(Hunter, Andrew). CULINA Famulatrix medicinae: or, receipts in modern cookery. With a medical commentary / written by Ignotus [pseud.], and revised by A. Hunter. York: Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence ... 1806.
4th Ed. 308pp. Frontis. Ownership inscription to title page, some browning, contemporary blind embossed calf boards, minor wear, rebacked in modern calf, gilt lettered label to spine.
£250.00 [ref: 291154]

Abbots, Emma-Jayne and Lavis, Anna. (Editors). WHY WE EAT, HOW WE EAT. Contemporary Encounters between Foods and Bodies. Ashgate 2013.
1st Ed. xvi + 310pp. 5 figures, 2 tables, 1 box. Very good in original pale blue and white lettered black coloured pictorial laminated boards.
Critical Food Studies.
£25.00 [ref: 283709]

Alderson, Mrs. THE TOWN AND COUNTRY COOK’S GUIDE: Being Plain Directions for the Most Approved and Economical Methods of Cooking, for the Use of Young Cooks, as well as Private Families, Who require a useful and cheap Compendium of Cookery, &c. Hull: Printed and Published by Joseph Noble N.d. c.[1820].
1st Ed. Thin sm. 8vo. 68pp. Folding frontis. Pp.7-10 shaved along fore-edge, light browning, contemporary half roan with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, gilt lettered spine.
Scarce.
£250.00 [ref: 291121]

Banfield, Walter T. “MANNA” A Comprehensive Treatise on Bread Manufacture. Maclaren & Sons Ltd. N.d. c.[1947].
2nd Ed. Large 8vo. xii + 519pp. 186 ills. Gilt lettered blue buckram sl. faded and rubbed.
£25.00 [ref: 293777]

Bautte, A. MODERN FRENCH AND ENGLISH COOKERY For Private Families, Hotels, Restaurants, and Clubs, containing over 3500 Recipes. Malcomson & Co., Limited 1901.
1st Ed. Royal 8vo. xvi + 619pp. + [i] adverts. Port. frontis., numerous plates, dec. head and tail pieces. Marginal browning, very occasional pencil markings, lower leading corners of p. vi-viii browned, black e.ps. with unobtrusive ownership signature to front pastedown, some glue? marks to pastedowns, fore-edges of f.e.ps. very sl. chipped, hinges neatly repaired, original gilt lettered dark blue cloth, lightly soiled and rubbed, bevelled edges, wear to lower edges and corners, rebacked with original spine laid down.
£68.00 [ref: 283817]

Beeton, Mrs. HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT. A Guide to Cookery in all Branches. Daily Suites, Menu Making, Mistress & Servant, Home Doctor ... Marketing, the Nursery, Trussing & Carving, Home Lawyer. Ward, Lock & Co. 1907.
New Ed., Revised, enlarged, brought up to date and fully illustrated. Thick 8vo. viii + 2056pp. + 24pp. adverts. Colour frontis., 29 colour plates, numerous b/w. plates. Advert. e.ps. lightly browned and spotted, lower f.e.p. sl. creased, lower hinge sl. cracked but firm, original dec. gilt lettered morocco backed cloth boards, cloth lightly soiled and rubbed with sl. wear to corners, spine rubbed and scuffed and sl. creased.
£60.00 [ref: 288354]

Beeton, Mrs. HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT. A Complete Cookery Book with Sections on Household Work, Carving and Trussing, Servants’ Duties, The Art of “Using-up,” ... Etiquette, the Nursery, Marketing, the Home Lawyer, etc. etc. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited N.d.
New Ed. Thick 8vo. xvi + 1680pp. + 8pp. adverts. 32 colour plates and nearly 700 b/w. ills. Advert. e.ps., f.e.ps. lightly spotted, half title browned, ownership inscription with previous name scribbled out, sl. remnants of selotape to head and tail of front pastedown, sl. shaken, original gilt lettered two tone red & beige cloth with dec. blind tooling to spine, some minor soiling and rubbing, some remnants of selotape down joint of the two different coloured cloth, lower edge and corners of boards rubbed with sl. wear, spine sl. rubbed and chipped at head and tail with sl. creased vertically down the middle.
£60.00 [ref: 289310]

Blondeau, R. LA CUISINE Guide Pratique de la Ménagère. 1.800 Recettes avec le Manière d’Accomoder les Restes. L’Art de Dresser la Table Choix des Menus le Service. Société d’Éditions Littéraires Françaises N.d. c.[1946].
511pp. Ills. French text. Browning, original cloth backed pictorial boards, spine sl. bumped, some marking and fading.
£40.00 [ref: 291140]

Brillat-Savarin, (J. A.) PHYSIOLOGIE DU GOUT de ... Avec une Préface par Ch. Monselet. Paris Librarie des Bibliophiles E. Flammarion ... N.d. c.[1879].
2 vols. Sm. 8vo. xlviii + 276pp. + 327pp. French text. Light browning, original wrapps. bound in, marbled e.ps., French half leather with marbled boards, intricate gilt tooling and lettering to spines, t.e.g.
Vicaire pp.120. Cookbook Library pp.265 ’... Brillat-Savarin, a lawyer whose reputation rests on twenty aphorisms written on two pages at the start of a somewhat tedious book entitled [the above] Brillat-Savarain was at his best when he wrote about food-in his discussion of the many roles of sugar, in his praise of truffles, ‘the diamond of the kitchen’ and in his enjoyment of a wild turkey hunt and subsequent feast during a visit to the new postcolonial America ...’ Nouvelle Bibliotheque Classique.
£175.00 [ref: 291122]

Brillat-Savarin, (J.A.) THE PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE, Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. With an Introduction by Arthur Machen; and embellished with designs by Andrew Johnson. Peter Davies 1925.
Sm. 4to. xx + 326pp. Port. frontis., numerous b/w. designs. Undecipherable pencil inscription, japon backed marbled boards, some loss to paper at tail of boards, stained and frayed d/w. with loss.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of of the above book became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.
£85.00 [ref: 278363]