Rabelais is always serving up fine books about food, drink, farming and gardening. We carry a sizable stock of rare and out-of-print culinary books, alongside prints, photographs and ephemera, all concerned with the pleasure of the senses. Rabelais also serves those inclined towards thirst. We have books on first growth wines and home beer brewing, cocktail culture and saloon society.
Our shop, in an historic mill in Biddeford, Maine, contains six centuries of fine books on gastronomy. We maintain significant collections of books and ephemera on related fields, including menus, cocktails, distilling, beer and brewing, wild foods and mushroom foraging, cheesemaking and more.
We work with private collectors and institutions to develop collections in fields related to cookery, and appraise individual items and collections for estate, insurance and donation purposes. In addition, we place culinary archives of significance with appropriate institutions.
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Don Lindgren2 Main St., Ste. 18-214
Biddeford, ME 04005
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https://www.rabelaisbooks.com/
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Menu for Chanterelle, with original offset-printed artwork by Robert Rauschenberg
by [Menu – Rauschenberg, Robert]; Chanterelle (New York City)
New York : American Menu Printing , 2004 (click for more details)
First Edition
The Standard Family Cook-Book; A volume of valuable cooking receipts, carefully compiled from reliable sources, and published by Ladies of the Spencer Baptist Society for the benefit of their building fund
by [Ladies of the Spencer Baptist Society (Spencer, Mass.)]
Spencer [Mass.] : Book and Job Office of the Spencer Sun , 1885 (click for more details)
Revised Edition. Tried and True Recipes. The Variety Cook Book of Washingtonville.Published for the Benefit of..
by Ladies Society of the First Presbyterian Church (Washingtonville, N.Y.)
Washingtonville; Newburgh : [the society; Newburgh Journal Print] , 1889 (click for more details)![The May Day Cook Book. Published by [the] Ladies' Sewing Society of the Second Congregational Church, Attleboro, Mass](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/523/881/1676881523.0.m.jpg)
First Edition
The May Day Cook Book. Published by [the] Ladies' Sewing Society of the Second Congregational Church, Attleboro, Mass
by [Second Congregational Church (Attleboro, Mass.);Ladies' Sewing Society]
Attleboro, Mass : The Daily Sun Electric Power Print , 1890 (click for more details)
First Edition
Sa Majesté la Truffe. Livre d'or de la reine des festins
by Got, Armand
Bordeaux : Edition de la Truffereine , 1966 (click for more details)Recent Catalogs
UNXLD: American Cookbooks of Community Place, vol. 1
THE FIRST volume in a long-term effort to examine American community cookbooks as well as other cookbooks outside the formal genre that express place and/or community.
WITHIN THE CATALOGUE, the items are arranged alphabetically by state, and chronologically within each state. This first offering (of what is expected to be six volumes in all) includes one hundred forty-four community books (and others which address issues of place and community) from Alabama through the District of Columbia, nearly one quarter of which are unrecorded.
WITHIN THE CATALOGUE, the items are arranged alphabetically by state, and chronologically within each state. This first offering (of what is expected to be six volumes in all) includes one hundred forty-four community books (and others which address issues of place and community) from Alabama through the District of Columbia, nearly one quarter of which are unrecorded.
Recent Catalogs
2019 Bibliography Week ABAA Showcase
A short catalogue of items we will be bringing to the 2019 Bibliography Week ABAA Showcase in New York City. The one-day showcase takes place Thursday, January 24th, from 10-4pm, and is located at the French Institute /Alliance Francaise, at 22 East 60th Street. The catalogue, offered here in no particular order, is mostly newly-catalogue printed and manuscript books and ephemera, all related to cookery.