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Classic on Dutch table manners View picture(s) 1 ALKEMADE, Cornelis van, and Pieter van der SCHELLING. Nederlands displegtigheden, vertoonende de plegtige gebruiken aan den dis, in het houden van maaltyden, en het drinken der gezondheden, onder de oude Batavieren, en vorsten, graaven, edelen, en ander ingezetenen der Nederlanden, weleer gebruykelyk, nevens den oorsprongk dezer gewoonten, en der zelver overeenkomst met die van andere volken. Eerste - Tweede deel. IDEM. Nederlands displegtigheden, vertoonende het gebruik, en misbruik aan den dis ... nevens de oorzaaken dezer misbruiken; de wetten, en middelen daar tegen; en derzelver overeenkomst met die der andere volken; volgens de geschiedenissen; en godgeleerdheid, en zedekunde; en regtsgeleerdheid, en staatkunde. Derde deel. Rotterdam, Philippus Losel, 1731-1735. 3 vols. 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved allegorical frontispiece by F. van Bleyswyck in the first two volumes, full-page engraved plate of a medal for a 50-years marriage in the first volume, 11 engraved plates, of which 6 folding, showing drinking horns, cups and glasses in the second volume, and 3 folding engraved plates in the third vol. of drinking cups in the form of Spinola and of the citadel of Leyden, and a drinking glass with a round ball with a silver bell instead of a foot, thus to ring when the glass was empty but not being able to ever set it down, all by F. van Bleyswyck. (136), 562; (4), 557, (61); (90), 612, (54) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Courtesy Books  Gastronomy  History  Literature  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A revolution in food preservation: the food can! View picture(s) 2 APPERT, [Charles or Nicolas or François]. Le livre de tous les ménages : ou l'art de conserver pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales. Paris, Barrois l'aine, 1813. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red gilt title label, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Folding engraved plate with machinery for preserving food, engraved by Gaitte. XLVIII, 176 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Coffee & Tea  France  Gastronomy  Industry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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French cuisine in the 19th century View picture(s) 3 AUDOT, Louis-Eustache. La cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville, ou la nouvelle cuisine économique. Précédée d'instructions sur la dissection des viandes à table, et suivi de recettes précieuses pour l'economie domestique, et d'un traité sur les soins à donner aux caves et aux vins. Dédiée aux bonnes ménagères. Seizième édition. Paris, Audot & Sons, 1834. 12mo. Original grey boards. With one full-page handcoloured woodengraving, and many woodengravings in text. (4), 436, 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Gastronomy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the pleasures of a countryman's table View picture(s) 4 BERCHOUX, Joseph de. La gastronomia ó los placeres de la mesa. Poema. Traducido libremente del Frances al verso Español por Don José de Urcullu, capitan graduado, teniente del regimiento infantería de Leon. Valencia, La imprenta de Estévan, 1820. 12vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red title label. Full-page engraving of a merry company drinking coffee in a garden by T. de Rocafort. XII, 228 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Coffee & Tea  Engravings  Gastronomy  Spanish  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Second Aldine edition of the famous canon of classical texts on agriculture View picture(s) 5 CATO, Marcus Porcius [et al.]. Libri de re rustica. Venice, heirs of Aldus & Andrea Soceri, December 1533. Large 8vo. Later blind- and gold-tooled calf ('a l'antique'). With 2 woodcut Aldine devices and some woodcut geometrical figures in text. [54], 295, [1] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Aldus Manutius  Gastronomy  Latin  Venice  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The most complete treatise on carving of the Renaissance View picture(s) 6 CERVIO, Vincenzo. Il trinciante. Venice, Heirs of Francesco Tramezini, 1581. 4to. Modern calf. Woodcut printer's device on title and 3 large woodcut plates (1 folding). [4], 44 ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Gastronomy  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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16th-century woodcuts on food & drink View picture(s) 7 CURIO, Joannes (ed.). Conservandae Bonae Valetudinis Praecepta Longe Saluberrima, Regi Angliæ quondam à Doctoribus Scholæ Salernitanæ versibus conscripta. Frankfurt am Main, heirs of Christian Egenolph, 1582. With title-page in red and black, 65 woodcut illustrations in the text (including a couple repeats), 1 woodcut initial (plus 1 repeat) and a woodcut tailpiece. [8], 280, [4] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Anatomy  Gastronomy  Medicine  Oenology  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of a culinary classic View picture(s) 8 ESCOFFIER, Auguste. Le guide culinaire aide-mémoire de cuisine pratique. Paris, 1903. 8vo. Contemp. half calf with gilt title on spine. Folding table and illustrations in the text. XII, 794 pp.- First edition.- Good copy.- (Restorations to title, pp. IX-XII and pp.791-4; sl. soiled). Full description >> Related Subjects: 20th Century  French  Gastronomy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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De-luxe presentation copy by the author to King Louis Napoleon, with extra plates added View picture(s) 9 FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Joannes Le. Oud Hollands vriendschap, dankbaar aan Neerlands kroost, tot Leydens troost. Besloten met Utrechts eeuwschets. In Nederduitsche dichtmaat, met uitgebreide historische oud Hollandsche aanteekeningen, afbeeldingen van vriendschappelijke drinkbekers, en zinnebeeldige titelplaat. Mitsgaders een beeldnis medaillon des konings van Holland. Aan den raad en volk van Leyden. Leiden, for the author and for sale with F. de Munnik, 1809. 8vo. Beautifully bound in contemporary marbled calf, spine profusely gilt with orange title label lettered in gold, sides with two gilt borders along the edges and central oval border around small gilt coat-of-arms of Leyden with the 2 crossed keys, gilt board edges, gilt inner dentelles, g.e., original pink back wrapper bound in. Engraved frontispiece with the Leyden city-virgin engraved by Noach van der Meer after Le Francq van Berkhey, engraved folding plate with the ruins of the Rapenburg at Leyden after the explosion of the gunpowder ship in 1807 by J.E. Marcus after J. Jelgershuis (extra: engraved folding plate with a view on the Rapenburg Leyden before the disaster), 2 leaves with printed stone-inscriptions in border, full-page engraved plate with portrait medallion of King Louis Napoleon, and 7 full-page engraved plates with drinking cups after the designs of Le Francq van Berkhey (all these are mentioned in the note to the binder on the last leaf); extra added: (1) full-page dedication by Francq van Berkhey to King Louis Napolean: original pen and ink drawing with washes with the text: 'Eerbiedig toegeheiligt door Joannes Le Francq van Berkheij. Aet. 80' (=1809), with 3 coats-of-arms in medallions of the French Freedom, Leiden and Holland, topped by a crown  and the motto 'Tutae sub umbra coronae', (2) full-page engraved bouquet of flowers, coloured by hand with the motto 'Vergeet mij niet' (Don't forget me' in manuscript; (3)  11 smaller engraved plates by F. van Bleyswyck from the Nederlands displegtigheden by K. van Alkemade & P. vander Schelling (frontispiece, and nrs. 1-2, 5-12, mostly of drinking cups), pasted to blank leaves; (4) 3 folding engraved plates, one numbered 'VII', also of drinking cups; each plate is preceded by a leaf with title or description in manuscript, apparently as delivered at the binder. (4), XIV, (2, blank ), 273, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Cultural History  Gastronomy  Leyden  Literature  Utrecht  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Corrected edition of the first German work on internal medicine View picture(s) 10 FRIES, Lorenz. Spiegel der artzney ... Gebessert und und wiederumb fleissig übersehen durch Othonem Brunfels. Strasbourg, Balthasar Beck, 18 August 1529. Folio. Contemporary elaborately blind-stamped and blind-tooled calf, spine ribbed, rests of leather ties. With title-page within beautiful large historiated border with portraits of Galienus and Aesculapius , and a full-page woodcut. CXLI ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Gastronomy  Medicine  Pharmacy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Healthy diets for everyone View picture(s) 11 GAUTIER, Alexandre. (Guide de la ménagère). Traité des alimens, leurs qualités, leurs effets, et du choix que l'on doit en faire, selon l'age, le sexe, le tempérament, la profession, les climats, les habitudes et les maladies, pendant la grossesse, l'allaitement, etc. Paris, Audot, 1828. 18mo. Original orange wrappers. XII, 239 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gastronomy  Guide Books  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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To increase the production of oil: first edition of a rare and interesting work on the oil-bearing Chinese radish View picture(s) 12 GRANDI, Francesco de'. Istruzione sulla coltura del rafano oleifero Cinese e relative manifatture dell' olio. Torino, Dalla Stamperia Fea, 1793. 8vo. Original wrappers charmingly decorated in pink. With engraved folding plate of a machine for the production of oil (19 x 27 cm). 70, (2 + 4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  China  Gastronomy  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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All you need to know about life in the country View picture(s) 13 GROEN, Jan van der & Pieter NIJLANDT. Den Nederlantschen Hovenier, zijnde het 1. deel van  het vermakelijk land-leven. beschrijvende alderhande  prinçelijke en heerlijke lust-hoven en hof-steden,  en hoe men deselve, met veelderley uytnemenede boomen,  bloemen en kruyden, kan beplanten, bezaeijen, en verçieren.  Met noch omtrent 200. modellen van bloem-perken, parterres,  dool-hoven, priëlen, lat-werken, en zonne-wysers.-  Den Verstandigen Hovenier, over de twaelf maenden van  't jaer. zijnde het ii. deel van het vermakelyk lant-leven.  Beschrijvende , hoe men op de beste en bequaemste maniere  sal hoven, thuynen, lust-hoven en boomgaerden verordineren,  bereyden, beplanten, en bezaeijen. Als mede, Hoe men  alderhande ooft en fruyt, kruyden en bloemen, wortelen  en zaden, op sijn behoorlijke tijt zal vergaderen.-  De Medicyn-winkel, of ervaren huys-houder: zijnde het  iii. deel van het vermakelyk land-leven. Onderwijsende,  hoe men binnen en buyten de steden heylsame medicijnen  voor de gebreken van menschen en beesten, sal toemaken  en bereyden. Als mede Den naerstigen byen-Houder. Noch is hier achter bygevoeght Den Verstandigen Kok. Amsterdam, Wed. van Gijsbert de Groot, 1711-1721. 3 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Later half marbled calf, with paper title-label mounted on spine. With engraved frontispiece, 2 titles, 71 full-page plates, mostly engraved, partly in woodcut, showing views of famous houses and gardens, illustrations of garden-work, garden architecture, numerous plans of gardens, and 7 woodcuts in text in the 1st part; engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations of garden-work on full-page engraved plate, and 2 woodcuts in text, one showing a view in a vineyard, in the 2nd part; and large engraved illustration on 3 titles, respectively showing a pharmacy for men and beasts, a bee-hive-yard, and cooks in their kitchen, full-page woodcut plate of a horse and a cow, and 2 woodcuts in text on distilling in the 3rd part. (30), 103, (3); (8), 84, (4); 88 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Architecture  Dutch  Engravings  Gardens  Gastronomy  Medicine  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Hunting in all its aspects View picture(s) 14 LANGEL, Le comte de. Guide et hygiène des chasseurs. Contenant des recherches historiques sur l'origine de la chasse, l'art de dresser les chiens et les chevaux, des notices sur les differérentes espèces de Gibier à poil et à plume. l'Hygiène des chasseurs et des chiens, la fabrication de la poudre et du plomb à giboyer, celle des poudres et amorces fulminantes, la description du fusil Robert et des avantages qu'il offre sur les autres armes à feu, la législation ancienne et moderne sur la chasse et les ports-d'armes; enfin, un aperçu de tout ce qui peut intéresser le chasseur. Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, Bohaire & Madame Huzard, (after 1836). 8vo. Original wrappers, with title and illustration of a chasing dog in ornamental borders lithographed on front cover and announcement of another publication in same ornamental borders lithographed on back cover, uncut. Engraved frontispiece of 2 hunters in different costumes, beautifully water-coloured by hand and the buttons of their jackets heightened with gold, 1 engraved folding plate showing the shotguns and pistols of the model by J.A. Robert and 4 woodcut tailpieces of chasing dogs and hunting still lives. (4), VIII, 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Gastronomy  Hunting  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Attractive botanical plates View picture(s) 15 LÖBE, William. Die Getreidearten und Hülsenfrüchte. Aus Deutschlands Landwirthschaftlicher Flora. Leipzig, Wilhelm Baensch, 1863. 4 works in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary half calf. With 111 hand-coloured engraved plates and 2 uncoloured engravings. (8), 54 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Agriculture & Husbandry  Botany  Gastronomy  Mycology  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Recipes and gastronomic verses by 19th-century French authors, collected by 'Le roi des gastronomes' View picture(s) 16 MONSELET, Charles. La cuisinière poétique. Avec le concours  de MM. Méry, A. Dumas, Th. de Banville, Th. Gautier, Ém. Deschamps, C. Carguel, A. Barthet, E. Solié, Xavier Aubryet, Aur. Scholl, Charles Bataille, etc. Leipzig, A. Durr (printed by J. van Buggenhoudt, Brussels), (1859). 16mo. Contemporary half brown morocco with marbled boards, spine ribbed with gilt title, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. With the vignette of the 'Collection Hetzel' on title. 199, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  France  Gastronomy  Literature  Poetry  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the building, management and household of an ideal estate in seventeenth-century France View picture(s) 17 ROSNY, Monsieur de. Le parfait oeconome, contenant ce qu'il est utile & necessaire de sçavoir à tous ceux qui ont des biens à la campagne. (And with separate pagination:) Idée ou description d'une maison de campagne. Maison, Basse-court & jardins. Paris, Claude Prudhomme, 1710. 12mo. Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with title lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red speckled edges. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut head-pieces and initials. (8), 131, (1 blank), 39, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  French  Gastronomy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Amusing eclectic poem, playing with all possible literary genres by a French chansonnier and composer View picture(s) 18 VADÉ, Jean Joseph. La pipe cassée, poëme epitragipoissardiheroicomique. A la Liberté, Chez Pierre Bonne-Humeur, (ca. 1750). 8vo. 19th century red morocco, spine ribbed with title lettered in gold, richly gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. (REYMANN; T. LECLERE Dor.). With large ornamental woodcut vignette on title, charming woodcut tailpieces, and 4 fine engraved headpieces by F. Aveline and D. Sornique after beautiful and lively designs by Charles Eisen. 45 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Chapbooks  Gastronomy  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Cultivation of fruit-trees and viniculture on 15th- and 16th-century Sicily View picture(s) 19 VENUTI, Antonio. De agricultura opusculum. (Colophon: Venice, Merchio Sessa, 1536). 8vo. Later limp vellum with title written in ink on spine. With a large woodcut printer's device on title depicting a cat catching a mouse within floral borders with the inscription "Dissimilius infida societas" and woodcut initials. [40] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  Gastronomy  Italy  Oenology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare popular medical handbook with one of the earliest Dutch cookbooks View picture(s) 20 WIRTSUNG, Christopher. Medecyn Boec. Daer inne alle wtwendighe, ende inwendige parthyen des menschen lichaems, met alle hare sieckten ende ghebreken, van den hoofde af, tot de voeten toe, begrepen zijn ... Seer bequaem ende gherieffelick, niet alleene voor Medicijns, chirurgijns, aptekers, ende vroede-vrouwen, maer ooc voor alle andere gemeyne luyden ... inde Hoochduytsche sprake wtgegeven, ende nu wt de vierde editie, in onse ghemeyne Nederlantsche tale, overgheset, door D. Carolus Battus ... De derde verbeterde druck. Including: BATTUS, Carolus. Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten coc-boeck. Dordrecht, Isaac Janssz. J. Canin, 1601. Folio. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut printer's device on title. [20], 676, [56]; 24 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Gastronomy  Medicine  Popular Books  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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