VITICULTURE ET VINIFICATION En Bordelais au Moyen Age. Préface de M.J.A. Brutails. Bordeaux 1912.
[viii] + 186pp. Ex.-lib. with bookplate and occasional sm. ink stamp, margins lightly browned, rebound in lib. cloth with gilt title to spine, edges and spine lightly dampstained.
£15.00 [ref: 176044]
TRAITÉ DE PÂTISSERIE ARTISANALE Les pâtes de base [With] Crèmes, Confiserie, Entremets, Applications, “Produits finis” [With] Décor, Bordures et lettres, Modelage pâte d’amandes, Nouveaux entremets, Pièces de prestige. [With] PAINS SPÉCIAUX ET DÉCORÉS 40 pains spéciaux, Pains et Viennoiseries fantaisie Techniques et applications du décor Pièces artistiques. Sous la direction de Pierre Michalet and Jean Chazalon. Éditions St.-Honoré .... Paris 1984-7.
Together 4 vols. 4to. Profusely illus. throughout with colour photos. French text. Very good in sl. chipped d/ws.
£100.00 [ref: 189479]
DIE NEUZEITLICHE KONDITOREI in 720 Rezepten. Handbuch für die Gesamte Konditorei mit Bildern und Werdegängen. Heinrich Killinger Verlagsgellschaft M.B.H. N.d.
4to. 334pp. + [ii]. 20 cold. plates, numerous ills. Original cloth, silver and black design to spine with minor loss.
£90.00 [ref: 147923]
MONOGRAPHIE DU THÉ Description Botanique, Torréfaction Composition Chimique, Propriétés Hygiéniques de Cette Feuille. Paris Chez l’Auteur 1843.
1st Ed. 160pp. + [i] Advert. Complete with 17 plates, t.p. vignette, engraved advert. Light sporadic browning, original blue ribbed cloth, spine sl. chipped, sm. chip to lower board.
Liste des principaux auteurs qui ont écrit sur le thé: p.155-157
£180.00 [ref: 174243]
ENGLISH COOKERY BOOKS To the Year 1850. The Holland Press 1979.
3rd Imp. Crown 8vo. [viii] + 192pp. Good in original gilt lettered cloth with some very minor soiling.
£20.00 [ref: 193659]
THE EXPERIENCED ENGLISH HOUSEKEEPER, For the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written purely from Practice and Dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton ... Consisting of near nine Hundred Original Receipts, most of which never appeared in Print. Part I. Lemon Pickle, Browning for all Sorts of made Dishes ... Part II. All Kinds of Confectionary ... Part III. Pickling, Potting, and Collaring, Wines ... and a correct List of every Thing in Season for every Month in the Year. Printed for R. Baldwin ... 1786.
10th Ed. [iv] + iii + [i] + 384pp. + [xiv] + [ii]. Port. frontis., 3 folding plates. Inscription, some light browning, light stain to head of leaves upto pp.25, rebound in speckled half calf with cloth boards, gilt ruled raised bands with gilt lettered title label to spine.
Elizabeth Raffald [née Whitaker], (bap. 1733, d. 1781), cook and writer on cookery. ODNB ‘... In 1769 Mrs Raffald published [the above work] consisting of near 800 original receipts. Six more genuine editions were published during her lifetime, all, according to their title pages, ‘printed for the author’ and ‘sold by R. Baldwin’, the London printer. Baldwin reportedly paid Mrs Raffald £1400 for the copyright. Apparently when he suggested certain northern expressions in her work be altered, she replied: ‘What I have written I proposed to write at the time; it was written deliberately, and I cannot admit to any alteration’ (Harland's Manchester collectanea, 147). The popularity of her work is shown by the many editions, mostly spurious, published in England and in Dublin during her lifetime and after. She is said to have refused to allow any portraits to be published, so that the first, from a painting by P. McMorland, appeared in the eighth edition in 1782, after her death ...’
£280.00 [ref: 198726]
A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF MODERN WINES. London: Printed for Whittaker & Co. 1836.
2nd Ed. With Considerable Additions, and a New Preface Developing the System of the Port Wine Trade. 16pp. publ. adverts. + xlviii + 423pp. Numerous ills. Ex.-libris Joseph S. Hirst, very light browning, original cloth, minor bumping to edges, gilt title to sl. frayed spine intruding sl. onto joints.
Cyrus Redding (1785-1870) was a British journalist and wine writer, the above work was first published in 1833.
£200.00 [ref: 188446]
THE GASTRONOMIC REGENERATOR: A Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery, With Nearly Two Thousand Practical Receipts Suited to the Income of all Classes. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings and Correct and Minute Plans How Kitchens of Every Size, From the Kitchen of Royal Palace to That of the Humble Cottage, Are to be Constructed and Furnished. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. 1850.
7th Ed. Thick 8vo. xl + 720pp. + 18pp. + 30pp. Port. frontis., additional ills. t.p., 2 folding plates, engraved port., 10 plates, 3 plans. Ownership inscription, some very light browning, original gilt lettered blind embossed cloth, corners sl. frayed with upper corner to upper board bumped, rebacked with much of original spine laid down, sl. darkening to spine.
Alexis Benoît Soyer 1810–1858), chef. ODNB ‘... left Paris in 1831 and moved to England where his brother was then chef to the duke of Cambridge. Soyer worked in several noble households, including those of the duke of Sutherland and the marquess of Waterford, and then for four years with William Lloyd of Aston Hall, near Oswestry. In 1837 he was appointed chef to the newly created Reform Club in Pall Mall ... At the Reform Club Soyer installed modern kitchens: he was one of the first to use gas for cooking, and his culinary domain became a showplace, and the venue for a number of magnificent displays of his art. ... He also wrote a small book entitled Délassements culinaires (1845), followed in 1846 by [the above work], written primarily for the grander households with a kitchen staff. Soyer was approached by the government in 1847 and asked to go to Ireland to install soup kitchens, in order to help alleviate the famine. This kind of work suited him well, and he set up a kitchen at the Royal Barracks in Dublin capable of feeding a thousand people an hour; the soup was cheap and tasty even if it did not constitute a balanced diet. On his return to London he published Soyer's Charitable Cookery, or, The Poor Man's Regenerator (1848), sold for 6d., 1d. being returned to the poor fund. He also continued his soup kitchens by providing for the Huguenot silk weavers of Spitalfields, who were then being affected by a treaty with France that allowed cheap imported silk into this country ...’
£225.00 [ref: 197671]
ALL ABOUT TEA. NY Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Co. 1935.
1st Ed. 2 vols. Sm. 4to. xiv + 559pp. + [vi] + 568pp. Profusely ills., e.p. maps. Original gilt lettered cloth, spines very sl. chipped.
The author also penned another classic ‘All About Coffee’. With ‘A Complete Reference Table of the all the principal kinds of tea grown in the world; a Tea Thesaurus; A Tea Chronology ...; A Tea Bibliography containing 200 authors and titles; a Tea Dictionary ...; And an index of 10,000 references.
£450.00 [ref: 199139]