![The Vegetables of New York. [Wrapper title:] Vegetables of New York: Vol. 1—Part III: Sweet Corn. Agriculture, William T. Tapley, Walter D. Enzie, Glen P. Van Eseltine.](/pictures/thumb/17928.jpg?v=1490648385)
Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1934. First edition. Large 8vo (approx. 11.88 x 9 inches), original printed card-stock wrappers, 111 pages, with the original folding card stock portfolio stamped in ink, “Sweet Corn.” Color illustrations throughout. A gorgeous attempt on the part of New York to publish a “more... More
![The Vegetables of New York. [Wrapper title:] Vegetables of New York: Vol. 1—Part IV: The Curcurbits. Agriculture, William T. Tapley, Walter D. Enzie, Glen P. Van Eseltine.](/pictures/thumb/17927.jpg?v=1490648385)
Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1937. First edition. Large 8vo (approx. 11.88 x 9 inches), original printed card-stock wrappers, 131 pages, with the original folding card stock portfolio. Color illustrations throughout. A gorgeous attempt on the part of New York to publish a “more or less complete record of... More
![Bajan Cookbook [wrapper title]. Barbados, Marilyn Farley, Food and Drink.](/images/noimage.png)
(Champaign County, Illinois: n. p.), [ca. 1974]. First edition. Original printed pictorial blue wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [2], 13, [1] pages. With a label mounted to the inside from wrappers, “PREPARED BY: Marilyn Farley, 1974 IFYE Delegate to Barbados from Champaign Co., Illinois.” Likely a service project required of... More
[Parchment, Michigan: Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Company, 1931?]. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial boards, [2], 42 pages. Illus. Tipped-in price sheet to the verso of the front board. A promotional book on the many domestic uses (cooking, cleaning, writing) of the paper product of the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment Co. As befits... More
(New York): [n. p., ca. 1940?]. First edition. 8vo, original printed yellow wrappers, 16 pages. "Do you know . . . That beer came to American with the Pilgrim Fathers? That the brewing industry purchases the crops from three million acres of farm lands? That more than a million people... More
![Whitman & Burrell, Steam and Hot Water Dairy Apparatus, Cheese Vats, Iron Clad Milk Cans and Pails, Press Screws, Wood & Metalic [sic] Cheese Hoops, Union, Blanchard & Dash Churns, Dealers in Every Description of Dairy Furnishing Goods . . . [With the inside wrapper series title: Whitman & Burrell's Annual Circular & Price List. Little Falls, N. Y., January, 1873]. Cheese, Whitman, Burrell.](/pictures/thumb/16299.jpg?v=1465913983)
Little Falls, N. Y. Journal & Courier Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1873. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 32 pages. Illus. A fine, comprehensive trade catalog, with everything a dairy or cheese operation needs to operate--from steam boilers or tubular dairy heaters (includes a discharge curd gate), to... More
[Towanda, Penna. n. p., ca. 1954]. First edition. Oblong 12mo, stapled into original printed stiff wrappers, 74 pages. When in Towanda, expect good times at a church dinner for 50: the 25 pounds of ham, 15 pounds of yams, and 4 40 oz. packages of frozen lima beans are but... More
(Alhambra, California: El Molino Mills, 1953.). First edition. Small publisher's pictorial blue cloth ring binder (approx. 7 x 5 inches), illus. With intact publisher's postcard mailer and carob candy ad. A relatively early California health food cookbook from these millers of whole grains; includes directions on making your own bean... More
Chicago: Jaques Manufacturing Co., 1935. A later edition. 8vo, original gilt embossed light brown wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Illus. "In the light of scientific knowledge, cakes are no longer considered too rich for daily consumption; in fact, cake is now known to be an exceedingly well balance food product." A.... More
[Providence, R. I. n. p., ca. 1880-1900?]. Original sepia photo measuring approx. 3 x 4.5 inches on a slightly larger plain mount, captioned in the image. Likely a promotional photo meant to suggest the bucolic splendors of the concern, a fine distant prospect somewhat larger than a CDV of the... More
London: Published by William Cobbett, 183 Fleet-Street, 1828. First edition. 8vo, later 19th century polished half calf, marbled boards, [269] unnumbered pages. Three plates. On the cultivation of American corn, with much on American agriculture and customs; the first two leaves are printed on corn paper. Cobbett also includes glances... More
![The Unfired-Fooder’s (Apyrtropher’s) Bulletin. December 1924 [wrapper title]. Food and Drink, Dr. George J. Drews, Vegetarian.](/pictures/thumb/18613.jpg?v=1537150321)
[Chicago: Apyrotropher Publishing and Supply House], 1924. First edition. Original self wrappers, 8.88 x 6 inches, [20] pages. Illus. A wonderful look at alternative living in Roaring Twenties Chicago, essentially an extended advertisement for Drews’s concern: raw foods, sunlight baths, uplifting publications on vegetarian raw diets, food mills, carrot graters... More
New York: R. L. Hamilton, M. D., (1871). A later edition; the first seems to have appeared in Albany in 1868. 16mo, original printed wrappers, 112 pages. Frontis portrait. A once well-known popular physician here republishes this piece of self-promotion, which includes a laudatory biographical sketch, a splendid acrostic poem... More
(Providence, R.I. Rumford Chemical Works), [ca. 1900?]. Thin 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. Quick-rise baking recipes. Haxworth, a Gold Medalist and Graduate of National Training School of Cooking (London), advocates the use of Rumford baking powder in fulfilling the three watchwords of the intelligent housekeeper: purity, economy, and utility. More
Chicago: New Voice Press, 1902. A new edition; the first appeared in 1881. 8vo, original blue cloth, dark blue lettering, 336 pages. A temperance novel, republished by a Hyde Park press that seems to have been a propaganda arm of the Prohibition Party. More
![Jell-O: America's Most Famous Dessert [caption title]. Jell-O.](/pictures/thumb/15042.jpg?v=1465913975)
(Le Roy, N.Y. Genesee Pure Food Co., 1916). First edition. 16mo, original color printed pictorial self-wrappers, 18, [1] pages, corner string. Illus. Inserted 4 page color litho, "Delicious Things Made of Jell-O Ice Cream Powder." "Don't ask for a 'Jelly Powder' when you want Jell-O, and look at the package."... More
![Thrifty Jell-O Recipes to Brighten Your Menus [wrapper title]. Jell-O.](/pictures/thumb/15040.jpg?v=1465913975)
(Le Roy, N.Y. The Jell-O Company, Inc., 1931). First edition. 12mo, original color pictorial self-wrappers, 23, [1] pages. Illus. A characteristic promotional recipe pamphlet from Jell-O, elegant art deco illustrations hinting at a certain glamor despite the early Depression Era claims to thriftiness. More
![Through the Menu with Jell-O [wrapper title]. Jell-O.](/pictures/thumb/15039.jpg?v=1465913975)
[Le Roy, N.Y. Jell-O Company], (1927). First edition. Oblong 16mo, original color pictorial wrappers, [20] pages. Illus. Characteristic recipes and color illustrations, desserts, salads, holiday dishes, etc. More
![Try the New Jell-O. You Make it without boiling water! 48 New Jell-O Recipes [wrapper title]. Jell-O.](/pictures/thumb/15038.jpg?v=1465913975)
(Le Roy, N.Y. Jell-O Company Inc., 1932). First edition. 16mo, original color printed self-wrappers, 23, [1] pages. Illus. "The new Jell-O is made with water only slightly hotter than lukewarm!" Recipes, characteristic color illustrations. More
![What Mrs. Dewey did with the New Jell-O! 48 Fascinating New Recipes [wrapper title]. Jell-O.](/pictures/thumb/15041.jpg?v=1465913975)
(Le Roy, N. Y. The Jell-O Company, 1933). First edition. 12mo, original color pictorial self-wrappers, 23, [1] pages. Illus. With a short tale of Mrs. Dewey and her daughter Nancy, who marvel over the new Jell-O that requires only warm water, retains the real fruit flavor, and is ready in... More
[Arkansas City, Kansas: n. p., ca. 1922]. First edition. 8vo, original printed pictorial tan wrappers, 32 pages. Frontis, illus. With a halftone frontispiece of Khiro in 1918, teaching medical gymnastics to patients at an Army hospital in Honolulu. The name of Dr. C. Chiro, Box 346, Arkansas CIty, Kansas (his... More
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. First edition, Senate document 441. 8vo, removed, [vi], 235 pages. 15 plates. An extensive early work on the role of government regulation in public health and pure food (with much on pasteurization and model dairies), from this important figure in public health. Includes numerous views... More
Casale Monferrato: Casa Editrice S. A. Fratelli Marescalchi, 1949. Stated third edition. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 153, [6] pages. A detailed work on wine appreciation, first published in the 1920s. More
![An Exhaustive Bible Essay. Entitled: "No License for Alcoholic Drinks in the Bible." These Drinks Have Ruined Prophets, Priests, and Kings. Do not think your Church Membership, or the Prayers of the Church will save you if you drink them [wrapper title]. Henry McKenney.](/pictures/thumb/14185.jpg?v=1465913971)
Great Bend, Penna. Published by the Author, 1879. First edition. 8vo, original printed blue wrappers, 8 pages. "Now I am *not* prepared to say that it was alcoholic wine Paul prescribed for Timothy. The unfermented wine would have nutritious qualities the other would not, and be a cooling drink, something... More
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1867. First edition. 8vo, original gilt pictorial purple cloth, gilt lettering, 483 pages. Illus. One of the American classics of grape culture and wine making, with much consideration on local varieties, etc. Cagle & Stafford 529; Longone N-12. More
