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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First Edition
Maigre Cookery
by Lear, H.L. Sidney
London; [Edinburgh] : Rivingtons; [printed by R. & R. Clark] , 1884 (click for more details)
First Edition
The Hand and Cornucopia: containing excellent recipes for bread, biscuits, cakes, pastry, puddings, &c., in which are used Dr. Price's cream baking powder, Dr. Price's special flavoring extracts, Dr. Price's lemon sugar, and Steele & Price's lupulin yeast gems, all carefully tested and arranged in a simple and practical form for use in private families, hotels, restaurants, steamboats, the camp, etc., etc. ..
by [Price Baking Powder Company; Steele & Price (Chicago, Il.)]
Chicago : Steele & Price , 1879 (click for more details)
First Edition
Mexican Cookbook. Illustrated by Valentin Vidaurreta
by Fergusson, Erna
Santa Fe, N.M. : The Rydal Press , 1934 (click for more details)
Merrimack Hotel, (sign of James Wolfe, Esq.), State Street.... Newburyport
by [Bill of Fare]
Newburyport, [Mass.] 1822 (click for more details)
First Edition
Airport Cafe: An Exhibition about Art and Food, San Francisco International Airport, April 14-July 21, 1986
by [Exhibitions Program, San Francisco International Airport; Feinstein, Diane]
San Francisco : International Airport/Community Arts , 1986 (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.