Cucina e gastronomia

Economical French Cookery for Ladies

A "Cordon-Bleu · 1881 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

London, J. S. Virtue & Co. Limited, 1881. Cloth. A scarce edition of this work regarding French cuisine. Scarce edition. A series of lectures and menus for ladies studying the French style of cooking. Including recipes such as potage au poireux a l'Ecossaise, blanquette d...

Domestic and Economical Cookery Recipes with Special Hints on Gas Cooking

Miss Lillie Richmond · 1897 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Cartwright & Rattray Ltd, 1897. First edition. Cloth. A very neat copy of this Richmond cookery book with hints for gas cooking. First edition. Dated from the University of Glasgow Library. Illustrated throughout with many in-text sketches. A collection of recipes and ...

Cassell&Apos;S New Dictionary of Cookery

None · 1848 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, Cassell & Company Ltd, c1904. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce complete collection of periodicals of the illustrated dictionary of cookery, from Cassell. First editions. Scarce periodicals. The complete collection of fortnightly editions of Cassell's new di...

Take My Advice: A Book for Every Home

[Robert Kemp Philip] · 1872 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London , James Blackwood & Co, 1872. Cloth. A scare, illustrated volume of this handy guide book by Robert Kemp Philp. A scarce copy of Take My Advice: A Book for Every Home by Robert Kemp Philp. Philp was an English journalist, author and Chartist who complied handbooks on t...

Cassell&Apos;S New Universal Cookery Book

Lizzie Heritage · 1894 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

London, Cassell and Company , 1894. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition Cassell's extensive cookery book adorned with coloured plates. An extensive book of recipes by Lizzie Heritage. The first edition, a scarce work. Cassell's New Universal Cookery Book ...

Cookery and Housekeeping: A Manual of Domestic Economy for Large and Small Families

Mrs Henry Reeve · 1882 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.60 | $196.84 | ¥31,433)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1882 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this cookery book by Mrs Henry Reeve. The scarce first edition of this uncommon book of recipes by Mrs Henry Reeve. Scarce in all editions.Illustrated with eight striking coloured plat...

Government Reports on the Adulteration of Food and Public Health

1855 · Rooke Books

£420.00 (€503.43 | $554.85 | ¥88,602)

London, Ordered by the House of Commons, 1855-56. Cloth. A collection of five scarce British government reports on food regulation and public health from the mid nineteenth century, bound together in a single large volume. A fascinating collection of government reports on food...

Mrs Beeton&Apos;S Book of Household Management

Mrs Beeton · 1869 · Rooke Books

£4,950.00 (€5,933.27 | $6,539.25 | ¥1,044,237)

London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1869. Paperback. A very scarce unrecorded edition of Mrs Beeton's influential cookery book, a wonderful example of Victorian publications in parts. A very scarce and unrecorded edition, published in monthly parts. Not in Cagle.In ten parts, ...

Mrs. Beeton&Apos;S Household Mangement

Mrs. Beeton [Isabella Beeton] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Ward, Lock & Co. c1936. Cloth. A brightly illustrated 1930s edition of Isabella Beeton's renowned cookery work. A lovely edition of this famous work, illustrated with numerous illustrations and a further thirty-two exceptionally bright full colour plates. Collated...

All About Piping

Herr Willy · 1896 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Herr T. Willy, 1896. Cloth. A very scarce second edition of this profusely illustrated guide to the patisserie skill of piping. With advertisements to the rear of the work. The second edition of the work. Very scarce in any edition. First published in 1891. Profusely i...

Cooking with le Creuset

Elizabeth David · 1969 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

Watford, Cresta Press Ltd. 1969. First edition. Brochure/Pamphlet. A very scarce edition of this promotional 1960s pamphlet for Le Creuset, with an additional promotional pamphlet loosely inserted. In the publisher's original paper wraps. First edition of this 16 page pro...

Simple Hints on Choice of Food with Tested and Economical Recipes

M. C. Angwin · 1894 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Sheffield, Parker Bros, 1894. Cloth. A scarce collection of recipes by M. C. Angwin; an early edition. Containing such recipes as scalloped oysters, scrap bread pudding, potato surprise, fried ox kidney, baked crab, fig pudding, soda pudding and potato cheesecake, to name a fe...

The Cult of the Chafing Dish

Frank Schloesser · 1905 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Gay and Bird, 1905. Cloth. A decoratively bound general cookery book by Frank Schloesser, illustrated with decorative headpieces. Containing chapters on soups, flesh and fowl, eggs and savouries, sweets and oddments, and sauces, amongst other things.The second edition ...

L&Apos;Economie Culinaire

Cauderlier · 1888 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

Gand [Ghent], Librarie Generale De Ad. Hoste, 1888. Cloth. A very scarce signed French language cookery book, with illustrations. The very scarce seventh edition of this French language culinary work, very scarce in all editions. With twenty two illustrations, and one folding ...

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy; Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Ever Yet Published

Hannah Glasse · 1748 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.51 | $1,453.17 | ¥232,053)

London, Printed for the Author, c1748. Hardback. The scarce third edition of this important and immensely popular cookery book by Hannah Glasse. The third edition of this work by Hannah Glasse, dated from ESTC 1748 identified from its unique pagination, only matching that of t...

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Collective · 1839 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.49 | $495.40 | ¥79,109)

Paris, Au Bureau du Dictionnaire Général de Cuisine, 1839. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this general dictionary of early French cuisine, in the original French. A general dictionary of French cuisine compiled by a collective of authors. This is the first editio...

The Savoy Cocktail Book

Harry Craddock · 1930 · Rooke Books

£4,800.00 (€5,753.48 | $6,341.09 | ¥1,012,593)

London, Constable and Company, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A signed, first edition of this iconic and definitive cocktail recipe book. Signed by the author to Arthur Strange with a presentation inscription wishing them 'all the best&apos. His signature to page 6 with the ...

Modern Domestic Cookery; and Useful Receipt Book, Adapted for Families in the Middling and Genteel Ranks of Life

Elizabeth Hammond · 1830 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, A. K. Newman, 1830. Hardback. An illustrated edition of this popular Georgian period guide to cookery and household management. Rebacked, featuring the very scarce publisher's original boards. This is the illustrated seventh edition of this work, with illustrated ...

La Cuisiniere Bourgeoise, Suivie de L&Apos;Office

[Menon] · 1756 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.25 | $726.58 | ¥116,026)

Amsterdam, Depens de la Compagnie, 1756. Leather. A scarce very early edition of this French cookery work, an interesting collection of recipes for the bourgeoise. A scarce early edition of this work.In the original French.An eighteenth century pre-Revolution French cookery wo...

Economic Cookery

Anon · 0 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, South Metropolitan Gas Company, c1930. Brochure/Pamphlet. A scarce cookery pamphlet published by the South Metropolitan Gas Company, with tipped-in illustrations in colour. Produced by the South Metropolitan Gas company to encourage housewives to switch to cooking by g...