This January and February, we're busy moving Rabelais from the shop in Portland to a new larger office space in Biddeford, Maine, a dozen miles away. While we get set up in the new space, we're temporarily not selling online. Once we're all organized and the boxes unpacked, we'll be up online with even more great culinary books. Thanks for your patience. And watch the site for information on our grand opening in late March or early April.
Catalogues

California Book Fair 2012 Show List
A selection of some of the books we will be exhibiting at the 2012 California International Antiquarian Book Fair, and at the San Francisco Antiquarian Book Fair.
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New Year Catalogue 2012
We celebrate the New Year and ring in 2012 with a selection of special culinary books from the 16th through the 20th Centuries. Elizabethan cookbooks in fine bindings, signed books by Julia Child, Miss Leslie, and Elizabeth David, and several rare, unrecorded cocktails books are among the offerings.
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Boston Book Fair List 2011
A short list, in menu form, of some of the rare books and other items we'll be exhibiting at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair.
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Tales of the Cocktail Short List 2011
This July, we head to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail, the annual international conference for drink history and craft cocktail creation. We'll be displaying hundreds of rare books on cocktails, drink history, distilling, wine, soda fountains and more. As a little tease, we've created this short catalogue with just a few of our offerings. See you in the Big Easy!
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RBMS 2011 Catalogue
Five centuries of books on food and drink, a short list of some of the titles we will be exhibiting at the 2011 RMBS in Baton Rouge this June. Included are exceptional American, English and French cookbooks, manuscript cookbooks, trade catalogues, charity and community cookbooks, menus, photograph albums and one fine press publication.
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New York Book Fair Catalogue 2011
A catalogue of rare food and drink books, in celebration of the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. Included are newly catalogued American, English and Continental cookbooks, wine and cocktail books and books on historical farming and gardening.
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Boston Book Fair Catalogue 2010
A selection of books we'll be offering for sale at the Boston Book, Paper, and Ephemera Show November 13th at the Park Plaza Castle. The list includes American & European cookbooks, cocktail, wine & beer books, and three centuries of books on farming & gardening.
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Catalogue I
Our first catalogue of antiquarian titles contains books from the 18th through the 20th centuries, and includes cookbooks, artist's books, farm and garden books, cocktail manuals and more.
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