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Diamond Jim: The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady -
Parker Morell
1934 - Simon and Schuster, New York - First Edition
The lively, true rags-to-riches story of Diamond Jim Brady, the vulgar and pretentious but generous and lovable to a fault Gilded Age businessman, with a gargantuan appetite for rich food and opulent jewelry, who started life as a barkeeper’s son and ended up one of the world’s most sensational capitalists. ‘Possibly the most colorful personality that ever walked the sidewalks of New York’.
First edition, notable for it’s faux-Diamond which is embedded into the front covers, sparkling through to Diamond Jim’s shirt on the scarce dust jacket. Illustrated with 22 black and white photographs.
‘Diamond Jim Brady was famous for three things: making millions selling railroad supplies, wearing flashy jewellery and eating enormous amounts of food.’ – The New York Times.
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1934 - Simon and Schuster, New York - First Edition
The lively, true rags-to-riches story of Diamond Jim Brady, the vulgar and pretentious but generous and lovable to a fault Gilded Age businessman, with a gargantuan appetite for rich food and opulent jewelry, who started life as a barkeeper’s son and ended up one of the world’s most sensational capitalists. ‘Possibly the most colorful personality that ever walked the sidewalks of New York’.First edition, notable for it’s faux-Diamond which is embedded into the front covers, sparkling through to Diamond Jim’s shirt on the scarce dust jacket. Illustrated with 22 black and white photographs.
‘Diamond Jim Brady was famous for three things: making millions selling railroad supplies, wearing flashy jewellery and eating enormous amounts of food.’ – The New York Times.
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Healths Improvement: or, Rules Comprising and Discovering The Mature, Method, and Manner of Preparing all sorts of Food Used in this Nation. -
Thomas Muffett (Moffett), Christopher Bennet
1655 - Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thornton, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard - First Edition
‘Written by that ever Famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and Fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.’
Scarce first edition of this posthumous work, which André Simon said was “probably compiled about 1595. Some chapter headings will give an idea of the scope of this work, which is composed throughout in a gossipy and very readable style. ‘What Diet is’. ‘How it is to be chosen’. ‘Of Meats’. ‘Of the flesh of tame beasts’. ‘Of the flesh of wild fowl’ . . .”
From the collection of noted bibliophile and perfectionist, Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his neat pencil annotation to the front.
See page 154, where Muffett describes the flying fish he was shown by his friend Sir Francis Drake.
The work includes the important observation, made for the first time, that eating liver is beneficial to certain eye diseases. It also contains the first list of British wildfowl, and recognition of their migratory habits.
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1655 - Printed by Tho: Newcomb for Samuel Thornton, at the sign of the white Horse in Pauls Churchyard - First Edition
‘Written by that ever Famous Thomas Muffett, Doctor in Physick: Corrected and Enlarged by Christopher Bennet, Doctor in Physick, and Fellow of the Colledg of Physitians in London.’Scarce first edition of this posthumous work, which André Simon said was “probably compiled about 1595. Some chapter headings will give an idea of the scope of this work, which is composed throughout in a gossipy and very readable style. ‘What Diet is’. ‘How it is to be chosen’. ‘Of Meats’. ‘Of the flesh of tame beasts’. ‘Of the flesh of wild fowl’ . . .”
From the collection of noted bibliophile and perfectionist, Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his neat pencil annotation to the front.
See page 154, where Muffett describes the flying fish he was shown by his friend Sir Francis Drake.
The work includes the important observation, made for the first time, that eating liver is beneficial to certain eye diseases. It also contains the first list of British wildfowl, and recognition of their migratory habits.
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Price HK$ 35,000
The Compleat Housewife: or, Accomplish’d Gentlewoman’s Companion -
E. Smith
1753 - Printed for R. Ware, London - Fifteenth Edition, with Additions
A wonderful early edition of Eliza Smith’s best-selling compendium of recipes, home remedies, and medicinal guidance, and complete with six engraved folding plates showing table settings. A great success in London, where it is was originally published in 1727, it later had the distinction of being the first cookery book printed in America, when it was printed and published in Williamsburg, Virginia, by William Parks in 1742.
Created as a household guide for the 18th century urban housewife, Smith’s extensive experience as a cook in various aristocratic houses, in addition to her chiding of the male culinary writers of the period, whom she claimed concealed their best recipes from the public, made her a popular figure amongst her contemporary female audience.
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1753 - Printed for R. Ware, London - Fifteenth Edition, with Additions
A wonderful early edition of Eliza Smith’s best-selling compendium of recipes, home remedies, and medicinal guidance, and complete with six engraved folding plates showing table settings. A great success in London, where it is was originally published in 1727, it later had the distinction of being the first cookery book printed in America, when it was printed and published in Williamsburg, Virginia, by William Parks in 1742.Created as a household guide for the 18th century urban housewife, Smith’s extensive experience as a cook in various aristocratic houses, in addition to her chiding of the male culinary writers of the period, whom she claimed concealed their best recipes from the public, made her a popular figure amongst her contemporary female audience.
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The Female Economist; or, A Plain System of Cookery, for the Use of Families. -
Mrs. Smith
1822 - Samuel Leigh, London - Eighth Edition
A fascinating book, in pretty later binding.
Well written, simple to understand, covering a wide range of required knowledge in the early 1800’s for ‘Females in the middle classes of society, who superintend to their own family affairs, and who wish to unite hospitality with economy’.
With a large number of recipes Wine, Cordial, and other spirits, see page 257 ‘to make four Gallons of rich Usquebaugh’...
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1822 - Samuel Leigh, London - Eighth Edition
A fascinating book, in pretty later binding.Well written, simple to understand, covering a wide range of required knowledge in the early 1800’s for ‘Females in the middle classes of society, who superintend to their own family affairs, and who wish to unite hospitality with economy’.
With a large number of recipes Wine, Cordial, and other spirits, see page 257 ‘to make four Gallons of rich Usquebaugh’...
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Le Bon-Bock - 321 Letterpress Invitations in two Folio Albums -
Various
1886-1936 - Printed for Le Bon-Bock, Paris
An incredibly rare collection of 321 original illustrated letterpress dinner invitations from Le Bon-Bock society (each approximately 33x23cm), whose soirees on the second Tuesday of each month near Montmartre were frequented by Paris’ most flamboyant and original writers and artists of La Belle Époque and Les Années Folles.
The artists competed to have their work used for the next invitation, and together with their work each invitation provides an account of the previous dinners activities, beginning with opening speeches, notices and announcements, and then other activities, which usually include poems, prose, texts, songs, instrumental pieces.
The invitations are dated from April 1886 to April 1936, with the first thirty or so addressed to Monsieur Régnier, one of the founders of the association. Individually rare, a collection of this size and association provides one of the most important associations of these periods in Paris.
Inspired by Edouard Manet’s painting Le Bon Bock (The Good Pint), and the democratic, nationalistic ideals that it symbolised, Emile Bellot (the printmaker and model for Manet’s beer drinker) established the Bon-Bock Society in 1875. Consisting mainly of artists, writers and performers, the society sought to re-define France’s national spirit by delving into the country’s cultural past. The inseparable ideals of freedom and humour within their community created opportunities for artistic experimentation; the Bon Bockers and their carefree attitude would go on to inspire generations of Montmartre natives for years to come.
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1886-1936 - Printed for Le Bon-Bock, Paris
An incredibly rare collection of 321 original illustrated letterpress dinner invitations from Le Bon-Bock society (each approximately 33x23cm), whose soirees on the second Tuesday of each month near Montmartre were frequented by Paris’ most flamboyant and original writers and artists of La Belle Époque and Les Années Folles. The artists competed to have their work used for the next invitation, and together with their work each invitation provides an account of the previous dinners activities, beginning with opening speeches, notices and announcements, and then other activities, which usually include poems, prose, texts, songs, instrumental pieces.
The invitations are dated from April 1886 to April 1936, with the first thirty or so addressed to Monsieur Régnier, one of the founders of the association. Individually rare, a collection of this size and association provides one of the most important associations of these periods in Paris.
Inspired by Edouard Manet’s painting Le Bon Bock (The Good Pint), and the democratic, nationalistic ideals that it symbolised, Emile Bellot (the printmaker and model for Manet’s beer drinker) established the Bon-Bock Society in 1875. Consisting mainly of artists, writers and performers, the society sought to re-define France’s national spirit by delving into the country’s cultural past. The inseparable ideals of freedom and humour within their community created opportunities for artistic experimentation; the Bon Bockers and their carefree attitude would go on to inspire generations of Montmartre natives for years to come.
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Price HK$ 90,000
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