(Americana : Cookery) 1 Vol. New American Cookery, or Female Companion. Containing, full and ample directions for roasting,... Also, the making of wines and cheese. Peculiarly adapted to the American mode of cooking. By an American Lady. New York: D. D. Smith, 1805. First edition, first issue. 24mo, contemporary (original?) sheep, morocco spine label; rubbed and worn, covers detached and dampstained, spine singed, foot of spine gone. Dampstaining extending 1 1/2 inches from gutters affecting front matter, title page, and first "Contents" leaf, dampstaining to blank bottom margins of p. ix-50, occasional dampstaining to blank fore edge margins, back blank and back endpapers dampstained. 20th-century ink annotations relating to the history of this copy on front blank recto.
Collated - complete with endpapers and blanks, unsophisticated. Leaf size, 5 3/8 x 3 1/4 inches; 135 x 80 mm.
Regarded as the second cookbook by an American author; more scarce than the first cookbook by an American author, Amelia Simmons, Hartford 1796. The above is the first cookbook published in New York.
Lowenstein 36; OCLC and American Imprints only record the the second issue published by T. B. Jansen.