Search Results: Authors starting with T from Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

Kobe, Japan: T. Takagi, Photographic Studio & Art Gallery, 1914. 18 x 25.5 cm, unpaginated [22 leaves, plates interleaved with tissue]. Illustrated title page, brief introduction, and twenty hand-colored collotype plates depicting the process of cultivating Japanese rice, or, "Nippon's 'Staff of Life'". Each photograph accompanied by short descriptive text. Known for his glass slides and many collotype books on themes of Japanese life, Teijiro Takagi bought his Kobe studio from photographer Kozaburo Tamamura in 1904 (and changed the company name to his own in 1914) and continued business through at least 1929. In green raw silk with green ribbon tassels, some bumping, edgewear, and minor discoloration, otherwise very good. Rare. [OCLC locates just three copies: University of Arizona, University of Alberta, and the National Diet Library of Japan].

London; Plaistow: At The De La More Press; The Curwen Press, 1952. Duodecimo (19 x 13 cm.), 35, [3] pages. Stated "new printing"; originally published in 1933. The compiler adds a note to this new, post-war edition, noting the book "was published some years ago when the materials for good cookery were more plentiful than they are now." An charming, small culinary anthology, arranged monthly, and containing "seasonal receipts English, French, and Turkish." Fine in decorated, paper-covered boards; in a near fine dust jacket with just a bit of edge wear, and some small closed tears to edges.

Chicago: Baldwin, Ross & Co., Publishers, Masonic Temple, 1893. Octavo (19 x 13 cm.), 158 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Tanty was a student of Careme, a chef to Napoleon III and to the Imperial Family of Russia. But the four hundred thirty-eight recipes in this book aim toward cooking "feasible for all housekeepers". Some light soiling and darkening to edges of text block; some light spotting to title page and other preliminaries. In fancifully illustrated chromolithographic wrappers. Wrappers show some rubbing to edges, a crease to the front panel and some light soil. Still, near very good for a book infrequently found complete. [OCLC locates eighteen copies; Bitting, page 455; not in Cagle].

Coxsackie, NY, 1806. Two printed forms each completed in unique hand (15.5 x 21 cm. each). The earlier permit allows for Charles Titus (1760-1847) of Coxsackie to sell "spiritous liquors" in a quantity of fewer than five gallons for one year. Specifications that the liquor must not be drunk at his house, out-house, yard, or garden preclude the operation of a tavern or public house. This license is signed and sealed by Peter A. Van Bergen, Philip Conine Junr, and Jonas Bronk. Notable here is the Bronk name, a descendent of Jonas and Pieter Bronck, after whom the Bronx River, County, and Borough are named. The 1806 license-printed by Charles R. and George Webster, Albany's leading newspaper publishers and printers-permits Titus to operate a public inn or tavern for one year. License issued, signed, and sealed by Coxsackie's Commissioners of Excise. Besides his store and tavern, Titus is noted to have owned a sawmill, ashery, blacksmith shop, and trading vessel. Both documents have uneven edges with… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1918. Duodecimo (17 x cm.), 99 pages. Bi-fold booklet is laid-in. FIRST EDITION. A small work intended to explain the method and purpose of conserving bread and bread ingredients during the Great War. A biography of the author, Alonzo Englebert Taylor (1871-1949), is supplied on the insert issued by the Lawrenceburg Roller Mills Company, dated June 20th, 1918. The chapters include Our duty, What the Allies need, What we possess, Why we are limited in wheat, Food value of the different grains, Ways of stretching wheat, and Waste in wheat. Fine, in publisher's gray cloth, titled and decorated in navy and red.

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.

Wellington, N.Z.: The Polynesian Society, 1951. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Volume 24. Small quarto (25.5 x 16 cm.), xxx, 492 pages. Frontispiece, folding map at end (with small correction sticker laid on), appendices, index. FIRST EDITION. "This volume includes 65 pages of references under 26 subjects, on the Maori of New Zealand. Every island group in the Pacific is covered similarly. It is a guide and handbook to writings on Oceania and its peoples" (jacket text). Red cloth, with very light rubbing to edges of binding; slight bumping to corners. Some chipping to foot of dust jacket spine; some light soil. Near fine in a near very good dust jacket.

Santa Barbara, California: Woodbridge Press Publishing Company, 1976. Oblong duodecimo in wrappers (15 x 23 cm.), 160 pages. Index. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. While this work claims to be "the first book of insect cookery ever to be printed", it is a successor to Ronald Taylor's Butterflies in My Stomach and certainly doesn't precede Vincent Holt's Why Not Eat Insects? (1885). It is highly likely that it is the first work to credit more than one bait shop in the acknowledgments. Some light soiling to the edges of text block and to the wrapper at the spine. Otherwise very good.

[New York City], 1879. One page Autographed Letter Signed (ALS), 21.1 x 13.65 cm. Clark & Balch, New York-based purveyors of teas, implore Mr. C.C. Palmer to increase "the cost of all the grades of Coffee [...] 2 cents per pound" due to a large advance in the coffee market. Slight fold tear on one side of the letter, otherwise very good.

Concord: Printed by Asa M'Farland, 1830. Octavo-sized pamphlet, 16 pages. FIRST EDITION. Some light foxing, otherwise very good, in plain wrapper. [OCLC locates five copies; Sabin 52887].

Brenham; Austin, Texas, 1862. Single page manuscript (26 x 20 cm.), handwritten text in brown ink recto only (though some faint pencil notes to verso). The invoice is a list of goods stored in Brenham Texas, in the early part of the Civil War, apparently for the safe keeping of the owner's inventory of spirits and other items related to his tavern or bar. The list includes "4 Brls. Old Bourbon Whiskey 165 Gallons", "1 Brl. Hol. Gin...", "1 Keg Jamaica Rum...", "1 Keg Old Port Wine...", "1/4 Cask French Brandy...", "...Arm Chairs" and other items. The second part of the document appears to be the sale of the inventory, less than one year later, to a Mr. M.M. Young. Brenham, Texas is a small city about half way between Austin and Houston. Lined paper with two crease lines, separating along one, but legible and with no text lost.

Boston: J.H. Hartley, Printer, 71 Olive Street, 1883. Two pieces. Octavo-sized booklet (18 x 12.5 cm.), 30 pages. With: a hand bill for same. Bifold (21.7 x 14 cm.), [4] pages. FIRST EDITION. An interesting collection of recipes medicinal, household, and otherwise useful, drawn from vegetable chemistry. Includes medicines, syrups, extracts, tinctures, infusions, concentrations, balms, ointments, washes, liniments, drops, powders, solutions, uses in wine, uses as food supplements, hair restoratives, creams, & hair dyes, hair pomades, deodorizing powder, skin creams, cough remedies, herbals, flowers, roots, seeds, sugar coated pills, fragrant oils, cooking extracts, teas, biscuits, puddings, sodas, dyes, ink, druggist colors, home remedies, and much more. There are a fair number of recipes for soda water and bitters, including some odd ones like Peruvian Tonic Bitters. Publisher's pale blue printed wrappers, with one light stain to the front wrapper panel; otherwise fine. [OCLC locates eight copies].

Vancouver, B.C.: Alaska Cruise Lines, Ltd, 1930. Group of nine menus (each 21.5 x 14 cm.), single leaf, printed both sides. Illustrated with half-tones, depicting scenes of Alaska. All are breakfast or lunch menus from the S.S. Aleutian. A statement at the foot of each menu states, "Envelopes for mailing may be obtained at the print shop" reminding us that the menus served a purpose beyond delivering the meal's choices. It also acts as an advertising mailer, for passengers to send to friends and family. And we're reminded that the menus were printed onboard the steamship. Fine.

New York: The American Friends of France, 1940. Octavo (14 x 21 cm.), 111 pages. Advertisements. Illustrations by Aljalov. Manufactured by H. Wolff, New York. FIRST EDITION. An eclectic collection of recipes compiled by New York socialite Anne Morgan for her organization, The American Friends of France, and sold with the intent of raising money for relief efforts in France. Morgan tapped many famous friends and acquaintances for this project, including Alduous Huxley, Helen Keller, Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Hepburn, and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. Internally clean and sound. In red-and-white checkered cloth; some scuffing to the pasted-down title label. Front is clean, with the exception of small pulls to the fabric in the upper-right hand side, and two very small marks. Moderate soiling and discoloration to the spine, with small chips to the title card, measuring no more than a cm. in length. Lacking the dust jacket. Overall very good.

New York: James Miller, 1864. Octavo, 345 pages. Advertisements. A guide to procuring inexpensive farm land during the Civil War. An early "Back-to-the-land" treatise. In this work, Morris, author of Ten Acres Enough, an early farm manual encouraging a return to the land, looks at specific regions and states, laws, and financial strategies for obtaining a farm. Tipped on to the front endpapers are two yellow advertisements, including one for "Gift Fruit Boxes" which 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" and can be shipped in flats and assembled by a child. Brown cloth slightly discolored, decorative blind stamp. Slight foxing throughout, with piece of top margin torn, pages 133-36. Generally very good.

New York: Norton & Co, 1940. Thick octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 986 pages. FIRST EDITION. The greatest, and scarcest in good condition, of the Browns' many cookbooks. The Browns, consisting of avant-garde poet and little magazine editor Bob, with his sister and mother, Rose and Cora, published twelve cookbooks in just six short years. Many of them are wonderful books, but America Cooks was their masterpiece. In an era where American regional cooking was increasingly recognized and valued in the culinary cities (Sheila Hibben and Ruth Berolzheimer produced other great regional books), the Browns' book stands out for its thoroughness and literary quality. The tone is breezy and surprisingly modern compared with the many dry-as-bones, science-oriented books of the era. Internally clean and sound; in original blue and red cloth. Publisher's dust jacket, unclipped, and with slight rubbing to edges. Overall, fine in a near fine dust jacket. The best copy we have seen of this important book that is very scarce… Read More

Sonoma, CA: The Rare Wine Company, 1993. Octavo, 119 pages. Limited edition of this expanded version of the original, first issued in 1943 in an edition of 200 copies. This new printing was issued in an edition of 140. The book details the membership, cellar collections, dinners and more, of the famed Saintsbury Club. New material includes Andre Simon's 'Notes on the Wines' and A.J.A Symons description of the meetings of the Saintsbury Club with the Club des Cent, the premier French gastronomic society. In half red morocco with a gilt-labled spine. With the bookplate of a previous owner, John C Riely, to the front pastedown.

[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Foundry Co, 1912. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 72 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. A combination trade catalogue and promotional cookbook, with recipes "compiled by several prominent and successful users of the New Perfection Stove". The trade catalogue portion contains descriptions and images of oil heaters, griddles, heating plates, toasters, broiler, ovens, and the New Perfection Stove. Wrappers printed in blue and black. Original small red loop of string for hanging. Wrappers a bit soiled, otherwise near very good.

Atlanta, Ga: The Coca-Cola Company, 1974. Small quarto (24 x 18 m.), 109 pages. Illustrated with colored and black & white photographic plates and additional illustrations in the text. FIRST EDITION. A promotional report touting itself as the "first official history" of the company that brought us the iconic soft drink. Much of the discusses advertising and marketing materials, the development of printed materials and global growth of the company. Publisher's color-printed and embossed illustrated wrappers; very light soil, otherwise fine.

Coldwater, Mich: Compiled and Published by The Sun, 1891. Octavo (22.5 x 15 cm.), 30 pages. Advertisements (some illustrated) interspersed and in running headers and footers. Engraving of the Sun Building on page 19. Irregular periodical number. An example of a hybrid community cookbook, almanac, and trivia digest sheet intended to appear as an irregular serial publication. Herewith issue number two, with some fifty attributed recipes mixed among the advertisements and advice. As a publication it is valuable for another reason. On page [5] appears an acknowledged that the recipes have been included by arrangement with compilers of a church cookbook titled Good Living and How to Attain It, published by St. Mark's Episcopal Church of Coldwater. Only one copy of this book (1885) is known to have survived, sold in a lot by Swann Auction Galleries in 2008. Its whereabouts are currently unknown. A revised edition (1907) was seen by the Massies - possibly the copy owned by Michigan State University - during… Read More