[FOOD] PARKES, Samuel. Thoughts on the Laws relating to Salt with arguments for the repeal of those laws, London: printed for the author, published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1817, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, front blank inscribed: "Academy Natural Sciences Philadelphia from the Author" (some spotting, occasional nicks and tears to margins), modern half calf, uncut and partly unopened [Kress B.7015] -- Robert M. HARTLEY. An historical, scientific and practical Essay on Milk, New York: Jonathan Leavitt, 1842, 12° in 6's, FIRST EDITION, wood-engravings (spotting), original brown ribbed cloth -- J. C. NESBIT. On Agricultural Chemistry and the Nature and Properties of Peruvian Guano, London: Longman, [1856], 8°, FIRST EDITION, wood-engravings, original green decorated cloth. With 13 others, including George W. Johnson's The Potato (Gardener's Monthly Volume, 1847), Radcliffe N. Salaman's The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge, 1949), Arthur W. Knapp's Cocoa and Chocolate (1920) and J. C. Drummond & Anne Wilbraham's The Englishman's Food (1940, second impression). (19)