August Americana
Description:
Fourteen Early Cooking and Related Books, titles include A Queens Delight or the Art of Preserving, Conserving, and Candying, Cornhill, R. Wood, 1660; The Queens Closet Opened Incomparable Secrets in Physick, Chirurgery, Preserving and Candying, &c., London, 1668; A Treatise of All Sorts of Food Both Animal and Vegetable: Also of Drinkables, London, T. Osborne, 1745; The Complete Housewife: or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion, by E. Smith, London, 1773; Modern Practical Cookery, by Mrs. Nourse, Edinburgh, 1813; The Honours of the Table, Fourth Edition, Bath, printed by M. Gye; The Frugal Housewife, Boston, 1830; The American Frugal Housewife, by Mrs. Child, Boston, 1832; The Experienced American Housekeeper, or Domestic Cookery, Hartford, Andrus & Judd, 1835; the Skillful Housewife, by Mrs. L.G. Abell, New York, 1852; Modern Cookery for Private Families, by Eliza Acton, London, 1861; Tried Recipes, by the Ladies' Guild of the Associate Reformed Congregation, Baltimore, Maryland, 1896; Capital City Cook Book, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1905; and a late 19th century manuscript recipe book.
Estimate $400-600
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