Folio-sized, 40 by 31 cm. 73 leaves are numbered (not pages), followed by an almost equal number not accordingly numbered. This is the antithesis of a pocket tourist guide, and not just in size. While the part that is not overtly paid-for advertisements is full of useful information, the size and heft of the book meant that it was more likely to be a courtesy reference one might have found at hotels or on ships, or perhaps as a souvenir for the visitor. The reference part has all the expected useful information -- hotels, restaurants, transportation info, sights, museums, neighborhood desc... View More...
8vo. 24.5 by 18.5 cm. 83 pp. Exceptionally clean copy, with the lightest of soiling on the white leather/leatherette cover, which still exudes a brightness. View More...
An unusual origami fold paper promotion for raisins. N.d., circa 1930. Closed, a 9.5 cm square; opening up to be 27 by 13.5 cm. With breezy Art Deco-style color illustrations (primarily green, blue and red) of people enjoying, preparing or serving products containing the raisins -- breads, cookies, pancakes. A most charming Gallic culinary novelty. View More...
A most unusual trade catalogue combined with a diary and blotter/desk accessory! Closed, oblong, 27 by 30 cm, and when the panels are opened wide, 60 cm wide. This was surely intended as a promotional tool in which the attractive catalogue was part and parcel with a freebie likely to be used and valued by the wholesale customer, who in this case would have been grocers and costermongers. The handsome commercial folio fits into the tradition of English biscuit makers who produced fine collectable tins which were sometimes as treasured as their delectable products. The folio opens from the ... View More...
N.d., circa 1920s. 21.5 cm at its tallest, 33 cm wide when opened at its widest. The pictorial side shows four Japanese women in traditional kimonos working on a flower arrangement, with floral decoration elsewhere in the illustration. The flip side contains promotional info about F. Marquis. The chocolatier Francois Marquis was founded in 1818 and had its premier location at the time this fan was created in the Passage des Panoramas in Paris. Wear, slight bumping, along the upper edges. View More...
A package freebie from 1915 from Imperial Graum Food, the maker of the "Unsweetened Food for Nursing Mothers and Babies." 23 by 22 cm. The cloth comes with four cut-outs that can be sewn together and stuffed to make a doll of a cutesie toddler. The two main pieces are the full body from and back of the baby, and then there are two oval pieces for the soles of the feet. The several captions, besides providing instructions, tout the healthfulness of the company's food, and there is also an ad for a version of the same doll that can be purchased with a coupon and 40 cents. A few stai... View More...
4to. 27 by 19 cm. 84 pp. Illustrated throughout. From professional kitchen equipment and furniture, some that would now be treasured as decorative antiques, down to knives and other cookery tools. Closed tear along rear joint. Age toned; clean otherwise. View More...
Oblong 4to, 23 by 30 cm. 96 pp. 40 color plates (these are counted in page numeration). Gorgeous illustrations of ideal window displays of meats, butchered and cold cuts, such as one might expect to find at the finest of gourmet shops. Scarce, with a single institutional copy located on OCLC at the Stadtbibliothek in Braunschweig. (There are a few copies of an earlier version of this book, but this version was substantially different, with fewer illustrations, and the illustrations assuredly different.) The text block is loose. Otherwise, clean, appealing copy. View More...
8vo. 24 by 17.5 cm. 40 pp. With four pages of recipes. Very lovely copy, with the lightest of wear. A few small rub spots on spine (where deep crimson color faded). Clean and tight within. View More...
Oblong, 9 by 12 cm. 12 pp., plus wraps. Scarce, with four copies located on OCLC at the time this description was drafted, these at Brown, Duke, Michigan State, AAS. Story told in verse, and the purpose of which, to promote Presto flour. Each page features a charming semi-colored illustration (the colors used are blues, greens and oranges), with the illustrations done in the same vein as the Golliwog series, then so popular. Edge abrasion on the front cover, with light and trivial soiling besides. View More...
Publisher:
Rotterdam. Printed in Leiden, Bureau de Publicite Erasmus. Printed at Rotogravure Mij
Seller ID: 005139
Fun, colorful and unusual promotion for the Dutch spirits industry and more specifically a drink called "Advocaat". Brightly colored fifties types -- the dowdy Mamie-ish housewife and portly husband, the artiste and Bohemians, the glam movie star, the gangster and general, are depicted in bright colors and superimposed on black and white photos as they are shown traveling to the Netherlands, sightseeing, and visiting a distillery in a droll narrative-driven text in which they are guided by a Rembrandt-era burgher. (There are other illustrations and illustrated elements in color.) N.... View More...
N.d., 19th Century. 43 by 31.5 cm. 48 cells, or small vignettes, depicting how alcohol is the road to a life of misery and destruction. The cells are woodcut illustrations, each with a caption that carries forward a loose episodic narrative of the many inconveniences and miseries caused by drink. Scarce, with no copies located anywhere. View More...
N.d., circa 1940s. Standee promotion for bread, featuring a tot with a toque and chef's apron. There are two folds, one of which is meant to serve as the base so that the figure can stand up, and the other, in conjunction with the other folding part, is intended to hold an actual loaf of bread in place. Neither of the folds have in fact ever been folded, and this delightful two-dimensional figure is entirely unused. In its unusued state, it measures 33.5 by 23.5 cm (at its widest). If displayed as intended, the figure stands 30 cm tall. View More...
N.d., circa 1920s or 30s. 33 by 26 cm. 11 leaves, material pasted onto 14 pages in total. 39 specimens of the company's wrappers. Sarotti goes back to 1868. We can date this album as post-1918 because that was when the company first introduced the Sarotti Moor as a mascot and trademark, and the Moor is ubiquitous in the materials contained herein. (The company address is given on some of the material as Tempelhof, a part of Berlin to which the company moved its headquarters in 1913.) Nestle's became a majority shareholder in 1929, and after that the brand became local in terms of its m... View More...
N.d., circa 1930. 4to. 28 by 21. 12 plates showing table knives, a few forks and serving knives. Seven of the plates have color. Wraps have raised lettering, and a lined texture. Wraps with edge chipping and wear. Otherwise, clean and lovely. View More...
N.d., circa 1930. 4to. 28 by 21. 12 plates showing table knives, a few forks and serving knives. Seven of the plates have color. Wraps have raised lettering, and a lined texture. Wraps with edge chipping and wear. Otherwise, clean and lovely. View More...
N.d., circa 1920. 4to. 31 by 24 cm. [10], 4-29, [2] pp. Pages 4 to 28 feature color illustrations of the company's products -- chocolates and their boxes. Pictorial buff wrappers. H.C. Boisselier Chocolate and Confectionary Manufacturer had factories in Watford, Hertfordshire and Sydney, Australia. The firm began in 1908 or so. Its founder, Henri Boisselier, passed away in 1953, aged 86. Wraps have moderate wear, with a few soil spots and small edge tears. Some grubbiness to the leaves. Still, a lovely, colorful sweets catalogue. View More...
4to. 28 by 20 cm. 336 pp. After a photo tour of Jaburg's facilities, a profusely illustrated catalogue with virtually all the fixture, machinery and equipment needs for a bakery. This includes cabinetry, other furnishings, garments, scales, and on and on. Also some foodstuff, including extracts, flavorings, flour, dried fruits, eggs, nuts, etc. Moderate wear to the binding. Clean within. View More...
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