The Dairying Industry of Australia. Report of Federal Dairy Investigation Committee. I: Farm Production
Canberra, Government Printer, 1930. An accurate, detailed snapshot of dairy farm production in the late 1920s. More
Food and Wine
The Good Cook. Offal
Amsterdam, Time-Life Books, 1981. More
La Cuisine Raisonnee. Aux eleves finissantes, futures maitresses de maison, et aux menageres chargees de l'alimentation familiale, ce manuel est humblement dedie
Quebec, Institution Chanoine-Beaudet, 1949 (sixieme edition). Text in French. More
Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, 25-29 October 1992
Adelaide, Winetitles, 1993. More
![The English and Australian Cookery Book. Cookery for the Many, as well as for the 'Upper Ten Thousand,' by an Australian Aristologist. [Together with] The English and Australian Cookery Book Companion. 1864-2014 Sesquicentenary Edition. By Some Australian Aristologists. [Two volumes]. Edward ABBOTT.](/pictures/thumb/100034_00.jpg?v=1536809734)
The English and Australian Cookery Book. Cookery for the Many, as well as for the 'Upper Ten Thousand,' by an Australian Aristologist. [Together with] The English and Australian Cookery Book Companion. 1864-2014 Sesquicentenary Edition. By Some Australian Aristologists. [Two volumes]
Hobart, Culinary Historians of Tasmania, 2014 (facsimile edition)/ 1864, and 2014. The first Australian cookery book, and a worthy one at that. Edward Abbott (1801-1869), was born in Sydney, but went to live in Hobart in 1815 when his father took up the post of deputy-judge-advocate. Although he was variously... More
Outback Cooking in the Camp Oven
Fitzroy, Five Mile Press, 1982. Signed, inscribed and with a (signed and dated) sketch by Jack Absalom. More
Hunter-Gatherers Today. An Aboriginal Economy in North Australia
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987 (first edition). More
Table Wines. The Technology of their Production
Berkeley, University of California, 1970 (second edition, revised, amplified and rearranged)/ 1951. Inscribed ('good wine is best'), dated (17 October 1979) and signed by Margaret Amerine on the title page. More
The Technology of Wine Making
Westport, AVI Publishing, 1972 (third edition)/ 1960. More
![Auldana Vineyards, South Australia. Souvenir Visit of The Right Hon. R.J. Seddon, P.C., New Zealand's Greatest Statesman, to Auldana Vineyards. [Kia Ora, Auldana. R.J. Seddon, 29th May, 1906 (cover title)]. Auldana Vineyards.](/pictures/thumb/109151_01.jpg?v=1536825385)
Auldana Vineyards, South Australia. Souvenir Visit of The Right Hon. R.J. Seddon, P.C., New Zealand's Greatest Statesman, to Auldana Vineyards. [Kia Ora, Auldana. R.J. Seddon, 29th May, 1906 (cover title)]
[Magill], Auldana Vineyards, 1906. Richard Seddon, New Zealand's longest-serving Prime Minister, died on his return journey to New Zealand, less than two weeks after the events commemorated in this pictorial souvenir. Provenance: Alexander John Morison, Town Clerk of Adelaide, 1937-46, but an employee of the Adelaide City Council from the... More
Boron Tolerance in Grain Legumes with Particular Reference to the Genetics of Boron Tolerance in Peas
[Adelaide], University of AdelaideThe Author, for Department of Plant Science, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 1994. Presentation copy inscribed and signed to of one of the author's two supervisors, Australian wheat breeder A.J. 'Tony ' Rathjen, and signed by the author on the Declaration page. More
Maggie's Table
Ringwood, Viking, 2001. More
Coonawarra a Vignoble
[Coonawarra, Mildara, circa 1972]. A potted history of the Coonawarra region from a Mildara Wines viewpoint. More
Talk about Food
Adelaide, Rigby in association with Mead and Beckett Publishing, 1979. More
AWRI. Advances in Wine Science. Commemorating 50 Years of the Australian Wine Research Institute
Urrbrae, Australian Wine Research Institute, 2005. More
The Story of Arnott's Famous Biscuits. A History and a Celebration
Sydney, Lansdowne, 1993. More
The First Sixty Years. The Associated Bread Manufacturers of Australia and New Zealand, 1904-1964
North Adelaide, Associated Bread Manufacturers, (1967). More
Les Vins de Liqueur
Paris, Librairie J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1927. One of the Petite Bibliotheque Agricole series. Written in ink at the head of the front cover is the contemporary ownership signature of John Rothwell Seppelt, a fourth-generation member of the famous Seppelt winemaking dynasty. More
How to Settle in Victoria: or, Instructions on the Purchase and Occupation of the Land; with Observations on Gardening and Farming; the Growth of the Vine, and other Fruit Trees; the Nature and Quality of the Australian Soils; and on the Use of Manures. To which is added, a Rural Calendar, Description of the Climate, and other Useful Information. By Rusticus
Melbourne, Slater, Williams, and Hodgson, 1855. Provenance: Robert O'Hara Burke, with his full initials (ROHB) written in pencil at the head of the title page. (Early pencilling on the five pages of advertisements and two blank pages, comprising a short list of farm-related items, a few sketch plans, and some... More
Genetic Studies on the Tolerance of Wheat to High Concentrations of Boron
University of Adelaide, The Author, for Department of Plant Science, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 1995. Signed by the author on the Statement of Originality page. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Adelaide. More
Genetic Studies on the Tolerance of Wheat to High Concentrations of Boron
University of Adelaide, The Author, for Department of Plant Science, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, 1995. Signed by the author on the Statement of Originality page. Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Adelaide. More
Story of a Vineyard. Chateau Tahbilk
Melbourne, Cheshire, 1960. One of 500 numbered copies; this unnumbered copy is out of series. More
Grand Vins. The Finest Chateaux of Bordeaux and their Wines
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995. More
A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, made in Divers Reigns. From King Edward III, to King William and Queen Mary. Also Receipts in Ancient Cookery
London, Printed for the Society of Antiquaries by John Nichols, 1790. Pages 423-476 are 'Ancient Cookery. From a ms. in the Library of the Royal Society', and the prefatory note is worth quoting at length: 'The ms. from which the following pages are transcribed, is without title or date, or... More
The Scallop. Studies of a shell and its influences on humankind.
London, Shell Transport and Trading Company, 1957. Eight contributors, not least Paul Gaultier on "The Scallop at the Table" (12 pages). More