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•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers; pamphlet creased once vertically, slightly age-toned overall.  (26062)

Although a number of leaves here are blank, the content is substantial, legible, and interesting. No dates are present in the text itself, but the paper bears a Dutch watermark related to Churchill 109–119, and was produced in the Seven Provinces ca. 1675–1700 and the recipes attributed to Beeton must date after 1861. Some of the handwriting and spelling is consistent with a date of 1730.

•  Contemporary vellum, rebacked, corners rubbed/bumped, front cover with now-illegible traces of inked ownership inscription, covers with spots of discoloration; hinges (inside) reinforced. First leaf excised (first recipe present numbered 2). Soiling (mostly at or in from edges) and moderate foxing/spotting, throughout.  (25630)

•  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)

•  In a Mylar folder. Pages darkened, with small discolorations and edges somewhat tattered. A pleasing gift for anyone exploring culinary, or almost certainly women’s, history.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers, showing only very minor wear. A clean copy.  (26076)

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•  Bitting 397; Brown, Culinary Americana, 814.   Publisher's limp black cloth in imitation of morocco, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; very minor wear, with one short crease to cloth at bottom of front cover. Front free endpaper with small owner's label (partially removed) and inked ownership inscription. Paper age-toned but not brittle, pages very clean, all edges red.  (26831)

This edition includes the engraved frontispiece, a kitchen and larder scene, along with nine other plates (as called for) showing carving and trussing diagrams.

•  Bitting 410–11; Cagle 971 (for first ed.). On Rundell, see: DNB, XLIX, 403.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges with gilt roll; binding lightly scuffed/rubbed overall and with some pitting thanks to the “speckling.” One front fly-leaf excised. Front free endpaper with bold inked ownership inscription dated 1813 and with two small pencilled “decorations”; title-page with decorative but sadly illegible private collection rubber-stamp. One recipe with early inked annotation. Scattered light foxing and staining, pages mostly clean. A classic, in a very nice copy of a less-common edition.  (26674)

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The author was physically disabled from childhood, but admired by his fellow students at Cornell both for his fierce independence and for his enthusiasm for outdoor life: “On more than one occasion the young fellow who could not walk a foot without his crutches, or swim a stroke, has paddled his frail canoe from Ithaca to Syracuse . . . sleeping under his boat at night and with no other companion than his dog” (Chi Phi Quarterly, vol. XI, no. 2, 74–75).

This is the original second edition, not a modern reprint or facsimile.

Binding:  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt- and black-stamped title and pictorial vignettes, spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  Brown, Culinary Americana, 2521.   Binding with minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, spine slightly sunned. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription. A beautiful copy of an unusual and intriguing testament to the pleasures of Nature and its offerings.  (26676)

•  Folded as issued, one panel printed in color; hole punched through upper outer corner, “cover” illustration with scuff, one tear to lower edge with loss of two letters (“no”). Age-toned.  (26088)

•  NSTC S2029; Bitting 436–37; Cagle 990 (first ed.); Oxford 134–35; Vicaire 792 (first ed.).   Contemporary speckled calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets; rebacked some time ago, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label, spine leather showing small cracks, edges and extremities lightly rubbed. New endpapers. Title-page with small early inked ownership inscription in upper margin; one recipe with tiny, early inked annotation (“1 leg [of beef] will make 5 qts. [of stock]”). Pages untrimmed. Light foxing. A desirable copy.  (26834)

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Binding:  Publisher's ribbon-embossed green floral-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Ft6.

•  American Imprints 53109; Palau 322394; Sabin 91388. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50.   Publisher's green floral-patterned cloth, spine with printed paper label; corners and spine foot rubbed, spine head pulled, paper label darkened with edges chipped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis. Light to moderate foxing.  (25425)

•  Publisher's red cloth, spine with title stamped in black, in dust wrapper; binding slightly cocked and dust jacket sunned at fore- and top-edges, with nick to front outer edge. Pages clean. Very good condition.  (22496)

•  Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black; spine sunned.  (24484)

•  Stapled in original printed paper wrappers; wrappers lightly stained, and chipped over edges and spine. Pages age-toned but generally clean, a few with short edge tears. (13751)

Cagle and Stafford note that the work was previously published in 1835 in the author's weekly magazine, The Original, and then appeared in book form in 1837; the present volume, the second edition, is reproduced in part by photolithography from the earlier printing. None of the early editions are common.

•  Bitting, 519; Brown 2378; Cagle & Stafford 788. Publisher's green cloth, covers and spine black-stamped in decorative designs, front cover and spine gilt-stamped with title. Binding with light signs of wear: corners bumped, spine head and foot pulled, spine faintly faded. Top edge gilt. Hinges slightly tender. Half-title verso with inked ownership inscription. A nice, clean copy.

Valentina Wasson’s upbringing in mushroom-loving Russia inspired this work, although directly Russian-related material is scant compared to the masses of international lore compiled here. Befitting a labor of love, the volume was handsomely printed by the prestigious Stamperia Valdonega (following Hans Mardersteig’s design) on heavy paper with deckle edges. Its pochoir plates reproduce beautiful life-sized watercolor paintings of mushrooms done by naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre, and other numerous plates depict other works of interest such as Gainsborough’s “Mushroom Girl.”

Provenance: From the library of chef and culinary collector Louis I. Szathmary, with the laid in, retained carbon of a letter from him to Ralph Geoffrey Newman (the late, noted, Chicago bookseller); this thanks Newman for “the interesting information on the Mushroom book.” A duplicate copy of Newman’s purchase invoice, with Szathmary’s cheque photocopied onto it, is also present.

This is copy number 412 of a limited edition of 512.

•  Green publisher’s cloth, spines with gilt-stamped labels, housed in the original neat buckram-covered slipcase. Corners and spine extremities show slight traces of wear with bindings otherwise crisp and clean; slipcase likewise shows only the faintest of wear. (In our rather bad photograph, the slipcase looks a tad bowed; in real life, it is NOT.) Glassine wrappers present (somewhat yellowed, a bit short as issued, and one with a bit missing at top of that spine). Top edges gilt. Pages and plates clean. A lovely association copy of this significant and uncommon mycological text.

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•  Publisher's vellum over boards, spine with raised bands and faux hand-inked title, in original red cloth slipcase. A beautiful, clean, unworn copy in a perfect slipcase.  (26750)

•  Publisher's textured brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, front cover with vignette of deer in pot, dustwrapper chipped at corners, upper edges, and spine extremities with spine lightly sunned. Front fly-leaf with inked owner's name. Pages clean.  (26903)

•  Whaton & Kelly 6655; Cagle & Stafford, American Books on Food and Drink, 840.   Publisher's ribbed brown cloth, covers elaborately embossed in blind. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, lacking the front free endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A rather handsome book, and one in nice condition.  (26509)