Early account of modern winemaking. A lovely copy, in half-red morocco of Alexander Hamilton's History of Ancient and Modern Wines. One of the firs...

Charles Badham (1805-1857) studied medicine at Pembroke College then practised in Rome and Paris for several years until ill health forced him to ...

The first edition of this guide to the 'chief elements of a Fashionable Dessert' by the mâitre d'hotel to Queen Victoria, Charles Elmé Francatelli...

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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...