Detroit: Detroit Stove Works, c. 1890s. Wraps. 32 pages. 17.5 x 12.5 cm. "A booklet of helpful suggestions on the use of gas for cooking purposes - also a collection of valuable recipes and special menus for daily meals - illustrated." Featuring the advantages of cooking with gas - "Every..... More

Los Angeles, CA: White King Soap Co., 1931. Staplebound wraps. 10 pages. 20 X 10.5 cm. Illustrated pamphlet featuring a smiling Shirley Temple look-alike child, promoting the "sweet, clean, vegetable and nut oil based cleaner". Uses and hints for washing Silk, Linens, China & Gold-banded Glassware, Linoleum, Rugs & Carpets..... More

Taunton, MA: White, Warner & Co., c. 1890s. Cards. 13.5 x 10.5 cm. Illustrated stove trade card. "New Cyclone Ranges are THE BEST Medium priced ranges in the Market. Fitted with WHITE'S reliable Patent Grate, Alaska Knobs, &c. Thousands in use and Giving Satisfaction." Black and white stove illustration one one side, with..... More

Oshkosh, Wis. Castle-Pierce Press, c. 1930's. Staplebound. 24 pages. 28 x 24 cm. Illustrated sales catalog featuring detailed descriptions of the ironing machines offered by the American Ironing Machine Co., Algonquin, Illinois. A distinctive feature of this catalog is the visual portrayal of women operating the machines throughout the history..... More

Chicago: Armour Printing Works, c. 1898. Staplebound. 32 pages. Vigoral, a byproduct made by the meat packing giant Armour & Company, consisted of "Extract of Beef and powdered beef fibre, delicately seasoned...stimulating and (containing) peptogenic properties full of nutritive value". The winning slogan used to hawk this product: Vigoral... is..... More

Newton, MA: Shepard Worsted Mills, 1917. Wraps. 36 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated with color folding frontispiece and twenty-five black and white plates. More

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

London: Hatchards, Piccadilly, 1879. Hardcover. 64 pages. 13.5 x 11 cm. Directions for Baby's boot, Bed-room or Carraige Boots & Slippers, Couvrettes, D'Oyleys, Lamp Stand, Petticoat for Lady-Baby-Child, Pincushion, Purse, Round Watch-Chains, Shawl - Crossover - Shetland - Small for the Poor - For the Lady, Shetland Cloak, & Waistcoat..... More

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

London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1846. 124 pages. 11.5 x 15.5 cm. A shrewd business woman, Cornelia Mee, along with her sister Mary wrote crochet and knitting manuals to take advantage of the new availability of Berlin Wool in the UK which they sold in their shop - C. Mee's..... More

Paris: Mongin, 1902. 16 pages. 31 x 23 cm. Illustrated lithographed trade catalogue of “butchers’ guns” with elaborate handles. Also, a selection of “fusils de table,” excellent for carving table-side in the home. More

Paris: Samaritaine, 1914. Staplebound. 15 pages. 24 x 15.5 cm. Early aspirational 20th century department store catalog intended to catch the eye of the growing working and middle class consumer. Samaritaine, founded in 1869, opened in the midst of a new industrial age that saw the price of consumer goods..... More

Houston: Standard Rice Company, Inc., c. 1930's. Staplebound. 47 pages. 17x 13 cm. Colorful die-cut promotional recipe booklet featuring the various products produces by Standard Rice Company. Interior clean and crisp, light rubbing to edges. More