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
A lovely authoritative early eighteenth century edition of the only surviving cookery book from the Roman Empire
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Jungle Cooking
$3500
A rare mimeographed first edition of a cookery book prepared for American missionaries to Amazonian Peru in the 1940s. Published and used in the Amazonian jungle.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking [SIGNED]
$1650
A Near Fine SIGNED early printing of the famous cookery book by Julia Child.
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MFK Fisher's Deux Cuisines en Provence
$1500
The fine press edition of Fisher's reminiscences of two kitchens in Provence, with an afterword by Alice Waters, signed by Alice Waters. #151 of 225 copies only. A Fine copy
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A Treatise on Tobacco, Tea, Coffee &c. (1746)
$1800
The first English edition of Danish physician Dr Simon Pauli's treatise on the consumption of tobacco, tea, and coffee. An excellent copy
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Kochbuch für jede haushaltung
$3500
An extremely rare German language cookery book from Kashau/Kosice in the Eastern Slovakian region of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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Süsse Speisen und Eisbomben (1907) [Elizabeth David's Copy]
$3500
An excellent colour illustrated monograph of 36 recipes for sweet dishes and ice bombes, all richly illustrated, with the bookplate of Elizabeth David. Used by David in the writing of her final work Harvest of the Cold Months
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Of Carving Cards & Cookery
$950
Of Carving, Cards & Cookery or the mode of carving at the table: as represented in a pack of playing cards originally designed & sold by Joseph & James Moxon, London 1676-7. Together with divers recipes for excellent dishes of flesh, fish, fowl, & baked meats collected from 17th century masters at the art of cookery... In this book will be found instructions by means of which any ordinary capacity may easily learn how to cut up or carve as well as to cook all the most usual dishes as well as rarities to grace the festive table. Arcadia, California: Printed for V & H Wayland by Carol Allen
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The Hawkesbury & Shoalhaven Calendar, Cultural & Cookery Guide & Useful Household Compendium (1905)
$950
First and only edition of the Hawkesbury & Shoalhaven Directory with a 64 page cookery supplement. Rare and Near Fine
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A Noble Boke of Cookry
$1000
Produced from a fifteenth century manuscript (MS 674 in the library of the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall) being a compilation of recipes from several fourteenth century manuscripts. Another version of the original manuscript was the basis for Richard Pynson's Book of Cokery, 1500, the first known printed cookbook in English and the only known English incunable in the genre. A lovely near fine and finely printed version of the oldest English cookbook.
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