Drinks and Beverages

London: Hündersdorff, 2002. cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. Coffee. 4to. cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. xxi,831; vi,832-1687 pages. 2 volumes. Limited to 1200 copies. Slipcase lightly soiled at edges, otherwise a fine set. The first comprehensive modern bibliography of coffee and its surrogates. A unique reference work listing some 15,000 imprints relating to every aspect of coffee from the past to the present. The work is arranged alphabetically by author or title with indices for sources and locations. While there is no breakdown by date, there are many items from as early as the 15th century. Represented are writers treating the cultivation, production, preparation and consumption of coffee, as well as its economic, social and cultural significance, its medical and chemical uses as a drug, and much, much more. The compilers have tried to give the maximum amount of information for each entry, including collation when possible. Introduction by Ralph S. Hattox. With over 300 illustrations in… Read More

Francoforti ad Moenum, Frankfurt, 1582. Early Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Title: De arte bibendi libri tres, autore Vincentio Obsopoeo Germano. Quibus adiunximus De arte iocandi libros quatuor Matthaei Delij Hamburgiensis, cum luculenta in eosdem praefatione ; D. Sebastiani Hamaxurgi apud fontes salutares frumentatoris, hexastichon. (The Art of Drinking and the Art of Joking). Leather blind-printed covers with linen covering only on spline, covers are well-rubbed with worn corners. There are splits on the front and rear hinges at both the head and base of the spine, cut red blocks. Sound internal binding with brown end-papers with bookplate (Samuel Bradshaw) on inside front cover. Red and black title-page is damaged on lower leading edge and corner, is well-rubbed leading to the loss of small areas of text and has been re-backed. Initial pages before the Praefatio are a little darkened and there is a sort tear and crease in the upper corner of the margin of the first page… Read More

London: Newman Neame, 1953. First Edition, First Printing . Boards. Fine Book/Near Fine DJ. Wood Engravings By David Gentleman. 56 Pp. Beige Boards, Gilt. A Bright, Clean First Printing, From The Library Of Food And Wine Expert Robert L Balzer, A Friend Of Simon, And Inscribed To Balzer By Simon On The Front Endpaper. Boards Slightly Splayed, As Usual. Dj Clean And Complete, Just A Touch Of Wear At Tips And At Head And Heel Of Spine. Presentation Slip "With The Secretary's Compliments / The Food And Wine Society" Laid In Loosely.

London: Constable & Company, 1934. Second Edition, First Printing . Red Cloth. Near Fine Book/Very Good DJ. Frontispiece, Plates. Xv, 161 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., First Printing Book Is Near Fine, Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Price Clipped But Otherwise Complete Except For Very Light Chipping At Top And Bottom Of Spine And At Tips, Spine A Little Darkened. With, A Very Cordial May 18, 1939 Two Page Typed, Signed Letter From Berry To Balzer, Responding To Balzer's Letter Of May 6, Enclosing Berry's Brochure Of Burgundy Wines, Opining That At Present The 1929'S Are Excellent But The 1928'S Will Live Longer, Discussing California Wines And Robert L Stevenson's Writings, Quoting The Latter, And Ending "We Shall Be Very Pleased To See You Here, And Perhaps Arrange If You Are Agreeable To Crack A Bottle Or Two Over A Simple Luncheon." Also With A Folding Printed Menu For "Lunch At The Sign Of The Coffee Mill", 3 St.… Read More

London: Rhodes, at the Star, corner of Bride Lane, Fleet Street, 1710. Fourth edition. (full title reads - "COOKERY in dressing flesh, fowl, fish, herbs, roots making sawces etc; PASTRY making pyes, pasties, puddings, pancakes, cheesecakes, custards, tansies etc; CONFECTS candies, conserves, preserves, creams, gellies, pickles etc; POTABLE Liquors as ale, beer, mum, mead, cider, perry, rape, English wines, chocolet, coffer, tea etc; PERFUMING sweet balls, pouders, pomanders, essences, sweet waters, beautifying washes etc; HUSBANDRY, as it relates to the improvement of our barren and waste lands, manufactures etc; PREPARATIONS Galenick and Chymick relating to physickand chirurgery, as cordial waters, spirits, tinctures, elixirs, syrups, ponders, electuaries, pills, oils, balsams, cerecloths and emplasters, fitted for curing mist diseases incident to men, women and children". 8vo, pp (12), 560, browned and a bit used throughout, the t.p. & preface pages frayed at the margins, rear hinge… Read More

[Minneapolis, Minn: New Hotel Dyckman, 1909. Duodecimo-sized booklet, single-stapled in wrappers (11 x 6.5 cm.), [44] pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional drink manual, promoting Minneapolis' very fine Dyckman Hotel. One hundred-one recipes for cocktails are listed, including some lesser-known gems: American Beauty, Careless Love, Bijou, Charlie Horse, Opalescent, and the Electric Eel. Pages a bit age-toned, and staples somewhat oxidized; a few small dog ears. In publisher's black wrappers, titled in silver. Very good. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Noling].

18, Strand, London: Samuel Leigh, 1828. Twelfth edition, enlarged. Small octavo, frontispiece, pp lviii, 300. + two page bookseller's catalogue, a few small line drawings in the text, edges untrimmed, signs of use throughout, some foxing and staining, recently bound in a simple red cloth, lightly decorated. [With many manuscript additions, some merely altering a printed menu, many written on blank leaves, and others on scraps of paper, tipped-in. Notable are Jams, Cabinet Pudding, Suet Pudding, Soda Cake, Raspberry and Mulberry Vinegar, tomato sauce, cooking scarlet and French beans, boiling vegetables, Mulberry Syrup, Mince Pies, Eloise (?) Pudding, Gooseberry Wine, Peas Pudding, Russian Ox Tongues, Noyeau, Mayonnaise Sauce. Other domestic hints are given - directions for using a frying pan, tooth powder, blacking, cleaning floor cloths, invisible ink, toothache cure. One recipe for plum cakes is signed Mary Buckley, and written on the reverse of a scrap of paper addressed to Sir George Lewis,… Read More

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Hardcover, tan cloth boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Classic Depression-era (post-Prohibition) guide to wines and mixed drinks. Covers wines from America, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc. Dictionary of alcoholic beverages from Absinthe to Whisky. Pseudonymously published by wine experts Frank Schoonmaker & Ted Marvel. Part of The Household Shelf series, first printing. Light wear to spine ends, some darkened areas of endpapers.

1840. Rare "Temperance" Broadside in the Style of a Court Document [Broadside]. [Temperance]. [Great Britain]. The ---- Day of 18 ----. This is to Our Sheriff of Sheriffdoms, Steward of Stewardries, Bailiffs of Regalities, & All Others, The Officers and Executors of the Law, To Interpose Their Power and Authority to Assist Us in the Execution of This Our Decree, It Being Conformable to Law. Lincoln, England: R.E. Leary, Printer and Bookbinder, [c.1840]. 10" x 7-1/2" broadside, woodcut royal arms flanked with the initials of Queen Victoria at head of text. Light toning, faint horizontal fold, a few minor creases. A well-preserved item. $350. * A parody of a temperance poster in the form of a sentencing document issued "at our court, the day and date above mentioned, at the Cockhead, near the Barrel Bung, adjacent to the Gin Cask, Before us-Sir Thirsty Tippler, Sir Mathew Malt, and Sir David Drynall." The text reads (in part): "Whereas it is humbly proved and shown to us by our beloved brother Sir John… Read More

USA: Bird & Turner, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A small, slim hardback book16cm x 12cm. The book has been carefully read & is still firmly bound although there is some cracking to the front hinge. There are no torn, loose or missing pages. No inscription or ownership markings. Inside the pages are clean..

1858 first (and only) edition. Hardcover in original brown and gilt blindstamped boards. Overall condition is Good. Boards show moderate general wear, binding is sound. Interior has partially removed Sabbath School bookplate and old seller's pencil note. Missing one front blank. All else complete. Paginates: blank, 67, 2 blanks, with 16 plates included in pagination. The plates are on stiff white paper. Most pages show modest to moderate foxing. 6x4 inches. An uncommon item. None for sale, one found at auction (this copy). WorldCat locates 4 physical copies. See OCLC: 15031839. Please see images of the book you will receive. Feel free to inquire. Notes: Interest here is in the detailed vignettes which show Mom on fire, Junior getting his foot amputated, murder, shipwrecks and more. Then there are the elaborate borders which include snakes, skulls, skeletons and burning cups of fire. Introduction says this is intended for children. Definitely not at bedtime. [Alcoholism, Sociology]

Wine Appreciation Guild, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Near Fine ; Very Good Jacket. 2003 The Wine Appreciation Guild. First North American Edition, stated. No additional printings listed. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 9.6 x 11.25 inches, has brown textured paper-covered boards with white spine lettering. Color photographs by Jason Lowe. High-quality glossy paper. 176 pages. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with light wrinkling at the corners and spine ends. Front panel and spine of jacket are sunned, causing those areas to have a blueish tone to the background illustration of wood, instead of a reddish tone, Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

1922 COCKTAILS 1st ed Bartending Alcohol MIXOLOGY Liquor Prohibition VERMEIRE

"Cocktails: How to Mix Them" by Robert Vermeire is an all-encompassing guide to preparing a vast array of alcoholic beverages at home. Drawing on his experience at elite venues, Vermeire instructs readers on creating well-known cocktails and other drink types such as cobblers, coolers, fizzes, and highballs, demonstrating that good-quality cocktails can be made affordably. The book marries European and American cocktail traditions, establishing itself as a significant resource in the "classic" era of cocktail creation. It also includes an imaginative origin story of cocktails and provides detailed advice on drink-mixing techniques and ingredients.

Item number: #41202
Price: $499

[VERMEIRE, Robert]

Cocktails: How to Mix Them

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited, ©1922. First Edition.

Details:
· Collation: Complete
o 112, [16]
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Decorative… Read More

The Three Mountaineers, Inc. (Asheville, North Carolina). USA 1939. Tall 8vo. (9.4 x 5.9 inches). 54pp. Scores of small line drawings by Tad Shell throughout the text. In an unusual hand painted wooden board binding. The boards are attached on metal hinges. The text pages sewn in with leather ties through the wooden spine. The front board features a painted colour bird drinking from a glass, the outlines and the lettering burnt into the wood. A very good copy of this unusual cocktail book.

Saccone & Speed Limited. London. 1947. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (9 x 6 inches). Two colour illustrations by Whistler within the book plus colour decoration on boards showing three men cowering behind a wine barrel. Both pastedown endpapers browned by the binders glue, as usual. Some light creasing to the very top of the spine but generally a fine bright copy.