Gloucester, Massachusetts: 1887. Cards. 15 x 12.5 cm. Decorative folding menu with an elaborate array of dishes served on Sunday, August 21, 1887. Faux tortoise shell embellishment held to cover with wooden toothpick. Foxing to areas around embellishment. More

1900. Wraps. 4 Pages. 18 x 15 cm. Folded sheets. Sophisticated menu with full page of Toasts by Alumni and leading political and business figures including: George E. Lounsbury (Governor of Connecticut), Flavel S. Luther (CT state senator), and many more. Some toning to covers. More

Toronto: Swift Canadian Co., c. 1923. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [12 pp.] Swift's answer to the lard vs. shortening war - make a product that incorporates both and advertise it as "creamy white vegetable shortening made from only the purest ingredients under the personal supervision of Canadian Government Inspectors" - the ingredients..... More

New York: The Fleischmann Company, 1920. Staplebound wraps. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. 22 pages. Yeast was one of the early foods that was misrepresented and sold as a cure all - "Compressed Yeast completes the diet, assures proper nourishment, stimulates growth in the young, invigorates those advanced in..... More

Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1930. Staplebound wraps. 4 1/2 x 3 in. 62 pages. Little Blue Book No. 1756. Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius. Whimsical look at old fashioned cooking. Some recipe topics include; Sauces, Soups, Fish and Shellfish, Eggs, Entrees, Main Dish, and The Sweet Course. Cover toned. Cover lightly..... More

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 122 pages [5 pg publishers ads] 12 x 16 cm. An entertaining view into the dishes served in the mid-1800s with recipes ranging from Omelet au Kirsch to Eggs a la Duchesse. Filipino, the chef at Delmonico's, provides precise..... More

Providence, R.I. Department of Home Economics of the Rumford Company, 1911. Staplebound wraps. 47 pages. Recipes, terms, and instructions. Recipes for preparing and cooking meats, fish, poultry, vegetables and food for the sick; instructions for preserving and pickling; the making of ices, beverages, and confections. Interior toned at spine. More

Providence, RI: Rumford Chemical Works, 1915. Staplebound wraps. 36 pages. Detailed checklist advising homemakers daily schedule (Monday through Saturday) for cleaning and housekeeping including Kitchen, Dining Room, Laundry, and hints for "Division of Labor" - otherwise known as keeping Monday free to schedule the schedule. Rear cover features advertisement for..... More

Washington DC: 1969. Staplebound. Unpaginated. (8 pp.) 28 x 21.5 cm. Photo illustrated programs for Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., a historically African American Greek lettered sorority. Honorary Chairman - Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919 - 1989), Civil rights leader, special education advocate, labor president, and the first African-American Director of..... More

Privately Printed, 1925. Hardcover. 76 pages. Frontispiece Telephotograph with tissue guard. "On the occasion of his seventy-ninth birthday, the friends of Mr. Edward Dean Adams, comprising men in the fields of engineering, science, art, literature, transpiration, finance, industry and club life, asked him to be their guest at a testimonial..... More

Paris: 1927. Staplebound. 39 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Elaborately illustrated French trade catalog. Covers lightly rubbed. More

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2018. Hardcover. 277 pages. 24 x 16 cm. A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune, Jell-O Girls is a family history, a feminist..... More

Baton Rouge: Louisiana Strate University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 185 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, sugar in France was still a luxury commodity imported in small quantities and consumed only by the very rich. By the time of the revolution, sugar was so popular..... More