Rare Cooking Books

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]

New York: D. D. Smith, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacking the endpapers; small chip at the top of the spine. A clean, attr...

$21,875.00

Accomplisht Cook, or the Art & Mystery of Cookery by May, Robert

London: Obadiah Blagrave, 1685. 471 pages. Wherein the whole art is revealed in a more easie and perfect method, than hath been ...

£10,000.00

The Accomplisht Cook, or, the whole art and mystery of cookery, fitted for all Degrees and Qualities by May, Robert

London: Obadiah Blagrave, 1685. Fifth Edition. Very Good. Pp. 15 leaves, 461, [10] p. + [9] p. publisher's ads. Engraved i...

$12,000.00

L’oeil et la bouche by Vernet, Pierre

[Valenciennes]: Edition Patrick Vernet, 1986. Signed limited first edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Patrick Vernet. Thirteen fol...

$8,250.00

Een Vruchtenmandje. [A Fruit Basket] by Bodenheim, Nelly (illustrator). Verses by Lizzy Ansingh

Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1927. Folio, [48] pages, twenty one hand-colored plates, All the plates are on a sturdy, thick card sto...

$5,000.00

CHILI: A PICTORIAL RECIPE by Esslemont, David

Decorah, IA: David Esslemont, 2013. full pigskin, cloth clamshell box. folio. full pigskin, cloth clamshell box. 39 full woodcu...

$4,800.00

THE ART OF COOKERY MADE PLAIN AND EASY. Which Far Exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet Published. by GLASSE, Hannah (A Lady).:

London: Printed for the Author at Mrs. Ashburn's, a China-Shop, the Corner of Fleet-Ditch, 1747.. FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST...

£2,500.00

Nouvel Almanach des Gourmands, servant de guide dans les moyens de faire excellente chère. Dédié au Ventre. Par A.B. de Périgord. Première année [Deuxième année] [Troisième année] by (Gastronomy) [Raisson, Horace]

Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1827. First edition, all published. Each volume with frontispiece and engraved Carte gastronomiq...

$3,000.00

The Way To Cook ; Julia Child On Videotape (poster) by Child, Julia

New York: Knopf, 1985. Fine. Full color promotional poster measuring 21 x 30 inches (53.3 x 76.2 cm.) depicting Her Highness ...

$2,880.00

The Creole Cookery Book by Edited by the Christian Woman\'s Exchange of New Orleans, LA

NEW ORLEANS: T.H. Thomason, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. NEW ORLEANS: This is the original 1885 first edition of t...

$2,495.00

APICIUS REDEVIVUS; OR THE COOK'S ORACLE. BEING 600 RECEIPTS INSTITUTED IN THE KITCHEN OF A PHYSICIAN. by KITCHINER, WILLIAM.:

London, Samuel Bagster, 1817.. FIRST EDITION 1817. Small 8vo, approximately 165 x 100 mm, 6½ x 4 inches, 4 engravings, 2...

£1,500.00

Book of Household Management by Beeton, Isabella Mary

London: S. O. Beeton, 1861. 1112 pages + xxxix index and coloured plate list. Lacks free front endpaper otherwise a good tight b...

£1,500.00

THE COMPLETE ENGLISH COOK; OR, PRUDENT HOUSEWIFE. Being an entire new collection of the most general, yet least expensive receipts in every branch of cookery and good housewifery: by PECKHAM, Ann, of Leeds.:

Leeds, printed by Griffith Wright, M,DCC,LXVII. And sold by the author, and J. Ogle, in Leeds; and Messrs. Robinson and Roberts,...

£1,500.00

The Savoy Cocktail Book. Being in the main a complete compendium of the Cocktails, Rickeys, Daisies, Slings, Shrubs, Smashes, Fizzes, Juleps, Cobblers, Fixes, and other Drinks, known and vastly appreciated in this year of grace 1930, with sundry notes of amusement and interest concerning them, together with subtle Observations upon Wine and their special occasions. Being in the particular an elucidation of the Manners and Customs of people of quality in a period of some equality. [Signed] by CRADDOCK, Harry (1875-1963)

London: Constable, 1933. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Fine. Second Printing of the Second Edition, new and enlarged (pp. 282-86 l...

$1,865.00

APHORISMES, MENUS & VARIÉTÉS by Brillat-Savarin, [Jean-Anthelme], and Mario Avati [illus]

[Paris]: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961. 109,[8]pp. Large octavo (24.5 x 16cm). Loose gatherings laid into printed wrappers. Fro...

$1,750.00

If you are looking for a copy of a long-lost family cookbook from your childhood, you should definitely take a look through the pages of the rare and collectible cook books section of the Biblio Rare Book Room. There is a large selection from which to choose, and many of the rare and antique books featured below are hard to find first editions of favorite and traditional cook books.

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