![AFRICAN-AMERICAN] [QUILTING] STITCHED FROM THE SOUL; Slave Quilting in The Ante-Bellum South....](/pictures/thumb/2464.jpg?v=1614293770)
Self-published, 1989. Spiral bound. 99 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Early self-published printing. "Many of slave women's various roles and contributions to plantation life have been swept under the rug of history... Denied the opportunity to read or write, slave women quilted their diaries, creating permanent but unwritten records of..... More
![MENU] WILLIAMS' (First-Class Private) TEMPERANCE HOTEL; 20, Keppel St., Russell Square. M....](/pictures/thumb/2455.jpg?v=1613766610)
London: Williams', M. Proprietress, c. 1880's. Cards. 11.5 x 7.75 cm. Folded cream cards. Small menu featuring prices for Breakfast, Dinners, and Apartments. Temperance Hotels followed the spread of the temperance movement in the late 1830's - providing a place for the traveling teetotaler. Here a person could eat and..... More
![WINE] Le Vin de BORDEAUX; Livre DEUXIÈME. Georges Montorgueil, Pierre Lissac, Text, Illustrations](/images/noimage.png)
Paris: 1925. Wraps. 83 pages. 20 x 14.5 cm. Second book in a series published by the great wine house of Nicolas. This edition explores the Bordeaux region - illustrated in color throughout by Pierre Lissac. Color illustrated fold-out map of region and a large folding chart of quantities produced..... More
Irish & Scottish Linen Damask Guild Inc., 1926. Hardcover. 30 pages. 23 x 15 cm. According to the introduction, this illustrated etiquette guide “deals comprehensively with the etiquette and smart decoration of the table with illustrations to help you arrange your table with charm, distinction and correctness.” Includes a forward..... More
![TRADE CATALOG] Rex Bromide Co.; Our Field is The World. Rex Bromide Co](/pictures/thumb/2450.jpg?v=1613594716)
Chicago: Rex Bromide Co., c. 1910. Staplebound. 63 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Featuring handy home goods to solve the everyday problems of the homemaker - this catalogue includes hundreds of gadgets. Each page includes 2-3 small write ups for each item, and all items are shown with a detailed..... More
![HOME ECONOMICS] Cooking made Easy; With WEAR-EVER Steam Seal Utensils. The Aluminum Cooking...](/pictures/thumb/2449.jpg?v=1613594712)
New Kensington, PA: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, c. 1937. Staplebound. 11 pages. Advertising booklet features care tips for the “Wear-Ever” branded aluminum cookware, as well as recipes using the same. Includes cooking charts for various fruits and vegetables with preparation instructions and cook times. Margaret Mitchell (pictured in pamphlet)..... More
Evansville, Indiana: Servel, Inc., 1947. Staplebound. 47 pages. 22 x 13.5 cm. The Servel Company (formerly Servel-Electrolux) was an American producers of heating and cooling appliances founded in 1922 by Colonel William McCurdy. This recipe book includes various dishes made possible by electric cooling and advertises for Servel’s Electrolux home..... More
![ADVERTISING] The Enterprising Housekeeper; Suggestions for Breakfast, Luncheon, and Supper. Helen...](/pictures/thumb/2444.jpg?v=1613594883)
Philadelphia: The Enterprise Manufacturing Co. of PA. 1902. Fourth Edition. Staplebound. 96 pages. 16 x 11.5 cm. Helen Louise Johnson authored a number of targeted cookbooks for various cookware and food production companies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including this volume for the Enterprise Manufacturing Company in..... More
![ADVERTISING] HINDS' Honey and Almond Cream; For the Face, Hands, Skin and Complexion. A. S. Hinds](/pictures/thumb/2442.jpg?v=1613594772)
Portland, ME: A. S. Hinds, 1907. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [16 pp.] 15 x 8.5 cm. Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream was formulated in the late 1870's by Aurelius Stone Hinds in Portland Maine while working in a drugstore - it was a huge success and was bought out in 1907 by..... More
![SOAP] [ADVERTISING] Sunlight For The Little Ones; Old Mother Hubbard. Harry B. Neilson](/pictures/thumb/2440.jpg?v=1613594841)
Port Sunlight, U.K. Lever Brothers Ltd., c. 1900. Neilson, Harry B. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [8 pp.] 12 x 9 cm. Charming advertising pamphlet establishing a connection between big business and the homemaker's new purchasing power. The solid yellow bar of soap first introduced in 1884 was one of the first packaged..... More
![MENU] [LAW] Columbia '89 Graduation Dinner; June 12th, 1889 - THE BRUNSWICK](/pictures/thumb/2439.jpg?v=1613656141)
New York: 1889. Cards. 4 Pages. 11.5 x 10 cm. Charming graduation dinner menu, held at the Brunswick Hotel, situated at the edge of Madison Square Park, featuring sophisticated cuisine along with Toasts. Names of toast masters printed along with two pages of signatures from attendees - of note: Benjamin..... More
![HARVARD] 1904 - Fiftieth Anniversary Reunion Dinner; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Wednesday...](/pictures/thumb/1212.jpg?v=1612990445)
1954. Wraps. 18.5 x 14.5 cm. Folded card. Very good. Full menu with entertainment - "Songs by University Glee Club". Clean, crisp copy. More
![MENU] Annual Dinner of The Yale Alumni Association of Hartford at The Allyn House; Friday...](/pictures/thumb/1211.jpg?v=1612990443)
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
![POLITICAL] [ETCHING] Prize Beef or Luxury in the Nineteenth Century. Charles Williams](/pictures/thumb/2433.jpg?v=1612823943)
S W Fores, 1802. Williams, Charles. Loose_leaf. A waggish sense of humor is presented here in this etching. A massive butcher presides in front of his stall, pointing out the benefits of a gargantuan joint of beef. His clientele, dressed in ostentatious costume look on as he points of the..... More
![SCRAPBOOK] Young Woman's Photo & Scrapbook - Sterling College; Future Professor. Winifred Eastwood](/pictures/thumb/2387.jpg?v=1611363988)
Sterling, Kansas: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1928. Hardcover. 60 pages. 20.5 x 15 cm. 1920's - 1930's. Well organized, early twentieth-century young woman's scrapbook revealing a spirited social life overflowing with handmade cards/invitations, letters, ribbons, menus, and over 150 neatly labeled photos. The scrapbook, entitled, It's All Over Now!..... More
London: 1829. Loose_leaf. 27.5 x 36 cm. Etching designed and published by George Cruikshank, November 1, 1829. Featuring The Grim Reaper anxiously awaiting his victims, a handful of pitiful customers - including a mother providing a nip to her baby and a coffin with our all time favorite - Old..... 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
![MANUSCRIPT] [TEMPERANCE] Account Book. Ann Jones](/pictures/thumb/2407.jpg?v=1611359343)
Aberdare, Wales: 1860-1876. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Hand written account book primarily recording the Church and Temperance societies transactions - dues, wine, candles, and maintenance. Unusual reference to the US Civil war - a pasted article onto the verso of the cover reporting on the Seven Days Battle, June 25 to July..... More
New York: A Perigee Book, 2015. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 363 pages. 21.5 x 15 cm. A lively, historically informed, and definitive guide to classic American Mixology. Cocktail expert and historian David Wondrich's Imbibe! presents the colorful, little known history of the classic American cocktail - and the ultimate guide to..... 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
Lanham, Maryland: Roman & Littlefield, 2019. Hardcover. 225 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Julia Skinner explores the development of the afternoon tea meal - a meal that came of age during the British Empire's most aggressive expansion, afternoon tea was transported to new continents with colonial forces. Skinner describes how..... More
![GERMAN] [COOKBOOK] [DOMESTIC SCIENCE] Die gute Hausmannskost & Manuscript; Ein Kockbuch unter...](/pictures/thumb/2396.jpg?v=1610745072)
Munich: Carl Aug. Sefried and Comp. Hardcover. 134 pages. 19 x 12 cm. Translation: The good Home Cooking Cookbook with special consideration to gas kitchen with advice and instructions for housewives and mothers. Laid in handwritten recipe book - 48 pages. 16 x 10 cm. All text in German. Book..... More
New York: Speigel & Grau, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Eddie, AKA, the Human Panda, explores the Asian-American immigrant experience through the eyes of a child and then as a brash young adult - "American Hustle - school, piano, or porn - the American experience was about the paper" ($). Eddie..... More
New York: Moore and Payne, 1833. Chazal, Antoine. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 186 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Illustrated with 82 plates [COMPLETE]. Previous owner's inscription, John Birchard Rice (1832-1893), Representative from Ohio, graduate from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857..... More
![BLOTTER & DIARY] The Usher Diary 1911; With the compliments of Andrew Usher Co. Scotch Whisky...](/pictures/thumb/2375.jpg?v=1607036103)
Edinburgh: Andrew Usher & Co., 1911. Hardcover. 61 pages. Tribute to the royal family along with detailed list of sporting and athletic competitions including horse racing, yachting, tennis, cycling, cricket, boxing, lacrosse, baseball, swimming, hockey, golf, and rowing. Unmarked blotter and calendar for 1911. Covers rubbed at edges. Interior clean..... More