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Rare Cooking Books Rare & Antiquarian Books
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.
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 book. Half of spine is missing. With some careful restoration this would be a very good example of this rare work.. First Editio...
From Books & Bygones
£1,500.00
McCall's Cooking School COMPLETE Three (3) Volume 3-Ring Binders Cookbook Set: McCall's Cooking School Cookbook Series by Langan, Marianne / Wing, Lucy (Editors)
Columbus, Ohio: McCall Publishing - Field Publications. Fine. 1986. First Edition. Binder. 010323: FULLY COMPLETE Three (3) Volume 3-Ring Binders Cookbook Set. Includes ALL 576 Recipe Cards, 18 Tab Dividers, Introduction Section and Full 12-Page Index ...
$255.00
Mrs Beeton's Household Management by Beeton, Isabella
London, UK (nd): Ward Lock & Co. Second-hand hardcover. Very Good. Beeton, Isabella. Mrs Beeton's Household Management: a complete cookery book. Ward Lock & Co: London, UK (nd) (c1928). Demy 8vo (215x140mm) HC Faux Morocco Qtr Bnd, tan bds x...
From Books for Cooks
AU$351.00
FOOD: The World of Food ---by Christian Teubner ( Hardcover in a Slipcase / Herbs; Spices; Cereals and Grains; Fish; Seafood; Vegetables; Meat; Game and Poultry; Ham and sausage; Cheese; Fruit ) by Teubner, Christian
Munich, Germany: Munich, Germany: TEUBNER Edition / Grafe Und Unzer, Ganske Verlagsgruppe, 2001, 2nd Edition, 1st Printing , 2001. ----------hardcover, about 11 x 14.5 inches, a Fine copy, no dustjacket as issued, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine slipcase, ...
From Leonard Shoup
$124.95
French Provincial Cooking by David, Elizabeth
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. 493 pages. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt on red ground, pictorial design to upper board in red, red top-stain. With the rare dust jacket which has been professionally restored. Pages 247-250 have been re-stitched...
From Books & Bygones
£600.00
Modern Cookery in All Its Branches by Eliza Acton
Small 8vo. Original brown cloth with blind stamped decorative borders to the covers, plus gilt (dusted) lettering and vignettes to the spine. 607 pages, plus 32 pp catalogue of adverts dated July 1845. Illustrated with numerous woodcuts. Apart from bumpin...
£700.00
Gold Medal Century Of Success Cookbook (The Best Gold Medal Recipes Of 100 Years) by Betty Crocker Kitchens
Minneapolis, Minnesota: General Mills. Very Good. 1979. Presumed First Edition. Soft Cover. 002860: Has several pages of history and historical photos of Gold Medal. Beautiful full-color photographs throughout. "We have included recipes which were ...
$100.00
The Southern Cook Book of Fine Old Recipes
322 Old Dixie Recipes. Compiled and Edited by Lillie S. Lustig, S. Claire Sondheim, Sarah Rensel. Decorations by H. Charles Kellum. 48 pp. 23,5x16 cm. Culinary Arts Press, 1939. --- Wooden covers, curved and painted. B&W illustrations. Unmarked. ...
€105.00
THE HOUSE SERVANT'S DIRECTORY, OR A MONITOR FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES: COMPRISING HINTS ON THE ARRANGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF SERVANTS' WORK, WITH GENERAL RULES FOR SETTING OUT TABLES AND SIDEBOARDS IN FIRST ORDER; THE ART OF WAITING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES; AND LIKEWISE HOW TO CONDUCT LARGE AND SMALL PARTIES WITH ORDER; WITH GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR PLACING ON TABLE ALL KINDS OF JOINTS, FISH, FOWL, &C. WITH FULL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLEANING PLATE, BRASS, STEEL, GLASS, MAHOGANY; AND LIKEWISE ALL KINDS OF PATENT AND COMMON LAMPS: OBSERVATIONS ON SERVANTS' BEHAVIOUR TO THEIR EMPLOYERS; AND UPWARDS OF 100 VARIOUS AND USEFUL RECEIPTS, CHIEFLY COMPILED FOR THE USE OF HOUSE SERVANTS; AND IDENTICALLY MADE TO SUIT THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF FAMILIES IN THE UNITED STATES WITH FRIENDLY ADVICE TO COOKS AND HEADS OF FAMILIES; AND COMPLETE DIRECTIONS HOW TO BURN LEHIGH COAL by ROBERTS, Robert
Boston & New York: Munroe and Francis; Charles S. Francis, 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name of Katherine Laurence dated 27 March 1827 on the front endpaper. Two leaves (pages 73-76) neatly detached and laid in; contents complete and very clean ...
From Charles Agvent
$31,250.00
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, attractive, unsophisticated copy in original binding of a scarce and important book. Twentyfourmo (3-3/8" x 5-3/8") bound in origi...
From Charles Agvent
$21,875.00
Le Menage des Champs, et le Jardinier Francois accommodez au gout des temps: Dans lesquelles on peut apprende faciliment a apreter tout ce qui est necessaire pour l'usage de la vie a la Compagne, & meme de la Ville; & la maniere de cultiver parfaitement les Jardins fruitiers, potagers, & flueristes, avec un traite de la Chasse & de la Peche; Ouvrage utile a toutes sorte de personnes by [Liger, Louis]; [Nicolas de Bonnefons]
Paris: Michel David, 1711. Octavo, [6], 536, [8] pages. Frontispiece, five leaves of folding plates. Second printing of the first edition. Michel David issued the title originally in 1710. A compilation of two seventeenth century works by Nicolas de Bonn...
$1,200.00
Origin: the food of Ben Shewry by Shewry, Ben
Sydney, Australia: Murdoch Books, 2012. Second-hand hardcover. Shewry, Ben. Origin: the food of Ben Shewry. Murdoch Books: Sydney, Australia 2012. 4to (320x295mm) HC Qtr Bnd Black Cloth, Pict. Dec Emb Bds xii,[1],288,[2]pp. (photography by Colin Page) Ne...
From Books for Cooks
AU$756.00
The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy; Excelling Any Thing of the Kind Ever Yet Published by Glasse, Mrs. [Hannah]
Alexandria [Virginia]: Cottom and Stewart, 1812. Published 1812. Rough but complete copy of this hard-to-find work on cooking and food and menu selection, also a scarce pre-Civil War Virginia imprint. Unfortunately this copy does indeed appear to have b...
From Resource Books, LLC
$347.99
French Cook, The by Ude, Louis Eustache
London: John Ebers and Co., 1829. 485 pages. Rebound in green cloth with original title label to spine. A system of fashionable and economical cookery adapted to the use of English families. Tenth edition, corrected and enlarged, with an appendix of obser...
From Books & Bygones
£150.00
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 stock (29 x 21cm). First edition, signed and limited. Roman numeral III of a limitation of seven copies in portfolio form, signed ...
$5,000.00
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