A New Year, along with our new "brick & mortar" shop, and a new list
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Gerval, Mary-Laëtitia.
00:58 xy
. Avignon: Gerval, 2012. Unpaginated. 31 x 24 x 6 cm. Signed by Eric Ripert, 1 of 200 limited-edition copies, embossed with Eric's name on the spine - sold by Ripert to benefit City Harvest. Preface by Michel Onfray. Beautiful, erotic, and marvelously creative. Highlighting photography, fashion, and food, and poetry - in both French and English. Featuring Bruno D'Angelis [Restaurant - La vieille fontaine], Michel Kayser [Restaurant - L'Alexandre], Marc De Passorio [Restaurant - Marc De Passorio], Édouard Loubet [Restaurant - Édouard Loubet], Éric Sapet [Restaurant - La Petite Maison de Cucuron], Daniel Hébet [Restaurant - Le Jardin du Quai], Ludovic Endgrand - shu uemura, Emmanuel Renaut [Restaurant - Flocons de Sel], Éric Ripert [Restaurant - Le Bernadin], Laurent Manrique [Restaurant - Le Café de la Presse, Restaurant - Millesime], Éric Guerin [Restaurant - La Mare aux Oiseaux], Rika & Frédéric Bau [Restuarant - UMIA], Lionel Lévy [Restaurant - Une table au sud], Christian Étienne [Restaurant - Christian Étienne], Glenn Viel [Restaurant - LA CARAVELLE, Chef de cuisine LA TABLE DU KILIMANDJARO], Nicolas Sale [Hôtel KILIMANDJARO*****/Chef executif Restaurant LATABLE DU KILIMANDJARO, Hôtel LE K2*****, Restaurant LE KINTESSENCE, Restaurant - LE BLACK PYRAMID], Ono Aura Tout Vu - La Maison ON AURA TOUT VU.
$475.00
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[MANUSCRIPT] [PHARMACEUTICAL] Codex de Rebus Pharmaceuticis 1787
Minister of love - Vade Mecem. N.p. France or Belgium. 16 x 11 cm. 32 pages, 27 utilized for recipes/remedies. Love potions, ointments, alcohols, savory recipes, and birth control. Unique French pharmaceutical manuscript containing more than 80 recipes for such aphrodisiacs as "Parfait Amour," "Huile de Venus", hair pomade, rouge, toothpaste, biscuits, lip gloss, shaving cream and less saucy entries for hemorrhoids, "Gelée Pour les Vers," "Injection anti venerienne," diuretic water and macaroni. "Sirop purgatif pout les Enfants," seems to suggest some sort of birth control. A recipes for "Elixirium Doctoris Jernae Vulgo de Longue Vie" suggests a youth serum. Recipes utilize topical, edible, and medicinal and make use of eau de vie, absinthe, lavender sugar and spices such as cinnamon. A smattering of international names include: "Aromatica Wirtemergica," "Liquor Tingens Domini Meyer," "Serum Lactis domini Weiss". Written partially in Latin using roman lettering for titles, with symbols referencing other sections within the text. Repurposed binding, legal in nature, concerning a deceased woman named Catherine (surname illegible), possibly early 17th-century. Vellum binding made from an earlier French legal manuscript with remnant of tie, edges speckled red.
$4,750.00
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Beeton, Isabella.
The Book of Household Management
Comprising Information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet and Under House-Maids. London: S.O. Beeton, 1861. 1112 pages. 17.5 x 11.5 x 6.5 cm. "Nothing lovelier can be found In Woman, than to study household good." - Milton First edition in book form. This work originally was published in 24 monthly parts, 1859-1861. Added engraved colored title page, with the Bouverie St. address (the first issue point), and with 11 (of 12) added color plates (lacking the plate at p. 755). Additional illustrated with numerous text woodcuts. Two leaves a bit defective at lower outer corner, may have been stuck together, affecting text tail of pages 719-721. Corners lightly bumped at tail. Maroon morocco spine with pebbled cloth. Very good. Hardcover.
$650.00
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The Fort Kobbe Officers' Wives' Club.
Recetas Del Caribe
. Panama, Fort Kobbe, Canal Zone: The Fort Kobbe Officers' Wives' Club, 1956. Unpaginated. 23 x 18 x 4 cm. Part of the 33rd Infantry Regiment in 1950, the Regiment was the U.S. Army's only Jungle Warfare Training Center at the time - later designated as the 20th Infantry in 1956. Filled (literally - very big) with recipes from the wives, officers, and even Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Other "special" contributors: Senora Olga Arias De Arias - Presidentia, Panama, R. P., Mrs. Wilber W. Brucker - Wife of the Secretary of the Army, Mrs. Maxwell D. Taylor - Wife of Chief of Staff of U.S. Army, as well as many other high ranking army and air command personnel. Illustrated throughout. Some pages detached but not loss. Two ring binder, illustrated cardboard, with card stock separators. Good. Ring_bound.
$150.00
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Panama Rose (psued. Ira Cohen & Rosalind Schwartz)
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The Hashish Cookbook
. 20 pages. 21 x 15.5 cm. Poet, photographer and early lower east side resident, Cohen, hung with Beats but rejected being called one - Cohen referred to himself as "the conscience of Planet Earth". Illustrated throughout with recipes for Hard Candy, Moroccan Majoon, Fudge, and of course, Hash Brownies. Cover lightly rubbed at spine, interior crisp and clean. Pink illustrated wraps. Very good. Staplebound.
$210.00
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[TABLE GAME] Who Wears The Crown
An Entire New Game. London: J. & E. Wallis. 60 x 44 cm. Published between 1812-1820. Color illustrated Table Game with Directions for Playing. Fifty titled spaces, illustrated and formed into a circle with the Crown at the center. Linen backed cloth, folded into 12 rectangles. Stains and foxing to cloth with some rolling at folds. Two spaces, "3 - Plough & 4 - Shepherd", titles penciled in. Cream cloth, linen backed, color illustrated. Good. Cloth.
$1,250.00
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Street, Julian.
Where Paris Dines
With Information about Restaurants of all kinds, costly and cheep, dignified and gay, known an little known: and how to enjoy them. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. Fourth Edition. 322 pages. 20 x 13 cm. The "Airways" edition: Together with a discussion of French Wines and a Table of Vintages by a distinguished
AMATEUR
(a collaborator who prefers to remain anonymous). A yearly undertaking for the author, this edition is brought up to date for the distinguished traveler who loves Paris and the good food and excellent wine. Made just the right size for a handbag or the great coat pocket of the happy traveler. Interior clean, dust wrapper lightly toned. Blue boards, paper title on spine. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. Hardcover.
$300.00
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Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club.
Pantomimes
Presented By The Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club. Brooklyn, 1911. Unpaginated (8 pages). Program for the Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club performed at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 28, 1911. Featured in the program are the daughters of the social elite including: Eunice Beecher (granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher), and members of the Van Brunt, Cropsey, Ditmas, Loomis, Peabody, Pratt, and Scudder families. The Club was located at 18 Pierrepont Street and members were made up of the Senior Department of Brooklyn Heights Seminary with the expiration of their membership two years after leaving the Seminary. The Club was organized in 1885. Some light stains to wraps, otherwise crisp and clean. Tan, illustrated sewn wraps, gold thread. Very good. Sewn binding.
$75.00
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Coyote Man and Brother William.
get the buzzon
a new world immigrant's guide to dope, herbs, Indians and magic meeting places. Berkeley: brother williams press, 1972. 94 pages. 22 x 14 cm. An early 70's voyage, both physical and philosophical through the mystical world of psychedelics. Includes: Angelica, Astral Travel, Hashball, Magic Beans, Mushrooms, & more.... Glossary included. Covers rubbed, interior crisp and clean. Color illustrated wraps. Good. Paperback.
$35.00
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Rombauer, Irma S.
The Joy of Cooking
A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Indianapolis/ New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1936. 638 pages. First Trade edition.
Signed on front free end paper, "Cordially yours Irma S. Rombauer".
After the suicide of her husband in 1930, Irma Rombauer cobbled together a cookbook, illustrated by her daughter Marion. By 1936 the Bobbs-Merrill Company agreed to publish the expanded version, keeping the narrative style later known as the "action method", in which ingredients are called for within the recipe. Expertly rebacked, boards rubbed and mildly stained, interior lightly toned with some stains. Yellow diagonal patterned boards. Good. Hardcover.
$2,250.00
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Hevia, Enrique.
Formulario de Cocktelería
Publicado Por La Sección De Propaganda De Destilerías Van Den Bergh & C. S. Antwerp, c. 1920. 87 pages. 11 x 8 cm. Promotional cocktail recipe book utilizing "La Campana" liquors. The Van den Bergh distillery was one of the biggest Antwerp in the late 19th century. Also present in this copy is the product Freixenet (cava) which they started selling in 1914. Interestingly, the Freixenet company is run today by one Enrique Hevia. The author may likely have been this gentleman's grandfather. Cocktail scholars speculate the book was published in Spain by Hevia to promote the products of La Campana. Illustrated throughout. Some foxing and damp stains.
$575.00
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