We offer here a short list of cookery and gastronomic delights for the end of the year. Highlights include a Mexican manuscript cook book, scarce or unrecorded community cook books from several states, and -- undeniably our favorite -- a Colombian treatise on raising guinea pigs for meat. Bon appetite!
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Mexico City: 1937. 372,[1]pp., plus five advertisement leaves and eight color plates. Quarto. Original tan wrappers printed in black, blue, and yellow, yapp edges. Minor edge wear and soiling to wrappers. Previous owner's signature to a couple of inner leaves, text lightly and evenly toned but clean. A wonderful book..... More
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Co., [1905]. 105,[1]pp. Original printed cloth boards. Light wear to spine and edges; boards slightly rubbed, with minor soiling; front hinge. Title page somewhat browned; light tanning and soiling elsewhere. First edition, first issue (with "Price 25 Cents" printed on the front board) of this early 20th-century..... More
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Idaho Falls: [1915]. 135pp. Original printed linen wrappers, stapled. Wear and creasing to wrappers, lightly soiled. Text lightly toned, some light scattered soiling and wear. Rare community cook book from Idaho Falls, showcasing not only the area's best recipes, but also laced with numerous local advertisements. A running header advertises..... More
Evanston: Mumm Print Shop, [1920?]. 119,[7]pp. Original green cloth, cover stamped in black. Spine and corners rubbed. Internally clean. A handsome little cook book compiled by the PTA of the Oakton School in Evanston, Illinois. "This is not intended to be a cook book...This is simply a collection of favorite..... More
[Chicago? ca. 1920]. [4],132pp. plus chromolithographic plate. Original light grey cloth, cover printed in black. Extremities rubbed, minor soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf. Text moderately but evenly tanned, some minor wear. A scarce community cook book compiled by the East End Circle Woman's Guild for the benefit of..... More
Missoula: 1937. [1],34pp. Mimeographed. Original plaid oil cloth wrappers, stapled. Light wear, cover label possibly lacking. Minor toning to text. An apparently unrecorded Depression-era community cook book from Montana. Each recipe's contributor is identified by name. Some of our favorites include Health Salad ("Eat once a week in place of..... More
Milwaukee: J.G. Flint, 1890. [4],146pp., plus color frontispiece. Original brown faux-alligator wrappers. Front cover detached, covers heavily worn; older tape on spine and front cover, lightly soiled. Contemporary pencil ownership notations on end leaves. Lightly toned, several small edge tears, heavier to last few leaves. One of the earliest cook..... More
Mexico City: Imp. Catolica de Francisco Lugo, 1887. 173,[3]pp. 12mo. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, spine gilt lettered. Corners bumped and worn, light wear to edges and spine ends, boards slightly scuffed. Light tanning internally; a few fox marks along edges of text block. Unrecorded Mexican Catholic manual on..... More
Colombia: Ministerio de Agricultura, 1952. [2],xiii,203,[4]pp., plus plates. Two printed leaves, otherwise typescript reproduction. Oblong octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Lust wear and dust soiling to wraps; light tanning internally. Rare, extremely detailed study by the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture to promote the guinea pig as a low-cost and sustainable source..... More