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1929ref. 62686Montreal Canada: Canadian Pacific Express 1929. Oblong 8vo. 4 pp unpaginated. text & borders printed in blue sepia & black. Self-printed softcovers vivid Art Deco cover art front cover of Canadian Pacific Express making delivery to airport by Charles James Greenwood 1893-1965 a NF copy. First edition thus of this wonderful menu issued at the end of the Roaring 20’s touting the lavish breakfasts available on Canadian Pacific streamliner service sleeping cars dining cars station restaurants and planes in 1929. Greenwood was a graphic designer who began creating posters for the Canadian Pacific in the 1920’s and was noted for his posters promoting cruises to Alaska. No copies in Worldcat. Canadian Pacific Express, paperback
1934ref. 62684West Bend WI: West Bend Aluminum Feb. 1934. 8vo. 15 1 pp. printed in green & black throughout. With photo & text illustrations throughout self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of lunch counter small tear back cover minor dustsoiling darkening to fore-edges VG- copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce collection of recipes targeting drug stores soda fountains and lunch counters designed by the West Bend Aluminum cookware Home Economics Department to aid in selling cookware and economical large serving recipes. The supplied recipes include those for chili Corn Chowder Griddle Cakes Spanish Steak hot sandwiches with beef made slow cooked in the Dutch Oven and more. Of particular interest are the directions on making drip coffee with West Bend drip coffee makers and even a one-cup coffee maker. No copies in Worldcat. West Bend Aluminum, paperback
1958ref. 62679Honolulu Hawaii: M’s Ranch House 5156 Kalanianaole Highway ca. 1958. 4to. 7.75 x 11 in. 4 pp unpaginated. printed & illustrated in black sepia & red on yellow-tinted thick paper stock minor dustsoiling to rear cover slight shelfwear still NF copy. First edition thus of this Mid-20th-Century menu for the iconic Hawaiian restaurant on the East Side of Oahu Territory of Hawaii which featured a real covered wagon with canvas that children could play in. Along with the 72 oz. steak dinner customers could order Chicken Casserole Broiled Lobster Tail Hawaiian Chop Steak Japanese Shrimp Tempura a whole fresh Pineapple Ranch House Style with their famed breadsticks and cheese sauce. As per the image on the front cover this appears to have been issued after the restaurant was renovated moved to the middle of the property with a parking lot and updated with red brick and wood facade from the original white wooden siding. M’s Ranch House, 5156 Kalanianaole Highway, unknown
1890ref. 62797Brooklyn NY: H.I. Blits 1890. 12mo. vi 106 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Cobalt-blue publisher’s cloth ruling & decoration in blind gilt lettering front cover minor soiling thumbing edgewear minor wear to corners still VG- copy. New & revised edition of Blits’s formulary for canning and preserves first published in 1888 intended to offer an excellent compact work on canning and preserving fruits vegetables vinegars berries and more. Of special interest are the chapters on winemaking such as Champagne and Elderberry Wine as well as beers mead and cordials. Also addressed are a myriad of ways to preserve foods without refrigeration in high heat and for months -- some of which are remotely questionable. The work closes with some patent medicine and quackery recipes including the historic Marseille Remedy or Thieves’ Oil supposedly a mixture to fight the plague and featuring vinegars with herbs spices garlic essential oils and more. H.I. Blits, hardcover
1893ref. 61003Minneapolis MN: Washburn Crosby Co. Washburn’s Superlative Flour 1893. 12mo. 3.8 x 6 in. which folds out to 6.75 x 6 in. colour chromolithograph trade card illustrated recto & verso minor wear rubbing at fold crease minor shelfwear still VG exemplar from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this nicely chromolithographed advertising souvenir folding trade card handed out by Washburn Crosby & Co. flour mills at the 1893 Columbian Exposition where they again won a gold medal for their “Superlative Flour.” Image shows sacks of flour being shipped across the Great Lakes with Columbia seated above illustration of gold medal ribbons on recto. Washburn 1818-1882 built his first flour mill in Minneapolis MN in 1866 with a capacity of 840 barrels per day but after fire and setbacks had erected a huge new mill in 1880 with state-of-the-art machinery which produced “Gold Medal” winning flour. Not in Dybwad & Bliss Annotated Bibliography: World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893. Washburn, Crosby Co., Washburn’s Superlative Flour, unknown
1915ref. 60912Berkeley CA: Univ. of California Library 1915. 16mo. 3.5 x 6 in. 8 pp. Self-printed softcovers slight toning very faint foxing to front still VG copy from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this very scarce and informative handbook for librarians attending the 37th Convention in Berkeley CA the year of the 1915 PPIE in San Francisco. Advice on transportation is detailed on the trains and electric railways and ferries leaving East Bay to San Francisco along with detailed instructions on where to eat at the Exposition. One of the favorite recommendations was the Yellowstone Park Concession which served a la carte meals at Railroad prices such as the Old Faithful Inn and featured an 80 piece orchestra. High Class French German Italian Greek Spanish Mexican Hungarian and Chinese & Japanese restaurants all feature in the San Francisco listings. No copies in Worldcat. Univ. of California Library, paperback
1916ref. 61117Mount Pleasant Westmoreland County PA: Bryce Brothers Company 1916. Oblong folio. 19 x 12.25 in. 6 389 1 pp. Illustrated in sepia & black throughout. Brown-cloth-backed decorated tan softcovers decorative borders brown lettering minor creasing & thumbing at corners very minor edgewear rubbing still a VG bright copy. First edition of this famed glassware catalogue which represented the height of the noted Pittsburgh area glass manufacturing firm just a couple years prior to Prohibition which after repeal of Prohibition it would later be augmented twice in the 1936 & 1938 in smaller format with supplements. This catalogue filled with 100’s of full-size illustrations offers essential reference for cocktail glassware and stemware including Whiskey Tumblers Cut glass Whiskey Tumblers Wine glasses for Burgundy Rhine Port & Champagnes Toddy tumblers over 20 pp. devoted entirely to cocktail classes and a substantial array of beer glasses. Included as well are fancy cut glassware monogrammed glassware specialized items such as Oyster Cocktails Oyster Glasses Decanters Ice Cream Dishes Fruit Salad Dishes Hat Pin Holders Horse Radish glasses and so much more. The company was originally founded by James S. Bryce together with his brothers Frederick & James McKee Bryce in 1850 succeded by his son James S. Bryce Jr. becoming one of the most significant glass manufacturers in the United States. The company’s clients included Curtiss-Wright Corporation the Hotel San Diego Wesley Memorial Hospital the Top of the Needle Restaurant and hotels country clubs social clubs and restaurants across the country. In 1965 Lenox Inc. acquired the Bryce Brothers Co. to manufacture and market glassware with their china market creating the Lenox Crystal booklet and high-end glassware. Worldcat locates 6 physical copies Rakow Lib. Winterthur McKinley Mem. Lib. Carnegie Lib. Heinz Hist. Center US Patent Office. Bryce Brothers Company, paperback
1915ref. 60411Montreal Canada: Lake of the Woods Milling 1915. 4to. 144 pp. Title in red & black text in red & black. With numerous colour plates colour advertisements for Five Roses flour text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers minor creasing & scuffing to corners still VG bright copy w/gold braid still retained at upper left corner w/ ownership markings dated 1927 on title. First edition of this exceptionally popular Canadian cookbook devoted to cakes breads fancy breads biscuits buns pies tarts scones fritters griddle cakes muffins pancakes and more using the Five Roses flour and drawn from over 2000 cooks’ recipes. The famed Lake of the Woods Milling Co. at its height ground 62000 bushels a wheat daily producing 10000 barrels of flour and over 850000 Canadian households used the popular cookbook which was literally used until they perished by generations. Lake of the Woods Milling, paperback
1935ref. 58780Lowell MA & Boston MA: J.W. Greer Co. The Fellman Studio for Creative Photography 30 Huntington Ave.; Marion Photographers ca. 1935. Ten silver gelatin photographs sized 8 x 10 in. inserted through corner slots on Bainbridge Board sized 10.5 x 12 in. mimeograph typescript labels neatly mounted at lower fore-edge of all images some creasing to corners from having been inserted into slots many w/ pencil annotations nearly all w/ photographer’s imprints on versos minor scuffing & wear to boards some edgewear wear to corners still VG set. A scarce group of original sales photographs for Greer biscuit cracker & cookie making machinery which allowed automated production and packaging. The first image depicts the “Cutting Machine” which rolled the dough into sheets and cut out the individual crackers placing them onto conveyors to the ovens. The immense gas burning oven with valves and temperature mixers mounted alongside includes photos of both the discharge from the cutting machine onto the oven conveyor and the discharge onto the cooling conveyors. The final five photos focus on the filling and weighing machinery which would ensure the correct amounts per package and then pack them in rolls insert into cartons and tightly seal each carton. Greer 1876-1950 was a machinist and inventor who began producing some of the world’s first automated bakery and confectionery equipment before World War I founded J.W. Greer Co. in 1919 and would eventually grow to a company of over 650 employees. The company continued to expand through World War II and later became the Wire Belt Co. still operating today in Londonderry NH. Since half of these photographs were shot by a Lowell MA photographer these could possibly have been automated machines installed for use by the Lowell Cracker Co. beloved for their soda oyster crackers or the Johnson Educator Food Company best known for Crax crackers sprayed with butter oil. J.W. Greer Co., The Fellman Studio for Creative Photography, 30 Huntington Ave.; Marion Photographers, hardcover
1857ref. 56060New York: C.M. Saxton & Co. Agricultural Book Publishers No. 140 Fulton St. 1857. 8vo. 106 pp. plus 11 1 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. 1 text engraving. Original printed softcovers minor chipping head & foot of spine slight chipping couple lower corners dustsoiling still a VG bright copy. First edition of one of the earliest American studies on Chinese Sugarcane Sorghum and the possibilities that this was the sorghum plant that American farmers hoped would grow in the Northern United States and definitive work on growing harvesting and distilling sorghum. A variety of “Chinese Sugarcane” was imported by Father Du Halde from Sichuan China in 1851 where it was quickly adopted also under the name of “Northern Chinese or Shanghai Sugarcane” as a crop to provide sugars for alcoholic products filling the void left by the grape crop failure in the 1850s. Chinese Sugarcane seeds were first brought into United States by Jay Browne Esq. in 1854 and a few intrepid American nurseries began planting and determining if it could be planted and harvested profitably in the North. Hyde writes that in his test crop he was able to secure a dark sugar from the cane molasses and notes that it will be of tremendous value in producing alcohol and confectionaries and that the Sorghum remnants could be fed to livestock. Hyde 1825-1898 worked with his father James Hyde in developing the very successful nursery emphasizing fruit trees ornamental trees and cash crops. He was a pioneering environmentalist who founded the first improvement society in the United States the Newton Centre Tree Club whose purpose was to emphasize beautifying the roads and commons in Massachusetts. He was Newton MA first mayor after the city was incorporated in 1873 and was also successful in persuading the Boston & Albany RR to acquire the existing single-track line of the Charles River Railroad to aid his nursery business. Original editions of this work have become quite scarce in the trade. See: Deborah Jean Warner Sweet Stuff: An American History of Sweeteners from Sugar to Sucralose pp. 252-253; Watts Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches 1869 Vol. V p. 354; Newton’s First Mayor: A Hard Act to Follow Historic Newton 2019; Walnut Grove Nursery The New England FarmerVol. IV 1852 p. 538 C.M. Saxton & Co., Agricultural Book Publishers, No. 140 Fulton St., paperback
1928ref. 55137Shieldhall Govan Scotland: Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd. 1928. Oblong 4to. 10 x 9.25 in. 9 leaves unnumbered. on thick brown paper stock title w/ gilt lettering & ornament. With 8 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs sized 5.25 x 7.5 in. 1 w/ minor scuffing from offsetting of removed guard sheet. Thick brown softcovers punch sewn at gutter margin w/ brown silk braid yapp edges embossed logo on front cover minor edgewear rubbing minor soiling to title still a VG- exemplar. First edition of this very scarce photographic souvenir of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Exhibition held in Glasgow for their grocery departments. The noted Co-op recreated several different exhibits in order to display sell and advertise their toffees candies tomato ketchups pickles marmalades and the workers who manned the booths. At the time the S.W.C.S. was supplying over 690000 families through 268 affiliated retail Co-op societies achieving £17.7 million in sales. The photographs show artfully created counter displays wonderful period product advertisements and all manned primarily by young rosy cheeked Scottish lasses and nearly all in uniforms. Of special interest is the large lighthouse display stretching nearly 20 feet above the exhibition floor and composed entirely of marmalade and jam jars. The S.C.W.S. was formed originally in 1868 for purchasing manufacturing goods and eventually set up an entire factory complex at Shieldhall Glasgow producing a wide range of foodstuffs furniture clothing and housewares for their affiliated Co-ops. No copies located in Worldcat; See: David Jeremiah Architecture and Design for the Family in Britain 1900-1970 pp. 61-62 228-229. Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd.], paperback
1940ref. 53482Kingston upon Hull UK: Needler Ltd. ca. 1940. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.25 in. 14 leaves unnumbered. with 14 hand-coloured silver gelatin photographs sized 10 x 11.75 in. mounted on thick card stock leaves hinged with black cloth printed sales information on facing leaves each photo w/ War Restrictions Notice printed in upper fore-edge and supplementary product information in negative below each product. Original black pebbled cloth spine stiffened w/ wood spacers covered in black cloth minor bowing to leaves very minor wear to corners front outer hinge just starting still a VG copy w/ pencil date of 1940 on front pastedown. First edition of this scarce and exceptional photographic sample catalogue filled with the styles of Needler chocolate box assortment and chocolate packaging in the first years of World War II. Initially chocolates had been packed as unwrapped bars in the Victorian era with paper labels displayed on the counter. Later gold printing and metal foils repeated the luxury message of chocolate. Inspired by the innovations of Cadbury the designs for many British fancy chocolate boxes were prized by the British as special gifts to be used as trinket or button boxes and even cut out and saved in scrapbooks. The chocolate boxes in this catalogue include mixed assortments in faux 3-drawer cabinets decorated with fancy ribbons chromolithograph and colour-printed covers featuring historic scenes pets flowersArt Deco designs gold foil and more. Of special interest are the wonderful Needler’s figurine bowls and boxes featuring porcelain figurines dressed in silk fabrics atop bowls or boxes as well as a splendid pair of porcelain bookends “Sweet & Twenty” to hold up the customer’s chocolate boxes. Needler’s began as Fred Needler Ltd. in 1902 when established in Hull by Fred Needler 1865-1932 who began as a confectioner’s assistant in the 1880s. The company was a pioneer in fair treatment of his workforce incorporated profit-sharing for the staff from the beginning and covered sick pay retirement benefits and even established holiday homes in British seaside resort towns. By 1940 the company was one of the largest businesses in Hull with over 2000 employees. The company continued to operate until acquired through multiple buyouts by several different corporations until the label was acquired by Ashbury Confectionary and the factory was closed in Hull in 2002. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Chocs away: Needler of Hull History of Needlers Confectionary Let’s Look Again: A History of Branded Britain 2015. Needler Ltd., hardcover
1888ref. 52768Bellows Falls VT: Vermont Farm Machine Co. 1888. 8vo. 16 pp. Numerous woodcut-engraved text illustrations. Yellow colour-tinted printed softcovers woodcut engraving cover art of industrial swing churn on front cover Eureka Butter Worker on back cover 1 leaf w/ small tear at upper margin affecting only a couple letters still an excellent bright copy. First edition of this scarce and fascinating dairy machinery catalogue which included butter presses different sizes and varieties of swing churns which enabled dairies to produce quality butter in larger quantities as well as insulated butter boxes for storing and carrying the produced butter. Of particular interest is the treadmill attachment which could be used with dog sheep or goat although one suspects small children often running it in order to more efficiently churn butter. The company was founded in 1868 as the Hartford Sorghum Machine Co. but by 1873 was incorporated as the Vermont Machine Company and within a few years became one of the largest dairy equipment manufacturers in New England. Vermont Farm Machine Co., paperback
1925ref. 52767Philadelphia PA: Giunta Brothers Manufacturing Co. ca. 1925. Oblong 4to. 23 1 pp. Numerous photo illustrations text illustrations and diagrams throughout. Self-printed yellow softcovers cover art of Giunta Brothers Italian import business on front cover w/ wine presses displayed up and down the street slight shelfwear w/ original purple colour-tinted mailing envelope some chipping edgewear rubbing still NF/VG- copy. First edition of this scarce and fascinating manufacturing catalogue for the famed Philadelphia Italian importers. Featured are numerous different sizes and styles of wine and cider presses fruit grinders for the mash ice cream makers Italian style coffee roasters waffle makers and more. Of particular interest is the Giunta Brothers pasta machines which are believed by the family to have been the first patented in the United States. The company operated from 1915 to 2002 until it had to close due to the owner’s poor health. Worldcat locates 2 copies Clements Library Harvard. Giunta Brothers Manufacturing Co., paperback
1519ref. 52512New York: National Bottlers’ Gazette June 15 1921. Folio. 202 pp. 100s of text illustrations photo illustrations several colour-tinted advertising plates colour lithograph plates diagrams cartoons. Red-colour tinted softcovers yapp edges cover art advertisement for Cascade Ginger Ale in California minor edgewear rubbing dustsoiling slight chipping head & foot of spine still VG- copy. First edition of this exceedingly scarce installment in the famed trade magazine which during prohibition was directed towards the manufacturers and purveyors of carbonated beverages mineral waters fruit juices and soft drinks. Of particular interest are the lavish number of advertisements for Graham Brothers bottlers’ trucks Old Faithful bottles Martin’s Concentrated Colas Belmont Label Co. labels Green River lime drink from Schoenhofen Co. in Chicago Hurty-Peck Orange Soda in Indianapolis IN the Coca-Cola Bottling Works and so much more. This trade magazine offers an invaluable history and reference work for the thriving bottling industry and equipment during Prohibition and reinforces just how much infrastructure there was available for bootleggers which accelerated the grown of Organized Crime in the United States. National Bottlers’ Gazette, paperback
1923ref. 46736Chicago: Published by the Author 1923. Oblong 4to. 2 pp. 60 plates each with explanatory text of facing plate on verso most in colour some tinted photos 8 pp. plus 2 illustrated publisher’s ads. Embossed ribbed blue cloth gilt lettering octagon-shaped colour plate mounted front cover of decorative cake icing piece very minor bumping to corners front hinge starting edgewear still VG- copy w/ former ownership signature on title. First edition of this beautifully printed work on Jazz Age decorative cakes. There are cakes for New Years birth announcements Easter birthday cakes wedding cakes cakes with macaroons Marzipan decorated cakes caramel sugar baskets post card cakes very beautiful and many others. The recipes and ads at the end offer the instructions and equipment to produce these beautiful confections. Published by the Author, hardcover
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2021ref. BN401732Oxford University Press 2021. 2021. Hardcover. Fresh Water in International Law Fresh Water in International Law Boisson De Chazournes Laurence Oxford University Press hardcover
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