Books About Food

THOMAS BARNES. A New Method of Propagating Fruit-trees and Flowering Shrubs: whereby the common kinds may be raised more expeditiously; and several curious exotics increased, which will not take root from cuttings or layers, confirmed by repeated and successful expeience. First edition, 1759. With two engraved folding plates (a bit foxed and slightly worn), octavo, pp 42, scattered foxing.[Blanche Henrey 434. It seems little known; the system must have been well received, as John Rutter mentions it in Modern Eden {1767} - "a very singular method of propagating fruit trees.....lately revived by the very excellent gardener Mr Barnes of Elsham"]. [bound with] A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN. A New System of Agriculture; or A Plain and Easy and Demonstrative Method of Speedily Growing Rich: Proving, by undeniable Arguments, that Every Land-Owner, in England, may advance his Estate to a Double Value, in the Space of One Year's Time, together with several very curious instructions how to feed oxen,… Read More

Los Angeles, CA: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 540pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, boards square, clean & bright, hinges professionally repaired, previous owner's name in pencil to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Scarce, vintage treatise on diet and its relation to health and disease. Argues for natural diet, and questions the efficacy of vaccinations. Illustrated.

Nashville: The American Co., Printers to the State, 1878. Illustrated with small woodcuts within the text, octavo, pp iv, 511, a little age-toned thropughout, but otherwise clean and tight, contemporary half-roan and marbled boards, rather rubbed and worn, beginning to fray. SCARCE.. First Edition. Half-Leather. Good.

Paternoster Row, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1814. Second edition. Illustrated with 10 engraved folding plates slightly foxed, pp xiv, 479, [9], a signature and date on the title page, otherwise very clean internally, original leather covers, rubbed, re-backed with a new leather spine, new cream endpapers. [The final hundred pages comprise the Duke of Bedford's "Account of the results of Experiments on the Produce and Nutritive Qualities of Different grasses and other Plants Used as the Food of Animals".]. . Second edition. Full Leather. Good.

Dublin: John Exshaw, 1778. Illustrated with three folding engraved maps and ten engraved plates (some folding), octavo, pp xvi, 118; 128; 132; 95; [13], a few folded corners, a little used and age-toned internally with a few paper imperfections and marks, the front endpaper slightly marked and lacking a corner, contemporary calf sound but rather worn at the edges, lacking tiny pieces at the head and tail of the spine, the spine dull and lacking its label, the joints cracking and peeling. [Of great value for the extensive notes on agriculture, botany, medicine and herbalism. Martyn {1699-1768} was born in London, the son of a merchant. He attended a school in the vicinity of his home, and when he turned 16, worked for his father, intending to follow a business career. He married Marie Anne Fonnereau, daughter of Claude Fonnereau, a Huguenot refugee who had settled in England and became a successful merchant. He abandoned this idea in favour of medical and botanical studies. His interest in botany came… Read More

Hereford: Jakeman & Carver, 1886. Illustrated with outline drawings of fruit sections, octavo, pp xii, 247, some foxing and age-toning throughout, heavier on some pages than others, a signature on the front endpaper, green blind-stamped cloth with gilt emblem, dull and rubbed, won at the corners, an abrasion on the top edge of the upper cover, the spine chipped and a little torn at both head and tail. RARE. . First Edition. Cloth. Fair.

Hereford: Jakeman & Carver, 1886. Illustrated with outline drawings of fruit sections, octavo, pp xii, 247, a little foxing to the rear blank pages and to the fore-edge, otherwise an exceptionally clean copy, green blind-stamped cloth with gilt medallion decoration, very slight signs of use and slight rubbing to the corners but a very bright copy. RARE. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good.