COOKING
& GASTRONOMY This page is dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Harold Perilstein
Part I - Authors A-E | Part II - Authors F-M | Part III - Authors N-Z
COOKING
& GASTRONOMY 
Sugar
Castles &
Fruit Fantasias
(A
is for “Arte”). Mata, Juan de la.
Arte de reposteria, en que se contiene todo gènero de hacer dulces secos,
y en lìquido, vizcochos, turrones, natas: Bebidas heladas de todos generos,
rosolis, mistelas, &c. con una breve instruccion para conocer las frutas,
y servirlas crudas. Madrid: Josef Herrera, 1786. 4to. [2] ff., 208 pp.
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any image where the hand appears on
Into the Woods Abbott, Henry. Camps and trails. New York: Pr. for the author, 1918. 12mo (15.1 cm, 5.9"). 64 pp.; illus.
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The work is illustrated with a number of mounted black-and-white photographs.
Each book in the series was published by the author as a very limited edition and distributed to his friends as a Christmas gift; the present copy is 
inscribed by Abbott: “Wishing you peacetime Christmas cheer.”
This is the original first, 1918 edition, not a modern reprint.
• Publisher's bark-patterned paper–covered boards, front cover with printed title; extremities chipped (most notably spine head). Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription as above; pages clean. (26848)
Certo
“Perfect Every
Time”
Jams
& Jellies
[Bradley, Alice]. How to make jams jellies marmalades
with one minute's boiling. Rochester, NY: Douglas-Pectin Corporation, © 1927. 12mo. [24] pp.;
col. illus.
This
offers a number of “family at home” illustrations that are both
quaint and charming.
• Brown, Culinary Americana, 2284 (1924 ed.). Publisher's printed paper wrappers, in pastels both strong and sweet; front wrapper with owner's name pencilled in upper portion. A clean, fresh copy. (26050)
“Raising
the Generality of Plants
in theGreatest
Perfection”
Bridgeman, Thomas.
Thekitchen
gardener's instructor: Containing a catalogue of garden and herb seeds, with
practical directions under each head, for the cultivation of culinary vegetables
& herbs.... New York: D. Mitchell, 1836. 12mo (19.1 cm, 7.5"). 128 pp.
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cooking
tips are given, as well as a calendar of tasks.
• American Imprints 36359. Publisher's quarter ribbon-embossed brown cloth of Krupp's style San5 (var2), with printed paper–covered sides, a bit rubbed and with some discolored spots; spine cloth lost at head (so that construction is clear). Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number, one endpaper and two fly-leaves excised, title-page pressure-stamped. Sewing loosening, some signatures starting to separate; still, a remarkably clean, actually nice copy! (26514)
Gastronomic Masterpiece ILLUSTRATED — Limited Edition Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. Physiologie du goût ou meditations de gastronomie transcendante. Paris: Les Arts & Le Livre, 1926. 2 vols. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). I: xlii, [2], 252 pp.; illus. II: [4], 300, [2] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Front pastedown of vol. I with bookplate of Francis de Neufville Schroeder, a descendent of the first mayor of New York.
• Not in Bitting. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped author and title; corners and joints showing some shelf wear, spines slightly darkened. Vol. I front pastedown with bookplate as above. Original yellow wrappers in near-perfect condition; overall, a lovely set. (25885)
As
Bibliographies Go, DELICIOUS!
Cagle, William R., & Lisa Killion Stafford, comps. American books on food and drink: A bibliographical catalog of the cookbook collection housed in The Lilly Library at the [sic] Indiana University. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998. 8vo. xviii, 794 pp., illus.
• New, in dust jacket.
Second U.S. Edition: An Influential Classic Carter, Susannah. The frugal housewife: Or, completewoman cook. Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). 132 pp.; 2 plts.
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Provenance: Flourishing old signatures of “J. Lowry” to pastedown and title-page.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Quick-SettingKnox
Sparkling
Gelatine
Charles
B. Knox Gelatine Co. Knox Gelatine desserts
salads candies and frozen dishes. [Johnstown, NY]: Charles B. Knox Gelatine
Co., © 1933. 12mo. 71, [1] pp. (pagination incl. covers); col. illus.
very
attractive chromolithographed images. The recipes include dishes
for children's parties and for convalescents.
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the images for enlargements.
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana (lists 1943 and 1945 eds. only). Publisher's printed paper wrappers; foot of spine very slightly rubbed, else in amazingly fresh bright condition. A beautiful copy. (26049)
PrudentNew
England-Style
DOMESTICITY
Cornelius, Mrs.
Mary Hooker. The young housekeeper's friend; or, a guide to domestic
economy and comfort. Boston: Charles Tappan; New York: Saxton & Huntington,
1846. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). 190 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The endpapers bear several additional recipes pencilled in an early hand, including a “Cure for Felon.”
• American Imprints 46-1830; Bitting 100; Brown, Culinary Americana, 1491 (1860 ed.); Cagle & Stafford 187; Lowenstein 399. Publisher's quarter brown cloth and printed light green paper–covered sides; edges rubbed, sides lightly stained. Endpapers as above; title-page with early pencilled annotation in upper portion; foxing and staining, but no tears or tattering. In fact a good copy, the more interesting as showing it was used. (26685)
Bancroft
Library Cookery
(Craig "Diet &
Cookery" Collection). Four hundred years of English diet &
cookery[:] a selection of books printed between 1541 & 1939 from the collection
of Dr. & Mrs. John C. Craig. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library,
1987. Small 8vo. 71, [1 (blank)] pp.; illus.
• Publisher's textured cream paper wrappers, with a little light soil; top edges of booklet darkened. Generally a clean, good copy.
San Francisco Cookery in aHigh-Flying Era Craig, John C., ed. The recipe book of
Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Introduction by Carol Hart Field. Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. 8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 5–65, [5 (3 blank)] pp. 
The recipes collected by Mrs. Coit reflect the “cosmopolitan character of San Francisco” during the 1870's and 1880's and show “the influence of the French, Spanish, Mexican, and English traditions in the cookery of the period.”
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and one additional illustration.
• Paperback. Fine. (5461)
“New, Useful, & Entertaining” Daboll, Nathan. New-England almanac, for the year ... 1808 ... By Nathan Daboll. New-London [Conn.]: Pr. by Ebenezer P. Cady, [1807]. 12mo. [18] ff.
• Charcoal tooth-powder, orchards, andbutter
making.
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the image for an enlargement.
• Drake 707; Shaw & Shoemaker 13185. Removed from a nonce volume and resewn. (9489)
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more ALMANACS, click here. 
Uncommon
— Printed
in Fraktur
(Danish/Norwegian
Cookery). Gullichsen, Clen. Husholdningsbog. En sikker
veiledning i kogekunsten. Udgivet efter flere Vars Dvelse og Erfaring for husmødre
og husholdersker. Frederikstad, 1872. Large 12mo. 348, xxvii, [1] pp.
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NO
copies of this item were located in searches of RLIN, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956
.
• Contemporary half calf over boards, all quite worn and abraded, spine peeling. Shaken with hinges cracked, some pages loosening from sewing; pages age-toned with small stain (possibly of insect origin) to bottom of a few. Ownership inscription pencilled on front free endpaper. Volume fragile, contents fascinating.
“She Who Would be Mistress ofHer Own Home” Davenport, Laura. The bride's cook book a superior collection of thoroughly tested practical recipes specially adapted to the needs of the young housekeeper. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., © 1908. 4to (22.8 cm, 9"). Col. frontis., 265, [9] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. both “wondrously dainty” and “entirely practical” (p. 5).
• Bitting 114; Brown, Culinary Americana, 770. Publisher's mauve cloth, front cover framed in gilt with gilt-stamped “wedding bell” corner decorations and with affixed chromolithographed illustration, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed, back cover with small area of discoloration. Some corners creased; four pages with spots of staining. One leaf with short tear from upper margin, touching header without loss. We suspect that this was cooked from, but very carefully; and we like it that one spotted page offers the recipe for “Kisses.” (26616)
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