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Accum (Fredrick). A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons, Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spirituous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy. and Methods of Detecting Them, 1st ed., 1820, aquatint vign. title, one wood eng. to text, minor spotting to prelims., contemp. half calf gilt, slight wear to joints and head & foot of spine, 8vo Cagle 532, Bitting p.2. (1)
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Accum (Fredrick). A Treatise on the Art of Making Wine from Native Fruits; Exhibiting the Chemical Principles upon which the Art of Wine Making Depends; The Fruits Best Adapted for Home made Wines, and the Method of Preparing Them, 1st ed., 1820, title with hand-col. eng. vign., 92pp., 24pp. pubs. cat. at rear (cont. several reviews of Accum's Treatise on Adulterations of Food), orig. plain boards, rubbed and marked and some wear to spine, 8vo (1)
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Digby (Kenelm). The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt. Opened: Whereby is Discovered Several Ways for Making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &c. Together with Excellent Directions for Cookery, as Also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c., Published by His Son's Consent, 1st ed., 1669, pp.[4],312,[11], lacks port. frontis., lower corner of leaf L6 torn with loss of text, 19th c. manuscript notes to front free endpaper, 19th c. cloth, joints slightly worn, small 8vo Cagle 645a; Bitting p.124; Oxford p.34; Wing D1427. (1)
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Kirwan (A.V.). Host and Guest, A Book about Dinners, Wines and Desserts, pub. Bell & Daldy, 1864, inscribed "with the author's compliments" to half-title, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, together with Doran (Dr. John), Table Traits, with Something on Them, pub. Bentley, 1854, new endpapers, orig. cloth boards, rebacked, rubbed, edges worn, 8vo, plus Social Etiquette, the Art of Cookery and Hints on Carving, 4th Thousand, Houlston and Wright, 1860, title a little browned, upper hinge cracked, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. stained, 8vo, and Ricket (Edward), The Gentleman's Table Guide, and Table Companion to the Art of Dining and Drinking, with Table Habits and Curious Dishes of the Various Nations, with Practical Recipes for Wine Cups, American Drinks, Punches, Cordials , 3rd ed., Warne, 1873, frontis., title printed in red and black, illusts. to text, trade ads. at rear and to endpapers, a.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus three others, related (7)
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MacCulloch (John). Remarks on the Art of Making Wine, with Suggestions for the Application of its Principles to the Improvement of Domestic Wines, 2nd ed., 1817, half-title, 19th c. half calf, extrems. rubbed, 12mo, together with Philips (John), Cider, Apoem in Two Books, with Notes Provincial, Historical, and Classical, by Charles Dunster, 1791, contemp. tree calf, red morocco label to spine, joints cracked, slim 8vo, with Clarke (Ebenezer), The Worship of Bacchus a Great Delusion, 2nd ed., 1877, wood eng. illusts., orig. cloth, slim 8vo (3)
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*Manuscript receipt book, 'Lord Bradford Rent Book 1742' [as titled in ink to upper cover], 63 pages of readable ink manuscript text, approx. 40 blank leaves, includes receipts for Pox, Veal Cutlets, Rhubarb Wine, Savoy Biscuits, Rock Cakes, Pigeons in a Hole, etc., a few leaves detached, contemp. vellum, some fraying to upper joint, 193 x 168 mm Judging by the slack in the spine this was probably once a thicker volume and may have began life as a rent book only to end up in the kitchens. (1)
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*Manuscript receipt book, Mary Hopecraft, Evenley [Northants], watermarked 1796, 56 pages of manuscript receipts in a neat hand, 30 blank leaves to rear, including Omelette Soufflee, Green Gooseberry Wine, Lemon Cheese Cake, etc., contemp. limp sheep, marked with some fraying to head and foot of spine, 185 x 114 mm (1)
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*Manuscript receipt books, Mary Sykes, Cheadle, 1864, 86 numbered pages of ink manuscript receipts, 9 blank leaves, includes Calf's Foot Jelly, Everton Toffee, Mulled Ale, Hair Wash, Foot and Mouth Disease, etc., some printed receipts pasted in, contemp. sheep-backed cloth boards, spine defective and covers near detached, 230 x 187 mm, together with three other manuscript receipt books including an 1865 example with 42 pages of receipts including Plum Pudding and the ever present Cowslip Wine, a receipt book in German dated 1806 containing 106 pages of neat ink receipts, plus a 20th century example (4)
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Mitchell & Co., of Belfast, Ltd. Specimens of Bottle Labels, issued by Mitchell & Co., of Belfast , c. 1892, fifty-four fine chromo. labels (numbered 21-68), mounted on thrity-four thick card leaves, including Mitchell's Old Irish Whiskey, Mitchell's Old Heather Dew Whiskey, Cruiskeen Lawn Irish Whiskey, Benmore Scotch Whiskey, London Special Fine Old Scotch Whiskey, Glen Ogle Finest Old Highland Whiskey, and several cognac, wine and cordial labels, orig. plum morocco gilt, the upper cover stamped in gilt with the company name and shield, a little rubbed and minor wear to extrems., small 4to (15 x 12 cm.) The flyleaf bears the companies indelible ink stamp, dated 3 Nov. 92 and the ownership signature in pencil of Mr J. Delaney, Newcastle. (1)
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Simon (André L.). The Blood of the Grape, The Wine Trade Textbook, Duckworth, 1920, light spotting to edges, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, together with A Dictionary of Wine, Cassell, 1935, orig. cloth, sl. sunned, 8vo, plus Bottlescrew Days, Wine Drinking in England during the Eighteenth Century, Duckworth, 1926, b&w frontis. and plts., orig. cloth, stained, a couple of puncture marks to lower cover, 8vo, and Cheeses of the World, 1st ed., Faber, 1956, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Bibliotheca Gastronomica, A Catalogue of Books and Documents on Gastronomy, Holland Press reprint, 1978, orig. cloth in gilt, 8vo, and ten others by Andre Simon (15)
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Williams (J., publisher). Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades: or, Approved Directions, from the best Artists Containing Upwards of One Thousand Approved Receipts Relative to Arts and Trades, 1st Irish ed., pub. Dublin, 1778, early ms. receipt for counterfeit gold bound in at rear, hinges split, contemp. calf, spine rubbed and cracked, with sl. loss at ends, 12mo The rare Dublin edition of a translation of a French work originally published, and possibly written by, Claude Jombert, in Paris in 1714, entitled "Secrets Concernant les Arts et Métiers", and first published in English in 1775. Instructions for the preparation and use of colours, dyes, varnishes, sizes, inks, for manufacturing paste jewellery, wine, vinegar, confectionary, snuff, and with a long section on engraving, and directions for the manufacture of marbled paper, etc. (1)
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Wine. The British Guide; or, a Directory to Housekeepers & Innkeepers. Containing the Best Directions in Making & Managing of Choice British Wines, Compiled by an Experienced Gentleman, printed & published by Nuttall, Fisher, Dixon, Liverpool, 1808, 204pp., orig. printed boards, rebacked, boards marked & rubbed, 12mo (1)
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Worlidge (John). Vinetum Britannicum, or A Treatise of Cider, and such other Wines and Drinks that are extracted from all manner of Fruits Growing in this Kingdom, Together with the Method of Propagating all sorts of Vinous Fruit-Trees, And a Description of the new-invented Ingenio or Mill, for the more expeditious and better making of Cider, And also the right Method of making Metheglin and Birch-Wine, 1st ed., 1676, eng. frontis., minor dampstains to lower margins of first few leaves, contemp. sheep, worn at edges, 8vo Wing W3608. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica 1632. (1)
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Chaptal (Jean-Antoine-Claude). L'Art de Faire, Gouverner, et Perfectionner les Vins, edition originale, seule avouée par l'Auteur, 1st separate ed., Paris, 1801, bound with Charpentier de Cossigny (Joseph Francois), Observations sur l'Art de Faire de Vin, 1st ed., Paris, 1807, half-title, title, + 196 pp.; half-title, title, 16 + 107 pp., some very light marginal foxing, contemp. half calf, modern reback, 8vo See Cagle, A Matter of Taste, 132. The important first appearance of Chaptal's important essay on improving the wine yield by adding sugar to the fermentation process, which became known as 'Chaptalisation'. This essay was included in the second volume of his Traité sur la Culture de la Vigne of the same year. This copy is the second issue of this edition, with the change in the publisher's address from 29 to 38 Quai des Augustins, and is bound with a printed response to Chaptal's proposal by Charpentier de Cossigny. (1)
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Helmont (Jan Baptista van). A Ternary of Paradoxes of the Magnetic Cure of Wounds, [the] Nativity of Tartar in Wine [and the] Image of God in Man, Translated, Illustrated and Ampliated by Walter Charleton, J. Flesher for W. Lee, 1650, eng. frontis. (note written to verso), some early marginalia and underscoring throughout volume, minor damp staining, contemp. sheep, old reback, rubbed and slight, 4to Wing H1401. (1)
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[Kitchiner, William] Apicius Redivivus. The Cook's Oracle: Containing Practical Receipts for Roasting, Boiling, Frying, Broiling, Vegetables, Fish, Hashes, Made Dishes, &c. &c. On the most Economical Plan for Private Families; also, the Art of Composing the most simple, and most highly finished Broths, Gravies, Soups, Sauces, and flavouring Essences: The Quantity of each Article being accurately stated by Weight or measure The Result of actual Experiments made in the Kitchen of a Physician, for the Purpose of Composing A Culinary Code for the Rational Epicure, and augmenting the alimentary Enjoyments of private Families; combining Economy with Elegance; and saving Expense to Housekeepers, and Trouble to Servants, 2nd ed., carefully revised, London, 1818, uncut frontis. of a marketing table, eight pages of music (Anacreontic Song) at the end, mod. qtr. calf, marbled boards, label on spine gilt, thick 8vo The convivial song concludes (con spirito) 'Let me while I live entwine the joys of friendship, love and wine'. Bitting 262: Simon 914ff (later editions). (1)
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*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book of Frances Ball, 1793, 38 leaves including receipts for elderflower wine, tincture of rhubarb, worm powders, syrup of violets, brown wafers, cowslip wine, cherry brandy, dried cherries, various cakes and wines, numbered index of eighty-one recipes at front, heavily waterstained, page edges somewhat frayed and browned, hinges broken, contemp. vellum, rubbed and soiled, small 4to (1)
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*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Cookery Receipts Books, 19th c., including receipts for pickles, lemons, prussian pudding, spatchcock, Westphalia loaves, oyster soup, pickle salmon, walnut catsup, drinks including gooseberry champagne wine, syrup of violets, port wine, white currant cordial and Valencia wine, a few medical receipts including those for rheumatism, cholera, breast poultice, etc., approx. forty leaves, including some loosely inserted, some spotting and browning throughout, contemp. vellum, some soiling and wear, 4to (1)
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Redding (Cyrus). A History and Description of Modern Wines, 2nd ed., with considerable additions, and a new preface developing the system of the port wine trade, London, 1836, 16pp pubs. ads. at front, woodcut vignettes to introduction and all 15 chapters, prelims. heavily spotted, contemp. dark green cloth, spine gilt, 8vo The first edition appeared in 1833. 'No other book written in English on the subject of wines has ever been more popular nor so copiously copied from by later writers'. Simon/Vinaria 8: Gabler 33950; Bitting 391 (3rd edition of 1851). (1)
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Washbourn (Henry, pub.). A Guide to Importers and Purchasers of Wines, containing a Topographical Account of all the Known Vineyards in the World; a Description of the Kind and Quality of their Produce, and a Classification, with the Number of English Imperial Gallons contained in Foreign Measures, Tables of Duties, and Much Useful Information for Merchants, and others Interested in their Choice of Wine, 1828, xvi + 248 + 107 pp., 4 pp. publishers catalogue bound in a front, orig. cloth with paper spine label, rubbed and marked with fraying to margins, 12mo Scarce. No other copies traced. Contains a separately paginated second section entitled 'The Butler's Manual' containing interesting information on the storage and care of wine. (1)
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Wine and Food, A Gastronomical Quarterly, ed. André L. Simon, a run, nos. 1-149, Spring 1934-June/July 1970, col. and b&w illusts., ads. etc., uniformly bound in modern full maroon cloth, in thirty-three vols., 8vo (except final three vols. 4to), together with The Journal of the International Wine & Food Society, vol. 1, no. 1 - vol. 2, no. 4, August 1974 - May 1976, b&w illusts., similarly bound in maroon cloth in 2 vols., plus approx. 46 orig. issues of The Journal of the International Wine & Food Society, 1974-2000, and 14 duplicate orig. issues of Wine & Food, 1964-67 (approx. 80)
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*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Receipts Book kept by Bridget Domvile, dated 1695, twenty-one leaves of medical receipts, including the distilling of treackle water, a water for the stone and gravell, to make wormwood water, a tobaco for rhume, for a sore breast, recipes for scurvy, for the obstruction of the lungs, a powder to prevent miscaring ('Take dragons blood 1 dram powder of red corall 1 dram ambergreene the weight of 2 barley cornes make this into a powder and in a littill claret wine '), for the dropsie, malencloly water, for the biteing of an adder, and sixteen further leaves of cookery receipts inverted at rear of the volume, including recipes for seede cake, sacke poset, sugar cakes, white marmalad of quince, jely of lupins, sasages without skinnes, a hagis pudinge, veale pye, sage wine good for the head, white meade, etc., old burn mark at upper margin throughout affecting some recipe titles and text, professional archival repairs throughout, contemp. limp vellum with owners name and date to upper cover, rubbed and soiled, folio An Accompanying research note indicates that the name Domvile is most closely associated with Loughlinstown and Loughlinstown House in Ireland at this time but that no Bridget had been found at the right date. The authoress acknowledges some of her sauces for the receipts, names including Lady Warwick, Lady Digby, Lady North, Dr. Bates, Mrs Mild, Lady Trevor and Lady Sidenham. (1)
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*Manuscript Receipts Book. A Manuscript Medical Receipt Book for humans, horses, sheep and cows, 1764, 116pp plus 60p index, including receipts for an ague, a rotten cow, a drink for the staggers, for the distemper among dogs, for the flux, for the yellows in a cow, a receipt to preserve men and beast from infection ('take of each of the following herbs, viz. lavender, rue, wormwood, and sage, a handfull, put them into a gallon of white wine vinegar, which set on wood ashes for four days '), for a sting in cattle by an adder, a method of curing diseases by electricity, for a broken-winded horse, the economy in bread, Indian pickle, etc., more than one hand to last few pages, many receipts giving acknowledgement to doctors, index and some other leaves det., hinges partly broken, contemp. qtr. calf, with ink title and date to upper cover, spine wormed and worn, 4to (1)
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Sambrook (Pamela). Country House Brewing in England 1500-1900, 1996, b & w illusts., orig. boards in d.j., large 8vo, together with Donnachie (Ian), A History of the Brewing Industry in Scotland, 1979, b & w plts., and diagrams to letterpress, orig. boards in d.j., spine sl. faded, 8vo, plus Younger (William), Gods, Men, and Wine, with a Forword by James Laver, 1966, col. plts., and numerous b & w letterpress illusts., orig. cloth in frayed and chipped d.j., thick 4to, plus eighteen other books and booklets, wine and beer related (21)
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