Cucina e gastronomia

Goodall&Apos;S Palatable Cookery: Showing How to Make Pudding, Pastry, Custards, Bread, Biscuits, &C. And How to Prepare Eggs, Omelets, Ginger Beer &C. With Hints on Health and Remedies

Goodall · 1881 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Leeds, Goodall, Backhouse, & Co. 1881. Paperback. A very scarce little volume in its original wraps containing the second series of Goodall's tasty recipes. The second series of this very scarce cooking book held in three institutional libraries only. A little volume con...

Three Cookery Books: One Hundred and One Methods of Cooking Poultry with Hints on Selection, Trussing, and Carving; Savouries and Sweets Suitable for Luncheons and Dinners; Breakfast Dishes for Every Morning of Three Months

M. L. Allen; Aunt Chloe · 1915 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

London, H. Virtue and Co.; Crosby Lockwood and Son , 188-1915. Paperback. A scarce later edition set of these cookery book by Miss Allen and Aunt Chloe, presenting various savoury and sweet dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Three pocket sized volumes filled with many re...

Dainties English and Foreign

Mrs. H. C. Davidson · 1888 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.34 | ¥68,561)

London, Hatchards, 1888. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce first edition of this dainty recipe book, a prime example of popular late Victorian cookery. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.A selection of charming dainty recipes from across the globe for every me...

Dressed Game and Poultry a la Mode

Harriet Anne de Salis · 1897 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.69 | $303.84 | ¥48,520)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897. Cloth. A very scarce copy of one of Harriet Anne de Salis' popular cookery books, this volume focusing particularly on dressed game and poultry. A very scarce work.The third edition of this work.'Dressed Game and Poultry' c...

Savouries a la Mode

Harriet Anne de Salis · 1888 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1888. Cloth. A very scarce copy of Harriet Anne de Salis' recipe collection focusing on smaller savoury dishes. A very scarce work.A selection of recipes for a variety of savoury dishes, such as stuffed eggs and various kinds of fritters.W...

The Dinner Question

Tabitha Tickletooth; Charles Selby · 1860 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.96 | $1,981.59 | ¥316,435)

London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1860. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of Tabitha Tickletooth's useful guide to dining well and economically, illustrated with a frontispiece. The first and only edition of this work.With the pictorial cover of ...

The Spirit of Cookery

Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Thudichum · 1895 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Frederick Warne and Co, 1895. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this treatise on the culinary arts, written in the late Victorian era by J. L. W. Thudichum. The first edition of this work.An extensive treatise on cookery, discussing the culinary arts.Written b...

Up-to-Date and Economical Cookery

Dora Groome · 1898 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

London, Jarrold & Sons, 1898. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition copy of Dora Groome's concise and economical late Victorian cookery book. The first edition of this work.A scarce work.A charming Victorian cookery book, focusing on how to cook nice meals on a sma...

The Queens Closet Opened Incomparable Secrets in Physick Cyrugery Preserving and Candying Etc.

Anon · 1683 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,917.83 | $2,113.70 | ¥337,531)

London, Obadiah Blagrave , 1683. Leather. An extremely scarce, very early edition of this important work regarding the customs and kitchens of the old aristocracy. This work was first published during Cromwell's Commonwealth. With an illustrated frontispiece of Henrietta ...

The New London Cookery Adapted to the Use of Private Families

S. W. · 1835 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.78 | $211.37 | ¥33,753)

London, Joseph Smith, 1835. Cloth. Rare in any edition and here in the original boards is an eighth edition of this anonymously written cookery work offering a wide range of recipes, with a special focus on meat recipes. The eighth edition of this work. A concise cookery work,...

The Wine Buyer&Apos;S Record Book

Ralph Steadman · 1994 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Ebury Press, 1994. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of this wine record book, for use of the reader to fill out and comment on different wines they have tried. Illustrated in colour throughout. A very scarce first edition of this work. A practical ...

The Family Friend, and Young Woman&Apos;S Companion; or Housekeeper&Apos;S Instructor: Containing a Very Complete Collection of Original and Approved Receipts in Every Branch of Cookery, Confectionery, &C

Priscilla Haslehurst · 1814 · Rooke Books

£1,800.00 (€2,157.55 | $2,377.91 | ¥379,722)

London, C and W Thompson, 1814. Leather. A beautifully bound copy of this very scarce household compendium. With numerous useful nineteenth century recipes in a variety of branches of cookery. A second edition copy of this work. The British Library and Oxford University hold c...

On Drink

Kingsley Amis · 1973 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition. Hardback. A witty, informative, handbook for the amateur and professional drinker. The work looks into alcoholic literature and provides drink recipes. The first U.S edition of this work. With a publisher's note no...

The Subtle Alchemist a Book of Wine

George Rainbird · 1973 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London, Michael Joseph, 1973. First edition. Cloth. A guide to wine by George Rainbird and illustrated by Ronald Searle. The first edition of this work. With the bookplate of Hugo Dunn-Meynell to the front pastedown. Meynell was responsible for rejuvenating the International F...

The Book of Ices: Including Cream and Water Ices, Sorbets, Mousses, Iced Souffles, and Various Iced Dishes

Agnes B. Marshall · 1900 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

London, Robert Hayes, [1900]. Cloth. An early revised edition of a scarce cookery book on ice dishes, the first to be written by Victorian celebrity chef Agnes Marshall. The Book of Ices: Including Cream and Water Ices, Sorbets, Mousses, Iced Souffles, and Various Iced Dishes,...

Le Rãƒâ©Pertoire de la Cuisine

Louis Saulnier [trans. by Edouard Brunet] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, L. Saulnier, 1950. Cloth. A scarce and early English translation of an easy cookery book inspired by Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire classic, including new recipes from Saulnier. A scarce and early English translation of Le Répertoire de la Cuisine, (The Kitchen D...

Economical Cookery for the Middle Classes

[A Lady] Mrs. Kate Addison · 1879 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1879. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of an economical cookery book that introduces foreign recipes and advocates for the proper use of tinned foods. The very scarce first edition of Economical Cookery for the Middle Classes, p...

C1950 Advanced Piping and Cake Designs

Nirvana · 1950 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Maclaren & Sons Ltd. c1950. Cloth. A good copy of this illustrated work on commercial cake decorating and piping techniques in the vanishingly scarce unclipped dust wrapper.  The follow-up to Nirvana's previously published Commercial Cake Decoration in the publish...

La Bonne Cuisine

E. Saint-Ange [Marie Èbrard] · 1929 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Paris, Larousse, 1929. Cloth. A scarce early edition of a charming French cookery book that has undergone numerous editions and influenced famous chefs such as Julia Child. A scarce and early edition of La Bonne Cuisine, written by French cookery writer Marie Èbrard under the ...

The Venison Book

Audrey Alley Gorton · 1957 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Hugh Evelyn Limited, 1957 . Paperback. Smart, useful guide to hunting deer and the preparation of venison, illustrated throughout by George Daly. Fifth edition.Publisher's original paperback.Illustrated throughout by George Daly.Equally humorous and useful guide t...