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 enquiries and wants welcomed.

Contact Information
Phone: +613 8415 1415
Website: https://www.booksforcooks.com.au
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Monday - Saturday: 9am - 5pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm

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

Highlights
RABARBARO ZUCCA
$2750
RABARBARO ZUCCA Original advertising poster, circa 1950 Vevey: Säuberlin & Pfeiffer S.A. 1280 × 900 mm. Printed in colours on yellow stock. A striking example of mid-century Italian drinks advertising, featuring the Zucca bottle set diagonally against a stylised woman whose body and outstretched arms form the letter ‘Z’. The design continues a distinctive Zucca advertising motif documented in an earlier poster by Sergio Franciscone, circa 1936. Rabarbaro Zucca, a rhubarb-based Italian amaro, was established in 1845 and became associated with Milanese aperitivo culture. As new. Pristine su
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The Cook's Complete Guide
$750
COPLEY, Esther. The Cook’s Complete Guide. London: George Virtue, [circa 1826]. Quarto. Half calf, marbled boards. Manuscript ginger-beer recipe laid in. An extensive late Georgian domestic manual, with approximately 2,800 recipes spanning plain and elaborate cookery, brewing, gardening, domestic medicine and household management. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, an alternative engraved title and ten plates. Copley, best known for Cottage Comforts, here addresses the well-appointed middle-class household. With notable colonial provenance
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Cognac
$1800
LARMAT, Louis. Atlas de la France Vinicole. Tome VI: Les Eaux-de-Vie de France – Le Cognac. Paris: Louis Larmat, 1947. First edition. In the original illustrated portfolio, as issued. Near fine, with the maps fine. The final volume of Larmat’s celebrated atlas of French wine appellations, published with the support of the French wine authorities. A magnificent folio with six large, finely detailed colour lithographic maps charting Cognac and its constituent crus, accompanied by sepia photogravure illustrations of production, technical diagrams and multilingual text.
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Meiji Period Omacha-e Word Chart of Vegetables & Fruit
$325
[UNKNOWN] 新板單語野菜菓物 Shinban Tango Yasai Kashimonoban [New Edition Word Chart of Vegetables and Fruits]. [Edo, Japan] : early Meiji period, circa 1870. Original single-leaf colour woodblock omocha-e print An attractive and well-preserved educational toy print, combining colourful botanical imagery with vocabulary instruction. Unrecorded. An excellent example of early Meiji educational printing and the visual culture of Japanese elementary education.
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Il Cuoco Francese
$4800
de LA VARENNE, François Pierre Il Cuoco Francese... Bologna : [Giacomo Pellegrino] il Longhi, 1693. First Italian edition. In Italian. A rare and bibliographically intriguing Italian cookery book, traditionally described as the first Italian edition of La Varenne's Le Cuisinier François (1651) offering an unusual insight into the transmission and adaptation of French culinary practice in late-seventeenth-century pe. Rare. An important bibliographical conundrum in the history of European cookery.
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Dame Tartine
$225
MARISOL and MAZE, Renée. Dame Tartine. Paris: Flammarion, [1929]. An illustrated adaptation of the traditional French children's song, with vivid colour illustrations of cakes, pastries and sweets appearing as human figures in a world of confectionery. The opening leaf gives the music, followed by nine couplets recounting the marriage of Dame Tartine and Monsieur Gimblette. Renée Maze (1888–1980) illustrated the book; Marisol may be a pseudonym for her sister Andrée Maze, known as La Mazille, author of La Bonne Cuisine du Périgord. The Dame Tartine tradition continues in Périgueux, where a chi
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Prost
$1000
STANKOWSKI, Anton (1906–1998). Prost! Stuttgart, 1996. Two-colour serigraph on Fabriano paper. Image 265 × 188 mm; sheet 378 × 270 mm. Signed and titled in pencil. Fine. A geometric composition of two glasses raised in a toast. Prost! is the familiar German expression used when raising a glass. The work recalls Stankowski’s 1952 photogram of the same title, revisiting the subject in a concise arrangement of colour and form. Stankowski was a significant figure in modern German graphic design, working across photography, painting, printmaking and commercial graphics.
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