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(ACTS & ORDINANCES: Bread.) A Collection of fifteen French acts and ordinances concerning bread, flour, and grain. 1769-1794.

(ACTS & ORDINANCES: MEAT & SALT.) An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament touching the excise of flesh-victuals, and s...

(ACTS & ORDINANCES: Tobacco, wine, salted fish, meats, and butter, etc.) Ordonnances de Louis XIV. Roy de France et de Navarre, sur le fait ...

ALLETZ, Pons Augustin. L'Agronome, ou, dictionnaire portatif du cultivateur. Lyon: Robert et Gauthier, 1803.

ANDERSON, James. ANDERSON, James. Essays relating to agriculture and rural affairs. The fifth edition, with corrections and additions. Londo...

APPERT, Nicolas. L’art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales et végétales. Paris: Patris, 1810.

ARBUTHNOT, John. Essai sur la nature, et le choix des alimens, suivant les différentes constitutions. Paris: la Veuve Cavelier & Fils, 1755...

ATHENAEUS. The Deipnosophists or the banquet of the learned...literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B.A. with an appendix of poetical fragmen...

(AUCTION & BOOKSELLER CATALOGUES.) Various gastronomy catalogues, 2000-2006.

(AUCTION CATALOGUES.) A Collection of fourteen auction catalogues devoted to gastronomy. 1966-2004.

[BALLON & GARNIER.] Traité complet de la culture du figuier... suivi d’un petit traité de la culture de différent fleurs. Paris: Lamy, 1782...

[BARBE, Simon.] Le Parfumeur françois, qui enseigne toutes les manières de tirer les odeurs des fleurs; & de faire toutes sortes de composi...

BARBIER, Jean Baptiste Grégoire. Traité d’hygiène appliquée à la thérapeutique. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1811.

BERTRAND, C. F. Le Parfumeur Impérial. Paris: Brunot-Labbe, 1809.

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) CAGLE, William R. and STAFFORD, Lisa Killion. American books on food and drink. A Bibliographical catalog of the cookbook c...

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) CAGLE, William. A Matter of taste. A Bibliographical catalogue of international books on food and drink in the Lilly Librar...

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) DESMOND, Ray. Bibliography of British Gargens. (Winchester:) St. Paul's Bibliographies, (1988).

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) DESMOND, Ray. Bibliography of British Gargens. [Winchester:] St. Paul's Bibliographies, [1988].

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) GLOZER, Liselotte F. and William K. California in the Kitchen. An Essay upon, and a Check List of, California Imprints in th...

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) HAZLITT, W. Carew. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine. London: Elliot Stock, 1886.

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) KAPS, Alain. Bibliographie sommaire des ouvrages en langue francaise concernant la chasse, 1953-1997. [Vannes,] 1998.

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) OXFORD, Arnold Whitaker. English Cookery Books to the Year 1850. London, Oxford University Press, 1913. Martino Reprint, c....

(BIBLIOGRAPHY.) Oxford, Arnold Whitaker. Notes From A Collector’s Catalogue. With a Bibliography of English Cookery Books. London: Bumpus, ...

(BIBLIOGRAPHY: Gardening.) Dochnahl, Friedrich Jacob. Bibliotheca hortensis. Vollständige Garten-Bibliothek oder Alphabetisches Verzeichniss...

(BOOKSELLER CATALOGUES: SOETE, Edgar.) A collection of thirteen catalogues. Paris, [1979-88].

(BOOKSELLER CATALOGUES: SOETE, Edgar.) Three catalogues. Paris, [1979-80].

BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste; or Transcendental Gastronomy. Illustrated by Anecdotes of Distinguished Artists and...

BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme. The handbook of dining; or, how to dine, theoretically, philosophically and historically considered. Based c...

BRÜCKMANN, Franz Ernest. Epistola itineraria XIII. De Lapidibus Odoratis. Wolffenbüttel: n.p., 1729.

BRUNETIÈRE DESROCHETTES, Joseph Aimé Ambroise. [Drop-Title:] Tentamen Chimico-Medicum de Lacte. Montpellier: Martel, 1773.

BRYANT, Charles. Flora diaetetica: or history of esculent plants, both domestic and foreign. London: B. White, 1783.

BUC’HOZ, Pierre Joseph. Toilette de flore, ou essai sur les plantes & les fleurs qui peuvent servir d’ornement aux dames. Paris: Valade, 177...

CHALLAN, Antoine Didier Jean Baptiste. Rapport fait a la séance publique de la société royale et centrale d’agriculture, le 29 mars 1818, su...

CHARLEMAGNE, Armand. Instructions sur l’usage des moulins a bras. Paris: Blanchon, 1793.

CHOICE RECEIPTS, selected from the best manuscript authorities. [Hartford: Worthington, Duston & Co.], 1872.

CONTENANCES DE LA TABLE, LES. [Lyons, Pierre Mareschal & Bernabé Chaussard, c. 1503].

COTTE, Louis. Leçons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle, a l'usage des jeunes-gens. Paris: J. Barbou, 1787.

COUPIN, Henri. Les parfums. Leurs origines. – Leur fabrication. Paris: Gautier, c. 1900.

DEITE, Carl Die Darstellung der Seifen, Parfümerien und Cosmetica. Braunschweig: Friedrich Bieweg und Sohn 1867

DEITE, Carl (editor). Handbuch der Parfümerie- und Toiletteseifenfabrikation. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1891.

DICKSON, Adam. A treatise of agriculture. A new edition. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, J. Bell, T. Longman, & T. Caddel, 1770.

DIDRICHSEN, D. Die Hausmutter im Mittelstande. Copenhagen: Friedrich Brummer, 1802.

(ECONOMIC history, agriculture, and nutrition.) A collection of five very rare works concerning potatoes, buckwheat, parsnips, beets, and ho...

ELSHOLTZ, Johann Sigismund. Destillatoria curiosa, sive ratio ducendi liquores coloratos per alembicum, hactenus si non ignota, certe minus ...

ÉTIENNE. Traité de l’office...avec de beaux dessins gravés sur acier. Paris: Laignier, 1845-46.

(EXHIBITION CATALOGUE: CRAIG COLLECTION.) Four hundred years of English diet & cookery. A selection of books printed between 1541 & 1939. Be...

(EXHIBITION CATALOGUE: Schraemli, Harry.) Gastgewerbliche Ausstellung Zürich 1942. Zweitausend Jahre gastronomische Literatur. Zürich, Offiz...

FANTINI, Giuseppe. De’ danni che arreca alla salute del bel sesso l’uso continuo de’ belletti e l’abuso degli odori nelle toelette. Macerata...

FARMER’S MAGAZINE, THE: a periodical work, exclusively devoted to agriculture, and rural affairs. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1801-10.

FAVORITE RECIPES collected by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the First Baptist Church Oakland, Cal. [Oakland: Baker Printing Co., c.1902.]

FILLASSIER, Jean Jacques. Culture de la grosse asperge.... Nouvelle édition, revue et corrigée. Amsterdam: Méquignon, 1788.

FRIZZI, Antonio. La Salameide, poemetto giocoso con le note. Venice: G. Zerletti, 1772.

GACON-DUFOUR, Marie Armande Jeanne. Manuel du parfumeur. Paris: Roret, 1825.

(GARDENING.) A fine and attractive collection of five early 18th-century English gardening books, all first editions, bound in a single volu...

GARNIER, Édouard. Histoire de la verrerie et de l'émaillerie. Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1886.

GARTLER, Ignaz & HIKMANN, Barbara. Wienerisches bewährtes Kochbuch in sechs Absätzen. Wien: Joseph Gerold, 1812.

[GEOPONICA.] De notevoli et utilissimi ammaestramenti dell’agricoltura, di greco in volgare novamente tradotto per Pietro Lauro modonese. V...

GOERG, Edouard. Parfums. Paris: Artra, 1956.

GRAINDORGE, André. Traité de l’origine des macreuses. Caen: Jean Poisson, 1680.

GRAPES and grape vines of California. San Francisco: Edward Bosqui & Co., 1877 [John Windle: San Francisco, 1980].

HART, James. [Title in Greek: Klinike], or the diet of the diseased. Divided into three bookes. Wherein is set downe at length the whole mat...

HAUPTNER, F. V. Kochbuch für Haushaltungen aller Stände. Berlin: A. W. Hayn, 1838.

HAVET, Armand Étienne Maurice. Dictionnaire de ménages; ou, recueil de recettes et d'instructions pour l'économie domestique. Paris: Pierre ...

HEPPE, Johann Christoph. Encyclopädischer Kalender, oder kurze Aufsätze für die Liebhaber der Haushaltungs-Kunst, der Wissenschaften, und d...

HUMBEL, Xavier. Vieux pressoirs sans frontières. Paris: Guenegaud, 1976.

HUNTER, Alexander. Georgical essays. York: A. Ward, J. Dodsley, T. Cadell, J. Bobson, T. Durham, & W. Creech, 1777.

JACKSON, James. Essays on various agricultural subjects. Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Co., Published by William Blackwood, George Street,...

JAUNEZ, Jean Pierre. Mémoire sur les pressoirs a vin. Paris: Barrois, 1788.

KAMES, Henry Home, Lord. The gentleman farmer. Being an attempt to improve agriculture by subjecting it to the test of rational principles. ...

KÖGEL, J. G. Zucker- Syrup- Arrak- und Essig-Fabrikation aus Runkelrüben. Nebst einem Anhang über die Kaffeesurrogate. Quedlinburg, Ernst, ...

LANDOUZY, Paul La Bière, comment il faut la débiter. Lille: Plateau, 1923.

(LIBRARY CATALOGUE: ITALIAN UNION OF PERFUMERY.) CORGHI, Vanny Terenzi. La Biblioteca della bellezza. N.p.: Unipro, 1996.

LINDSAY, Patrick. The interest of Scotland considered, with regard to its police in imploying of the poor, its agriculture, its trade, its m...

LÖHRING, Katharina. Die erfahrene Aepfelköchin. Leipzig: Carl Wilfferodt, 1865.

LULLIN, Charles. Des associations rurales pour la fabrication du lait, connues en Suisse sous le nom de fruitières. Paris & Genève: Paschoud...

LUNEL, Adolphe Benestor. Guide pratique du parfumeur. Paris: Hetzel, [c. 1880].

(MANUSCRIPT: BRILLAT-SAVARIN, Jean Anthelme.) An autograph poem entitled “L’Agonie, chant romantique.” N.p., N.d.

(MANUSCRIPT: English cookbook.) Knight, Sarah Ellen. 1865.

(MANUSCRIPT: English cookery.) c. 1830s.

(MANUSCRIPT: English cookery.) E. A. E. Metcalfe, 1856.

(MANUSCRIPT: English cookery.) Mary Strowger Metcalf, 1873.

(MANUSCRIPT: English cookery.) Mary Sykes, 1864.

(MANUSCRIPT: English cookery.) Mrs. Stephens Receipt Book, 1855-79.

(MANUSCRIPT: English receipt book.) Various owners. 1865-1872.

(MANUSCRIPT: English receipts.) E. Lynes, 1884.

(MANUSCRIPT: English receipts.) Rick Pettit. c. 1890

(MANUSCRIPT: German cookbook.) Early 18th-century.

(MANUSCRIPT: German cookbook.) Kochbüch, 1806.

(MANUSCRIPT: GERMAN COOKBOOK.) Von Suppen oder Potagen Zü machen, Germany, c. 1680.

(MANUSCRIPT: GERMAN COOKBOOK.) Von Truckenen Obst: alss erstlich Zitronat= Pomerantzen= und Citronen= Schalen einzumachen, Germany, c. 1720....

(MANUSCRIPT: GERMAN COOKBOOK.) Kochbuch für Martha Winkel, geb.st 10 Dezember 1868.

(MANUSCRIPT: GERMAN COOKBOOK.) Koch Büch. Worin alles So zür Küchenmeistereÿ gehörig zü finden. Germany, c. 1700.

(MANUSCRIPT: Viticulture, wine-making, etc.) Lamary, c. 1830.

MARTIN, Alexandre. Manuel de l’amateur de melons, ou l’art de reconnaitre et d’acheter de bons melons. Paris: Augte. Udron, 1827.

MAUPIN. Procédé facile, et complet avec la leçon sur la grappe, et le problem sur le temps juste du découvage des vins, pour faire et améli...

MCLAREN, Linie Loyall. High living; recipes from Southern climes. San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1907.

MCLAREN, Linie Loyall. Pan-Pacific cook book, savory bits from the world’s fare. San Francisco: Blair-Murdock Co., 1915.

(MENU.) La Politique, Theatres, Finances, Banquet de l’Eclair, 10 January 1898.

(MENUS.) Twenty-six menus from seven different paquebots of the Messageries Maritimes shipping-line (the Paquebot Niger, Sénégal, Yang-Tsé, ...

[MORGENSTERN-SCHULZE, Johanna Katharina.] Lehren und Erfahrungen für junges Frauenzimmer von der Verfasserin der Abendbetrachtungen und Aben...

[NEILL, Patrick]. Journal of a horticultural tour through some parts of Flanders, Holland, and the north of France, in the autumn of 1817. B...

NEUES LEHRREICHES UND VOLLSTÄNDIGES MAGAZIN, vor junges Frauenzimmer die ganze Koch-Kunst, und Zuckerbeckerei. Karlsruhe: Michael Maklot, 17...

(PEEP-SHOW: KITCHEN SCENE.) Augsburg: Engelbrecht, c. 1720.

(PERFUME ADVERTISING.) Parfumerie Brunier & F. Millot, Paris: N.p., c. 1860.

(PERFUME SACHET.) French, c. 1840.

(PERFUME, Soap, essences, wax, etc.) Four patents, 1861-81.

PERKINS, John. Floral designs for the table; being directions for its ornamentation with leaves, flowers, & fruit. London: Wyman & Sons, 187...

PIESSE, George William Septimus. The art of perfumery, and the methods of obtaining odours of plants; with instructions for the manufacture ...

(POULTRY.) Ensuyt le pris que les poulailliers, regratiers: rotisseurs: et to[utes] autres: vendront chascune piece de vollaille: et gibier:...

POURIAU, Armand Florent. Du commerce du lait, destiné a l’alimentation parisienne. De la fabrication du fromage de gruyère dans l’Yonne. Par...

REFORMATION DES TAVERNES, LA, & Cabaretz: destruction de Gormandise, En forme de Dialogue. [Paris: Guillaume Nyverd, c. 1515.]

REGLAMENTO para los bayles de mascara que han de executarse en el teatro de Granada. Granada: Imprenta de Don Manuel Moreno, 1807.

REMY, Jules. Champignons et truffes. Paris: Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, 1861.

RIMMEL, Eugene. Le livre des parfums. Paris: E. Dentu, London: Chapman & Hall, Brussels: C. Muquardt, [1870].

SAWER, John Charles. Odorographia, a natural history of raw materials and drugs used in the perfume industry including the aromatics used in...

SCHRAEMLI, Harry. Von Lucullus zu Escoffier. Ein Schlemmerbuch für kluge Frauen und gescheite Männer. Zürich: Interverlag, [1949].

SORGFÄLTIGE HAUS-, DER, und Wirtschfats-Verwalter...Und bey dieser newuen Auglage Mit einem wohl eingerichteten Koch- und Trenchier-Büchlein...

STECK, Abraham. Dissertatio inauguralis medica de sagu. Strasbourg: Johann Heinrich Heitz, 1757.

TAYLOR, John. St. Hillaries teares. Shed upon. All professions, from the judge to the pett fogger. From the spruce dames of the exchange, to...

TENDRET, Lucien. La Table au Pays de Brillat-Savarin. Belley: Louis Bailly Fils, 1892.

THAER, Albrecht Daniel. Principi Ragionati d’Agricoltura. Firenze: Piatti, 1818.

TRENCHIER-BUCH. Tübingen: Johann Georg Cotta, 1766.

TRÉSOR, LE, des villes et des campagnes ou la cuisinière a l’usage des ménagéres et des jeunes personnes. Porrentruy, Victor Michel. 1862.

VIARD, André. Le Cuisinier Royal, ou l’Art de Faire la Cuisine et la Patisserie, pours Toutes les Fortunes....Suivie d’une notice sur les Vi...

VOLLKOMMENE PARFÜMEUR, DER, oder vollständige Anweisung, alle Arten von Parfüms zu verfertigen....Aus dem Französischen. Ilmenau: Bernard Fr...

WELLS, A. J. California for the settler. San Francisco: Southern Pacific Co., 1915.

YOUNG WOMAN’S COMPANION, THE or, frugal housewife. Manchester: Russell and Allen, 1811.

YOUNG WOMAN’S COMPANION, THE, or, frugal housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confec...

YOUNG, Arthur. A six weeks tour through the southern counties of England and Wales. Describing, particularly, I. the present state of agric...