Canberra, Government Printer, 1930. An accurate, detailed snapshot of dairy farm production in the late 1920s. More about The Dairying Industry of Australia. Report of Federal Dairy Investigation Committee. I: Farm...
Amsterdam, Time-Life Books, 1981. More about The Good Cook. Offal
Quebec, Institution Chanoine-Beaudet, 1949 (sixieme edition). Text in French. More about La Cuisine Raisonnee. Aux eleves finissantes, futures maitresses de maison, et aux menageres...
Fitzroy, Five Mile Press, 1982. Signed, inscribed and with a (signed and dated) sketch by Jack Absalom. More about Outback Cooking in the Camp Oven
Canberra, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987 (first edition). More about Hunter-Gatherers Today. An Aboriginal Economy in North Australia
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 about Table Wines. The Technology of their Production
Westport, AVI Publishing, 1972 (third edition)/ 1960. More about The Technology of Wine Making
[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 about Auldana Vineyards, South Australia. Souvenir Visit of The Right Hon. R.J. Seddon, P.C., New...
[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 about Boron Tolerance in Grain Legumes with Particular Reference to the Genetics of Boron Tolerance in...
Ringwood, Viking, 2001. More about Maggie's Table
[Coonawarra, Mildara, circa 1972]. A potted history of the Coonawarra region from a Mildara Wines viewpoint. More about Coonawarra a Vignoble
Adelaide, Rigby in association with Mead and Beckett Publishing, 1979. More about Talk about Food
Urrbrae, Australian Wine Research Institute, 2005. More about AWRI. Advances in Wine Science. Commemorating 50 Years of the Australian Wine Research Institute
North Adelaide, Associated Bread Manufacturers, (1967). More about The First Sixty Years. The Associated Bread Manufacturers of Australia and New Zealand, 1904-1964
Paris, Just Tessier, Libraire, 1838 (fifth edition)/ 1826. An early edition of the principal work by the father of gastronomic writing; all but the first edition are posthumous publications. Offered with an autograph document (a single sheet, quarto, written both sides) signed at the head of the first page by... More about Physiologie du Goût, ou Méditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, dédiée aux Gastronomes...
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 about Les Vins de Liqueur
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 about How to Settle in Victoria: or, Instructions on the Purchase and Occupation of the Land; with...
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 about 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 about Genetic Studies on the Tolerance of Wheat to High Concentrations of Boron
Melbourne, Cheshire, 1960. One of 500 numbered copies; this unnumbered copy is out of series. More about Story of a Vineyard. Chateau Tahbilk
The sepia-toned high-gloss albumen paper photograph (image size 153 × 196 mm) is in excellent condition; the original card mount (253 × 303 mm) is stained in one margin, with minor loss to one corner and another margin. The photographer is not credited, but someone at a later date has... More about A vintage photograph of staff at Chateau Tanunda Winery in the Barossa Valley, South Australia;...
Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995. More about Grand Vins. The Finest Chateaux of Bordeaux and their Wines
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 about A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household, made in...
