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Cottage Economy.
London: Printed for J.M. Cobbett, 1823.
New Edition. Unpaginated. Frontis (grasses), title leaf, contents leaf; followed by [96pp] text. No preceding adverts. Some browning to title, frontis, and [I5-I7], but text generally clean. In very pretty new quarter calf with green marbled boards. Very Good.
Price: £140.00
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The History of Ancient and Modern Wines. [Inscribed Copy]
London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824.
First edition. xvi, (2), 408pp. Woodcut vignettes and capitals, with title page vignette pasted on. First blank leaf inscribed 'Professor Stuart / from his obliged friend / the Author'. First leaves (up to p.iv) have light soiling and foxing, with repairs to top edge closed tears. Pages otherwise sound and unmarked, slightly cockled, with some soiling and browning to edges. In a splendid recent binding of light half calf with decoratively ruled spine with black lettering piece and marbled boards. Contents VG, binding Fine.
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Price: £950.00
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Recipes for the Manufacture of Liqueurs, Alcoholic Cordials, Spirits, & c..
London: W. J. Bush and Co. 1899.
Fifth Edition. [4], 33, [9]. Two of the recipes written over in blue crayon 'Cancelled'. The endpapers are tanned and soiled with rust marks at the hinge, and the adjacent advertisement pages are also browned. Contents otherwise clean. Red erratum slip tipped in at p.31, correcting the recipe for Sloe Gin. All edges gilt. 22.5 x 14 cms, in the original binding of light blue cloth, printed on the front: firm, but very soiled, and cloth puckering a little. Good.
Price: £45.00
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Gastronomie Pratique: Etudes Culinaires. Huitieme edition / 8me edn. Suivies du Traitement de l'Obesite des Gourmands.
Paris: Ernest Flammarion, 1950.
Eighth edition. 1279pp. A very clean and little-used copy. Formerly in a sellotaped cover, and the tape has left brown marks to the first and last few blank pages. The closed edges are flecked with foxing, and there is a pale brown mark from a splash to the upper corner of the text block: at some openings this has encroached slightly onto the page surface, leaving faint brown marks to the top margin. Contents otherwise very fresh. Large quarto, in the original binding of pale buckram titled in blue and black. Slightly foxed, with some soiling and ridging to spine: minimal other signs of wear. A very good firm copy. VG+.
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Price: £125.00
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A Kitchen in Burgundy.
London: Cassell, 2000.
First UK edition. 304pp, richly illustrated in colour. Contents fresh, clean, and unmarked. In the original bright yellow laminated binding, spine titled in burgundy and white. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, bright and fresh, with slight knock to base of spine affecting both book and jacket. Near Fine in near fine dust-jacket.
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Price: £65.00
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Feast, Fast or Famine: Food and Drink in Byzantium.
Brisbane: Australian Association for Byzantine Studies, C/- Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University, 2005.
First edition. (x), 215pp. Contents clean and unmarked. Small quarto paperback, pictorial cover titled in blue, clean and unmarked, almost as new. Near Fine.
Price: £45.00
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