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[Engraving, hand-colored] A Chief and other Natives of O-Taheitee visiting Capt. Cook in his Second Voyage to the Southern Hemisphere

By: N/A

Price: $265.00

Publisher: 1782

Seller ID: 009784

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

Engraving, hand-colored (later). Engraved by C. [Charles] Grignion after S. [Samuel] Wale. 29x19 cm (11½x7½"), matted and framed under glass. Published in Millar's New Complete Universal System of Geography. ------- Depiction: Native men and women meet with James Cook aboard the Resolution (or Adventure), with the Union Jack fluttering above in 1773 or 1774. ------ Historical context: Cook visited Tahiti in 1773 and 1774 during his second voyage. It is not certain which of the two visits is depicted in this engraving. ------ The artist Samuel Wale an English historical painter and boo...
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The Four Seasons of Italian Cooking: Harvest Recipes from the Farms and Vineyards of the Italian Countryside

By: Battifarano, A. J.; Richardson, Alan

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Time Life Education: 1998

Seller ID: 013555

ISBN: 0783553285

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Part cookbook, part travelogue, this is a culinary celebration of the Italian country-side ts farms and vineyards as well as its people and culture gathering seasonal Italian recipes for antipasto, breads, soups, salads, meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and desserts

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality.
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The Loneliest Continent The Story of Antarctic Discovery

By: Chapman, Walker

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Greenwich, Connecticut: , 1964, New York Graphic Society: 1964

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 011897

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. Appears unread. Near fine in a Near Fine jacket with price. ---------- In workmanlike fashion, the author covers explorations beginning in the time before Christ and telling of great explorers like Captain Cook and then of the more recent explorers, including of course Scott and Amundsen and Shackleton and Byrd.
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Thoughts for Food. A Menu Book and a Cook Book for Those Who Like Exceptional Cooking

By: Compiled by a group of Chicago hostesses.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1946

Seller ID: 013599

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

How to be the Hostess with the Mostess 1940's style!

Compiled by a group of Chicago hostesses. Thoughts for Food has 125 menus and the recipes and other information necessary for bringing those menus to life. This is your book if you need to impress the boss! Lots of dishes that sound and should look very high end.

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Several recipes and page numbers on the front free endpage. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve ...
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An Introduction to Regression Graphics (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

By: Cook, R. Dennis ; Weisberg, Sanford

Price: $49.95

Publisher: New York, Wiley-Interscience: 1994

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 009180

ISBN: 0471008397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Covers the use of dynamic and interactive computer graphics in linear regression analysis, focusing on analytical graphics. Features new techniques like plot rotation.

The authors have composed their own regression code, using Xlisp-Stat language called R-code, which is a nearly complete system for linear regression analysis and can be utilized as the main computer program in a linear regression course. The accompanying disks, for both Macintosh and Windows computers, contain the R-code and Xlisp-Stat.

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. [and if you have access sealed floppy disks]
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Squire Osbaldeston His Autobiography

By: Edited, with Commentary by Cuming, E. D.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd.: 1926

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 010462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

George Osbaldeston (1786 - 1866), best known as Squire Osbaldeston, was an English politician who served as a Member of Parliament but who had his greatest impact as a huntsman, first-class cricketer, and all-round sportsman. The book is mostly concerned with fox-hunting in the English countryside, but also some picaresque reminiscences and gossip by the Squire.-------------- Introduction and a Note on the Illustrations by Theodore A. Cook. First Edition Third Printing. 4to 111.5 x 9.25 inches''. [xlvii] 260 pages; I publisher advert with 16 colour plates, 75 illustrations and a large folding...
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Audacity, Privateer Out of Portsmouth: Continuing the Account of the Life and Times of Geoffrey Frost, Mariner, of Portsmouth, in New Hampshire, as ... (Hardscrabble Books-Fiction of New England)

By: Fender, J. E.

Price: $14.95

Publisher: L:ondon, University Press of New England / HArdscrabble Books: 2003

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 013453

ISBN: 1584653167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book two of the Frost Saga continues the exciting nautical adventures launched in The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost, hailed as 'an auspicious start' by Library Journal. In serving the American cause, Frost will impersonate a British merchant, capture several supply ships, order the execution of some of his own countrymen who have turned pirate and renegade, and perform an extraordinary feat of navigation in order to restore two men to the ship of the great explorer Captain James Cook. He will also meet the beguiling and exasperating Lady Cygnet, an opera singer.

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M.F.K. Fisher: A Life in Letters : Correspondence 1929-1991

By: Fisher, M. F. K.; Selected and Compiled by Barr, Norah K.; Moran, Marsha; Moran, Patrick

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Washington, DC, Counterpoint: 1997

Seller ID: 009642

ISBN: 1887178465

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition, First Printing. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. No flaws but some age-spots on fore-edge of text-block. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve. Forward by Anne Lamont. 8vo; 24 cm.; 9.5 inches tall; 500 pages with index of correspondents. ------- What is the spell that M.F.K. Fisher casts over enchanted readers who, privileged, dip into her timeless culinary masterworks and occasional fiction? With this volume of never-before-published letters, fans who know M.F.K. only by such gustatory marvels as The Art of Eating and How to Cook a Wolf m...
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The Case for Doctor Cook [Arctic Exploration]

By: Freeman, Andrew A.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.: 1961

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 011836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A gripping narrative of epic adventure in analyzing the Cook-Peary controversy regarding the claims of each to be the first man to reach the North Pole. Freeman defends Cook, who made the claim first in 1908. Peary challenged the claim in 1909. ---------- Very Good in a Good Dust Jacket. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Jacket rubbed at spine tips with a rubbed spot on the lower front. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo; 8.5 inches tall 315 pages with Chapter Notes, Bibliography and Index. ------ Subjects: Arctic Exploration; Polar Expl...
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The Fine Art of Chinese Cooking

By: Lee Su Jan; May Lee

Price: $12.95

Publisher: New York, The Bobbs-Merill Company: 1962

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 013551

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Twenty-two centuries of Oriental cooking written in practical terms for the American kitchen with more than 200 recipes. This vintage classic is written for Americans and introduced Chinese cuisine. Each dish takes between 10-20 minutes to cook and the search for ingredients has been simplified.

First Edition, First Printing. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has shelf handling and some minor chipping. 8vo; 8.25 inches tall; 246 pages with an index.
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Mrs. Seely's Cook-Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery with Chapters on Domestic Servants, Their Rights and Duties, and Many Other Details of Household Management

By: Seely, Lida

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, Oxmoore House: 1984

Seller ID: 008874

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes; Gift Quality. Quarter leather to patterned boards. Silk endpages, all edges gilt, color two page frontispiece. Illustrated. --------- Introductory essay: Housekeeping in the Gilded Age, by Shirley Abbot. Series: Antique American cookbooks. 8vo; 25, xiii, 432 p., [52] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Originally published in 1902. ----------- Mrs. Lida Seely was more than a cook-book author. She ran an employment agency that provided staff for most of the wealthy families of New York. She trained not only young men and women to work in large homes but she lat...
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The Analysis of the Hunting Field; Being a Series of Sketches of the Principal Characters That Compose One. The Whole Forming a Slight Souvenir of the Season, 1845-6.

By: Surtees, Robert Smith

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, Rudolph Ackermann: 1846

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 009674

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Seven hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece and extra title, forty-three woodcuts engraved by Cook and CO. 4to; 26 cm. vi-326 pages.

Handsomely bound by Morrell in Full crimson morocco leather; Four raised spine bands with tittle and decorations; Dentelles embellished Doublures to marbled endpages. Original cloth and spine bound-in at rear. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, toned with scattered foxing. Moderate handling wear.

This is one of Surtees few non-fiction works, taken from the sporting newspaper Bell's Life in London during the fox h...
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French Country Kitchen: The Undiscovered Glories of French Regional Cuisine

By: Villas, James

Price: $39.95

Publisher: New York, Bantam: 1992

Edition: 1st Edition

Seller ID: 010730

ISBN: 0553076647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. ------ Brings the lusty cuisine of the French countryside to American tables with more than 175 recipes--from seafood stews to chocolate mousse--collected during the author's thirty years of extensive travels through France.
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Popular Tours in Spain and Morocco (Andalucia and Castile)

By: [Author not identified]

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Watford, England, Acme Tone Engraving CO.: 1908

Seller ID: 009335

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

"Programme of Conducted and Independent Tours in the South of Spain and Morocco, commencing at Gibraltar, visiting Ronda, Seville, Madrid, Cordova, Toledo, The Escorial, Granda, Algeciras, Cadiz, Malaga, Tangier, Tetuan, Fez, Wazzam....under arangements of Thos. Cook & Son.'

Worn spine and many pages small 'dog-eared'. Text clean light toning. Only 1 digital copy located in OCLC.
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Perfect Endings (Chocolate Dessert and Beverage Cook Book)

By: [Nestle Company]

Price: $12.95

Publisher: USA, The Nestle' Company: 1962

Seller ID: 013550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Spiral Bound flip top cook book, from the test kitchens of The Nestle Company. 192 pages.

Recipes include: Australian Coffee Foam, Ala Mode Sandwiches, Butterscotch Chiffon Pie, Peach Carousel Pie, Sweet Kabob Boat, Calypso Shake, Sandies, Ribbon Candies, Napoleonettes, Nescafe, Scandinavian Snappers, Nescafe Soda, Bain Marie Chocolat, Chocolate Dessert Waffles, West Indian Juleps, and many more.
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The Sun Hunters Cook Book or Appetizing Ideas for All Those Who Would Dote on Delectables in the Pursuit of Losing Weight.

By: [Palm Beach Spa]

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Miami, John P. Gilbert & Associates: 0

Seller ID: 013437

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Palm Beach Spa] The Sun Hunters Cook Book or Appetizing Ideas for All Those Who Would Dote on Delectables in the Pursuit of Losing Weight. [no date c1970s] Stapled Illustrated wraps, 12 pages with printing on the wraps. 5 pages of information and numerous recipes. 8.75 inches tall. Carefully handled, no flaws to note.
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