Category: Cookery

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Harvest from the Highlands - Favorite Recipes from Bogota Kitchens; English-Spanish Cookbook compiled and edited by The American Women's Club of Bogota

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Bogota, : 1968

Seller ID: 018995

Condition: Good

Not dated, but c.1968. Large octavo, pp 506, a little age-toned, I have noticed four recipes with neat inked changes, otherwise clean internally, a correction sheet attached inside the front cover, red soft cloth. SCARCE. [Bilingual text : English/Spanish]
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LA CUISINIERE BOURGEOISE, suivie de l'office a l'usage de tous ceux qui se melent de depenses de maisons. [Alan Davidson's copy]

Price: £65.00

Publisher: Luzarches, Imprimeries Reunies de Senlis pour Daniel Morcrette : 1977

Seller ID: 008695

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

[1746]. Facsimile reprint, thick 12mo, pp viii, 400, (4). all edges gilt, full red calf, gilt decorations and inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers. [A fine copy of one of Daniel Morcrette's beautiful facsimiles]. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and ser...
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Party Eats: Delicious Food from East and West

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London, Piatkus : 1988

Seller ID: 018661

ISBN-13: 9780861887811

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, square octavo, pp 127, very clean internally, red cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped. [The scarce hardback edition].
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THE CIDER FACTORY - Plant and Layout

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Leonard Hill Limited : 1953

Seller ID: 006374

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp xiv, 110, endpapers very slightly foxed otherwise very clean internally, cloth slightly worn and marked. VERY SCARCE
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The Potomac Herb Journal. Volume IV numbers 2 & 3; Volume V numbers 1, 3 & 4; Volumes VI complete throught to Volume IX number 3 + Index for 1965 - 69

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Potomac Unit of the Herb Society of America

Seller ID: 015271

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

1968-1973. Paperbacks, each issue comprised 16 pages with an illustration and usually several short articles and recipes. Rarely occurs for sale.
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Tropical Fruit Recipes - rare and exotic fruit

Price: £20.00

Publisher: South Miami, Rare Fruit Council International Inc. : 1991

Seller ID: 018965

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Third printing of this revised edition. Illustrated, octavo, pp 180, very clean internally, paperback, the covers in very good condition with only a slight crease at the lower corner.
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A Day at elBulli - An Insight into the Ideas, Methods and Creativity of Ferran Adria

By: Adria, Ferran; Soler, Julia & Adria, Albert

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Phaidon Press Ltd : 2008

Seller ID: 013241

ISBN-13: 9780714848839

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very well illustrated, large thick quarto, pp 528, a very good copy in a dustwrapper showing the very slightest signs of use, complete with the yellow wrap-around slip. Very heavy - extra postage will be required. [An exclusive look behind the scenes at elBulli, reputedly the best restaurant in the world, and into the mind of Ferran Adrià, the most creative chef working today. Though now closed it was notoriously difficult to get a table, but for the first time this book opens the doors of the restaurant to everyone and documents hour-by-hour the painstaking preparations that ta...
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Lee Bailey's Country Desserts - Cakes, cookies, ice creams, pies, puddings & more.

By: Bailey, Lee

Price: £9.00

Publisher: London, Aurum Press : 1988

Seller ID: 018665

ISBN-13: 9780948149955

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp (8), 173, (3), a very slight mark on the front endpapers, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth in excellent condition, in a very good dustwrapper with a slightly faded spine.
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Ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians

By: Barrows, David Prescott

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Morongo Indian Reservation, Banning, Malki Museum Press : 1977

Seller ID: 018511

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Second printing. [Originally published 1900]. Small ctavo, not illustrated, pp liv, 82, very clean internally, paperback, covers very slightly rubbed and with slight fade. [Classics in Californian Anthropology 1. Reprinted, including a Cahuilla bibliography and introductory essays.]
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HomeMade Wines, Syrups and Cordials

By: Beech, F.W, (editor),(foreword by Sir Stephen Tallents)

Price: £6.00

Publisher: London, National Federation of Women's Institutes : 1957

Seller ID: 018868

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Revised edition, decorated with small line drawings, octavo, pp x, 126, slightly used internally, paperback, covers very slightly age-toned and rubbed. [Postage will be rduced]
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Vatch's South East Asian Cookbook

By: Bhumichitr, Vatcharian

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, Kyle Cathie Limited : 1997

Seller ID: 013274

ISBN-13: 9781856262477

Binding: Pictorial laminated boards

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp 192, pictorial boards, spine slightly bumped at the base, otherwise a very good copy in similar dustwrapper.
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French Vegetable Cookery - traditional and regional recipes

By: Bourne, Patricia

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald : 1985

Seller ID: 018666

ISBN-13: 9780356104867

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, quarto, pp 221. (3), very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, in a dustwrapper which is not price-clipped but which is just very faintly worn.
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The Fruit Garden

By: Bunyard, George & Thomas, Owen

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, Country Life : 1904

Seller ID: 014603

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated with line drawings and photographic plates, small thick quarto, pp xiv, 507, fore-edge foxed, scattered foxing throughout, heavier on some pages, the hinge at the title page is a little cracked, and similarly at the last page of the index, otherwise clean and sound internally, blue cloth very slightly worn and marked. [One of the seminal works on the subject, and overall a much better than average copy.]
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Notes and Recipes From an Island Kitchen

By: Burgess, Rosalind

Price: £4.50

Publisher: Nairn, Thomas & Lochar : 1993

Seller ID: 017952

ISBN: 09465397933

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

illustrated with drawings by Judith Maclachlan, large horizontal octavo, pp 160, paperback, a neat owner's name on the half-title, otherwise just very slight signs of use, paperback, very slightly worn at the lower corners.
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The Citrus Industries of North Africa [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Burke, J. Henry

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Washington, U.S. Department of Agriculture : 1952

Seller ID: 009311

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Small quarto, one plate, pp (4), 152, typed and stencilled, paperback, stapled, slightly aged and worn. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador to Lao...
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The Hop and Its Constituents: A Monograph on the Hop Plant.

By: Chapman, Alfred C.

Price: £65.00

Publisher: London, The Brewing Trade Review : 1905

Seller ID: 017040

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates, octavo, pp (4), 99, slightly used internally, green cloth, very slightly worn, the fore-edge of both covers a little stained. A red stamp on the front endpaper shows that this was a second world war gift of the British Red Cross Society; a further stamp shows that it ended up at Oflag VI-B, a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizerlager), 1 km (0.6 mi) southwest of the village of Dussel (now part of Warburg) in northwestern Germany. The camp was the setting for two remarkable escape attempts. Also with the pencil signatur...
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La Lamproie, ou les eaux limoneuses de la memoire [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Chapuis, Lise; Meller-Liron, Elisabeth & Rives, Caroline

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Cognac, Editions Ke Temps qu'il Fait : 1994

Seller ID: 009333

ISBN-13: 9782868531896

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated, large 8vo, pp 128, paperback, a very good copy. [Scarce, and one of the few books on lampreys]. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fish" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Food. In 1948, Davidson joined the Foreign Office and served in diplomatic posts in Washington, Tunis, Brussels, Cairo, the Hague; from 1973 to 1975, he was ambassador...
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The Leguminosae of Taiwan, for Pasture and Soil Improvement [Alan Davidson's copy]

By: Ching-Chang Chuang & Chia Huang

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Taipei, Department of Botany, National Taiwan University : 1965

Seller ID: 008664

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with 162 line drawings, large 8vo, pp (iv), 286, paperback, slightly worn, spine repaired and with slight tape marks, a withdrawn duplicate from the library of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, with stamps on the upper cover and verso of the title page, and a bookplate. [Alan Davidson's copy, with his "fishy" bookplate. One of the most important figures in twentieth century culinary writing and scholarship, Davidson was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy. He was the author of the 900-page, encyclopedic The Oxford Companion to Fo...
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The Edible Garden Cookbook (Australian Woman's Weekly)

By: Clark, Pamela (Food Director and editor)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group : 2010

Seller ID: 009646

ISBN-13: 9781907428326

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Well illustrated, quarto, pp 256, paperback, a very good copy. SCARCE.
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A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi, with especial reference to the esculent and economic species

By: Cooke, M.C.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, W.H. Allen & Co. : 1898

Seller ID: 019641

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Sixth edition, revised. Illustrated with 20 colour plates, small octavo, pp viii, 166, age-toned, the upper corner a little bumped throughout, front and rear hinges cracking but sound, brown decorated cloth, a little bruised and rubbed.
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