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![ARMOUR’S FOOD SOURCE MAP[:] THE GREATNESS OF THE UNITED STATES IS FOUNDED ON AGRICULTURE. [Chicago?] Armour and Company, 1932.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BRM3596-Armours-Food-Source-Map_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A vibrant persuasive map of the United States by meatpacking giant Armour and Company, making the case for the strategic importance of its industry. Founded in the 1860s by Philip Danforth Amour (1832-1901), Armour and Company was a meatpacking pioneer, using refrigeration, assembly-line methods, canning and economies of scale to become the industry leader. For […]
A triumph of the imagination with a place on my personal “top ten” list. This Porcineograph brings together in one image considerable wit, stunning design, hygienic hog farming, and post-war reconciliation between the Union and Confederacy. It is also one of the earliest American pictorial maps and a considerable rarity, particularly in such marvelous condition. The […]
This small volume of essays on food, food science, food culture and related topics appeared at a turning point in the history of French gastronomy. “Cadet de Gassicourt was a member of the gastronomic dining club and an avocat-turned-pharmacist who was in fact the nephew of [the chemist] Antoine Alexis Cadet de Veau. Thus he […]
![Louis Delton Fancher / Plampin Litho. Co. Inc., A Food Map of the United States showing the part played by each of our States in supplying the Nation’s larder. [New York:] The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., 1932.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BRM3648-Food-Map-of-the-United-States_lowres-scaled-e1624020009396-150x150.jpg)
A mammoth, vibrantly-colored and spectacular pictorial food map of the United States, published by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.—better known as A&P—to promote its carnival exhibit at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. The map depicts the country in outline, with each state packed with illustrations depicting its most important food products. Vermont for […]
![1922 ARMOUR’S FOOD SOURCE MAP[:] THE GREATNESS OF THE UNITED STATES IS FOUNDED ON AGRICULTURE](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/BRM3023-Armour-Food-Source-Map_lowres-150x150.jpg)
A vibrant 1922 persuasive map by meatpacking giant Armour & Company, making the case for the strategic importance of its industry. Armour’s Food Source Map depicts the United States in outline, with vibrantly-colored vignettes highlighting the agricultural products of each state. The map is in fact so crammed with cows, pigs and sheep, and fields of […]
![A. B. de Périgord [i.e., Horace-Napoléon Raisson and Léon Thiessé], NOUVEL ALMANACH DES GOURMANDS, SERVANT DE GUIDE DANS LES MOYENS DE FAIRE EXCELLENTE CHÈRE. Deuxiéme Année. Paris: Baudouin Frères, 1826.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/BRM3743-Almanach-des-gourmands-1836_map_lowres-scaled-e1620655321852-150x150.jpg)
A small volume of essays on food, food culture and related topics, illustrated by a charming gastronomic map of France. The Nouval almanach des gourmands provides a great deal of practical information on food and the acquisition thereof, ranging from advice on the proper sequence of courses to be served at table to curated lists […]
![Gastronomic map from Charles Louis Cadet de Gassicourt,] COURS GASTRONOMIQUE, OU LES DINERS DE MANANT-VILLE… SECONDE ÉDITION. Paris: Imprimerie de Brasseur Ainé, 1809.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/BRM3300-Cours-Gastronomique_map_lowres-e1567259499594-150x150.jpg)
A small volume of essays on food, food science, food culture and related topics, illustrated by a pioneering gastronomic map of France. Author Cadet de Gassicourt (1769-1821) was an illegitimate son of Louis XV and a lawyer, chemist and apothecary. He was also a member of the Caveau Moderne, a men’s dining and social club […]