Bonhams: A Feast for the Eyes, 31469, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 23, 2025 - October 23, 2025

Page Size: 57 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1		Antony Worrall Thompson's extensive collection of menus and food-related ephemera, ranging from the mid-nineteenth century to recent times,		mid-nineteenth century to recent times,	GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 1,408.00
2		Kettner's Book of the Table A Manual of Cookery Practical, Theoretical, Historical,		1877	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 281.60
3		Diner en l'honneur de Son Excellence Monsieur le President des Etats-Unis d' Amerique et de Madame John F. Kennedy	Chateau de Versailles,	1 June 1961	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 307.20
4	WORRALL THOMPSON (ANTONY)	The Small and the Beautiful Cookbook: Secrets of the Menage a Trois Restaurant,		1985	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 89.60
8		A Treatise on the Art of Bread-Making. Wherein the Mealing Trade, Assize Laws...		1805	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 435.20
15	[BROTHERTON (MARTHA)]	A New System of Vegetable Cookery with an Introduction, Recommending Abstinence from Animal Food and Intoxicating Liquors,	Salford	1821	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 614.40
50		The Britannian Magazine: or, A New Art of Making above Twenty Sorts of English wines, viz. of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, ...	London	1694	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,328.00
51	M'HARRY (SAMUEL)	The Practical Distiller or an Introduction to Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of better quality, and in larger quantities, ...		1809	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,920.00
52		Wine and Food. A Gastronomical Quarterly, edited by Andre L. Simon [et al], issues 1-132 in 33 volumes, illustrations in the text from 1963 onwards,			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
54	Wayne Thiebaud	Bakery case Offset lithographic poster in colours		2018	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 128.00
55		The Royal Book of Pastry and Confectionery (Le livre de patisserie)... Translated from the French... by Alphonse Gouffe		1874	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 332.80
56	KIDDER (EDWARD)	E. Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery for the Use of His Scholars.		[c. 1725]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 204.80
57	NUTT (FREDERICK)	The Complete Confectioner...With Receipts for Liqueures, Home-Made Wines, &c.		1809	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 140.80
58	FRAZER (MRS.)	The Practice of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary; in Three Parts	Edinburgh	1806	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	GBP 512.00
59	GLASSE (HANNAH)	The Complete Confectioner; or the Whole Art of Confectionary made Plain and Easy Shewing the Various Methods of Preserving and Candying..		1770	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 409.60
60	[HUGHSON (DAVID)]	The Family Receipt Book; or, Universal Repository of Useful Knowledge and Experience in all the Various Branches of Domestic Oeconomy,		[c.1810]	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 25.60
61	ACTON (ELIZA)	Modern Cookery in all its Branches, reduced to a System of Easy Practice for the Use of Private Families		1845	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 384.00
62	ATHENAEUS OF NAUCRATIS	Dipnosophistarum sive Coenae sapientium libri XV. Translated by Natale Conti,	Venice		GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
63	BEETON (ISABELLA)	The Book of Household Management,		1861	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 140.80
64	BEETON (ISABELLA)	The Book of Household Management,		1861	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 89.60
65		Bibliotheca Gastronomica: A Catalogue of Books and Documents on Gastronomy...,		1953	GBP 150.00 - 250.00	GBP 12.80
66	BOURDAIN (ANTHONY)	Kitchen Confidential. Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly,		2000	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 704.00
67	BRIGGS (RICHARD)	The English Art of Cookery, According to the Present Practice...with Bills of Fare for Every Month of the Year		1791	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 563.20
68	DAVID (ELIZABETH)	French Provincial Cooking, Michael Joseph		1960	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 614.40
69	[EALES (MARY)]	A Curious Collection of Receipts in Cookery, Pickling...with the Best and Cheapest Methods of Brewing All Sorts of Malt Liquors, and Prearing Sundry Kinds of Excellent Made Wines Not Inferior to the Best French...		1753	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 64.00

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