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Acuum, Fredrick. A TREATISE ON ADULTERATIONS OF FOOD, AND CULINARY POISONS, EXHIBITING THE FRAUDULENT SOPHISTICATIONS OF BREAD, BEER, WINE, SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS, TEA, COFFEE, CREAM, CONFECTIONERY, VINEGAR, MUSTARD, PEPPER, CHEESE, OLIVE OIL, PICKLES, AND OTHER ARTICLES EMPLOYED IN DOMESTIC ECONOMY. AND METHODS OF DETECTING THEM.
London Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1820 Second edition (same year as first edition) Foxing to preliminaries, remainder clean
12mo. [ii], xxiv, 360p. Engraved title page vignette. Newly rebound in quarter leather with speckled board sides, the spine with original red title label retained and with panel ornaments in blind
Bitting, p.2; Noling, p.2; Gabler, p.3.
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850.00 USD
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Hoyt, J. K. THE ROMANCE OF THE TABLE IN THREE PARTS: I. BREAKFAST, II. DINNER, III. TEA
New Brunswick, N.J. Times Publishing Comapny 1872 First edition Rear inner hinge paper cracked, some fray to crown, but a bright and tight copy
445p. Bound in publisher's green cloth over beveled boards with gilt spine titles, the upper cover with gilt titles and large central gilt pictorial device of a set dining table
Nineteenth century literary ramblings on dining, conversations, situations, food, etc. Includes an interesting account of locations along the Mississippi River including New Orleans and Memphis. Wright 1291.
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250.00 USD
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Oxford, Arnold Whitaker. ENGLISH COOKERY BOOK TO THE YEAR 1850.
NY Martino [1997] Reprint of the 1913 edition. Limited to 125 copies. Fine.
Gilt-titled red cloth.
One of the standard works on English cookery, Oxford covers 400 titles chronologically arranged beginning with the year 1500. Includes standard bibliographic data with annotations, and separate indexes for authors and titles. Bitting p. 352.
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35.00 USD
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Sturgeon, Lancelot, Esq. (pseud.). ESSAYS, MORAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND STOMACHICAL, ON THE IMPORTANT SCIENCE OF GOOD-LIVING.
London G. and W.B. Whittaker 1823 Second edition Moderate foxing throughout, but quite sound and presentable
xvi, 226p, blank. Engraved frontispiece "Meditations Of An Epicure" by William Hughes. Bound in original buff boards, rebacked with new paper spine label.
Oxford 151; Cagle 1012 for 1st; Bitting 452 for 1st; Simon BG 1422. Rare. Contents: "On the Advantages of giving Dinners, and the Qualifications and Duties of Amphytrions; with some interesting Particulars of the illustrious Count Zinzendorff", "On Modern Manners; containing Hints to Grown Gentlemen", "On the Theory and Practice of Dinatory Tactics", "On the Nature, the Intent, and the Value of Invitations", "The Fatal Consequences of Pride...", "On Modern Architecture, and the comparative Miseries and Comforts of Dining Rooms", "On the Physical and Political Consequences of Sauces", On the Importance of forming Good Connexions; and on the Moral Qualities of the Stomach", "On Mustard, philosophically considered; and on the use of Garlick as a Perfume", "On Roasting Beef...", "...Family of Hogs", "On Devils", "On Coffee, Liqueurs", "On the Nature and Properties of the Braise...", "On the Philosophy of the Stomach, with Rules for the better Regulation of Appetite and Digestion", "On the Financial Importance of Teeth...", "On Education, and the Application of the Science of Mnemonics; together with some Hints to Travellers, and Public Societies", "On the Qualifications of Cooks -- the Comparative Importance of the Military and Culinary Arts -- and French Cooks: with some Account of the celebrated [Charles Augustus Armand] Watel", "On the Health and the Morals of Cooks -- with some Important Rules for the Conduct of Female Professors", "Twelve Golden Rules for Women-Cooks, to be hung up over every Kitchen Chimney in the Kingdom."
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