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

New York: G.W. Pach, Photo, 1876. Printed souvenir card, (35.5 x 22.5 cm). A triptych of original photos, pasted on a gold-printed card, advertising N. Clark's Gallery, Restaurant and Confectionery, located at the corner of Broadway and thirteenth street. The photographer, G.W. Pach was the eldest and most active of the famous Pach family of portrait photographers. His office was just a block south of Clark's, in the building now owned by the Strand Bookstore. The photographs show a sculpture of "Musidora" on the left and a grouping of four framed paintings on the right. The central, larger photograph depicts a dining room at Clark's, with tables set, and art and plants adorning the walls and windows. Aside from some light soiling, the piece is in fine condition.

Staunton, Va: R.L. Stratton & Co, 1918. Flat box template (21 x 19.5 cm.). White board with blue, red, and gold ink. A box for "Hygeia" Brand toothpicks that boast "two flat polished points" and are "strictly high grade". Slight rubbing and creasing, else good.

Various, 1975. Pamphlets and booklets in a range of sizes (not exceeding 28 x 21.5 cm.). A collection of thirty-two instructional pamphlets on the topic of home-canning and commercially canned products issued primarily by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and companies whose products are used in the canning process. USDA publications represented include partial runs of Farmers' Bulletin and Home and Garden Bulletin and those produced by subdivisions including the Department of Home Economics, the National War Garden Commission, and regional Cooperative Extensions. Product books include those created by the National Pressure Cooker Company, Leslie Salt, Ball Brothers Company, Karo Corn Syrup, American Can Company, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, Sears, Roebuck and Co., General Foods, Condon Brothers (seeds), and more. In its entirety the collection demonstrates the evolving methods of home-canning from cold-pack canning to oven canning, open kettle canning and more as well as the how/why of commercial… Read More

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); Bill of Fare from the Grand Hotel Yokohama, 1904 (slightly variant design beautifully printed in chromolithograph). FIRST EDITION, stated "Gold Medal Edition De Luxe" on the front panel of the binding, and with a handwritten "No. 1575" of an unspecified edition to the front pastedown. Signed by the author beneath the frontispiece portrait. A souvenir of the exhibition of the important menu collection of J.C. Lehr, "The American Gastronom [sic]" exhibited at the Portola-Louvre during the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. Much of the volume is taken up with reproductions of the menus exhibited, while… Read More

New York: C.M. Saxton, Agricultural Book Publisher, 1854. Octavo ( x cm.), 144, [10] pages. Publisher's catalog at rear. FIRST EDITION. This manual provides instruction, based on the tried observations and experience of the author, on selection and cultivation of soil, manures and mulching, watering, winter protection, and a vast descriptions of strawberry varieties, including: Crimson Cone, Princess Alice Maude, Prolific Hautboy, McAvoy's Extra Red, and more. Also includes information on cultivation and varieties of raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants, and grapes. Hedrick described this as "one of the first works to discuss the black berry, cranberry, and black raspberry." Appendix features advice from additional farmers and berry cultivators. Boards slightly faded, slight foxing to text block, otherwise good condition. Ownership inscription, "S.R. Carter, 1855" to free front endpaper and title page.

[Paris: Editions Bellouet, 1992. Large quarto (31 x 22 cm.), 211, [4] pages. Illustrated. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. The definitive work on the work of the pastry chefs of Les Ambassadeurs in Paris' Hotel de Crillon. With a preface by Alain Ducasse. Original cardboard slipcase rubbed and bumped. Very slightest bumping to corners of gilt-titled, white leather boards, otherwise fine, in a fine dust jacket.

Paris: Encyclopédie Roret, 1901. Small duodecimo, vi, 352 pages. Advertisement. Illustrated with seventy-six figures in the text. Later edition. A complete manual for the café or other business selling lemonades, coffee, tea, ices and ice creams, and other refreshing diversions. In original publisher's illustrated wrappers, with some wear to the spine, otherwise generally very good. In attractive, custom clamshell box.

Paris: Imprimerie de la Samaritaine, 1914. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm.), 15 pages. Illustrated throughout. Text in French. FIRST EDITION. A small trade catalogue featuring aprons of every type, offered by Paris' famous Samaritaine department store. The aprons are divided into men's and women's. Women's aprons include those for trade, kitchen, nurse, and baker. For men, the aprons include those for gardener, valet, military, grocer, wine merchant, chef, doctor, and veterinarian. Small aprons for valet boys and dining room boys are also included. Illustrated wrappers with 2 cm. stamp on front panel, "Collection Debuisson Paris". Mme Roxane Debuisson (1927-2018) assembled one of the great collections of materials related to the history of Paris. Much of it resides at Stanford University, though some was sold at Drouot in March of 2019. Pages lightly age-toned, otherwise fine. Near fine. [OCLC locates no copies].

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1881. Small octavo, 32 unnumbered pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. Includes a page of press notices. Sample book with specimen pages for the author's New Cook Book. Miss Parloa's New Cook Book was written during the time she was lecturing at the newly established Boston Cooking School, funded in 1879 by the Women's Education Association. not long after the book was published, she left Boston for New York, where she established Miss Parloa's School of Cooking. While the Boston Cooking School had not been financially successful, her new school in New York made her a wealthy woman and launched her on a path to celebrity status, eventually to include numerous product endorsements. Corners a bit bumped and worn, otherwise very good, in printed gray wrappers. [OCLC locates four copies].

Boston: Dana Estes and Lauriat, 1881. Octavo (19.2 x 13 cm.), 430, [18] pages. Rear blanks for recipes (not used). Illustrations in the text and with a color frontispiece. Bills of Fare. Index. FIRST EDITION (see Bitting); a specimen page book was issued In later editions, the subtitle became, "New Cook Book and Marketing Guide". A sample book with specimen pages was issued in advance of publication, with the title page appearing exactly as it does here with the 1881 date, and with an additional slug indicating the 1880 copyright. The New Cook Book was was written during the time Parloa was lecturing at the newly established Boston Cooking School, funded in 1879 by the Women's Education Association. Not long after the book was published, she left Boston for New York, where she established Miss Parloa's School of Cooking. While the Boston Cooking School had not been financially successful, her new school in New York made her a wealthy woman and launched her on a path to celebrity status, eventually to… Read More

Boston: Dana Estes and Company, Publishers, 1887. Octavo, 430, [18] pages. Rear blanks for recipes (not used). Illustrations in the text. Later printing, with the title page bearing the second title, "New Cook Book and Marketing Guide", not the original, Maria Parloa's New Cook Book, a Guide to Marketing and Cooking. A bit of light soiling to the endpapers and edges of text block, otherwise very good, in slightly edgeworn, but overall bright and clean olive cloth, gilt-, red-, and black-stamped. Near very good. [Bitting 356; Cagle 594 (earlier edition)].

LeRoy, N. Y.: The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1924. Oblong booklet, stapled (11 x 15.5 cm.), [18] pages. Illustrated throughout in color; color wrappers illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Includes recipes, menus, and text reassuring the consumer about the quality of Jell-O. With original cord tie, for hanging the booklet in the kitchen. Light soiling to wrappers, otherwise fine.

LeRoy, N. Y.: The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1924. Oblong booklet, stapled (11 x 15.5 cm.), [18] pages. Illustrated throughout in color; color wrappers illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Includes recipes, menus, and text reassuring the consumer about the quality of Jell-O. Original cord tie, for hanging the booklet in the kitchen. Wrappers soiled, otherwise very good.

North Berkeley, California: Cumbernauld Co., Publishers, 1896. Sextodecimo, 338 pages. FIRST EDITION. A notable contribution toward understanding the relationship between nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract, well before advances made during and after World War I in electrogastography and in managing bacterial pathogens. Having established a reputation for the treatment of seasickness, Dr. Herman Partsch (1849-1934), a physician in San Francisco, turned next to summarizing what he had encountered in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal distresses. "In writing this book my object has been to put on record certain facts that I have learned during the last twenty-five years on topics comprehended under the title of dyspepsia [...]" (--preface, page v). Includes observations showing the emergence of an appreciation for correlating data from other systems (heart, respiration) and gives weight to evidence from the letters and diaries of Darwin and Carlyle. A few pencil notes to margin; one… Read More

Boston: J. Howe, Printer, no. 39 Merchant's Row; D. Hooton, printer, 1834. Booklet, single sheet, folded in eight (17 x 10 cm.), printed recto and verso, 7, [1] pages (twice, printed same both sides). FIRST EDITION. A brief manual of recipes, a short materia medica, offered by Boston's Thomas Hollis, Druggist and Apothecary. The title continues, "list of articles contained in the chest", followed by a table of contents, "Emetics, Physical Billious Pills, Jalap and Calomel, Rhubarb... Camphor, Tarlington's Balsam of Life, Laudanus, Essence of Peppermint, Elixir Palegoric, White Vitriol, etc." The final section covers artificial respiration. On the rear panel, Hollis offers actual medicine chests, "for ships or families... medicine chests put up very cheap, with medicine of the first quality, and designed for fishing and coastal vessels." as well as a number of inks, lemon syrup, and soda. Small chip from rear panel, not effecting text. [WITH:] Broadside (29 x 22 cm.). Publication information from OCLC… Read More

Buffalo, N.Y.: Published by D. Ransom, Son & Co.; Press of Baker, Jones & Co, 1883. Booklet, sewn on cords in wrappers (16.5 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. A single year from the annual almanac promoting the "Celebrated Family Medicines" of Ransom, Son & Co. (series 1874 - c. 1923). The booklet consists of a series of alternating pages of recipes (culinary, household, medicinal, dyeing, etc.), with facing pages each advertising an individual patent medicine (Trask's Magnetic, Ransom's Honey Syrup, Ransom's Hive Syrup, Universal Magnetic Balm, Prof. Anderson's Dermador. Printed orange paper wrappers, decorated and with text. Hole with string tie to upper left corner. Very light rippling to wrappers, otherwise fine.

Jersey City, N.J.: Published by Clark Johnson, M.D., 1874. Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 309, [1] pages. Illustrated. Advertisement. Second edition, second printing. Graff refers to an earlier undated issue of 219 pages. This 309 page edition, was originally issued in 1874. Felcone also notes copies of the 1874 printing with and without the two line printers attribution to the title page verso. A false Indian captivity narrative in the service of advertising a patent medicine. "A revolting fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian blood syrup, and made up mainly of descriptions of Indian life and customs, some of which are cribbed, with considerable garbling from Catlin. - G. P. Garrison." (Ayer 90 as quoted in Graff). Closed tear to fore edge of rear fly and two blank leaves. Foxing throughout, a bit musty. With the bookplate of the West Townshend Sabbath School Library. endpapers a bit stained. In black and blind-stamped decorated orange cloth; soiled; edges rubbed and worn. Good… Read More

Boston: Dickinson Printing Establishment, Damrell & Moore, 1848. Octavo (22.5 x 14 cm.), 60 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates; illustrated. With one folding copper-engraved plate and 12 text figures. Interleaved with blanks throughout. FIRST EDITION. Record of a patent infringement case between two neighboring stove foundries in Troy, New York. The plaintiffs, Elias Johnson and David B. Cox, who owned the Clinton Foundry (later owned by Fuller & Warren), sued their neighbors, Peter Low and George W. Hicks. The attorney for the plaintiffs, William Whiting, explains that the defendants, "flooded the market with a stove so nearly resembling the patented stove, both in name, form, size, ornaments, and construction, as to deceive any person of ordinary discrimination." They even named the stove the "American Hot Air", while the Johnson and Cox stove was the "American Air Tight. "[T]he Defendants desiring not only to take away the fruits of Pierce's invention, but of his taste also, actually directed their… Read More

St. Paul, Minnesota: Webb Book Publishing Company, 1928. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 151 pages. Illustrated. Revised edition; originally published in 1911, and reprinted in 1917. Many printings followed, and in 1942, the book was revised and expanded "containing, in addition to all usual features, a new nutrition section treating fully of vitamins, calories, proteins, and minerals, together with sixty-three carefully prepared menus analyzed for vitamin and calorie content." The 1934 edition was revised by Farmer's Wife Magazine under the editorial control of Miriam J. Williams, and the 1942 revision and subsequent editions were credited to Bess M. Rowe, Woman's Editor of The Farmer. Includes sections on canning and drying food and gives instructions for removal of stains. Age-toned but clean throughout; in green-decorated stiff gray wrappers, backed in green cloth. Very good. Scarce. [OCLC locates just one copy of this printing (NYU) and just nine copies of all printings prior to this].

Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 17 Princes Street; [printed by R. Mitchell & Sons, 18-20 Clyde Street, 1928. Octavo, stapled in wrappers (18 x 13 cm.), 32 pages. Index. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A small Scottish cookery book of largely simple desserts. It begins with lists of 'Suggested Necessary Equipment', and 'Suggested Necessary Goods to be Kept in Stock', both of which include some items with brand names. Lots of whipped things. Some light spotting to text; staples oxidized and text starting to pull away. Printed salmon-colored wrapper, chipped, soiled, and separated at spine. Good only. Author inscription to top of front wrapper panel, "With compliments from C.B. Peacock, June 1944. [OCLC locates three copies, none in the U.S.].