Cucina e gastronomia

Warne&Apos;S Every-Day Cookery, Containing One Thousand Nine Hundred Distinct Receipts

Mary Jewry · 0 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Frederick Warne and Co. c1881. Cloth. A brightly illustrated copy of this popular nineteenth-century illustrated cookery work published by Frederick Warne. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Collated complet...

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

Alice B. Toklas · 1954 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

New York, Harper and Brothers , 1954. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first US edition of this iconic cookbook from Alice B. Toklas. The first US edition, first printing. Published two days after the UK edition. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with o...

Drinks

Vincent Gasnier · 2005 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Dorling Kindersley , 2005. First edition. Hardback. A striking illustrated guide to wines, liqueurs, cocktails, beers and more. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A comprehensive guide to all kinds of drinks, ...

The Anthropologists&Apos; Cookbook

Various including Claude Lévi-Strauss, Julian Pitt-Rivers, and Naomichi Ishige; Jessica Kuper [editor] · 1977 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977. First edition. Cloth. This handsome first edition, first impression of an illustrated book of recipes taken from across the globe and contextualised by several important anthropologists, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This han...

The Art of the Wine Maker, a Guide to the World&Apos;S Greatest Vineyards

Serena Sutcliffe [consulting editor]; Robert Barton-Clegg, Len Evans, Ralph B. Hutchinson, David Peppercorn. · 1981 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, QED, 1981. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition, first impression of this richly illustrated guide to the art of wine-making, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work, with no further editions or impressions ...

Exotic Seafood from Seychelles

Flavien Joubert · 2000 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Vannes and Bressuire, France, Printed by l'imprimerie Prouteau , No date [2000]. First edition. Paperback. This very scarce collection of Seychellois seafood recipes, colourfully illustrated and bound in the original publisher's pictorial paper wraps. The first editi...

The "Daily Mail" Cookery Book

Mrs. C. S. Peel [ed.] · 1919 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.80 | $191.55 | ¥30,589)

London, Associated Newspapers, Ltd , 1919. Cloth. A very smart second edition of this uncommon post-war cook book, edited by English journalist Constance Peel. The second edition. Very scarce to find earlier copies. In the publisher's original illustrative cloth binding.P...

A New System of Domestic Cookery; with Medical Advice to Parents

J. Morrison · 1842 · Rooke Books

£1,175.00 (€1,408.40 | $1,552.25 | ¥247,874)

London, J. J. Chidley, 1842. Hardback. A vanishingly scarce guide to domestic cookery with medical advice for parents, from the library of British food writer, Jill Norman. A vanishingly scarce volume on domestic cookery and medical advice for parents. Seen only once at auctio...

The Edible Mollusks of Great Britain and Ireland with Recipes for Cooking Them.

M. S. Lovell · 1867 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, Reeve & Co. 1867. First edition. Cloth. This very scarce first edition of a nineteenth-century guide to the edible molluscs of Great Britain, complete with twelve leaves of colour lithograph plates. The first edition of the work. Illustrated with twelve leaves of colou...

Le Cuisinier Franã§Ais

Bertrand Guegan · 1934 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, 1934. First edition. Paperback. A limited edition volume of French cookery, an illustrated deluxe edition. The first limited edition, being one of thirty-five deluxe copies.In the original French.In the original glassine wrap.Bertrand Guegan's vo...

French Provincial Cooking

Elizabeth David · 1960 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.46 | $521.82 | ¥83,328)

London, Michael Joseph, 1960. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this important and influential volume on French cookery by Elizabeth David. The first edition, first impression.In the original price-clipped dust wrapper.An important cookery book by Elizabeth David, &ap...

A New System of Practical Domestic Economy; Founded on Modern Discoveries, and the Private Communications of Persons of Experience

Anonymous · 1825 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Henry Colburn, 1825. Hardback. A revised edition of this uncommon volume advising of practical domestic economy, an insightful look at Georgian households. A new edition of this uncommon work.This new edition includes estimates of household expenses, adapted to familie...

Cookery and Housekeeping a Manuel of Domestic Economy for Large and Small Families

Mrs Henry Reeve · 1882 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London , Longmans, Green and Co. 1882. Cloth. A handy guide to cookery and household management, with colour plates. A third edition copy of Cookery and Housekeeping A Manuel of Domestic Economy for Large and Small Families by Mrs Henry Reeve. The volume details the art of giv...

Household Cookery and Laundry Work

Mrs. Black · 0 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London and Glasgow , William Collins, Sons and Co, c1900. Cloth. A new edition of this handy household guide to cooking and laundry. A new and enlarged edition of this handy household guide to cookery and laundry work by Margaret Black. Stated one hundred and forty-fourth thou...

The Accomplished Housekeeper and Universal Cook

T. Williams · 1797 · Rooke Books

£2,650.00 (€3,176.40 | $3,500.81 | ¥559,036)

London, J. Scatcherd, 1797 . First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of T. Williams's late eighteenth century illustrated instructional guide for the 'accomplished housekeeper and universal cook&apos. The first and only edition of this very scarce work....

The Book of Household Management

Mrs. Isabella Beeton · 1861 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1882 . Leather. A brightly illustrated and smartly bound late nineteenth century edition of Isabella Beeton's renowned work. The three hundredth and sixty-first thousand of this immensely popular work.Collated, illustrated with a colour frontis...

Practical Economy; or, the Application of Modern Discoveries to the Purposes of Domestic Lif

Anonymous · 1822 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

London, Henry Colburn & Co, 1822 . Leather. The second edition of this early nineteenth century guide to the running of an economically efficient home. The scarce second edition of this uncommon work, published the year after the first edition.With chapters exploring economy i...

The Philosophy of Artificial and Compulsory Drinking Usage in Great Britain and Ireland

John Dunlop · 1839 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Houlston and Stoneman, 1839. Leather. A scarce study on the drinking usage in Great Britain and Ireland. The sixth edition of this scarce volume detailing the drinking usages in Great Britain and Ireland. With the national laws of British society, examining compulsory ...

Meals for the Million

Cre-Fydd · 1867 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1867. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this charming mid-Victorian recipe collection, intended for families who live by a strict economy. The first edition of this work.A scarce work.'Meals for the Million' is a mid-V...

The Housekeeper&Apos;S Instructor; or, Universal Family-Cook; Being a Full and Clear Display of the Art of Cookery in All Its Branches

W. A. Henderson · 1823 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

London, Thomas Kelly , 1823. Leather. A smart calf-bound edition of this bestselling English cookery book from William Augustus Henderson, complete with engraved plates. Seventeenth edition. Corrected, revised and considerably improved by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie. Bound i...