Cookbooks & Domestic Arts from Classic Books and Ephemera

Boston: Fellowcrafters, 1936. Paperback. Near Fine. [16] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled illustrated paper covers. Page count includes cover. Includes directions for making basket-weave bracelets, leashes and lanyards, braided bracelets, round gimp bracelets, and braided belts. Gimp is twisted silk, worsted, or cotton with cord or wire running through it. In Near Fine… Read more about this item

New York: Seagram-Distillers, 1934. Paperback. Very Good. Third Printing, April 1934. 38, [2] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled illustrated paper cover. Pages of recipes for cocktails face pages with instructions for magic tricks suitable for performing at cocktail hour. Published the year after the end of Prohibition in the United States. Julien J. Proskauer… Read more about this item

Richmond, Va: Jordan's Old Virginia Smokehouse, 1955. Paperback. Near Fine. 15 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Stapled; cover title. Printed in red and black on brown paper throughout. No date of publication. Includes menus and recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and party dishes. In Near Fine Condition: front cover is lightly soiled; otherwise, clean… Read more about this item

Munich: F. Bruckmann, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good -. 143, [1] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Green cloth with gilt stamped spien and cover titles. Former owner's bookplate on front fixed endpaper of "Hans M. Sylvester, M.D." The author, Edwin Erich Dwinger (1898-1981), was one of the most popular authors in Nazi Germany. He published many… Read more about this item

Johnstown, N.Y.: Knox Gelatine, 1959. Pamphlet. Very Good. 15, [1] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled pamphlet with illustrated cover. Cover title. Contains directions for using unflavored gelatine and recipes for whips, sponges and snows, chiffons, mousses and charlottes. Recipes include chicken mousse, strawberry ginger pie, turkey-tomato mold, and nesselrode pie. The "Students" referred… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine. [2], x, 254 p., color frontispiece and [24] p. of color and black-and-white illustrations; 27 cm. Off-white linen with gilt-on-green spine title and gilt cover title with the author's initials in gilt on brown. Top page edge green; green endpapers with site and floor plans of the house. … Read more about this item

Plymouth Meeting, Pa: Mrs. C. Naaman Keyser [Mildred Davis Keyser], 1946. Paperback. Very Good. 16 p., illustrations; 23 cm. Stapled beige wrapper printed in dark brown on front wrapper. Inside back wrapper contains list of titles in the Home Craft Course Series. The author provides some hitory of Pennsylvania German splint and straw baskets, as… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: s.n., 1883. Paperback. Fair. [32] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Sewn. Lacking wrapper? No publication information; probably published in Philadelphia. Contains calendar for 1884 with recipes, medical advice, and other useful information for the housekeeper. The recipes include chestnut sauce for roast turkey; Westphalia loaves; mock turtle soup; coffee jelly; cauliflower salad; flax seed… Read more about this item

Paris: De l'Imprimerie Anglais, 1793. Hardcover. Good. Nouvelle Edition. [24], 264 p.; 16 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. 19th-century repair of joints with dark brown linen; later repair of front joint with white linen. Small bookplate of the Lynn Public Library on front fixed endpaper; "Rules and Regulations" of the… Read more about this item

Thornbury Township, Pa: Glen Mills Elementary School P. T. A., 1962. Paperback. Near Fine. 92 p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Stapled; green cover printed in black with cover illustration of a smiling cow. Cover title: "Want to be contented? Try Our Cook Book." Recipes include: Dutch hustle cake; Queen Elizabeth cake; Moravian mints; brown butter balls;… Read more about this item

Lancaster, Pa: Lancaster General Hospital, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good -. Printed by Conn & Slote, Lancaster, Pa. 224 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Plain black cloth. No date of publication; section about the Lancaster General Hospital is dated 1912. Contains advertisements for Lancaster County businesses. Recipes include: apple snow; meat cakes; apple omelet; walnut… Read more about this item

London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good +. Second Edition. viii, [2], 265, [3], 32 p., frontispiece and 9 leaves of illustrations; title vignette and in-text diagrams; 20 cm. Off-white cloth with gilt spine title and red cover title; red spine and cover series titles; cover illustration in brown. … Read more about this item

Galveston, Tx: American National Insurance Co, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. [16] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Stapled wrappers with front wrapper illustration; wrappers included in page count. Stapled to the front wrapper is the business card of Western Realty realtor Robert McBroom. Contains "a wealth of wonderful, interesting recipes," including: pita sa orasima; imp of satan… Read more about this item

Jena: Crökers Buchhandlung, 1790. Hardcover. Good. "Zweite verbesserte und vielvermehrte Ausgabe." Vol. 3 only: [2], 764 p.; 20 cm. Original plain boards; pages are untrimmed. Ernst Anton Nicolai (1722-1802) studied medicine at the University of Halle with Friedrich Hoffmann. From 1758 until his death in 1802 he taught medicine and chemistry at the University… Read more about this item

Chambersburg , Pa: Thomas J. Wright, 1839. Hardcover. Good +. 332, [10] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary tree calf; leather spine label with gilt-tooled title: Experienced Farrier. Former owner's inscription on front fixed endpaper: John Burkholder's Book 1853. Name repeated on front free endpaper. "To the reader": signed C.D. Lesher. Includes Table of Drugs and… Read more about this item

Asheville, N.C.: Buncombe County Democratic Party, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good +. [80] p.; 22 cm. White card covers with black comb binding; red and blue cover title with illustration of Democratic donkey. No publication information. Inscribed at foot of first page: "Rena James 1986-87" (Rena Genoble James Farnsworth (1921-2011)). Sold as a fundraiser for… Read more about this item

Boston: Manning & Loring, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good -. "Printed by Manning and Loring. Sold by them, and by Etheridge & Bliss, Boston; Cushing & Appleton, Salem; Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport; Charles Peirce, Portsmouth; Henry Cushing, Provience; Lincoln & Gleason, Hartford; Bronson, Walter & Co. New-Haven; I. Thomas, jun. Worcester; J. Prentiss, Keene; as also in various other… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. ix, [2], 12-184 p.: frontispiece, in-text plans and line drawings; 18 cm. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Dark brown endpapers. Frontispiece is an elevation of the garden front of a stable of Fairman Rogers, Philadelphia. First edition.… Read more about this item

Berlin: Königl. Preuß. Akademischen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1803. Hardcover. Very Good. Title continued: "oder Sammlung der neuesten und wichtigsten Entdeckungen, Erfahrungen und Beobachtungen, zur Beförderung und Vervollkommnung der Wollen-, Seiden-, Baumwollen- und Leinenfärberei, der Zeugdruckerei, und der Kunst zu bleichen." xii, 308 p.: 1 leaf of an engraved plate (bound as frontispiece); 20 cm. Original red… Read more about this item

Philadelphia, Pa: Better Baby Press (an Institute of the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential), 1982. Paperback. Near Fine. 104 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback with illustrated covers and clear overlays. Cover illustration is from woodblock print by Kuniyoshi Utagawa. An extremely scarce guide to teaching children to draw. In Near Fine Condition: indentations… Read more about this item