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1883254871883. Very good condition. A letter and money draft from Armstrong Bushee & Co. - wholesaler for whiskey wine beer cigars based in Grand Forks North Dakota - on letterhead paying for wine from the New Urbana Wine Co. of Hammondsport New York Finger Lakes. These were sent six years before Statehood and 13 years after the founding of Grand Forks. <br /> <br /> The Urbana Wine Company was established in 1865 and known as the Urbana Wine Company until 1881 when it was reorganized under the name of "New Urbana Wine Company". Renamed "Urbana Wine Company" in 1896 and reorganized during Prohibition and named Gold Seal Products Company until the repeal of Prohibition when the company changed its name back to "Urbana Wine Company Inc."<br /> <br /> During Prohibition the company produced sacramental wine. The company applied for the Gold Seal trademark in 1887. After Prohibition Edwin Stewart Underhill Jr. President of the company went to Rheims France and brought Charles Fournier from Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin where he served as Production Manager. He became the winemaker and production manager of Urbana Wine Company and although intending to stay just a few years remained employed there the rest of his life. He introduced several important French-American Hybrid grape varieties into the production of wine. He was made president of the company in 1951. The company was known for introducing the European Vitis vinifera grape to the United States and for its production of Finger Lakes champagne. Wikipedia. <br /> <br /> 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" cream lined paper original folds. unknown
1894143875Adelaide: Government Printer 1894. Fine. Adelaide Government Printer 1894. Foolscap folio two papers 1 and 1 pages. Needle-holes and notches in the left-hand margin where previously bound now disbound; in fine condition. South Australian Parliamentary Papers Numbers 79 and 87 of 1894; each one of only 650 copies. Government Printer unknown
1894019492Philadelphia: Henry T Coates & Co Winston 1894. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good. Plates. 300 Pp. Coates Title Page Winston At Base Of Spine; Perhaps Coates Bought Unsold Stock From Winston. Clean No Names Or Marks Fraying At Corners. Hinges Cracked Through. Also Cracked Through Between Title/Copyright Page And Page 1. <br/> <br/> Henry T Coates & Co [Winston] hardcover
1842023130Paris: Chez M M / Dentu 1842. First Edition . Quarter Leather. Very Good . 8 1/4" Tall. 472 Pp 2 Pp Contents Pages And 5 Plates Including 4 Folding Plates At End. Original Quarter Morocco Over Patterned Paper Over Boards. Gently Worn Spine Gilt Still Bright No Fraying Of Leather Some Wear To Paper Along Edges Of Boards Veryl Clean And Solid Tips Square. Original Endpapers Hinges Tight. Colored Along Edges Of Page Block As Issued. No Damp Stains. Pages Square Crisp But A Little Browned And Foxed. Small Illegible Owner's Signature At Top Of Introduction Page Ink Now Quite Browned. <br/> <br/> Chez M M / Dentu hardcover
189326348Rochester NY 1893. Paperback. Very good condition. Magazine for growers and dealers in nursery stock centered on Western New York. Lead article "The Grape industry Oldest Grape Growing Region in the United States". Sml. folio 12pp frontis & 3pp adverts. October 1893 issue Volume 1 number 9. Handsome original wrappers with embossed gilt scrolling on cream which is dusty & marked. Some staining of two leading corners. paperback
1863024891San Francisco: A. Antoni Roman & Company 1863. First Edition 1st Printing. Brown Cloth Gilt. Good. 8 1/8" Tall. Xvi 464 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt. First Printing Published By The Prominent San Francisco Bookseller Antoni Roman. Cloth Clean Spine Gilt Present And Clear Although No Longer Brilliant. Cloth Worn Just At Corners Small Losses At Tips And 1/8" Complete Loss Along Top And Bottom Edges Of Spine Original Brown Endpapers With 1 1/2" Split At Top Of Front Hinge Rear Hinge Completely Broken But Binding Sound. Name Stamp Of Chester Stock At Caltech On Title Page No Other Names Or Marks Pages Clean And Fairly Crisp. <br/> <br/> A. ((Antoni) Roman & Company hardcover
1830M11919Philadelphia:: L. Johnson 1830. 1830. "4th improved edition." 8vo. 385-90 381 pp. Foxed throughout not hindering legibility. Original red cloth spine paper title label; front cover detached but present ffe loose extremities worn spine chipped. Rear free endpaper early ownership signature. As is. RARE. The first volume of a pioneer American health journal published from 1829-33. It features a selection of fascinating perspectives on medicine including analyses of the effects on health of headwear wine and malt liquor consumption mealtimes and water drinking among other things as well as considerations of race and longevity quacks mothering and more. On tobacco: "'A Victim of the Weed' is desirous of knowing whether he can at once abandon his pipe and segars or must part company in a gradual manner. Our advice is to desist immediately and entirely from the use of tobacco in every form and in any quantity however small" 220. On race: "The differences in this respect are primitive in the different races; the mucous body or varnish which constitutes the layer between the true skin beneath and the outer covering or cuticle being white or nearly so in the European or Caucasian races; yellowish in the Mongul or African; and black in the African" 146. On the education of girls: "Under twelve years of age it should be an invariable rule that the hours of close application should never exceed those of amusement and exercise" 267. Contains nos. 1-24: September 9 1829 through August 25 1830. L. Johnson, 1830. hardcover
1900187311900. Very good condition. Colour photo-lithograph with illustrations from an unknown international magazine of the locations and activities of the wine making process. With numbered caption below the image: 1. A vineyard. 2. Vine Harvest. 3. Wine Making. 4. The Vats. 5. The Cellars. With a vignette of a vineyard at the top of the illustration and cluster of grapes. There are 2 illustrations of Japan and China on verso. Image 6 x 9" on paper 10 1/2 x 13" unknown
1891023124Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers 1891. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good . 8 3/4" x 6" Oblong. Frontispiece By L. M. P. 129 Pp. Very Clean Unmarked Original Gold Boards With Light Wear Just At Corners Hinges Tight. Nineteen Copies In Worldcat. <br/> <br/> Lee and Shepard Publishers hardcover
1826031819London: Thomas And George Underwood 1826. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Vii 307 Pp. Full Calf Morocco Spine Labels Very Elaborate Blindstamping On Covers Marbled Endpapers And Edges. First Edition. Very Worn Spine Chipped Front Cover And Endpaper Detached Together Just Needs New Cords Not Rebacking But Contents Very Clean And Unworn No Marks Or Foxing. Large Heraldic Bookplate Of Thomas Gery Cullum The Somewhat Distinguished Nineteenth Century Doctor And Writer. <br/> <br/> Thomas And George Underwood hardcover
1870biblio840<p>This is an excellent copy of the very useful manual on making wines and spirits including many sorts of technical data and equipment. 19th century recipes for the aspiring vintner or distillery adventurer.</p><p>Photos on request.</p> Dick & Fitzgerald hardcover
187026014209Philadelphia Pennsylvania: Geddes printer 1870. Very good. Minor dust soiling toning. Printed trade card advertising "Wm. M'Kinley Jr's Grocery Wine and Tea Store" on the North Side of Philadelphia. Lists Spermaceti Oil for oil lamps and lighting pickles dried beef and tongue among the goods for sale. Bright green coated card measuring approx. 1.5" by 3.5" verso blank. Geddes, printer unknown
187418465Sydney: Thomas Richards Government Printer 1874. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Sydney Thomas Richards Government Printer 1874. Foolscap folio 6 pages last blank. As issued without wrappers; a fine copy. New South Wales Legislative Assembly Paper Number 46 of 1874. The House sought to repeal the Act and called for the Report 'embodying the opinions and experiences of the Police in the various districts of the Colony respecting the working of the said Act'. The Officers of Police were almost unanimous in their views 'that the wine-shops as licensed under the Act referred to are injurious and demoralizing to the community as they are usually established in isolated positions where there can be little or no supervision. They become the resort of bad characters and places for the illicit sale of spirits - the fruitful source of intemperance and crime'. The individual reports are very detailed and make for instructive even entertaining reading. Thomas Richards, Government Printer paperback
186128425Melbourne: Government Printer 1861. Fine. Melbourne Government Printer 1861. Foolscap folio 25 pages. Sewn as issued; uncut edges slightly sunned; minimal foxing; essentially a fine copy. Victorian Parliamentary Paper Number 42 of 1861; the report covers the calendar year 1860. Contents include a densely-printed two-page 'Report by the Judges of the Vineyards' E.B. Heyne Alwin Seidel and J.W. Dardel and an eight-page report by the Director of the Experimental Farm Thomas Skilling. The five vineyards competing for the 'Argus' Gold Prize Cup for the best cultivated vineyard included Messrs. Castella and Anderson of Yering and the Manager of Tabilk Vineyard Goulburn. Government Printer unknown
18894008<p>WINE. HOHOFF Theodor. Wein-Bericht pro 1889/90 von Theodor Hohoff in Erbach im Rheingau. Oestrich & Eltville Buchdruckerei widow Julius Etienne 1889.</p><p>with: HOHOFF Theodor. Wein-Bericht pro 1890/91 von Theodor Hohoff in Erbach im Rheingau. Oestrich & Eltville Buchdruckerei widow Julius Etienne 1890.</p><p>Two volumes each small 8vo 156 x 125mm pp. 32 with Preis-courant pp. 6 with map loosely inserted; together with folded printed insert ll. 4to copy of the certification discussions of Hohoff's wine as communion wine; original printed wrappers; from the Kloster Andechs library small stamp to title and shelf mark to upper wrapper.</p><p>Two wine newsletters produced by the wine merchant Theodor Hohoff. Hohoff was apparently a campaigner for purity in wine and demanded that any falsifications or additions needed to be declared. He provides some useful information on wine production wine storage wine temperature etc. The inserts include small maps of the Rheingau wine area.</p><p>In the early 1890s Theodor Hohoff and Stanislauf Renschel Wine Merchants had a base in London but their collaboration ended November 1894.</p> Etienne paperback
189518521AB1895. 4th very much enlarged edition. Vienna Pest and Leipzig Hartleben 1895. 185 : 125 cm. VII 200 pages with 15 illustrations. Contemporary half-calf binding title on spine. About sparkling wine sweet wines the making of straw-wine raisin-wine yeast- malt- artificial- berry and pomaceous-wine. unknown
1862035822New York: C. M. Saxton 1862. First Edition 1st Printing. Green Embossed Cloth. Very Good . Drawings. Xvi 17-375 Pp 8 Pp Catalog At End. Green Cloth Gilt And Stamped In Blind. A Very Nice Example Spine Gilt Bright And Complete Points Of Fraying At Two Lower Tips And One On Each Side Of Spine Only No Fraying At Top Or Bottom Of Spine. Hinges Tight Original Yellow Endpapers Clean And Bright Old Pencil Signature "D. Chase" At Top Of Title Page No Other Names Or Marks. From The Extensive Food And Wine Library Of Robert Balzer; Not Marked As Such But With A 12 Line Loosely Inserted Typed Ditty From And About One Of His California Wine Classes At Ucla. <br/> <br/> C. M. Saxton hardcover
18750006437New York: D. Van Nostrand 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo 108 pages 48 page publisher's catalogue brown pebbled cloth <br/><br/>Dr. Prescott became Dean of the Pharmacy School at the University of Michigan. Later he was President of the American Chemical Society the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Pharmacist's Association. Gabler WINE INTO WORDS G32840. D. Van Nostrand hardcover
186889473Montauban: Forestie Neveu 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Montauban Forestie Neveu 1868 1869 and 1870. Octavo three volumes iv 376 iv; iv 376 iv; and 224 pages. Contemporary quarter stippled cloth and marbled papered boards; cloth slightly mottled; trifling signs of use; a fine set. The first two years contain all 12 monthly issues; the third volume ends with #7 the July issue clearly not the last one published. The text is in French; there are some excellent articles on wine for example 'Cuvé à étages pour la fabrication du vin' spread over 22 pages in the third volume. 3 items. Forestie Neveu hardcover
185889395Toulouse: Chez Gimet 1858. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Toulouse Chez Gimet 1858 the publisher's details are supplied on a printed slip pasted onto the front wrapper; the date appears on the dedication page. Octavo ii dedication leaf verso blank 22 4 last one errata pages. Original green wrappers sewn as issued; slight crease to the covers and the first two leaves; essentially a fine copy. Chez Gimet paperback
187359914New York:: Pleasant Valley Wine Co. 1873. A few shallow marginal chips and some inoffensive small stains; very attractive. 13-3/4 x 10-1/4 inches overall. . 7 lithographic views in color: Wine Presses; Bottling; Works and Vaults; Finishing Champagne; Vineyard Scene; Champagne Vault; Still Wine Vault. Pleasant Valley Wine Co., unknown
18529510New York: Orange Judd & Co 1852. Second-hand hardcover. <p>Chorlton William. The American Grape Grower's Guide. 2nd Ed Orange Judd & Co: New York 1852. 8vo 195x130mm HC black pebbled cloth gilt lettered spine 2xii11-2044pp.</p> <p><br /> <br /> <p>CHORLTON William. circa 1812 - 1889</p> <br /> <p>The American Grape Grower's Guide intended especially for the American climate: being a practical treatise on the cultivation of the grapevine in each department of hot house cold grapery retarding house & out door culture with plans for the construction of the requisite buildings and giving the best methods of heating the same.</p> <br /> <p>New-York : Orange Judd & Company circa 1852. Second Edition. Copyright and first published 1852 by C M Saxon New York.</p> <br /> <p>Duodecimo 195x130mm original publisher's black pebbled cloth gilt lettered spine plain blind ruled and stamped decoration to boards 2xii11-2044 blankpp : 1¹² 2-8¹² 9â¸. Thirty-two wood block engraved monochrome illustrations. Corners lightly rubbed; slight fraying to tail of spine; light stains to the frontispiece and title page not affecting the text or illustration; crease to rear paste-down.<br /> <br /> ¶  There are fifteen chapters: introductory remarks; glass houses and conveniences; artificial heat and apparatus; borders or prepared beds; planting and management the first year; management for the second year and permanent treatment for the cold grapery; the early grapery or forcing house; pot culture; retarding house; list of varieties; pruning and training; propagation and the raising of new kinds; diseases; insects and how to destroy them; the vineyards and out-door culture.</p> <br /> <p>The American Grape Grower's Guide was a very popular treatise on the cultivation of grapes for table consumption both under glass and outdoors.  It was based on Chorlton's experience as gardener and horticulturist to J C Green Esq of Staten Island.  In that role Chorlton was also a several time prize winner at the New York Horticultural Exhibition for hothouse grapes.</p> <br /> <p>An early edition of a popular and practical work.<br /> <br /> § OCLC records numerous holdings this edition in the USA but none elsewhere.<br /> § Gabler 15820; Noling 105 later edition; not in Cagle or Bitting.</p> </p> Orange Judd & Co unknown
1864023433Bordeaux: P. Chaumas 1864. 5th or later Edition . Half Morocco. Fine. 55 Vues De Chateaux Folding Charts And Large Folding Color Map At Rear. 1V 364 Pp. Folding Plates Including Large Folding Map In Color. Old But Fine Quarter Morocco Wine Red Color Five Bands Gilt Title And Author 11 Gilt Fleur De Lys In Each Of Five Other Compartments Gold Rules At Edges Original Marbled Endpapers Matching Marbling On Edges Of Page Block. No Names No Marks No Bookplates Foxing To White Endpapers And Half-Title A Few Small Very Light Foxing Areas On Title Page Otherwise Contents Clean Square Crisp A Superior Example. <br/> <br/> P. Chaumas unknown
189018516AB1890. Graz 1890. 245 : 16 cm. 24 pages 4 plates with 21 coloured illustrations. Typographic printed original wrappers. Fight against the wine-fretter with the help of American grapes in parts of Austria. - Wrappers loose. - Rare. unknown
1858023432Bordeaux: P. Chaumas 1858. 2nd Edition . Half Morocco. Fine. 566 Pp. Stated "Dieuxieme Edition". Old But Fine Half Morocco Wine Red Color Five Bands Gilt Title And Author 11 Gilt Fleur De Lys In Each Of Five Other Compartments Gold Rules At Edges Original Marbled Endpapers Matching Marbling On Edges Of Page Block. No Names No Marks No Bookplates Foxing To White Endpapers And Half-Title A Few Small Very Light Foxing Areas On Title Page Otherwise Contents Clean Square Crisp. <br/> <br/> P. Chaumas unknown
