The Culinary Arts - A Private Library

Confectionery.- Abbot (Robert) The Housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects...

Accomplish'd lady's delight in cookery (The); or, The compleat servant-maid's guide, 24pp., half-page woodcut vignette to title, woodcut head-piec...

Adulteration & Preservation.- Accum (Fredrick) A Treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons, exhibiting the fraudulent sophistication...

Bread.- Acton (Eliza) The English Bread-Book for Domestic Use, Adapted to Families of Every Grade, first edition, wood-engraved additional pictori...

Fungi.- Ahles (Prof. Dr. Wilhelm von) Allgemein verbreitete essbare und schädliche Pilze, 40 chromolithographed illustrations on 16 ff., a few sm...

Spanish.- Altamiras (Juan, pseudonym) Nuevo Arte de Cocina, sacado de la escuela de la Experiencia económica, woodcut head-pieces and decorative i...

Preservation.- Appert (Nicolas) Le livre de tous les ménages, ou l'art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et v...

[Atkyns (Arabella, pseudonym)] The Family magazine...Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery...Part II. Cont...

Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, first issue (with Bouverie St. address to additional title an...

Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) Beeton's Book of Needlework, preface by Samuel Orchart Beeton, 7 folding plates, numerous illustrations, occasional spottin...

Fish.- Bellamy (J.C., surgeon) The Housekeeper's Guide to the Fish-Market... and an Account of the Fishes and Fisheries of Devon and Cornwall, fir...

[Borella (Mr.)] The Court and country confectioner: or, The house-keeper's guide ; to a more speedy, plain, and familiar method of understanding t...

Bradley (Mrs. Martha) The British housewife: or, the cook, housekeeper's, and gardiner's companion, 2 vol., engraved frontispiece, 6 mostly pictor...

[Brillat-Savarin (Jean Anthelme)] Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, 2 vol., first edition, first issue, [one of 50...

French.- Brillat-Savarin (Jean Anthelme) Physiologie du gout, ou méditations de gastronomie transcendante, 2 vol., third edition, the first illust...

Domestic & Veterinary advice.- The British legacy: or, fountain of knowledge. Containing, (among upwards of two hundred other curious particulars,...

Americas.- Buren Brugière (Sara van) Good-Living. A Practical Cookery-Book for town and country, second edition, a few tears (see in particular pp...

[Campbell (Lady Charlotte)] The Lady's own cookery book, and new dinner-table directory; in which will be found a large collection of original rec...

Carême (Antonin) L'Art de la cuisine française au XIXe siècle, 3 vol., mixed set, vol.3 first edition, half-titles, engraved portrait frontispiece...

Carême (Antonin) Le Patissier royal parisien, ou traité élémentaire et pratique de la patisserie ancienne et moderne, 2 vol., third edition, half-...

Carême (Antonin) Le Cuisinier parisien ou l'art de la cuisine francaise au dix-neuvième siècle, [third edition (although styled second on addition...

Carême (Antonin) Le Maitre d'hotel français, traité des menus a servir a Paris, a St. Pétersbourg, a Londres, et a Vienne, 2 vol., [second edition...

Carrington (W.A., editor) Selections from the stewards' accounts preserved at Haddon Hall, from 1549 to 1671, lightly browned, original cloth, gil...

Carter (Susannah) The Frugal housewife, or complete woman cook. Wherein the art of dressing all sorts of viands with cleanliness, decency, and ele...

Carter (W[illiam]) The Cook and confectioner's guide; or female's instructor, in cookery, confectionary, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., w...

Chomel (Noël) Dictionaire Oeconomique: or The Family Dictionary, edited by Richard Bradley, 2 vol., first edition in English, double column, title...

Collingwood (Francis) and John Woollams. The Universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery: the...

NO RESERVE Herbals.- Culpeper (Nicholas) The Complete Herbal, engraved portrait frontispiece and 20 hand-coloured botanical plates, water-stained,...

David (Elizabeth).- Le Carnet d'Epicure, numbers 7, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20-21 & 29, together 8 numbers, portraits, advertisements, original pictorial ...

David (Elizabeth).- Photographic portrait of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, signed by Elizabeth David verso, name of sitter pencilled at head of image, ...

David (Elizabeth) A Book of Mediterranean Food, first edition, illustrations by John Minton, ink ownership inscription to endpaper, original cloth...

David (Elizabeth) A Book of Mediterranean Food, first edition, illustrations by John Minton, section from dust-jacket mounted on rear endpapers, o...

David (Elizabeth) Typescript on Christian Isobel Johnstone, with autograph corrections, 5pp., corrections in red biro, no place, [c.1950]; and 9 o...

David (Elizabeth) French Country Cooking, first edition, illustrations by John Minton, original cloth, dust-jacket, price-clipped, spine with ligh...

David (Elizabeth) Summer Cooking, A.C.s. from the author loosely inserted, original boards, dust-jacket, light sunning to spine, minor chipping co...

David (Elizabeth).- Cadec kitchenware.- David (Elizabeth) Typed Letter signed advising Mrs. Whiting on Cadec pans, 2pp., Halsey Street, London, 19...

David (Elizabeth) Italian Food, Penguin, 1967; Summer Cooking, Penguin, 1969, the author's copies, with autograph additions and corrections, and l...

David (Elizabeth) Cooking with Le Creuset, signed by the author, illustrations, original orange pictorial wrappers, spine faded, Clarbat Ltd., 196...

David (Elizabeth) The Baking of an English loaf, proof copy with extensive autograph additions and corrections, original artwork for the pictorial...

David (Elizabeth) Autograph article on pasta, 7pp., additions and corrections, small 4to, no place, [?c.1980], "Connoisseurs of Italian pasta will...

David (Elizabeth) Autograph introduction to an edition of John Nott's Cook and Confectioners Dictionary, 8pp., corrections, loose, 1980; and 5 pp....

American trade catalogues.- Descriptive catalogue of stoves and ranges for sale by H[arvey] Chalmers, 23 East Main St., Amsterdam, N.Y., steel-eng...

Dubois (Urbain François) Artistic Cookery. A Practical System suited for the use of the Nobility and Gentry and for Public Entertainments, half-ti...

Dubois (Urbain François) Cuisine artistique. Études de l'École moderne, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, titles in red and black, signatures of...

Edwards (Frederick) On the extravagant use of fuel in cooking operations, with a short account of Benjamin Count of Rumford, and his economical sy...

Trees.- Evelyn (John) Silva, or A discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions, fourth edition, engraved po...

Crahan copy.- Farley (John) The London art of cookery, and housekeeper's complete assistant. On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the Understandi...

Servants.- The Female Servant's Adviser; or, the Service Instructor, 2 wood-engraved plates on 1 folding sheet, a few instances of ink passage mar...

Fisher (George, Accomptant) The Instructor; or, young man's best companion, containing, spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, engraved fronti...

Confectionery.- Francatelli (Charles Elmé) The Royal English and Foreign Confectioner; a practical treatise on the art of confectionary in all its...

Frazer (Mrs.) The Practice of cookery, pastry, confectionary, pickling, and preserving, third edition, 2 engraved plates at start (the first laid ...

German.- Agriculture.- Fürst (Johann Evangelist) Der Wohlberathene Bauer Simon Strüf, eine Familien-Geschichte, 4 parts in 2 vol., woodcut vignet...

Garlin (Gustave) Le Cuisinier moderne, ou les secrets de l'art culinaire...Suivi d'un dictionnaire complet des termes techniques, 2 vol., second e...

[Glasse (Hannah)], "A Lady". The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, first edition, title with woodcut ornament, list of subscribers, title with o...

Confectionery.- Glasse (Hannah) The Compleat confectioner: or, the whole art of confectionary made plain and easy, first edition, first issue (wit...

Glasse (Hannah) The Art of cookery, made plain and easy, 'A new edition, with all the modern improvements', large folding letterpress bill of fare...

NO RESERVE Glasse (Hannah) The Art of cookery, made plain and easy, facsimile of the first edition of 1747, number 2 of 12 copies specially bound ...

Glen (Jean Baptiste de) Oeconomia Christiana, Das ist: Vollkommene Christliche Haußhaltung : Bey welcher, dero Fürnembste Häupter, als HaußVatter ...

Gordon (A.M.) The New domestic cookery; formed upon principles of economy; exhibited in a plain and easy manner and adapted to the use of private ...

Gouffé (Jules) Le Livre de cuisine, first edition, half-title, title in red and black, chromolithographed frontispiece and 24 plates, tissue guard...