Category: Culinary

Blue Ribbon Malt Extract Doll Named Lena.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Peoria, Illinois, Premier Malt Products Co.

Seller ID: 006050

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

N.d.,, circa 1920. A colorful cloth with the front and back of a fat smiling doll named Lena, the doll to be sewn together by the recipient of the Premier Malt mailing, with directions on the cloth along with a pitch for the company's product. The cloth measures 45 by 48 cm, the doll, front and back, measure about 41 cm tall. The doll is wearing a bright green polka dotted dress and white apron, she has short hair and a man-ish rubicund dimpled face and is holding a can of Blue Ribbon Malt Extract. Also included is the original mailing envelope.
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Charles & Co. Catalogue. May, 1937

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, : 1937

Seller ID: 006135

Binding: Leatherette

Condition: Very Good

Attractive culinary catalogue from a prestigious high-end gourmet grocer in New York, one that began in 1848 and continued in business into the 1980s (when it was acquired by Red Apple.) 8vo. 21 by 14 cm. 319 pp. With 8 page supplemental brochure dated September, 1937. The catalogue proper has color plates on both endpapers and two other pages, and many other b/w photos and drawings of products throughout. The outstanding feature of the catalogue aesthetically, though, is its two toned binding, which is high Art Deco, with relief stylized lettering and an image of Hermes! Otherwise, the...
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Japanese Confectionary Manuscript

Price: $2,500.00

Seller ID: 006525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

25 vivid large paintings of Japanese candy and candy packaging. Oblong 4to, 25 by 33 cm. Short calligraphic captions, in Kanji characters, next to each of the paintings. One page at end with printed text. We believe that this album was probably some sort of trade catalogue. Later binding, with morocco spine and a beautiful floral patterned Japanese paper attached to the boards.
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Kashi Moyo. Album of Japanese Confectionary Design

Price: $950.00

Seller ID: 006899

Binding: Silk covered boards.

Condition: Good

Oblong, 17.5 by 24.5 cm. 40 pages of hand-colored woodblock illustrations, followed by nine pages of text, in Japanese. Pages open leporello style. Generally two or three illustrated designs per page, excepting first and last illustrated pages which have a single larger illustration, the first page being of a fruit basket. Condition: silk covered boards with soiling, wear -- slightly chewed by spine. Leaves within have some flattened creasing, some staining, etc. Spine perished. Notwithstanding wear, still an attractive album, with coloring generally vivid.
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Les Portmonteaux Les Porte-Parapluies Les Poussiers de Porte de Dejonckheere-Andries. Magasins d'Exposition et de Vente. Alimentation Catalogue No. 294

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Bruxelles,

Seller ID: 006462

Binding: String tie

Condition: Very Good

4to. 28 by 20.5 cm. 20 pages, plus wraps. (Page numbering doesn't relate to this brochure, and pages within would appear to have been pulled from a larger stockpile of promotional leaves.) Store displays for food businesses -- groceries, delis, restaurants, cafes, etc. Among items are etageres for kitchens, bakery display, and the like, coffee machines, various meat racks with hooks, a wide variety of display vitrines. This company tailored the brochure for the type of business it was serving, and thus, "Alimentation" is stamped, not printed, on the front cover, and it pulled sheets it d...
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Manuscript Scroll of Japanese Food Presentation

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: Japan, : 1800

Seller ID: 006901

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

Circa 1800. 335 by 14.5 cm. Scroll of very thin paper. With 28 painted illustrations, 24 of which are of serving tables with food and/or serving assessories atop. Painting is watercolor and gouache. Calligraphic text at both ends of scroll. The scroll is made of eight connected pieces. Moderate wear.
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Needler's Chocolate Salesman's Sample Catalogue

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Kingston-upon-Hull,

Seller ID: 006412

Binding: Pebbled Cloth

Condition: Very Good

N.d., 1939. Oblong, 25.5 by 34.5 cm. 15 pp. (really numbered leaves, with double the number of pages) of heavy card laminated card stock. On rectos are five to well over a dozen color photo illustrations of candy boxes and on one page, molded chocolate figurines. Facing versos has brief printed notes that supplement captions under images. Style of artwork on boxes varied, with designs featuring scenes of Old England, sporting themes, floral decoration, beautiful women, dogs, cats, ships, nature, and on and on. Boxes could be of many different shapes and sizes, with some novelties such as...
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Orange Juice . . . New Easy Way! Brand New Invention Pays Royal Profits to Agents!

Price: $75.00

Publisher: St. Louis, Missouri, Kwikway Products Inc. : 1930

Seller ID: 005760

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

Promotion for new orange juicer, with orange tinted photos. What is really being promoted, as conveyed by the bold lettered title, is the sales opportunities afforded by selling the juicer via direct sales, and specifically, the sales kits. Folded sheet, when closed, 28 by 22 cm, making up four pages.
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Schaufenster-Dekorationen für das Fleischergewerbe

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Berlin, Allgemeine Fleischer-Zeitung Actien-Gesellschaft : 1930

Seller ID: 005571

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Shinnen Ka-Cho. Album of Japanese Confectionary Design

Price: $750.00

Seller ID: 006900

Binding: Silk covered boards.

Condition: Very Good Minus

Oblong, 17 by 24 cm. 16 pages of offset color printed illustrations, followed by page of line drawn illustrations and seven pages of text, in Japanese. Pages open leporello style. Generally four or five illustrated designs per page, each captioned in Japanese. Condition: probably missing rear cover leaf. Some dogearing of corners of cover and a few leaves. Cover with light to moderate soiling. Illustrations are bright and vivid.
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Talco Money Makers for the Big Profit Trade

Price: $475.00

Publisher: St. Louis, Talbot Manufacturing Company : 1930

Seller ID: 005748

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Trade catalogue for all kinds of food-making machinery to be deployed by street vendors on sidewalks, amusement parks, etc. Among the machines are popcorn makers, hotdog and hamburger grills, ice cream machines, etc. 4to. 27.5 by 21 cm. 32 pp., wraps. Scarce, with only copy located on OCLC at Hagley. Light wear.
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The Egg

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston, The Bowker Co. : 1890

Seller ID: 006644

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

16mo. Unpaginated, 12 pp. Scarce -- no copies located on OCLC. Booklet advertising and advocating bone meal for chickens and other farm animals. Brownies shown on cover and elsewhere.
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The Evolution of an Apple Pie

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Chicago, The N.K. Fairbank Company : 1898

Seller ID: 005638

Binding: Wraos

Condition: Fine

Scarce culinary pamphlet, listed on OCLC but with no library holding identified. 16mo. 11 by 8 cm. 12pp. Chromolithographic color illustrations, including on stapled wrapper cover. Advertising pamphlet for cottolene, a baking substitute for butter and lard and made from cottonseed oil and beef suet. Running through the pamphlet is a verse tale describes the steps in creating an apple pie, starting with the fruit on the tree and ending with the pie being served. About half of the pamphlet is devoted to short articles on the applications of cottolene or recipes, including ones for pie crus...
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[Japanese Candy Trade Catalogue] Wagashi Seiho Koshu Roku Zokuhen

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Japan, : 1920 (Taisho 9)

Seller ID: 006824

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

8vo. 25 by 19 cm. 156 pp. including 34 color printed woodblock plates of traditional Japanese confectionary designs and recipes. Designs range from literal depictions of candies to more abstracted designs intended to decorate candies, and perhaps also pastries. Some candies are just like Western-style bon bons, while others are more exotic to the Western eye. Candies range from small to larger loaf-like. Bound with cloth covered boards and two cords holding together the stab binding. Condition: wear, with some loose seams, to the cloth covering. Soiling throughout. Still, the color ...
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[Russian Cookbook] ????? ? ??????? ? ????????? ????? [The Book of Healthy and Tasty Food]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Moscow, ????????????? : 1962

Seller ID: 005809

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

4to. 26.5 by 21 cm. 424 pp. Many color plates -- these are photo-based color drawings, for the most part. Also many b/w text illustrations, mostly photos. This cookbook, originally published in 1939 and revised afterward, was developed by scientists at the Soviet Institute of Nutrition in the Academy of Medical Sciences. With its lavish illustrations, the book was more than a practical handbook in the kitchen, but also a potent piece of Soviet propaganda. Many of the recipes were not feasible for the average family during the Soviet Era because of the chronic scarcity in grocery stores...
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[Trade Catalogue] Albert Pick & Company. Soda Fountains & Supplies. Catalog B-37

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Chicago, Albert Pick and Company : 1920

Seller ID: 006988

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

4to. 29 by 21 cm. 235 pp. With over 60 pages with color illustration (including the inside covers), much of which is full color, with some simply duotone. Albert Pick was established in 1857. It grew to become a highly successful and large full service hotel and restaurant supplies and service company, with the breadth of its goods and services easily evident in this particular catalogue which was directed specifically at what we would today call luncheonette and/or diner restaurants, and thus a subset of the company's considerably more extensive and diverse clientele. In 1926, the compan...
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[Trade Catalogue] Trade Construction Chocolate Confectionary. The Art of vitalising your Trade by having Pride of Quality in all the goods you handle

Price: $375.00

Publisher: London, Watford and Sydney, Boisselier

Seller ID: 005580

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

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.
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A Contemplation of Wine

By: Allen, H. Warner

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph : 1951

Seller ID: 007175

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 232 pp. Light fading to cloth. Light wear to cloth.
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Through the Wine Glass

By: Allen, H. Warner

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph : 1954

Seller ID: 007174

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 244 pp. Light fading to cloth. DJ with long closed tear running from small spine chip (upper extremity) down back, closed to some extent crudely with tape, which has left ugly impression. Now protected by mylar. Overall a handsome copy regardless.
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The Colony Portrait of a Restaurant -- And Its Famous Recipes

By: Brody, Iles

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Greenberg : 1945

Seller ID: 007179

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

8vo. 296 pp. Chatty ten chapters about the legendary restaurant -- about 170 pages altogether -- followed by recipes. DJ with edge chips and shallow close tearing. Protected with mylar now.
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Category: Culinary