[Los Angeles?]: 1938. 18pp. Narrow 12mo. Original gilt wrappers, stapled. Light wear. Promotional brochure for the Regina Winery in Etiwanda, California, operated by the Ellena Brothers. Established in 1906 by Claudio Ellena, a descendant of an Italian winemaking family. Claudio's sons eventually took over the business, marketing their wine under..... More

Ventura, Ca. Free Press Book and Job Office, 1897. 116,[20]pp. Original printed cloth wrappers. Moderate wear and soiling to wraps, rear wrapper detached. Scattered manuscript notes throughout, plus manuscript additions to rear blanks. Even toning and scattered staining, other signs of use. Extremely scarce, late 19th-century community cook book published..... More

Havana: [ca. 1950]. 389pp., plus [33]pp. of ads. Original red publisher's cloth, stamped in black. Dampstained at edges and spine, extremities worn; rear cover soiled. Contemporary inscription on front pastedown. Foxed, some scattered soiling. An interesting bilingual Cuban cook book, with recipes in English and Spanish on facing pages. The..... More

Havana: 1931. 150pp. Stiff black cloth covers, printed paper label on front board. Front cover vertically creased, light wear to boards; remnants of glassine stuck to covers. Contemporary inscription on front flyleaf. Internally clean. In a custom clamshell box. First edition of the first Cuban cook book published in English..... More

[Puebla?]: 1925. [97]pp. Quarto. Original half cloth and marbled boards. Extremities lightly worn. Contents mostly clean, in a neat and uniform hand. Handsome manuscript cook book volume created by Evelia Marroquin in Mexico. A very modern-looking work, each recipe lists measured ingredients followed by instructions. Written in a highly legible..... More

Puebla: Tip. de Narciso Bassols, 1881-1882. Two volumes. 435; 331pp. Small octavo. Original maroon publisher's cloth, spines gilt. Light wear and staining, cloth rubbed and worn at edges, heavier to rear boards. Contemporary pencil notations to front flyleaf of first volume. Some light toning and soiling to text. "Novisimo manual..... More

Puebla: Tip. de la "Misericordia Cristiana" 1911. 547pp. 12mo. Contemporary rust-colored cloth, front board stamped in black. Corners and spine ends heavily worn, stamping faded; rear hinge tender. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Text lightly toned, slight wear. Expanded second edition of this Mexican cook book, after the first..... More

Mexico City: Manuel Leon Sanchez, 1911. 175,[6],179-208pp. Contemporary blue cloth, gilt. Spine heavily sunned and faded, light wear and soiling, hinges tender. Contents clean. Scarce Mexican cook book from the turn of the century. The work opens with a suggested month of menus, followed by more than 200 recipes, ranging..... More

Lincoln: Jacob North Company, 1894. 138pp. plus blanks for manuscript notes. Ads on pastedowns. Contemporary black cloth-covered boards. Light wear to covers, minor toning and soiling to contents, a few small edge tears. A scarce community cook book issued by the newly-incorporated YWCA of Lincoln, Nebraska. It includes a full..... More

Paris: En Casa de Jules Renouard, 1828. [4],iii,256pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with leather label. Corners worn, boards scuffed, lower half of volume dampstained. Moderate soiling and foxing to text. A distillation manual designed to bring the arts and sciences of France to the New World. The work opens..... More