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Cookery, a collection of works, mainly 19th century in varying condition, including: HENDERSON (W A) The Housekeeper's Instructor, 5th edition, no date, calf, repaired; The Complete Confectioner, 2nd edition 1790, 12mo, binding detached; SOYER (A) The Modern Housewife or Menagere, 18th thousand, 1850, 8vo, cloth; others by Raffald, Farley etc. All in varying used condition, some incomplete, damaged and/or modern rebound. Sold not subject to returnJohn Murrell 1630;There does not appear to be a title page for the book named 'The First Book of Cookery' and there is no missing pages up until the end of the second book of cookery. Then begins 2 introductory pages for 'A new book of Carving and Sewing' followed by it's title page, however this book is omitted.The first page of the book is missing its edge and the second page has a tear to the top corner. 5-7 are missing their bottom corners. Pages marked 41, 71 and 113 have been folded in the top corners.There are several marks throughout the book, a page which has been written on, two pages with burn pages and two pages with what appears to be worm holes. The book has also been rebound with a later likely 19th century binding. Please see photos for further detail. Sold as seen.London Art of Cookery John Farley 11th Edition 1807 printed by F. Bryer Blackfriars, rebound with staining throughoutThe Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy by A Lady 1778, printed for W. Strahan et al rebound, significant surface dirt to front pageThe Experienced English Housekeeper 1776 by Elizabeth Raffald 5th Edition printed by R. Baldwin, rebound.The Housekeeper's Instructor or Universal Cook, by W A Henderson, 5th Edition printed by W. and J. Stratford London ND black leather binding "" 5th edition with tree calf binding, re backed and re cased.Beeton's book of Household Management Vol 1, S O Beeton, Bouvary Street, London, Edited by Mrs Isabella Beeton, (split from seam)The Handbook of Dining or Corpulency and Leaness Scientifically Considered by Brillat-Savarin translated by F L Simpson, 3rd Edition, Printed by Spottiswoode and Co 1865, cloth boundMrs Beeton 's Cookery Book New and Revised edtion Ward, Lock and Co Ltd London and Melbourne, cloth bound (poor condition)The Modern Housewife or Menagere by Alexis Soyer, published Simpkin, Marshall and Co, Pall Mall, 1850 green cloth bound A la Mode Cookery by Mrs de Salis, published by Longmans Green and Co 1902, red cloth boundA new System of Domestic Cookery by A Lady published by J. Murray 1806 marbled boards with cloth spine (Maria E Rindle)The Handbook of Dining by Leonard Francis Simpson, published by Longmans and Roberts 1859 Gild stamped boards with textured coverThe Compleat Housewife or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion by E. Smith 14th Edition, 1750 printed for R. Ware et all Marbled and leather spine, rebound.Experienced English Housekeeper by Elizabeth Raffald 4th Edition, published by R.Baldwin 1775 marbled and leather bindingMrs Beeton Family Cookery New Edition, Ward Lock navy cloth boundHandbook of Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin, translated by A. Lalauze, London J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1884, cloth boundA New system of Domestic Cookery by A Lady printed by William Clowes, 1831 marbled boards with green leatherThe Modern Cook (missing title page) Francatelli 1853 marbled boards and leather spine (broken)The First Book of Cookery 1630 John Murrel ND Missing title page, leather bound (rebound - see above)The Complete Confectioner (both boards loose but present) by A Person 1740 (possibly Frederick Nutt) leather boundSoft back notebook - Early 20th century, dated 1917, hand written recipies and also cuttings, some pages loose (poor condition)Slim marbled notebook - inscribed pen and ink to the inside Ann S Hakiston (?) 1853 the blue pages glued with cuttings and hand written recipiesNotebook - inscribed to the front "Receipts for cooking and Medicines" dated to the interior 1831 and variously inscribed. Contains hand written recipies and remediesLargest Notebook - with loose recipies in various hands, also letters, loose printed recipies, aso inscribed on the pages Not dated. Marbled boards and leather spine and corners. 

KOLLIST (E), THE COMPLETE PATISSIER, colour plates, blue cloth, Maclaren & Sons [1950-51]; WEBER (J), PRAKTISCHE KONDITOREI-KUNST, new edition, with folding template at rear; HECKMANN (A), DIE NEUZEITLICHE KONDITOREI, Heinrich Killinger; AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF CHINESE FOOD AND COOKING, Crown Publishers, 1980; DAVID (E), HARVEST OF THE COLD MONTHS, Michael Joseph, 1994; and 10 other cookery related books, (15).Condition Report: Italian Food book ex public library copy.

MELLISH (K), COOKERY AND DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT, with 57 chromo plates, London, Spon, [1907]; THE CONFECTIONERS’ HAND-BOOK AND PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE ART OF SUGAR BOILING; rebacked blue cloth with gilt lettering, Skuse, [1881]; with nine other cookery and dining books, (11).

The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, 1736, E. Smith, The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion, pub. 1736, original full leather binding, spine split, back board now loose, text block good, light foxing and staining E. Smith, was an important figure in the history of English culinary literature, known primarily for her influential work, "The Compleat Housewife." Published initially in 1727, the book quickly became a household staple in 18th-century England. Although little is known about the author’s life, E. Smith's comprehensive guide to domestic management and cookery suggests a deep familiarity with the culinary arts and the everyday challenges faced by women of the period. The book's continued popularity led to numerous reprints and editions, cementing its place as a cornerstone of English cookery books. "The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion" is a collection of over five hundred recipes. The seventh edition, published in 1736, expands on earlier versions with significant additions, including nearly fifty new recipes communicated just before the author's death. This edition covers an extensive range of topics, from cookery, pastry, and confectionary to preserving, pickling, and the preparation of cakes, creams, jellies, and cordials. The book also includes engraved copper plates that guide the reader in the arrangement of dishes and courses, as well as monthly bills of fare. In addition to its culinary content, "The Compleat Housewife" offers over two hundred family medical recipes, providing remedies for common ailments of the time.

A Popular History of British Sea-Weeds by The Rev. D. Landsborough 1849 with hand-coloured plates in gilt cloth. Homes Without Hands, being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction by The Rev. J.G. Wood, published 1869 with full-page plates and text illustrations in gilt cloth. Handy Book of Fruit Culture Under Glass by David Thomson 1873 with text engravings. School Botany 1847 in printed wrappers. Mrs. Beeton’s Every-Day Cookery Book 1912 with coloured and other plates in decorated gilt cloth. Cookery Book 1903. Sir Samuel Baker His Life & Adventures (c.1900). Days & Hours In A Garden by E.V.B. Elliot Stock 1884 Marianne North’s copy (English botanical artist) with her name on free endpaper, bound in gilt lettered parchment wrappers (8)

AN AS NEW PANASONIC AUTOMATIC BREAD MAKER, MODEL NO. SD-B2510, WITH INSTRUCTIONS AND A BREAD COOKERY BOOK - VENDOR STATES NEVER BEEN USED, NO WARRANTY GIVEN

Signed Andrew Pern Cookery Chef Book

An Edwardian brass adjustable cookery book holder with rope conical weighted page holders (h.22cm x l. 30cm x w. 22cm)

Flagon of Lambs Navy Rum, glass champagne ice bucket and the New Century Cookery Book 1904 by C. Herman Senn

Books- A quantity of electrical engineering books, 2x Thomas Wester photography books on cats, vintage bibles and religious books, 1940's Mary Webb books, 5 Daily Telegraph Beatrix Potter books, a 1948 AA Milne 'Now we are Six' with illustrations by EH Shepard, a Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book and others. Location:R1.1If there is no condition report, please request.

Folio Society - David, Elizabeth "A Book of Mediterranean Food", two copies, one within its slip case Three editions of "Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery", Ward Locke & Co, in various condition David Elizabeth "Italian Food", Macdonald 1954, blue cloth, no dust wrapper, rather rubbed and worn, "The Complete Tante Marie Cookery Book", Nicholas K London 1963, dust wrapper Saulnier, L "Le Repetoire de la Cuisine" translated from the original French by E Brunet, British Deluxe edition 1957, the Florian Press  "Buckmaster's Cookery", George Routledge  "Cooking in Ten Minutes" "Daily Dinners, 366 menus in English and French" (11) 

Signed Book Deborah Devonshire. The Duchess of Devonshire's Chatsworth Cookery Book Hardback Book pages 208 Published: 2003 Publisher: Frances Lincoln. Good condition Est.

Cookery. Efendi (Turabi), Turkish Cookery Book. A Collection of Receipts, Dedicated to those Royal and Distinguished Personages, the Guests of His Highness the Late Viceroy of Egypt, on the occasion of the banquet given at Woolwich, on board His Highness's Yacht the Faiz-Jehad, the 16th July 1862 [...], first edition of the first English translation of the first printed Turkish cookery book, [London: printed by W.M. Watts, Crown Court, Temple Bar, August, 1864], [xii], 82pp, wormtrails throughout, sometimes with loss of letters, but never with loss of sense, bound in contemporary (original?) quarter-morocco over cloth boards, gilt-lettered upper-cover, rubbed, split and wormed, lacking verso ffep, 8vo, [Bitting p. 141; Blackmer 1684]

Cookery. Simmons (Owen), The Book of Bread, first edition, one of 350 Edition de luxe copies, London: Maclaren & Sons, Offices of "The British Baker", n.d. [1903], red-ruled throughout, half-title, photographically-illustrated with 10 tipped-in silver bromide prints on black card, further illustrated with 12 chromolithographed plates and further in-text illustrations, advertising leaves and list of subscribers to verso, original red morocco over slightly bevelled boards, rubbed and worn, but holding, gilt-lettered upper-cover, all edges gilt, marbled edges, 4to

Cookery. One box of printed and manuscript ephemera, 19th c and later, including approx. 25 manuscripts receipts, advertising, product, and other recipe books, pamphlets, off-prints, etc., including The Working Man's Family Recipe Book to Health, Denton: W.M. Knowles, 1888, original wrappers, chipped and worn, 8vo; Simon (André L., editor), Wine and Food: A Gastronomical Quarterly, No. 24: Winter Number 1939, original wrappers, 8vo; Good Housekeeping Institute's Book of Fish [...], c. 1955, original pictorial polychrome printed wrappers, 8vo; Fry's Chocolate Recipes, n.d., wrappers, folio; Angostura Bitters For Home Use, eighth edition, 1967, original wrappers, 8vo; Gourmet's Guide to New Orleans, third edition, 1936, pictorial wrappers, chipped, 8vo; etc

Beeton, Isabella Three Books of Household Management, and two others, one by Eliza Acton The Book of Household Management… London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [n.d.] Two hundred and sixty-fifth thousand, 8vo, original red quarter calf over green cloth, joints split, spine rubbed;Idem. The Book of Household Management. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891. 8vo, original red quarter calf over green cloth;Idem. The Book of Household Management… London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1901. Six hundred and eighty-fifth thousand, 8vo, original red quarter calf over green cloth;Idem. Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery. London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1907. 8vo, original blue half morocco gilt;Acton, Eliza. Modern Cookery, in all its branches. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. Fourteenth edition, 12mo, original brown cloth gilt (5)

Mrs Beeton's Household Management - A Complete Cookery Book, 1 vol

MRS BEETON. A quantity of 17 volumes. Including; Mrs Beeton’s Family Cookery with nearly 3,000 practical recipes. Ward, Lock & Co. Undated. Thick and large 8vo, orig cloth, gilt titles to spine. Beeton’s Dictionary of Universal information. London. S.O Beeton. With cuts to the text and maps on plate. Closed tear to the title. Period half calf. The book of Household Management… By Mrs Isabella Beeton, Seven Hundredth Thousand. Lacking frontis, stained copy, defective. Encyclopaedia of Needlework by Therese De Dillmont. Olive green binding. The Lady’s Country Companion.. Mrs Loudon. 1852, with steel engraved frontispiece and illustrations on wood .Orig cloth, marked, frayed. And others, Home, Cookery, and victorian woman’s interest. [17].

A box of books to include: "Post Offices in The United Kingdom" "Complete Illustrated Cookery Book", "The Queens Book of The Red Cross", "The Modern Family Doctor", etc.

Manuscript Receipt Book. A manuscript receipt book compiled in more than one hand including its owner Elizabeth Warwick, late 17th century, 176 pp., including cookery receipts and medical remedies, some ascribed to doctors and gentry, 'Dr Butler's receipt for the stone and wind', 'Lady Newport's perfume', 'Lady Hart's meade', 'An excellent receipt by Sr. Theodor Mayorne for the piles and approved to be a most soveraigne easer of ye pain', 'To make allmond biskett Mrs Gardners way', 'Lucantollus, his balsom for wounds', 'Another [receipt] for a consumption and to make one suddenly fatt', 'A sirop for the tissick [a lung disease] and the running gout', 'A balm for stab thrusts wounds', 'A receipt for fastning eye teeth and cleansing them', 'To make the oyle of frogg spanes for a canser in the brest', etc., written in good clear hands, some spotting and soiling, a few repairs to corner tips at front and rear not affecting text, contemporary ownership inscriptions of 'E. Elizer', 'Elizabeth Warwick' and 'E. Distrey' to front pastedown, contemporary calf, modern antique-style calf reback and corners refurbished, folio (285 x 180 mm)QTY: (1) 

The Gourmet Cook Book Vols 1 & 2, third printing May 1970 New York (with plastic dust jackets), Fanny & Johnnie Cradock Cookery Programme folders & Mexico - The Cook Book by Margarita Carrillo Arronte

FOUR BOXES AND LOOSE BOOKS AND BOOK SHELF, to include a small wooden book shelf, height 23cm x length 51.5cm x depth 21cm, approximately one hundred and twenty mainly hardback books to include children's annuals, vintage and antiquarian titles, cookery, fiction, etc (4 boxes + loose) (sd)

Vintage cookery books May Byron's "Pot Luck" Hodder and Stoughton fifth edition; "Book of Salads" Alfred Suzanne and C Herman Senn Ward Lock seventh edition; "Tasty Dishes" James Clarke and Co; "Confectionary and Sweets" W Foulsham and Co; "How to cook Eggs and Omelets in 300 different ways" C Herman Senn Ward Lock; "Recipies Rare from Everywhere" Mrs Geoffrey Peto, Simpkin Marshall; "Pies and Puddings" D D Cottington Taylor; "Master book of Soups" Henry Smith Practical Press; "Savouries for all Occasions" DD Cottington Taylor; "Tried Favourites Cookery Book with household hints and other useful information" Mrs E W Kirk Horace Marshall and Son; "Menus made Easy, how to order dinner and give the dishes their French names" Nancy Lake, Frederick Warne; "My Receipt Book" by A Lady, Groombridge (partial); Cassells Shilling Cookery (qty)

Cookery interest. Three late 19th century Victorian cookbooks. The lot comprising 1890 Boston School Kitchen Text-Book: Lessons in Cooking by Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, publ. Roberts Brothers Boston, publ. quarter cloth binding with pictorial front board, prior owner's inscription to ffep & dedications page; circa 1890 Choice Cookery 'La Bonne Cuisine' by Mrs. Black publ. William Collins, Sons & Co. Limited, publ. orig. decorative full cloth binding, one stain to front board & cloth lifting to rear board; AND 1898 The Art of Cookery Past and Present by Mrs. De Salis publ. Hutchinson & Co., publ. orig. full cloth binding with pictorial Art Nouveau style front board. A smart collection, with just light shelfwear & bumping to extremities. 8vo.

A collection of pop-up and other books on subjects such as biology, art, cookery etc, including 'The Cook Pack' by Gary Rhodes and Ron van der Meer, 'The Ultimate 3D Pop-Up Art Book', 'The Human Body', 'The Pop-Up Circus Book', 'The Honey Bee and the Robber', etc.

Mrs A.B. Marshall: 'Fancy Ices', London, Marshall's School of Cookery; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., London, 1894, 1st edition, "32 & 30 Mortimer Street" address at foot of title page (numbers transposed and later corrected), half title, wood engraved illustrations throughout, vi,238,[30]pp, original pictorial cloth blocked in silver. Fancy Ices (1894) was written as a result of public demand for a fuller treatise on the art of desserts than given in its hugely popular predecessor, Book of Ices (1885). Scarce

Edward Bawden (illustrated); Ambrose Heath, 6 culinary titles: 'Good Food', London, Faber, 1932, 1st edition, Bawden illustrated title page and b/w ills. and decorations by him throughout, original pictorial cloth (by Bawden), 'Good Savouries', L, Faber, 1934, 1st edition, Bawden illustrated title page, orig. pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper (both by Bawden), 'Good Potato Dishes', L, Faber, 1935, 1st edition, Bawden illustrated title page, orig. pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper (both by Bawden), 'Good Soups', L, Faber, 1935, 1st edition, Bawden illustrated title page, orig. pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper (both by Bawden), 'Vegetable Dishes & Salads', L, Faber, 1938, 1st edition, Bawden illustrated title page, orig. pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper (both by Bawden), 'Good Food Without Meat', L, Faber, 1940, 1st edition, Bawden illustrated title page, orig. pictorial paper covered boards, dust wrapper (both by Bawden), plus Ambrose Heath: 'The Country Life Cookery Book', L, Country Life, 1937, 1st edition, vignette title + 12 vignette illustrations by Eric Ravilious as called for, original cloth (7)

(Cookery, Gastronomy.) A collection of 9 cookery titles, including [Mary Kettilby]: 'A Collection of Above Three Hundred Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery', London, W. Parker, 1746, 6th edition, 272pp + [4]pp index at end, lacks FFEP, contemporary calf gilt; John Armstrong: 'The Young Woman's Guide to Virtue, Economy, and Happiness being an improved and pleasant directory for cultivating the heart and understanding', Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Mackenzie & Dent, c.1820, 4th edition, engraved frontispiece, added engraved title page + 11 engraved plates as called for (2 plates with tears/small marginal part losses), 684pp, rebound half calf gilt; W.A. Jarrin: 'The Italian Confectioner', London, Routledge, 1861, portrait frontis, 2 folding plates on linen, modern quarter calf gilt; Richard Dolby: 'The Cook's Dictionary, and House-Keeper's Directory: A New Family Manual of Cookery and Confectionery', L, Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, 1830, 1st edition, double column, contemporary cloth, gilt title label to spine; Esther Copley: 'The Housekeeper's Guide; Or a Plain and Practical System of Domestic Cookery', L, Jackson & Walford, 1834, 1st edition, frontis, added engraved vignette title + 4 plates, contemporary quarter cloth, printed paper label to spine; W.A. Henderson: 'The Housekeeper's Instructor: or Universal Family-cook being a full and clear display of the art of Cookery in all its Branches', L, Thomas Kelly, c.1840, 20th edition, revised and considerably improved by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie, engraved frontispiece and 11 engraved plates of carving and place settings as called for, rebound half calf gilt, marbled paper covered boards; [Esther Copley]: 'The Cook's complete guide, on the principles of frugality, comfort, and elegance including the art of carving, and the most approved method of setting-out a table explained by numerous copper-plate engravings', L, Virtue, [1827], engraved frontis, added engraved title page + 11 engraved plates of butchery, carving, family meals bills of fayre etc, 838pp, old half calf worn, lacks backstrip, boards detached but present; "The G.C." [Grand Cordon, i.e. Victor Chevalley de Rivaz]: 'Round the Table. Notes on Cookery, and Plain Recipes, with a Selection of Bills of Fare for Every Month', L, Horace Cox, 1872, 1st edition, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt; 'Myra's Cookery Book', L, Myra & Son, c.1897, folding chromolitho frontis, orig. pictorial cloth (9)

Stamps; A Large German Pictorial Tin Box, containing an accumulation of World stamps, early to modern, also includes four additional stamp albums and a Mrs Beatons Cookery book

An Edwardian bamboo walking stick, silver gilt collar and knop; advertising - Brooke's Soap, Monkey Brand in original packaging; a silver open face pocket watch, Chester 1897; a Sing Chow Electric Factory, Hong Kong oil lamp, 15.5cm; a Kodak Retinette camera; a cookery book, Miss Tuxford's "Cookery For The Middle Classes"; etc

A 19th century Derby Bank white One Pound note; postcards, Stepping Stones Dovedale, Lover's Leap Middleton Dale, Perth Western Australia, others, topographical sepia and tinted; 19th century books, The Child's Guide To Knowledge, The Mistress Of A Family Domestic Cookery, prayer book with silver cover, etc; viewer; two small framed watercolour paintings; qty

Two cricket books, a copy of the Qur'an and a Complete Illustrated Cookery book

[GERMAN BOOKS] mostly early 20th c., mostly children's but including pencil inscribed copy by author, Rolf Roeingh, of "Und Trotzdem Bl hen Rosen", 2nd Edn.; a cookery book, etc. (Q).

[COOKERY] a late 19th / early 20th c manuscript recipe book compiled by Miss Marian Austin, including some manuscript recipes by other cooks, small 8vo (1).

A box of various books including Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book and a book rack

Collection of 19th and 20th Century cookery and household related books to include 'Mrs Beeton's everyday cookery', 'Domestic World', 'A Head for House books', Mrs Beeton's shilling cookery book', 'Our Village' etc. Also includes two Harry Potter First Editions.

Apician Morsels; or takes of the Tales of the Table, Kitchen and Larder by Dich Humelbergius Secundus, printed by J & J Harper, 1829. Cookery book interest.

Grey (Elizabeth Countess of Kent) A Choice Manual, Or Rare Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery: Collected, & practised by the Right Honorable the Countess of Kent, late deceased 'Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascons Powder, and Lapis contra Yarvam,' nineteenth edition, 'A True Gentlewomans Delight. Wherein is contain'd all Manner of Cookery: Together with Preserving, Conserving, Drying, and Candying. Very necessary for all Ladies and Gentlewomen,' two vols bound in one, later full calf library binding, gilt tooled lettering to spine, tear with loss to heavily toned title page, contemporary ink signature to verso, heavy toning throughout, although fair to good, the text is perfectly legible, scarce, H. Mortlock, at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Churchyard, London, 1687.A very popular collection of medical and culinary recipes, first published in 1653 and which ran to numerous revised editions. Although the work is usually listed under the Countess of Kent, the dedication is signed 'W.J.', and it was probably compiled by William Jar, a member of the Countess's household. The dedication of A Choice Manual is to 'the virtuous and most noble Lady, Latitia Popham', the wife of a supporter of Oliver Cromwell, and A True Gentlewomans Delight is dedicated to Mistress Anne Pile, a baronet's daughter. 'The first book is purely medical, and recommends the usual filthy remedies, e.g. the dung of a peacock for convulsions and powdered earthworms for jaundice... The second book is the cookery part, and tells how to make a slipcoat Cheese, Angellets, fine Diet-bread, Essings, Ponado, Bonny Clutter, Lady of Arundels Manchet, &c.' (Oxford). Tear with loss to heavily toned title page, contemporary ink signature to verso, heavy toning with small tears and nibbles throughout; The leaves are particularly dry due to the toning, fair.

A collection of books; Country Life Cookery Book, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Ring of Bright Water, The Alchemists, The Year in the Countryside, etc.

A quantity of books to include: Mrs Beeton's Cookery book, Death Comes for The Archbishop, etc.

Cookery - Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, New Edition, Ward, Lock & Co Limited, 1915; other titles; another (5)

A selection of assorted book titles including six volumes of The Book of Public Speaking, Cookery Illustrated and Household Management etc.

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery (Ward Lock & Co 1915) and The Constance Spry Cookery Book (J.M. Dent 1958)

AYRES, Ralph (fl.early-mid-18th-century). A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, inscribed, "Radolphus Ayres, Cook, Oxford, 1722", boards. A MANUSCRIPT COMPILED IN 1722 BY THE HEAD COOK OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. RARE.AYRES, Ralph ("Radolphus") (fl.early-mid-18th-century).  A fine manuscript recipe book on paper containing 69 recipes on 38 leaves, most written on the rectos only, inscribed on the verso of the first leaf, "Radolphus Ayres, Cook, Oxford, 1722", many pages adorned with pen flourishes at the foot (short inconspicuous closed tear to first two leaves, without loss, some light spotting and staining, small hole in final leaf not affecting letters). Contemporary "Dutch" pale green-and-pink floral-pattern paper boards (some rubbing to extremities, the backstrip torn in places, a section of floral paper torn away from the foot of the backstrip and the lower wrapper, an old ink stain to the head of the spine), Oxford, small 4to (190 x 155mm), 1722. A FINE, PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED, MANUSCRIPT, IN ORIGINAL CONDITION, OF RECIPES COMPILED BY THE HEAD COOK OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD. It is unusual to have such a manuscript dated precisely and even more unusual to know something of the person who compiled it. About seven other similar manuscripts inscribed "Radolphus Ayres" and dating from the first half of the 18th-century have been variously identified, although it is possible that some records of those not preserved in institutions have been duplicated as they have appeared in the trade. In light of the fine condition of the present manuscript and absence of old revisions, addenda and food-staining - a common fate of early cookery books - it seems likely that these copies were intended less for use as everyday "working" cookery books and, more likely, as gifts to friends or fellow cooks, in order to preserve the recipes for posterity. Ralph Ayres is recorded as being Head Cook at New College at various times in the 18th-century, with one recipe in the present manuscript referring specifically to the college ("new colledg puddings"). The first entry in the manuscript is unusual in being a "Receipt", or remedy, "... for ye shortness of Breath", but thereafter only recipes or food preservations are included: for example, "Mackrouns", "To make the Ice for the Cake", "To make Oxford Sausages", "To make Naples Bisket", "To pott pigeons or partridges", "To make a Dish of Scottch Collops", "To make a Good Beef Gravey", "To make London Wiggs [i.e. tea biscuits or cakes]", "To make a Quaking puding [so-called because, if properly prepared, it was meant to wobble]", "To make a dish of new Collidg puddings", "To make Ayres' his pancakes", "To make Cheescakes", "To preserve Damsons for tarts", "To make Ginger bread", "To make Ayres' his puding" and "To fricacie a Couple of Rabits or 3 larg Chickins". The last recipe in the manuscript, "To make Shrubb", is written in a different hand, and inscribed and dated, "[?]Transviglo [?]J. W. [indistinct third initial], 8 Sept 1751". Loosely-inserted on two separate paper slips are "To make Grape Wine" (not in the same hand) and "A Receipt to prevent too much sweating in a weak person" (in a different hand, but 18th-century). Two similar manuscripts, in near-identical floral-pattern bindings, are recorded in Oxford: one at the Bodleian (MS. Don. e. 89), dated 1721, and one in the archives of New College itself (NCA 962), dated 1719. The Bodleian record identifies a third from its reproduction in a book privately-printed in 1922 titled A Little Book of Recipes of New College Two Hundred Years Ago. The present location of this third manuscript is unknown but it cannot be ours since it was signed "Radolphus Ayres Cook of Newcolidg in Oxford 1721"; a further similar manuscript, inscribed "Radolphus Ayers [sic], Cook, 1715", was recently handled by Peter Harrington. In 2006, the Bodleian published Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book which contains a facsimile of their own manuscript, edited and with an introduction by Jane Jakeman in which she describes the elaborate traditions and cuisine of an Oxford college dining hall in the mid-18th-century, and more specifically of New College under Ralph Ayres: "It was a cuisine appropriate to the community it served, one which still conducted itself with some formality ... Dinner, usually served in Oxford between midday and 2 pm in the mid-eighteenth century, was the main meal of the day, at which dons were expected to wear white waistcoats, wigs and gowns ... At a dinner [at New College] in 1774 the first course included cod with oysters, ham, fowls, boiled beef, rabbits smothered with onion, mutton, veal chops, port griskins (lean part of the loin), New College Puddings, Mince Pies and roots (vegetables). In the second course were roast turkey, haunch of venison, a brace of woodcocks, snipes, veal olives, trifle, blancmange, stewed pippins and preserves quinces ... At supper, potted and salted meats, important recipes in Ayre's book, would have been consumed. The day might be rounded off with a snack, perhaps a hot pie or some small cakes, served with punch, an egg-flip or a negus of spiced wine and lemon, and at last the weary cooks could repose. Until breakfast, of course!" The book's foreword by David Vaisey, Bodley's librarian from 1986 to 1996, compares the text of the two Oxford copies and the third "lost" one: "The collection of recipes is substantially the same in all three manuscripts: the recipes occur in the same order, and two manuscripts (those from Bodley and from New College) are probably in the same handwriting". Both the handwriting and the order of the recipes in the present manuscript are almost identical to the two copies in Oxford, and its discovery can only shed further light on "Radolphus Ayres" who we can see - perhaps fancifully - as an 18th-century precursor of the modern "celebrity chef". RARE.

A mixed collection of items to include cookery book, glass dome, Wedgwood milk jug and sugar bowl, pin dish, etc (1 tray)

Collection of Historical Publications to include Election Map Of Mid Lothian 1878 - 80: Prints of Scottish Life Circa 1800s, Handbook Of Diabetic Cookery 1893, Edinburgh Exhibition 1886, Catalogue of The Sale of Sainsbury Ltd of 30 Savile Row. Ministry of Food Ration Book 1945-468th June 1946 Victory To-day as we celebrate victory leaflet.With other documents pictured.

TEN BOXES OF BOOKS to include six Folio Society books comprising The Folio Anthology Humour, The Best After Dinner Stories, The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes, The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories, Anton Chekov Short Stories, The Wit of Oscar Wilde, a large quantity of TV, film, and music related magazines, a wide variety of psychology and social development related textbooks, a quantity of cookery books, fiction by authors such as James Patterson, Sebastian Faulks, Ben Elton. (10 boxes) (s.d)

A HANDWRITTEN BOOK, 'The Miscellany' compiled by David Offley, an unusual and fascinating collection of notes on herblore, cookery, winemaking, mysticism, witchcraft, the supernatural and other esoteric thought, extracts from poems, songs and words of wit and wisdom, compiled over the years and put together in one volume with illustrations and elaborate, ornate handwriting

A Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery book, The Art of Beatrix Potter book and other mixed books **PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR IN-HOUSE POSTING AND PACKING**

Fairclough, the Ideal Cookery Book together with a family bible

Collection of books and periodicals about and from Kenya inc. The Kenya Kitchen Cookery Book and "No Easy Way" by Elspeth Huxley, 1st Edition with dustwrapper and others

Food & Drink.- Farley (John) The London Art of Cookery, seventh edition, engraved portrait and 12 bills of fare (one with corner cut away not affecting image), 5pp. advertisements at end, a few stains, contemporary ink inscription "Susanna Bruce 1792" to front free endpaper, contemporary sheep, rebacked, worn, J.Scatherd & J.Whitaker, 1792 § Rumford (B.) Experimental Essays..., Essay X. Part II. On the Construction of Kitchen Fire-Places and Kitchen Utensils..., 6 plates, advertisement leaf at end, stitched in original printed blue wrappers with border decoration in imitation of binding, uncut, soiled and frayed at edges, T.Cadell & W.Davies, 1802 § Housewife's Guide (The) or, a Complete System of Modern Cookery...[with] The New Whole Art of Confectionary...by Edward Logan Mackenzie, 2 parts in 1, original printed viridian wrappers, rubbed, London & Otley, William Walker & Sons, [c.1840] § [Roberts (G.E.)] Cups and their Customs, second edition, chromolithographed frontispiece, original cloth, 1869; and a small bundle of food & drink ephemera including an engraved trade card for Angell & Son, Cooks to his Majesty and the Board of Ordnance (dated 1805 in ink on verso), a Vauxhall Gardens supper bill (stained) of 1823, a printed Cellar Book or Butler's Assistant completed in manuscript for 1853, various dinner menus etc., v.s. (a bundle)

Bloomsbury Book Auctions. Sale [Catalogue] of the Working Library of the late Howard M.Nixon, number 8 of 14 specially bound copies, with photograph of a binding tipped in and A.L.s. from Enid Nixon loosely inserted, note by JC "I catalogued lots 224-245 and a few others elsewhere" to front pastedown, cloth-backed marbled paper, original wrappers bound in, 1983; Catalogue of Early Printed Books..., prices in manuscript, interleaved with notes, rubbings of bindings etc. pasted in, note by JC "the continental collector was Graf Reuttner von Weyl...I catalogued all the bindings + many of the books : almost all the notes are mine...", 1985; Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Illustrated Books and Books Illustrating the Art of Printing formed by the late W.R.Jeudwine, 2 vol. in 1, 1984; Manuscripts and Printed Books, largely from the stock of Frank Marcham..., bound with various Marcham catalogues & publications, 1997; The Extensive Collections of Printed Books relating to D.H.Lawrence and Bibliography: The Property of the late Bob Forster, bound with early Forster catalogues (Orion Booksellers and  G.W.Marks lists), plus other information relating to Forster's bookselling uncle Mikhail Sinelnikoff who mysteriously disappeared in Bern in 1959, 1998, most with additional material (letters, photographs etc.) bound in or loosely inserted, all but the first bound in cloth or half cloth; and a bundle of other BBA catalogues & ephemera, v.s. (c.20)*** The fourth was the renowned "chicken sheds" sale. As JC notes, "David Stagg mentioned the books to me. At first I was nonplused [sic] then he mentioned Marcham and I remembered some posh catalogues I'd seen. We arranged to go and see the books. They were in an enormous chicken shed 40-50' long beside a caravan site near Duxford. You opened the door & the books stretched away into the distance. We had to go on Saturday since neither of our firms thought it was worthwhile. The wall of books contained so many no hopers - out of date AA books, microwave cookery - that it was no wonder noone would take it on. However we got stacks out onto trestles in the sunshine - and found a Phillipps manuscript - we were in business."

An album of postcards and greetings cards including three silks, beauties etc. plus Mrs Beetons cookery book

Mrs BEETON'S Book of Household Management, A Guide to Cookery in All Branches, New Edition, London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1915

Military WW2 British Public Collection. Reproduction Ration Book and associated material for Children as issued during WW2 Includes Junior Ration Book, Boy's Own (Dec 1944), Civil Defence Leaflet, Public Information Leaflet, War Cookery leaflet, Air Raid Precautions Leaflet, Hello Evacuee Card. Good Condition. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

Ken Hom Signed Book Chinese Cookery by Ken Hom 2001 Hardback Book with 276 pages, good condition. Sold on behalf of Michael Sobell cancer Charity. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99

Cookery.- Haywood (Mrs. Eliza) A New Present for a Servant-Maid...The Whole Art of Cookery, Pickling, Preserving &c., first edition, engraved frontispiece, this torn with small loss to lower corner of image (supplied) and laid down, title and a few other ff. with marginal repairs / mounted on a stub (see in particular final f.), first and last couple of ff. with some soiling, occasional spotting or mostly light staining, lightly browned, antique style half calf, spine gilt and with red morocco label, [Bitting p.220; Cagle 733; Maclean p.67; Simon BG 828], 8vo, Printed for G. Pearch, No. 12, Cheapside; and H. Gardner, opposite St. Clement’s Church, in the Strand, 1771. *** A rare complete copy at auction; the last being The John Lyle copy in 2003, sold Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 3rd June, lot 118, £1410. Of the few copies that have appeared at auction over the last decades the majority either lacked the frontispiece or had some textual loss, or indeed both. While this is the first appearance of this title it owes much to her A Present for a Servant-Maid: or, the sure means of gaining love and esteem, of 1743. Haywood (c.1693-1756) was an English writer (particularly novels), actor and publisher.  

Large Collection of Cookery Books, including: Flavours of France: The Beautiful Cookbook, 2004, dust jacket; Traditional Recipes of the Provinces of France, 1961; The Constance Spry Cookery Book, and others, mainly recipe and reference books (7 boxes)

Large Collection of Cookery Books, including: Beeton (Isabella), The Book of Household Management, new edition, three hundred and first thousand, Ward, Lock and Co., no date; many on French cookery, recipe books and reference (7 boxes).