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COFFEE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF COFFEE
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COFFEE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY, A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF COFFEE

by von Hünersdorff, Richard and Holger G. Hasenkamp

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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
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Requiem for Dionysos.
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Requiem for Dionysos.

by Hazelwood, Art.

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San Francisco:: Art Hazelwood,, 2003.. Edition of 20. 24 x 19" closed, 24 x 90" extended; 7 pages. Accordion fold .A continuous image print assembled from five mixed linocut and woodcut prints bound together. Each of the five images was made with four separate plates measuring 24" x 18" printed on Rives BFK paper. Bound in red and cream paper covered boards. Signed and numbered by the artist on the title page. Edition of 20: copies 1 -10 bound as accordion fold book format; 11 - 20 unbound. Hazelwood and his work stand proudly and boldly in the tradition of artist as social critic. Requiem for Dionysus addresses the US's early response to 9/11. Taking inspiration from Euripides' The Bacchae, this accordion of large vibrant images comments on the folly of US policy. Art Hazelwood: "Requiem for Dionysos is inspired by Euripides' play The Bacchae and uses it as a launching point for a treatment of the current US war on terrorism. In the play the king of Thebes… Read More
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All About Tea

All About Tea

by Ukers, William H.

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New York: Tea & Coffee Journal, 1935. Two volumes, quartos, xvi, 559 pages, & viii, 568 pages, thoroughly illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The definitive study of tea. The finest copy we have seen of this monumental work on the history, agriculture, and trade of tea. Slight spotting to top edge of text block on both volumes, as is usually seen (tea stains?), otherwise fine and bright in publisher's green buckram bindings with gilt lettering. In near fine cream and green dust jackets, and very scarce thus.
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Youth's Temperance Advocate
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Youth's Temperance Advocate: Issues 1-66, Bound

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This is a very rare bound volume of the 1st 66 issues of the publication "YOUTH'S TEMPERANCE ADVOCATE" from 1839 to the 1840's. The "magazine" was first published in 1839 (issues 1 and 2) and continued into the 1860's. The issues contain wonderful woodcuts throughout. In addition to the articles, the issues also include songs, cartoons and poems aimed at steering youth away from the consumption of alcohol, and pointing out the dangers and pitfalls of drinking. It is rare to find a single issue of this publication, let alone a complete run of 66 issues beginning with issue No. 1. Published monthly in New York by the American Temperance Union.Here are a few examples of article, song and poem titles:* A Plea with All Youth for Total Abstinence from Intoxicating Liquors* To the Keeper of the Grog Shop and the Bar* Death and the Wine-Bibber* The Devil and His Victim* The Ship Te-Totaler* How to Avoid Ever Being Lame* Spirits in Ireland* A True Passage from the Life of a Drunkard* Thrilling Narrative of a… Read More
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Domestic Japan. ; Illustrated descriptions of articles used in Japanese daily life. First volume...
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Domestic Japan. ; Illustrated descriptions of articles used in Japanese daily life. First volume - Kitchen Utensils. [All published]

by NARUMO, Kinjiro

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Japan: Yokohama Seishi Bunsha, 1895. First Edition. Rare English-language guide to Japanese domestic wares, with 76 fully-illustrated items. Its publication came at a time when Japan was experiencing a dramatic shift from the conservative, isolationist policies of the sh gun-dominated Edo period to the rapid and widespread drive to modernise and engage with the rest of the world that characterizes the Meiji Restoration. This booklet focuses on a traditional domestic interior and features a beautiful double-page plate showing the layout and arrangement of a Japanese period home, showing respective zones for food preparation, cooking and the entertainment of guests. Items specifically illustrated and described include lacquer wares, a charcoal-burning stove, lanterns, wooden buckets and items used in the tea ceremony. A beautiful copy of a scarce work published for the English market. Bibliography: Not in Cordier or Nipponalia.; Rogala Jozef 'A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English', 783.… Read More
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Tragos Magicos
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Tragos Magicos

by Santiago Policastro (Pichin)

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Tragos Magicos - Santiago Policastro (Pichin) - 1977, 2nd Edition, Spanish & English - Hardcover - 221pp - 21x15cmInserted is a autographed business card from Pampero Rum for which he worked over 30 years.(see pictures for details.)Condition Good: Some small white spots on the back of the cover, some pages have a line as if the page was folded while printing the book (please see picture)One of the most famous books about cocktails in the world, this book from Pichin is a real treatise on the subject. In this book 400 cocktails from the gallant bartender in Spanish & English accompanied with some beautiful artwork. This book is a real collectors item and almost impossible to find, it's probably the only book available for sale worldwide.If you have any questions or want to see more pictures, feel free to ask.Your book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking number, signed & insured.
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Les marques de fabrique francaises. Sauvegarde du producteur francais a l’étranger. Titre &...
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Les marques de fabrique francaises. Sauvegarde du producteur francais a l’étranger. Titre & marque déposés. Septième édition.

by Académie Nationale, Agricole, Manufactière & Commerciale

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(7) leaves letterpress text, 1 leaf half-title (première section) 111 numbered leaves (recte 109) ; plates numbered 10 through 111 are printed on recto only, with plate numbers 40, 63 and 92 omitted according to a printed note at the end of the index, but including an extra plate 35bis) ; 1 leaf half-title (cinquième section annexe), (8) leaves numbered I-XVII (omitting numbers XV/XVI) with text and illustrations on both sides. The plates with numerous printed black and white labels, mounted chromolithographed labels and colourful chromolithographed labels on white glazed paper. Publisher's red cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Oblong folio (456 x 320 mm). Extremeties worn, front cover spotted. A fine example showing the wealth of French industrial and agricultural products displayed in black and white facsimiles and color mounted product labels and renderings of trademarks of producers and manufacturers. The most important part is the third section of this catalog showing agricultural… Read More
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[The first Italian food and wine guide] Commentario de le più notabili et mostruose cose...

[The first Italian food and wine guide] Commentario de le più notabili et mostruose cose d’Italia et altri luoghi, di lingua Aramea in Italiana tradotto. Con un breve catalogo de gli inventori de le cose che si mangiano et beveno, novamente ritrovato

by [Lando Ortensio (Milano, ca. 1512-Venezia, 1553)]

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Due parti in un volume in-8°, cc. 71, [1]. Bell'esemplare, con legatura coeva in pergamena. L'opera del Lando è legata con Symeoni, Comentario alla Tetrarchia di Vinegia, 1548.
Provenienza: al frontespizio, antiche annotazioni manoscritte e nota di possesso; Collezione Maria Paola Moroni Salvatori.
Rarissima terza edizione (la princeps, priva di dati tipografici: Venezia 1548). Paleari Hensselr, 414. B.IN.G., 1080.
Il Commentario del Lando - tra i più geniali poligrafi rinascimentali, traduttore in italiano dell'Utopia di Tommaso Moro (1548) - è inoltre assai celebre in quanto alcune sue pagine "illustrano un ideale itinerario gastronomico per le città d'Italia, con riferimento a cibi e vini di cui l'autore mostra di aver acquisito conoscenze di prima mano" (L'arte della cucina in Italia, a cura di E. Faccioli, Torino 1992, p. 275).
"Questo testo costituisce un catalogo etnico-socio-gastronomico estremamente eterogeneo, inserito in un itinerario quasi iniziatico che si snoda attraverso la… Read More
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[Dispute between Wine and Beer in Venetian dialect] Contrasto fra el Vin e la Birra interessante...

[Dispute between Wine and Beer in Venetian dialect] Contrasto fra el Vin e la Birra interessante per tuti gli Osti e Magazinieri

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Foglio volante (mm 385x255), stampato solo al recto. Rarissimo 'contrasto' tra il vino e la birra in dialetto veneziano, non privo di una connotazione risorgimentale.
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New Orleans Anti-Prohibition Poster, Cocktail Recipes [SIGNED Original 1931 Collins Diboll]
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New Orleans Anti-Prohibition Poster, Cocktail Recipes [SIGNED Original 1931 Collins Diboll]

by Diboll, Collins

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New Orleans: Diboll & Gelpi, 1931. Published New Orleans, : Diboll & Gelpi, 1931. 15 1/4" x 19 3/4" inches, printed in brown ink in reverse type and images, halftones, with white border. Poster is flat mounted on old corrugated board backing, unframed. Signed in pencil at bottom left margin: "To Karen and Doug, for SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, Collins Diboll." The poster features numerous vignettes of human activity - eating, drinking, travel, sports, music, dance, entertainment and merrymaking, framed by inner and outer borders of humorous verse: "I used to know a clever toast but now I cannot think it, so fill your glass to anything and damn your souls I'll drink it." "Some are fond of drinking and others of high position, but we're for toleration and down with prohibition." The large central image is a navigational clock, with compass points at center and "Bonum vinum laetificat cor hominis" (Good wine gladdens a person's heart), with… Read More
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An Extraordinarily Large Collection of Nearly 40,000 Wine and Spirits Labels from 49 Countries...
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An Extraordinarily Large Collection of Nearly 40,000 Wine and Spirits Labels from 49 Countries Around the World

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Various Places: Various A remarkable collection amassed by a single collector from the 1940s-1970s whose original inventory sheet (included) lists 39,744 labels from 49 countries spanning the globe. The countries with the highest counts include Belgium, 8000+, France, 5100+, Spain, 4400+, and Switzerland, 3500+. The collector sent letters requesting their unused labels to wineries, breweries and distilleries. Consequently, almost all are unused and most are stored in the original contemporary return envelopes, with a count and sometimes a country on the outside for each envelope. A good number of duplicates and variants noted. Total inventory numbers not verified, although a good representative sampling of envelope counts confirms the accuracy of the count. Various sizes of labels, with complete bottle sets noted. Almost all are in Fine condition, with some creases and light wear from storage. The entire collection completely fills three bankers boxes. Provenance: from the original collector, Earl… Read More
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THE COUNTRY-MANS RECREATION, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening.
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THE COUNTRY-MANS RECREATION, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening.

by MASCALL, Leonard.:

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London, printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1640.. TITLE CONTINUED: Declaring divers waies of Planting, and Graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or Plant with the Root, and without the Root; to sow or set Pepins or Curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your Grafts and Cions, to help barren and sick Trees, to kill Worms and Vermin, and to preserve and keep Fruit; how to plant and proyne your Vines, and to gather and presse your Grape; how to cleanse and mosse your Trees, how to make your Cider and Perry, with many other secret Practises which shall appear in the Table following, 1640, first published in1569. FIRST PART ONLY. LACKS THE FOLLOWING 2 BOOKS: THE HOP GARDEN and THE EXPERT GARDENER. Small 4to, approximately 170 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4 ½ inches, 5 text illustrations, pages: [16], 1-88, text padded out with blank paper… Read More
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COUNTREY CONTENTMENTS OR THE ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE (huswife).  CONTAINING  the inward and outward...
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COUNTREY CONTENTMENTS OR THE ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE (huswife). CONTAINING the inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a compleate Woman.

by MARKHAM, Gervase.:

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Printed at London, by I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.. Title continued: As her skill in Physicke, Surgerie, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting-stuffe, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, Conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wooll, Hempe, Flax, making Cloth, Dying, the knowledge of Dayries, office of Malting, Oats, their excellent vses in a Family, Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold. A Worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the Honour of the Noble House of Exeter, and the generall good of this Kingdome. By G.M. SECOND EDITION 1623. Dedication signed: Geruase Markham, also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth,1623. Small 4to, approximatley 195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5 ½ inches, woodcut marks for gageing on page 150, a few pictorial initials and headpieces, pages: [8], 1-80, 79-174,… Read More
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VINETUM BRITANNICUM or a TREATISE OF CIDER and other wines and drinks extracted from fruits...
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VINETUM BRITANNICUM or a TREATISE OF CIDER and other wines and drinks extracted from fruits growing in this Kingdom. With the method of propagating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees. For the most expeditious making of CIDER.

by WORLIDGE, John.:

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London, printed for Thomas Dring, over against the Inner-Temple-gate; and Thomas Burrel, at the Golden-ball under St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street, 1678.. TITLE CONTINUED: And also the right way of making METHEGLIN and BIRCH-WINE. SECOND EDITION MUCH ENLARGED 1678. LACKS THE SECOND PART ON BEES. 8vo, approximately 175 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, engraved frontispiece, plus 3 full page illustrations,1 being an engraved plate, headpiece and decorated initial to first page, pages: [24], 1-238, lacks final advert leaf and Contents which followed the part on bees . Bound in full modern speckled calf, 2 gilt lettered green morocco labels to spine, gilt date at foot, blind rules to edges of covers, new endpapers. Pale staining to frontispiece, old ink notes and bookplate to the blank side of frontispiece, narrow repair with old paper to inner margin of title page on verso, 6 small marginal repairs not affecting text, pale ink stain to top of 1 margin, pale age-browning throughout, mostly affecting margins,… Read More
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A TREATISE OF FRUIT TREES, shewing the manner of planting, grafting, pruning, and ordering of...
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A TREATISE OF FRUIT TREES, shewing the manner of planting, grafting, pruning, and ordering of them in all respects, according to rules of experience. Gathered in the space of thirty seven years.

by AUSTEN, Ralph.:

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Oxford, printed by William Hall, for Amos Curteyne, 1665.. TITLE CONTINUED: Whereunto is annexed, observations upon SIR. FRANCIS BACONS NATURAL HISTORY as it concerns fruit-trees, fruits, and flowers. Also, directions for planting of wood for building, fuel, and other uses; whereby the value of lands may be much improved in a short time, with small cost and little labour. The third impression, revised, with additions, by Ra. Austen, practiser in the art of planting, 1665. 2 works bound together each with its own title page and pagination, as often found, dedicated to Robert Boyle. Small 8vo approximately 145 x 95 mm, 5¾ x 3¾ inches, a few woodcut headpieces and initials, pages: [48], 1-260, [10], 1-82, the vertically printed half title present, bound in full early calf, 2 gilt lettered labels and gilt decoration to spine, double gilt rules and blind decoration to edges of covers, marbled edges. Spine rubbed, hinges beginning to crack, covers still firmly attached, labels slighty… Read More
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