Dayton: General Motors, 1930. Wraps. 31 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Early refrigerator promotional catalogue. Illustrated throughout. Wrappers rubbed, interior crisp and clean. More

Tacoma, WA: c. 1920. Wraps. 132 pages. 23 x 15.5 cm. Handbook for Newlyweds including recipes, household and medical advice, personal health, and life lessons. Filled with full page ads for local advertisements suggesting martial bliss. Covers rubbed, interior clean. More

Chicago: National Clock & Mfg. Co., 1900. Cardboard covers. 190 pages. 24 x 10 cm. A cookbook/manuscript all in one. "The National Home Cook Book is provided with BLANK PAGES, permitting one to copy or paste in the proper place the recipe of any particular kind of dish, as every..... More

c.1920's. Cardboard covers. 25.5 x 20.5 cm. Eight handmade pages narrating the process of making thanksgiving dinner: shopping, baking & cooking, guests arriving, saying grace, and the feast, all accompanied by pasted in illustrations. Cardboard covers with blue silk ribbon as an attachment. Handwritten in ink. More

London: Printed for W. Meadow; C. Rivington; and R. Hett, 1730. First Edition. Hardcover. [16] [1] 2-224p., 60 engraved plates, 3 folding, title page printed in red and black. Carter spends the first 11 pages in a chapter titled, "To The READER", in which he partakes in self-praise with some..... More

Cyrus, Minnesota: 1973. Wraps. Unpaginated (approx. 300 pages). 16 x 12 cm. Community church cookbook, by all accounts self-made, out of colored construction paper, yarn, and scraps of wallpaper (for the wrapper). Author/creator of recipes accompany each recipe along with many proverbs and verse. More

York, England: 1886. Loose_leaf. 32 x 20 cm. This menu,written by Halliwell, a local master of ceremonies and freemason, was made to accommodate and service the 3rd and 4th battalions' officers of the West Riding Regiment, formerly known as the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. The officers were lodged in the..... More

Washington DC: The Brodix Publishing Co., 1889. Wraps. 12 pages. 42 x 28 cm. This charming periodical features six sheets of cooking instructions detailing: Fish-Soup; Meat; Sauces-salads; Vegetables; Pastry; Sweets and Preserves; and How to Make Bread. The binding style and large type set likely indicates that this publication was..... More

Nanaimo, British Columbia: 1911-1922. Cardboard covers. 104 pages. 16 x 10 cm. A small notebook - calendar for 1911-1912, used as a personal cookbook. Majority of recipes for cakes and pastries, accompanied by soups and dumplings. Poems and recipes from periodicals attributed to Seattle, Weston - Ontario, Vancouver, and others..... More

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1843 and 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. 196 & 154 pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. The Complete Cook highlights the art of carving, accompanied by illustrations. The Complete Confectioner contains one page of illustrations, featuring modeling tools - last ten pages filled with period advertisements. Pages tanned..... More

St. Louis: St. Louis Stamping Co., 1887. Staplebound. 64 pages. 12.5 x 9 cm. A promotional cookbook featuring full page images (in black and white) of their products, with descriptions: Granite Iron Kitchen Goods (9 pp.), Granite Iron Toilet Articles (1 pp.), interspersed between recipes, both sweet and savory with..... More

Abington, Massachusetts: Baker Printing Company, c. 1915. Staplebound. 48 pages. 21 x 14 cm. Recipes furnished and attributed by GUILD members. Filled with period local advertisements. Cover illustration of church. Pages toned, covers lightly soiled and chipped. More

Florence: Appresso i Giunti, 1569. First Edition. Hardcover. 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..... More