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STUDIES IN DESIGN by Dressser, Chr

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Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books

Title: STUDIES IN DESIGN
Author: Dressser, Chr
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: CASSELL, PETTER & CALPIN, ca 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. 60 plates complete - fabulous color! with their tissue guards. Decorative cover with gilt lettering, rubbed sl. at edges. Lacks fron free flyleaf. Ex-library with faint stamps at corners of each plate. Otherwise a fresh copy with vivid colors. Rare to find complete!

Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes: Old Creole Cookery. Book by H. M. Mayo by [Southern Pacific Company (Firm: San Francisco, Calif.); Henry Monroe Mayo; Elizabeth Kettenring Bégué; Bégué’s (Restaurant: New Orleans, La.)]

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Title: Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes: Old Creole Cookery. Book by H. M. Mayo
Author: [Southern Pacific Company (Firm: San Francisco, Calif.); Henry Monroe Mayo; Elizabeth Kettenring Bégué; Bégué’s (Restaurant: New Orleans, La.)]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [San Francisco; Chicago: Southern Pacific Railroad]; [Printed by] Poole Bros, 1900. Duodecimo-size booklet (14.75 x 8.5 cm.), 80 pages. Blue and brown ink on pink paper. Two photographic portraits (Monsieur and Madame Bégué). Illustrations. List of railway agents. Title from cover. In logo at head of title: Southern Pacific Sunset Route. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A souvenir anthology of writings, including sixty recipes from two landmark New Orleans restaurants, offered for sale to customers traveling the Sunset Route (San Francisco–New Orleans) by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. A sampling: Mutton Feet à la Créole, Liver à la Bégué, Jambalaya of Chicken, Codish with White Beans, Bisque of Crayfish, Creamed Cauliflower, Onion Salad, Eggplant with Rice and Ham, Mayonaise of Celery and Shrimps, Pineapple with White Wine. ~ The title displayed on the wrappers is misleading: the atmospheric essays and testimonials – arranged by a literary journalist who contributed to Southern Pacific's promotional magazine Sunset, Henry Monroe Mayo (1868-1950) – reveal little regarding the eponymous originator of the recipes or the history of the cuisine that brought her fame. Only pages 47-68 contain recipes by Elizabeth (née Elisabetha) Kettenring (Dutreuil) Bégué (1831-1906), the proprietary chef of the beloved restaurant in the Vieux Carré – the second oldest such establishment in New Orleans – located on the Rue de la Levée (Decatur Street, after 1870), downriver from Jackson Square and across from the French Market. An immigrant from southern Germany, she had opened a coffee shop with her husband Louis Dutreuil in 1863. After his death in 1875, she married again, and with her second husband Hippolyte Bégué (1842-1917) reopened in the same location, with the aim of serving one meal per day – a “second breakfast” beginning at 11:00 a.m. – to accommodate laborers in the meat markets and on the docks who started work at dawn. (A fuller history by David Shields is available in his The Culinarians [Chicago: University or Chicago Press, 2017], pages 270-273.) By the mid-1880s, trade fairs held in the city were bringing tourists as well, and Bégué’s became a destination on its own. Madame Bégué died in 1906. The restaurant continued under management of her daughter, but was sold in 1914 to relatives of the family Tujague, competitors since 1856 on Decatur Street, a few doors away. ~ A shorter tribute with recipes (pages 69-74) is accorded another restaurateur, presumably Victor Béro (d. 1904), an immigrant from Belgium who had presided over Victor's Restaurant since 1873. (Mayo appears to confuse the "Monsieur Victor" of his time with the founder and namesake of the establishment, Victor Martin [1812-1865]; cf. Shields, page 136, 445). ~ The Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company was the southernmost of the transport lines to the West Coast originally contemplated by the series of Pacific Railroad Acts between 1862 and 1866. Of the resulting publicly subsidized corporate consortia that would transform western North America – known collectively as the transcontinental railroads – Southern Pacific was already a mammoth system in 1900, including smaller subsidiaries such as the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, and extending across territories that would later become New Mexico and Arizona, as well as northwards through Nevada, Utah, and much of California. The in-house Sunset magazine appears to have been printed close to headquarters in San Francisco, but like many publications issued by the transportation industry, Mme. Bégué and Her Recipes was printed by Poole Brothers of Chicago, who advertised as "railway printers" and also produced tickets, brochures, and mileage tables. ~ A few pages dog-eared. Very good, in publisher's red wrappers decorated in black and white, with an image of Madame Chef in kitchen apron. Rare. [OCLC locates thirteen copies; Uhler 28; New Orleans Culinary History Group, page 13; not in Bitting, Brown, or Cagle].

[Manuscript Document Regarding Sale of Land East of Nacogdoches in Late 1835] by [Texas]. [Real Estate]

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Title: [Manuscript Document Regarding Sale of Land East of Nacogdoches in Late 1835]
Author: [Texas]. [Real Estate]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: About very good.
Description: [Nacogdoches: September 21, 1835. About very good.. [3]pp., on a bifolium, plus docketing. Previously folded. Light wear and staining along old folds. Minor edge wear and slight loss at center fold point. Spanish secretarial script, but quite legible. “En la villa de Nacogdoches y a los veinte y un dias del mes de Septiembre del año de mil ochocientos treinta y cinco ante mi el ciudadano Luis Rueg, Juez de primera Ynstancia de ella dicha villa... companieron en este mi Jugada y por mi proprias personas los Ciudadanos William Clark, J.K. Allen, y W. Galagan, y el primero dixo... que olorga y da en venta real y publica por Jura de heredad para siempre a los segundos la mitad del ferrenoque se halla atuada al Norte del sitio de tierra... entre el Rio Sabinas y el Arroyo de Adams” This deed, ink-stamped with the seal of the Free State of Coahuila and Tejas, documents the sale and transfer of land between William Clark as seller, and J. K. Allen and W. G. Logan as buyers. The sale and this document were accomplished just five months before Texas declared independence and became the Republic of Texas on March 2, 1836. The sale concerns “half of the land located north of the site of land granted between the Sabinas River and Adams Creek… for the price and amount of fifty pesos.” Very interesting documentation of a land deal done during the last months of the Mexican Texas era.

BOTTOMS UP: A GAY BAR IN SAN FRANCISCO by Winslow, Ned

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Title: BOTTOMS UP: A GAY BAR IN SAN FRANCISCO
Author: Winslow, Ned
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: n.p.: Privately Published, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo, 140 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Paperback binding. Spine dark blue with green lettering. Covers have slight wear including mild age toning, slight scuffing and some rubbing to the edges.Text block has slight wear including mild age toning to the edges. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column U, ND-U. 1402297. FP New Rockville Stock.

TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING by Thomas, Dylan; [Maurice O'Sullivan]

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Title: TWENTY YEARS A-GROWING
Author: Thomas, Dylan; [Maurice O'Sullivan]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Description: London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1964. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of Thomas's unfinished film script, based on the Irish-language autobiography of Maurice O'Sullivan. 7.25'' x 5''. Original orange cloth. In original unclipped (12s 6d) dust jacket. 91, [1] pages. Light edgewear, soil to jacket.

View: Vol. III No. 6 November 1981 - Francesco Clemente by WHITE, Robin and Francesco Clemente

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Title: View: Vol. III No. 6 November 1981 - Francesco Clemente
Author: WHITE, Robin and Francesco Clemente
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Oakland, CA: View Magazine / Crown Point Press, 1981. First edition. Softcover. 27 pages. Entire issue devoted to Robin White's interview of Italian artist Francesco Clemente. Includes several black and white illustrations and a list of previous exhibitions. A very good copy in stapled wrappers with a couple small instances of marginalia. Uncommon.

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