![Item #2440 [SOAP] [ADVERTISING] Sunlight For The Little Ones; Old Mother Hubbard. Harry B. Neilson](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2440.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613594834)
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
![Item #1406 [REFRIGERATION] [DETROIT] Cooking With Cold. Borg-Warner Corporation](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1406.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551135501)
Detroit: Norge Division Borg-Warner Corporation, 1937. Staplebound. 32 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Early introductory manual on living and cooking with refrigeration. "With a modern kitchen as your throne room and a spoon in your hand as a scepter, you can be queen in your own right in the realm..... More
![Item #2549 [HANDWRITTEN] [DOMESTIC] Composition Book of Grocery Lists from Late 60's. Mrs. John Case](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2549.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622759378)
Seattle: 1968-70. Hardcover. 96 pages. 21 x 17 cm. Composition book used for grocery lists from February 1968 to march 1970. Very legible handwriting, in cursive. Interesting look into the buying habits of an American household in the late 1960's. The household ate a fairly repetitive diet that included: Folger's..... More
Boston: Charles Tappan, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. 190 pages. 19 x 12 cm. Scarce first edition of one of America's early books on domestic science. Owner's signature in pencil on front free end paper, dated August 1847. Although ragged condition, it can easily be restored. Rear cover detached, shaken, foxed..... More
Bruxelles: Chez Francois Foppens, 1771. Hardcover. 408 pages. 17 x 10 cm. Primarily written for female cooks in bourgeois households. The author intentionally points to the difference between the ordinary bourgeois and the "bas peuple," favoring cuts of meat, and types of game favored by the upper-middle class. Bookplate on..... More
New York: A.T. De La Mare Company, Inc., 1929. Hardcover. 176 pages. Teaching Illustrations specially posed by F.E. Palmer and photographed by George Oakes Stoddard, many of the Specimen House Plants photographed by Nathan R. Graves. Chapters include: Foliage Plants for House Decoration, Flowering Plants for House Decoration, Bulbous Plants..... More
![Item #1500 [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] Choice Recipes. Woman's Association of the Eliot Union Church](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1500.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1631739295)
Lowell, MA: c. 1920. Hardcover. 68 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Prefaced by the poem - A Recipe For a Day. Amusing recipe for Chicken A La King for 75 people, Creole Salmon for 50, and Punch for 80. Boards rubbed and bumped. [BROWN 1433]. More