1. Kotze, Oscar / Edwards, Steve.

CaviarDreams [Caviar Dreams] – The CookBook – “The Beluga Edition”. [Including the Chapter: “The History of Beluga”]. Developed by The Caviar Group of Restaurants with Oscar Kotze and Steve Edwards – Key Photographs by Matt Stow.

Cape Town [South Africa], Malossol Intelligent Brand Solutions, 2009. Quarto (21 cm wide x 28cm high).. 176 pages, illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Rare !

2. 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 !

3. [Food in Brandenburg and Berlin] – [Zille].

Det kleene Zille-Kochbuch – Gerichte mit Geschiuchte aus Berlin und Brandenburg. [Historical Dishes from Berlin and Brandenburg]

Koeln, Komet Verlag, c.2002. Octavo. 126 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

4. Morphy, Countess [Hincks, Marcelle Azra].

English Recipes – Including the Traditional Dishes of Scotland, Ireland & Wales. [Including loosely inserted a Recipe for “Danish Pastries” and “Savarin a la Pompadour”].

New York, Herbert Joseph Ltd. for Selfridge & Co. Limited, 1935. 13,5 cm x 21,5 cm. 224 pages. Modern Hardcover / Recently rebound in modern cloth with new endpapers. Bookblock firm but with some foxing and occasional staining. Otherwise in very good, now firm and restored condition.

5. 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 !

6. [Dufy, Raoul] Derys, Gaston.

Mon Docteur – Le Vin. Avec 19 Aquarelles de Raoul Dufy – Texte de Gaston Derys. [Préface du Maréchal Pétain] / Typographie de A. M. Cassandre.

Paris, Freres Draeger, 1936. Folio (26 cm wide x 32 cm high). 44 pages with 19 aquarelles. / 19 photolithographs of watercolors (18 in colors), plus 1 photolithograph of a drawing (wrappers). Original, illustrated Softcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

7. Houssaye, J.-G.

Monographie du Thé. Description botanique, torréfaction, composition chimique, propriétés hygiéniques de cette feuille [ Thé et son propriétés médicales et hygiéniques ].

Paris, Chez L’Autuer, 1843. Octavo (16 cm x 24,5 cm). 160 pages with 17 plates. Hardcover / Decorative publisher’s cloth with gilt illustration on front board repeated as vignette on titlepage. Some foxing, otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Presentation-copy, inscribed by the author: “Hommage de l’auteur a Madame Danielle avec les …hommage”.

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. Sikes, [Bartholomew].

Sikes’ Tables of the Concentrated Strength of Spirits, with directions for the use of the Hydrometer. Established Throughout the United Kingdom for Estimating the Duties on Spirituous Liquors. To which is added, Tables of Specific Gravity adapted for the use of the Hydrometer.

Revised. No place, No publisher, No year (c.1865). 14 cm x 21.8 cm. VIII, 102 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original cloth] with gilt lettering on front board with blind tooling. Good- condition. Soiled boards. Stained. Foxing to textblock edge and throughout interior.

10. Bennett, Richard / Elton, John.

Some Feudal Mills. [With a chapter on Castle Mills in Dublin between the year 1248 – 1319]. With Memoir of the late Richard Bennett.

Wakefield, EP Publishing Limited, 1975. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVI, 226 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [History of Corn Milling Vol. IV].