My Recipe Book
Hardcover. Unpaginated. 22.5 x 17 cm. Classic homemaker's binder including index tabs, ruled paper, and envelopes to store loose recipes, unfilled. Toning to paper, otherwise pristine. More
Hardcover. Unpaginated. 22.5 x 17 cm. Classic homemaker's binder including index tabs, ruled paper, and envelopes to store loose recipes, unfilled. Toning to paper, otherwise pristine. More
c. 1870. Cards. 18 x 8.5 cm. Early photo scene of two women. in a kitchen preparing a meal with pots hanging behind them on a wall. Cards lightly rubbed. More
Silver Bay, New York: 1923. 25.5 x 18 cm. Black and white photo of the Bryn Mawr Delegation attending an off-campus YWCA summer conference at Silver Bay on Lake George. This page was most likely part of a photo album - as the verso of the page has four photos..... More
New York: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 1921. Hardcover. 149 pages. 25.5 x 19 cm. A comprehensive look at the timeless country inns in and around London and the English Countryside. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white. 16 color tinted illustrations with captioned tissue guards, along with 12 full..... More
New York: BALLANTINE BOOKS, 1968. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 1919 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. Eighteen space explorers had died or disappeared on Nacre, a planet dominated by mushrooms, spore-clouds, a dim sun, and strange one-eyed creatures called mantas. Next, a trio of scientists make their way to this strange..... More
1848-1851. Sewn binding. 16 x 11 cm. This journal belonged to Laue Jensen Dixon (once written Lauety), who was a member of the 10th Infantry Battalion from 1848 to 1851, after which he became part of the Gendarmerie. Dixen appears to have traveled around Denmark and Germany and was most..... More
Portsmouth, NH: Magee Ranges and Stoves, Glenwood Ranges and Stoves, Portsmouth Heating & Plumbing Co., 1893-1905. 10 invoices. This collection of invoices from three kitchen furnishing dealers, all in Portsmouth, NH around the turn of the 20th century, ranges in date from 1893-1905. They are billed to a number of..... More
Paris: Pellet, 1930. Wraps. 283 pages. 24 x 20 cm. Limited edition #157 of 250 copies. Frontispiece by Edouard Vuillard, 24 lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec. This book, both a food memoir as well as a homage to the pleasures of life - refers to fellow gastronomic voyagers who came of age..... More
London: Faber and Faber, 1991. Hardcover. 554 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Alcohol is mankind's favorite mind-altering drug, and always has been. This anthology offers a generous selection, ranging from the Epic of Gilgamest, which predates Homer by some 1500 years, through Homer himself, the Bible, Beowulf, Rabelais, Chaucer, Shakespeare..... More
Boston: THE STRATFORD COMPANY, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 294 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930), better known as E.H. Wilson, was a distinguished British plant collector and explorer who traveled to China (four times), Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India, Kenya, and South Africa. His contributions..... More