Cucina e giardinaggio

Savouries and Sweets Suitable for Luncheons and Dinners

M L Allen · 1906 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, Crosby Lockwood and Son , L M Allen . Paperback. A later edition of this scarce pocket sized cookery book by Miss Allen in its original publisher's wraps. The thirtieth edition of this scarce pocket sized cookery book by M. L. Allen. Containing various recipes id...

Cookery for the Diabetics

W. H. and Mrs Poole · 1891 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1891. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce and exciting first edition of this late nineteenth century cookery book for people suffering from diabetics. The first edition of this exciting cooking book with recipes written specifically for people ...

Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea

Marion Harland · 1875 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1875. First edition. Cloth. A charming Victorian cook-book by a prolific and acclaimed writer of household manuals. Written by Mary Virginia Terhune (1830-1922) under the pseudonym Marion Harland. Terhune was a most prolific writer of bo...

The American Home Cook Book

1854 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.29 | ¥58,013)

New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, 1854. Paperback. A scarce mid-century cookery work from America, very unusual survival of a fragile book. A scarce work, hard to find in the original binding.An extensive collection of several hundred recipes that were popular in mid-century Americ...

Directions for the Gardiner at Says-Court But Which May Be of Use for Other Gardens

John Evelyn · 1932 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.45 | ¥49,575)

London, Nonesuch Press, 1932. Hardback. A limited Nonesuch Edition of John Evelyn's instructions for the now buried garden at Sayes Court, in a beautiful marbled binding. A limited edition work, limited to six-hundred and twenty-five copies for sale by Nonesuch, and one-h...

The Food We Eat: Why We Eat It, and Whence It Comes

J. Milner Fothergill · 1882 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Griffith & Farran, 1882. First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first edition of John Milner Fothergill's interesting tract on food and digestion. The first edition of this work.A very scarce work.An interesting treatise on food and digestion, discussing how the h...

The Handy Dictionary of Cookery

Mary A. Everard · 1886 · Rooke Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London, James Nisbet & Co, 1886. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Mary A. Everard's concise dictionary of popular Victorian cookery. The first edition of this work.A useful concise dictionary on cookery, containing many popular Victorian recipes. Illustrated wi...

A New System of Domestic Cookery; Formed Upon Principles of Economy, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families

Mrs. Rundell; E. Birch · 1847 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.62 | $369.90 | ¥59,068)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1847. Leather. A nicely rebound copy of Maria Rundell's popular and influential cookery work, here edited by E. Birch. Illustrated throughout. Rebound in a quarter calf binding. This work was written for the author's daughters, advising them on...

Lessons on Cookery

Barbara Wallace Gothard · 1880 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.63 | ¥46,411)

London, Joseph Hughes, 1880. Cloth. A very scarce cookery work, being a collection of essential recipes and tips for the use of teachers and housewives in the late nineteenth century. A very scarce work. A concise reference work for cookery, written primarily for teachers and ...

The Domestic Dictionary: Comprising Everything Pertaining to Cookery, Diet, Economy, and Medicine

Gibbons Merle; John Reitch · 1857 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, James Blackwood, 1857. Cloth. A scarce dictionary of cookery terms and recipes and medical terms with treatments, written by Gibbons Merle and John Reitch. A scarce work. An extensive dictionary, documenting many useful words in the cookery and home economics lexicon. ...

The Housekeeper&Apos;S Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook... , to Which Is Added the Complete Art of Carving

W A Henderson; J C Schnebbelie · 0 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

London, Thomas Kelly, c1840. Leather. A pleasing copy of the twentieth edition of this comprehensive housekeeping guide from the nineteenth century. Illustrated, with several bright plates. This edition has been heavily revised and improved by one Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie...

Pictorial Calendar of the Season Exhibiting the Pleasures, Pursuits, and Characteristics of Country Life for Every Month in the Year and Embodying the Whole of Aikin&Apos;S Calendar of Nature

Mary Howitt (Ed) · 1854 · Rooke Books

£110.00 (€131.85 | $145.32 | ¥23,205)

London, Henry G. Bohn , 1854. Leather. A scarce work celebrating the changes in the seasons, on a month by month basis. Very scarce. Embellished with upwards of 100 engravings on wood throughout. Offering a collection of characteristics and elements of nature throughout the ye...

Flora of Gloucestershire Phanerogams, Vascular Cryptogams, Charophyta

H. J. Riddelsdell (ed.); G. W. Hedley (ed.); W. R. Price (ed.) · 1948 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Cheltenham, The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of copy of this fascinating and copiously illustrated work on the flora of Gloucestershire: exploring the geology, climate, vegetation, woodlands, agriculture and flora of this...

The Rose-Amateur&Apos;S Guide: Containing Ample Descriptions of All the Fine Leading Varieties of Roses Regularly Classes in Their Respective Families. Their History and Mode of Culture.

Thomas Rivers · 1892 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1892. Cloth. A very thorough work on the cultivation and culture of Roses, written by the renowned nurseryman Thomas Rivers. The tenth edition of this work, this edition being enlarged, corrected, and improves. This work is a thorough guide to ...

4 Vols a Systematic Arrangement of British Plants; with an Easy Introduction to the Study of Botany

William Withering · 1801 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies; G. and J. Robinson,; Wynne and Scholey; J. Walker; J. Cuthell; James Wallis. 1801. Hardback. The fourth edition of Withering"s popular and influential guide to the flora of Britain, complete in four volumes and illustrated with botanical p...

The Practice of Cookery, Pastry, Preserving &C. Containing Figures of Dinners, from Five to Nineteen Dishes, a Full List of Supper Dishes, a List of Things in Season

Mrs Frazer · 1733 · Rooke Books

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

Edinburgh and London, Peter Hil and Vernor and Hood, 1733. Leather. An excellent second edition of Mrs Frazer's Practice of Cookery, with superb copper engravings. The second edition of Mrs Frazer's Practice of Cookery, first published by Peter Hill in Edinburgh and ...

The House-Keeper&Apos;S Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook. Containing Above Three Hundred Curious and Uncommon Receipts in Cookery, Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, Collaring, &C. With Plain and Easy Instructions for Preparing and Dressing Everything Suitable for an Elegant Entertainment, from Two Dishes to Five or Ten &C. And Directions for Plating Them in Their Proper Order. Concluding with Many Excellent Prescriptions of the Most Eminent Physicians, of Singular Efficacy in Most Dis

Mrs Sarah Harrison · 1733 · Rooke Books

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

London, T. Worrall , 1733. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Mrs Harrison's pocket-book for house-keepers, beautifully illustrated with Bills of Fare diagrams. An excellently illustrated first edition of Mrs Sarah Harrison's Pocket-Book, publishe...

Murray&Apos;S Modern Domestic Cookery Book. Modern Domestic Cookery: Based O the Well-Known Work of Mrs Rundell, But Including All the Recent Improvements in the Culinary Art.

A Lady · 1857 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, John Murray, 1857. Cloth. A pleasing revised edition of Murray's Domestic Cookery, with copious in-text vignettes. A pleasing early, revised edition of Murray's Modern Domestic Cookery, by an anonymous Lady, first published in 1851. Based on Maria Eliza Kett...

Ikebana card books. Koryu Shoto-Kai Seika classical style, with, Seika modern style, with, Free style (3 booklets).

Ikeda, Masahiro and Riei · 1969 · Aucott & Thomas

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. 3 clean and tightly bound paperbacks, spines uncreased, card covers rubbed at edges, stain to top page edges, remains of labels on the front covers but no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the...

Ikebana card books. Ikebano of Sofu Nageire style, with, Moribana style, with Ikebana of Senei Ikemobo free style, with, Shoka style (4 booklets).

Teshigahara, Sofu and Ikenobo, Senei · 1969 · Aucott & Thomas

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Japan: Shufunotomo Co. Ltd. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. 4 clean and tightly bound paperbacks, spines uncreased, card covers rubbed at edges, remains of labels on the front covers of 3 booklets but no inscriptions. 20 pages, colour photos and illustrations in the text. Good.