1. Barnard, Melanie.

Cincinnati à la Carte [20 Great Restaurants [in Cincinnati] share their best Recipes [Including a Recipe Index]. Edited by Laura Pulfer and Lilia F. Brady. Design by Kay Walker and Barbara Bendall.

Cincinnati (Ohio), Published by Cincinnati, 120 West Fifth Street, 1980. Octavo. 128 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover (Cover illustration by Jim Schaefer). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Extremely Rare !

2. Borzini, Giovanni / Scurti, Jole Ceruti.

La Coltivazione del Fungo Prataiuolo.

2a edizione. Bologna, Edizioni Agricole, 1969. 8°. 179 pages. Hardcover. Italian edition. Very good condition.

3. Chalker, Bryan.

Out of the Frying Pan into der Führer. The story of the Channel Island’ Kitchen Front of World War Two. With additional photographs by Felicity Haze.

Bristol, Redcliffe Press, 1989. 8°. 80 pages. Illustrated Softcover. Very good condition.

4. Corbyn, T.N. [Theophilus N. Corbyn from Philadelphia].

The Compounder’s Pocket Remembrancer – A Treatise on the Manufacture of Liquors, Syrups, Cordials, Bitters, Acids, Colognes, Bay Rums, Extracts, Concentrated Essences, Liquor Flavors, Hair Dyes, Hair Oils, Hair Tonics, Tinctures, Segar Flavors, Pomades, Etc. Including Instructions for making Cider, Champagnes, Punch Essences, &c. Comprising many useful Receipts for Barbers, Bakers, Confectioners, Druggists, Segar Makers, Liquor Dealers, Grocers, Mineral Water Bottlers, Fruit Preservers, etc. etc. [with 738 Recipes].

Original First Edition. [Philadelphia], Published by the Author Theophilus Corbyn, [1888]. Duodecimo. 206 pages with 738 Recipes and a thorough Index [Cutout on titlepage has removed year pf printing but was verified through Bibliography]. Private Hardcover of the mid-20th century with the original bookblock. Bookblock loosened. Lower part of the titlepage missing. Needs repair but pages are in very good condition. Extremely Rare, early Philadelphia Recipe-Book for Drinks, Essences and Perfmues, Hair-Products etc. !

5. Coulter Hartbarger, Janie / Hartbarger, Neil J.

Eating for the Eighties. A Complete Guide to Vegetarian Nutrition.

New York, Berkley Books, 1983. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 331 Pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6. Day, Samuel Phillips.

Tea – Its Mystery and History – With a Preface in Chinese and English by Lo Fong Loh. Illustrated [by J.F.Weldon].

Vintage First Edition / Original 19th century Edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1878. Small Octavo. Pagination: Vintage Portrait-Frontispiece, Fac-simile of Mr. Lo Fong Loh’s Prefatory Notes in the chinese Hing Shoo, or running hand, [II], 92 pages with six full-page illustrations and several vignettes. Hardcover / Original publisher’s decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and front board. Tiny stamp of preowner on endpaper and verso frontispiece: “Agnes Jeffery Cox”. Unusually excellent and firm, overall very good+ or even better condition of one of the rarest and most sought after books on tea. In this condition scarce !

7. Frigidaire Division.

At Home with your Frigidaire.

Kingsbury, General Motors LTD, No Date (c.1960). 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 16 Pages with numerous illustrations throughout. Original Softcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Some pencil illustrations on the last page.

8. Hazlitt, W.Carew.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine. [Mentioning also Thomas Muffet’s “Health’s Improvement” from 1655 and a longer chapter: “The Early Englishman and his Food”] Essays also include: “Royal Fests and Savage Pomp” / “Cookery Books” [including a small bibliography of 38 important cookery publications from before 1850: The Book of Carving by W. de Worde / The Treasury of Commodious Conceits and Hidden Secrets by John Partridge / The Good Housewife’s Jewel by Thomas Dawson / etc. etc. / Also included is a chapter on “Early Receipts” – Select Extracts from an early receipt-book: “To make Dutch-Beef / To make a Ragout of Pigs-Ears / Meat-Pies and Puddings / Sweet Puddings / Cakes (To make Shrewsbury Cakes) / To make Whetstone Cakes / Conserves, Dried and Candied Fruits, Marmalades etc. Another essay is: “Diet of the Yeoman and the Poor” / “Meats and Drinks” / “The Kitchen” – “Etiquette of the Table”.

London, Elliot Stock, 1886. Wide Octavo. 271 pages including an Index. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Large paper edition (fine india paper) with extra – wide space next to the text for notes. Deckled Edges. Binding slightly rubbed with a tiny defect to upper spine. Very fine and only minor foxing to some pages. [The Book-Lover’s Library. Edited by Henry B. Wheatley]

9. Heiß, Erich.

Wildgemüse und Wildfrüchte. Eine wertvolle Ergänzung und Aufwertung unserer heutigen Nahrung ; Salate, Gemüse, Früchte, Gewürze, Heiltee, Haustee aus der freien Natur ; zahlreiche Ratschläge für eine gesunde Lebensführung nach neuen Erkenntnissen und eigenen Erfahrungen.

Erste Ausgabe. München, Herp, 1980. 21 cm. 335 Seiten. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

10. Jelinek, Bretislav.

Handbuch Bewährter Konditorei-Rezepte. [Übersetzung des Werkes: Prakticke Pokyny A Recepty Rro Cukrare]. [Zusammengestellt und herausgegeben vom tscheslowakischen Gehilfenverband der Zuckerbäcker, Lebzeltner, Schokoladenerzeuger und Wachszieher mit dem Sitze in Prag.] Übersetzt, umgearbeitet und in deutscher Sprache herausgegeben von Bretislav Jelinek (Troppau).

Troppau, Im Verlage des Verfassers, Druck: Heinz & Comp. 1927. 15.5cm x 23 cm. 190 pages. Frontispiece photograph of author and four pages of contemporary advertisements. Original Hardcover (Dark orange cloth – title in dark brown lettering on front). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Sehr Selten ! / Very rare Czech Baking Recipes !