (condensed milk). The Equipment]. Davies, Richard J. and author, “for a long time particularly Chester D. Holmes. “Animal Slinging interested in the physiological action and Railway” and Refrigerators.

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Boston/Cambridgeport: Chester D. Breads, cakes, candies, ices, pies, puddings, Holmes/J.R. Drew, Printer, 1882. Handbill, salads, and more are all featured in this 27.3 x 17.8 cm. Illustrated. Single-page booklet, with “the hope that it may prove handbill for Richard J Davie’s “Animal acceptable in the homes of many time tried Slinging Railway,” patented on July 18, friends who have been using our flavors 1882. These meat hangers are “strong” and (with complete satisfaction) for years”. “light” and come in three sizes. Chester D. Spine of printed yellow wrapper partially Holmes is indicated as the agent for the split, pages age toned, but otherwise near patentee and uses the lower quarter of the very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates just two page to advertise various refrigerators for copies]. $45.00 which he lays no claim for patent. Slight edge-wear and age toning, otherwise very good. $90.00

20. Fleischman, Joseph. The Art of Blending And Compounding Liquors And Wines. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald Publishers, 1885. Octavo, 68, [4 ads], pages. 1885 printing, but with a small rubber stamp to the title page indicating, “Revised Edition, 1897”. There are, however, no changes to the text or the ads. In classic Dick & Fitzgerald style, the publisher has packaged the old as new. Contains detailed information on blending to create imitations of popular spirits, but also recipes for cordials, essences, and more. Includes, laid-in, two printed advertisements/price lists for Philadelphia Extract Mfg. Co, offering Liquor Flavors, Fruit Extracts etc., including one additive called “Body & Age” available for $4 per gallon. A bit of foxing to preliminaries, some age-toning to some pages, otherwise very good, in publisher’s black and gilt- stamped maroon cloth. Overall very good. [Noling, Beverage Literature, page 156]. #20 $750.00

“To the ‘Dear Public’ Whose Palates we Strive 22. Murray Iron Works Co. Choppers, to Tickle...” Engines, Stuffers and Lard Presses. Burlington, IA: Murray Iron Works Co., 21. McMonagle & Rogers. McMonagle & [circa 1880s]. Octavo in wrappers, 26 pages. Rogers Select Cooking Recipes. Middletown, Illustrated trade catalogue and price list for NY: McMonagle & Rogers, [circa 1880s]. butcher machines manufactured by the Small octavo in wrappers, 44 pages plus Murray Iron Works Company, which ads. Later printing. Promotional pamphlet includes hand- and power-choppers, for McMonagle & Rogers Premium Fruit sausage stuffers, and lard presses. Item Flavors featuring over 150 recipes descriptions include weight, price, and interspersed with testimonials pronouncing testimonials. Decorative wrappers, printed McMonagle & Rogers the best in market. in red, black and yellow have slight

Page 14. Rabelais – Fine Books on Food & Drink edgewear and one small abrasion, pencil creasing on lower edge with 3.5 cm tear marks to rear panel, otherwise very good. along lower mount and 2 cm to the upper [OCLC locates three related, but not mount; some light wear and soiling, matching, items, at Delaware and Yale; otherwise very good condition. $450.00 Romaine locates one catalogue from Murray Iron Works, but not this one]. 24. [Trade Catalogue - Cracker $250.00 Machinery]. J.H. Day Company. Day Cracker Machinery, Catalogue 250. 23. [Broadside - Wine Analysis]. Cincinnati: The J.H. Day Company, circa Laboratoires Dujardin-Salleron. Analizad 1890. Octavo, 32 pages. Beautifully vosotros mismos Vuestros Vinos, Vuestros illustrated and designed catalogue of Mostos, etc. [...] Metodos Officiales de Analisis cracker machinery. Each page has a con los Instrumentos Enoloficos de Precision de delicate yellow border with the company’s Dujardin, sucr. de Salleron ... [caption title]. logo serving as the keystone. The catalog [Paris]: Laboratoires Dujardin-Salleron, features thirty-one items, each intricately circa 1890. Broadside, 37.5 x 28 cm. rendered and accompanied by a diagram of Contemporary to Louis Pasteur, Jules machinery schematics. You will find all of Salleron established a Parisian company your cracker production needs, from the specializing in oenological precision Day Convertible Cracker Cutting Machine, instrumentation, developing an acetimeter Day Economy Round Post Cracker followed by his renown ebulliometer (still Machine, and Day Narrow Convertible used today). Joined in the 1880s by Jules Cracker Cutter to Cincinnati Wire-Cut Dujardin, the company grew and continues Cake Machine, Day Three Spindle Mixer, to operate today. This pictorial broadside Double Motion Icing and Marshmellow illustrates their oenological analysis Beater, and Day Safety Brakes. Dark green laboratory and promotes their business to a wrappers, bound with a matching ribbon, is Spanish-speaking clientele. On heavy worn with creases and some discoloration. cream stock printed in red and blue. Title page has foxing, which occurs lightly Original metal mounting bars affixed to top throughout text. Some pencil annotations and bottom edges. Small bend and slight throughout. Otherwise a good or better

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Page 15. Rabelais – Fine Books on Food & Drink copy. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no mostly double-paged plates. A handsome copies] $180.00 trade catalogue from this Parisian stove manufacturer. According to the catalogue, 25. Skuse, E. Skuse’s complete confectioner the company installed stoves, rotisseries, : a practical guide to the art of sugar boiling in and hot water service in apartments, all its branches : the manufacture of fondants, chateaux, restaurants, hotel particuliers, creams, chocolates ... every information about and hospitals. The original wrappers are colours and flavours ... useful notes on bound into gilt-stamped green cloth- machinery for every covered boards. purpose. London: W.J. One small tear to Bush & Co., circa 1894. the spine cloth Octavo, [22], 187, [14] otherwise fine. pages. Ads. Illustrated Unrecorded. throughout in the text. [OCLC locates no The first edition of the copies]. $750.00 work under this title if you take the author's 27. Empire preface at face value Cream Separator that this is “another Company. book on the same Instructions for lines”, but the second Setting Up and edition, preceded by Operating Empire four printings, No. 1A Cream otherwise. Bitting states Separator. the first edition was Chicago|Bloomfiel 1878, and we assume d, IL: Empire she is talking about the Cream Separator earlier title. This Company, circa commercial 1909. Octavo- confectionery recipe sized, 19.8 x 13.8 book was the standard cm, 32 pages. An work on sugar indexed manual manufacture for some for a centrifugal decades. Illustrated #26 device that throughout with images separates milk of confectioner’s machinery and tools. into cream and skimmed milk. Contains More than thirty pages of ads offer all of the instructions for getting the machine out of equipment and supplies a confectioner the box, cleaning for the first run, and needs. A trifle musty, some very light regulating the thickness of cream, as well as soiling throughout, otherwise very good, in an “explanation of the adjustment of parts”. slightly edgeworn gilt and black stamped, Price list for parts includes milk cans, brown cloth. With a price of “7/6” on the cleaning brushes, worm wheel and shaft, front board. Scarce. [OCLC locates just bearings, and screw drivers. Bound with seven copies of all printings before 1900; red thread. The wrapper, which features an Bitting page 437 (other printing); Cagle 994 engraved image of the machine, has some (other printing)]. $250.00 spots and a tidemark that bleeds through the first eight pages. Beyond staining and 26. [Trade Catalogue - Stoves]. Nessi some discoloration, in very good condition. Oncle & Neveu, Constructeurs. Fourneaux Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; de Cuisine. 1908. 11, Rue Viete, Paris. Paris: Romaine locates no publications from this Nessi Oncle & Neveu, 1908. Quarto, [2]+27 company]. $30.00

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Monsanto acknowledges sale of Saccharin to 29. U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Coca-Cola Labor Statistics. Wages and Hours of Labor in the Slaughtering and Meat-Packing 28. Venverloh, B.J. and Monsanto Industry, 1921. Washington: Government Chemical Works. Typed Letter, Signed. Printing Office, 1922. Bulletin of the U.S. Saint Louis: 1923. One-page TLS, 28.8 x Bureau of Labor Statistics, no. 294. Octavo, 21.7 cm. A letter from the Flavors and 93 pages. First edition. Heavily statistical Condiment Sales at Monsanto Chemical study of wages and work hours. Very good Works to the Gentlemen at Douglas Coca- in printed wrappers. $45.00 Cola Bottle Company in Georgia. The note acknowledges the sale and shipment of five 30. [Knapp. A.W.]. The Cocoa and pounds of “SACCHARIN-Monsanto, Chocolate Industry. The Tree, The Bean, The Soluble, Granular, U.S.P.” Saccharin was Beverage. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & discovered in 1879 and went into Sons, Ltd, (1923). Small octavo, xii + 147 commercial production in Germany in +23 ads. Illustrated throughout. First 1900. Monsanto, founded in 1901, was the edition. From the series, Common first American producer and the sweetener Commodities and Industries. An excellent was the company’s first product. Though little introduction to the cocoa and the letter dates to 1923 and indicates that chocolate industry, from the biology of the this is an “initial order”, Coca-Cola had tree itself, through harvesting, processing, much earlier ties to Monsanto. As early as markets, and finishing. Many of the 1902, Coca-Cola was the chemical photographic illustrations are of workers company’s chief customer. But the first and equipment involved in the processing. sugar free drink did not appear on the One page at rear with a small crimp and market until 1952, the first diet soda from very short tear, otherwise fine, in black Coca Cola in 1963, and Diet Coke in 1982. printed, gray/green cloth. No dust jacket. Monsanto also introduced caffeine and Somewhat scarce in the first edition. vanillin to the soft drink company. On $65.00 Monsanto Chemical Works letterhead with company watermark. Slight fold creases, else fine. $350.00

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31. McArthur, Wirth & Co. McArthur, also included, featuring Brecht products Wirth & Co., Butchers, Packers and Sausage like garlic compound, casings, afro- Makers, Fixtures, Tools, Machinery, and carbonite, and saltpetre. The Brecht Supplies. Sausage Casings, Spices, Company of St. Louis was established by Refrigerators and All styles of Ice Gustavus von Brecht in 1853; this imprint Boxes.Catalogue “A”. Syracuse, NY: John also lists affiliations in New York, Single Paper Company, 1900. Quarto, 81 Hamburg, and Buenos Aires. In yellow pages + 3 page index. Illustrated wrappers with staining and crease marks, throughout with steel engravings. A trade there is light foxing throughout with rust catalogue of tools and machinery, small and marks to the final two pages and the staples large for the butcher or sausage maker. are loose, but otherwise good. [OCLC From butchers’ coats and booties to locates five other Brecht works]. $90.00

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slaughterhouse machinery, it’s all in here. 33. [Photographs - Meat Processing]. Printed wrappers over stapled text block. Kern & Son, John. Collection of Eight The wrappers are a bit age toned and Mounted Photographs Depicting a Portland, brittle, but complete. Internally near very Maine Sausage and Ham Factory. Portland, good except for a small damp stain to the Maine: circa 1933. Eight mounted bottom right corner of the text block. photographs, each 12.5 x 18.5 cm, mounted [OCLC locates seventeen copies; not in on thick card, each 28 x 23 cm (except one, Romaine]. $300.00 which is 17 x 23 cm). John Kern & Son of Portland, Maine, was a meat-packing, 32. The Brecht Company. The Brecht butchering, and sausage and ham-making Sausage-Makers’ Hand Book 1916. St. Louis, factory founded in 1916 and, sometime in MO: The Brecht Company, 1916. Octavo, 44 the late 1950s, purchased by their pages. A handbook for sausage makers that competitor Jordan’s Meats. The covers the subjects of slaughtering, curing, photographs depict workers and equipment pickling, chopping, binding, mixing, typical of an early twentieth century seasoning, stuffing, smoking, cooking, operation. In most photographs, a behatted coloring, as well as offering twenty-seven figure in a dark suit presides, presumably recipes. A partially illustrated price list is the owner. In the cutting room, whole sides

Page 18. Rabelais – Fine Books on Food & Drink are hung from the rail, waiting their turn to soiling or wear. However, the thick card pass through the giant band saw; next come mounts are stained and have some the cutting tables with smaller pieces, and edgewear, and a bit of curvature. $600.00 younger workers with saws. Sausage making occurs on a wide table, and fresh 34. [Trade Card - Sausage Machines]. sausages are hung on a large frame S. Nye & Co.'s Improved Patent Mincing suspended from an overhead rail, Sausage and other Domestic Machines [...] presumably ready for smoking. Hams hang London: S. Nye & Co/Armitage & Ibbetson, from wheeled carts, and the finished, Lithographers, circa 1890. 12.5 x 19.8 cm. labeled product is displayed in a clean Printed in red, black, green, and tan. room. Bones and fat are in barrels in Illustrated advertisement for the “inventors another room, and a spotless office & introducers of labour-saving appliances”, contains the only female employees S. Nye & Company. Appliances pictured pictured. One of the photos appears to include a coffee mill, wheat mill, knife have been taken much earlier and has a few cleaner, small mincer, and most pencil notes with names, and the ink stamp prominently the mincing sausage machine. of the Union Photo Co., Boston Mass. The The reverse invites you to subscribe to their better dressed man in this photo is labeled catalogue free of charge, wherever you are “Father”, and from the looks of it, the man in the world. Slight crease and tiny edge in this photo is the same as in the others, stain, otherwise very good. $90.00 just at a younger age. Accompanying the eight photographs are sixteen pieces of one “The House of Quality” dollar scrip, produced by the the firm in March of 1933 in order to pay the 35. [Trade Catalogue - Butcher employees during the National Bank Supplies]. G.H. Jenkinson Company. Holidays declared by President Roosevelt. Catalog No. 23: Butchers’ Cooling Rooms, One piece of scrip, stamped “No. 1” has Refrigerators, and Butchers’ Supplies. Sioux been framed, along with an explanatory City, IA: G.H. Jenkinson Company, circa newspaper clipping from the Portland 1900s. Oblong folio in wrappers, 36 pages. Evening Express, dated March 6th, 1933. The Illustrated. Trade catalogue with a vast photographs are in very good condition, array of items for the butcher shop and with a bit of age toning, but no notable home, manufactured by the G.H. Jenkinson

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Company, including platform scales, meat “We would like to be your meat man” slicers, lard presses, salt and pepper shakers, hotel linens, and candy maker 37. G & W Packing Company. G & W supplies, among many other things. Over Packing Company Meat Buyers Guide. [with two hundred categories of items outlined in TLS]. Chicago: G & W Packing Company, the index. Hole punch through upper left [undated]. Stapled, legal-size booklet, corner for hanging. Near fine condition in partially unpaginated [29 leaves] + 7 pages. publisher’s green and orange printed Mimeograph-style buyers guide for Chicago wrappers with brick red cloth spine. Rare. meat purveyors, featuring a cover image of [OCLC locates just one copy, at Iowa State the gateway of the Union Stockyards. Historical Society; Jenkinson does not Includes a TLS from the company’s appear in Romaine]. $400.00 president, the customer-is-always-right- statement, advertisements for “Cook-In-Bag 36. [Trade Catalogue - Butcher Roast”, and product list for beef, veal, Supplies]. Oppenheimer, S. & Co. Sausage lamb, pork, poultry, sausage, smoked Casings and Butcher’s Supplies. New York & meats, and entrees. In printed beige Chicago: Oppenheimer & Co., circa 1900. wrapper with minor edgewear, stain to Quarto, 8 page index, + 240 pages. front and slight warping, else very good. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of $50.00 steel engravings. First edition. A handsome and thoroughly-illustrated trade catalogue, 38. Swift & Co. How Meat Moves to filled with small and large equipment for Market : From Open Range to Kitchen Range. butchering and sausage making, including Swift & Co./Pictorial Media, Inc., 1966. 25.5 cleavers, saws, ham branders, butcher x 17.5 cm, 16 pages. Full-color illustrations. blocks, lard coolers, cutters, stuffers, In this 1966 promotional comic book, choppers, etc. Small closed tear to the first young Bob Turner visits his Uncle Jim in few pages, otherwise, internally near fine, Wyoming and learns all about how beef in very slightly edgeworn gilt-titled green gets from the farm to the grocery store. cloth, with a small rivet for hanging. Rare. Published as a “public service” by Swift & [Worldcat locates only one copy, at the Co. The Swift meat packing company was Chicago History Museum]. $750.00 founded in 1855 and it continues to operate today, though now a wholly owned

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subsidiary of JBS, the Brazilian firm that is Where to Find One. Showing that homesteads now the world’s largest processor of fresh may be had by those desirous of securing them : beef and pork. In full-color wrappers with with the public law on the subject of free homes, some chipping and small tear to front and suggestions from practical farmers; cover, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates together with numerous successful experiences no copies]. $20.00 of others, who, though beginning with little or nothing, have become the owners of ample 39. Williams, A.E. Potato Crisps : A farms. New York: James Miller, 1864. Handbook for the Manufacturer and Others Octavo, 345, [ads] pages. A guide to Interested in the Economical Production of procuring inexpensive farmland during the Potato Crisps. London: Food Trade Press Civil War. An early “back-to-the-land” Ltd., 1951. Octavo, 106 pages, plus treatise. In this work, Morris, author of Ten advertisements. First edition. The author, Acres Enough, an early farm manual with “thirty years of experience as a chemist encouraging a return to the land, looks at in the food industries”, outlines the process specific regions and states, laws, and for producing potato chips: potato financial strategies for obtaining a farm. cultivation and storage, oils and fats, Tipped-on to the front endpapers are two processing, and equipment. In orange- advertisements printed on yellow paper, brown cloth with some rubbing and minor including one for “Gift Fruit Boxes” which foxing, otherwise very good. $60.00 explains that the idea for cheap boxes for this purpose had been proposed in Ten Acres Enough. The Gift Fruit Boxes, sold by the book’s publisher, are “strong and light” PACKAGE and can be shipped in flats and assembled by a child. Brown cloth slightly discolored, When food travels across the decorative blind stamp. Slight foxing throughout, with piece of top margin torn, country or just home from market, it pages 133-36. Generally very good. needs a package to make it easier to $300.00 handle and to protect it from damage. And so another industry, of 41. [Trade Catalogues - Tin Cans]. American Can Company/Erie Can cans, jars, bags, and boxes, rose to Company. Thirteen Tin Can Company meet those needs. Packaging can be catalogues, featuring twelve American Can as specific to the needs of a product Company volumes and one Erie Can Company. Rome: circa 1908. Incorporated and the user as the processing. in 1901, the American Can Company was a Though most of the packaging itself member of the “Tin Can Trust” that is long gone, we’ve gathered a few controlled a large percentage of the tin examples here. Some of the market. In 1913 the U.S. Government sued the company on the grounds of monopoly. companies selling the packaging Each catalogue is illustrated and most also left behind evidence in the form include select full-color images. Including of handbills, trade catalogues, and the Erie Can Company’s, there are four general catalogues that cover a broad range original artwork. of products; six catalogues are specific to syrup cans; and the remainder feature one the publisher offers “Gift Fruit Boxes” specific type of product or another.

Beautifully illustrated through all 40. The author of “Ten Acres Enough” catalogues in a variety of styles. The [Edmund Morris]. How to Get a Farm, and collection is mostly uniform in size - 19 cm

Page 21. Rabelais – Fine Books on Food & Drink x 12.5 cm - though page counts do vary from a. American Can Company. American 11 to 155. Most contain an index. As a Steel Lead Kegs. New York: collection, mostly in very good condition. American Can Company, circa (a list of pieces follows). $1500.00 1908. 24 pages. Steel kegs for lead manufacturers and lead users; all #41 features product descriptions for five unique kegs and over 25 testimonials from consumers across the country. Illustrated cover. Cream wrappers with black/red text, bound with red ribbon and staple. Slight discoloration and creasing, otherwise very good.

b. Tin, Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 16. No date. 147 pages plus index. Features Canco trademarked products, also manufactured by American Can Company. In total over 275 unique products featured. Gray wrappers with embossed type. Rounded edges. Slight bumping to spine, otherwise fine condition.

c. Tin, Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 17. No date. 155 pages plus index, interleaved with graph paper. Very nearly same content as #16, but this edition is interleaved with graph paper presumably for consumers to mark their notes. Bound in black vinyl with gold print. Rounded edges. “E. Hoffman” printed on the cover. Edges of cover chipping, but text is in fine condition.

d. Tin, Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 18. No date. 123 pages interleaved with graph paper. Same as #17, with variations in featured products. Bound in blue vinyl, cover has white paint stain and printed name is scratched out. Otherwise very good.

e. Druggists’ Tinware; Catalogue No. 21. No date. 98 pages. Illustrated

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syrups. Features twelve unique cans in variety of sizes and shapes. Light gray wrapper with red and black print. Interior text has some water staining.

i. American Can Company. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 45. No date. 14 pages. Almost identical to #43 in form, condition, and content. Illustrations vary just slightly and this catalogue does not feature the “‘Chelco’” Metal Swing Seal”, thus features just eleven products.

j. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 46: South Atlantic Sales Office, Atlanta, Ga. No date. 11 pages. #41 k. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 47. No date. throughout with full-color images. 14 pages. Same as #45. Ninety-nine unique products for l. Seamless and Pieced Boxes, Hinged, druggists: arnica salve boxes, Slip and Sliding Covers; Catalogue cosmoline cans, insect powder No. 56. No date.37 pages. Thirty- guns, tooth powder boxes, herb eight seamless and pieced boxes in cans, and more. Gray wrappers oblong, square, and miscellaneous with green and gray text, company shapes with slip, hinge, or sliding name embossed on front cover covers. Also highlights location of and monogram embossed on back. manufacturer: Brooklyn, f. American Can Company. Syrup Richmond, Philadelphia, Boston, Cans; Catalogue 40. No date. 14 Chicago, St. Louis. Gray wrappers pages. Illustrated throughout. with green and black text, pencil Lacks index. Memorandum marks on back cover; water stains regarding the “‘Chelco’ Metal throughout. Swing Seal” tipped in. In gray m. Erie Can Company. Illustrated printed wrappers with some Catalogue, Sheet Metal Specialties chipping to top edge of text. including Tea, Coffee and Spice g. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 41: South Cabinets, Cans and Caddies and Atlantic Sales Office, Atlanta, Ga. Sample Room Goods, Etc. Chicago: No date. 16 pages. Prices specific Erie Can Company, no date. 27 to South Atlantic Sales Office. In pages. Features thirty-three gray printed wrappers, back cover unique products from painter’s separated and with rusting to pots and brush safes to display staples. cabinets and coffee caddies. In cream wrappers with some h. American Can Company. Syrup discoloration and slight edge Cans; Catalogue 43. No date. 15 chipping. Text slightly discolored pages. Illustrated throughout. by staple binding. Indexed catalogue of cans for

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42. [Broadside - Corks]. Truslow & detailed rendering, as well as description, Nostrand. Corks. New York: Truslow & mechanical and output details. In brown Nostrand, circa 1867. Half-fold wrappers secured with brads, quite bruised advertisement, 26.7 x 21.6 cm. Marketing a and worn. Text edges worn, with slight “large and full assortment of all foxing throughout. Title page marked up, descriptions of corks in large or small company address lined-out and ammended quantities” on the front, on the inside fold in pen, also with pencil marks. Otherwise is a copied letter informing customers of near very good. [OCLC locates just one the consolidation of Sparkman Truslow & copy, at the Smithsonian]. $150.00 Co. into the Truslow & Nostrand Co. Fold- marks and three-hole punches through 44. F.H. Melville, Paper Warehouse. edge, otherwise very good. $90.00 “Crown” Satchel-Bottom and Old Style Paper Bags... New York: F.H. Melville, circa 43. [Trade Catalogue - Corks]. A. 1880s. Tri-fold pamphlet, 14 x 24 cm. Johnson Machine Works. Johnson Illustrated. Promotional brochure for a Machinery: Machines for Manufacturing New York paper warehouse, with products Crown Corks, Screw Caps, Regular Bottle that serve grocers and general stores. Corks and Cork Discs, also Crowning Features descriptions and prices for Machines. Brooklyn: A. Johnson Machine available items, including satchel-bottom Works, circa 1910. Octavo, 68 pages. and old-style paper bags, flour sacks, Illustrations throughout. Trade catalog twines, paper, butter dishes, spring brass featuring machines for manufacturing of tea, coffee and spice scoops, and more. crown corks, crowning machines, machines Fine. $90.00 for manufacturing of corks and cork discs, machines for screw caps, and special Economy! Labor Saving. Utility! Ornamental machines which include a friction capping machine, automatic rotary cap spinning 45. [Broadside - Bags]. The “Perfection” machine, single head cap spinning Paper Bag, Wrapping Paper, and Twine machine, and an automatic rotary screw Holder. New York: F.H. Melville, cap capping machine. Each item includes Commission Merchant, circa 1883.

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Broadside, 29.8 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated original art for toothpick boxes advertisement for the “Perfection” paper bag, wrapping paper, and twine holder. 48. [Boxes - Toothpicks]. Jewett Bros & Includes description, dimensions, and Jewett and Holt Brothers Print Shop. directions. Stamped with the name and Original Art and Order Forms for Toothpick location of “F.H. Melville, Commission Boxes. Dixfield, ME and Sioux Falls, SD: Merchant” the purveyor of the holder. Fold Jewett Bros & Jewett and Holt Brothers creases and small spot of discoloration, Print Shop, 1917-1918. Seven items in otherwise fine. [OCLC locates no copies]. various sizes. This collection contains two $150.00 renderings on tissue paper, a box template with handwritten notes, three order forms, and a note with cost calculations, all 46. [Bag - Grocery]. F.B. Gates Grocer. regarding the design and production of [F.B. Gates’ Paper Grocery Bag]. Plymouth, High Grade Brand toothpick boxes for CT: F.B. Gates Grocer, [undated]. Unused Jewett Bros & Jewett of Sioux Falls, South flat-bottom paper grocery bag, 36.8 x 25 cm. Dakota. The artwork and order forms were With illustration of F.B. Gates’s horse submitted to the Holt Brothers Print Shop drawn grocery wagon. Top of bag stamped in Dixfield, Maine. Some discoloration and with “Union 8 Buckskin” Slight foxing minor edgewear to tissue, otherwise very throughout, otherwise very good. $40.00 good. $150.00

47. [Box - Popcorn]. Holcomb & Hoke 49. [Box - Toothpicks]. “Our Bond Manufacturing Co. Butter-Kist Popcorn. Tooth Picks”. N.p.: circa 1918. 21 x 19.5 cm, Indianapolis: Holcomb & Hoke flat box template. White board with blue Manufacturing Co., circa 1914. 26.5 x 16.7 ink. A box for “Our Bond” brand cm, flat box. Yellow, blue, and red printed toothpicks who guarantee that theirs are original popcorn container with circus made from “Selected State of Maine White illustrations and Birch” and are featuring imagery of “packed under most the Butter-Kist Pop sanitary conditions”. Corn Popper Slight rubbing, Machine. Box flaps otherwise very good. include recipes for $20.00 Butter-Kist Breakfast Food, Pop Corn 50. [Box - Balls, and Dainties, Toothpicks]. “The as well as Hygeia Tooth Pick”. information about Manufactured for Holcomb & Hoke’s R.L. Stratton & Co., trademarks. Unused Wholesale Grocers, and in it’s original Staunton, Va. N.p., folded form. Some circa 1918. Flat box edgewear and template. 21 x 19.5 rubbing, small chip cm. White board out of upper flap, with blue, red, and otherwise very good. gold ink. A box for $20.00 “Hygeia” Brand toothpicks that boast “two flat polished points” and are #46 “strictly high grade”.

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Selling agricultural products over a distance leads to regulation to help assure quality and consistency. Both types of markets are millennia old.

53. Ming, A[lexander]. Ming’s New-York Price-Current, Saturday, August 20, 1808, No. #51 704. New York: A. Ming, 1808. 28 x 22 cm, bi-fold. Early 19th century American price Slight rubbing and creasing, otherwise near current publication that also includes the very good. $20.00 average price of stocks, course of exchange, premiums of insurance on American 51. [Box - Ice Cream & Confection]. vessels, stocks in Philadelphia and Philadelphia Confectionery and Boston Ice Baltimore, and general updates on Naval Cream. Great Falls, NH: Philadelphia and Commercial vessels. The price-current Confectionery and Boston Ice Cream/Miller newspaper is a tradition that dates to the & Best, [circa 1890]. Unused, folded, late 16th century in both the Netherlands confection box, 14.2 x 24 cm. Illustrated box and England. Alexander Ming published with ribbon handle to carry candies and other periodicals including Weekly Visitor other sweets. With engraved illustration and Ladies’ Miscellany. Edgewear and some and text on each of four sides. Slight foxing staining, small hole through entire and minor discoloration to ribbon, periodical, otherwise very good. $300.00 otherwise very good. $60.00 54. London Mercantile Price-Current, No. 52. [Box - Butter]. R.H. Ranney. Fancy 735. West India and Spanish Main Produce. Print Butter. Putney, VT: R.H. Ranney, London: N.S. Price, 1826. Quarter-fold [undated]. Flat box, 25 x 15.2 cm. Original circular, 31.75 x 25 cm. Paginated 268-272. folded printed container for Vermont A single issue of this necessary economic butter. Slight closed tears to flaps, otherwsise very good. $20.00

MARKET

‘Market’ - a noun; a central place where truck farmers, food vendors, chefs, and the public gather to trade in foodstuffs. Selling in a small farmers’ market is a remarkably direct transaction; the buyer examines the product and determines quality for herself. ‘Market’ - another noun; a mechanism for trading commodities soft and hard, including foodstuffs. #53

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periodical itemizing London’s imports and 1861. Printed billhead, 23 x 21 cm, for Storer exports. Import information includes tables & Cutler, “importers and wholesale dealers featuring a list of produce (divided in dry goods, manufacturers and jobbers of regionally), with prices, customs duty, and clothing and furnishing goods.” drawback. Additional information Handwritten bill for a William Sawyer. regarding stocks, exchanges, and public Some creases and annotations to verso, sales included. Regions highlighted are the otherwise very good. $20.00 West-Indies, East-India, continental Northern Europe, Mediterranean Europe, 57. [Broadside - Livestock Shipper]. North American, South American, Baltic. Houston, J.J., H.E. Sargent, and H.H. Includes an inclusive list of London’s Porter. Notice to Shippers of Live Stock. On exports from August 12-18, 1826. The and after Friday next, June 6th, 1862. periodical ran until 1864. Red “Four Pence” Chicago: 1862. Broadside, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. stamp imprint on first page. Some edge- Notice to shippers of an increase of rates wear and fold-marks, otherwise very good. for livestock traveling east from Chicago. $150.00 Rates outlined for destinations of Detroit or Toledo, Buffalo or Suspension Bridge, 55. [Billhead - Oyster Supplier]. Rowe & Pittsburg, and Lake Erie, Buffalo or Co. Rowe & Co. Buffalo, NY: Rowe & Co., Dunkirk. On the verso of the broadside are 1856. Illustrated billhead, 12 x 21.5 cm. For calculations in pencil that include Rowe & Co., “dealers in fresh keg, can and “Dunkirk”. Small tear and fold-marks, shell oysters, spiced oysters, lobsters and otherwise very good condition. $150.00 clams, hermetically sealed oysters, oranges, lemons, sardines, sauces, pickes, &c.&c.” 58. [Markets - Hogs]. Stahlnecker & Bill is for G[eorge] B. Walbridge, of the Dorman. Two one-page typed letters on the wholesale grocery trade, for 20 kegs of state of the Hog Markets 1865, 1866. Two oysters. Some staining, otherwise very one-page TLs, 23.5 x 18.25 each. Letters good. $90.00 dated December 12, 1865 and January 17, 1866. Each describe the “unsettled” hog 56. [Billhead - Wholesale Grocer]. Storer market and increases in prices for “Best & Cutler. Portland, ME: Storer & Cutler, Quality”, “Fair to Good”,”Common & Mast

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Fed”, and “Western Dressed” grade hogs. markets. Food historian Anne Vileisis, in Stahlnecker & Dorman were commission her book Kitchen Literacy, calls De Voe “no dealers in live and dressed hogs based in ordinary butcher. He might more aptly be New York. Both letters feature fold creases described as an epicure naturalist, and it is and ink smudges, and the 1866 letter this naturalist inclination that makes him so includes a small illustration of pigs. fascinating.” One small nick where a page $60.00 was carelessly opened, otherwise a fine copy in publisher’s blind-ruled and gilt- the great work on 19th C. American markets lettered green cloth. $900.00

59. De Voe, Thomas F. The Market 60. Austin, Nichols & Co. Austin, Nichols Assistant, containing a brief description of & Co. Trade Circular & Price List, New York, every article of human food sold in the public April 11, 1879. New York: Austin, Nichols markets of the cities of New York, Boston, & Company, 1879. Small quarto in Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the wrappers, 21 pages. Importers and dealers various domestic and wild animals, poultry, in teas, staple and fancy groceries, Austin, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with Nichols, & Company issued this trade many curious incidents and anecdotes. New circular highlighting goods available in York: Hurd & Houghton, 1867. Thick their New York location. From cabinets, octavo, 455 pages + 15 ads. Illustrated. First cigarettes, and soap, to olive oil, rock candy edition, second printing. Thomas F. De and French capers, it lists a wide variety of Voe, was a butcher at Jefferson Market in items along with illustrated advertisements New York's Greenwich Village, and he is for specific brands. Fold-creases and some depicted at work as such in the handsome edge-wear, otherwise very good. [OCLC frontispiece to the book. De Voe was locates no copies]. $200.00 working as a city butcher at just the moment when improvements in transportation brought increasing abundance to New York’s open air food #s 59, 63

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“As there has been a large advance in the with a bit of water spotting to the front and Coffee market...” back boards. $120.00

61. [Tea]. Clark & Balch: Importers and The first United States Food Exposition Jobbers of Teas. One page ALS. 1879. One page ALS, 21.1 x 13.65 cm. Clark & Balch, 64. Food Manufacturers’ Association. New York-based purveyors of teas, implore Official Catalogue. United States Food Mr. C.C. Palmer to increase “the cost of all Exposition, in Commemoration of the Discovery the grades of Coffee [...] 2 cents per pound” of America. At Madison Square Garden, New due to a large advance in the coffee market. York, October 1st to 27th, 1892. New York: Slight fold tear on one side of the letter, Food Manufacturers’ Association, 1892. otherwise very good. $25.00 Octavo, 64 pages. The program for the proceedings of the first United States Food 62. National Distillers’ and Spirit Exposition. Four hundred years after the Dealers’ Association. Proceedings of the “Discovery of America”, the national National Distillers’ and Spirit Dealers’ exhibition sought to demonstrate “the fact Association of the United States held at that this is the greatest food-producing Cincinnati, Ohio, January 21st and 22d, 1880. country in the world.” With over one Together with the Revised and Amended hundred exhibitors of manufactured food Constitution and By-Laws, Address to the products, a Dairy Department, Lectures on Trade. Chicago: National Distillers’ and Cooking by Miss Maria Parloa, Cafe, Ladies’ Spirit Dealers’ Association/Pitkin &Cruver, Restaurant and Parlor, and more. Sepia- 1880. Octavo in wrappers, 72 pages. toned wrapper detached from stapled text, Booklet includes the full proceedings of the with minor tears and some discoloration. meeting held at Cincinnati on Jan. 21st and Minimal waterstains throughout text, 22nd, 1880, with an introduction, “To the otherwise very good. $150.00 Trade” written by the Association’s Secretary, D.G. Rush of Chicago. Proceedings include the roll, and a verbatim transcription of proceedings. Issues raised include reduction of distiller’s running-bonds, abolition of warehouse bonds, and resolutions regarding whiskey brought before Congress, among other topics. Addenda includes the report of sub- committees. Tidemark and edge-tears to the printed tan wrappers, otherwise near very good. [OCLC locates no copies]. $150.00

63. Shaw, C.W. London Market Gardens, or Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables as Grown for Market. London: “Garden” Office, circa 1880. Small octavo, 226 pages. Second edition, the first with an index. An interesting survey of the flowers, fruits and vegetables in the London markets and of the suppliers and their operations. Some pages age-toned, otherwise very good, in original black ruled and titled brown cloth #65

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65. [New York Market]. Circular of Advice, In regard to Preparing, Packing and Shipping Articles of Produce for the New York Market. New York: New York Market, circa 1890s. Small octavo, 32 pages. A practical handbook for the proper shipment of goods including produce, meats, and poultry for sale at the New York Market. Advice includes regulations regarding marking and shipping of packages; shipping in ice; methods of killing poultry; selection of spring lambs; customary care for hops and honey; and uniform selection of apples and pears, among other items and rules. The apple section is crossed out. In yellow, titled wrappers with slight age wear, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates no copies. $100.00

a Prime Minister’s copy

66. Meyer, Ernest, editor. Meyrina Revue #66 Economique Universelle Annuelle. Guide, Catalogue et Repertoire General des Denrees Coloniales, Epicure Fine, Conserves Wilkinson’s Sons, 1904. Billhead, 15.5 x 22 Alimentaires, Vins Fins, Liqueurs, Droguerie, cm. Printed in red and black, for C. Porduits Chimiques et Techniques, Coleurs et Wilkinson’s Sons , “commission Vernis, Parfumerie, Specialites merchants, fruits, and produce” with Pharmaceutiques, Eaux Minerales, etc. cranberries as their specialty. Addressed to Geneva: Administrations et Redaction, C.E. Cowen of Marion, billed for “45 Be [1893]. Quarto, 207 pages plus index and CB”. Slight creasing, else fine. $20.00 errata. Illustrated advertisements throughout. Numbered “17” on front 68. Grain & Flour Exchange of pastedown, and presumably one of a small Pittsburgh. Charter Constitution and By-Laws number of presentation copies. A scarce of the Grain and Flour Exchange of Pittsburgh Swiss economic review of food, wine, with Rules and Regulations. Revised and liquor, medicinal products, and fragrances Corrected, 1910. Pittsburgh: Shaw world-wide. Original gilt- and black- Brothers, Printers, 1910. Stapled booklet, 15 stamped blue cloth has some bumping, x 19.5 cm, 49 pages. In gold-printed gray endpapers include some marks from prior wrappers with very minor rubbing and booksellers, but otherwise in very good small chip to spine, slight rusting to staples, condition. Rare. Inscribed at length on the otherwise very good. Unrecorded. [OCLC half-title by Meyer to the British Prime Minister locates no copies]. $90.00 and bibliophile, William Ewart Gladstone. Rare. [OCLC locates one copy only, at the 69. International Institute of Agriculture. Bibliotheque Geneve]. $500.00 Steadying the world’s price of the staples. An international commerce commission on ocean 67. [Billhead - Fruit and Produce freight rates. Rome: International Institute Wholesaler]. C. Wilkinson’s Sons. C. of Agriculture, 1915. Octavo, 24 pages. First Wilkinson’s Sons. Commission Merchants, edition. United States.; 63d Cong., 3d sess., Fruits and Produce. Philadelphia: C.

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jacket. In blue cloth with slight rubbing to cap and small stain to back cover, otherwise very good. $60.00.

72. Monroe, Day and Lenore Monroe Stratton. Food Buying and Our Markets. Boston: M. Barrows & Company, 1931. Octavo, vi + 324 pages. Later printing. Instructional text by former cookery instructor at Columbia University and the former editor of the Woman’s Department at the Topeka Daily Capital on the economics of food buying. In red cloth with some bumping to edges, otherwise very good. Former owner has inscribed end pages, front and back. $20.00.

73. Crocheron, B.H. and W.J. Norton. Fruit Markets in Eastern Asia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Printing Office, 1930. Octavo, 366 pages. First edition. Photographs and charts illustrate #68 throughout. A University of California, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Report regarding the 1914-1915. Some light edgewear to printed prospect of Eastern Asia as a viable market wrappers, otherwise very good. $75.00 for U.S. grown fruits. Following World

War I, prices for domestic agricultural 70. Annin, R. Edwards Jr. Public Markets commodities plummeted. This report in Massachusetts. Circular No. 84. investigates possible alternative markets in Commonweath of Massachusetts, State Board Japan, Korea, China, Phillipines, French of Agriculture. Boston: Wright & Potter, Indo-China, Siam, British Malaya, Dutch 1918. 9"x6" stapled pamphlet, 23 pages. East Indies, Burma, India, and Ceylon. Illustrated with three halftone plates of Laid-in is a fourteen page brochure, Fruit outdoor farmers’ markets in Holyoke & Markets in Eastern Asia : A Joint Investigation Lowell. Some very light rubbing and by the United States Department of Commerce edgewear to the stapled wrappers, and the University of California, that excerpts otherwise very good. $60.00 sections of the book. Wrappers chipped with inscription to front cover, otherwise 71. Waugh, Frederick V. Quality as a very good. $100.00 Determinant of Vegetable Prices: A Statistical Study of Quality Factors Influencing Vegetable Prices in the Boston Wholesale Market. New York: Columbia University Press, 1929. ADVERTISE Octavo, 154 pages. First edition. Study by Frederick V. Waugh, Senior Agricultural The advertising of food has left Economist of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics, on the factors behind a rich and often beautiful effecting change in vegetable prices. paper trail. Labels, broadsides and Analysis of asparagus, tomato, and handbills, posters, original artwork, cucumber, specifically. Lacking issued dust

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sales catalogues, and promotional “A trial will prove it entirely superior to all other brands” booklets all provide detailed evidence for the study of the 75. [Label - Tiger Brand Lard]. development of food culture, and Chamberlain, Roe & Co. [Diamond-shaped Lard Label]. New York: Chamberlain, Roe shed light on the development of & Co., circa 1890. 16 x 27 cm label. Printed printing, advertising, and design in red and black. A diamond shaped label history. In some cases, the for 19th century New York Lard Refiners ephemera address trademark laws, and Provision Dealers, Chamberlain, Roe & Co. Leaf lard is the highest grade of lard, revealing battles over faked prepared here “expressly for family use”, products, or the labels themselves leaf lard has minimal pork flavor and is are used to differentiate their ideal for its use in baked goods. Fine. $90.00 products from those of defrauding competitors. 76. [Handbill - Fish Packing]. Crangle & Co. New Pack Salt Fish. 1891. Cleveland, O. 74. [Fraud Label Warning – Tobacco]. January 12, 1891. Cleveland, Oh.: Crangle W.D. & H.O. Wills. Fraud! Counterfeit & Co., 1891. Typed letter, 23 x 15.4 cm. Label. Genuine Label. Caution [...]. Bristol: Printed in red and blue, and illustrated W.D. & H.O. Wills, circa 1880. 21.4 x 13.3 with an image of a bass. A solicitation letter cm. An announcement from tobacco describing the wares of fresh and salt water purveyors W.D. & H.O. Wills that warns fish catchers and wholesale dealers, against fraudulent product and promotes Crangle & Co., a company based in identification of such based on labels. Cleveland, Ohio,. Includes dates for Lent, Small stain and minor glue marks where an attempt to further encourage the edge was tipped-in, otherwise very good. patronage of fish purveyors. Fold creases $150.00 otherwise fine. $75.00

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77. [Advertising Hand-fan]. Geo[rge] W. red label, printed with black ink.” Several Smith & Son, Manufacturing Bakers and light stains, otherwise very good. $75.00 Confectioners. [Advertising Hand-fan]. Pawtucket, RI: Eastern Advertising Co., 79. [Sample Book - Labels]. Charles G. Mfrs., [undated, after 1892]. Hand-fan, 29 x Summers Jr., Inc. Charles G. Summers Jr., 20.5 cm. Illustrated. A functional Inc. New Freedom, PA. Label Book. New advertising piece Freedom, PA: Charles G. promoting the George Summers Jr., Inc., W. Smith & Son [undated]. 4.5 x 11.5 cm, Confectionery and unpaginated [59 leaves]. Cracker Company. 57 full-color Established in chromolithograph labels Hanover, New for canned vegetable. A Hampshire in 1815 and family business founded relocated to White in 1865, the Summers River Junction, Canning Company Vermont in 1871, the packed a variety of company was brands, included here are renowned for their Superfine, Legion, “Hanover” crackers Lagoon, Mountain, and and large confectionery Summit Grove Brand business. The paper peas, carrots, corn, fan, illustrated in black potatoes, tomatoes and and white with a more. The company was pastoral scene of cows sold to Hanover Foods in on one side, shares 1984 and the Superfine abbreviated Brand is still available. information about the Spiral bound with brown company on the recto. boards, a bit of rust to the Some mild edgewear spiral binding and and staining, shaped slightest foxing to few wooden handle with labels, otherwise very minor marks, otherwise good. [OCLC locates no very good. $50.00 copies]. $225.00

78. [Hecker & 80. Postum Cereal Co., Brother]. Buckwheat Limited. Postum Cereal. Cakes can be almost Battle Creek, Mich.: instantaneously made Postum Cereal Co., circa from Heckers’ Self- 1906. Booklet, 21.4 x 35.2 Raising Buckwheat [...] #79 cm, one sheet folded. Boston, MA: Hecker & Illustrated double Brother, circa 1895. Broadside, 27 x 15.4 cm. parallel-fold brochure promoting the Advertisement for Heckers’ self-raising Postum Cereal beverage, a coffee buckwheat: just add water or milk for substitute. A compound made of wheat and instant buckwheat cakes. “Perfectly a small portion of New Orleans molasses. Healthful [for] dyspeptics and persons who “Postum contains none of the injurious cannot eat Buckwheat Cakes made by the elements found in coffee [and] all of the old process with yeast”. Features a replica wholesome elements found in wheat”. of label printed in black and purple, though Slight edge wear, otherwise fine condition. text warns “be sure you get a package with a $40.00

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81. [Advertising Poster]. J.S. Hoffman 82. [Sample Album – Labels]. Fabrica Company. Hoffman’s Appetite Satisfiers [...] Ancora. [Portuguese Alcohol Label Sample Chicago & New York: J.S. Hoffman Book]. Lisboa: circa 1910. Folio. Company, circa 1910. Broadside, 33 x 25.2 Accordion-fold, fifteen-panel presentation cm. Illustrated promotional poster for J.S. album, with two hundred original labels Hoffman Company, or Hofco, an importer mounted to both rectos and versos. The of European and domestic cheeses and labels, for wines, liqueurs, syrups, bitters meats. Interestingly, Hofco employed J.D. and more, all produced by the Fabrica Salinger’s father, Sol Salinger, in the early Ancora distillers, exhibit a wide variety of 20th century. Richly printed on glossy styles and printing techniques, including board, with text and various details steel engraving, chromolithography and embossed, and a varnish finish. Pasted to metallic inks. The first few panels have text larger piece of board, otherwise very good. from the printers urging the use of these $300.00 quality labels to help differentiate their real product from adulterated or pirated products in the marketplace. First and final panels with stained, stamped green cloth, and metal brads. Some foxing throughout the album, otherwise very good. Handsome. [OCLC locates no copies]. $1500.00

83. [Label - Pickles]. [H.J.] Heinz [Company]. Pure Food Products Heinz 57 Varieties Estd 1869. N.p. circa 1920. Round label, 28 cm. Beautiful Heinz pickle barrell label. Heinz opened a pickle factory in Holland, Michigan in 1897, still operational today, it is the largest such factory in the world. Near fine. $35.00

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“Vegex makes other foods taste better” two green peppers, with artist’s or art director’s pencil trim marks. One piece of 84. [Vitamin Food Company]. Vegex masking tape affixed to verso, some wear to Cook Book. Westfield, MA/New York: edges, otherwise very good. $200.00 Vitamin Food Company, [circa 1923]. Small octavo die-cut in the shape of a jar, 12.7 x 87. [Label - Original Artwork]. Bellman’s 7.9 cm, 30 pages. First edition. Illustrated Markets. [Olive Oil Label.] Toledo, OH: wrappers printed in red and green. Bellman’s Markets, undated. 19 cm x 28 Invented in the late 19th century, Vegex cm. Original hand-painted gouache design née Marmite was introduced to the United for Bellman’s Markets’ Olive Oil. Bellman’s Stated in 1913. The introductory text Markets were founded in 1931 by brothers, heralds the “health- and strength-building” Louis and Samuel Bellman. They operated properties of this five markets in Toledo, distinctive and Ohio until 1958 when an powerfully flavored food Indiana company, Marsh spread and its crucial Foodliners, acquired the role for British troops in firm. Painted on board the First World War. with light edge wear and Approximately seventy- two tack holes, though five recipes, all these do not affect the containing Vegex; from label imagery. Fine. Milk Vegex drink and $120.00 Scotch Broth to Curry Sauce, Paprika 88. [Label - Goulash, and Vegex Original Artwork]. Caviar. Though “the [Date Packaging]. N.d. richest known food in Gouache on board, vitamin B”, it is noted 17.5 x 24.5 cm. A clearly that “Vegex is handsome illustration food not medicine”. A of a date tree, with few small spots and pasted down two small pinholes to #s 86,87 registration marks. front wrapper, text Pencil marks and clean and otherwise very good. $75.00 some staining to reverse; some edge wear including pinholes, otherwise very good. 85. [Labels]. Gebrauchsgraphik : $150.00 Sondernummer: Tabak und Likör. Berlin: 1924. 31.3 x 23.5 cm, 80, [plates], [ads] 89. [Label - Original Artwork]. The pages. Text in German. The second issue of Schmidt Lithograph Co. [Butter the pioneering German graphic design Advertisement]. San Francisco: The magazine, a special issue on tobacco and Schmidt Lithograph Co, 1944. Gouache on liquor advertising. Includes illustrations of board, 16 x 24 cm board with 8.5 x 15.7 cm hundreds of full-color labels plus plates artwork. Original art for butter with original labels pasted down. Some advertisement produced by one of the great creasing and edge wear to wrappers, else American label houses. Illustration with very good. Scarce. $450.00 registration marks, featuring notes about color below. Reverse has ticket pasted 86. [Label - Original Artwork]. [Tomato down with date and design number from and Green Peppers]. Circa 1930. Original the label company. Several pinholes to acrylic painting on cardboard, 16 x 22 cm. edges and some discoloration from tape, Richly colored image of a ripe tomato and otherwise good. $90.00

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90. [Sales Catalogue - Biscuits]. 92. [Label Scrapbook - Cheese]. Scraps MacFarlane, Lang & Co. Ltd. MacFarlane, [Scrapbook of Cheese Labels]. London: circa Lang Co. Ltd. Biscuit Manufacturers, London 1940s. Folio, unpaginated [20 leaves sewn & Glasgow, Christmas 1936. 1936. Quarto, on tabs]. Seventy-six full-color cheese 27.9 x 20.9 cm, 30 pages. Full color labels tipped onto the rectos of album. illustrations. Trade catalog for Christmas Labels uniform in size. Cheeses, primarily specialties of British biscuit manufacturers Swiss and Dutch styles, with a notable label MacFarlane, Lang Co. Items featured for Emmenthaler printed in Hebrew. include Scotch Shortbread, Victoria Cakes, London stationer’s ticket on front Airtight Containers, and Dessert pastedown helps locate the blank Gingerbread. In attractively designed scrapbook’s origins. In red quarter cloth orange wrappers bound with red ribbon. with blue cover, with chipping, edgewear, Some light edgewear to wrappers, and slight foxing, otherwise good. Most otherwise fine. $250.00 labels fine. $350.00

91. [Labels – Tear-out Book]. Zenith. Zenith Assorted, Gummed Canning Labels in SELL Natural Colors. Scranton, PA: Eureka Specialties, circa 1930s. 13 x 17.5 cm, 14 The business of selling food requires sheets of labels. A booklet of richly colored equipment: tools for sales, for fruit and vegetable canning labels for peach, strawberry, blackberry, cherry, cooking and storage, and for the raspberry, blueberry, plum, pear, corn, specialized preparation of particular tomato, peas, beans, beets, and pickles. foodstuffs – from milkshakes to Twelve perforated gummed labels to a page and a guide of approximate yield of canned roasted peanuts, sliced meats to products from raw fruits and veggies. In gelato. Equipment vendors served wrappers with colorfully illustrated cover; the grocers and restaurants offering three sheets missing no more than three useful implements of all types, labels and appears perhaps originally fifteen sheets were included, otherwise implements that often held the fine. $50.00 promise of improved business and an edge on the competitor down the street.

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l-r #93 #95 #94

93. [Billhead - Stoneware] H. Laughlin & vases, flower pots, soap dishes, pitchers, Co. Bought of H. Laughlin & Co., Variegated spittoons, toy jugs, and more. Prices listed Rockingham and Yellow Ware, East Liverpool, as well. Some creases and rubbing, minor O. East Liverpool, OH: 1869. Printed tear to edge, otherwise very good. $300.00 billhead, 42.5 x 17.3 cm, with small illustration of wares. Printed on blue and 95. [Billhead - Stoneware]. S. Hart & red lined paper. Pre-populated with prices Son. Bought of S. Hart & Son, Manufacturers for Rockingham and Yellow ware products of and Dealers in Stone Ware, Rockingmam including: chambers, bowls, pie plates, [sic] Ware, Fire Brick, &c. Fulton, NY: circa nappie dishes, pitchers, rice dishes, jelly 1870s. Printed billhead, 35.7 x 21.5 cm. cans, stove tubs, spittoons, mugs, hanging With small illustrations of wares, printed baskets and more. This document predates on brown paper, of jugs, molasses jugs, the founding of the Homer Laughlin China preserve jars, butter pots, cake pots, Company in East Liverpool, Ohio by two churns, chambers, spittoons, horse feed years. Billhead is made out in black ink and boxes, mixing bowls, pie plates, water recounts purchase of Messrs. Ford and filters, and flower pots. By 1878, the Samuel Perry. Also with stamp and note of Hart, the company’s founder, retired and S. payment received. Very slight discoloration, Hart & Son became Hart Brothers. Some otherwise fine. $350.00 creasing, light foxing, and glue spots to right edge, otherwise good. Along the 94. [Billhead - Earthenware]. Lawrence bottom edge is printed, “From the Pottery. Lawrence, Mass. Bought of Geo. collection of Robert H. Wadsworth, Pearson & Co. who manufacture and keep Rochester, N.Y.” $350.00 constantly on hand at their factory in Lawrence, all kinds of Earthen-ware, with 96. [Billhead - Stoneware] Ballard, A.K. Rockingham Glaze, of the best quality, at the Bought of A.K. Ballard, Manufacturer of Every following prices. Lawrence, MA: circa 1870. Description of Stone and Rockingham Ware. Printed billhead, 38.5 x 26.5 cm. Pre- Burlington, VT: 1871. Printed billhead, 35 x populated invoice, listing products such as 21.7 cm, including an etched image of A.K. cake pots, cream pots, lard pots, bean pots, Ballard’s pottery business and factory. Pre- milk pans, pudding pans, kneading bowls, populated billhead features jugs, molasses stove tubes, seed pans, saucers, hanging jugs, covered cream pots, butter pots, cake

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l-r #96 #98 #97

pots, preserve jars, tomato or fruit jars, River. George Satterlee was one of the first churns, pudding pots, flower pots, plain to establish a pottery business, when in pitchers, stove pipe safes, bean pots, and 1859 he opened Fort Edward Pottery Co. In Rockingham ware each accompanied by 1861, Satterlee merged with Michael Mory small image of product. Alfred K. Ballard to create the firm Satterlee & Mory. (unknown-1874) founded his company in Pasted-down to matte board. Major tears to Burlington, Vermont circa 1867, though edges, some foxing, discoloration, rubbing, various pottery businesses had existed in its otherwise near good. $200.00 location since 1830. The company continued after Ballard’s death until 1896. 98. [Broadside - Kitchenware]. The billhead is made out in blue ink and Cincinnati Tin and Japan Co. Excelsior recounts the purchase of Jonathan Buxton Cooking Utensils, Manufactured by Howdon’s (1830-1878) of South Weare, New Sons, Cincinnati, O. Cincinnati: circa 1872. Hampshire. Light creases beyond Broadside, 27.3 x 13.5 cm. Illustrated document folds and slight stains to edges, advertisement for Excelsior cooking vessels, otherwise very good. $350.00 which purport to contain no “injurious enamels” and have “only one-half the 97. [Billhead - Stoneware]. Satterlee & weight to lift of an ordinary iron vessel”. Mory. New York Stone Ware Pottery, Fort “Rice, hominy and all kinds of food can be Edward, N.Y. Bought of Satterlee & Mory, cooked and retain their natural color, and Dealers in Every Description of Stone and receives no impure taste from the vessel, as Rockingham Ware. Fort Edward, NY: circa is the case with copper bottoms, ordinary 1870s. Printed billhead, 38 x 24 cm. iron pots and impure enamel.” For sale by Illustrated invoice with depictions of jugs, Cincinnati Tin and Japan Co., importers open and covered cream pots, pitchers, and dealers in tin plate and metals churns, preserved jars, pudding pots, including japanned, plain and stamped butter pots, cake pots, flower pots, water ware, and tinners' supplies. Slight fold kegs, and spittoons offered by Satterlee & creases and edge wear as well as very slight Mory, New York stoneware pottery foxing, otherwise very good condition. [Not purveyors. Beginning in 1858, stoneware located by OCLC; Romaine, page 214 - pottery was a major industry in Fort Cincinnati Public Library]. $90.00 Edward, a town located along the Hudson

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/Philadelphia/Boston: Whitall, Tatum & Co., circa 1880. Broadside, 21.6 x 14 cm. Illustrated handbill for “Silent” Milk Shake machine. Description, dimensions, and price listed as well as locations of Whitall, Tatum & Co. locations in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. W.T. & Co. sold goods equipment and goods for pharmacies and druggists, issuing lists and catalogues from 1874 through 1899. Fold creases, otherwise fine condition. [Romaine lists numerous W.T & Co. items, but not this one]. $90.00

101. [Billhead - Stoneware]. Satterlee & Mory. New York Stone Ware Pottery, Fort Edward, N.Y. Bought of Satterlee & Mory, Dealers in Every Description of Stone and Rockingham Ware. Fort Edward, NY: 1881. Printed billhead, 35.7 x 22 cm. With small illustrations of wares including jugs, pancake pitchers, pudding pots, water kegs, stove tubes, flowerpots, and more. Made #100 out in black ink to Mr. M.B. Paige, the invoice records a purchase of $109: covered butter pots and Rockingham ware vinegar

measures. Some creasing and very minor "So easy that a child could turn it" edgewear, otherwise very good. $300.00 99. [Handbill - Kitchenware]. Edwin Craft & Co. The Matchless Sifter, Colander & 102. [Handbill - Peanut Roaster]. Kingery, Strainer Combined... Philadelphia: circa S.S. Kingery’s Celebrated Peanut Roaster and 1879. Printed handbill, 19.3 x 11 cm. Warmer Combined [and] Peerless and Giant Illustrated advertisement for a combined sifter, colander, and strainer of tin and tinned wire. “Universally approved [...] as the best out”, it is presented here for sale, wholesale, and retail by Craft, Conrow & Co. née Edwin Craft and Company, Philadelphia dealers of hardware, tools, bell-hangers’ supplies, and house- furnishing goods. “Craft, Conrow & Co.” is stamped in blue ink across the originally printed “Edwin Craft & Co.” Some creasing and minor chipping to top edge, otherwise very good. $75.00

100. [Handbill - Milk Shake Machine]. Whitall, Tatum & Co. W.T. & Co. “Silent” Milk Shake. Absolutely Noiseless, Very Easy to Operate, Low in Price. New York

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Freezers. Cincinnati, OH: circa 1882. Two- printed in silver, yellow and white, and sided advertising handbill, 29.8 x 22.2 cm. another of “Bottles of Grape Juice” and Illustrated advertisement. For Cincinnati, “Buckeye Root Beer”. Very near fine, with a Ohio purveyor S.S. Kingery. On one side, few pages with tiny dogears, and some Kingery promotes a combined peanut rusting to the stapled text block, in roaster and warmer. Includes description, beautiful multi-color chromolithographed capacity, ordering options, and wrappers. WITH; a four page leaflet, listing testimonials. The other side advertises two all wholesale houses throughout the U.S. types of ice cream makers, the “Giant carrying the Benton, Myers wares, printed Freezer” and the “Peerless Freezer”. Some in red and black. Also fine. Rare. [OCLC very slight edge wear and fold creases, fine cites no copies; not in Romaine]. $1250.00 condition. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Romaine]. $200.00

103. [Billhead - Stoneware]. Fisher & Lang. Invoice/Order Sheet for Kitchen Stoneware. Lyons, NY: Fisher & Lang/Republican Print, 1883. Billhead, 35.6 x 21.6 cm. Illustrated. Invoice/order sheet for stoneware items purchased from Fisher & Lang (established 1828), a New York purveyor of pots, jugs, pans, and pitchers. Illustrated with seven images of various pot styles, including Cream Pots, Molasses Jugs, Churns, Spittoons, Cala Lilly Pots, and more. Marked in pencil in one hand and thus indicates the items, quantities, and prices charged to Mr. F.W. Clark Williamson. Some edge-wear, otherwise very good. $300.00

an unrecorded soda water supply trade catalogue

104. [Trade Catalogue - Soda Water Supplies]. Benton, Myers & Co. #104 Manufacturers of Soda Water Supplies. Cleveland, O. Cleveland: n.p., circa 1889- 1904. Small octavo, 47 pages. Illustrated "Let your motto be quick sales with four chromolithograph plates. Trade and small profits" catalogue, issued by the wholesale druggists and soda water supply company, Benton, 105. [Handbill - Tinware]. J. Henry Reip Myers. & Co. (1882-1904). With a list of & Co. Our Leader. 318 Pieces of Patent Bottom products from hot sodas to chocolate Fire-Proof Tin Ware. To Retail at 10 cts. extracts, soda syrups, phosphates, ginger Each... Baltimore: circa 1890. 30.5 x 20.7 ales, “Cafola, a new kola drink” and much cm, printed handbill. Illustrated by J.D. more. And with luscious chromo plates of Ehlers Co. engravers of Baltimore. a port wine and a non-sparkling Wholesalers J. Henry Reip & Co. offer here champagne, both produced by the Duroy three hundred-eighteen pieces of kitchen Wine Company of Cleveland, Ohio, as well tinware for profitable resale. Pans, dish as the beautiful “Crushed Fruit Bowl”, kettles, coffee pots, strainer buckets,

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mountain cake pans, oil cans and more 107. [Trade Catalogue - Bottling & that, “will retail if sold in regular way, Carbonation]. Liquid Carbonic Acid $45.90, giving you a net profit of $20.90 on Manufacturing Co. The Catalogue of Liquid the case or $6.18 clear at 10 cents each.” Carbonic Acid Manufacturing Co., Engineers Some creases, minor chipping at half-fold, to the Mineral Water Trade, inventors and otherwise very good. $150.00 Originators of the Celebrated “Diamond Brand Liquid Gas”... Chemically Pure Liquified 106. [Trade Catalogue - Hotel Ware]. Carbonic Acid Gas and Patented Apparatus Francis Morandi & Son. Catalogue of and Appliances for using Liquified Gas... Specialties for Hotels and Restaurants. Extinguishing Fires, Refrigerating, Ice Boston: Francis Morandi & Son/Smith & Making, and other Industrial Applications... Anthony Stove Company, [circa 1890]. Builder of all Kinds of Bottling Machinery. Quarto, 40 pages. Illustrated. Trade Chicago & Pittsburgh: Liquid Carbonic catalogue of products and patterns of Acid Manufacturing Co., 1897. Octavo, Francis Morandi & Son, manufacturers of stapled in wrappers, 64 pages. Illustrated. hotel, restaurant, and kitchen goods. Trade catalogue of equipment and supplies Inserted frontispiece outlines the specifics for the industries requiring bottled Carbon of the recent consolidation of Morandi & Dioxide or carbonation, including bottlers, Son with the Smith & Anthony Stove refrigeration, soda fountains, bars, etc. Company. Items include steam tables, Includes soda fountain furniture and portable ovens, coffee urns, and more. supplies, including an interesting one-page Final pages include references and a list of ad for Saccharine, which had been first hotels and restaurants outfitted by Morandi produced only 20 years earlier. Some wear & Son. Slight wear to attractively illustrated and soiling to the red and blue printed wrappers, pages 21/22 mostly lacking (an wrappers, pulling at the staples, otherwise item description has clearly been excised), very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates only one otherwise very good condition. [OCLC copy, of the 1898 edition; not in Romaine]. locates no copies; not in Romaine]. $200.00 $350.00

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108. [Trade Catalogue - Butcher Shop 110. American woodworkers and Supplies]. Maison Jules Mareschal. Grande exporters are listed with a showroom on Usine a Vapeur, pour la Construction de Warren Street in New York, but factories in Materiel a l'usage de Boucherie, Charcuterie & Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, Salaisons... Paris: Maison Jules Mareschal, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, 1904. Folio, 48 pages. Illustrated Pennsylvania, and Canada. Fold creases, throughout. An unrecorded trade catalogue edgewear, and some foxing and slight of shop implements and shop front discoloration. A bit of insect damage to first structures, for butchers and delicatessens. leaf. Good condition. Unrecorded. [OCLC Beyond the shop front, Mareschal offers locates no copies; not in Romaine]. $150.00 tables, butcher blocks, ice boxes, display cases, and all of the ecoutrement: from 111. Enterprise Manufacturing Company knives, hooks, and of Pennsylvania. grinders, to “Enterprise” clothing, like the Electrical Coffee Mills stylish ‘chaussons and Meat & Food d’abattoir’. Closed Choppers. tear to title page. Philadelphia: Pages somewhat Enterprise brittle throughout Manufacturing with small closed Company of tears. Printed red Pennsylvania, 1921. wrapper is Octavo in wrappers, edgeworn, otherwise 52 pages. Trade good. Unrecorded. catalogue for [OCLC locates no “Enterprise” copies]. $350.00 electrically driven rapid grinding and 109. [Trade pulverizing mills Catalogue - and meat and food Woodenware]. E.B. choppers. Machines Estes & Sons. E.B. are designed to Estes & Sons, “meet the Lumbermen, requirements of all Woodworkers and classes of trade, and Enamelers, to suit conditions as Manufacturers of to Current, American Voltages, etc., Woodenware. New #109 existing in any York: 1916. Booklet, 31.1 x 23.9 cm, 8 pages locality.” Machinery prices determined by plus 1page price list. Printed throughout in the kind of current furnished. Some blue and yellow. Illustrated trade catalog of discoloration to title page, some wear to woodenware, including bowls, rolling pins, extremities of printed red wrappers, butter moulds, potato mashers, steak otherwise near very good. [OCLC locates mauls, salt boxes, fish tongs, toothpicks, one each of the 1918 and 1930 catalogues for and more. Each item is illustrated and Enterprise, at the Hagley, DE and descriptions provide various size options Clements respectively; not in Romaine, and shipping information. Price list although one earlier Enterprise catalogue is included as a separate sheet. E.B. Estes, referenced]. $175.00

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112. The Vendometer Corporation. The copies, but an archive of related material Story of VendOmeter: The Self-Serve, Electric- can be found at the New York State Refrigerated, Orange Drink Vending Machine Library]. $150.00 [and] VendOmeter News. Vol. 2. January- February 1928. Nos. 1-2. New York: The 113. Reed, Walter R. Starting and Managing a Small Automatic Vending Business. Washington, DC: Small Business Administration, 1967. 23.3 x 15 cm, 70 pages. First edition. Illustrated throughout. Volume thirteen in the government sponsored “Starting and Managing Series” offers practical advice for starting and running a successful vending machine business. In wrappers with slight discoloration to spine edge, and slight foxing, otherwise very good. $40.00

"Alles zum Eis" [All the Ice]

114. [Trade Catalogue – Bakery & Ice Cream Equipment]. Paul Schilling. Paul Schilling, Bäckerei-, Eis-und Konditorei- Maschinen, Preisliste Nr. 134 [Paul Schilling, Bakery, Ice-cream and Confectionery Machines, Price list no. 134]. Markkleeberg- Leipzig: 1932. Small octavo, 74 pages plus #112 insert with two post-cards. Text in German. Printed throughout in maroon ink. Illustrated catalogue for German food Vendometer Corporation, 1927-1928. 16 x 9 production machines and products, cm, tri-fold and 28 x 21, 8 pages. Small specifically for bakeries, ice cream, and promotional brochure and issue of candy production. Detailed images VendOmeter News periodical. Founded in throughout. Over 100 items featured, 1927, the Vendometer Corporation including such as: Holzlöffel [wooden produced a refrigerated drink vending spoon], Waffeln [waffles], Eis-Handwagen machine that served Oranade, “a pure fruit [ice hand-wagon], Friko-Elektra- orange drink.” Brochure describes the Eismaschine 30 Liter [30 Liter Friko convenience and sanitary functionality of Electric Ice Machine], and Papierbecher the vending machine and includes a raffle [paper cups]. In green wrappers with red ticket to win a refrigerator at the 1927 text, hole-punch to upper left corner, Trenton Fair. The magazine includes otherwise fine. [OCLC locates no copies]. photographs and the history of the $200.00 company, specifically the development of

four models of their coin-operated 115. International Business Machines machine. In the 1920s electric refrigeration Corporation. Photograph of IBM Display techniques were in an early stage of Car. circa 1924. Photograph, 20.3 x 25.4 development, as chlorofluorocarbon cm. Image of a display car associated with refrigerants were first synthesized then but IBM’s Baltimore showroom featuring two not publicly announced until 1930. Some men and a meat slicer machine. Founded minor rubbing to magazine wrappers, in 1911 as Computing-Tabulating-Recording otherwise very good. [OCLC locates no Company, the company manufactured and

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#115 sold machinery ranging from commercial 117. [Trade Catalogue - Ice Cream] scales and industrial time recorders to meat Maganza, Luigi & Fratelli. Fabbrica stampi and cheese slicers, along with tabulators per cioccolato, gelatieri, pasticcerie, cuochi e and punched cards. The company changed salumerie. Milano: c. 1930-31. Oblong folio, its name to International Business 18 pages, illustrated throughout. Stapled Machines Corporation in 1924 to better and string-bound typographic wrappers. reflect the company’s goals. Small closed General catalogue of moulds for pastry, ice- tear, very slight edge wear, otherwise very cream, chocolate and related machinery. good. $240.00 Very good in printed wrappers. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies]. 116. [Trade Catalogue - Hotel Ware]. $300.00 “Wear-Ever” Aluminum Hotel Ware, Catalog 34. New Kensington, PA: The Aluminum 118. [Trade Catalogue - Ice Cream] Rizzi, Cooking Utensil Company, n.d. Catalog, Fratelli. Mastelli di sughero di vari tipi per la 22.9 x 15.9 cm, 48 pages. Illustrated. conservazione del gelato ditributori automatico Designed and printed by The Eddy Press per coni e palettine. Vicenza: circa 1930's. Corporation of Maryland. Trade catalog Oblong octavo-sized, cord-bound wrappers features trays in all shapes and sizes, pots with 14 pages, illustrated throughout. Sales and pans in a variety of depths, racks, catalogue for cork for the storage of ice griddle cake covers, camp cooking outfits, cream and automatic distributors for cones steam jacketed kettles, food carriers, double and spoons. Very good in printed wrappers. boilers, windsor dippers, colander, cocktail Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies]. shakers and strainers, and more. “Wear- $350.00 Ever” Aluminum Hotel Ware is made of “extra thick, hard aluminum” and “require 119. [Salesman’s Sample Card]. William no retinning, are light in weight--bright as Wrigley Jr. Company. Wrigley’s Chewing silver--do not rust--do not contain and Gum. 1933. 15.5 x 8 cm, bi-fold card. A cannot form with fruit or vegetable acids geometric arrow illustrates the front of this any poisonous compound”. Printed card that opens to expose three intact wrappers include a handsome image of a pieces of Wrigley’s chewing gum, “Alike in chef at work over a stock pot. Near fine. quality, different in flavor”. Pieces of $65.00 Spearmint, Juicy Fruit, and Double Mint are offered because Wrigley’s believes “the

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with the food producers guiding the grocer to feature windows and aisles attractively arranged.

120. Corwin, B.V.R. Catalogue of Choice Wines, Teas and Superior Family Groceries, sold by B.V.R. Corwin, 811 Broadway, New York. New York: B.V.R. Corwin, circa 1850. Duodecimo, 13.5 x 8.5 cm, 23 pages [lacking page 10]. Mid-century New York City grocer’s catalogue with various brands and types of liquors, wines, segars [cigars], #119 coffee, oils, candles, sugars, cheese, flours, rice, fruits, isinglass, Italian paste, fish, herbs, bird seed, French vegetables, foreign proof of the pudding is in the eating”. pickles, and more. Beginning at the back Founded in 1891, William Wrigley Jr. and continuing for eight pages, the verso is Company initially specialized in soap and used as notebook; inscriptions made in one baking soda. The following year they began hand (pencil) and appear medicinal, to package chewing gum with each can of spiritual and health-related in content. Text baking powder. The chewing gum printed throughout on blue paper; in eventually became more popular than the printed brown wrappers with staining and baking powder and Wrigley’s restructured. back of wrapper torn, mild foxing to edges Some discoloration to exterior and some and two pages missing from final blanks. metallic gum wrapper rubbed, else very Otherwise good. Unrecorded. [OCLC good. The inscription below samples locates no copies]. $300.00 includes the date. $200.00

GROCERS

Grocers developed in the 19th century as expanding cities meant populations were distant from central public markets. New products, not just the staples of salt, sugar, flour and grains, drew customers as well. It would be decades before the rise of the supermarket and amenities such as shopping carts, self service, coupons, or delivery, but grocers tried to distinguish themselves from competition with wide selections, handsome packaging, premiums, catalogues, and branded cookbooks. The display of merchandise in the

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121. Hoffman, Staley & Co. Catalogue. Missouri Volunteers during the Civil War, Hoffman, Staley & Co. Wholesale Grocers, and operated his business in Augusta until and Commission Merchants for the sale of flour, 1904. Very minor bumping along bottom grain, butter, lard, bacon, and country produce edge, otherwise very good condition. generally, No. 45 S. Howard Street, Between $200.00 Lombard and Pratt Sts. Baltimore. Baltimore: J.F. Wiley, printer, 1869. 11.5 x 7.5 cm, 16 “Prompt Attention to orders. Satisfaction pages. Small Baltimore grocer’s catalogue always Guaranteed” featuring various brands and types of sugars, syrups and molasses, candles, 123. Pardee, Lucius C. Catalogue of Fine coffee, cheese, teas, segars [cigars], tobacco, Family Groceries, Wines, Liquors, and Havana liquors, spices, soaps, salt, fish, cakes and Cigars. Chicago: L.C. Pardee, [circa 1875- crackers, paper, oils, chemicals and dye 77]. Octavo, 64 pages. Ads. Illustrated stuffs, rope and twine, cedar ware, throughout, and each page printed in black preserved fruits, and sundries. Though with a decorative red border. Sixteenth mention is made of prices, no prices are annual catalogue of Chicago’s L.C. Pardee listed. In printed blue wrappers with some Fine Family Groceries and Importer of chipping and minor discoloration, wines, liquors, and Havana cigars, otherwise good. [OCLC locates no copies]. successor to Stanton & Co. City directories $180.00 indicate that Pardee was located at 975 Wabash (1874) and 329 West Madison (1874) “Great Bargains May Be Expected” prior to moving to State Street, and this catalogue states they were founded in 1859. 122. Finlay, G. M. Great Auction Sale of Itemized inventory from ale and alcohol to Dry Goods and Groceries. Augusta, IL: G.M. vegetables and woods and willows. Finlay & Bro., 1870. Broadside, 29.8 x 22.8 Advertisements for featured brands cm. Advertisement for an auction sale of throughout. Very slight tidemark on front dry good and groceries. G.M. Finlay (1836- cover, otherwise fine. [OCLC locates one 1914) born in Ireland, came to Adams copy, in the Chicago History Museum; not County, IL in 1839, served with the 10th in Romaine]. $400.00

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124. American Grocer, New York, February wide variety of items listed along with 28, 1878, Vol. XIX, No. 10. New York: W.T. illustrated advertisements for specific Jones, publisher/Donaldson Brothers’ brands. Fold-creases and some edge-wear, Steam Lithograph Establishment, 1878. otherwise good. [OCLC locates no copies]. 38.5 x 26.5, running pagination, 582-663 [81 $200.00 pages]. Illustrated throughout. A single issue of a late 19th century grocers’ trade “Grocers never have too many Scoops” magazine, “Devoted to the best interests of the retail merchants of this country.” 126. [Handbill - Coffee Scoops]. Melville, Features include editorials on politics, F.H. “It Pays Every Time” To have nice bright transportation, and “shyster merchants”, shiny Fixtures [...] New York: F.H. Melville, finance and trade reports, price-current, Manufacturers' Agent, circa 1880. letters, and hundreds of richly illustrated Handbill, 14.3 x 8.25 cm. Printed recto only. advertisements for wholesalers and other Illustrated advertisement for Spring Brass food merchants. American Grocer began Coffee and Spice Scoops. “They make publication in 1868 and continued through goods show up to a good advantage”. With the 1930s. In colorful, illustrated wrappers size options, and price list. Offered by F.H. with some chipping and minor tears to text, Melville, a New York manufacturers’ agent. one page torn horizontally, with no loss to Fine. $35.00 text, otherwise very good. $150.00 127. Dingens Brothers (compiled and 125. Austin, Nichols & Co. Austin, Nichols edited by). The Cosmopolitan Cook and Recipe & Co. Trade Circular & Price List, New York, Book, Containing Recipes for the Preparation o January, 17, 1879. New York: Austin, f American, French, German, English, Irish Nichols & Company, 1879. 28.1 x 22 cm, 19, and Other National Dishes, Both Costly and [ads] pages. Trade circular for importers Economical, also Household Recipes, Medical and dealers in teas, staple and fancy Recipes, Rules of Health, Tables of Distance, groceries, Austin, Nichols, & Company. Measures, Weights, Statistics, Etc., Etc. Over two hundred fifty food and household Buffalo, N.Y.: Printing House of E.H. items, from cabinets, cigarettes, and soap to Hutchinson, 1882. Octavo, 410 pages + olive oil, rock candy and French capers, blank pages for “Additional Recipes” at

Page 47. Rabelais – Fine Books on Food & Drink end. Ads printed on colored stock 129. Reeves, Parvin & Company. Reeves, throughout. First edition. An unusual Parvin & Co.’s Price List, Philadelphia, August household recipe book, issued by the great 4, 1888. Philadelphia: Reeves, Parvin & Buffalo victualer Dingens Brothers. A Company, 1888. 32 x 22 cm, 10 pages. Price similar book was issued in Rochester by the list for importers and grocers, Reeves, firm of Moore & Cole, and it is likely the Parvin, & Co. featuring over two hundred same title masquerading as its own issue. fifty food and household items from axle This volume includes a 34-page catalogue grease and baking powder to whisks and of goods offered by Dingens Brothers, from tobacco. In full-color chromolithographed washboards to brandy. One unusual aspect wrappers highlighting the company's of this book is the prominence given to building and featured brands. Some cooking and preparation times. edgewear and creases, early tape Immediately adjacent to the recipe title, in reinforcements to inside wrappers, capital letters, the recipes state, “[TIME.- otherwise very good. Rare. [OCLC locates ONE HOUR.]” or the like. This is one of just one copy, at the Hagley Museum and the earlier appearances of exact timings Library in Delaware]. $450.00 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 dark brown cloth. Scarce. [OCLC indicates only two copies of this edition]. $450.00

128. Johnson, Benjamin. The Grocer’s Companion and Merchant’s Hand-Book : Containing a comprehensive account of the growth, manufacture and qualities of every article sold by grocers. Also tables of weights and measures, and information of a general #130 nature of value to grocers and country 130. [Handbill - Grocers] Bickham, merchants. Boston: New England Grocer William L. and Charles P. Huffman. A Officer/Benjamin Johnson, 1883. Octavo, Change. Groceries. Wm. L. Bickham. Chas. P. 192 pages. First edition. “This work Huffman. No. 1107 Market Street, comprises, within itself, all the uses of a Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Auner, Pr. 11th Cyclopeadia, a Manual and a Hand-book, & Market, circa 1890. Handbill. 20.6 x 11.7 all the necessary, well-ascertained and cm. Illustrated notice for a change in authenticated facts being condensed into ownership of a Philadelphia grocery stand. the smallest space consistent with “By strict attention to business, along with completeness and perspicuity.” Entries polite and careful attention to all, we hope range from ‘Acid Phospates’ to ‘Yeast’ and to gain the confidence of a patronizing a complete section on weights and public”. Fold creases, otherwise very good. measurements as pertains to the 19th $40.00 century grocer. In brown cloth, gilt title stamped to cover. Some rubbing and 131. edgewear and minor discoloration to [Broadside and Photograph endpaper, else good. Inscribed “Orrin P. Collection - Bakery] A.W. Kleys Bakery/The Richardson, Waterville, Maine, Tea & Kley Baking Company. For Every Article in Coffee Store” to front pastedown. $150.00 the Bakery and Confectionery Line Go To A.W. Kleys, Mammoth Bakery [...]

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Phoenixville, PA: circa 1890s. 35.5 x 28 cm, “A turtle weighing 255 pounds, consigned to the broadside, approximately 13 x 11 cm; set of McAfee Produce Company from Baltimore, six photographs; and 4.5 x 9 cm business attracted considerable attention.” card. Broadside with photograph pasted- down by A.W. Rothengatter & Company of 133. Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Offers fresh baked items Grocer. Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania daily, seasonal treats, and event catering. Grocer. Vol. XIII No. 29, Pittsburgh, PA., Four photographs are pasted down to Thursday, June 1, 1899. Pittsburgh: individual rough-edged board, the Mercantile Journal and Pennsylvania remainder with descriptions to verso. Grocer, 1899. 30.5 x 23.5 cm, 24 pages. Photos illustrate various exterior and Illustrated advertisements throughout. interior shots of Kleys’ Bridge Street Single issue of this periodical for locations (numbers 216 and 220, Pittsburgh grocers, featuring market prices, respectively), with news of retail an annotation that associations, and above the bakery is obituaries. In “grandparents printed wrappers, home”. Business some creasing and card appears later chipping, otherwise than broadside and very good. $40.00 photographs. Some discoloration and 134. Israel [&] slight foxing Publicorer, Meat throughout items. Market. [Original The broadside’s photograph of Meat corners are slightly Market]. bruised with Somerville, MA: pinhole to bottom circa 1900. Original edge and verso photograph, image includes inscription size 13x18 cm, of negative number mounted on card. and blue staining. The photograph Otherwise very shows the interior good. $1200.00. of a butcher shop, with display 132. Barber & counter, large Perkins. The Cash wooden table Grocer : Issued #131 attractively laid out Weekly by Barber & Perkins, Wholesale Cash with cuts of meat, a butcher block, signs Grocers, Philadelphia, PA. Vol. 2, Issue No. 14, and advertising posters, two neatly-aproned Philadelphia, April 6, 1896. Philadelphia: butchers and the formally dressed Barber & Perkins, 1896. 30 x 23.5 cm, 14 gentleman who is clearly the proprietor. pages. Illustrated advertisements We’ve been unable to find references to throughout. Circular including price list “Israel [?] Publicorer, Meat Market” in any and “Special Mention Columns”, a sources. “Somerville, MA” is pencilled on narrative column indicating freshest the verso. Two small wear marks to the products and values. In blue printed margins of the photo, corners of card wrappers creased from folding, slight mount bumped, otherwise very good. chipping, some discoloration to cover, and $90.00 slight foxing to edges, otherwise very good. $60.00

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135. [Handbill - Grocer]. F.S. Harper. The coffee retailers in the country”. This New Candy Department. Alexandria, VA: advertising circular cites over 200 branches C.C. Sartgis & Bro. Printers, circa 1900. across the country and illustrates a variety Printed handbill, 32.3 x 21.5 cm. Illustrated of premiums: japanned ware, dinner sets, advertisement for the candy department of lamps, aprons and more. Each premium is F.S. Harper, a Virginia wholesale grocery valued at a set number of tickets, with the business. An assortment is offered here of final page of the circular indicating a price over twenty varieties of sweets, plus a list for teas, coffees, spices, soaps, and facsimile assortment for window display. sundries that also serves as a key for the Some creases, otherwise very good. $75.00 number of tickets per purchase. Illustrated with a depiction of the company's 136. [Trade Catalogue - Culinary Wares]. headquarters at Pearl, Jay & Front Streets Giunta Brothers Manufacturing Co. Giunta in Brooklyn, a massive warehouse Brothers Manufacturing Co. Catalog No. 28. surrounded by horse drawn wagons to Philadelphia: Giunta Brothers deliver the goods. Some wear to edges and Manufacturing Co., circa 1900. Oblong small tear to fold, otherwise very good. stapled $75.00 catalogue, 23 x 30.7 cm, 23 “Don’t let your pages. Text in neighbor steal English and your trade!!! Italian. He will if you Heavily are not awake” illustrated with 138. Wall photographs Bros. Mfg. Co. and drawings. The Mystery Features Solved. No. 3. typical Italian Buffalo, NY: culinary Wall Bros. wares: wine Mfg. Co., presses, pasta circa 1910. 16.5 makers, x 22 cm, 23 coffee pages. grinders, ice #134 Illustrated cream freezers, pizzelle irons, and more. catalogue for “All items manufactured [...] are covered by advertising premiums: an incentive patents.” In printed yellow wrappers with program for merchants to entice their chipped corners and tide marks, otherwise customers to purchase in order to receive a near very good. [OCLC locates one copy at premium. Silver, watches, crayon portraits, University of Michigan’s Clements Library; and pintographs are pictured, though Wall not in Romaine]. $200.00 Brothers carries “a full line of watches, diamonds, jewelry, silverware.” In printed “Remember you pay no more for our good of wrappers with some edgeware, rubbing, same quality, and get presents in addition” and a center crease, else good. $90.00

137. [Stock Circular]. Grand Union Tea 139. Ward, Artemas. The Grocer’s Company. Keep This for Future Reference, Encyclopedia: A compendium of useful Grand Union Tea Company. New York: information concerning foods of all kinds. How Grand Union Tea Company, 1910. 30.5 x 23 they are raised, prepared and marketed. How cm, bi-fold circular. The “largest tea and to care for them in the store and home. How

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annotations regarding payment are handwritten. Some discoloration to top edge, creases, and small tear to left edge, otherwise very good. $25.00

141. Lestico, H.H., Lester Layne and C.R. Rettenberg. Chain Meat Market Management. Los Angeles: H.H. Lestico Publishing Company, 1930. Four small octavo volumes, 143, 144, 140, and 142 pages, respectively. An instructional course in four volumes that “consists of such instruction, suggestions, and advice as would be offered a man-in- training by the most successful market operator.” In red cloth with some bumping and edge wear, slight discoloration to text edge, and annotation in pencil throughout. Book one binding shaken, otherwise good. $90.00

142. Charles & Co. Catalogue, January #137 1932. New York: Charles & Co., 1932. Octavo, 383 pages. Illustrated throughout with product advertisements and best to use and enjoy them—and other valuable photographic images of company’s information for Grocers and General facilities, with two full color Storekeepers. New York, 1911. Folio, 748 chromolithographs. Extensive grocery pages. First edition. Richly illustrated catalogue and price list for New York throughout with photographs and grocers Charles & Company featuring teas approximately eighty color plates. This text and coffees, food products, delicatessen covers more than 1200 topics from Abalone department, health foods, dietetic foods, to Zwetschgenwasser, including rarities biscuits, bakery department, household such as Kangaroo tails, information on items, candies, perfumes, cigars and Kosher foods, cold storage adulteration, tobacco, non-alcoholic beverages and more. and more. According to Bitting’s Information also included about the Gastronomic Bibliography, “The book is a company’s foreign shipping and telephone mine of information on food.” Rubbed and order department. In brown cloth soiled gray cloth, gilt stamped with a embossed cover with bindings ticket promotional message from Puritan Cocoa & embossed to back cover. Minor Chocolate. Some rubbing and spotting to discoloration to end papers and staining to cover, otherwise very good. Bookplate to text edge, otherwise very good. Two dated front pastedown, bookseller’s ticket to rear. notices tipped into front end papers, from [Bitting, 484]. $200.00 1933 and 1938. $120.00.

140. [Billhead - Grocer]. Cummings 143. Todoroff, Alexander. What is What in Bros. Cummings Bros. Portland, ME: Groceries. Chicago: The Grocery Trade Cummings Bros., 1929. 27.7 x 21.3 cm. Publishing House, 1926. Octavo, 208 pages. Typed bill on illustrated printed billhead Illustrated. First edition. The book “speaks for Cummings Brothers, “wholesale for itself. The urgent need of such a book grocers, beef and provisions”. Bill for Pine as this, both in the home and in schools Wood Camps in Canton, Maine. Further where Domestic Science is taught, is

Page 51. Rabelais – Fine Books on Food & Drink obvious.” (publisher’s note). Includes illustrations throughout. A thorough definitions of contemporary foodstuffs, buying guide for consumers on topics such government regulations affecting each, and as fats and oils, fresh fruits, canned fish, information about various modern food meat products, bakery goods, and more. In processes. Some spotting and a bit of edge red cloth with wear to head of spine, wear to gilt-titled maroon cloth, previous bumping and slight discoloration to owner initials to front paste-down, endpapers, near very good. $20.00 otherwise near very good. $30.00

144. Todoroff, Alexander. The Grocer’s Answer Book. Chicago: The Grocery Trade Publishing House, 1933. Small octavo, 19.3 x 12.7 cm, 64 pages. Later printing. Illustrations throughout. Three hundred twenty-one grocery related questions and answers in the following twenty-one categories: canned fish and shellfish, canned fruits, canned milk, canned soups, canned vegetables, canned goods—general, cereals and beans, cocoa and chocolate, coffee, cooking oils, dried fruits, flavoring extracts, flour, honey, macaroni and kindred products, nuts and nut products, olives, pickles and kraut, preserves, salt fish, spices, sugar, syrups and molasses, tea, vinegar, how to prepare brine, miscellaneous, holiday items, and when to expect good news. From “What kind of cheese is the cheese known as American cheese?” and “How does coffee grow?” to #146 “The labels of some food products state that the article is prepared with sulphur “Well displayed is half-sold” dioxide. What is the function of sulphur 146. Beeching, C.L.T. et al. Modern dioxide?” and “When may new goods of Grocery Display: A Practical Work on Apple Cider, Catsup, Cranberries, Maple Window Dressing and Interior Display. Sugar, Maple Syrup, and Olive Oil be London: The Caxton Publishing Company, expected on the market?”, The Grocer’s Limited , [1933]. Large octavo, 377 pages. Answer Book provides concise information First edition. Illustrated with drawings, for the provision dealer. In yellow wrappers diagrams, and photographs. A thorough with some edgewear and rubbing, slight manual on the aesthetics of the modern water staining to rear cover and mild grocery store. With eight expert rusting to staples, else good. Inscribed by contributors, Modern Grocery Display former owner. $40.00 decries that every visual detail is crucial to a

successful business. With historical “This volume, written by one of the country’s perspective and practical applications (from leading food authorities, is entirely unbiased” how to use crepe paper in display to which 145. Todoroff, Alexander. Food Buying letter forms to use in display cards), each Today. Chicago: Chicago: The Grocery chapter is heavily illustrated. In addition to Trade Publishing House, 1934. Octavo, 96 British display examples, photographs of pages. First edition. Photographic American, Dutch, and German groceries

Page 52. Rabelais – Fine Books on Food & Drink are also included. Slight bumping and 148. The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea minor tear along spine, exterior is in Company. Merchandising Fresh Fruits and otherwise very good condition. Interior also Vegetables: Pointing the Way to Increased very good. $200.00 Sales. [New York, NY]: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, 1948. Folio, 101 147. [California Packing Corporation]. The pages. Illustrated throughout, mostly in full Del Monte 6 Point Market, What it can do for color. Produce department manual for you in 1935 and 1936. [San Francisco]: personnel of the A&P chain grocery stores. [California Packing Corporation], [circa The manual includes a brief history of A&P 1935]. Spiral-bound folio, 37.5 x 29 cm, 40 markets with their current business model pages. First edition. A marketing that highlights modernization such as presentation guide for grocers, promoting streamlined distribution and A&P’s Private Del Monte's canned products (an analog Teletype Network. Procedures outlined Power Point presentation of sorts). Various include tips for ordering and inventory, a materials from graphs and pie charts to formula for personal success, and proper photo-essays and full-color demos have produce display methods. Notable are the been pasted in to demonstrate why a descriptions of over fifty fruits and vendor should chose Del Monte: hyping vegetables, which outline the most common Del Monte's year-round supply, quality varieties of each item, the best way to product, investment in advertising, national display, its uses and nutritional value, brand-recognition, strengthened accompanied by beautiful illustrations. merchandising, and their above and While this title is unrecorded in OCLC, it beyond local campaign support. Green is noteworthy that a search indicates that boards with red and yellow embossed seven other titles on the same subject were borders and text. Red and black printed published in the U.S. between 1947 and text on thick cream stock with pasted-in 1952. In a printed black leather comb illustrated materials. Some slight creasing, binder with some rubbing and several minor spots, and edge wear to boards with pages loose from binding, otherwise very some foxing to interior, some folded paste- good. [OCLC locates no copies]. $150.00 ins are stuck together, but overall very good. [OCLC locates no copies]. $600.00

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