Historic Cookbooks on line

About 600 historic cookbooks [mostly in English], and e-texted, are listed on this web page by date and seperate pages by author. Many have been transcribed on several sites, some on as many as four. I have linked only one site per title unless the editions or years are different, such as Mary Randolph's Virginia Housewife [1838 and 1860]. Several excellent historic cookbook collections are listed below. HEARTH, Feeding America, Duke Collection, Project Gutenberg, MoA, Google books and others have search programs allowing the researcher to query by recipe name and by ingredient.
Duke University's Advertising books online have changed their URLs, so until I get time to change them all, when you are redirected to their main page, type in the author or title.

pre-1700
1700-1800
1800-Civil War
1866-1900
1900-1910
1911-World War I

Cookbooks by Author: A-F
Cookbooks by Author: G-L
Cookbooks by Author: M-Z
Cookbooks by Authors unknown or by Brand

Manuscript cookbooks online and in print

Cookbook collections online

Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook. [1798-1922] 76 books
Advertising Cookbooks. Duke University. [1878-1929] 82 books
Internet Archives 407 books
Google books
ChestofBooks.com
Manybooks
Foodsville 144 books
MoA Making of America Books. U Mich.
Project Gutenberg

Bon appetit! - A Celebration of Canadian Cookbooks
Canadian cookbooks online
University of Adelaide Library, Australia
Gallica. Bibliotheque nationale de France

Old Culinary & Brewing Documents Online; Cindy Renfrow
Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage [Lindahl]
The Medieval & Renaissance Cookery Webring [GodeCookery.Com]
Culinary and Dietetic Texts - Middle Ages to 1800 [Gloning]
University of Barcelona....Books from 1530-1769
Norwegian and medieval cookbooks [Notaker]
Cooking and Food Links SCA
Medieval Cookery. Online Cookbooks

Medieval Cookbooks - An Annotated Bibliography
A Cookery Bibliography. The Medieval & Renaissance Cookery Webring
Bibliography of Virginia related cookbooks
New Orleans Creolization of Southern Food Bibliography
Recipe Pamphlets in the Chef Louis Szathmary Collection of Culinary Arts list of holdings, some pic covers
Medievalcooking.com
Google books

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