Category: Domestica

Image for The Dyer and Colour Maker's Companion: Containing Upwards of Two Hundred Receipts for Making Colours on the Most Approved Principles, for all the Various Styles and Fabrics now in Existence. Together with The Scouring Process, and Plain Directions for Preparing, Washing-off, and Finishing the Goods

The Dyer and Colour Maker's Companion: Containing Upwards of Two Hundred Receipts for Making Colours on the Most Approved Principles, for all the Various Styles and Fabrics now in Existence. Together with The Scouring Process, and Plain Directions for Preparing, Washing-off, and Finishing the Goods

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry C. Baird : 1850

Seller ID: 2631

Condition: Good

Embossed dark green cloth boards with gilt title to front cover. Contains a previous bookstore's stamp to front fly. A otherwise clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4.5 x 7 in; 104;8 pages.
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[Early 20th Century Photo Album]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: : early 20th century

Seller ID: 7000

Condition: Very Good

Plaid decorated wooden boards with dark brow leather spine with gilt particulars. All edge gilt. Heavy weight album boards with decorative frames. Textured endpapers. Various black and white original photographs of people from most likely between 1930-1960s. Inscribed: "To Lilian, from Mrs. C Carlin Hool," otherwise no other names or other markings. Wear to leather spine (see image). Losses to gilt on edges. 5 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches.
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A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed upon Principles of Economy: and adapted to the use of private families.

By: "By a lady" [Maria Eliza Rundell]

Price: $260.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1816

Seller ID: 5247

Condition: Very Good

1/2 Brown morocco over marbled boards; 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Deckle edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. [xx], xxx, 354 pp. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches
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Gastronomie pratique, etudes culinaires suivies du traitement de l'obesite des gourmands, septieme edition

By: Ali?Bab (Henri Babinski)

Price: $555.00

Publisher: Paris, Ernest Flammarion : 1928

Seller ID: 5591

Condition: Very Good

Half dark blue morocco over decorative boards; 5 dual raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Floral decorative endpapers; top edge gilt. Original wraps bound in. French text throughout. Spine sunned to brown; light wear to paper boards (see image). 1281 pp. 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches.
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Beauty and the Preservation of Youth with an Appendix Dealing with the Toilet Requisites by a Lady Expert.

By: An M.D.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, The London Publicity Company Limited : 1905

Seller ID: 8148

Condition: Very Good

Beige cloth with title to front cover and spine. Three pages of advertisements prior to title page, along with an appendix and five pages of ads to rear. No previous owners' names or other markings.5 x 7.5 in First Edition.
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Day-Book [potentially from West Township Columbiana County, Ohio]

By: Eli Taylor

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Ohio, : 1826-1831

Seller ID: 6631

Condition: Very Good-

Heavy stock grey sewn wraps. Hand-written in ink and script of the time throughout. Appears to be the day book of Eli Taylor concerning his business dealings, debts and/or credits, as well as an alphabetical Ledger. Also includes a strange poem on the last page regarding the author listening to a friend who talks about his art skills incessantly and so the author commissions a flat bottomed kettle. The friend goes to work but it ends up being both too small and too large, so the author fears it will never get done and so ends the poem with a prayer for the friend to figure out the diameter and...
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Image for Gastronomiana Proverbs- Aphorismes - Preceptes - et Anecdotes en vers; Precedes de notes relatives a l'histoire de la table par Georges d'Heylli

Gastronomiana Proverbs- Aphorismes - Preceptes - et Anecdotes en vers; Precedes de notes relatives a l'histoire de la table par Georges d'Heylli

By: Leon de Fos

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Paris, Chez Rouquette, Chez J. Boucard : 1870

Seller ID: 5347

Condition: Very Good

Quarter green morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule and particulars to spine. French text. General wear to exterior (see image). xxxv, 169 pp., [6 pp.] 4 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. First Edition.
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Image for The British Housewife: Or, The Cook, Housekeeper's and Gardiner's Companion. Calculated for the Service both of London and the Country; and directing what is necessary to be done in the Providing for, Conducting, and Managing a Family throughout the Year.

The British Housewife: Or, The Cook, Housekeeper's and Gardiner's Companion. Calculated for the Service both of London and the Country; and directing what is necessary to be done in the Providing for, Conducting, and Managing a Family throughout the Year.

By: Martha Bradley

Price: $345.00

Publisher: London, S . Crowder and H. Woodgate : 1760

Seller ID: 2256

Condition: Very Good

Boards detached (see image); title page shaved close at head. Five raised bands. Remnants of gilt ruled morocco label. Bookplate of Claudia Q. Murphy, who was a published cook book author herself in the early 20th century. 5 x 8.25 in First Edition.
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The Complete Economical Cook and Frugal Housewife An Entire New System of Domestic Cookery, Containing Approved Directions for Purchasing, Preserving, and Cooking.

By: Mary Holland

Price: $260.00

Publisher: London, T. T. and J. Tegg : 1833

Seller ID: 5246

Condition: Very Good

Title continued: "...Also, Trussing & Carving; preparing soups, gravies, sauces, made dishes, potting, pickling, &c. With directions for pastry and confectionery. Likewise the art of making British wines, brewing, baking, gardening, &c." Rebound brown half morocco with marbled boards, as well as 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. xl, 288 pp. 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches.
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Film and Fork Volume 1 Recipes Inspired by the Magic of Cinema

By: Max Abecassis

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Delray Beach, FL, Custom Play, LLC : 2016

Seller ID: 4821

First edition, special edition numbered 303 of 500 copies. Fully illustrated in color throughout. 73 recipes. 254 p. 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches Dust jacket present. First Edition.
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The Vine Dresser's Theoretical and Practical Manual, or the art of Cultivating the Vine; and Making Wine, Brandy, and Vinegar

By: Thibaut de Berneaud

Price: $650.00

Publisher: New York, P. Canfield : 1829

Seller ID: 2157

Condition: Very Good

From the 2d French ed., by the translator of Le Solitaire, Le notti romani, &c. Stains, tape residue; lacks front blank fly & spine covering. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 157,IV pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .
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Image for A Treatise of Domestic Medicine, Intended for Families, In which the Treatment of Common Disorders are Alphabetically Enumerated. To Which is Added, A Practical System of Domestic Cookery, Describing the Best, Most Economical, and Most Wholesome Methods of Dressing Victuals; Intended for the Use of Families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living. Also, the Art of Preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances for many years.

A Treatise of Domestic Medicine, Intended for Families, In which the Treatment of Common Disorders are Alphabetically Enumerated. To Which is Added, A Practical System of Domestic Cookery, Describing the Best, Most Economical, and Most Wholesome Methods of Dressing Victuals; Intended for the Use of Families who do not affect magnificence in their style of living. Also, the Art of Preserving all kinds of animal and vegetable substances for many years.

By: Thomas Cooper; M. Appert

Price: $360.00

Publisher: Reading, George Getz : 1824

Seller ID: 2452

Condition: Good

Three plates: Plate 1: "Economical Cooking apparatus for the Kitchens of Private Families"; Plate 2 illustrates sections of Beef, Veal, Mutton, Venison & Pork; Plate 3 illustrates direction for carving different meats. Fore edge stain to final 9 pages. 5 remedies affixed to recto of rear fly. Includes 16 recipies and poultices in manuscript on various papers. ; 6.5 x 10.75 in; [viii];128 pages; Front board detached; chips and wear to spine; rear board loose. Cellophane tape residue to cover, fly and title. Foxing throughout.All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. First Edition.
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Great Combination! Atlas, Almanac and Receipt Book, 1884, 1885

By: [The Centaur Company]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The Centaur Company : 1884-1885

Seller ID: 5683

Condition: Very Good

Stapled pictorial wraps. Includes ephemerides, maps and cooking recipes throughout, for the New York patent medicine firm Centaur, producers of Castoria and Centaur Liniment. Culinary & medicinal recipes, as well as short stories and vignettes. In publisher's red, black and yellow decorated wrappers, illustrated with an image of "The Diver", which is depicted on many Centaur publications. A loose advertisement for Plymouth Rock Phosphated Gelatine inserted between pages 18 and 19, which has left an acidic paper transfer (closed tear at mid-base). 31, [1] pp. 6 x 8 inches First Edition.
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Category: Domestica