Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1951). First edition. A splendid and appropriate association copy of Bernard Devoto's amusing history of the American cocktail hour: Inscribed on the front free endpaper "This gospel for the spiritual and moral enlightenment of Cleveland Amory - Benny." DeVoto was an impassioned defender of the traditional cocktail.....
San Francisco: The Peregrine Press, 1951. First edition, one of 175 copies. An attractive and amusing work on mushrooms, the history of their uses in cooking, how to choose and clean them, etc., with several recipes of the ideal mushroom dishes, including beouf stroganoff, oeufs aux champignons and creole mushroom.....
Dallas: Still Point Press, 1985. First Still Point Press edition, number 31 of 300 numbered copies, printed by the Bird & Bull Press. A handsome fine press edition of John Evelyn's treatise on the making of salads, first published in 1699. "Evelyn's message in Acetaria was that vegetables were a......
San Francisco: (Press of Freygang-Leary Co.), 1903. First American edition. Not found in Unzelman, who does record the French edition of 1896. A complete translation of the second edition of Les Vignes Americaines by French viticulturists Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz, which appeared in 1896 in France and slightly later.....
London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1802. First edition. Bronson, Joseph Ritson, Scholar at Arms, 27; Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 399. An interesting treatise by antiquary Joseph Ritson (1752-1803) advocating the vegetable diet. Ritson was a committed vegetarian, whose diet, according to his biographer Bertrand Bronson, consisted of muffins, cake, cheese.....