The Man Who Made Wine by J.M. Scott - 1996

Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1949.. Wine Menu. Color woodcut plates by Latour. 34 pp. Spiralbound.

Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1762-1767.. 39 x 25.5 cm. One plate with page of letterpress description.

London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane; Printed by Manning and Mason, 1839. Duodecimo (18 x 11 cm.), xv, 200 pages. FIRST EDITION. A guide to the buying, storing and drinking of wine by the journalist and author, Cyrus Redding, 1785-1870. 'The chief thing in the art of drinking wine is to keep within those salutary limits which mark the beneficial from the pernicious ... This is best done by studying self-respect, and the art of saying "no".' A large collection of charming aphorisms, 'wine sayings of my uncle', completes the volume: 'Your stomach is your wine-cellar - keep the stock small and cool ... Wine of the second bottle is a bad storyteller ...' In publisher's gilt-titled and decorated brown, patterned cloth. Small chip to the head of the cloth spine; some light fading to cloth at spine, otherwise near fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates twenty-one copies; Gabler G35820].

Ipswich, MA: Self Published. Very Good; Wraps toned and soiled, longitudinal crease, edges chipped.. 1877. Softcover. Original printed gray wraps. 6 x 9 inches. 1952 typed book purchase receipt laid in from Mass. Horticultural Society with offsetting to inside cover and title page. Bound in at rear is printed slip advertising Haskell’s selection of 30 grape vine cuttings for $100. The author describes his efforts to grow and hybridize grapes on his coastal Massachusetts estate, including his efforts to collect wild grape specimens, grafting native and foreign vines, and cross-fertilization. Also describes forty of his successful varieties. Gabler 23350. Amerine & Borg 1656. OCLC locates 15 copies. Only one other copy noted for sale in the trade at time of listing. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 18 pages .

1749 Liger Rustic House Bees Beekeeping Hunting Wine Cuisine Maison Rustique 2v

Louis 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 and beer making, cooking, and bee keeping.

This two-volume sixth edition is filled with 34 fascinating full-page and folding plates as well as 30 in-text woodcut engravings. The 5th-10th editions of 'Maison Rustique' were edited by Henri Besnier.

Item number: #5757
Price: $599
LIGER, Louis
La nouvelle maison rustique, ou, Économie generale de tous les biens de campagne : la maniere de les entretenir & de les multiplier
Paris : Chez Saugrain fils, 1749.… Read More

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

Falls Village, Connecticut: The Herb Grower Press, 1965. Duodecimo (17.5 x 10.5 cm.), 48, [1], 27, [1] pages. Bibliographical references. ~ Facsimile of the 1675 edition published in London by T.R. & N.T. for B. Tooke; with a supplementary "appendix". FIRST EDITION THUS, limited to 250 numbered copies (this is number 26 of 250). Originally published in London 1666, "printed by J. Grismond for John Crook, at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard". The original contains a preface by John Evelyn (1620-1706), "Philocepos". It is believed Evelyn compiled the text based on "matter" given to him by Rose. This facsimile contains an appendix by Robert H. Jeffers on the life of John Rose. Rose (1619-1677) was gardener to King Charles II... by Robert H. Jeffers.. The original work was later appended to the text of the English edition of Nicolas de Bonnefons' The French Gardener, (1669). Late ownership inscription to foot of free front endpaper, otherwise fine in publisher's paper-covered boards, printed and titled… Read More

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 .

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)].

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.