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[Bordeaux: Maison Clossman & Cie, 1861. Four handwritten invoices or envoi (each 21 x 13.5 cm.), on stationery with the blindstamp of Normand & Duplessy, Entrepot Transit & Cammoinage, and with the oval ink stamp of same. Receipts for four simultaneous purchases of wine from the Bordeaux wine merchant Maison Clossman, each for delivery to a different palace of Emperor Napoleon III: Palais des Tuileries, Palais de L'Elysée, Palais de St. Cloud, Palais de Fontainebleau. The items are numbered across the four invoices in consecutive order, with one hundred seven items in all, most large quantities in barrels or cartons of fifty bottles each. The fourth and final invoice contains an additional stamp in green ink, "Maison de [ill.], Service de la Regie de Palais de Fontainbleu". Folded, with creases. Near fine.
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADES, BREWERS AND MALTSTERS AND OTHER TRADES CONNECTED THEREWITH OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. by WINE, SPIRITS, BREWERS AND MALTSTERS.:
by WINE, SPIRITS, BREWERS AND MALTSTERS.:
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF THE WINE AND SPIRIT TRADES, BREWERS AND MALTSTERS AND OTHER TRADES CONNECTED THEREWITH OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
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[Wine purchases for the palaces of Emperor Napoleon III]
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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER AND GENTLEMANS DIRECTORY FOR EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR.
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London, printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1769.. TITLE CONTINUED: Adapted to the New Stile. AN ENTIRE NEW WORK. Containing The latest and most approved METHODS. OF CULTIVATING and IMPROVING the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Physic Garden; And for Managing THE VINEYARD and PINE-APPLE. The Nursery, Shrubbery, Greenhouse, and Hothouse. With proper Directions for Raising Mushrooms. To which is prefixed, AN ESSAY upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hot-beds. WITH A Copper-plate, exhibiting at One View the several Aspects for Planting a Fruit-Garden. FIRST EDITION 1769. 8vo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6¾ x 4 inches, 1 folding plate, pages: [10],1-285, [9], bound in original old sheep with new calf spine, 2 maroon gilt lettered labels to spine with gilt decoration and date, old endpapers. Light wear and staining to covers and corners, slight browning to edges of folding plate and 1 small brown stain, 1 fold neatly strengthened on blank side, 2 tiny repairs to plate at…
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A TREATISE ON THE VINE, embracing its history from the earliest ages to the present day.
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New York, T. and J. Swords, G & C & H Carvill, E. Bliss, Collins & Co, et al., 1830.. TITLE CONTINUED: With descriptions of above two hundred foreign and eighty American varieties; together with a complete dissertation on the establishment, culture, and management of vineyards. FIRST EDITION 1830, 8vo, approximately, 230 x 145 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, 1 lithograph plate at page 165, "Vitus labrusca." usually found as frontispiece. Pages: viii, 9-355, modern quarter speckled calf, green gilt lettered title label and gilt vines between raised bands on spine, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, untrimmed copy as issued, pale foxing throughout. a very good copy. See: James Gabler, Wine into Words, A History and Bibliography of Wine books in English, No. G33030, page, 213: "Compared to anything else on viticulture by American writers, the Treatise was a work of an entirely different and higher order. Prince was the 4th proprietor of the famous Prince Nursery and Linnaean Botanic Garden at Flushing, Long Island";…
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THE COUNTRY-MANS RECREATION, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening.
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London, printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1640.. TITLE CONTINUED: Declaring divers waies of Planting, and Graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or Plant with the Root, and without the Root; to sow or set Pepins or Curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your Grafts and Cions, to help barren and sick Trees, to kill Worms and Vermin, and to preserve and keep Fruit; how to plant and proyne your Vines, and to gather and presse your Grape; how to cleanse and mosse your Trees, how to make your Cider and Perry, with many other secret Practises which shall appear in the Table following, 1640, first published in1569. FIRST PART ONLY. LACKS THE FOLLOWING 2 BOOKS: THE HOP GARDEN and THE EXPERT GARDENER. Small 4to, approximately 170 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4 ½ inches, 5 text illustrations, pages: [16], 1-88, text padded out with blank paper…
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COUNTREY CONTENTMENTS OR THE ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE (huswife). CONTAINING the inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a compleate Woman.
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Printed at London, by I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.. Title continued: As her skill in Physicke, Surgerie, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting-stuffe, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, Conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wooll, Hempe, Flax, making Cloth, Dying, the knowledge of Dayries, office of Malting, Oats, their excellent vses in a Family, Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold. A Worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the Honour of the Noble House of Exeter, and the generall good of this Kingdome. By G.M. SECOND EDITION 1623. Dedication signed: Geruase Markham, also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth,1623. Small 4to, approximatley 195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5 ½ inches, woodcut marks for gageing on page 150, a few pictorial initials and headpieces, pages: [8], 1-80, 79-174,…
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La nouvelle maison rustique, ou, Économie générale de tous les biens de campagne
by LIGER, Louis
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1775 Liger Rustic House Bees Beekeeping Hunting Wine Cuisine Rustique FalconryLouis Liger was a prominent 17th-century French writer known for his works on flora and fauna. He is chiefly remembered for his major work 'Nouvelle Maison Rustique,' or 'The New Rustic House.' Originally titled 'General Economics of Country Goods,' this work went through dozens of editions and reissues following its initial release in 1700. This work covers all aspects of rural life in an encyclopedic form including hunting, gardening, fishing, falconry, wine making, beer brewing, cooking, and bee keeping.
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La nouvelle maison rustique, ou, Économie générale de tous les biens de campagne
Paris : Chez Durand, 1775.
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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER AND GENTLEMANS DIRECTORY FOR EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR.
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London, printed for E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1769.. TITLE CONTINUED: Adapted to the New Stile. AN ENTIRE NEW WORK. Containing The latest and most approved METHODS. OF CULTIVATING and IMPROVING the Kitchen, Flower, Fruit, and Physic Garden; And for Managing THE VINEYARD and PINE-APPLE. The Nursery, Shrubbery, Greenhouse, and Hothouse. With proper Directions for Raising Mushrooms. To which is prefixed, AN ESSAY upon Vegetation, Soil, Manure, and the Nature and Form of Stoves, Hot-beds. WITH A Copper-plate, exhibiting at One View the several Aspects for Planting a Fruit-Garden. FIRST EDITION 1769. 8vo, approximately 170 x 100 mm, 6¾ x 4 inches, 1 folding plate, pages: [10],1-285, [9], bound in original old sheep with new calf spine, 2 maroon gilt lettered labels to spine with gilt decoration and date, old endpapers. Light wear and staining to covers and corners, slight browning to edges of folding plate and 1 small brown stain, 1 fold neatly strengthened on blank side, 2 tiny repairs to plate at…
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A TREATISE ON THE VINE, embracing its history from the earliest ages to the present day.
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New York, T. and J. Swords, G & C & H Carvill, E. Bliss, Collins & Co, et al., 1830.. TITLE CONTINUED: With descriptions of above two hundred foreign and eighty American varieties; together with a complete dissertation on the establishment, culture, and management of vineyards. FIRST EDITION 1830, 8vo, approximately, 230 x 145 mm, 9 x 5½ inches, 1 lithograph plate at page 165, "Vitus labrusca." usually found as frontispiece. Pages: viii, 9-355, modern quarter speckled calf, green gilt lettered title label and gilt vines between raised bands on spine, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, untrimmed copy as issued, pale foxing throughout. a very good copy. See: James Gabler, Wine into Words, A History and Bibliography of Wine books in English, No. G33030, page, 213: "Compared to anything else on viticulture by American writers, the Treatise was a work of an entirely different and higher order. Prince was the 4th proprietor of the famous Prince Nursery and Linnaean Botanic Garden at Flushing, Long Island";…
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THE COUNTRY-MANS RECREATION, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening.
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London, printed by B. Allsop and T. Favvcet for Michael Young, and are to be sold at his shop in Bedford-street in Coven-garden neere the New Exchange, 1640.. TITLE CONTINUED: Declaring divers waies of Planting, and Graffing, and the best times of the year, with divers commodities and secrets herein, how to set or Plant with the Root, and without the Root; to sow or set Pepins or Curnels, with the ordering thereof, also to cleanse your Grafts and Cions, to help barren and sick Trees, to kill Worms and Vermin, and to preserve and keep Fruit; how to plant and proyne your Vines, and to gather and presse your Grape; how to cleanse and mosse your Trees, how to make your Cider and Perry, with many other secret Practises which shall appear in the Table following, 1640, first published in1569. FIRST PART ONLY. LACKS THE FOLLOWING 2 BOOKS: THE HOP GARDEN and THE EXPERT GARDENER. Small 4to, approximately 170 x 120 mm, 6½ x 4 ½ inches, 5 text illustrations, pages: [16], 1-88, text padded out with blank paper…
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COUNTREY CONTENTMENTS OR THE ENGLISH HOUSEWIFE (huswife). CONTAINING the inward and outward Vertues which ought to be in a compleate Woman.
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Printed at London, by I[ohn]. B[eale]., for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-streete Conduit, 1623.. Title continued: As her skill in Physicke, Surgerie, Extraction of Oyles, Banqueting-stuffe, Ordering of great Feasts, Preserving of all sorts of Wines, Conceited Secrets, Distillations, Perfumes, ordering of Wooll, Hempe, Flax, making Cloth, Dying, the knowledge of Dayries, office of Malting, Oats, their excellent vses in a Family, Brewing, Baking, and all other things belonging to an Houshold. A Worke generally approued, and now much augmented, purged and made most profitable and necessarie for all men, and dedicated to the Honour of the Noble House of Exeter, and the generall good of this Kingdome. By G.M. SECOND EDITION 1623. Dedication signed: Geruase Markham, also issued as part 3 of his: A way to get wealth,1623. Small 4to, approximatley 195 x 140 mm, 7½ x 5 ½ inches, woodcut marks for gageing on page 150, a few pictorial initials and headpieces, pages: [8], 1-80, 79-174,…
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Wine, The Vine and the Cellar
by Shaw, Thomas George
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Octavo (9 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches) Baltimore: Bacchus Press Ltd., 1992. Facsimile of the 1864 second edition. 540 pages and 24 pages of period publisher's ads., fold out charts, numerous illustrations. Wine colored leatherette, decorative cover (the title is surrounded by grape vines which frame a charicature of a happy vintner sitting on a barrel; all done in gold). very good condition.A faithful reproduction of a scarce work. Shaw was originally from Scotland and had much to do with lowering the duty on wine imported to England. His writing is informative and humorous. He mentions American wines and in a prophetic remark states, "California seems better adapted for producing wine."
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Great Bordeaux Wines of St Emilon, Pomrol and Fronsac
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Translated from the French by Harriet Coleman & Richard Maxwell from "Les Grand Vins de St Emilion, Pomerol et Fronsac." Wear along edges and at corners. Clean interior pages. a few pages have a wrinkle along top edge. Includes a note from the publisher correcting a few typoes. Nonfiction. French agricultural history. Viniculture. Pages are number in two separate sequences. 368 pages of text. 246 pages in color. 8" X 12" X 2.25" 20.5CM X30.5 CM X 6CM- English translation includes some additional material about the difference between how the French classify soil particle sizes vs international standards and USDA standard. The book is divided into three main sections. The first part deals with the geology of the Libournais region including how it was formed, sediment deposition by rivers, and the current soil profile for each of the subregions. Part two deals wtih the history of wine making in the region with a focus on the 18th century being a transition period where the quality and terroir of a wine…
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American Wines and How to Make Them
by Wagner, Philip M
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, foxing to endpapers and edges, . owner name on front free endpaper.. 1933. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with cabernet-colored printed paper labels on front boards and spine. Index xivpp, rear fold-out synopsis of instructions for making white and red wines. A Prohibition-era winemaking book, with detailed instructions for the home vintner, with interesting chapter on false and sick wines. Noling p. 427, Gabler G40410. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages .
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Atlas P.L.M. Jura, Burgundy
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Paris: J. Barreau, Imp. Edit.; Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, No Date. Quarto-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (26.5 x 19 cm.), 19, [1] pages. Illustrated with two maps in black and red, and with two color plates, and many black and white illustrations in the text. The text is a review of towns and cities in the Jura and Burgundy, with small, inset photographic images of famous buildings in each. In illustrated beige wrappers, decorated and titled in dark green, burgundy, and gilt. Fine.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
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Boston; Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Company; [at the Riverside Press], 1891. Thick octavo (22 x 16 cm.), 77, [1] numbered leaves, printed rectos only; all pages bordered in red. Later printing, styled "Eighteenth American Edition". The "most famous of the poems that espouse wine as a hedonsistic or epicurean device" (Gabler, Wine into Words, page 93). Internally very clean and sound; in publisher's brown cloth, brown and gilt-titled and decorated. Fine. [OCLC locates no copies with the 1891 date, but many other HM printings of adjacent years; Gabler, page 93 (see note)].
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Etablissements Nicolas. Liste Des Grands Vins fins. 1934.
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Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1949.. Wine Menu. Color woodcut plates by Latour. 34 pp. Spiralbound.
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Bouchonnier [Wine Cork Maker]: Engraving from Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
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Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1762-1767.. 39 x 25.5 cm. One plate with page of letterpress description.
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LA VIGNE ET LE VIN: Etude Generale
by Peyre, Docteur P. (Paul). Preface de Edouard Barthe
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Paris: Jouve, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Sunning to spine and edges, else fine. 132 pp., illustrated with 3 engraved plates, 1 photographic plate, 8vo, original printed wrappers with engraved grapevine ornament on front wrapper. A scientific study of the vine and wine by a doctor of pharmacy. 2-page errata list at front, extensive bibliography. Scarce.
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The Cultivation of the Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
by Husmann, George
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NY: George E. Woodward. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards sunned and heavily worn, spine cracked, pages toned and some loose and chipped at edges, some soiling to pages. 1870. Later Printing. Hardcover. Purple cloth titled in gilt on spine. Wood engravings of grape varieties, casks, and other oenological subjects. Describes grape varieties, winemaking, grape culture and statistics for establishing vineyards and expected yields for a few grape varieties, including Catawba and Concord. Four page purple printed publisher's list bound in front index. Gabler p. 136, Cagle 394, Amerine 1855, Noling p. 217. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages .
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TENDER IS THE NIGHT.
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons Revised Edition. Copyright page states 1933, 1934 L-2.67 [Col]. UNDATED, Circa 1958. With $4.50 Unclipped original white black and gold Charles Scribner's unclipped dust jacket. ALSO page count is just 315 pages, shorter than the First Edition. Used. Very Good Condition/ Very Good- Black boards with gilt titling on spine. EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS DUST JACKET. Unable to find any other copies on the net whatsoever. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Summary: Tender is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients. The story mirrors events in the lives of the author and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald as Dick starts his descent into alcoholism and Nicole descends into mental illness.
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