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Rabelais
- Fine Books on Food & Drink
Fresh Arrivals, no. 43 March 14th, 2015
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This year's show season has kept us traveling, perhaps too much. But we're more than half way through now and I look forward to being back in the office more, cataloging the many books we've purchased in the last few months. Before that happens, we have the
Ephemera Society of American Conference coming up next week in Greenwich CT. There's even more to follow that - although please note we're taking a pass on the New York Antiquarian Book Fair this year.
So in the meantime, here's a shortlist of some newly arrived cookery, with a few nice drink books at the end.
Cheers,
Don
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1.
"Daisy Eyebright"; Williams, Henry T.; Johnson, S. O. [Sophia Orne]. Household Hints and Recipes.
Boston: Peoples Publishing Company, 1877. Octavo, 156, [4] pages. Ads.
First edition. An interesting collection of household recipes, for "every department of the house beyond the kitchen", with helpful advice such as: "To Make a Walking Stick" and "How to Know if Wine is Coloured". Darkening to edges of text block; some wear to head and foot of spine. Otherwise very good in publisher's gilt- and black- decorated brown cloth.
[OCLC locates four copies of this first edition; not in Bitting or Cagle]. $90.00
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dedicated to "the man good enough to be a woman"
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Morrison, Hetty A.
My Summer in the Kitchen.
Indianapolis: Douglass & Carlon, 1878. Octavo, 137 pages.
First edition. Henrietta Athon Morrison was the daughter of the prominent Indiana politician Dr. James S. Athon. A native of Indianapolis, she wrote sketches and poems for local newspapers. In this, her only book, she barely represses her bitterness while discussing the role of women. She resents the imposition of male rule and "the woman's place being in the kitchen" and strikes out in a crisp tone to assert, as a last resort that women should be allowed unaltered control of all phases of home life. If woman is queen of the home, then she should reign. The author dedicates the book, "To Dan L. Payne, the man who is good enough to be a woman." A tiny bit of foxing, otherwise fine, in blind- and gilt-decorated dark green cloth.
[OCLC locates twenty-six copies; not in Krichmar]. $600.00
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Beauvilliers, A.B.; M.A. Carême; Burnet, Monsieur. Nuevo Cocinero Americano en forma de diccionario que contiene todos los procedimientos empleados en la alta, mediana y pequeña cocina... Encontrándose en él todos los artículos importantes de las obras de esta clase que se han publicado en castellano, y otros nuevos, relativos tanto á la cocina mexicana, como a la francesa, tomados estos últimos del cocinero real. Paris/Mexico: Libreria de Ch. Bouret, 1878. Thick octavo, 966, V pages. 5 plates. Frontispiece and illustrated title.
Later printing. The was first issued in 1845 under the title Diccionario de Cocina. In these later edition, the book invokes a umber of French chefs including Beauvilliers, Careme, and Burnet. In original blind and gilt-stamped black morocco. All edges marbled. Small chip to head of spine, hinges a bit shaken. Otherwise near very good.
[OCLC locates no copies of this printing, and seven of all others combined, only two in the US (Huntington & UCSD; not in Bitting, Cagle, or Vicaire]. $900.00
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Pitkin, Eliza A & Julia A. Pye. Invalid Cookery, a Manual of Recipes for the Preparation of Food for the Sick and Convalescent, to which is Added a a chapter on Practical Suggestions for the Sickroom by Mrs. Julia A. Pye. Chicago: by the author/Press of Knight & Leonard, 1880. Octavo, 127 pages.
First edition. A collection of recipes for purportedly easy to digest foods for the convalescent. Includes interesting sections on waters, wheys and gruels. Text block age-toned. Hinges started. A bit of abrasion to edges of boards, rear board soiled, otherwise good in publisher's black and gilt-stamped brown cloth. With the bookseller's ticket of Maxwell Einhorn, and the bookplate and signature of the great culinary collector Arnold Shircliffe. This book was included in lot 196 of the sale of Shircliffe's library held at Parke-Bernet Galleries in November of 1954.
[Axford page 229; Brown 686; Cagle 608]. $150.00
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5. "Seneca".
Canoe and Camp Cookery: A Practical Cook Book for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and Outers. By "Seneca".
New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1885. Small octavo, vii, 96 pages.
First edition. One small illustration of a canoeist's "grub box". Original recipes compiled with those collected from trappers, hunters, army and navy cooks all focused on successful outdoor cooking. In gold- and black-stamped gray cloth featuring an attractive illustration of outdoor cooking. Previous owners name to front fly; front hinge repaired. Some foxing. Near very good. Blind-stamp of collector Eloise Schofeld to title page.
[OCLC locates five copies; Bitting, page 527; not in Cagle]. $150.00
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6. [Ormiston, Helen F., editor].
The Ideal Cook Book. Compiled and edited by a committee of ladies in the interest of Christian work.
New York: Press of J. J. Little & Co., 1889. Sextodecimo (17.5 x 13 cm.), 121, [6] pages. Ads. Includes blank pages for notes between category sections.
First edition.
Practical compilation for households of means, with instructions guiding the lady of the house on the supervision of servers (or "attendants"). The anonymity of the contributors is respected even to the extent that multiple (unsigned) recipes for the same dish are retained. The Ormistons, who submitted paperwork for copyright assertion, were local philanthropists associated with Methodist concerns in New York, supporting, for instance, Saint Christopher's Children's Home in Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County. The recipes are straightforward, if occasionally more generous and leisurely with advice than is often the case in small handbooks of this sort: "Dredge with flour and baste often, at first with butter and water, afterward the gravy in the dripping-pan" (Roast Turkey, page [21]; "Fresh lard is better to grease cake pans than butter, and thin paper spread on the bottom of the pans, especially layer cake, helps them to turn out nicely" (Hints for Making Cake, page [71]. One (near) exception to the rule of anonymity: "Miss F.'s Egg Plant" bears an attribution to Good Housekeeping (page 56). Endpapers browned, text block a bit age-toned, otherwise very good, in lightly soiled black and green decorated publisher's cloth. Scarce.
[OCLC locates no printed copies; Brown 2478; not in Cagle]. $400.
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7. Ewing, Emma P.
Cooking and Castle Building.
N.p. : by the author, 1890. Octavo, 216 pages.
A later, self-published edition of a work first published by James Osgood in 1880, an by Fairbanks, Palmer in 1883 and 1890. The author promises to "not add another to the list of abominations miscalled cook-books, in which it is impossible to find a recipe whereby an unskilled or inexperienced housewife can make a loaf of bread equal to that made by our best bakers." Instead Mrs. Ewing has given us an earnest and occasionally breezy dialogue with a touch of modern romance. Throughout, there are cooking tips and recipes in dialogue form. Some of the book takes place in, or draws references from, Europe. Had it been set in Provence, I'd now be describing it as the Ur-text of an entire sub-genre of chick lit. Still, it's an early example of the chatty modern narrative cookbook, and a charming one at that. Internally a bit of age-toning and foxing, but otherwise bright and clean. The black and gilt-stamped brown cloth has some very light wear, but it otherwise very good. $200.00
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Ladies of the First Baptist Church, Sioux Falls, S.D. The Queen City Cook Book : a selection of choice recipes. Sioux Falls, S.D.: First Baptist Church, 1891. Octavo, 171 pages. Index. Ads.
First edition. One of the first two charitable cookbooks published in South Dakota, both published - but without priority - in 1891. Recipes are attributed. Some wear and age-toning to pages, with a few pages well stained from food. Additional recipes, criticisms and notes in ink and pencil, and some recipe clippings pasted-in. White, crackle-pattered, oil cloth covered boards are soiled and edegworn. Good only. Scarce.
[OCLC locates three copies; Cook, page 241]. $500.00
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Kirby, Mary & Elizabeth. Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard; or stories about tea, coffee, sugar, rice &c. With thirty-six engravings. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1891. Duodecimo, 144 pages. Illustrated with engravings throughout.
Later edition, originally published in 1875. A set of stories about various foodstuffs, tenuously held together with a story line. Manuscript examination prize inscription to front fly leaf. Some fading to decorated endpapers. Very slight wear to decorated green cloth binding. Scarce in all editions.
[OCLC locates three copies of this printing]. $200.00
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Whitehead, Jessup. Cooking for Profit. A new American cook book, adapted for the use of all who serve meals for a price. Third edition. Chicago: Jessup Whitehead & Co., Publishers, 1893. Quarto, 220, [9], xi pages. Ads.
Third edition. Small in-text illustrations throughout. First section includes over 1050 recipes for restaurant cooks (or others who serve meals for a price) among hints and suggestions for service. Also includes "Artistic Cookery and Notes on the London Cookery and Food Exhibition of 1885" by the author. Second section titled "Eight Weeks at a Summer Resort. Our Daily Bill of Fare and What it Cost". In bumped blind- and gilt-stamped brown cloth. Rubbing to front end page, some discoloration and light foxing throughout interior, and slight staining to top edge, otherwise very good.
[OCLC locates eighteen copies; Bitting, page 493-494 (different printing); not in Cagle]. $60.00
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Shuman, Carrie V. [editor]; illustrated by Mary Root-Kern, Mellie Ingels Julian, Louis Braunhold, George Wharton Edwards. Favorite Dishes: a Columbia Autographs Souvenir Cookery Book Over Three Hundred Autograph Recipes and Twenty-Three Portraits, contributed specially by the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago: Shuman, 1893. Octavo, 221 pages.
First edition. A souvenir cookbook of the Columbian Exposition, with each recipe provided by a "lady manager" of the Expo, and with the facsimile signature of each appearing below the relevant contributed recipe. A bit of edgewear to the gilt- and white-stamped pumpkin colored cloth, Pencil annotation to free front endpaper, otherwise very good. The annotation reads, "Purchased at Woman's Building Chicago June 1893". $90.00
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12. Atkinson, Edward. The Science of Nutrition. Treatise Upon the Science of Nutrition; The Aladdin Oven, What It is. What It Does. How It Does It. Dietaries Carefully Computed (under the direction of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards. Tests of the Slow Methods of Cooking in the Aladdin Oven, etc., etc.
Boston: Damrell & Upham / The Old Corner Bookstore, 1894. Octavo, 179, [ii] pages. Illustrated.
Later printing, originally issued in 1892. A combination treatise on nutrition, cookbook and technical manual for the Aladdin Oven, invented by our author Edward Atkinson. "Men have no right to scold their wives, or use swear words about the cook, and find fault with their meals in a constant and promiscuous way, if they only supply them with apparatus to cook with that is not fit to be used ; or which is so infernal in the heat that it generates, as to make it no wonder that those who have been of an angelic type and temper before beginning to keep house, should exhibit a capacity of another kind afterwards which may vex a patient man but ought not to cause him to complain. The way out of this dilemma is for every boy to be put in the way of learning how to make first-rate bread, and to do all kinds of plain cooking, in one lesson of one hour by a little teaching in the simple principles. Girls may be taught as well, if they can spare the time from more important duties. In the Aladdin Oven, the heat is put into an outer oven made of non-metallic and non-heat conducting material, which is, in fact, a form of stiff paper, made from wood pulp combined with other substances. Inside is a food receptacle nearly as large as the outer oven, made of sheet metal." Age-toned and a bit edge worn. Previous owner name and a few notes to title page and free front endpaper. In gilt-titled burgundy cloth over stiff boards. $90.00
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Partsch, Herman. The Ills of Indigestion, Their Causes and Their Cures, In Three Essays. North Berkeley, California: Cumbernauld Co., Publishers, 1896. Sextodecimo, 338 pages.
First edition. One of the notable contributions toward understanding the relationship between nutrition and the gastrointestinal tract well before advances made during and after World War I in electrogastography and in managing bacterial pathogens. Having established a reputation for the treatment of seasickness, Dr. Herman Partsch (1849-1934), a physician in San Francisco, turned next to summarizing what he had encountered in the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal distresses. "In writing this book my object has been to put on record certain facts that I have learned during the last twenty-five years on topics comprehended under the title of dyspepsia [...]"--preface, p. v. Includes observations showing the emergence of an appreciation for correlating data from other systems (heart, respiration) and gives weight to evidence from the letters and diaries of Darwin and Carlyle. A few pencil notes to margin; one pencil note to rear end papers, otherwise very good. In clean and bright publisher's gilt-stamped dark green cloth.
[OCLC locates fourteen copies]. $225.00
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15. [Dining Guide - New York].
Where and How to Dine in New York; the principal hotels, restaurants and cafés of various kinds and nationalities which have added to the gastronomic fame of New York and its suburbs.
New York: Lewis, Scribner & Co., 1903. Octavo, [28], 214, [16] pages.
First edition. A thorough guide to fine dining in New York City and surrounding areas at the turn of the 19th century. nearly seventy dining establishments are described, each accompanied by a photograph. The book's "object is to stand as guide, counsellor, and friend to the ever increasing army of New Yorkers who practice the gentle art of dining, to convert that other army of those that have not yet discovered its joys, and to give useful information to the third great army composed of strangers within our gates..." (from the intro). Tide mark to top edge of most pages, some oxidation to staples, printed wrappers worn and stained. Rare. $200.00
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16.
"Aunt Babette's" Cook Book. Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household. A Valuable Collection of Receipts and Hints for the Housewife, Many of which are Not to be Found Elsewhere. Forty-Sixth Thousand.
New York: The Bloch Publishing Company, 1914. Thick octavo, xxvi, 520, 38 pages.
Later printing. With the addition of the separate work, Home Confectionery, at the rear. Aunt Babette's Cook Book is considered the first successful Jewish-American cookbook, first published by the major Jewish publisher Bloch in 1889, and reissued for nearly thirty years until it was replaced by Greenbaum's The International Jewish Cookbook. Aunt Babette's Cook Book was far from strictly Kosher, and included a large number of recipes for treif, including pork and shellfish, indicating the more assimilationist tendencies of the Reform Jewish movement of that moment. Internally very good, all edges red, in scuffed and edge worn brown cloth, with black titling to spine and front panel.
[OCLC locates only two copies of this printing, and forty four for all pre-1918 printings; not in Bitting or Cagle]. $150.00
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Washington, Martha; Ann Parks Marshall (editor). Martha Washington's Rules for Cooking; Used Everyday at Mt. Vernon. Washington, DC: Ransdell Inc., 1931. Octavo, 160 pages. Ads. Illustrated.
First edition. The editor claims to have copied these recipes from "a manuscript book compiled by the mistress of Monticello." The recipes are attributed to Martha Washington, Elizabeth Monroe, Dolly Madison, Martha Jefferson, and others, including some who are identified as slaves on the various plantations. Paper label pasted-down to front board over decorated cloth. A bit of soiling to cloth, otherwise very good.
[Bitting, page 310; Brown 463]. $100.00
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18. Dominovich, Andres Lopez (editor). La Cocina : cocina Peruana y extranjera reposteria, dulces, licores y melados : seleccionada para todos los gustos, formulas adaptadas a la cocina criolla por una aficionada limena.14a. edicion.
Lima, Peru: Libreria e Imprenta Guia Lascano, circa 1940s. Octavo, 274 pages. Ads. Illustrated.
Later printing. A cookbook for the Peruvian housewife. Recipes in narrative form, with sections of Fiambres y Entradas, Caldos y Sopas, Salsas, Huesvos, Croquetas y Bocaditos, Aves y Caza, Dulces, Gelatinas y Galeas, and more. The book has a small section on cocktails and liqueurs, and interestingly includes a cocktails at the beginning of many of the meals in the Menu Diario. Age-toned, with some staining to top edge of text block and edges of stiff wrappers. Pictorial wrappers printed in red and green. With an early bookseller's stamp to first page, and the ex-libris of Mary Hazzard Budrow. Scarce.
[OCLC locates only one copy of any edition (at U. of Minnesota]. $250.00
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Soviet canned goods!
18. [L. N. Leuchin, editor]. [L. N. Reitynbarg, compiler]. [Ministerstvo Promyshlennosti Prodovol'stvennych Tovarov SSSR]. [Glavkonserv].. Katalog: Konservy. Sostavitel' L. N. Reitynbarg. Chudozhniki A. M. Konik, G. M. Sokolov, i M. Ya. Shchurovskii. Redaktor L. N. Leuchin. Techn[icheskii] redaktor V. I. Aleksandrov. Moskva: Chudozhestvenno-oformitel'skii Kombinat Pishchepromizdata MPPT SSSR "Prodoformlenie", 1956 g[odu]. [=Catalogue: Preserved Foods. Compiled by L. N. Reitynbarg. Artwork by A. M. Konik, G. M. Sokolov, and M. Ja. Shchurovskii. Edited by L. N. Leuchin. Techn[ical] editing by V. I. Aleksandrov. Moscow: Art-Design Plant of Industry Publisher "Prodoformlenie", 1956. Quarto, 90, [6] pages. Color and mixed color with black-&-white illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Table of contents preceding colophon. Cover title: Konservy: Katalog. Arfully designed promotional publication for the food export trade. Overseen by the MPPT SSSR (Ministry of Industry of Food Products USSR) and its manufacturing label Glavkonserv, the title was registered in December 1955 and issued the following year. The products featured--vegetables preserved in cans or jars, prepared foods and sauces, juices, and frozen fruits--were marketed to countries within the Soviet orbit where Russian was spoken, which helps to explain why, despite a print-run of 30,000, no copies are reported so far in Western collections.
[OCLC locates no copies]. $600.00
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18. [Salesman's Sample Book - Color Labels]. Colour Printing Samples. United Kingdom: circa 1952-1967. Large oblong format (25 x 38 cm.), [31] leaves.
Working portfolio containing one hundred forty-five specimens of printed product labels designed for British and Colonial firms under contract. Full mockups for bottles (sherries, whiskies, beers, squashes), canisters (teas, chocolates, biscuits), canned and prepared foods (syrups, puddings), and perishables in wrappers (cheeses, hams). Includes also sample tags such as chemical content warnings and several larger-format samples for non-food items such as nylon stockings. International in scope, chiefly Commonwealth (Rhodesia, Hong Kong, Canada, Jamaica; also British properties in Spain and Portugal), but also exogenous (e.g., prepared-food labels printed for the Warsaw export agency Coopexim). Numerous handwritten annotations--chiefly measurements and item order-size numbers--in a hand that appears uniform throughout, strongly suggesting that this is a document of the worklife of an individual contracting agent. Some products represented have been forgotten (a trademark for Sunlanit (label pasted on the 13th leaf) was registered in 1948 but the name is homeless now). Others survive, if reincarnated (the Kasauli Distillery in India still offers a version of its Solan Malt Whiskey, a label for which is pasted on the 5th leaf). The compilation's date of origin is surmised from two labels: Smedley's Malt Vinegar (16th leaf) was registered and introduced no earlier than 1952, and Dyer-Meakin Breweries (5th leaf) changed its name in 1967. The span is arguably narrowed by the use of a specific logo for Hornby Dublo electric trains (foldout on the 12th leaf) solely between 1956 and 1961. There is no indication of the name of the printing house, nor is it clear whether more than one printing operation might have represented by the same agent. Unique item, well-used in the field; linen cloth paper with color samples firmly pasted, on versos only; fore-edges thumbed and curled; stapled in brown paper covers with pink lettering on a blue panel; cover fore-edge chipped and top corner wanting. $360.00
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Miksa, Aczél. American Bar. Utmutato az amerikai husito es hevito italok keszitesehez. [Guide for making American hot and cold beverages]. Budapest: Kapheto Aczél Miksa, 1899. Octavo, 96, iv, [ads], pages. Illustrated.
First edition of this rare first Hungarian cocktail manual, written and published by the famous eponymous cafe/bar. The recipes and other text is in Hungarian, but the cocktail names are in English, and one can get a good sense of not only the cocktails which had appeared in Budapest, but the available ingredients. The author urges those who would embrace foreign visitors to Budapest to be aware that high quality food and drink will be expected, and that the cocktail need be available. The illustrations depict required barware, and the ads a variety of luxury food and drink items available in Hungary. Some darkening to wrappers at spine, otherwise very good, in publisher's printed brick red wrappers. Rare. While there is a modern facsimile edition available in Hungary, no copy appears in OCLC, and none on any of the lists of major collections which have been made public. We are aware of only one other copy, which is in a private collection and which we placed.
[OCLC locates no copies; not in relevant bibliographies]. $2500.00
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with the original sample book
20. Williams, G. C. [George].
The Compounder: Williams' Informer, or Whiskey Buyer's Guide : the only practical work published : giving the secrets of compounding and the general ins and outs of the liquor business. [with] Be Your Own Compounder. [cover title]
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St. Louis, Mo.: G.C. Williams, 1898. 117 pages, [3] folded leaves of tables. Illustrated.
First edition.A thorough guide to the practice of compounding liquors, from "a compounder of thirty years' experience". A very useful volume if one is trying to be exact in the recreation of 19th century drinks, as the author provides specific descriptions of the ingredients and blends for a wide variety of common spirits, as well as precise definitions of various terms, including rye malt gin, fusel oil, and kuemmel. The run section alone makes this book required reading. What blends and substitutions were commonly masquerading for Jamaica rum? Williams covers it. Includes a long list of prices for commonly imported liquors, essences, etc., such as brandied fruits, absinthe, champagne, bitters and more. A bit of light staining to edge of text block, spine slightly cocked, a some wear to gutters of boards, otherwise very good. In gilt-titled burgundy cloth. Scarce. [With] the original sample book. Stapled booklet, 24 pages. Illustrated. Some light wear to edges, stapled hinge starting.
[OCLC locates four copies of the book, none of the prospectus; Noling Beverage Literature, page 446]. $1200.00
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[Printer Sample Book - Eaux de Vie]; Imprimerie Wetterwald Freres. Assortiment D'Etiquettes, Modeles pour Eaux de Vie.
Bordeaux: Imprimerie Wetterwald Freres, 1933.
Small oblong salesman's sample album, 17cm x 13cm, with sixty-one original labels for various eaux de vie tipped-in, with additional Collier, Collierettes, and Bandes Passe-Partout. Printed text on pages facing each label gives the specifics of that label, and the other products for which the same design is available. The Bordeaux-based printer Wetterwald Freres produced labels for many wine and spirits producers, big and small. The labels are bright and handsome. Price list tipped-in to front paste down. The tan printed boards have some light spotting and wear, otherwise fine. $550.00
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Mitzky & Co., C. Our Native Grape. Grapes and their culture, also, descriptive list of old and new varieties.
Rochester, NY: W.W. Morrison, Printer, 95-99 East Main Street, 1893. Large octavo, 218, [1] pages. Chromolithograph frontispiece and two plates, plus numerous illustrations in the text, some full page. Two additional chromolithograph plates and one black and white photo illustration have been pasted-in.
First edition. Includes a history of the grape, wine making, cultivation, hybridizing, tools, etc. Hundreds of varieties of grapes are listed, from Adelaide to Zinnia. The there chromolithographs illustrate the Green Mountain, Brilliant, and Early Ohio varieties. The additional plates show the Stark Star, and an unidentified variety, looking a lot like the Concord. In the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticluture, Lydia Hyde Bailey writes, "The leading current works are: Bushberg's Descriptive Catalogue and Grape Growers' Manual; Mitzky's Our Native Grape; Fuller's Grape Culturist; Husmann's American Grape Growing and Wine Making". Owner's stamp to front paste down, Some light soiling throughout. Adhesion mark to one chromolithograph. In blind- and gilt-stamped blue cloth. Near very good. Rare.
[OCLC locates 16 copies; Gabler G31090]. $1200.00
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[Photo Album - Sparkling Wine]; [Henkell & Co.]. [Untitled Photograph Album Documenting Production Facilities of Henkell Trocken].
Photographer(s) and compiler uncredited. Large album format (30 x 23.5 cm.), 23 leaves (19 with black-&-white photographs). Captions in English.
Collection of photographs dating, variously, from the middle years of the last century, assembled evidently for an English-speaking audience, and providing an overview of the cellar, maturation monitoring, and bottling operations of the German sparkling wine specialist Henkell & Co. Famously known as the Schloß (palace), the complex on view was built in the Wiesbaden suburb of Biebrich between 1907 and 1909 by the architect Paul Bonatz (1877-1956) to the specifications of Otto Henkell (1869-1929). Henkel & Co. more than weathered World War II. It does not appear that the family sought ties with the National Socialists, but they didn't have to. Otto's daughter Anna Elisabeth (Annalies) (1896-1973) married the (future) NS foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, who became a principal investor in the firm. It is worth remembering that Germans have always appreciated sparkling wine, and a great deal of it was drunk in the domestic market during war time, especially after the regime abolished the tax on Deutscher Sekt and Schaumwein. In 1952, Annalies petitioned for her son Rudolf to regain partial control of the company, and the West German courts ruled in their favor. Henkell & Co. continued to produce Henkell Trocken under its own name until the sale of the winery in 1986. Little is ascertainable regarding the origins of the album. Otto Henkel--the elder Otto's nephew, son of his brother Karl--is present in the portrait collection of company managers on the final leaf of photographs, but his presence spans many years. The vintage labels have not yet been applied to bottles shown in a production line on photograph fifteen. Possibly automobiles of ca. 1950--including a white roadster--are depicted in an aerial photograph of the Schloß, though sufficient details are undiscernable. And a Bizerbo scale shown in the seventeenth photograph was no longer maufactured by 1951, though of course it may have been in use well before being captured by the photographer. Unique; well-mounted and artful arrangement of professional images celebrating a revered German wine house, very likely as it looked before, during, and immediately after the Second World War. Buff paper age-toned. Brown paper wrappers, lightly worn, sewn with a brown cord; head and foot of spine lightly chipped.
[Helmut Arntz. Für ihre Probe deutscher Sekt. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1979; Fritz von Ostini. Der Prachtbau der Sektkellerei Henkell & Co. erbaut von Paul Bonatz mit Haus Henkell in Wiesbaden. Darmstadt: Koch, 1920; Michael Weisser. Deutsche Reklame: 100 Jahre Werbung 1870-1970. Munich: Edition Deutsche Reklame, 1985. (includes chapter on Henkell & Co.'s advertising)]. $600.00
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