We very much enjoyed seeing old friends and meeting some new colleagues this year in New Haven

If you attended RBMS and missed our booth or if you were unable to attend, please take a look at the highlights from our booth:

L' ART DE BIEN FAIRE LES GLACES D'OFFICE;; OU LES VRAIS PRINCIPES Pour congeler tous. Emy, M [Elizabeth David]. Paris: Chez Le Clerc, 1768. First Edition. Hardcover. [2], i-viii, 1-242, [4] pages. 16.5 x 10 cm. Engraved frontispiece titled "L' Art de bien faire les glaces" and two engraved... (#4556) Price: $4,750.00

[GARDENING] The New Art of GARDENING, WITH THE Gardener's Almanack:; The true Art of GARDENING. Meager, Leonard. London: Printed for Peter Parker, at the Leg and Star, over-against the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1699. Hardcover. [4], 160, [4] pages. 15 x 9.5 cm. Leonard Meager (c.1624 - c.1704)... (#4623) Price: $1,075.00

The Accomplisht Cook, or The Art & Mystery of Cookery. May, Robert. London: Obadiah Blagrave at the Bear and Star in St. Pauls Church Yard, 1685. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. [2], [30], 461, [10], [9]. 19 x 12 cm. Misnumbered pages: 70-71 (as... (#4552) Price: $3,500.00

[COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] STATESMEN'S DISHES AND HOW TO COOK THEM; PRACTICAL AUTOGRAPHIC RECIPES BY Mrs. BENJAMIN. Harrison, Caroline Lavina Scott. Washington DC: NATIONAL TRIBUNE, 1890. Wraps. 222 pages. 24.5 x 15 cm. Compiled by the First Lady at the time, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison. With more than two-hundred recipes from women... (#4474) Price: $225.00

[WOMEN] REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS of the MOCK CONVENTION of the WOMEN'S NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CLUB. Women's National Republican Club. New York: THE TENNY PRESS, 1928. Hardcover. 46 pages. 23.5 x 13.5 cm. This printed and bound report is both uplifting and humorous. The Women's National Republican Club put together... (#4507) Price: $350.00

LE VIANDIER de Guillaume Tirel dit TAILLEVENT; With letters and literature from Georgina E. Brereton. Pichon, Jérôme & Georges Vicaire. Paris: SE VEND CHEZ TECHENER, 1892. Hardcover. 297 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition #67 or 350. Le Viandier is one of the earliest and most influential cookbooks from... (#4515) Price: $1,250.00

THE CRIMSON LETTER; Harvard, Homosexuality, and the Shaping of American Culture. Shand-Tucci, Douglass. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. 403 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Presentation copy - inscribed to Joe McGrath, a friend and longtime secretary to Prescott Townsend... (#4023) Price: $175.00

DICTIONAIRE PRATIQUE DU BON MENAGER DE CAMPAGNE ET DE VILLE; de nourrir, élever & gouverner. Liger, Louis. Paris: Chez Pierre Ribou, 1715. First Edition. Hardcover. Two Volumes bound in one. Vol. I 436 pages. Vol. II 400 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Liger's "Dictionaire" was an influential... (#4513) Price: $1,225.00

LA DEGUSTATION. Gervais, Francois. Harderwijk, Netherlands: PS Items, 2005. Wraps. 149 pages. 33 x 23 cm. Large Format Illustrated Erotic Cookbook - graphic. Beautiful ink drawings accompanied by French recipes - in Dutch. Minor... (#4418) Price: $275.00

[PHOTO ALBUMS] [HEALTH] [INDIA] [BANGLADESH] Health Relief Photo Albums; Dr. Lois H. Visscher. 1972-1974. Hardcover. Two Albums of photographs, most likely belonged to Dr. Louis H. Visscher (1914-2002). Visscher, born in Indianapolis and attended Mount Holyoke College and the University of Illinois at... (#4104) Price: $525.00

[TEXTILES] NEEDLEWORK SAMPLE BOOK - LENCERIA MUESTRARIO; ACADEMIA MENDIA. Sobun, Emilia. Buenos Aires: 1934. Hardcover. Oblong folio (21.6 x 36 cm.) Six unumbered pages with 13 samples (of 14). These "Lingerie" samples show intricate needlework, each about 16.5 x 16.5 cm... (#4090) Price: $225.00

[RETAIL] [ARCHIVE] Mrs. Lawrence Gillespie's shopping invoices from the turn of the century; Grandaughter of. Gillespie, Irene Muriel Augusta [Sherman] (1887–1972). Over 30 invoices portraying the life of the white upper class in New York City and Newport, RI. A thought-provoking look at a life of priviledge through the procurement of... (#4598) Price: $350.00

[ACCOUNT BOOK] PROPERTY OF G.A. HETH, ROCKVILLE, CONN. R.D.I. BOX 125; Eagle Flat Opening Book. G.A. Heth. 1926-1942. Hardcover. 499 pages. 40 x 17 cm. A rather extensive accounting of a family in Connecticut during the early to mid 20th century. Alongside daily expenditures is the detailed... (#3915) Price: $225.00

Culture de la Grosse Asperge, bound with - Culture de l'asperge de Gravelines, et des. Fillassier, Jean-Jacques & Robert-Xavier Mallet. Amsterdam; Et se trouve A Paris/Berlin; Et se trouve A Paris: Chez Méquignon l'aîné, Libraire, rue des Cordeliers/Chez l'Auteur, Barrière de Reuilly, Fauxbourg Saint-Antoine, 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. 46 pages... (#4518) Price: $1,125.00

The Receipt Book of Ann Blencowe - A.D. 1694; Elizabeth David's copy. Blencowe, Ann [Elizabeth David]. London: The Adelphi, 1925. Hardcover. 60 pages. 20 x 15 cm. Limited edition 1 of 650 copies, #619. Elizabeth David's oval bookplate at verso of front cover. Annotated in pencil... (#4547) Price: $375.00

[PHARMACY] [MANUSCRIPT] Pharmacist Notebook. Cobb, Fred U. 1888. Hardcover. 110 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Fred Cobb was a pharmacist who attended the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in 1887 and had part of his thesis "Proximate Analysis... (#4200) Price: $385.00

[BEER BREWING] [AGRICULTURE] COTTAGE ECONOMY; FIRST AMERICAN FROM THE FIRST LONDON EDITION. Cobbett, William. New York: STEPHEN GOULD AND SON, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover. 125 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Book plate of Jill Norman, culinary historian, author, and Elizabeth David's editor. "Information relative... (#4592) Price: $200.00

[REPURPOSED] Book of Handwritten Farming and Health Recipes; Book written in: MARSHALL'S COMMERCIAL POCKET BOOK. London: W. MARSHALL, c. 1910-1945. Leather_bound. 216 pages. (78 pages repurposed) 16 x 11 cm. This Pocket Book is a great example of how every day books were utilized or... (#4520) Price: $240.00

[MANUSCRIPT] [DANISH] [MILITARY] 19th Century Journal - Danish/German. Dixen, Laue Jensen. 1848-1851. Sewn binding. 16 x 11 cm. This journal belonged to Laue Jensen Dixon (once written Lauety), who was a member of the 10th Infantry Battalion from 1848 to 1851... (#3666) Price: $525.00

Lecture On Diet And Regimen: Being A Systematic Inquiry Into The Most Rational Means Of. Willich, A[nthony] F[lorian] M[adlinger]. Boston: Manning & Loring, 1800. The First Boston Edition, from the Second London Edition. Hardcover. Vol I 304 pages. 19 x 11.5 cm., Vol II 334 pages. 19 x 11.5... (#4510) Price: $225.00

[WOMEN] [DIARY] Event-filled 1903 daily diary - full year; The Standard DIARY 1903. Blackman, Kate. Pitcher, Chenango, New York: 1903. Cardboard covers. Kate (Catherine Hakes) Blackman (Aug 31, 1840 - Aug 17, 1917) was born in Pitcher, New York, and raised on a farm, surrounded... (#4526) Price: $125.00

[CULINARY] [NOVEL] High Bonnet. Jones, Idwal. New York: PRENTICE-HALL, 1945. Hardcover. 184 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Signed by the author on a tipped in piece of paper on the front free end paper. A satirical... (#4584) Price: $200.00

The Receipt Book of Elizabeth Raper; And a portion of her Cipher Journal Edited by. Raper, Elizabeth [Elizabeth David]. Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1924. Hardcover. 94 pages. No. 113 of 850 copies thus. Elizabeth David's oval bookplate at verso of front cover. Laid in: One page of Elizabeth David's... (#4548) Price: $325.00

[COLORADO] [PHOTO ALBUM] [WOMEN] Aspiring Opera Singer's Photo Album; Travel Photo Album. Stilphen, Louise Hope. 1926. Hardcover. Unpaginated. [50pp]. 18 x 25 cm. A well organized and in-depth view of the life of a young aspiring opera singer, Louise Hope Stilphen (Dec. 2, 1904 -... (#3566) Price: $325.00

[ZINE] AN CHUNG; Loving in Vietnamese. Nguyen, Vannessa. Brooklyn: Self-Published, 2022. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [28] pgs. 20.5 x 20.5 cm. " n chung" is Vietnamese for "eat together". In this 5-color risograph printed cookbook of Vietnamese recipes, the author... (#4599) Price: $225.00

[ACCOUNT BOOK] [PROSPECTING] [FARMING] Samuel D. Shirk - his book A.D. 1859 March the; Forreston. Shirk, Samuel D. 1859-1867. Cardboard covers. Shirk, Samuel D. [ACCOUNT BOOK] [PROSPECTING] [FARMING] Samuel D. Shirk - his book A.D. 1859 March the Forreston Ogle County Ill. 1859-1867. 182 pages. 15 x 10... (#4370) Price: $2,750.00

[ZINE] YOU STIR THE POT: Recipes for Change; Issue 1. Manganiello, Victoria (Initiated by) & Carolina Arévalo Karl (Designed by). Colonized and occupied Narragansett, Wamponoag, and Pokanoket land (so-called Providence RI): SNAKE HAIR, 2022. Spiral_bound. Unpaginated [74] pgs. 28 x 22 cm. An anthology of recipes written by artists around... (#4602) Price: $75.00

THE HOME NURSE; Comprising Useful Suggestions, by an Experienced Physician, on the care of the. SEABURY & JOHNSON. New York: SEABURY & JOHNSON, 1889. Staplebound. 32 pages. 11.75 x 7.5 cm. Before founding Johnson & Johnson, Robert Wood Johnson partnered with George Seabury to create the medicated plaster... (#4607) Price: $135.00

[NEW YORK] [EDUCATION] [MENU] Collection of Menus from The Male Teachers of New York/New York. 1901-1903. cards. 18 Menus and Programs. A rather interesting collection of ephemera from the early 1900's New York Educational Organizations. A few of the notable speakers: John Henry MacCraken -... (#4265) Price: $150.00

El Arte Del Licorista; Del Fabricante de Vinos de Todas Classes, Aguardientes, Jarabes & Helados. Porta, Mariano. Zaragoza, Spain: 1883. Sewn binding. 81 pages. 21 x 15.5 cm. (The Art of the Liquorist. From the Manufacturer of Wines of All Kinds, Spirits, Syrups & Ice Cream. New... (#2953) Price: $725.00

[PROGRAM -MENU] Abendbrot des Deutschen Vereins der Universität Harvard; (Dinner of the German Association the. 1905-1907. 3 German Association of Harvard University programs/menus. 1) 8 pages. 20 x 12.5 cm. Commersbuch des Deutschen Verein der Universität Harvard, May 1905. This appears to be a song... (#2786) Price: $125.00