Item 59, May 2 2 Corn Pone Receipt for boiling Potatoes Choice receipts, Hartford, 1872 The Farmer’s Magazine, Edinburgh, 1801–10 p. 15 p. 25 Purslan Sallet Scotch Collopps May, The Accomplisht cook, London, 1660 Martha Smith, Manuscript, 1655– c.1697 p. 73 p. 66 A Sallet of green Pease Pigeons Rabisha, The Whole body of cookery, London, 1661 The Young woman’s companion, Manchester, 1811 p. 94 p. 118 Cæpe Cranberry Sherbet Platina, De honesta voluptate et valetudine, Venice, 1517 Mrs. Johnstone’s cook book, Butte, 1911 p. 88 p. 46 To fry Smelts Thin Cream Pan-cakes, call’d a Quire of Paper Martin, The New experienced English-housekeeper, Kettilby, A Collection of above three hundred recipes, Doncaster, 1795 London, 1714 p. 70 p. 50 To dress a Dish of Lobsters Spanish Shortcake Shakleford, The Modern art of cookery, 1767 The Los Angeles Times Cook Book, No. 2, 1905 p. 107 p. 112 CATALOGUE THIRTEEN Bread Making & Distribution 1 (ACTS & ORDINANCES: Bread.) A Collect- ion of fifteen French acts and ordinances con- cerning bread, flour, and grain. 1769–1794. Preserved in a green quarter-morocco clamshell box over marbled boards. $3500.00 AN EXTRAORDINARY COLLECTION of the laws and regulations governing bread-making, distribution, and selling in France as well as the controls around flour and grain produc- tion. All are extremely rare: only one is to be found in OCLC (one location only), all but one are first editions, and many are stitched as issued. A wonderful picture of bread making and distribution in late 18th-century France. Full list available upon request. In a Handsome Contemporary Black Morocco Binding 2 (ACTS & ORDINANCES: Tobacco, wine, salted fish, meats, and butter, etc.) Ordon- nances de Louis XIV. Roy de France et de Navarre, sur le fait des gabelles & des aydes. Données à saint Germain en Laye aux mois de May & Juin 1680. Paris: François Muguet, 1690. Bound with: Ordonnance de Louis XIV….Pour servir de règlement sur plusieurs droits des ses fermes, & sur tous en général. Donnée à Versailles le 22. Juillet 1681. Paris: François Muguet, 1691. [ 1 ] 16mo. in 4s and 8s. Woodcut title page devices. 144 pp.; 192 pp. (1705?–1785). The first edition was published in 1760. Musset- Contemporary black morocco, spine gilt, gilt fillet around Pathay, in his Bibliographie Agronomique, notes that L’Agronome “est sides, black morocco doublures framed with gilt dentelles, très-complète, et contient toutes les connaissances nécessaires pastepaper free endpapers, all edges gilt. $4500.00 pour gouverner avantageusement les biens de la campagne, d’après la pratique des agronomes les plus célèbres” (no. 32, The extremely rare Second Editions of these two ordinances referring to the first edition). Arranged alphabetically, the from the court of Louis XIV of which neither the first nor work contains many recipes as well as information on what was second editions are known to exist in American libraries. The then a rapidly developing rural economy. first editions are known in two locations only (the Biblio- A handsome copy in tree-calf and with spines richly gilt. theque Interuniversitaire Cujas, Paris, and one at Keio Univ- ¶ This edition is not in OCLC. eristy, Japan) and the second editions are in the Bibliotheque Nationale (Arsenal) and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen only. The Ordonnances of May and June of 1680 cover the sale A Fine Copy, Uncut and in Original Boards of salt and its use in preserving fish, meat, and butter. The 4 ANDERSON, James. Essays relating to agri- second Ordonnance of 22 July 1681 discusses the sale and con- culture and rural affairs. The fifth edition, with sumption of fish, the rights to the sale of wine, the sale of corrections and additions. London: Printed tobacco, and regulations around the sale of gold and silver. for G. G., J. Robinson, and J. Cumming, 1800. This is a particularly handsome copy in an unusual con- temporary binding. With the leather bookplate of Kilian Frit- 8vo. Twenty-three engraved plates (three of which are fold- sch, the well-known 20th-century collector of wine books, on ing). Three volumes. xxiii, [1], 591 pp.; xxviii, 473, [7] pp.; lvi, verso of the upper free endpaper. [2], 528 pp. Original blue boards, paper spines with title in ¶ Not in Vicaire. manuscript and volume number printed, entirely untrimmed. $1000.00 ALLETZ, Pons Augustin. L’Agronome, ou, 3 A later, corrected and expanded edition. James Anderson was dictionnaire portatif du cultivateur. Lyon: Robert born in 1739 at Hermiston, a village near Edinburgh. His par- et Gauthier, 1803. ents died when he was only fifteen years old at which time he 8vo. Woodcut vignettes on title pages. xxxii, 484 pp.; 2 p.l., took over the family farm. After attending courses at Edin- 503 pp. Two volumes. Contemporary tree-calf, spines richly gilt burgh University, in 1777 he reclaimed a 1,300 acre farm at with lettering pieces in red and black morocco, one wormhole Monkshill which he successfully revived in a period of six to the upperboard of vol. I and two to the lowerboard of vol. years. He was a writer who was less interested in the new agri- II, a few leaves with marginal dampstaining in vol. II, other- cultural chemistry emerging during his day than he was in the wise crisp and clean throughout. $800.00 practical knowledge gained by years of farming experience. He married twice, had thirteen children, and eventually died A lovely copy of the last and most complete edition of this in 1808 in Isleworth. guide to country living written by Pons Augustin Alletz [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Essays relating to agriculture and rural affairs (first ed.: 1775) was 5 ARBUTHNOT, John. Essai sur la nature, et Anderson’s first work. Sections discuss inclosures and fences (in- le choix des alimens, suivant les différentes con- cluding much on making hedges); draining bogs and swamps; stitutions. Paris: la Veuve Cavelier & Fils, 1755. how to plant grass and make hay; the nutrition offered by various plants to farm animals; animal husbandry and the 12mo. xxiv, 330, [6] pp. Contemporary marbled-calf, spine gilt, production of wool; pastures and the different types of grass- marbled endpapers, marbled edges, bright and crisp throughout. es; legal and economic impediments to the cultivation of the $500.00 land; and the corn laws of Great Britain. The numerous engravings include a lovely series depict- A particularly fine copy of the second French edition of ing different grasses, finely drawn and representing more than Arbuthnot’s (1667–1735) study of diet and its treatment for fifteen types. various maladies. This is a translation by Pierre Boyer de Pré- A wonderful copy in original state. With the contemporary bandier of the second English edition of 1732 (which was the ownership signature of William Trabyan of Ashburton dated first to include “The practical rules of diet”). The first French 23 December 1800 in each volume. edition appeared in 1741 (of which our edition may simply be ¶ See Fussell, vol. II, Old Farming Books, pp. 104–7, 132, and 135 a second issue). At the beginning is an explanation of the for more on Anderson. various chemical terms used, followed by an anaylsis of vege- table and meat foodstuffs and dietary rules and recommenda- tions for various ailments. Arbuthnot was a friend of Jonathan Swift and was doctor to Queen Anne. ¶ OCLC: National Library of Medicine, University of Chi- cago, Transylvania University (KY), and Indiana University. 6 ATHENAEUS. The Deipnosophists or the banquet of the learned…literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B.A. with an appendix of poeti- cal fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854. 8vo. Three volumes. vi, 432 pp.; 2 p.l., 433–815, [1] pp.; 2 p.l., [817]–1252 pp. Each vol. is preceded and followed by a pub- lisher’s catalogue. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, spines slightly sunned, crisp and clean internally. $725.00 [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The First English Edition of this culinary classic from antiquity, is the same author that wrote a work on “Les Orangers & les covering table manners, nutrition, cookery, eating, and drinking. Citronniers;” Morin wrote a work entitled Nouveau traité des A good copy. orangers et citronniers, 1692, the same date as the “certificat.” A good copy of a very rare book. Of Figs and Flowers ¶ OCLC: Davis and two in Europe. Not in the Biblio- theque Nationale or RLIN. 7 [BALLON & GARNIER.] Traité complet de la culture du figuier…suivi d’un petit traité de The First Illustrated Edition la culture de différent fleurs. Paris: Lamy, 1782. 8 [BARBE, Simon.] Le Parfumeur françois, qui 12mo. Woodcut head and tailpieces. 5 p.l., 164, [4] pp. Con- enseigne toutes les manières de tirer les odeurs temporary mottled-calf, marbled endpapers, edges stained red, des fleurs; & de faire toutes sortes de compo- some faint dampstaining on the final signatures. $2500.00 sitions de parfums. Avec le secret de purger le Possibly the FIRST EDITION (see below) of this early trea- tabac en poudre; & le parfumer de toutes sortes tise on raising figs and flowers. Chapters discuss different types d’odeurs. Amsterdam: Paul Marret, 1696. of figs; planting location; espalier methods; pruning and trel- 12 24 lising; preservation in winter; ripening; and the best uses of mo. Engraved frontispiece, title page in red and black. p.l., 170, [20 – including the final blank] pp. Modern vellum, figs. The section on flowers has chapters on the order of flowers 4 during the year; particularly rare varieties; and sections on spe- careful paper repair to K affecting two words. $4000.00 cific types including tulips,oeillets (a small yellow flower), anem- The First Illustrated Edition of Barbe’s classic in French per- ones, oreille d’ours (or “lamb’s ears”), tuberoses, and ranunculus.