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Collection of menus from Chicago's grand hotel

Collection of menus from Chicago's grand hotel by [Menu collection – Palmer House (Chicago, Ill.)]

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Title
Collection of menus from Chicago's grand hotel
Author
[Menu collection – Palmer House (Chicago, Ill.)]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
Chicago, Ill: the hotel, 1904. Thirty-two menus and one related item (various sizes), with various pagination. A collection of early menus from Chicago's historic Palmer House, which until the recent Covid pandemic, was the oldest continuously operating hotel in America. It was the first hotel in the city with elevators, and the first with electric lights and telephones in the rooms. The original hotel opened in September 1870, but burnt the following year during the Great Fire. The new Palmer House opened in 1875, and all of the menus in this collection are from the period of this second hotel. Overall condition is very good to fine.
Almanach Manuel de la Bonne Cuisine et de la Maitresse de Maison. Redicé avec le concours des Maitres d'Hotel et Chefs de Cuisine des premieres maisons de Paris. 8me Année, 1865

Almanach Manuel de la Bonne Cuisine et de la Maitresse de Maison. Redicé avec le concours des Maitres d'Hotel et Chefs de Cuisine des premieres maisons de Paris. 8me Année, 1865 by [Almanach – culinary]

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Almanach Manuel de la Bonne Cuisine et de la Maitresse de Maison. Redicé avec le concours des Maitres d'Hotel et Chefs de Cuisine des premieres maisons de Paris. 8me Année, 1865
Author
[Almanach – culinary]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
Paris: Pagnerre, Libraire-Editeur, rue de Seine, 18; Typographie de Henri Plon, 1865. Duodecimo (14.5 x 10.5 cm.), 200 pages. Engraved illustrations in the text. Table des Matieres. The eighth year of this popular French almanac, with calendar and ephemeris, but unlike most American "culinary almanacs" the bulk of this work is indeed related to food, with sections on various foodstuffs, (vegetables, birds, fish, sauces, etc.), and many recipes. The attractive wrapper illustration by "F. Grenan" depicts two women working in the kitchen, one cooking at the stove, the other writing while handling some vegetables and birds. Is she recording a recipe? or perhaps just back from market and keeping up accounts? Like other copies of this almanac we've seen, the illustration is hand-colored. Dog ears to some pages; otherwise internally sound and clean. Wrapper corners chipped and light soiling. Near very good, in a handsome custom-made clamshell box. [OCLC locates five institutions with single issues of runs of this periodical].
Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Limited, S.S. Port Chalmers, Wm. Milburn & Co. (London)

Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Limited, S.S. Port Chalmers, Wm. Milburn & Co. (London) by [Menu – Steamships; Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Limited; S.S. Port Chalmers; Wm. Milburn & Co. (London)]

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Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Limited, S.S. Port Chalmers, Wm. Milburn & Co. (London)
Author
[Menu – Steamships; Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Company, Limited; S.S. Port Chalmers; Wm. Milburn & Co. (London)]
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
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London: Wm. Milburn & Co, 1892. Bi-fold menu (15 x 10.5 cm.), [4] pages. Printed in red, gold and blue, with menu handwritten. Menu for the voyage of the S.S. Port Chalmers, dated in ink on the front panel, "16/10/92". The internal page-spread includes the handwritten menu items including, "Giblet Soup, Boiled Turbot … , Sheep Head and Brains, Roast Turkey & Breast…, Boiled Beef & Carrots, Baked and Boiled Potatoes, French Beans and Turnip, Plum Pudding & Sweet …, Lemon Jelly, Gorgonzola & Cheddar, Almonds & Raisins”. Lightly soiled, but still very attractive. ~ The Anglo-Australasian Steam Navigation Co. was formed in 1883 to operate direct UK – Australia services via Antwerp, and the line was to later adopt the name "Milburn Line". There were two ships that plied the Milburn Line commissioned with the name Port Chalmers. This menu hails from the first, built in 1891, so it was a nice shiny new ship when the passengers on board had this meal. The ship was sold on in 1896 and lasted until 1956. A second ship with the name was built in 1905 but was seized by the Germans in 1914. Lightly soiled, but still very attractive.
The Oyster & Dredgers of Whitstable. Published with the sanction of the Whitstable Fishery Company

The Oyster & Dredgers of Whitstable. Published with the sanction of the Whitstable Fishery Company by Collard, Allan Ovenden; W.H. Reeves (photographer)

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The Oyster & Dredgers of Whitstable. Published with the sanction of the Whitstable Fishery Company
Author
Collard, Allan Ovenden; W.H. Reeves (photographer)
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
London: Joseph Collard, 43 Charing Cross Road, W.C., 1902. Octavo (18.5 x 12.5 cm.) 92, [4] pages. Illustrated with fifty-seven photographic plates, map, frontispiece. FIRST EDITION, wrappered issue. An informative historical account of the oyster industry in Whitstable, Kent, with descriptions of the history of the fishery, the structure of the Company of Free Fishers and Dredgers of Whitstable, and the cultural significance of the "Royal Whitstable Native" oyster. Included in the fifty-seven photographic illustrations by W.H. Reeves is the frontispiece, depicting a fisherman "ready for weather". Internally clean and sound. In publisher's gray wrappers, titled in black on the front panel. Some light wear to wrapper at spine, author's name neatly inked to the spine, otherwise very good or better. [OCLC locates twenty copies, just eight in the US].
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Fairy Tales by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

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Title
Fairy Tales
Author
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(+)
Description
London: Samson Low, 1882. First. hardcover. very good(+). Translated by H. L. Ward & Augusta Plesner. Ten full page chromolithograph plates by E.V.B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle). Tall thin 8vo, Dark blue pictorial boards with cloth spine, floral end-leaves, page edges deep red. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, n.d. (ca. 1882). First Edition. There is a neat calligraphic Christmas gift inscription from "Grandmama" dated 1882. The edges & corners are lightly rubbed; one leaf, p. 49/50 has a diagonal fold due to a binding error, but the book is a solid, clean example of Victorian book illustration.
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Contes d'Andersen, Calendrier pour 1912 by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

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Contes d'Andersen, Calendrier pour 1912
Author
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
Vienna: M. Munk, 1912. First. paperback. near fine. Heinrich Lefler & Joseph Urban. An exquisite calendar illustrated with 12 fine color & gilt lithographs after watercolors by Heinrich Lefler, to illustrate 12 fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, with French text on facing pages. Every page (text and illustrations) is printed within wide elaborate gilt borders in the Jugdenstil fashion, and each month is preceded by a decorative list of feast or Saint's days. Slim 4to, modern stiff cream wrappers with original gilt & color lithographed motif by Joseph Urban mounted. One text page has a bent lower corner, well inside the margin, else a near fine clean copy in refurbished wrappers. Lefler and Urban (brothers-in-law) did a series of these illustrated story-calendars in different years with different plates and stories.
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The Darning Needle by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

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Title
The Darning Needle
Author
ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(+)
Description
New York: Workshop of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1950. paperback. very good(+). Small illustration on title page, printed in red & black. 11pp pamphlet sewn with cord. 12mo, original salmon wrappers with paper label on cover (wraps are very faintly dampstained). New York: Workshop of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1950. A very good copy of this charming story.
Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri 1812-1813

Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri 1812-1813 by Luttig, John C.

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Journal of a Fur-Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri 1812-1813
Author
Luttig, John C.
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Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
St Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. 192pp. Black cloth spine, gilt titles, drab paper over boards. Frontispiece of Sakakawea, four plates, plus a folding map in the rear. Light wear and soiling to the binding else a fine copy. The list of illustrations call for a plate facing page 76, which was apparently not issued. It is not mention in any of the bibliographies, which state the presence of a map and 4 plates, as is the case in this example. Streeter, 1373. Howell 117; Howes L-572. .
A Discovery of Two Forreigne Sects in the East-Indies, Viz., The Sect of the Banians, the Ancient Natives of India, and the Sect of the Persees, the Ancient Inhabitants of Persia

A Discovery of Two Forreigne Sects in the East-Indies, Viz., The Sect of the Banians, the Ancient Natives of India, and the Sect of the Persees, the Ancient Inhabitants of Persia by Lord, Henry

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A Discovery of Two Forreigne Sects in the East-Indies, Viz., The Sect of the Banians, the Ancient Natives of India, and the Sect of the Persees, the Ancient Inhabitants of Persia
Author
Lord, Henry
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Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
London: Henry Lintot and John Osborn, 1746. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio. An extract of pp 313-356 of Vol. VI of the third edition of Churchill's Voyages. Bound to style in quarter leather, printed lettering piece; marbled paper boards. Some light foxing, a library stamp on the margin of an internal page, else a near fine copy. First published in 1630, Lord's book was the first summary of Hindu practices to appear in Europe. Topics examined include idolatry, fire worship, immortality, rapture, vegetarianism, the Indian caste system and Hindu theory of world cycles. .
POEMS OF THOMAS HOOD

POEMS OF THOMAS HOOD by Hood, Thomas

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POEMS OF THOMAS HOOD
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Hood, Thomas
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
Henry Frowde, London, Edinburgh, 1906. An octavo, 773 pages, beautifully bound in three-quarter vellum over marbled boards. Ornamental spine in the Art Nouveau style with gilt twining stem and flowers accompanying smooth calf title and publisher labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endleaves, matching the paper used on the binding. Portrait frontispiece. An exquisite example of what has become a scarce series of Art Nouveau period bindings of English Literature, with the poems of Thomas Hood being more elusive than other authors. Edited, with notes by Walter Jerrold.
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ROOTABAGA STORIES PART TWO by Hague, Michael Sandburg, Carl

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Title
ROOTABAGA STORIES PART TWO
Author
Hague, Michael Sandburg, Carl
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
San Diego, New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989). Quarto. This is a fine copy bound in blue cloth-backed paper over boards, in pictorial dust wrapper which is also fine. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the title page. Flyer for promotional tour laid-in.
Alan Paton:; A Biography
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Alan Paton:; A Biography by Alexander, Peter F.

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Alan Paton:; A Biography
Author
Alexander, Peter F.
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780198112372
Condition
Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
Description
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in black cloth with the spine stamped in gilt.
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Blackstone: A Magician’s life. The World and Magic Show of Harry Blackstone, 1885-1965 by [Blackstone, Harry] Waldron, Daniel

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Blackstone: A Magician’s life. The World and Magic Show of Harry Blackstone, 1885-1965
Author
[Blackstone, Harry] Waldron, Daniel
Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Glenwood: David Meyer Magic Books, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering under illustrated dust jacket. Ticket encapsulated in plastic affixed to p. xiii, portrait of Blackstone from magazine pasted to half-title page. Very good in fine dust jacket; 230 pages. Harry Blackstone (1885-1965) was one of the great performers of the 20th century. In the mid-century, he had a comic strip and a radio show featuring his fictional adventures. This book details his life and performances by people who knew him, and features photos from throughout his career.

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