Cookbooks

  A fine, clean example with original dustjacket of one of the first German post-war cocktail books 8°, 167 pp. with black and white illustrations in text and interleaved colour plates, original dark-red cloth binding with silver embossed decoration on the cover and lettering on the spine, original illustrated dustjacket (dustjacket with minor sporadic scratches and tiny tears, but overall…

1130 recipes from the rich Triestino cuisine by a former war reporter Maria Stelvio, made in the time of rationing and published during World War II in Fascist Italy.   8°, 461 pp. with black and white illustrations in text, [3 pp.], original wrappers with lettering (wrappers with tiny tears and loss of paper, mostly around the spine, little stained,…

8°: [6 pp.], 107 pp. with black and white advertisements and interleaved advertisements, [7 pp.], original green boards with illustrated cover, green cloth spine (binding slightly age-toned, but otherwise in a good condition with only minor foxing to the first and last pages).

Two original mimeographed recipes for world famous Fraises Sarah Bernhardt and Dodine de Canard de Chambertin, signed by their inventor, Auguste Escoffier, one of the most prolific chefs of the 20th century, and printed for the first international luxury gourmand evening Dîner d’Épicure on May 18, 1912, when recipes were sent to 37 international luxury hotels and restaurants, where 4000…

Avanzâde Mehmed Süleyman (1871 – 1922). [Âile Aşçısı, 100 Türlü Çorba Pişirmek Usûlü / Family Chef. How to Cook 100 Types of Soup] Istanbul: Matbaa-i Orhaniye 1333 [1917]. 8°, 48 pp., original wrappers (small tears in margins, little age-toned and stained, wrappers with small loss of paper, loose binding as originally published) (#70786). An Ottoman cookbook with 100 soup recipes.

Ottoman cookbook featuring a popular Turkish Caracter from theater plays and magazines Karagöz. Small 8°, 79 pp., later tan linen binding and green endpapers (old Ottoman signature in ink on the title page, light staining and tiny chips in white margins, tiny holes from old binding in the inner margins).

A rare Ottoman pamphlet on the importance of the carob for the military during World War I.   Small 8°, 4 pp., original brown letters with lettering.  

[Bağcılık ve Şarapçılık / Viticulture and Wine Making. Instructions to Ottoman Viticulturists for Improving the Type of Wine They Produce] Istanbul: Düyûn-u Umûmiye-i Osmaniye Varidât-ı Muhassasa İdare-i Merkeziyesi Matbaası 1326 [1910]. 8°, 38 pp., [2 pp.] blank, folding plate, later wrappers with mounted original cover with lettering (minor foxing, age toning and tiny tears in margins, mostly to first and…