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
Établissements Nicolas Maison
$6000
Liste des Grands Vins Fins. A set of thirty-seven extravagantly produced annual fine wine commercial catalogues issued by the Parisian wine merchant Établissements Nicolas Maison between 1929 and 1973, together with associated tariff cards, advertising cards and ephemera, and Carte Fines Bouteilles commercial catalogues issued for the years 1993-1997.
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Early Edo Period Japanese Cookery Book
$6000
(Shinpan) Ryōri kondate shū (zen) or 料理献立抄 [trans. Collection of Cooking Menus, New Edition, complete] No publishing details in the text: circa 1686. [Kyoto : Nagata Hanbei, Jokyo 3, 1686]¹ In Japanese, early Edo period calligraphic script. two double-page woodcut illustrations, two smaller partial-page woodcut illustrations.
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Études sur Le Vin
$1950
Pasteur's first major published work. PASTEUR, L [Louis (1822-1895)] Études sur le vin. Ses maladies causes qui les provoquent procédés nouveaux pour le conserver et pour le vieillir. Paris : L'imprimerie Impériale, 1866. First Edition. Octavo (235x155mm) half bound burgundy, pebble-grain morocco cloth, marbled boards, viii, 264pp; π⁴, 1-16⁸, 17⁴. Eleven (ten numbered) in text wood engravings, 32 out of text colour lithograpic plates. In French. An excellent First Edition of one of the fundamental and consequential texts of wine science.
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