
THE COOKERY BOOK COLLECTION OF RUTH WATSON
Lot 3•
AMERICAN COOKERY BARNUM (H.L.) Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife, FIRST EDITION, 1831; and 19 others (20)
19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £535.50 inc. premium
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AMERICAN COOKERY
BARNUM (H.L.) Family Receipts, or Practical Guide for the Husbandman and Housewife, FIRST EDITION, wood-engraved frontispiece, dampstaining and foxing, ownership inscription of Samuel Nibbs ("Bought of James Wolley") on front free endpaper, contemporary calf, worn, upper cover detached [Bitting p.28, "first book treating on cookery printed in the Middle West"], Cincinnati, Lincoln & Co., 1831--[RUNDELL (MARIA ELIZA)] The Experienced American Housekeeper, or Domestic Cookery, 7 engraved plates, some browning and staining, bookplate of Lucy dela Penta, publisher's cloth, rebacked preserving most of original spine, New York, Nafis and Cornish, [c.1830]--[LEE (N.K.M.)] The Cook's Own Book, and Housekeeper's Register... a Complete System of Confectionery, by a Boston Housekeeper, illustrations, bookplate of Joan Dawson, contemporary sheep, rebacked, upper cover detached, Boston, Munroe & Francis, 1842--The Art of Confectionery... Also Different Methods of Making Ice Cream, Sherbets etc., label of Elmira Farmers' Club Library, publisher's decorative cloth gilt [Bitting p.518], Boston, J.E. Tilton and Co., 1866--PARLOA (MARIA) Camp Cookery: How to Live in Camp, label of Waldo Lincoln Collection of American Cookery-Books pasted over advertisement endpapers, publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, edges rubbed, Boston, Graves, Locke, [c.1878]--LESLIE (ELIZA) Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, sixth edition, some foxing and staining at edges, modern boards, Philadelphia, A. Hart, 1851--KELLOGG (ELLA E.) Every-Day Dishes and Every-Day Work, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, faded and worn at edges, Modern Medicine Publishing Co., 1898, 8vo; and 13 others (20)