[TABLE GAME] Who Wears The Crown

An Entire New Game. London: J. & E. Wallis. 60 x 44 cm. Published between 1812-1820. Color illustrated Table Game with Directions for Playing. Fifty titled spaces, illustrated and formed into a circle with the Crown at the center. Linen backed cloth, folded into 12 rectangles. Stains and foxing to cloth with some rolling at folds. Two spaces, "3 - Plough & 4 - Shepherd", titles penciled in. Cream cloth, linen backed, color illustrated. Good. Cloth. $1,250.00

The Joy of Cooking

Rombauer, Irma S. A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. St. Louis, Mo.: Rombauer/A.C. Clayton Printing Co., 1931. First Edition. 395 pages. 20 x 14 cm. After the suicide of her husband in 1930, during the first years of the Great Depression, Irma Rombauer, a St. Louis host and housewife, cobbled together a cookbook, illustrated by her daughter Marion. Since that original edition, the book has become one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time. Crisp interior, binding cracked but holding. Original pebbled blue boards. Very good. Hardcover. $2,750.00

Trattato della Lodi et della Coltivazione de gl'Ulivi

Vettori, Pietro. Florence: Appresso i Giunti, 1569. First Edition. 89 pages. blank, [8] (last leaf blank except for printer's ornament on verso), 89, [4]. Woodcut printer's device on title page, large woodcut historiated initials. Important early discourse on the cultivation and preparation of olives with the discussion of the natural history, the olive's role in food and rural economy, the various regional varieties grown in Italy, Greece and Algeria, and the culture of the harvest. Also included are methods of preserving and preparation for consumption of both the flesh and the oil of the fruit. Pietro Vettori (1499-1585) hailed from Florence where he worked as the major editor at Giunti Press both in Florence and Venice. Best known for his prodigious editing and translating of Greek and Latin. Crisp, clean copy. All edges red. Old half vellum and marbled paper covered boards (c. 1800) $2000.00