Search Results: Gastronomy from Charles Agvent

(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.

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 based upon his own hypochondria and continual struggle with obesity--at one time he weighed over 440 pounds. In another work Cheyne described his hypochondria, which he blamed on the English weather, and estimated that a third of his patients were neurotic. Bitting (p. 86) cites only the 1727 French edition, noting it as rare. Crahan 268; Heirs of Hippocrates 761; Osler 2303; Wellcome II, p. 338.

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.

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.