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THE HOUSE SERVANT'S DIRECTORY, OR A MONITOR FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES: COMPRISING HINTS ON THE ARRANGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF SERVANTS' WORK, WITH GENERAL RULES FOR SETTING OUT TABLES AND SIDEBOARDS IN FIRST ORDER; THE ART OF WAITING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; AND LIKEWISE HOW TO CONDUCT LARGE AND SMALL PARTIES WITH ORDER; WITH GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING ON TABLE ALL KINDS OF JOINTS, FISH, FOWL, &C. WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLEANING PLATE, BRASS, STEEL, GLASS, MAHOGANY; AND LIKEWISE ALL KINDS OF PATENT AND COMMON LAMPS: OBSERVATIONS ON SERVANTS' BEHAVIOUR TO THEIR EMPLOYERS; AND UPWARDS OF 100 VARIOUS AND USEFUL RECEIPTS, CHIEFLY COMPILED FOR THE USE OF HOUSE SERVANTS; AND IDENTICALLY MADE TO SUIT THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH FRIENDLY ADVICE TO COOKS AND HEADS OF FAMILIES; AND COMPLETE DIRECTIONS HOW TO BURN LEHIGH COAL
by ROBERTS, Robert
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- Used - A Fine example of this scarce title
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- Second Edition
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- 1828
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$43,750.00
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Boston & New York: Munroe and Francis; Charles S. Francis, 1828. Second Edition. Hardcover. A Fine example of this scarce title. Duodecimo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary calf, recently and neatly rebacked; 180 pages. A rare example of the FIRST COMMERCIALLY PUBLISHED BOOK WRITTEN BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN IN THE UNITED STATES and THE FIRST COOKBOOK WRITTEN… Read more about this item Item Price
$43,750.00
WINE INTO WORDS. A History and Bibliography of Wine Books in the English Language
by GABLER, James M
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- Used - Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1985)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$43.80
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Baltimore: Bacchus Press Ltd, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Cloth; xiv, 403 pages including index. Over 3200 entries with biographical sketches of prominent wine writers and hundreds of wine facts that span thousands of years.
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GASTRONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
by BITTING, Katherine
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- Used - Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
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- Reprint
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- (1981)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$93.80
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(London): Holland Press, (1981). Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Hardcover; xvi, 718 pages. Limited edition facsimile reprint of the original 1939 edition of this absolutely essential cookery bibliography. Limited to 500 copies, this copy not numbered. Illustrated with text engravings.
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$93.80
FOOD AND DRINK THROUGH THE AGES 2500 B. C. to 1937 A. D.
by [COOKERY]
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- Used - Covers a little soiled. Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1937
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- Softcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$43.80
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London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Covers a little soiled. Very Good. Pictorial wraps (7" x 9-1/2"); more than 200 pages including Language, Subject, and Author indexes. Illustrated.
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GASTRONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
by LOWENSTEIN, Eleanor
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Reprint
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- 1972
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$43.80
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Worcester, MA & New York: American Antiquarian Society & Corner Books, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine. Green cloth; xii, 132 pages including index. Preface To The Third Edition by Mark McCorison.
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THE NEW ART OF COOKERY, ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT PRACTICE; BEING A COMPLETE GUIDE TO ALL HOUSEKEEPERS, ON A PLAN ENTIRELY NEW; CONSISTING OF THIRTY-EIGHT CHAPTERS...
by BRIGGS, Richard
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- Used - Front free endpaper lacking; early owner name to top of title and the first page of text; light to moderate foxing; one gatherin
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- First American Edition
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- 1792
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$3,125.00
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Philadelphia: W. Spotswood, R. Campbell, and B. Johnson, 1792. First American Edition. Hardcover. Front free endpaper lacking; early owner name to top of title and the first page of text; light to moderate foxing; one gathering bound upside down; about five leaves trimmed closely, occasionally affecting a word or letter. Binding quite nice with partial splits on both covers… Read more about this item Item Price
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MANUSCRIPT RECIPE BOOK
by [COOKERY]
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- Used - Fairly clean and readable; spine lacking, boards loose but holding. Good
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- 1839
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,187.50
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Reading [UK], 1839. Hardcover. Fairly clean and readable; spine lacking, boards loose but holding. Good. Calf-backed boards, 6-1/2" x 7-3/4". An English Manuscript Recipe book signed on the front pastedown "Mrs Garrard/Friar St./Reading/Berks 39" consisting of 100 pages, mostly not numbered and nearly all of which are filled in with manuscript recipes, with the first two pages being… Read more about this item Item Price
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A MATTER OF TASTE. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF INTERNATIONAL BOOKS ON FOOD AND DRINK IN THE LILLY LIBRARY, INDIANA UNIVERSITY
by CAGLE, William R
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- Second Edition
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$75.00
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth; xxiii, [1], 991, [1] pages. Expanded and revised edition of Cagle's important 1990 bibliography of the Lilly's collection of European and British gastronomic literature, featuring books printed from 1475 through 1962. With illustraions and facsimiles of title pages.
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AMERICAN BOOKS ON FOOD AND DRINK. A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOG OF THE COOKBOOK COLLECTION HOUSED IN THE LILLY LIBRARY AT THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY
by CAGLE, William R. and STAFFORD, Lisa Killion
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- 1998
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$75.00
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New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth; 794 pages. According to the publisher, "This comprehensive bibliography describes the American cookbooks in the Gernon Collection housed at the Lilly Library. AMERICAN BOOKS and its British/European counterpart, A MATTER OF TASTE, fully describe over 2,300 works in gastronomic literature and are… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN WINES
by HENDERSON, Alexander
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- Used - Foxing to endpapers but text is quite clean with wide margins. Spine leather is dry affecting the royal monogram, which we have
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- First Edition
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- 1824
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$625.00
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London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to endpapers but text is quite clean with wide margins. Spine leather is dry affecting the royal monogram, which we have been unable to identify, but the spine label is in very nice condition. The main defect is the missing front cover. Very Good. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-5/8");… Read more about this item Item Price
$625.00
SOLLER COOKBOOK
by [COOKERY] DAHLBERG, R'Lene (editor)
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1981
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- Wraps
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$62.50
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[New York]: Pequod Press, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Printed white wraps with the text on brown paper. One of 100 numbered copies with handset type.
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$62.50
NEW AMERICAN COOKERY, OR FEMALE COMPANION. CONTAINING FULL AND AMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR ROASTING, BROILING, STEWING, HASHING, BOILING, PRESERVING, PICKLING, POTTING, FRICASEES, SOUPS, PUFF-PASTES, PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS, PIES, TARTS, & C. ALSO, THE MAKING OF WINES AND CHEESE. PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO THE AMERICAN MODE OF COOKING
by [COOKERY]
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- Used - Lacking the endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attractive, unsophisticated copy in original binding of a sc
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- First Edition
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- 1805
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$21,875.00
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New York: D. D. Smith, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attractive, unsophisticated copy in original binding of a scarce and important book. Bound in original full sheep leather (3-3/8" x 5-3/8") with gilt rules on the spine; 180 pages. The second American cookbook, preceded by Amelia… Read more about this item Item Price
$21,875.00
AN ESSAY OF HEALTH AND LONG LIFE
by CHEYNE, George
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- Used - Modern bookplate of Nellie Madeleine Brown, M.D. on the front free endpaper; spine label partly present. Some rubbing and edgewe
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- Second Edition
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- 1725
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$312.50
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London: George Strahan, 1725. Second Edition. Hardcover. Modern bookplate of Nellie Madeleine Brown, M.D. on the front free endpaper; spine label partly present. Some rubbing and edgewear, short splits in joints. Nice copy. Blindstamped paneled calf leather; xx [24] 232 pages. Chapters on proper diet, exercise, sleeping, etc. Aimed at the lay reader, much of Cheyne's advice was… Read more about this item Item Price
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TO BEGIN AGAIN. STORIES AND MEMOIRS. 1908-1929
by FISHER, M. F. K
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
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- (1992)
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$31.30
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San Francisco/New York: Pantheon Books, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Fisher speaks here of the people and events that first shaped her finely tuned and lasting appetites.
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CULINARY AMERICANA: COOKBOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DURING THE YEARS FROM 1860 THROUGH 1960
by BROWN, Eleanor & Bob
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- As new
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- Reprint
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- [1996]
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$56.30
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(Staten Island): (Martino), [1996]. Reprint. Hardcover. As new. Red cloth (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"); xiv, 417 pages. Limited to 125 copies. Describes 4447 American cookbooks.
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$56.30
FOOD AND FLAVOR: A GASTRONOMIC GUIDE TO HEALTH AND GOOD LIVING
by FINCK, Henry T.
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- Used - Hinges cracked but tight. About Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1913
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- Hardcover
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$62.50
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New York: The Century Co., 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Hinges cracked but tight. About Very Good. Decorated cloth, octavo, xviii, 594 pages. Illustrated by Charles Chapman. Bitting p. 157. The author claims that his is the first book in any language devoted to flavor rather than the nutritive aspects of food.
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