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Cookery.- Recipe Book manuscript 120pp. 9pp. index at front 2?pp. loosely inserted a few pp. with manuscript recipes tacked on to ff. with pins slightly browned contemporary red straight-grained morocco slight stain marks on both covers a little rubbed and marked corners bumped 4to " [c. 1810]. *** Recipes include: "Gooseberry in Apple Trifle"; "Mock Turtle Soup"; "Lord Pembroke`s receipt to make Port Wine"; "Tomatoe Ketchup"; "Mode of preserving and using the seed of the wild Artichoke"; "French Puffs"; "Pickled Oysters"; "Black Cherry Brandy"; "Roasting Coffee"; "Yorkshire Cakes"; "English Claret"; "Jersey Cake"; "Negus" etc.
Recipe Book.- Bolton (B.) Collection of cookery and medical recipes manuscript in several hands 120pp. excluding blanks ruled in red throughout a few ff. in pencil slightly browned original vellum soiled covers slightly splayed 8vo " 10th February 1819. *** Recipes include: Cowslip Wine; "Medicine for the Hooping Cough"; Hair Water; Pop; "To make 64 Gallons of Peppermint Cordial"; "Eruption of the Face" (for which they recommend arsenic); Alpine Cream.
Accum (Frerick) A Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread beer wine spirituous liquors tea coffee [&c.] first edition title with aquatint vignette some foxing or spotting including title contemporary half calf spine gilt joints splitting but holding firm [Bitting p.2; Cagle 532; Simon BG 17; GM 1604.2] 8vo " 1820. *** Accum was appalled by the adulteration of foodstuffs that was taking place. He refused to be fooled by the clever mixtures made by the `fraudsters` and carried out a number of scientific experiments to prove his accusations. His work without doubt improved the quality of food available to the public of the time.
Wine.- Wine and Spirit Adulterators Unmasked. To Which is Annexed a Brief Exposition of the Deleterious Nature of the British Brandy and of the Gross Frauds which are Practised therewith third edition half-title engraved frontispiece ink stains to outer margins of a few ff. some foxing and browning original cloth-backed boards joints splitting but holding firm section missing from head of spine [c.1830] § The Vintner`s Brewer`s Spirit Merchants and licensed victualler`s guide fifth edition half-title with an advertisement verso engraved frontispiece foxed original cloth spine gilt 1838 " 8vo (2)
Cornwall.- [Sandys (William)] St. Minver Receipt Book manuscript in several hands 70pp excluding index and blanks slightly browned original vellum manuscript title on upper cover yellowed and soiled sm. 4to " 1831. *** Recipes include: "The Irish Water"; To Preserve Black Plums"; "Horse Raddish Sauce"; "Gingerbread""To dry Strawberries"; "Bitters - a Wine Glass in the Morning"; "Soda Cake"; "For Injury to the Eye" etc.
Savoy.- A Scrap Album of Savoy Related Material for the Year 1906 most pertaining to Lucien Gillain including menus advertisements clippings and various illustrations including an original pencil drawing c. 40ff. silk endpapers some browning to margins original morocco spine gilt rubbed " 1906. *** Lucien Gillain was wine and champagne supplier to the Savoy in the early 20th century. His champagne was branded as the Champagne "Savoy".
Plinius Secundus (Gaius) Historia Naturalis 3 vol. engraved additional pictorial titles some staining to preliminaries of vol.1 contemporary speckled calf gilt spines in compartments joints split but holding firm some creasing to spines rubbed 8vo Leiden & Rotterdam " 1669-1668. *** Book 14 and onwards contains much on wine and food.
JANE AUSTEN: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, ill Hugh Thomson, 1894, recased hf cf gt, aeg + FRANCIS T PALGRAVE: THE GOLDEN TREASURY ….., 1991, old full cf gt, inner dentelles gt, bnd by Riviere & Son, jnts slightly split, top bd loose, aeg + G J CHESTERTON: WINE, WATER AND SONG, 1915, 3rd edn, orig blind stpd suede wraps gt, rebkd, teg + ALLAN M LAING: PRAYERS AND GRACES ……, 1944, orig cl gt, d/w + WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: SONNETS, 1947, hf cf gt + GEORGE BORROW: SELECTIONS FROM GEORGE BORROW, [nd], orig blind stpd suede wraps gt, teg (6)
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