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Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1950. 8vo; 33pp; 3/4 burgundy morocco and marbled paper over boards, teg, original wrappers bound in, fine. This wine merchant's catalogue is illustrated throughout with delicate, full-color reproductions - collotypes - in-texte and hors-texte after drawings by the Japanese artist R. Harada.
(CASSANDRE, A. M. ) NICOLAS WINE CATALOGS -
(CASSANDRE, A. M. ) NICOLAS WINE CATALOGS
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Two early wine catalogues for the French wine distributor Nicolas with typography, layout and illustration by A .M. Cassandre, the brilliant poster artist and typeface designer. Printed by Draeger. Small 4to, spiral bound thick wrappers. Fine copies.
A. ÉTABLISSEMENTS NICOLAS. LISTE DES GRANDS VINS FINS 1931. Deep blue wrappers with cut-out revealing a silver star with the initial N, the next page on silver foil with a small star and the large star, now spelling out Nicolas. Color center spread of map of France overprinted with the Maison Nicolas star plus two full page stylized drawings of the famous Nicolas bottle man. $350
B. ÉTABLISSEMENTS NICOLAS. LISTE DES GRANDS VINS FINS 1936. Cover with boldly designed and vividly colored letters on black background within yellow, white and gray frame, spelling out Nicolas. Typography and compositions in various colors throughout by Cassandre. $350
A. ÉTABLISSEMENTS NICOLAS. LISTE DES GRANDS VINS FINS 1931. Deep blue wrappers with cut-out revealing a silver star with the initial N, the next page on silver foil with a small star and the large star, now spelling out Nicolas. Color center spread of map of France overprinted with the Maison Nicolas star plus two full page stylized drawings of the famous Nicolas bottle man. $350
B. ÉTABLISSEMENTS NICOLAS. LISTE DES GRANDS VINS FINS 1936. Cover with boldly designed and vividly colored letters on black background within yellow, white and gray frame, spelling out Nicolas. Typography and compositions in various colors throughout by Cassandre. $350
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Liste des grands vins 1950. Sous le signe du soleil levant. Illustrations de R. Harada
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Watercolour of 3 women and man crushing grapes wine and pressing
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Open Air Grape Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Garden and Vineyard Culture of the Vine, and the Manufacture of Domestic Wine... in the Northern and Middle States ... To Which is Added a ... Carefully Prepared Description of the Thomery System ...
by Phin, John
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Pasadena, California, United States
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New 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.
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An Account of Various Experiments for the Production of New and Desirable Grapes, and a Description of Forty Varieties Obtained by Hybridization
by Haskell, George
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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 Haskells 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 .
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WINES OF THE WORLD Pocket Series 1 and 2
by Simon, Andre L.
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Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
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London: The Wine and Food Society, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Uncommonly found complete, scarcer still in decorated cardboard slipcases, which show some wear and some paper over board loss here and there. Individual volumes, 8 titles to each series, show the slightest edgewear top of spine, internals fine, apparently unused. First Series, 1951, is second editon (the first 1950). Second Series, 1951, is a first edition. First series designed by Newman Neame Ltd; Second by The Thanet Press.
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Liste des grands vins 1950. Sous le signe du soleil levant. Illustrations de R. Harada
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Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1950. 8vo; 33pp; 3/4 burgundy morocco and marbled paper over boards, teg, original wrappers bound in, fine. This wine merchant's catalogue is illustrated throughout with delicate, full-color reproductions - collotypes - in-texte and hors-texte after drawings by the Japanese artist R. Harada.
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Watercolour of 3 women and man crushing grapes wine and pressing
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19th century. 14-1/2 x 10 inches. Matted. 14-1/2 x 10 inches.
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Open Air Grape Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Garden and Vineyard Culture of the Vine, and the Manufacture of Domestic Wine... in the Northern and Middle States ... To Which is Added a ... Carefully Prepared Description of the Thomery System ...
by Phin, John
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Pasadena, California, United States
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New 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.
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An Account of Various Experiments for the Production of New and Desirable Grapes, and a Description of Forty Varieties Obtained by Hybridization
by Haskell, George
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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 Haskells 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 .
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WINES OF THE WORLD Pocket Series 1 and 2
by Simon, Andre L.
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Salisbury, Connecticut, United States
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London: The Wine and Food Society, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Uncommonly found complete, scarcer still in decorated cardboard slipcases, which show some wear and some paper over board loss here and there. Individual volumes, 8 titles to each series, show the slightest edgewear top of spine, internals fine, apparently unused. First Series, 1951, is second editon (the first 1950). Second Series, 1951, is a first edition. First series designed by Newman Neame Ltd; Second by The Thanet Press.
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Wine, The Vine and the Cellar
by Shaw, Thomas George
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Octavo (9 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches) Baltimore: Bacchus Press Ltd., 1992. Facsimile of the 1864 second edition. 540 pages and 24 pages of period publisher's ads., fold out charts, numerous illustrations. Wine colored leatherette, decorative cover (the title is surrounded by grape vines which frame a charicature of a happy vintner sitting on a barrel; all done in gold). very good condition.A faithful reproduction of a scarce work. Shaw was originally from Scotland and had much to do with lowering the duty on wine imported to England. His writing is informative and humorous. He mentions American wines and in a prophetic remark states, "California seems better adapted for producing wine."
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Great Bordeaux Wines of St Emilon, Pomrol and Fronsac
by Enjalbert, Henri
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Translated from the French by Harriet Coleman & Richard Maxwell from "Les Grand Vins de St Emilion, Pomerol et Fronsac." Wear along edges and at corners. Clean interior pages. a few pages have a wrinkle along top edge. Includes a note from the publisher correcting a few typoes. Nonfiction. French agricultural history. Viniculture. Pages are number in two separate sequences. 368 pages of text. 246 pages in color. 8" X 12" X 2.25" 20.5CM X30.5 CM X 6CM- English translation includes some additional material about the difference between how the French classify soil particle sizes vs international standards and USDA standard. The book is divided into three main sections. The first part deals with the geology of the Libournais region including how it was formed, sediment deposition by rivers, and the current soil profile for each of the subregions. Part two deals wtih the history of wine making in the region with a focus on the 18th century being a transition period where the quality and terroir of a wine…
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American Wines and How to Make Them
by Wagner, Philip M
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NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, foxing to endpapers and edges, . owner name on front free endpaper.. 1933. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth with cabernet-colored printed paper labels on front boards and spine. Index xivpp, rear fold-out synopsis of instructions for making white and red wines. A Prohibition-era winemaking book, with detailed instructions for the home vintner, with interesting chapter on false and sick wines. Noling p. 427, Gabler G40410. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages .
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Atlas P.L.M. Jura, Burgundy
by [Atlas - wine; Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway]
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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.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. The Astronomer Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with Accompaniment of Drawings by Elihu Vedder
by [Omar Khayyam]; Fitzgerald, Edward
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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)].
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TENDER IS THE NIGHT.
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott Tender is the Night. Charles Scribner's Sons Revised Edition. Copyright page states 1933, 1934 L-2.67 [Col]. UNDATED, Circa 1958. With $4.50 Unclipped original white black and gold Charles Scribner's unclipped dust jacket. ALSO page count is just 315 pages, shorter than the First Edition. Used. Very Good Condition/ Very Good- Black boards with gilt titling on spine. EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS DUST JACKET. Unable to find any other copies on the net whatsoever. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼.
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Etablissements Nicolas. Liste Des Grands Vins fins. 1934.
by Latour, Alfred, illusstrator
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Paris: Etablissements Nicolas, 1949.. Wine Menu. Color woodcut plates by Latour. 34 pp. Spiralbound.
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Bouchonnier [Wine Cork Maker]: Engraving from Denis Diderot and Jean Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
by Bénard, Robert (1734-1777)
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Paris: Chez Briasson, David & Le Breton, 1762-1767.. 39 x 25.5 cm. One plate with page of letterpress description.
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LA VIGNE ET LE VIN: Etude Generale
by Peyre, Docteur P. (Paul). Preface de Edouard Barthe
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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Paris: Jouve, 1949. First edition. Paperback. Sunning to spine and edges, else fine. 132 pp., illustrated with 3 engraved plates, 1 photographic plate, 8vo, original printed wrappers with engraved grapevine ornament on front wrapper. A scientific study of the vine and wine by a doctor of pharmacy. 2-page errata list at front, extensive bibliography. Scarce.
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The Cultivation of the Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
by Husmann, George
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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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 .
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