Culinary Ephemera from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

[New York: the company]; Neuman & Dinglinger, Lith, 1881. Trade card (15.5 x 8.7 cm.). Recto is a chromolithograph printed in red, pale blue, and gold; verso printed in red and black. A trade card advertising the G.H. Mumm Champagne imported by Fred de Bary & Co., located at the time at 43 & 44 Warren Street in New… Read more about this item

[Concord, N.H.: Republican Press Association, 1891. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 11.5 cm.), 39, [1]pages. Index. Publisher's advertisements throughout and on the wrappers. Title and publication information from wrapper. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Recipes in narrative form and unattributed They are also provided in no particular order, with Graham Bread, Creamed Oysters, and Fruit Jumbles all appearing on… Read more about this item

Osh Kosh, WI: Direct Mail Associates, Inc, 1935. Tall, stapled booklet (22.5 x 10 cm.), [16] pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cocktail recipe book, although it is unclear what it is promoting, as no specific products are mentioned. It was issued by the Direct Mail Association, an early innovator in the field of marketing through the mail. The piece… Read more about this item

Binghamton, N.Y.: Binghamton Oil Refining Co, 1884. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (17 x 11.5 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. Title from cover. Date from testimonials in text. FIRST EDITION. A product book, advertising a patent medicines offered by the Binghamton Oil Refining Company, with cures for various poisons and other ailments, as well as testimonials and some culinary recipes.… Read more about this item

Lakeville, Mass: [the nursery, 1905. Eight advertising circulars (size ranges from 42 x 29 to 11x17 cm.). Five of the circulars are illustrated with attractive woodcuts. Printed in dark red, lighter red, brownish purple, and black on various colored stocks. A group of circulars or handbills advertising the fruit trees and vines of O.K. Gerrish of Lakeville, Massachusetts. Gerrish… Read more about this item

[Boston: Robinson Engraving Co, 1890. Menu, in painted wooden boards, bound with cord (20 x 15.2 cm.), 10 gold-printed leaves, each a die-cut circle printed versos only. An elaborate program of events for the eleventh annual meeting of the Hotel Men's Mutual Benefit Association, held in May, 1890 at Boston's great hotels, the Parker House, Hotel Vendome, and American… Read more about this item

Minneapolis, Minn: the company, 1955. Quarto-sized, booklet in wrappers, in a three-hole brad binding (29 x 22.5 cm.), 249, [4] pages. Illustrated throughout. Printed on various stocks, some illustrated with color, and two leaves at the end with color samples. A sizable trade catalogue from the Minneapolis-based bar supply company, servicing drinking establishments, restaurants, hotels, etc. Sections include direct… Read more about this item

Oneida, New York: The Burt Olney Canning Co, 1910. Booklet, stapled in wrappers ( 17.5 x 12.5 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Stated "eighth edition". A product cookbook selling the "Absolutely Pure" products of the Burt Olney Canning Co., and bearing the image of "Olney's Pure Food Boy" on the rear wrapper and on the first page. Includes recipes, menus,… Read more about this item

Exeter, NH: Getchell & Taylor, 1895. Billhead (11.8 x 21.7 cm.). Printed billhead for Getchell & Taylor, "dealers in hardware, paints, oils, furnaces and ranges [...]crockery, glass and tinware, plumbing and metal work." Bill for Mrs. Frank Rollins who purchased gas range, oven, and one gallon gasoline. Some discoloration to verso, otherwise very good.

[Las Vegas, Nevada; [Newton, Iowa: the Club; Bebco Litho. Co, 1953. Miniature book, stapled, in stiff wrappers (8 x 5.3 cm.), [60] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION of this promotional cocktail recipe book with calendars. Includes room for addresses and memoranda. A child's pencil scribbles to a few of the memorandum pages. in publisher's stiff blue leatherette, silver-titled and decorated.… Read more about this item

Wien, [Vienna]: Druck von Paul Gerin, Wien II, Circusgasse 13, 1900. Menu booklet (25.5 x 17 cm.), [8] pages. Printed in blue and gold, with dishes mostly in manuscript. An extensive menu for Vienna's grand Hotel Imperial. Sections (titled in German, French, and English) include Luncheon, Hors d'Oeuvres, Soupes, Fishes, Beefs, Vegetables, Entrees, Roasts, Salade, Sweetmeats, Dessert, and on… Read more about this item

Wien [Vienna]: Druck von Paul Gerlin, 1908. Broadside menu (17.5 x 11 cm.), [1] page, printed recto only in black and titled in gilt and embossed; gilt-edged. Menu for dinner at the Grand Hotel Vienne. William Pembroke Fetridge's American Travelers' Guide described the Grand Hotel as a "Splendid first-class Hotel, situated in the most fashionable and frequented part of… Read more about this item

[Columbus, Ohio: the club], 1947. Menu, folded in ribbon-tied wrappers (15 x 11.5 cm.), [4] pages, plus wrappers. Mimeograph printed menu and program for the Mothers and Wives Club of the US Army 37th Division. The banquet was held at Columbus, Ohio's Seneca Hotel. The booklet contains the menu (a thoroughly mid-century midwestern affair with Fruit Cup, Well-brown Fried… Read more about this item

San Francisco: The Lehner and Sefert Publishing Company, 1915. Quarto (28.5 x 20.5 cm.), [7], 8-144, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout. Color illustrated second title. Advertisments. [WITH:] Three menus featured in the book, including: Banquet du Congress Hoteliers des Alpes. Lyon, 1905 (printed on silk); Menu from the Savoy Hotel, Cairo, 1903 (similar to the Kitchener Banquet menu page 79);… Read more about this item

San Francisco, Cal, 1937. Bi-fold menu bound with cord and mounted on wrapper, as issued (22.5 x 29 cm.), [2] pages. Illustrated by Wyman Taylor (1890-1972). Banquet menu for a dinner honoring Bert Walker, President of the San Francisco Rotary Club. The fanciful menu purports to be a radio broadcast "being broadcast over station B.U.R.P. in the Owl Room… Read more about this item

Denver: [publisher not identified], 1881. Menu and program (16 x 9 cm.), two separate cards, printed versos and rectos, [4] pages. Illustrated. Printed menu and program of the Society's first annual banquet held January 25, 1881, at the Windsor Hotel. The Society of Colorado Pioneers was founded in 1872 to recognize and assist those who had arrived in Colorado… Read more about this item

[New York]: Lith. of W. Faust, 105 Nassau St, 1860. Broadside wine list (25.5 x 15.5 cm.), [1] page. Porcelain card decorated in chromolithograph with text in blue and red. A very early wine list from an important New York hotel and dining establishment. The hotel was at the corner of Broadway and Eleventh Street, across from Grace Church… Read more about this item

New York: A.J. White, Druggist, 1888. Duodecimo-sized booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Issued by the A.J. White company, this almanac advertised their products, which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Though not indicated as an almanac on the cover, a calendar for 1889 is included. Features… Read more about this item

Chicago: Charles T. Powner Co., 176 Plymouth Court; [Buchanan Company, Ltd., 7522 Sheridan Rd, 1934. Small octavo in wrappers, stapled (17 x 12 cm.), 128 pages. Index. FIRST EDITION THUS. An enlarged and re-titled edition of a Pre-Prohibition bar manual, Tom & Jerry's Bartender's Guide, How to Mix Drinks, now published at the onset of Repeal. The book was… Read more about this item

Chicago, IL; Windsor, Canada: H.E. Bucklen & Co, 1902. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 17 cm.), 32 pages. Publisher's advertisements on inner wrapper flaps. Illustrated. Text in double columns. Title from cover. ~ An annual advertising recipe book in almanac form with calendars for 1902 and 1903, from the company that brought us Dr. King's Electric Bitters and… Read more about this item