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1. ABSALOM JACK & Reg   Outback Cooking In The Camp Oven illus. with profusely illus. with col. plates t/out. some full page pub. Melbourne Five Mile Press, 1983 or. laminated boards d/w. cr.4to. pp.110. Traditional Australian bush cooking. A recipe book for cooking in the Australian outback using camp fires Fine.   Price: $25.00
2. A.D.F.A. Sun-Raysed Fruits Sun-Raysed Recipes. "Get the Habit" "Sun-Raysed" illus. with col. exampled of dishes through the text, one double plate page; pub. Melbourne np. nd. printer F.W. Niven & copyright C.J. Degaris c.1920 or. col. wrappers roy.8v. tall pp.24 inc. covers. Recipes inc. breads, molly's cake, banbury cakes, bachelor, tennis Christmas cakes, pies, curries etc. etc. Closed tear down spine, two short closed tears to fore-edge else very good.   Price: $75.00 (See picture-press   )
3. ARGUS  & Australia Ltd.  "What Shall We Have To-day."  Menus Compiled  by  "Vesta" with the compliments of The  Argus  & Australian  Ltd.  pub. Melb.  nd.1937?  or.illus.wps.  8vo. pp.16. Good copy.    Price: $20.00
4. AUSTRALIAN Continental Cookery Book-First. illus. with  14 full page plates of advts. pub. Melb. Cosmopolitan Pub. Co. nd.193-? or.cl. d/w. cr.8vo. pp.322,2 advts. fine.      Price: $30.00

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5. BALLOCH & SONS Midlothian Bakery. 75 Delicious Dishes Made With Bread. pub. Melbourne Auburn Midlothian Bakery 1930 or. light blue pictorial wrappers, girl on front wrapper with plate, rear wrapper, examples of dishes made with bread 12mo. pp.32. rear wrapper has short closed tear, slight creasing marks, otherwise very good condition.    Price: $35.00
6. BRADER  BARNARD  C. The Dinkie Die Cookery  Book.  Contents include  How  to Prepare both English & French  Dinners  of Great Economical Value to Housewives. np. nd.1944? or.crm., lt.grn. & red wps. 12mo. pp.40. fine.     Price: $20.00
7. BROWNLOW  MARGARET Herbs And The Fragrant Garden.  Author has  included aromatic and scented herbs as well as  herbs proper.  Includes their uses,  cultivation, comprehensive reference section, chronological table of flowering  times; classified  lists of scented shrubs, aromatic shrubs,  and North American  herbs. Index contains  Latin  and English equivalent.  with 32 full page col. plates  t/out. showing 318  herbs, illus. by the author, 4 b/w. full  page plates and  5  specimen  lay-outs for  herb  gardens,  pub. Lond. Darton, Longman and Todd 1963 or.cl. d/w. 4to. pp.224. fine.    Price: $45.00
8. BUSHELLS (Blue Label Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa) How To Make Delicious Cakes. illus. with col. advts. and examples of cakes, Fillings, Icings, Puddings, Sauces, Sweets, Coffee-how to make; pub. Sydney nd. 1930’s or. col. pictorial wrappers, (pic. of woman with cake on a plate, front wrapper) 12mo. pp.32, Cakes inc. check cake (cake like a chessboard) chocolate and nut loaves, Cocoa sponge pudding, Coffee caramels inc. wrappers. Fine.    Price: $30.00
9. CADBURY'S  Chocolate Cookery With Bournville Coca by Cadbury's. 60 Delicious Bournville Coca Recipes. illus. with colour and b/w. text plates t/out. pub. Sydney nd. 1950’s or. col. pictorial wrappers, (pic. of chocolate cakes on tartan tablecloth) 12mo. pp.30. Very fine. Price: $35.00
10. CLEMENTS TONIC Cookery Book. illus. with 3 full page humourous drawings, (two of aboriginals); pub. Sydney Roselle Clements Tonic nd. early 1920’s, or. pink & blue wrappers 12mo. pp.32. Recipes inc: Rabbit stew, mulligatawny soup, ox tail and walnuts, savoury tripe, tarts, pies, cakes sauces etc. chip to front wrapper, (lacks small piece) short closed tears, a good clean copy.   Price: $30.00
11. CLEMENTS TONIC  Cookery Book. illus. with 2 full advts. and testimonials, pub. Sydney Roselle Clements Tonic nd. 1920’s, or. pink & blue wrappers 12mo. pp.32. Recipes inc: Roasting and boiling, steamed bacon, pastry. Puddings, sauces, etc. Grandmother’s lemon custard quackling pudding,, Caper sauce, fruit, jellies jams, Catsups, sauces, chutnee sauce etc. Fine.    Price: $35.00
12. CLEMENTS TONIC Cookery Book. (New issue) illus. with advts. one for Lotol fly-killer, and text illus., pub. Sydney Roselle Clements Tonic nd. late 1920’s, or. pink/grey & blue wrappers 12mo. pp.32. Recipes inc: Salmon loaf, brain cutlets, white stew, coddled eggs, Haricot brains and bacon, suggestions for dinner table: olive and cream cheese, anchovy paste and egg, soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, (baked jam roll, Spanish cream, etc.) savouries, unusual sandwich fillings (nut and orange, crab etc.) jams, chutneys etc. etc. Fine.    Price: $35.00
13. COLCORD ANNA L. A Friend In The Kitchen Or, What to Cook and How to Cook It. Containing About 400 Recipes Carefully Tested; Plain Directions On Healthful Cookery; How To Can Fruit; A Week's Menu; Proper Food Combinations; Rules For Dyspeptics; Food For Infants; Simple Dishes For The Sick; Wholesome Drinks; Useful Tables On Nutritive Value Of Foods; Time Required To Digest Foods, Weights And Measures For The Kitchen, etc." illus. with frontis. & b/w. illustrations throughout pub. Melbourne Echo Publishing Co. Limited, Melbourne No date c. 1900 Fourth Edition or. navy card wrappers with silver titling and illustration on front board, red cloth to spine, 12mo. pp.128 silver on illustration little rubbed, general shelf wear, closed tear to rear wrapper, else v/good. Added: leaflet for 'Marmite" Price: $150.00  (See picture-press   )
14. CROOKE PATRICIA Ed  Is Emu On The Menu? illus. with with old historical photographs and sketches in black-and-white, pub. Victoria, Bairnsdale, Gippsland Grammar School, 1968 or. spiral binding, stiffened green card covers; 8vo. oblong, pp. A collection of early recipes from Gippsland in Victoria, Australia sold in aid iof the Gippsland Grammar School. Slight damp stain to title page at edges, (green from wrappers has run slightly) else fine.    Price: $25.00
15. COUNTRY WOMAN’S ASSOCIATION The Stirling C.W.A. Biscuit Book. All proceeds from the sale of this book are in aid of the Patriotic Fund of the Stirling Branch of the Country Woman’s Association of South Australia. np S.A. nd. c. 1940’s or. grey wrappers 8vo tall stapled at top, pp.16. Very good condition.    Price: $20.00
16. CROFTS STORES - 30th Anniversary Cookery Book & Household Guide for the Year 1935. illus. with advts. t/out, 6 col. and full page, pub. Melb. 1935 or. dark blue, yellow, white & red pictorial wrappers, 8vo. pp.160. very good copy.     Price: $40.00       Convert Currency   Parcel Costs
17. DEPARTMENT Of Health, Victoria. Maternal And Child Hygiene Branch.   Recipe Booklet. Cookery for the infant  and  pre-school child. pub. Vic. nd.194-? or.wps. 8vo. pp.28.    Price: $15.00
18. DEPARTMENT Of Public Instruction. Victoria. Cookery Instruction Card. (Set of 33 cards 1s; 1 card 1/2d) pub. Melbourne J.P. Mullett Govt. Printer or. cards tied with old string in one corner, stiff board backing; nd. c.1900's? cards33 double sided. Some cards written upon (recipes & instructions) little browned with age, else good.   Price: $50.00
19. DICK WILLIAM B.  Dick's Encyclopedia Of Practical Receipts And Processes Containing over 6400 receipts embracing thorough information, in plain language, applicable to almost every possible Industrial and Domestic requirement: or, How they did it in the 1870's. illus. with detailed index, engravings through the text; pub. New York Funk & Wagnalls, 1975 facsimile; or. card wrappers, (paperback), roy.8vo. pp.VIII.608. With detailed entries on many domestic tasks i.e. Washing Silk Pocket Handkerchiefs, Making Alcoholic Beverages, Medical Remedies and Tables of Weights & Measures, Syrups, Cheese, Sauces, catsups and pickles etc. Corners of front wrapper creased, else v/good copy.   Price: $45.00

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20. DISABLED  MENS ASSOCIATION-The. Jams,  Jellies  Marmalades. Selected  and  Tested  Recipes and  Formulas.  pub.  Melb. nd.193-? or.dk. red wps. 8vo. pp.16. v/good copy.   Price:  $20.00
21. DOUGLASS W.C. Compiled and issued by. "How to Make It" The Fountain Recipe Book. illus. with col. advts. for Fountain Baking Powder inside front wrapper, Breakfast D-Light to inside rear wrapper, pub. Sydney W.C. Douglass Ltd. nd. c. 1930's original col. illus. stiff stapled wrappers 12mo. pp.48. Fine.    Price: $35.00
22. EDDY  BESSIE  Of 3LO Fame. Cookery Book.  Over  500  Tested Economical  and  Nourishing Recipes. illus. with  2  advts. full  page  pub. Melb. nd.193-? or.crm. &  grn.  illus.wps. cr.8vo. pp.96.     Price: $20.00

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23. FLANAGAN JOHN 'Martha' The Australian Grocer's Household Dairy and Home Companion 1956. (with the compliments of Eddie's 510 Toorak Rd. Burwwod) illus. with advts. 4 to a page. Opposite forms to fill in for your grocery orders. Also contains: Household hints, First Aid, Calendar, Stars, Notes, Recipes, Hints etc. pub. Adelaide 1956 or. card wrappers, 4to. pp.96. One page torn in half on the dotted line where someone has filled in an grocery order, else all complete and fine.    Price: $40.00
24. FOUNTAIN Recipe Book "How to Make it" illus. with 3 col. advts inside wrappers, and rear wrapper; pub. Compiled and Issued by W. C. Douglass Ltd. nd. c. 1930’s or. wrappers, 12mo. pp.48. contains cakes, biscuits, puddings. Very good clean copy.    Price: $25.00
25. FOWLER LILY F. (Compiler) Invalid Cookery. Recipes used in Nurses Cookery classes. And approved by the A.T.N.A. illus. with advts. for Anchor jellies, flour; pub. Adelaide G. Woos & Son nd. c. 1920's original stiff stapled wrappers (advt. on rear wrapper) 8vo. tall pp.62. Near fine copy.   Price: $45.00
26. FRANZ A.C.    Cookery Book and price list. illus. with advts. t/out. some with plates, pub. Melbourne, 113 Exhibition St., 1939 original pale blue wrappers 8vo. pp.96 trifle worn, foxed to wrappers, staples a little rusted, but sound.    Price: $35.00
27. HEINZ Salads –and when to have them. pub. Sydney H.J. Heinze Co. P/L nd. c.1940’s or. col. pictorial stiff wrappers, (Salad on front wrapper, Heinze factory in Melbourne on rear wrapper) 12mo. tall, pp.16. Very fine.    Price: $15.00
28. HEDLEY R. MARSTON  & MARY C. DAWBARN Compiled by.   Food Composition  Tables.  pub.  Melb.  Commonwealth  of Aust. Council for Scientific and Industral Research 1941 or. grey brn.wps. 8vo. pp.36. Fine.   Price: $25.00
29. JAMES  WALTER   Wine  In Australia. A  Handbook  by  Walter James.  title  page  vign. 7 maps & text  dec.  pub.  Melb. Georgian House 1952 1st.ed. or.cl. 8vo. pp.166. sl. tear to top of spine otherwise fine.    Price: $35.00
30. JAMES  WALTER Antipasto. Wine, Food,  Literature.  illus. with frontis. pub. Melb. Georgian House 1957 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. (Dustwrapper, Harold Freedman) sm.8vo. pp.100 Not a trace of antipasto recipes, but plenty of James' characteristic musings on life, food and drink. Chipped d/w otherwise fine.   Price: $30.00
31. LANGLEY Hospital Auxiliary-The  Cookery Book No.1 Compiled and Presented by the Members of the Longley Hospital Auxiliary. illus. with several advts. or. red illus. wrappers. 8vo. pp.74. Has stain to one page, short closed tear to rear wrapper, lacks small strengthening piece at spine covering front wrapper, little rubbed, otherwise good copy.    Price: $20.00
32. LEADER-THE  Spare Corner Cookery Book. Selected  Recipes. illus.  with  9  full  page advts.  pub.  Melb.  `The  Age' nd.193-?  or. col. illus.wps. 8vo. pp.64 sl.  spotty  else fine.   Price:  $25.00
33. LEAGUE Of Mission Helpers. The Mission Cookery Book Recipes Uniquely Adaptable to the Uses of Australian Housewives. illus. with advts. one full page of photo plates; pub. Melbourne Mission of St James and St John 1928 or. card wrappers, Bushell's ad on back cover, 12mo. pp.192. Very slight spotting to covers else near fine.   Price: $85.00
34. LONGMORE & Co. FRANCIS  A book of exclusive "White Crow Recipes" for special occasions. How to prepare a desert that is sure to come out right. with 4 col. illus. pub. Melbourne White Crow Jelly Crystals, nd. c. 1920’s or. dark blue illus. wrappers, 16mo. oblong, (pp. unpaginated approx.18) Deserts inc: raspberry frappė, gateau of prunes, how to whip jellies, etc. Fine.   Price: $35.00
35. MACDONALD CHRISTINA    Garden Herbs For Australia And New Zealand illus. with text dec. pub. Sydney Reed 1977 or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.98. Fine.    Price: $25.00

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36. McPHEE GRIBBLE Editors. Good Work. A sensible guide to pottering around the house, garden and Australian countryside. illus. with b/w. plates t/out. pub. Melbourne McPhee Gribble 1986 1st. ed. or.cl. d/w. cr.4to. pp.176. Here is a collection of homely skills for the embellishment of life. Recipes for potted meat and brandied fruits, for clotted cream and marzipan, instructions for smoking fish and caring for linen, growing a tapestry hedge. There is a plan for keeping and milking a cow, for making a classic long drop dunny; and finally getting away from it all. A selection of old lore fro surviving and enjoying the Australian bush. Fine copy.   Price: $35.00
37. MARY'S AUNT Cookery Book. - illus. with plates t/out. some col. pub. Sydney, Tillock & Co. Aunt Mary's Pure Food Products nd. C.1940's? or. stiff cream wrappers, green and black illus. to front wrapper, 12.mo. pp.212. fine copy.    Price: $30.00
38. MOORABBIN Technical School   Home Tested Recipes. illus. with many advts. National Bank, Standard newspapers, Girling Brakes, Fowlers Vacola Bottling, Tennis Centre, South Rd. Radio Jay’s footwear, etc. Recipes for tea cakes, savoury dishes, sweets, sauces & fillings, jams etc. pub. Moorabbin Technical Fete Committee nd. c. 1950’s 2/- on front cover; or. card wrappers, 16mo pp.64. sl. soiled to covers else very good.    Price: $20.00

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39. SOUTH CAMBERWELL State School.  Proved Recipes. Ed. by Mrs. A. Laing, Mrs. E.R. Fisher, Mrs. W. Birch, Mrs. K McLean, Mrs. K. Sinclair, Cover design by Mr. Wilson, Arts and Crafts teacher at South Camberwell. illus. with advts. pub. Sough Camberwell State School Mother's club nd. c. 1950's or. light orange and black illus. stiff wrappers, 12mo. pp.56. v/good condition.   Price: $25.00
40. STATE ELECTRICTY COMMISSION Of Victoria. Electric Cooking. illus.  with  several dwgs. t/out. pub.  Melb.  Electricity Supply Department nd.194-? or. grey wps. maroon pic. & ltg. to front  wrapper, 8vo. pp.64. small nick at  upper  spine else almost fine.   Price: $15.00
41. TRANTER G.A.  We Are What We Eat. pub. Sydney The Currawong Pub. Co. 1945 or. light blue/maroon/ahite card wrappers, 12mo. pp.84. Fighting disease through a selection of foods. Protein, case against meat, acidity, doctors and health, colds, constipation, meal building etc. Small hole to rear page, chip to front wrapper, else very good.    Price: $25.00
42. VICTORIA   Department  Of  Public  Instruction.  Cookery. Instruction  cards.  32  instruction  cards  d/sided   held together at one corner with string, stiff bd. at rear  used as base. pub. Melb. Govt. Printer nd.193-? 8vo. slightly rubbed, front card detached and little toned. good otherwise.    Price: $40.00

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