Tratado de vinificação para vinhos genuinos.

Lisbon, Typographia da Academia [Real das Sciências], 1868-1869.. First Edition. 8°, contemporary quarter dark blue morocco over decorated boards (slight wear), romantic spine, gilt with gilt letter, decorated endleaves, edges sprinkled. A few wood-engraved illustrations in text of equipment for making wine. Overall in very good to fine condition. [3]–160 pp., (1 l. indice, 1 blank l., 1 leaf half-title, 1 leaf divisional title-page for part II, dated 1869), [161]–291 pp., (1 leaf indice). The half-title appears to be misbound before the divisional title instead of at the beginning of the volume. *** FIRST EDITION of this important and scarce treatise, which begins, "São muitos os que fazem vinho, e poucos os que o fazem bem." Includes chapters on all the basics of wine-making, including the harvest, preparation of the grapes, pressing the grapes, putting in casks, clarification, sulfidation, adding aguardente, and bottling. The second part includes discussions of diseases of vines, mustiness, cloudiness, bitterness, and the effects of heat and cold.The author (Torre de Moncorvo, 1809-Coimbra, 1884) was president of the Academia das Sciencias and president of the Câmara Municipal de Lisboa. He wrote numerous scientific works. *** Innocêncio XIII, 264; see also V; 161–2. Unzelman, Wine & Gastronomy p. 159 cites only the 1883 second edition, as does Simon, Vinaria 47. Porbase lists four copies in the Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at the Biblioteca Central da Marinha. Jisc locates only a copy of the second edition, at the City of London Guildhall Library.