Books for Cooks

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    Domestic Arts Ephemera Food & Cookery Wine

Australia's specialist culinary book store, established in 1983, Books for Cooks has an extensive range of new, old, vintage, out of print and antiquarian books exclusively about gastronomy, food, wine and the culinary and domestic arts.

Open every day, in the heart of Melbourne at the Queen Victoria Market.

We are always interested in acquiring interesting wine, culinary and domestic books and ephemera.

Special and Institutional orders, Trade and Institutional inquiries and wants welcomed.

Contact Information
Phone: +613 8415 1415
Website: https://www.booksforcooks.com.au
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115-121 Victoria St Queen Victoria Market Melbourne, 3000 Australia Get Directions

Store Hours

Monday - Saturday: 9am - 5pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm

Major public holidays: closed. Minor public holidays: 10am - 5pm

Highlights
Apicii Coelii de Opsoniis et Contimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria Libri Decem
$2000
APICIUS, Caelius. Apicii Coelii de Opsoniis et Contimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria Libri Decem. Cum Annotationibus Martini Lister, è Medicis domesticis serinssimae Maje- statis reginae annae, et notis selectioribus, variisque lectionibus integris, Humelbergii, Barthii, Reinesii, A Van der Linden, & Aliorium, et & variarum lectionum libello. ¹ Amstelodami [Amsterdam] : Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1709. Second edition of the text as edited and annotated by Martin Lister; first privately published London, 1705 in a limited edition of 120 copies.
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Toscana in Bocca
$3000
BUTAZZI, Grazietta (Grazietta Chiesa 1925 - 2013) Toscana in Bocca¹ Palermo : Editrice de 'il Vespro', 1977. First Edition. Preface by Tino Buazzelli. Price L.6000. (250x175mm colour screen-print illustrated unbleached cardboard boards, unbleached 'cartapaglia' or 'oatmeal' paper, numerous screen-printed colour illustrations, 206,[18]pp. Cover illustration by Rodo Santoro. Trilingual, manuscript in dialect, with translations in Italian and English. Corners gently bruised as usual; bookplate of Elizabeth David to front paste-down
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MFK Fisher's Deux Cuisines en Provence
$1500
FISHER, M F K. [Mary Frances Kennedy (1908 - 1992)] Deux Cuisines en Provence/Two Kitchens in Provence. Covelo, California : The Yolla Bolly Press, Winter 1999. First Edition thus. Limited edition #154/225. Drawings by Ward Schumaker. Afterword by Alice Waters. Folio (325x225mm) blind-stamped gold cloth boards, french patterned paper endpapers and slipcase, [64p]pp. The striking three colour illustrations were printed from photopolymer plates of the originals. The text was composed in Garamond, and printed letterpress on mouldmade Somerset paper produced at the St Cutherberts Mill,
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Madam Johnson's Present
$7500
JOHNSON, Madam [Mary (active 1753 - 1772) compiler] Madame Johnson's Present: or, the best instructions for young women in useful and universal knowledge. Digested under the following heads: I. The young woman's guide to letters and knowledge. II. The compleat market-woman. III. The cook's guide for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish. IV. For pickling, pastry and confectionary. V. An estimate of the expences of a family in the middling station of life. VI. The art and terms of carving fish, fowl, and flesh. VII. A bill of fare for every month in the year for dinner and supper,
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Atlas de la France Vinicole: Tome II - Les Vins de Bourgogne
$3000
LARMAT, Louis (1890 - 19??) Atlas de la France Vinicole: publié sous le haut patronage due comité national des appellations d'origine des vins et eaux de vie, du comité national de propagande en faveur du vin, du sydnicat national du commerce en gros des vins, cidres, spiritueux et liqueurs de Franc - Tome II - "Les Vins de Bourgogne". Paris : Louis Larmat Éditeur, 1942. First Edition. Printed by Georges Girard Imp, Paris. Prefaces by J Capus, Roger Descas and Francoise Bouchard with contributions for each appellation by a member of the relevant appellation committee.
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A Noble Boke off Cookry
$1000
NAPIER, Mrs Alexander [Robina née Cotterill (ca.1829-1910)] (editor) A Noble Boke off Cookry ffor a prynce houssolde or eny other estately houssolde: reprinted verbatim from a rare MS. in the Holkham collection. London : Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C., 1882. First and only Edition.
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Veronelli's Biblioteca del Gastronomo
$600
Veronelli's Biblioteca del Gastronomo Milan, Veronelli Editore, [1959-1960]. Second-hand hardcover (Various). Veronelli's Biblioteca del Gastronomo: volumes 1-7, & 10. Veronelli Editore: Milan, [ca.1959-1960]. Each (140x75mm) comb bnd, clear covers, colour stiff printed card wrappers, 36-40pp. In Italian. Light soiling, combs tiring
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The Gastronomical Me
$650
Fisher, M F K. The Gastronomical Me. [FIRST EDITION] Duell, Sloan & Pearce: New York, 1943. 8vo (2515x145mm) illust dj, green cloth bds x,295,[3]pp. Faint shelfwear; dj sm chips & rep tears; faint agetoning to eps; t.e trifle dusty
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