Early curry recipes. The rare first edition of this fascinating cookbook and domestic guide, designed for 'Families and single individuals, residin...

An exceptional copy of this first edition of Elizabeth David's second book, still a core text and inspiration for any aspiring cook over seventy y...

The height of 1930s style and sophistication. An Art Deco classic, here in very good condition with stunning illustrations. Scores of cocktails rec...

A compendious an clearly written book of British recipes. The last knockings of Georgian life.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's pi...

A rare survival with the dust-jacket and in above average condition. Elizabeth David (1913-1992) was the leading cookery book writer of her genera...

Second edition of this influential cookbook, improved with revisions, in the original pictorial dustjacket. Second edition (revised and expanded);...

One of a series of such books by Heath to be illustrated by Bawden. Not common in the dust jacket. First edition, first impression, with i...

A standard cookery and recipe book for the use of the British Raj in India. It opens with a forthright but fair minded section on servants, includ...

Recipes are listed by course, including soups, fish, meat, eggs, rice, curries, savoury dishes, as well as sambals (a chilli sauce or paste), chut...

Inscribed by the author. Signed by Deighton on the title page, 'best wishes Len Deighton'. One of three cook books published by the versatile autho...

An original example of a rare and early piece of commercial work produced by Bawden for at least two of the great Victorian hotels in Scarborough,...

The third edition of this famous guide to the vineyards and wines of Bordeaux, which remains the benchmark for Bordeaux wines today. The author cr...

A notebook beginning Feb. 8th 1840 for the Bell Inn. The first five pages detail materials to be used at the Bell Inn, possibly for conversion, an...

A very good copy of this popular work on cookery and housekeeping by Elizabeth Raffald, which ran to multiple editions in her lifetime including a...

An important, early work comprising treatises on banquets, wine, gastronomy, games, painting and sculpture of the Greeks and Romans.First edition,...

A scarce work, chronicling the evolution and implementation of the humble spoon over millennia, on behalf of the presumably fictitious Society of ...

Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, (1755-1826) was a French lawyer, politician and epicure who, with Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière...