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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
1831600978Berlin, Rucker, 1831. M. 2 Kpfr.-Taf. 266 S. Titelbl. fehlt. Ohne Einbd. Stellenw. etwas braunfleckig. Letztes Blatt lose. (Mögl. Ann. d. Landwirtsch. 29/1).
1875186618Hannover u. Leipzig, Cohen & Risch, 1875. M. 33 Textill. X, 302 S., 3 Bl. Ohne Einbd. Gebräunt, teils etwas braunfl. Unaufgeschn.
1877607847Berlin, Wiegandt, Hempel & Parey, 1877. M. 8 lith. Taf. u. 2 Textholzschn. 405 S. Hldr. Rücken leicht eingeriss., Ecken u. Kanten gering bestoßen. (Landw. Jb. Suppl.-H. 1).
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
1900WRCLIT82435New York: Townsend & Montant 1900. 433pp. plus tipped in errata. Octavo. Extracted from pamphlet volume without wrapper. Binding residue along spine a handful of pencil notes otherwise very good or better. The sale consisted of well over 123 lots including lettered lots some of the more important with commentary. The lots were sold at the direction of the executors of Judge Hilton's estate and overseen by Du Vivier & Co. Hilton is best remembered for his profitable association with Alexander Stewart and for his 1500 acre estate in Saratoga Springs known at its height as Woodlawn Park. Not recorded in OCLC. Townsend & Montant unknown books
1889WRCLIT82453Bordeaux: Feret et Fils 1889. 824168pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Printed wrapper. Illustrated adverts. Tanning to wrapper residue on spine from former binding otherwise very good. First edition. The very scarce exhibition catalogue for the year under the auspices of the Société d'Agriculture de la Gironde. Accompanied by a 16pp. catalogue of the publications re: viticulture and brewing available through Feret and Sons. Unrecorded in OCLC. Feret et Fils unknown books
1888WRCLIT82451Bordeaux: Feret et Fils 1888. 840168pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Printed wrapper. Illustrated adverts. Modest tanning to wrapper with a few small spots to upper panel residue on spine from former binding some pencil ticks in catalogue otherwise very good. 2e Édition. The very scarce exhibition catalogue for the year under the auspices of the Société d'Agriculture de la Gironde. Accompanied by a 16pp. catalogue of the publications re: viticulture and brewing available through Feret and Sons. Unrecorded in OCLC. Feret et Fils unknown books
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 books
187027169New York: Harper's 1870. Pale pink printed wrappers. Overall VG spine paper worn. Pp 1 - 160 pp. Adverts at rear. Illustrated with cuts. 8vo. 10" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/>"Wine in America and American Wine" pp 106 - 114 gives a 'state of the union' for the day. Issue also has a piece on the 'Mysteries of Thunderstorms' one on horse racing in the US "The Running Turf in America First Series" 6 pp. & General R. B. Marcy's "Border Reminiscences." Harper's unknown books
185830754-yf8100Paris: Aug. Aubry 1858. 48 p. Neuere Halbleinwand mit Rückengoldtitel (sehr gutes und sauberes unbeschnittenes, breitrandiges Exemplar). 8°. fest gebunden
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
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
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
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
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
1868WRCLIT82829Paris: Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique 1868. viii143pp. Small octavo. Removed from nonce pamphlet volume original printed wrappers preserved. Wrappers a bit dust smudged spine shows residue of former binding portion of bookseller's ticket at lower edge of upper wrapper just very good. Second edition. OCLC locates 8 copies six of them in California institutional collections. OCLC: 8531683. Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique unknown books
1897198091Jena Jena, Fischer, 1897. 81 S. OBr. Umschlag leicht angeschmutzt u. knickspurig. Unaufgeschn. Ex. Kl. Sign. a. Vortit. (Sammlung nationalökonomischer und statistischer Abhandlungen d. staatswiss. Seminars Halle 15).
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
1892WRCLIT82476Mainz: Ph. von Zabern 1892. 2633pp. Small quarto. Decorated wrappers. Illustrations and photographs. Wrappers chipped at spine and fore-edge scattered foxing and light soiling a few short marginal snags; just a good sound copy. A well appointed promotional for and company history of the prominent German firm of sparkling winemakers. [Ph. von Zabern unknown books
1889WRCLIT82454Bordeaux: Feret et Fils 1889. 8168pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. Printed wrapper. Illustrated adverts. Tanning to wrapper residue on spine from former binding otherwise very good. First edition. The catalogue of books and pamphlets available from Feret & Sons re: winemaking viticulture and agriculture here presented as a separate from the very scarce exhibition catalogue for the year. The exhibition was mounted under the auspices of the Société d'Agriculture de la Gironde. Feret et Fils unknown books
18301830Milano, Co'Torchi della Soc. Tip. de'Classici Iitaliani, 1830. 1 gefaltete Tafel, XV, 781 S., Halblederband der Zeit Zustand 3, stark berieben und bestoßen, Besitzerstempel auf Titelseite, stellenweise stockfleckig.
188427583-yg3057Straubing: Lechner 1884. 46 Seiten. Neue Broschur (papierbedingt etwas gebräunt, das Titelblatt mit einem professionell unterlegten kleinen Einriß, sonst sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar). Gr.-8°. broschiert/ Taschenbuch
1877145347Bern, Magron, 1877. 94 S. Hlwd. M. Rsign. Einbd. etwas berieben. St. a. Tit.
