Description:
Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1950. 8vo; 33pp; 3/4 burgundy morocco and marbled paper over boards, teg, original wrappers bound in, fine. This wine merchant's catalogue is illustrated throughout with delicate, full-color reproductions - collotypes - in-texte and hors-texte after drawings by the Japanese artist R. Harada.
VINETUM BRITANNICUM, or a TREATISE OF CIDER and other wines and drinks extracted from fruits growing in this Kingdom. With the method of propagating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees. And a DESCRIPTION of a New-Invented INGENIO or MILL. by WORLIDGE, John. ISABEL SOMERSET'S COPY.:
by WORLIDGE, John. ISABEL SOMERSET'S COPY.:
VINETUM BRITANNICUM, or a TREATISE OF CIDER and other wines and drinks extracted from fruits growing in this Kingdom. With the method of propagating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees. And a DESCRIPTION of a New-Invented INGENIO or MILL.
by WORLIDGE, John. ISABEL SOMERSET'S COPY.:
- Used
- Hardcover
For the most expeditious making of CIDER. And also the right way of making METHEGLIN and BIRCH-WINE. To which is added, APIARIUM or a Discourse of the Government and Ordering of BEES. SECOND IMPRESSION MUCH ENLARGED. 8vo, approximately 175 x 115 mm, 7 x 4½ inches, engraved frontispiece to Vinetum (misbound after title page), plus three engraved plates, headpiece and decorated initial to first page, engraved frontispiece and title page to Apiarium, pages: [24], 1-240; [10], 1-42, [12], the last page is the Errata with a catchword (TO) which is a printer's error, this copy collates the same as ESTC R34758. Bound in full modern calf, gilt lettered label to spine, blind rules to covers, endpapers replaced at time of binding, ISABEL SOMERSET'S bookplate on first pastedown. Spine slightly rubbed and darkened, fore-edge on 3 pages of preface have pale browning, nowhere near text, ink library stamp of the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Herts, on blank first free endpaper, tip of 1 lower corner neatly repaired, 3 tiny old ink letters to title page, not affecting text, first inner paper hinge cracked, binding tight and firm, occasional spot, otherwise a very good copy. Lady Isabella married Lord Henry Somerset and became known as Lady Henry Somerset, known as Lady Isabel Somerset after the breakup of her marriage). She was a British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women's rights (Wikipedia). See: James Gabler, Wine into Words, page 315; H. Frederic Janson, Pomona's Harvest, page 137; Sandra Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, pages 210-211; Andre L. Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, page 153; William R. Cagle, A Matter of Taste, page 771, No. 1070; Katherine Bitting, Gastronomic Bibliography, page 504; British Bee Books a Bibliography 1500-1976, page 61, No. 54. John Evelyn had a copy of this title in his library, See Geoffrey Keynes, John Evelyn, A Study in Bibliophily, page 298, No 39. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
- Bookseller Roger Middleton (GB)
- Book Condition Used
- Quantity Available 1
- Binding Hardcover
- Place of Publication London, printed for Thomas Dring, 1678.
- Keywords cyder cider beveridges drink fruit drinks wines bees isabel somerset Eastnor Castle temperance movement
Liste des grands vins 1950. Sous le signe du soleil levant. Illustrations de R. Harada
by Wine
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Kennebunkport, Maine, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$514.38
Show Details
Item Price
NZ$514.38
More Photos
A Treatise on Family Wine Making: Calculated for Making Excellent Wines from the Various Fruits of this United Country; in relation to Strength, Brilliancy, Health, and Economy explanatory of the whole process, and every other requisite guide after the wine is made and in the cellar; composed from practical knowledge and written expressly and exclusively for domestic use, containing sixty different sorts of wine. To which is also subjoined the description of part of a recent British vintage inclusive of an interesting experimental lecture
by CARNELL, P.P.
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,628.87
Show Details
Description:
London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1814. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 158,(2)pp. Modern rebinding in sympathetic period style: quarter calf gilt and marbled papercovered boards, red morocco spine label gilt. Owner's name, half-title repaired, scattered foxing most pronounced on the title page, uncut, a pleasing very good copy.
Item Price
NZ$1,628.87
More Photos
Wine, Women, and Song
by ZAEHNSDORF, binders; SYMONDS, John Addington
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Calabasas, California, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$5,058.07
Show Details
Description:
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. Wine, Women, and Song" In a Fine, Near Contemporary 'Exhibition' Binding by Zaehnsdorf [ZAEHNSDORF, binder]. SYMONDS, John Addington. Wine, Women, and Song. Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs. Now First Translated into English Verse. With an Essay by John Addington Symonds. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies of which this is number 28. Quarto (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 276 x 201 mm.). [viii], 184 pp. Bound ca. 1900 by Zaehnsdorf in an 'Exhibition' binding of full red crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt with multi-line borders and floral decorations. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, red silk liners and endpapers. With the small circular 'Exhibition' stamp in blind on rear turn-in. Slight darkening to spine, otherwise very fine. This is the first edition of John Addington Symonds' translations from the Carmina Burana, a Medieval…
Read More Item Price
NZ$5,058.07
The Cultivation of American Grape Vines and Making of Wine.
by Spooner, Alden
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$5,143.80
Show Details
Description:
Brooklyn: A Spooner & Co, 1846.
Item Price
NZ$5,143.80
More Photos
Les marques de fabrique francaises. Sauvegarde du producteur francais a l’étranger. Titre & marque déposés. Septième édition.
by Académie Nationale, Agricole, Manufactière & Commerciale
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Tuebingen, Germany
- Item Price
-
NZ$3,648.00
Show Details
Description:
(7) leaves letterpress text, 1 leaf half-title (première section) 111 numbered leaves (recte 109) ; plates numbered 10 through 111 are printed on recto only, with plate numbers 40, 63 and 92 omitted according to a printed note at the end of the index, but including an extra plate 35bis) ; 1 leaf half-title (cinquième section annexe), (8) leaves numbered I-XVII (omitting numbers XV/XVI) with text and illustrations on both sides. The plates with numerous printed black and white labels, mounted chromolithographed labels and colourful chromolithographed labels on white glazed paper. Publisher's red cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Oblong folio (456 x 320 mm). Extremeties worn, front cover spotted. A fine example showing the wealth of French industrial and agricultural products displayed in black and white facsimiles and color mounted product labels and renderings of trademarks of producers and manufacturers. The most important part is the third section of this catalog showing agricultural…
Read More Item Price
NZ$3,648.00
Liste des grands vins 1950. Sous le signe du soleil levant. Illustrations de R. Harada
by Wine
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Kennebunkport, Maine, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$514.38
Show Details
Description:
Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1950. 8vo; 33pp; 3/4 burgundy morocco and marbled paper over boards, teg, original wrappers bound in, fine. This wine merchant's catalogue is illustrated throughout with delicate, full-color reproductions - collotypes - in-texte and hors-texte after drawings by the Japanese artist R. Harada.
Item Price
NZ$514.38
More Photos
A Treatise on Family Wine Making: Calculated for Making Excellent Wines from the Various Fruits of this United Country; in relation to Strength, Brilliancy, Health, and Economy explanatory of the whole process, and every other requisite guide after the wine is made and in the cellar; composed from practical knowledge and written expressly and exclusively for domestic use, containing sixty different sorts of wine. To which is also subjoined the description of part of a recent British vintage inclusive of an interesting experimental lecture
by CARNELL, P.P.
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$1,628.87
Show Details
Description:
London: Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1814. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 158,(2)pp. Modern rebinding in sympathetic period style: quarter calf gilt and marbled papercovered boards, red morocco spine label gilt. Owner's name, half-title repaired, scattered foxing most pronounced on the title page, uncut, a pleasing very good copy.
Item Price
NZ$1,628.87
More Photos
Wine, Women, and Song
by ZAEHNSDORF, binders; SYMONDS, John Addington
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Calabasas, California, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$5,058.07
Show Details
Description:
London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. Wine, Women, and Song" In a Fine, Near Contemporary 'Exhibition' Binding by Zaehnsdorf [ZAEHNSDORF, binder]. SYMONDS, John Addington. Wine, Women, and Song. Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs. Now First Translated into English Verse. With an Essay by John Addington Symonds. London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. First edition. One of Fifty Large-Paper Copies of which this is number 28. Quarto (10 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches; 276 x 201 mm.). [viii], 184 pp. Bound ca. 1900 by Zaehnsdorf in an 'Exhibition' binding of full red crushed levant morocco. Covers decoratively tooled in gilt with multi-line borders and floral decorations. Spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, gilt board edges and turn-ins, red silk liners and endpapers. With the small circular 'Exhibition' stamp in blind on rear turn-in. Slight darkening to spine, otherwise very fine. This is the first edition of John Addington Symonds' translations from the Carmina Burana, a Medieval…
Read More Item Price
NZ$5,058.07
The Cultivation of American Grape Vines and Making of Wine.
by Spooner, Alden
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$5,143.80
Show Details
Description:
Brooklyn: A Spooner & Co, 1846.
Item Price
NZ$5,143.80
More Photos
Les marques de fabrique francaises. Sauvegarde du producteur francais a l’étranger. Titre & marque déposés. Septième édition.
by Académie Nationale, Agricole, Manufactière & Commerciale
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Tuebingen, Germany
- Item Price
-
NZ$3,648.00
Show Details
Description:
(7) leaves letterpress text, 1 leaf half-title (première section) 111 numbered leaves (recte 109) ; plates numbered 10 through 111 are printed on recto only, with plate numbers 40, 63 and 92 omitted according to a printed note at the end of the index, but including an extra plate 35bis) ; 1 leaf half-title (cinquième section annexe), (8) leaves numbered I-XVII (omitting numbers XV/XVI) with text and illustrations on both sides. The plates with numerous printed black and white labels, mounted chromolithographed labels and colourful chromolithographed labels on white glazed paper. Publisher's red cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Oblong folio (456 x 320 mm). Extremeties worn, front cover spotted. A fine example showing the wealth of French industrial and agricultural products displayed in black and white facsimiles and color mounted product labels and renderings of trademarks of producers and manufacturers. The most important part is the third section of this catalog showing agricultural…
Read More Item Price
NZ$3,648.00
More Photos
Wine, The Vine and the Cellar
by Shaw, Thomas George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Edition
- Facsimile of the 1864 second edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$77.16
Show Details
Description:
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."
Item Price
NZ$77.16
More Photos
Great Bordeaux Wines of St Emilon, Pomrol and Fronsac
by Enjalbert, Henri
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9782867530081
- ISBN 10
- 2867530083
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Bethel, Connecticut, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$102.79
Show Details
Description:
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…
Read More Item Price
NZ$102.79
American Wines and How to Make Them
by Wagner, Philip M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, foxing to endpapers and edges, owner name on front free endpaper.
- Edition
- First Edition; Second Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Selkirk, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$102.88
Show Details
Description:
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 .
Item Price
NZ$102.88
More Photos
Atlas P.L.M. Jura, Burgundy
by [Atlas - wine; Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway]
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Alfred, Maine, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$102.88
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
NZ$102.88
More Photos
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
by [Omar Khayyam]; Fitzgerald, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Alfred, Maine, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$128.60
Show Details
Description:
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)].
Item Price
NZ$128.60
More Photos
TENDER IS THE NIGHT.
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$282.72NZ$169.63Save NZ$65.96!
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
NZ$282.72NZ$169.63
Save NZ$65.96
!
Etablissements Nicolas. Liste Des Grands Vins fins. 1934.
by Latour, Alfred, illusstrator
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$171.46
Show Details
Description:
Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1949.. Wine Menu. Color woodcut plates by Latour. 34 pp. Spiralbound.
Item Price
NZ$171.46
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.
by Bénard, Robert (1734-1777)
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$171.46
Show Details
Description:
Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1762-1767.. 39 x 25.5 cm. One plate with page of letterpress description.
Item Price
NZ$171.46
LA VIGNE ET LE VIN: Etude Generale
by Peyre, Docteur P. (Paul). Preface de Edouard Barthe
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Sunning to spine and edges, else fine
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Fort Bragg, California, United States
- Item Price
-
NZ$214.32
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
NZ$214.32
More Photos
Nicolas Liste Des Grands Vins 1931 [AM Cassandre]
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Morston, Norfolk, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
NZ$192.23
Show Details
Description:
Charenton-le-Pont: Nicolas, 1931. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. AM Cassandre. Nicolas' 1931 list featuring illustrations by Cassandre. Spiral bound and in VG order throughout. Three excellent illustrations including colour centrepiece. Printed note from Nicolas on headed paper laid in to rear with advice on Bourgogne appellations. Scarce. This is a charity sale on behalf of Friends of Morston Church (reg.1099831). French language. 8vo. 26pp
Item Price
NZ$192.23