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Bees.- Purchas (Samuel) A Theatre of Politicall Flying-Insects. Wherein Especially the Nature, the Worth, the Work, the Wonder and the manner of Right-ordering of the Bee, is Discovered and Described, 2 parts in 1, first edition, titles within typographic borders, woodcut initials, errata leaf c2 misbound before c1, without longitudinal half-title but with 3pp. advertisements at end of part 1 and blank leaf following title to part 2, Penelope Jephson's copy with her contemporary ink inscription "Penelope Jephson her Booke 1666" to front free endpaper facing title, title lightly soiled and stained, some worming (mostly at beginning affecting lower border of title & a few catchwords, and a few letters towards end), Rr1 & 2 torn and repaired at lower outer corner, contemporary sheep ruled in blind, a little worn and marked, rebacked with red morocco label, corners repaired, [British Bee Books 35; Hagen 55.2; Wing P4224], small 4to, Printed by R[obert] I[bbitson] for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657.*** A good copy of this work by the son of the author of Purchas his Pilgrimes, with an interesting contemporary provenance. Penelope Jephson (1646-1725), daughter of Maj. Gen. William Jephson (1609-1658), M.P. for Stockbridge and a substantial landowner in Mallow, County Cork. She married Simon Patrick, a prebend of Westminster and later bishop of Ely, in 1675. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC owns a manuscript receipt book of cookery and medical recipes complied by Jephson between 1671 and 1675. Recipe 64 is for honeyed gingerbread similar to modern Anglo-American treacle/molasses gingerbread.

A small collection of silver to include: an Elizabeth II silver pin tray, hallmarked Sheffield, 1982, approx. 9.3cm diameter; a George VI silver pin dish of floral design, hallmarked by Roberts & Belk, Sheffield, 1943, approx. 8.3cm diameter; a Victorian silver large apostle topped spoon, hallmarked by John Round & Son, Sheffield, 1881, approx. 18.3cm long; a single London hallmarked silver spoon, souvenir of the Queen Mary ship, and a small Birmingham silver covered miniature practical cookery book. (1 bag) Weighable silver approx. 162.4 grams (5.2ozt) Further details: all tarnished with wear; slight scratching; cookery book cover with wear and damage to edges, loss and wear to book itself.

Cookery Manuscript. A folio manuscript cookery book entitled Book of receipts Sept: ye 30th 1695, compiled by Alice Phelipps (and her descendants), circa 1695-1840, 268 pages in total, including 250 numbered pages, plus 4 unnumbered leaves (including title and names of the contributors to front endpaper), and 18 unnumbered leaves at end, the majority containing manuscript cookery receipts and some medical remedies, compiled by Alice Phelipps and her descendants Elizabeth Phelipps, Maria Phelips, A. H. E. Phelips, Mary Phelips, and Mary Anne Phelips (names given in manuscipt to the first page), with contents supplied to verso: 'from Page ye first to Page ye 83 is all sortes of preserves, conserves, syrups, jelly of calves feet', 'from Page ye 83 to Page ye 163 is all sortes cookery, cakes, wines, watters, pickles and jelly of heart horn and hued pippins', 'from Page ye 163 is all sorte phisickall recaipts to ye end and casava cakes', some numbered leaves unused (pages 27-71, 73-75, 77, 121-127, 134, 137, 141-155, 157, 161-162, 178-201, 203-207, and 224-262), the other numbered leaves with neat legible manuscript cookery recipes and physical receipts in brown ink throughout, including 'cherys to lay in jelly', 'Dry aprycoks', ' Marmalet of Quince Lady Cleeveland', 'Almond genger bread', 'To Preserve Walnuts Phisically', 'Excellent Black Puddiings', 'To Make Hogs Puddings Mrs Avents Way', 'Lord Westmorland's Receipt for Dressing a Turtle: 1765', 'Lady Pouletts receipt to Stew Lampreys', 'to Make Mackroons', 'Mrs Stantons Ffriters', 'Mrs Singars Seed Cake', 'To Make Saucidges without Skins', 'To Pott Fish Mrs Morttons way', 'To Make Bacon after the way Whestphaleham', 'A Quaking Puding', 'Mrs Burchards ginger bread', 'Doctr: Goweys Milk watter from his one Daughter given me by Mrs Box', 'To make an unparallel Balsam', 'For the Mange in a Dogg', 'Mrs Harveys Receipt for The Rheumatism', 'Mr. Sawbells Salve for any wound fresh or ulcerous', 'Lilla or Indian Pickle', 'To Make Walnut Catchup An excellent Fish Sauce', 'A Receit Sr. William Stephen Fox Father to Lord Ilcheter who could hardly see to read with spectacles at 60 years of age...', signed Rach Auston, 'For influmation in the Eyes or Decay of Sight'... this receit gave to my Aunt Lockett by Lady Auston', 'some directions proper to be served by persons inoculated for the Small Pox partly taken from Dr: Tipot, Dr. Buchen, Sutton, and from Observations and Experience', etc., written in several good clear hands, several tipped-in manuscript directions, including a note from Dr. Dumaresq to Mrs Elizabeth Phelips, regarding small pox, dated Yeovilton Friday morning June 21, and another similar tipped-in manuscript note form Dr. Dumaresq, dated Yeovilton July 29th 1782, some light soiling, contemporary plain full vellum, rubbed and some marks to covers, remains of ties, lettered in manuscript to spine 'Recipes 1695 Alice Phelips', large folio (36.5 x 23 cm)QTY: (1)NOTE:Attractive and copiously filled late 17th, 18th and early 19th century folio cookery manuscript. According to a later handwritten note (probably by an early 20th century family descendant) tipped-in at the rear of the volume, 'This Book belonged to Alice Molyneux who married John, 6th son of Edward Phelipps of Montacute co. Somerset, Elizabeth Phelipps, who as his second wife married Edward Phelipps of Montacute, Maria Wright, who married Edward Phelipps of Montacute, Anna Aletheia Elizabeth Paget, who married the Revd. William Phelipps of Montacute, Anne daughter of the Revd. Charles Phelipps, who married John Phelipps of Montacute'.

Two Bound Volumes, Our Conservative and Unionist Statesmen Volume 1, Published by Newman, Graham and Co, together with The Ideal Cookery Book, Both with Condition issues

A yellow enamele fondue set, cap 1.9L, sold together with a ceramic N.Gissin dish with cover and a fondue cookery book ect, (5)

Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) and Ambrose Heath (1891-1969)Calendar from "The Country Life Cookery Book" (1937)Twelve wood engravings, each mounted, 18.5cm by 20cm (12) (unframed)Slight time staining to the paper. The odd light and very minute sporadic brown marks within the white background to a couple of the examples. Otherwise in generally good condition. Not examined out of cellophane.

VINTAGE BANJO, ALONG WITH TWO MRS BEETON BOOKS the early 20th century banjo in mahogany finish, also a copy of Mrs Beeton's Household Management published 1923, and Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book new editionbanjo 54cm longQty: 3

An eighteenth-century Paktong coffee pot, the body wide-bellied, with fluted spout capped with a stylised leaf, the foot and lid rims gadrooned, engraved on the outer edge of the foot rim: 'This Coffee Pot Was Given For The Use of The President And Officers Of The House In The Year 1773.', also engraved under the foot with initials 'Eln.', the interior of the pot tinned, height 28cm approxNote: Keith Pinn, in 'Paktong, the Chinese Alloy in Europe 1680-1820', p. 112, refers to a letter from Matthew Boulton in reply to Lord Valentia in 1771, declining his request to make a 'teutenague coffee pot', on the basis that it was an unsuitable metal for such a purpose. Appendix 1, 16, in Pinn's book has an excerpt from Boulton's letter, directed to Lord Valentia, Merion Square, Dublin, 26 December 1771 [book E, page 330] - 'must beg leave to recommend you to a plated coffee pot instead of the teutenague one your Lordship wants for although the teutenague metal is exceeding good for many purposes yet it will by no means do for any cookery vessel as it has the same properties as brown copper, we shall therefore wait your determination respecting it…' Pinn does illustrate a paktong hot water jug of this period. Several paktong tea urns survive.

BOOKS, COOKERY. Michel BRAS, 'Essential Cuisine', in English. Ici La Press, 2002. M. Bras (whose eponymous restaurant is now in the charge of his son) was a three-star Michelin chef for many years in the Auvergne. This is a very nice copy. Includes a menu from the restaurant (where this book was probably bought). Also, DANSEREAU, Serge, 'Food and Friends', Harper Collins, signed and dedicated by the author. With others including a very clean 1915 copy of Mrs Beaton ('new ed'.). Selling for a local charity.

"Mrs A.B. Marshall's Larger Cookery Book of Extra Recipes", Marshall's London School of Cookery and Simpkin, Marshall Hamilton Kent & Co. (1891), frontis portrait, ills throughout text, front board detached and much loss to backstrip, with two Holy Bibles, both full tooled leather (3)

Cooking and cookery interest to include two copies of Mrs Beeton's Household Management, Henderson, Mrs Mary "Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving", Harper & Brothers, New York 1886, Jerome, Helen "The Fine Art of Cooking", Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1935, ex-libris, "Old Polish Traditions in the Kitchen and Table", "Gleanings from Gloucestershire Housewives", 2nd edition 1936, "Easy Made Wine and Country Drinks", "The WVS Invalid Cookery Book", with ad for Players Cigarettes on the inside of front board and many others  (1 box)  Assorted Leaflets and Pamphlets, Leaves From the Walnut Tree, Double Signed 1st, Pierre Koffman Memories of Gascony Signed 1st, Plantation cookery of Old Louisiana 3rd Ed 1949 

(Cookery.) A circa late C18th/early C19th manuscript cookery receipt book, 64 pages of m/s cookery recipes including orange pudding, venison pasty, Burbridge puddings, Packington custards, apricot ice cream, soupe maigre, orange flower cheese, apple pudding, catherine cakes, solid syllabubs, apple timbale, buckfast cakes, blanc mange, stilton cheese, pickle pork etc, plus approx. 20 loosel C19th cookery and domestic receipts, plus 6 pages of domestic receipts at end and m/s index of cookery receipts, chain lined laid paper, Britannia watermarks, old reverse calf; together with a circa C19th m/s cookery and domestic receipt book, approx. 95 pages of m/s mainly cookery recipes incl. german puddings, orange biscuits, gateau de pomme, solid custard, ginger loaf, Norman pudding, barberry cakes etc etc, a few pages domestic receipts and notes on running a household etc, old calf worn (2)

* Miscellaneous ephemera, mostly 19th and 20th century, including a commonplace book of Elizabeth Martin, circa 1820s, with original and copied verse, watercolours and pencil drawings by friends and family, including a poem of four verses titled 'To Elizabeth' with an ensuing note and reflection, signed 'Eliza Acton, October 3rd 1821', other contributors include B. Barton, Elizabeth Pont, etc., a total of approximately 55 leaves and manuscripts, and 13 drawings of flowers and views, name stamp of I. C. Bishop, contemporary black calf gilt with name stamp of Miss Martin to upper cover, rubbed, 8vo; a scrapbook seemingly belonging to the Bowdler family with letters, copies of Thomas Bowdler's diary extracts (mostly concerning the weather and the price of crops), etc., a total of approximately 30 pages, hinges broken, contemporary marbled boards, some wear, crudely repaired with velvet back strip, 4to: A Dialogue between a Christian and his Conscious relating to his Future Conduct after having been at the most Holy Sacrament. Drawn together for the Instruction of Friends by Richard Roberts at Lambeth, 19 November 1763, 20pp; manuscript in a neat hand containing extracts from Isaac Watts, etc., contemporary stitched limp vellum with manuscript details to upper cover, some soiling and wear, slim 8vo; a group of five printed probate papers completed in manuscript, 11 April - 8 August 1832, all concerning the estate of Elizabeth Darwin, Late of the Priory in the Parish of Breadsall in the county of Derby, widow, each naming Sir Francis Sacheverel Darwin as sole executor, each two pages, folio; and a small group of unrelated late 19th and 20th century ephemera including bookplates, chromo scraps, etc.QTY: (approx. 20)NOTE:1) Eliza Acton (1799-1859) was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845).4) Elizabeth (Colyear) Darwin (c. 1747-1832) was the wife of Edward Sacheverell Pole (1718-1780) and then married as his second wife in 1781 Doctor Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), author, poet, and grandfather of the Naturalist Charles Darwin.

Three boxes of antique reference books, including 'Fountain Pens, The Collector's Encyclopaedia', 'Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objects of Virtue', 'Collectible Fountain Pens', 'Silver Boxes', 'Medals Year Book 2008', 'The Complete Home Decorator', 'The Style Sourcebook', cookery books, gardening books etc, also a collection of previous auction catalogues from Bonhams, Christie's, Sotheby's, Woolley & Wallis, Watches of Knightsbridge etc, including 'Sotheby's Geneva: The Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor', stamp catalogues, pen catalogues, gentleman's accessories, watch catalogues, Asian art catalogues, etc.

° ° Mrs. Cliff's Receipt Book 1820; approx. 80pp ms. cookery recipes - meat, fish, desserts, some pickling and wines, etc. (including bread and cakes); contemp. leather backed marbled boards, 4to.; sold together with some others (? earlier 20th century) in various bindings (5)

Cookery. Mrs Dalgairns - The Practice of Cookery, Adapted to the Business of Every Day Life. Edinburgh: 1830. Third edition. Contemporary binding. Vertical split to spine leaving book in two halves. (1)

A box of books to include: The Magazine Art, Morris Lifting and Shifting, Mrs Beetons Every Day Cookery and House Keeping book.

Glasse (Hannah). The Art of Cookery, made Plain and Easy..., new edition, London: W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, W. Johnston [et al.], 1770, browning and scattered spotting throughout, modern blind panelled calf, spine faded and few scratch marks to boards, 8vo,Henderson (William Augustus & Schnebbelie, Jacob Christopher). The Housekeeper's Instructor; or, Universal Family Cook: being a full and clear display of the Art of Cookery in all its Branches ... to which is added, The Complete Art of Carving, 17th edition, corrected, revised, and considerably improved, London: printed and sold by J. Stratford, 1811, engraved frontispiece and 11 plates (2 folding), scattered spotting, modern cloth, 8vo, Gouffé (Jules). The Royal Cookery Book (Le livre de cuisine), 3rd edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880, contemporary signature at head of title, wood-engraved illustrations, one gathering loosening, cloth hinge repairs to endpapers, contemporary cloth with green morocco spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo,Soyer, Alexis). The Gastronomic Regenerator: A simplified and entirely New System of Cookery..., 3rd edition, London, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1847, engraved portrait frontispiece, few plates and illustrations (two folding, one torn top lower edge), endpapers renewed, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo, Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management..., sixtieth thousand, London: S. O. Beeton, 1863, 12 chromolithograph plates, wood-engraved illustrations, some toning and scattered spotting, modern sheep-backed cloth, thick 8vo,Francatelli (Charles). The Modern Cook; A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in all its Branches..., 19th edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1870, engraved portrait frontispiece, few wood-engraved illustrations, light toning and minor scattered spotting, endpapers renewed, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, some wear to board edges, 8vo, plus 2 other early 20th-century cookery booksQTY: (8)NOTE:1. Bitting p. 189.

Farley (John). The London Art of Cookery, and Housekeeper's Complete Assistant. On a new plan. Made plain and easy to the understanding of every Housekeeper, Cook, and Servant in the Kingdom, 1st edition, London: John Fielding, J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, 1783, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author (verso with manuscript entry of 'John Cole, Maidstone, born Septr. 28, 1800' and early 20th-century ownership) and 12 bills of fare, printed signature at end of preface, occasional minor spotting, modern dark brown sheep, 8vo, together with:Haselmore (Anthony). The Economist, or New Family Cookery, London: T. & J. Allman, 1824, engraved frontispiece, engraved title and 17 plates (duplicate of plate 10, lacking plate 11), some spotting, modern dark brown quarter morocco, 8vo,Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management..., eightieth thousand, London: S. O. Beeton, 1866, 12 chromolithograph plates including frontispiece (19th-c. inscription to verso), wood-engraved illustrations, some browning and spotting, near-contemporary cloth, joints split, frayed at head and foot of spine, thick 8vo,Raffald (Elizabeth). The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the use and ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. written purely from practice and dedicated to the Hon. Lady Elizabeth Warburton..., 8th edition, London: R. Baldwin, 1782, engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved plates, printed signature of the author to B1, some browning and scattered spotting, later endpapers, contemporary sheep, worn, 8vo, Francatelli (Charles). The Modern Cook; A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in all its Branches, 19th edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1870, engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary ownership signature at head of title, few wood-engraved illustrations, toning mostly to frontispiece and title, scattered spotting, lacking front free endpaper, original cloth, lightly frayed at head and foot of spine, 8vo QTY: (5)NOTE:1. Cagle 675; Maclean pp. 50-52; Oxford p.114.

CRAIG, Elizabeth (ed.). Cookery Illustrated and Household Management, London: Odhams Press Limited, nd, spotting, orig buckram (browning/soiling), thick 8vo; together with [BEETON, Isabella]. Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book, London: Ward Lock & Co., nd, red cloth, dj (tape repairs, part rear lacking, distressed), 8vo.

Books. Two shelves of miscellaneous antiquarian and general stock, 19th c and later, including Browne (Phyllis), A Year's Cookery, third edition, n.d. [c. 1880], cloth, worn, 8vo; Mrs. Beeton's Every Day Cookery [...], New Edition, London: Ward, Lock & Co., n.d. [c. 1890], plates and adverts, original pictorial cloth, 8vo; Percy Lewis, The Trade's Cake Book, n.d. [c. 1913], blue cloth, 4to; horse carriage repairs; antique reference; transport; hunting and country pursuits; etc

Cookery.- Sutton and Sons The Art of Preparing Vegetables, light foxing to first few ff., some light water-staining to outer margin with pink colouring, original cloth, a little bumped at spine ends and corners, 1888 § Beecher (Catherine E.) The New Housekeeper's Manual: embracing a new revised edition of The American Woman's Home, illustrations, additional title, 10pp. publisher's advertisement at end, a few spots and surface stains, original cloth, spine faded, chipping to spine ends, a little rubbed to extremities, New York, 1874 § Cheng (S.K. editor) Shanghai Restaurant. Chinese Cookery Book, bookseller's sticker to pastedown, original cloth, spine faded, upper cover a little toned, some rubbing to extremities, 1936; and others food and drink, including the Memorial Lecture for Audre L. Simon by David Broadbent, v.s. (c.130)   

Postcards, vintage cookery book, commemorative book and Victorian photo's

Mrs Beeton, 'All About Cookery', and 'Shilling Cookery Book'. (2)

Thirteen cookery books to include The Indian Cook book, Vegetarian Cookery, Casserole cooking etc.

A Bible, Florence Greenberg's cookery book, and Greater London.

Fairfax (Arabella) The Family’s Best Friend: or the Whole Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy, fifth [earliest recorded] edition, pagination erratic (as per other copies), woodcut head-pieces and a decorative initial, lacking G4&5 and H2&3, A3 lower corner torn with some loss of text, a few short tears (that on G6 causing loss of a single letter recto and verso, without loss of sense), some spotting or light staining, lightly browned, later endpapers (the front free lacking), 19th century calf, spine gilt and with black leather label, rubbed, [Maclean, pp. 47-8; Oxford, p. 85; Simon, BG 651 (note)], large 12mo, Printed for the Author, 1753. *** Rare at auction (the last copy we can trace being in 1954 (Arthur Shircliffe sale, sold Parke-Bernet, 9&10th November, 1954, first mentioned of lot 271)), and scarce institutionally, with copies often being found defective. This is the earliest edition of the work recorded by the bibliographers. Maclean believed it to be 'Either a slightly earlier edition of a book by Penelope Bradshaw using a pseudonym, or, more likely, a pirated version of it.’ (the latter may account for the erratic pagination). 

ELIZABETH HAMMOND: MODERN DOMESTIC COOKERY, AND USEFUL RECEIPT BOOK, London, Dean and Munday, c1825. Full leather binding (worn, large loss to upper board which is also detaching). lacking frontis and heavily marked throughout.

COOKERY INTEREST: 5 Titles: MRS BEETON'S COOKERY BOOK, London, Ward, Lock and Co, 1927, New and Revised edition; MRS BEETON'S EVERYDAY COOKERY, London, Ward, Lock and Co, c1930, New edition; P L TRAVERS AND MAURICE MOORE-BETTY, London, Collins, 1977, Reprint; MATTHEW HAMLYN: THE RECIPES OF HANNAH WOOLLEY - ENGLISH COOKING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, London, Heinemann Kingswood, 1988; THOMAS WALKR: ARISTOLOGY OR THE ART OF DINING, Cambridge, Cambridge University, 1965. Limited to 500 copies. All in original protected dustjackets (5)

JESSIE MARION KING (1875-1949) AND ERNEST ARCHIBALD TAYLOR (1874-1951) INTEREST GROUP OF PERSONAL AND DOMESTIC ITEMS [King-Taylor family recipe book]. The Practice of Cookery and Pastry by Williamson & Son 1869. 8vo, with numerous manuscript recipes laid in, including one for ‘American gingerbread’ written in the hand of Jessie M. King, another recipe apparently in another hand but with King's annotation ‘The EASY-BISCUIT à la Polly Peacham’; Collection of family photographs, approx. 40 in total, of which several depicting Jessie M. King, including a full-length portrait of JMK as a young woman, in a garden (platinum print, mounted on card), one of JMK in a classroom with pupils (albumen print, mounted on card), and others showing E. A. Taylor, Merle Taylor, etc.; Merle Taylor's childhood autograph album, including a watercolour sketch of a cottage through trees signed ‘EAT’ (her father Ernest Archibald Taylor, 1874-1951), and one unsigned but attributed to Jessie M. King; Typescript short story by Merle Taylor, ‘The Maister’For a complete list of photographs in this lot see the lot description on our website lyonandturnbull.com  Provenance: Jessie Marion King and Ernest Archibald TaylorBy descent to their daughter Merle TaylorEstate of Merle Taylor

Ravilious (Eric).- Heath (Ambrose) The Country Life Cookery Book, first edition, illustrations by Eric Ravilious, T.L.s. from the publishers tipped in, original cloth, dust-jacket with vignette, price-clipped, slightly rubbed and soiled, 1937 § Christmas Book Shop (The): The Year's Best Books, 8pp., printed in yellow and black, illustrations by Ravilious and Edward Bawden, spotted, interleaved and stitched into card folder (staples removed), manuscript paper label in shape of Christmas tree to upper cover, [1924] § London Transport. Country Walks, First [-Third] Series, 3 vol., photographic illustrations, some spotting, original wrappers, all with dust-jackets featuring wood-engraving by Ravilious, a little rubbed, 1936-37 § Pope-Hennessy (James) London Fabric, second edition, foxing, original cloth, dust-jacket designed by Ravilious, a little rubbed and frayed, spine browned, New York & London, 1941; and 20 others, illustrated, mostly by Ravilious, and a few loose illustrations by John Nash, 8vo & 4to (26)*** The tipped-in letter in the first is a reply to an enquiry concerning the repetition of the January vignette for December, and whether another engraving was rejected. The publishers are unable to solve the matter as their records were lost during the war. The second item was an advertising insert for the December 1924 edition of the Studio. It includes some of both Ravilious's and Bawden's earliest published designs, executed while they were still students at the Royal College of Art.

Cookery.- Beeton (Mrs. Isabella) The Book of Household Management, first edition in book form, second issue with Strand address, and first line of errata corrected to 'Page 657', colour-printed wood-engraved additional pictorial title and 12 plates, 1 loose, lacking frontispiece, p.832-842 paper flaw with some loss to text, occasional short tears one or two affecting text, some light surface soiling, contemporary half morocco, gilt spine, chipping to head of spine, upper joint split but holding firm, some rubbing to extremities, 1861 § Acton (Eliza) Modern Cookery,... For the Use of Private Families, seventh edition, half-title, 8 engraved plates, spotting and water-staining, 36pp. advertisement at end, final f. browned, bookplate to front pastedown, later cloth with original spine and covers laid down, Longman, Brown, Green, 1847 § Escoffier (Auguste) A Guide to Modern Cookery, first English edition, frontispiece, tissue-guard, title and first few ff. slightly damp-stained, light browning, bookplate to front pastedown, original green cloth, a little faded, 1907, occasional spotting and surface stains; and a revised edition of Mrs A.B. Marshall's Cookery Book, 4to & 8vo (4)

MANUSCRIPT RECEIPT BOOK: a volume of numerous handwritten cookery and medicinal receipts, early-mid 19thc and in several hands acrosss approx 140 pages: includes 'an infallible cure for the bite of a mad dog brought from Tonquin by Sir Geo. Cobbs..': to make Lady Derby's soap: to make breakfast rolls: Oxford Dumplins (sic): Blanc Manger: a dish of curry: oyster sauce: lobster salad, etc, contained in period half morocco commonplace book with brass closure, rubbed but solid, contents generally sound, small 8vo. (1)

A collection of vintage 20th century Maison Prunier restaurant related ephemera. The collection to include a selection of 1930s and 1940s restaurant menus and wine lists, alongside two books related to the Madame Pruniet. The books being 'Madame Prunier's Fish Cookery Book (Revised Edition)' edited by Ambrose Heath, and 'La Maison The History of Prunier's'.

Cookery and Gardening. Remarks on the Art of Making Wine, 2nd edition, 1817, 8vo, half title, sewing weak, boards; CULPEPER (N) The English Physician Enlarged, 1799, 8vo; MOXON (E) English Housewifery, 10th edition, 1769, 8vo; FARLEY (J) The London Art of Cookery, 11th edition, 1807, 8vo, detached tree calf; ACTON (E) Modern Cookery, 7th edition, 1847, title loose, worn cloth; BEETON (I) Book of Household Management, fiftieth thousand, 1863, 8vo, title creased, worn half roan; also - Mawes' Gardener, Miller's Gardener's Kalendar and Beeton's Book of Garden Management (9)

Two manuscript cookery books, circa 1830s and later, with indexes of recipes to the front, and a manuscript book of geometric and measuring rules written in pen and ink, dated 1820; together with a third cookery book with very few entries (4)

Cookery. DAVID (Elizabeth) French Provincial Cooking, dust jacket; Summer Cooking; GRIEVE (M) My Book of Herbs, cloth; CAREME. French Cookery, illustrated by W Hall, new edition, 1856, cloth; with others in French and English by Pampille, P. Carton, Saint-Ange, P. Reboux, E. R. Pennell, etc. Condition varies

Seven cookery books to include: Nigel Slater, Cook with Jamie, The Book of Steaks, etc.

CRADOCK, (Fanny), Something's Burning, The Autobiography of two cooks, first edition, London, Putnam, 1960, together with Venus in the Kitchen, or Love's Cookery Book, introduction by Graham Greene, first edition, Heinemann Ltd, 1952, also James Beard's Fish Cookery, London, Faber & Faber, In a Persian Kitchen, published in Japan,1960, also Dr. E.A.Maury, Wine is the Best Medicine, French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David, and Alexander Watt, Paris Bistro Cookery, (7)

Cookery Interest:; Late 18th century, dated 1796 Manuscript Recipe Book 160 recipes including Mock Turtle Soup attributeed to Mrs Casters, observations on soups and gravys, onion suce for pork steaks att; Mrs Mellish, maccaroni att; Mrs mellish, Scotch broth, Mrs Hart, Omelette the French way, wash for silk stockings, various recipes for paints and dyes, note of suppliers including Robert Walsh bacon merchant near Richmond, Mr Lambert, Oilman and Olive merchant, foot of Ludgate Hill, Mr Dawkins Teaman, Gracechurch St, London etc (160)front board and front papers detached and spine broken recipes legible

[[Glasse (Hannah)] The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy, Which far exceeds any Thing of the Kind yet published... by a Lady, London: W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington et al., 1770, 8vo, marbled calf rebacked, reverse of title with manuscript recipe 'To make Mince Pies'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse (1708–1770) was first published in 1747. It was a bestseller for a century after its first publication, dominating the English-speaking market and making Glasse one of the most famous cookbook authors of her time. The book ran through at least 40 editions, many of which were copied without explicit author consent. It was published in Dublin from 1748, and in America from 1805 [ESTC T63525; Bitting, p.189; Maclean p.60; Oxford p.77]

Manuscript Cookery and Home Remedy Books 18th and 19th Century, to include four books in contemporary vellum of which one a brass clasped account book, 12mo, one volume entitled 'Recipe Book' with marbled paper boards and leather spine, small 4to, another partially disbound volume with Medical notes, 4to (6) Sadly unattributed for the most part, one recipe book is inscribed 'Mary'. The account book, starting in the late 18th Century gives some names, such as William Richardson, Kirkoswald' and 'Dr Cringledyke Estate'.One of the smaller volumes includes a plethora of home remedies, from curing whooping cough, chilblains to the more optimistic 'Recipe for a Cancer or any Tumour'. Other volumes mention 'A good Incarnation salve', remedies for 'hysterical fits' and Dropsie. The largest vellum recipe book, partially completed and indexed to the first few pages shows more useful recipes such as 'Red Quince Marmolet', 'to make Carromel for Fruit', Ratifia Puffs' and 'English Champagne'.The largest of the volumes, labelled 'Extracts' to the spine is alphabetically arranged and partially completed with notes on chemistry.

Cookbooks. A collection of late 19th century Victorian and early 20th century cookery books. The lot to include The Universal Cookery Book, Superior Cookery by Mrs. Black, 365 Vegetarian Dishes, Series VI & VII from the Queen Cookery Books descr. Beaty Pownall & publ. Horace Cox, Household Management by Beckford & Fitzgerald, Beeton's Every Day Gardening, Edinburgh Book of Plain Cookery Recipes, Tried Favourites Cookbook, as well as numerous pamphlet recipe books incl. Meatless Menus by Alfred Arm, The Stork Wartime Cookbook, The ABC of Cookery and Be-Ro Home Recipes. Either in publisher's orig. cloth or paper wraps, generally smart with some wear & use, prior ownership inscriptions. Otherwise a smart and varied collection. 8vo.

First/Second World War Militaria, relating to 905205 Bombardier Henry King, RFA., including brass shoulder titles, Sussex Territorial shoulder title, cap badge, lapel badges, lance corporal's chevron, Local Defence Volunteers armband, photographs, Cookery Certificate, Recipe book etc; Ephemera, relating to 1417489 Warrant Officer I Class Frank Hubert French, Royal Regiment of Artillery, including his Certificate of Service, two Soldier's Service and Pay Books, Qualification certificates, testimonials, Commission to Warrant Officer dated 31st August 1939, pamphlets, a tin tube of photographs etc, he enlisted at Chichester 19th April 1920 and was discharged 12th October 1951; Ephemera, relating to 2591114 Sergeant Donald Woolford, Cheshire Yeomanry, including a folder of copies of family and other letters sent and received 1944/45 including one applying to become official Unit Photographer, two anotated photograph albums illustrating his five years service in the Middle East from 1940-45; also, a First World War photograph album relating to the Middlesex Regiment whilst serving in India 1915-18, and loose photographs showing General de Gaulle, a military parade in Baghdad, RAF official photographs etc (qty)

Cookery. Reynolds (Robert, Cook to His Grace the Duke of Portland), The French and English Professed Cook [...], Containing Upwards of Seven Hundred Practical Receipts [...], To which is added a Short Account of Wines, ?first edition, London: Printed for J. Booth, n.d. [c. 1815-20], xviii, 350, [10]pp (publisher's catalogue), in-text table settings, original publisher's sheep over boards, upper-cover lettered in gilt, chipped and worn, but holding, MS ownership inscription to pastedown, 8vo; Anon, Domestic Economy: A Class-Book for Girls, London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1886, original cloth, 8vo; & Medical: Stevenson (William, Physician at Wells), A Successful Method of Treating the Gout by Blistering. With an Introduction, Consisting of Miscellaneous Matter, first edition, Bath: Printed by R. Cruttwell, 1779, xl, 41-170, [1]pp (errata leaf), ex-library copy, stamps to prelims and final two leaves, later 19th c half-calf over marbled boards, label to upper-cover, 8vo, (3)

A small box of mixed collectables to include Mrs. Beetons book of household management, Mrs. Beetons Cookery book, a jar of mixed marbles and a Sindy doll.

Two Modern Wall Mirrors, carved wooden hay fork, a pair of metal pheasants, cookery book, treen, kitchen roller and base, framed watercolour of farm in rural landscape, signed George Jackson and an 1828 alphabet sampler, worked by Ann Watson Jackson, framed (9)

SELECTION OF COOKERY AND TRAVEL BOOKShardback and paperback, titles include Homecraft Book, Heston Blumenthal at Home, The Curious Bartender, In at the Deep End, various country and city guides, etc., 2 boxes

PENNELL (ELIZABETH), MY COOKERY BOOKS, limited edition, 45/320, mounted plates, ¼ cloth with marbled boards, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1903; NAPIER (MRS ALEXANDER), A NOBLE BOOK OF COOKERY, patterned binding, London, Stock, 1882; URBAIN DUBOIS, COSMOPOLITAN COOKERY, POPULAR STUDIES, later ¾ leather, ‘Presented by the Publishers’ blind stamp to title page, London, Longmans, 1870 (3)

HENDERSON (WILLIAM), THE HOUSEKEEPER’S INSTRUCTOR OR UNIVERSAL COOKERY BOOK, 15th edition, engraved frontis and nine plates, re-backed, London, Stratford, 1809; FARLEY (JOHN), THE LONDON ART OF COOKERY, 3rd edition, portrait frontis, 12 plates, London, Scatcherd, 1785; THE COOK’S ORACLE CONTAINING RECEIPTS FOR PLAIN COOKERY, London, Constable, 1822; HENDERSON (WILLIAM), THE HOUSEKEEPER’S INSTRUCTOR, engraved frontis, 11 plates, no date; KETTILBY (MARK), A COLLECTION OF ABOVE THREE HUNDRED RECEIPS IN COOKERY, 3rd edition, London, Wilkin, 1724; an 18th century book lacking first pages and two 19th century cookery books (8)

Charles Elme Francatelli, "A Plain Cookery Book for The Working Class", London, Routledge, circa 1890s, with one other Victorian book on games and pastimes

Cookery, a collection of sixteen assorted titles, including Richard Warner: 'Antiquitates Culinariae', London, Prospect Books, c.1980, facsimile limited edition (56/400) of the original 1791 edition, 4to, original boards gilt, glassine and acetate dust wrappers; 'Patsy's Reflections Learn to Cook by Pictures', London, Mirror Features, [1949], 192pp, colour illustrated comic book style leaves throughout, oblong 4to, spiral bound original pictorial wraps, plus 'Patsy's Christmas Reflections', L, Mirror Features, [1952],96pp, same format, orig. spiral bound pictorial wraps; Dorothy Allhusen: 'A Book of Scents & Dishes', London, 1927, revised enlarged edition (2nd edition), orig. quarter cloth gilt; 'The British Baker Album of Cake Designs', L, Maclaren & sons, [1924], 96pp + ads at front and end, illustrated throughout, 4to, original cloth; Evelyn Bach: 'Recipes from Vienna', L, Cobden Sanderson, 1933, printed at the Shenval Press, 133pp, spiral bound orig. pictorial card covers; 'The Corner Cupboard A Family Repository', L, Houlston & Wright, 1858, 10th thou., orig. cloth gilt; Mrs. R. Calder Marshall; Margaret Bryant: 'The Anglo-Chinese Cook Book', [nd], c.1916, 2nd edition, volume I (English), xxix,[2],327,[1]pp, b/w plates, original cloth; H.G. Harris & S.P. Borella: 'All About Ices, Jellies, Creams, & Conserves', L, Maclaren & sons, [1926], ex library, 4to, original cloth; E,J. Kollist:' French Pastry, Confectionery and Sweets', 1936, 2nd edition, frontis + numerous b/w plates, original cloth gilt; plus 6 others similar (16)

Cookery, eight assorted titles, including William Salmon: 'The Family Dictionary: or, Houshold Companion. Containing Cookery...Pastry...Confects...Potable Liquors...Perfuming...Husbandry...Preparations Galenick and Chymick...', London, A. Rhodes, 1710, 4th edition, [16],560pp, rebound cloth gilt; Hannah Glasse: 'The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy', L, 1803, new edition, xl,419pp, final page of index supplied in facsimile, rebound quarter calf gilt; Elizabeth Raffald: 'The Experienced English Housekeeper', L, 1786, 10th edition, engraved portrait frontis + 3 folding engraved plates complete, some dampstaining affecting lower edges of early leaves, rebound cloth gilt; W.A. Henderson; Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie: 'The Housekeeper's Instructor; Or, Universal Family-Cook', L. W. Lewis, [1823], 17th edition, engraved portrait frontis + 11 engraved plates (of which 2 folding, the final folding plate with part loss), rebound half calf gilt; Elizabeth Hammond: 'Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book', L, Dean & Munday, c.1835, 7th edition, engraved frontis, added engraved title + 4 engraved plates, 12mo, rebound quarter calf gilt; Mrs Dalgairns: 'The Practice of Cookery', Edinburgh, 1835, 5th edition, 468pp, old half calf gilt; A. Escoffier: 'A Guide to Modern Cookery', L, Heinemann, 1913, new & revised edition (5th printing overall), portrait frontis, original cloth gilt (worn); plus 1 other (8)

A GROUP OF CERAMICS, GLASS AND SUNDRY ITEMS, to include an Indian carved wooden box, the interior carved with the insignia of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, and inscribed 'All My Love, Dan, India 1944', approximate size 27cm x 16.5cm x 8cm, together with a similar carved wooden box and an embroidered example, a signed copy of The Duchess of Devonshire's Chatsworth Cookery Book, a boxed Arcoroc Marguerite plate set, an eighteen piece unmarked Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee coffee set, Tuscan 'Wild Strawberry' tea ware, a crystal jug, a Coalport milk jug (hairlines to base), a Spode Fleur de Lys Gold covered sugar bowl, a Wedgwood Kutani Crane dinner plate, a Kit Vision 7'' digital photograph frame (untested), etc (qty) (Condition Report: most pieces appear ok, sd and as stated in description, signs of light use)

A quantity of cookery books to include: Seafood, The Soup Bible, The Poachers Cook Book, etc.

Vintage Westmorland cookery book dated 1939, vintage postcards - Muncaster Castle, framed Victorian portrait miniature, metal tatting hooks etc

CROXALL (S.) The Fables of Aesop, 12mo, folding frontlist, text illus., clo., Halifax, 1860; Book of Common Prayer, 24mo, contemp. morocco gilt, Oxford, 1825; The New Practical Gardener, 4to, col. plates, half calf (worn), L., ca. 1875; Buckmaster's Cookery, L., ca. 1874 (4).

Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, 125th thousand edition, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [circa 1867], chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations, original red quarter sheep, gilt-blocked decoration to spine, light wear mostly at head of spine, extremities rubbed, 8vo, together with:Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, new edition, revised and corrected, 255 thou. edition, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1869], chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations, 19th-century maroon quarter sheep, joints cracked and worn at head of spine, 8vo,Beeton (Isabella). The Book of Household Management, new edition, revised and corrected, 660 thou. edition, London: Ward, Lock & Co., [1869], folding chromolithograph frontispiece and plates, wood-engraved illustrations and plates, one text leaf detached and frayed, rear free endpaper torn, original maroon quarter sheep, gilt-blocked decoration to spine, joints split, spine cracked and worn, 8vo, plus three other later Beeton editions, plus an incomplete copy of Markham (Gervase). The English House-Wife containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a Compleat Woman: As her Skill in Physick, Chirurgery, Cookery, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting stuff, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wool..., of Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold...., 8th edition, London: printed by J. Streater for George Sawbridge, 1668, title present (detached and closed tears at gutter), lacking other preliminary leaves and all text before p.113 (3R1), disbound 4to QTY: (7)

A cloth bound volume of Mrs Beaton's cookery book published 1892.

Sammlung: von 10 Kochbüchern, versch. Formate u. Einbde. ╔Enthält:╗ Naumann,L. Systematik der Kochkunst. 3. Aufl. Drsdn., Schönfeld 1900. - Amerlan,F. Am Herd des Hauses. (2. Aufl.). Stettin, Niekammer (ca. 1905). - Senn,C.H. The New Century Cookery Book. London, Spottiswoode 1901. - Böttcher,C. Kraft und Stoff ... 2. Aufl. Hbg. u.a., Richter 1863. - Universal-Lexikon der Kochkunst. 2 Bde. Lpz., Weber 1878. 2 Karten in Kopie. - Buchmeier,M. Großes Praktisches Kochbuch... 7. verm. Aufl. Regensburg, Habbel (um 1910). - König,H. Illustr. Deutsches Kochbuch... 5. Aufl. Hannover, Teller 1879. - Seleskowitz,L. Wiener Kochbuch. 15. Aufl. Wien (ca. 1914). - Oppre,A. Das Neue Kochbuch... Augsburg, Kranzfelder 1879. - Versch. starke Gebrauchsspuren.