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Manual of Army Catering Services 1954. London The War Office [1954] 4to (245mm x 180mm) illustrations original red cloth faded in places corners bumped With a number of other works including a first edition of Iris Syretts The Iris Syrett Cookery Book Collected Recipes of the Tante Marie School of Cookery (London 1960) Gerald Maurois Cooking with a French touch (London 1952) Claire de Pratz French Home Cooking (London 1958) Constance Spry and Rosemary Humes The Constance Spry Cookery Book (London 1966) Charmian and Spike Hughes Cold Dishes for All Seasons (London 1971) Fanny Cradocks Colourful Cookery (London 1968) and Josephine Emlees Cooking for Texture (London 1957)

A quantity of mostly kitchenalia, including: two meat mincers, a book, Mrs. Beaton's 'All About Cookery', a rolling pin, a pair of secateurs, a jam thermometer, a treacleware cooking pot and sundry.

Ribby and the Patty Pan with Mrs Rabbit Cooking Both BP6 (2)

A 19th Century copper oval cooking stew pan and cover, the pan with iron handles, cover with riveted handle, 55.5cm wide overall

A 19th Century copper oval two-handled fish kettle and cover, with drainer, stamped EP beneath a crown, 59cm wide overall # 100-200. 259. A large 19th Century copper two-handled circular cooking pan, with rolled rim, 49cm diameter

A porcelain bottle, with long neck, enamelled with immortal cooking in a garden, 19th century, 9cm high

"[Lee, N.K.M.]. The Cook's Own Book, and Housekeeper's Register: Comprehending all Valuable Receipts for Cooking Meat, Fish, and Fowl; and Composing Every Kind of Soup, Gravy, Pastry, Preserves, Essences, &c. that have bben Published or Invented During the Last Twenty Years. With Numerous Original Receipts and a Complete System of Confectionery, by a Boston Housekeeper, to which is Added, Miss Leslie's Seventy-Five Receipts for PAstry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, 1st ed., 2nd printing, pub. Munroe & Francis, Boston, 1833, xxxv, (1),300,37pp., leaf C (p.xxvii-xxviii) torn with loss, some spotting throughout, initial pages frayed and browned to edges, modern qtr. calf, 8vo, (this is the 1st ed., 2nd printing, Boston, New York and Philadelphia, 1833 volume, which has the 38 page supplement on pastry, cakes and sweetmeats added. The 1st printing was published in 1832. Cagle 448, Bitting p.536 and Lowenstein 169), together with The New London Cookery and Complete Domestic Guide, by a Lady, [1827], eng. frontis., eng. vign. title, nine eng. plts. (of ten) only (lacking table setting for January & February), some browning and spotting, final eight leaves (index leaves and misbound table of contents) strengthened with archival tissue, recent half calf gilt with morocco label to spine, 8vo (2)"

"Hill (Janet McKenzie). Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-dish Dainties, 1st ed., Boston, 1899, b & w illusts. from photos., 10 pp. commercial ads. at rear, orig. dec. cloth, a little rubbed, together with two later editions of the same work (1913 & 1921), with five others by the same author, plus What One Can Do With a Chafing-Dish. A Guide for Amateur Cooks, By H.L.S., pub. New York, 1894, orig. linen-backed printed boards, a little soiled and minor wear to extrems., oblong 8vo, plus Filippini, One Hundred Ways of Cooking Fish/One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs, New York & Boston, 1892, orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed, small oblong 8vo, and six others of chafing dish interest (17)"

Dolls house contents including a cooking range, upholstered suite of chairs, high-level lavatory and plastic kitchen appointments

A brass Chinese cooking vessel, for hot coals to heat stock, with wire spoons for cooking, turned wood handles, 30cm tall

Border Fine Arts group 'In From the Cold' (collies and cooking range), model no JH62, 16.5cm high on wooden plinth

A Royal Albert Beatrix Potter Figure, Cotton Tail, BP-6a, another, Mrs Rabbit cooking, BP-6a, (second), and another Hunca Munca cooking, BP-6a (second) (3)

Trade Catalogues. The Incandescent Gas Light Co. Ltd., Price List, 1894-95, 30 pp., num. b&w illusts. of lamps and light fittings, orig. printed wrappers, a little frayed and chipped at edges, slim 4to, together with James Lloyd & Co. Ltd., Illustrated Price List of Bassinettes, Mail Carts & Invalid Carriages, 1906, 72 pp., num. b&w illusts. from photos., orig. printed wrappers, a little frayed and chipped at edges, 4to, plus Winstone & Co. Ltd., Ironmongers Specialities, n.d., c. 1880s, 931 pp., num. illusts., printed in blue throughout, incl. fireplaces and cooking ranges, etc., orig. plum morocco, worn on spine, small square 4to, and three others (6)

4 glass OXO signs: Variations, 2 cubes with wording variations: "Oxe Cube for stews and gravies", and "Oxo cub invaluable for cooking", 9 1/2" x 6 1/2"; and Oxo 11" x 5". All in wood frames; together with a Solo Margarine enamelled sign 16" x 10", 2 small tinplate signes "Camel Health Salt" etc, plus a few other items, FC to VGC some age wear, rusting (11)

Mrs Rabbit Cooking, BP/10a

3 Graduated Early Copper Tin Lined Cooking Pans, Copper Serving Dish And Old Copper Kettle

A 19th Century Staffordshire Baluster Jug relief moulded with figures cooking and sheltering in tents with foliate decoration to top and handle. Height 7".

Rachel Field - "Irons in the Fire" - A history of cooking equipment, published for Crowood Press, 1984 (one volume), and a selection of other books of kitchen interest (one box)

MRS RABBIT COOKING WITH ALDERMAN PTOLEMY AND GOODY TIPTOES [ALL BP6] 3

A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE SPILL VASE modelled as two dancing gentleman flanking a cooking pot, oval base with black line, 19th century, 6 1/2" high

Broadside. Stratton and Crowder's Manufactory and Warehouse, Near the Magdalen, Blackfriers-Road, for the Following New and Patent Inventions First, The Patent Antifuelist Smoak-Jack., for a Laundry., for a Camp., The Patent Magic Stove., Copper Utensils for Cooking., Patent Alarums., c.1795, eng. illust. of a kitchen range, with text printed beneath, watermark dated 1795, left margin trimmed, approx. 400 x 230mm (1)

The Young Woman's Companion & Instructor, in grammar, writing, arithmetic, geography, drawing, book-keeping, chronology, history, letter-writing, cooking, carving, pickling, preserving, brewing, wine making, &c., &c., 1st ed., Manchester, J. Aston, 1806, title with small printer's vign., iv + 500 pp., four single-page eng. plts., some soiling and light browning throughout, page 37/38 with large tear, without loss, now attached with three small strips of old paper, modern boards with paper label to spine, 8vo Copy located at Bodleian Library, Oxford only, which calls for an addtional 80-page section at the end, not present in this copy. (1)

*Fragonard (Honore). Les Baignets, & Dites Donc S'Il-Vous-Plait, a pair of 18th c. copper engravings, by Nicolas De Launay, after Fragonard, pub. Paris, De Launay, the first showing a group of children by an open fire, with a woman cooking oysters, the other showing a group of children, with woman holding a large loaf of bread, etc., oval central image to each, with decorative and architectural border design, the second engraving a proof before dedication and imprint, each approx. 29 x 32 cm, matching frames, glazed. The second engraving is reproduced as plate 34 in Ralf Nevill's Old French Line Engravings. (2)

Bitting (Katherine Golden). Gastronomic Bibliography, 1939, Facsimile Edition, pub. Maurizio Martino, c. 1980s, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, together with Vicaire (G.), Bibliographie Gastronomique, 2nd ed., 1954, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Coyle (L. Patrick), Cook's Books, an affectionate guide to the literature of food and cooking, 1st ed., 1985, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, and Patten (Marguerite), Books for Cooks, a bibliography of cookery, pub. Bowker, 1975, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus other bibliographical reference (Elizabeth Driver, A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain, 1875-1914, 1989, Dena Attar, A Bibliography of Household Books Published in Britain 1800-1914, pub. 1987, E. Alan Baker & D. J. Foskett, Bibliography of Food, 1936-56, pub. 1958, Eric Quayle, Old Cookbooks, An Illustrated History, pub. Studio Vista, 1978, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, My Cookery Books, reprinted Holland Press, 1983, Limited Edition 45/500 & Gerard Oberle, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus ou Histoyre du Boire et du Manger en Europe, Paris, 1989), mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo/4to (10)

David (Elizabeth). Cooking with Le Creuset, 1st ed., Cresta Press, 1963, illusts. to text, orig. printed card wrappers, 4to, together with ten others, mostly Elizabeth David Ltd. pamphlets, c.late 60s. First item Presentation copy signed by the author. With a chatty ALS from Elizabeth David on headed notepaper and dated November 13th 1963 loosely inserted. (11)

David (Elizabeth). A Book of Mediterranean Food, 1st ed., 1950, b & w illusts. and decorations by John Minton, orig. cloth in d.j., together with French Country Cooking, 1st ed., 1951, b & w illusts. and decorations by John Minton, orig. cloth in chipped and repaired d.j., plus Summer Cooking, 1st ed., 1955, b & w illusts. by Adrian Daintrey, orig. cloth in slightly chipped and repaired d.j., and another 1st ed. copy of Summer Cooking in variant d.j., plus other works by Elizabeth David (French Country Cooking, 2nd ed., 1958, Italian Food, 1st ed., 1954, French Provinical Cooking, 1st ed., 1960, English Bread and Yeast Cookery, 1st ed., 1977, 2 copies, including one signed, & Harvest of the Cold Months, 1st ed., 1994), all orig. cloth in d.j.s, earlier vols. rubbed and marked to d.j.s., all 8vo, and other related Elizabeth David reprints, paperbacks, etc. (approx. 35)

Grigson (Jane). Charcuterie & French Pork Cookery, 1st ed., 1967, Good Things, 1st ed., 1971, Fish Cookery, 1st ed., 1973, English Food, 1st ed., 1974, The Mushroom Feast, 1st ed., 1975, Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book, 1st ed., 1978, Food with the Famous, 1st ed., 1979, The Observer French Cookery School, 1st ed., 1980 (signed), Jane Grigson's Fruit Book, 1st ed., 1982, The Observer Guide to European Cookery, 1st ed., 1983 (signed), & The Observer Guide to British Cookery, 1st ed., 1984 (with Als, contained in envelope inside front cover), all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo/4to, together with Year of the French, illust. Glynn Boyd Harte, Warren Editions Christmas 1982, orig. printed wrappers, small slim 8vo, plus other works by Jane Grigson, various, including The Cooking Game, the delicious new family board game, with recipes by Jane Grigson, n.d., c. 1985 (25)

*Scrap album. A good late 19th century album containing approx. 270 items of advertising ephemera relating to chocolate and confectionery, drinks, soap, toiletries, household products, etc., incl. many postcard-size advertising leaflets, bookmarks, shaped novelty items with lift-up flaps, etc., incl. Davies' Breakfast Bacon, Fidex Safety Oil, Mellin's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, Price's Glycerine, Monkey Brand 20th Century Camera (with movable shutter), Maypole soap, Quaker Oats, 'Vinolia' toiletries, Brownlie & Sons biscuits, Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen, Bovril, Oxo, Rippingille's patent cooking stoves, Pear's soap, Nepenthe Anodyne Tincture, Huntley & Palmer's biscuits, and much more, orig. cloth, damp stained (not affecting contents), folio (1)

Weather Bird Press. Home Cooking, an excerpt from a letter to Eleanor Friede, December, 1970, from M. F. K. Fisher, Passadena, Weather Bird Press, 2000, orig. etched frontis. by Vance Gerry (signed in pencil), 12 pp. in all, incl. front blank, untrimmed, orig. patterned cloth stiff wrappers, printed in a limited edition of 50 copies, slim 4to, together with Hearty Fare, A Gentlemen's Cookery Book by Bunston Quayles, Weather Bird Press, 1990, b&w illusts. to text, orig. cloth backed boards, in d.j., small 8vo, printed in an edition of 150 copies, plus De Gustibus series, pub. Weather Bird Press, nos. 1-8, 1998-2003, each bound in orig. patterned wrappers, slim 8vo, printed in editions of 100 copies each, and Pringle (John), A Collection of 19th century Jamaican Cookery and Herbal Recipes, privately printed, 1984, orig. half-cloth gilt, in slipcase, 4to, limited edition 53/100, inscribed by the author to front endpaper, plus Old School Press. The Fruits of Jane Austen, an anthology of references to fruit from the novels and letters of Jane Austen, with wood-engs. by Simon Brett, 1994, b&w wood-eng. illusts. to text, orig. qtr. cloth, small folio, limited ed. 67/135, signed by the artist, and four other modern private press booklets, etc., similar (16)

Williams (Howard). The Ethics of Diet. A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practise of Flesh-Eating, London & Manchester, 1883, orig. dec. cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, with others relating to vegetarianism, vegetable cookery, invalid and nursery cooking, etc. (3 shelves)

Paston-Williams (Sara). The Art of Dining. A History of Cooking & Eating, pub. National Trust, 1993, num. col. and b & w illusts. from photos., orig. cloth in d.j., square 4to, together with Spufford (Peter), Power and Profit. The Merchant in Medieval Europe, 1st ed., 2002, num. illusts., some col., orig. cloth in d.j., large 8vo, with others relating to the history of food, etc., incl. facsimile reprints of early cookery books, many in d.j.s, G/VG (3 shelves)

Sylvester (Charles, engineer). The Philosophy of Domestic Economy; as Exemplified in the Mode of Warming, Ventilating, Washing, Drying & Cooking, and in Various Arrangements Contributing to the Comfort and Convenience of Domestic Life, Adopted in the Derbyshire General Infirmary, and More Recently, on a Greatly Extended Scale, in Several other Public Buildings, Newly Erected in this Country, 1st ed., Nottingham, 1819, eng. frontis., errata slip before dedication leaf, ten eng. plts. at rear, some minor scattered spotting, untrimmed, orig. boards, some wear to spine, slim 4to (1)

ROYAL ALBERT BEATRIX POTTER FIGURES MR BENJAMIN BUNNY, PETER RABBIT, MRS RABBIT COOKING, BENJAMIN ATE A LETTUCE LEAF AND MRS RABBIT [5]

Fairclough, M. A., The Ideal Cookery Book, London, George Routledge and Sons Limited, [n.d.], 4to (260 x 185mm.), half title, illustrations, many colour, later cloth, rubbed With a number of other cookery related books including Gwen L. Hughes 'Perfect Cooking A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Kitchen' (Birmingham, n.d.), 'Perfect Cooking Green Edition by Parkinson' (Birmingham, n.d.), 'Cooking with Elizabeth Craig' (London, 1932), 'Radiation Cookery Book' (London, n.d.), C. L. T. Beeching's 'Law's Grocer's Manual' (London, n.d.), and Stanley Wrench's 'The Complete Illustrated Cookery' (London, 1935)

A Doulton Lambeth miniature stoneware cooking pot, with silver lid by Saunders by Shepherd and a silver mounted miniature beaker, 1.75ins

Lladro figure of an oriental girl cooking, and another of a Hawaian flower girl

A Royal Albert Beatrix Potter figure modelled as Mrs Rabbit Cooking, boxed.

a porcelain biscuit figure of a woman on a bench, Gardner Manufactory, late 19th century, with two large cooking pots, the woman stirring a smaller pot, stamped with impressed manufactory mark, and the number 83 height: 14cm., 5.5in

A Thai primitive earthenware lidded cooking pot, on later hearth base, 36 x 32cm (14 x 12 1/2in), possibly from Ayundhya

Three circular cast iron cooking skillets with overhanging handles; a Victorian cast iron kettle spit with bracket and adjustable hook, complete with kettle; a set of Garland & Co kitchen scales with brass weights; and a heavy Victorian flat iron. (A lot).

Miscellaneous treen items including a pine wallhanging salt box with angled lid, a set of baluster turned toy skittles, turned bottle holders, two ironing boards, rolling pins, a cutlery tray, various carved wood cooking moulds, a boomerang, etc; and an old leather bag. (A lot).

A Maling cooking bowl with moulded rim decorated in blue and white with oriental landscape scenes beneath fringe border - printed Maling marks, impressed numbers; together with a similar nineteenth century oriental pattern blue and white bowl. (2).

Georgian copper straining spoon ,with a wood handle and bearing initials and a copper cylindrical cooking pot with twin handles, 11 1/2in (29.3cm) diameter

Three Boxes of Books: Topography, Natural History, Cooking (3 Boxes)

PIGLING BLAND [BP10] WITH MRS RABBIT COOKING BP6 [2]

APPLEY DAPPLY WITH OLD MR BOUNCER, MRS RABBIT COOKING AND POORLY PETER RABBIT ALL BP6 [4]

Three Beswickware [Royal Doulton] Beatrix Potter figures - "Hunca Munca Sweeping", number 2584, 8 cms, "Mrs Tiggy-Winkle", number 1107, 8 cms. [both boxed] and "Mrs Rabbit Cooking", number 3278, 10 cms. [unboxed].

Gian Domeninco Valentino Active Rome ? 1661 - 1681 A kitchen interior with a still life with various cooking utensils, chickens, a deer, cabbages and a cat signed with monogram upper left: G.D.V oil on canvas 71.5 by 97 cm.; 28.25 by 38.25 in.

Louis-Philippe Crepin Paris 1772 - 1851 Wooded landscape with a figures on a track; Noctural river landscape with figures cooking over a fire a pair, both insribed and dated on the reverse of the stretcher, the former: Crepin 1790; the latter Crepin Fecit ...789 both oil on canvas, tondos each: 12.3 by 12.3 cm.; 5 by 5 in. (2).

Five Japanese stained ivory okimonos, first half of the 20th Century a standing figure of Hotei and a bearded figure standing beside a cooking pot, both signed Doo on a red lacquer reserve; and three sages, one holding a staff, one tying a bale and one a fisherman, all signed Sansui - 2?in. (5.7cm.) high. (5)

VICTORIAN ALBUM OF ADVERTISING NOVELTIES: An album compiled in the 1890' s comprising, mounted to both sides of 25 leaves, upwards of 150 chromolitho. advertisements, a number being novelties; together with black & white advertisements, magazine covers, etc. The coloured advertisements include inserts and 20 die-cut shaped advertisements for Suttons Seeds, Suchard, Old Highland Whisky, Paysandu Ox Tongues, Mellin's Cod Liver Oil, Hudson's Soap, etc. Together with 15 'lift-up' advertising novelties including Sunlight Soap ( an opening cupboard revealing calendar for 1897); the Eureka Gas Cooker (opening door revealing cooking meat); Mellin's Food with calendar for 1890; Robinson & Cleaver (die-cut vanity case opening to reveal contents); Vimbos, Globe Polish, Maypole Soap, Monkey Brand Soap, W.H. Dog Biscuits, Peak Frean's Jewell Cakes, Rowntree, etc. Together with two Mellin's booklets Three Blind Mice & The Three Bears and four "mechanical" or "pop-up" novelties for Richmond Gas Cookers (maid with cooker, the scene changing by moving slats when cord is pulled - not tried); Henry Tellon's Superb Gossamer powder (young girl powders elderly General's face when opened); Express Dairy Milk (Milkman at door, when opened a pop-up scene of children with maid is revealed) & Brooke's Soap (a frying pan with movable handle causing monkey to emerge). Oblong folio (15 x 11 inches), boards detached, lacking backstrip, album leaves browned and edge chipped, some leaves loose.

GEORGE VI - WW2: Four "Traveller's Ration Books" issued to the Royal Family on 8th July 1940 by the Ministry of Food. Each 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches; wire stitched as issued, in excellent condition. The pink printed front wrappers filled-in by hand with the "consumer's name & address", i.e. His Majesty The King, Buckingham Palace, London S.W.1; Her Majesty The Queen, Buckingham Palace London S.W.1; Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, The Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berks.; & Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, The Royal Lodge, Windsor, Berks. Only a few meat, bacon & ham, butter & margarine, cooking fats, & sugar coupons remain within together with "spare" coupons. George VI insisted that he and his family lived off rations in common with his subjects; a rare and evocative survival.

Allen Jones French Cooking, from Hommage Picasso (L. 66) screenprint in colours, 1973, on wove paper, signed in pencil, inscribed 'AP', one of 30 artist's proofs, aside from the numbered edition of 90, published by Propylen Verlag, Berlin, and Pantheon Press, Rome, printed to the edges of the full sheet, overall rubbing and surface dirt, soft creasing at the upper sheet edge with a little associated cracking to the printed surface, otherwise generally in good condition L., S. 600 x 795mm.

A Royal Doulton model of "Tinkle Bell" and a Carlton Ware crested china Cooking Range.

An Arts and Crafts Brass Chamber Stick, the handle formed as a dragon, and a brass inkwell, modelled as a cooking pot held by a horned devil (2)

A quantity of W.H Goss shapes including a Staffordshire Tyg, Brighton and St Albans cooking pot, Halesworthy.

A LATE 17TH-CENTURY COPPER-ALLOY TRIPOD SKILLET, by Francis Sturton II, (born 1672), of South Petherton, Somerset, the handle cast with the inscription "WIL THIS PLES YOV", the body having cast "scratch" marks of the foundry and maker, raised on three reeded legs, 49cm, (19.25in) overall *** Literature: 1. For a similar skillet by the same maker, see Butler, Roderick and Green, Christopher, English Bronze Cooking Vessels & Their Founders 1350-1830, p113. 2. Christies South Kensington, Sale of the John Fardon Collection, Wednesday 1st May, 1996; a similar skillet with this handle inscription, sold as Lot 163.

AN 18TH-CENTURY CONTINENTAL (POSSIBLY DUTCH) COPPER COOKING VESSEL, the cylindrical body with rounded base having a repoussé border of floral scrollwork, the rim with vertical lugs pierced for the swing handle, 30cm, (11.75in) diameter

English 19th century cooking and recipe manuscript, ca. 169 leaves, with various cooking methods and typical recipe's of the age, covering all aspects of ingredients used, preeration, and the actually cooking, 8vo (200mm x 160mm.) contemporary half calf, spine worn

20th Century School - Carved hardwood bas relief of village women and children cooking, 43x102cm