(FOOD AND DRINK) Group of 4 nineteenth century cookbooks

Sale 2420 - Lot 143

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(FOOD AND DRINK.) Group of 4 nineteenth-century cookbooks. 12mo, various bindings and conditions. Vp, 1829-51

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The highlight is [Eliza Leslie], Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, by a Lady of Philadelphia. vii, [4], 8-100 pages. 12mo, original cloth, worn, front board coming loose; dampstaining and foxing, marginal wormhole through last few leaves. Second edition (first published in 1828). Cagle & Stafford 471; Lowenstein 126. Boston, [1829]
Also included are: The New England Cook Book. xi, 114 (of 115) pages. 12mo, original printed boards worn and detached, lacking backstrip; lacking final leaf, dampstained. Lowenstein 199; first and only edition, none traced at auction. New Haven, CT, 1836 Randolph. The Virginia Housewife. 180 pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked with paper, front board detached; early notes on endpapers. Lowenstein 153. Washington, 1831 Miss Leslie's Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats. 120 pages. 12mo, publisher's cloth gilt; minor foxing and dampstaining. 20th edition. Lowenstein 523 (for another "20th edition" dated 1851). New York and Boston, [1851?].