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[Blue Ribbon Manufacturing Co.]. Livre Culinaire Blue Ribbon et Pure Gold; Pour Employer Tous Les Jours Dans Les Ménages Canadiens. Montreal & Winnipeg: Blue Ribbon Manufacturing Co., ND [Circa 1946]. pp. 189. Slim 8vo., measuring 20 x 13 cm. While no date has been given the front board states ‘Edition Dix-Neuf’ [19th Edition] while the preface states ‘Dix-Huite’ [18th Edition]. Front endpaper features all four yellow coupons for ordering additional copies of the book. Bound in full cream cloth over boards with title in navy blue ink, with illustrations printed in blue and red ink of various Blue Ribbon products in the background (e.g. Blue Ribbon Coffee, Baking Powder, Tea). Black and white photographic frontispiece of the Toronto headquarters of the Blue Ribbon Manufacturing Company, Limited; accompanied with other black and white illustrations, tables, etc. Light rubbing to the boards, nominal fraying to the spine ends. Internally, the contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; very good+. Text entirely in French. Correponds to Driver, Culinary Landmarks (p. 933), Citation No. M17.16. Driver dates this edition as having been published at “about 1946”, and which corresponds to the publication of its English-language counterpart of which this, the French-language printing was derived (translated) from. Exceedingly scarce in commerce. Hardcover. (#1580) $295.00
![I’ve scarcely finished cataloguing this lovely little book of pressed flowers from the Holy Land. Just had to share it with all you. 🌺
Wild Flowers of the Holy Land; Matt. VI, 28, 29, 30 ; London Society’s Mission to the Jews.
[Ferdinand Vester]; London Jews’ Society’s “House of Industry”. Jerusalem, Palestine: Printed at the London Jews’ Society’s House of Industry, Jerusalem, N.D. [Circa 1890’s?]. First Edition. Unpaginated [Fourteen unnumbered leaves]. Oblong 12mo., measuring 12 x 18 cm. Original quarter maroon leather over gorgeous polished bevelled olive-wood boards bearing “Jerusalem” in black atop a deeply carved Jerusalem cross to the front board; like carving to the rear boards with Jerusalem printed in Hebrew characters to the centre; marbled edges, and ivory silk-moiré endpapers. Comprises of eleven beautifully arranged dried flower specimens mounted on stiff leaves, most (excepting two) accompanied with their original, remarkably well-preserved, tissue-guards, and individually captioned with their respective geographic origins (e.g.: “Flowers from Mount Zion”, “Flowers from the Mount of Olives”, etc.). Lightest wear to the leather spine, else, no other flaws noted to the extremities. Faint toning to the title page, otherwise, contents remain near-uniformly without blemish, and with firm, sound binding. A most lovely, and unique period offering from the Holy Land. Rare to be offered in commerce in this edition, and state. This edition unrecorded in WorldCat, however, nominally corresponds to OCLC #753636624 (with notable differences in pagination, and the number of specimens). See also OCLC #698494522. (#7243)](https://blacksbooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
