COFFEE
COFFEE
Good Solid Early American Home Cooking 
Putnam, Elizabeth H. Mrs. Putnam's receipt book; and young housekeeper's assistant. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1849. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 4 (adv.), 11, [1], 131, [1] pp.
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how
to roast and prepare coffee. The publisher's preliminary
advertising leaves are present in this copy.
• Bitting 384; Cagle & Stafford 621; Lowenstein 460. Publisher's brown fine-grained cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; worn, covers with areas of discoloration. Front pastedown with recent pencilled annotations; front free endpaper lacking; back fly-leaf with early pencilled home remedy for poison ivy. Light to moderate foxing. A well-used copy but not a “sad case”; a pleasure of a cookbook. (26760)
Baths
& Beverages
Hot &
Cold —
Use &
Abuse!
Vallisneri
(or, Vallisnieri), Antonio. Dell’uso, e dell’abuso delle bevande, e bagnature calde, o fredde... terza impressione. Napoli: Felice Mosca, 1727. 4to (23.5 cm, 9.25"). [2] ff., 124, 48 pp. 
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There
is also some Americana interest when the author discusses in several places
the drinking of chocolate. The work is followed by Giovanni
Batista Davini’s De potu vini calidi, a shorter essay on the use
of heated wine, which preceded Vallisneri’s treatise in the first edition.
• Bitting 117 (second ed.); Cagle 1132 (first ed. of Davini only); Hünersdorff, Coffee, I, 395; Osler, Biblotheca Osleriana, 2428 (first ed.); Vicaire 250 (second ed.); Alden & Landis, European Americana, 727/231. Contemporary vellum, darkened, with a few pinholes of insect damage and some minor spots of staining. Title-page with inked ownership inscription in Latin, dated 1728. Pages a bit cockled, with edges darkened; most mildly to moderately foxed.
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