APICIUS, Caelius.
Apicii Coelii de Opsoniis et Contimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria Libri Decem. Cum Annotationibus Martini Lister, è Medicis domesticis serinssimae Maje- statis reginae annae, et notis selectioribus, variisque lectionibus integris, Humelbergii, Barthii, Reinesii, A Van der Linden, & Aliorium, et & variarum lectionum libello. ¹ Amstelodami [Amsterdam] : Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1709. Second edition of the text as edited and annotated by Martin Lister; first privately published London, 1705 in a limited edition of 120 copies. Octavo (175x110mm) contemporary full sheep boards, raised bands, gilt decorated spine in 5 compartments, tan gilt spine label, all edges decorated, 'antique spot' marbled endpapers to pastedowns, [40], 277,[43]pp : π², ✱⁶, ✱✱⁸, ✱✱⁴, A - V⁸. Monochrome engraved frontispiece by Jan Goeree (1670-1731) showing five cooks in a kitchen preparing a meal; title page in red and black; several engraved floriated initials and ornamental tailpieces. Boards faintly sprung, edges faintly rubbed; spine label chipped; ownership notes in ink from 1800 to front free endpaper; ex-libris label "Skjenket til Fyens Stiftsbibliothek af Biskop Dr. Fr. Plum. 1834" to front paste-down; pages lightly and evenly agetoned, some light buckling; faded dampstain to top edge.
Sachgebiete: Gastronomie, Kochbücher, Medizin
1350,- EUR
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伴源平, BAN, Genpei, editor.
日本・西洋・支那三風料理滋味之饗奏 Nihon seiyō shina: sanfū ryōri umami no kyōsō [Three styles of cuisine: Japanese Western Chinese; a festive symphony of flavor] Osaka : 赤志忠雅堂 Akashi Chūgadō, Meji 2o (1887). First edition. In Japanese. Octavo (145x100mm) reverse binding, western quarter bound black cloth, Japanese-style folded leaves, stiffened with publisher waste, red printed paper boards, all edges marbled, [12],72pp. Three full-page woodblock illustrations, frontispiece, numerous small in-text copper-plate illustrations of dishes, ingredients and kitchen implements. Presented in a burgundy chitsu case. Boards lightly soiled, light wear to edges; endpapers offset toned, fragile, small chip to fore-edge; rear hinge softening.
Sachgebiete: China, Einbände, Gastronomie, Japan, Kochbücher
2000,- EUR
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JOHNSON, Madam [Mary (active 1753 - 1772) compiler]
Madame Johnson's Present: or, the best instructions for young women in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following heads: I. The young woman's guide to letters and knowledge. II. The compleat market-woman. III. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. IV. For pickling, pastry and confectionary. V. An estimate of the expences of a family in the middling station of life. VI. The art and terms of carving fish, fowl, and flesh. VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper, and also for extraordinary occasions. VIII. The young woman's instructor for the right spelling of words used in marketting, preserving , &c. With several useful tables, being the compleatest book of the kind ever published. London : Printed for H Owen, at the Britannia-Printing-Office, in White Friers, Fleet-street, 1759. Second edition, first published 1754¹. Price sewn, 1/3. bound 1/6. Duodecimo (160x100mm) contemporary stiff "antique spot" marbled paper wrappers, title-page printed in red and black, flush cut edges, rounded corners iv,192, [14]pp : [A]², B - R⁶, S⁶(- s4-s6),T4. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Armorial bookplate of "Fanny Bridges" to the front pastedown; wrappers lightly scuffed, corners chipped; closed tears to L1 and L2; lacks three leaves in the index; edges agetoned; faint occasional foxing; two contemporary handwritten page markers for "raspberry vinegar" laid in.
Sachgebiete: Kochbücher, Hauswirtschaft, Gastronomie
4600,- EUR
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歌川國芳 KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797 - 1861)
於竹大日如来 だい所どうぐさんけいのづ Otake Dainichi Nyorai daidokoro dōgu sankei no zu [The Kitchen Implements’ Pilgrimage to Otake, the Buddha Dainichi] [Edo (Tokyo)] : Enshūya Hikobei, circa Kaei 2 (1849). Signed Ichiyūsai Kuniyoshi-ga above Kuniyoshi's yoshi-kiri (paulownia-flower) seal and below the double nanushi censor seals of Mera and Murata, Vertical oban tate-e, single leaf (360x245mm) colour ukiyo-e woodblock print, paper backed. Small spot near bottom edge, faint soiling to edges to blank margins; else crisp and bright.
Sachgebiete: Buddhismus, Kochbücher, Gastronomie, Japan, Japanische Holzschnitte
1850,- EUR
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[UNKNOWN]
[Mukimono: Edo vegetable garnishes and other dishes]. [Kyoto ?] : [publisher unknown], undated, circa 1780. In Japanese. Single woodblock printed broadside (415x160mm), verso blank, Twenty-one monochrome panels, seven illustrated. Edges lightly soiled, a few small marks and stains, faint creases and folds, a few faint smudges, very small closed tear to right margin. Complete.
Sachgebiete: Kochbücher, Ephemera, Gastronomie, Japan, Japanische Holzschnitte
1000,- EUR
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MACLURCAN, Hannah [née Phillips, Wigham, later Lee (1860 - 1936)]
Mrs Maclurcan's Cookery Book: a collection of recipes specially suitable for Australia. Townsville : T M Willett & Sons, October 1898. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. First published April 1898. Octavo (165x110mm) deluxe full black morocco boards, gilt titles & dentelles, all edges gilt, [384]pp : [a]8, A - W8. Twenty leaves of engraved illustrated local advertisements. Author inscribed presentation copy "With the Authoress' Compliments" in ink to the front free endpaper. Edges lightly worn; spine head and tail small loss; signatures Q and R slightly shaken; else crisp and clean.
Sachgebiete: Australien/Südsee , Einbände, Kochbücher, Gastrosophie
2200,- EUR
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MEIER, Frank (1884 - 1947)
The Artistry of Mixing Drinks Paris : The Fryam Press¹, 1 October 1936. First edition. One of 700 copies on cream vellum (from the total edition of 1026), out-of-series. Printed by Bishop & Sons, Paris. In English Quarto (195x145mm) publisher's gold and green illustrated, cream coloured stiff card wrappers, heavy cream paper, flush untrimmed edges, double column text printed black and red, with a red border of the author's monogram 'FM', [2],182pp. Numerous monochrome Art-deco style illustrations, wine maps, and twenty-four pages of illustrated advertisements for many of the author's suppliers at the Ritz. Unopened. Wrappers very faintly soiled, spine faintly creased. Text block tight, bright and clean.
Sachgebiete: Kochbücher, Gastronomie, Wein
1550,- EUR
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MUSKETT, Philip E [Edward (1857-1909)]
The Art of Living in Australia: (together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs H Wicken, lecturer on cookery to the Technical College, Sydney). London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Melbourne, Sydney and New York: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Her Majesty's printers [1894]. First Edition. Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode. Octavo (185x130mm) full forest green morocco-grain padded leather over boards, white metal monogram "P E M" to upper board, spine in five compartments, raised bands, gilt lettered; all-edges gilt; double gilt-ruled turn-in, marbled end-papers, coloured headbands, [half-title],xxix,[1 blank],431,[1 advertisement],[2 blank]pp. Upper joint lightly rubbed, top front hinge small blemish, verso of end-papers and the gutter of a few preliminaries lightly foxed, not affecting the text; pencil and ink date notations to title-page bottom edge; faint sporadic foxing to the margins of a few pages, else fine. Lacks marker ribbon.
Sachgebiete: Australien/Südsee , Einbände, Kochbücher, Gastronomie, Wein
1850,- EUR
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