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DELL'ARTE DI FARE IL VINO - RAGIONAMENTO.
by FABBRONI, Adamo. (Fabroni).:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Florence, Per Giuseppe Tofani e Comp. sulla Piazza Pitti, 1787.. FIRST EDITION 1787, Italian text, 8vo, approximately 190 x 135 mm, 7½ x 5¼ inches, very small printer's device on title page, 1 small diagram in the text, folding engraved plate at rear with 13 images connected with wine making including sections of fruit, measuring and other implements, pages: 264 including title page, author's preface and brief printer's message to the reader on the final page, bound in full modern wine coloured morocco, gilt lettered label, gilt lettering and decoration to spine between raised bands, small gilt bunch of grapes to upper cover, gilt rules to edges of covers and small blind image of grapes to each corner, new pale brown endpapers. Pages untrimmed with a few slightly ragged edges, not affecting text, small closed tear to 1 upper margin, 5 mm (¼"), dark spot to fore-edge margin on page 129, occasional faint brown stains to outer margins, not affecting text. A good copy. The work consists of chemical experiments and observations on fermentation, plus methods of producing and preserving wine. Simon, Bibliotheca Vinaria. page 45; Simon, Bibliotheca Gastronomica, No. 647; Vicaire, Bibliographie Gastronomique, (listing second edition, 1790); Oberle, Les Fastes de Bacchus No. 966 (listing edition of 1819). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47635
- Title
- DELL'ARTE DI FARE IL VINO - RAGIONAMENTO.
- Author
- FABBRONI, Adamo. (Fabroni).:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Florence, Per Giuseppe Tofani e Comp. sulla Piazza Pitti, 1787.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- wine making oenology enologie enologia fermentation viticulture
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
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