Wine

New York, 1962. Folio, unpaginated [22] leaves, printed rectos only. Printed text from a hand-lettered original; columns for handwritten prices not entered. An early wine list from the legendary Manhattan restaurant Lutèce (1961-2004). The list opens with an introductory statement to diners from the restaurant's founder, André Surmain, who thanks the restaurant's seven suppliers, a rare credit on modern wine lists, and Alexis Lichine, the author of The Wines of France. Displaying a fine selection of Bordeaux, Rouges & Blancs; Bougognes, Rouges; Roses Loire; Alsace Rhône; and Champagnes, including Lafite Rothschild dating to the 1890s, Haut Brion from the 1930s, and pre-depression era Mouton. Throughout, each selection lists producer as well location of the vineyard. The three Alsatian wines on the list have been credited as the primary genesis of the Alsatian wine market in the United States. Julia Child, Playboy Magazine, and Zagat each proclaimed Lutèce the best restaurant in the United States;… Read More

Bruxelles, J. E. Goossens, 1933. Folio (35.6 x 27.1 cm). [26] pp.; ten full colour plates. Original embossed soft boards. A sparkling, ephemeral work, published in only 350 copies, and nicely illustrated by the Belgian artist Armand Massonet (1892-1979). The single embossment has the shape of a champagne cork. A single, original watercolour drawing by Massonet, in the same style and size, has been added with a pencilled dedication, signed by the artist. "He studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts of Brussels and the Ecole National des Beaux-Arts in Paris (in the studio of Fernand Cormon), where he followed the steps of Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. During World War I, Massonet served as a stretcher-bearer for the Belgian Army while working for the art section of the Army, capturing scenes of war and devastation throughout Belgium. He published an art and literary paper called Le Claque à Fond while on the front line. After the war, he taught drawing in different schools and… Read More

London: Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane; Printed by Manning and Mason, 1839. Duodecimo (18 x 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

Brooklyn: A Spooner & Co, 1846.

1553 Crescenzi Agriculture HERBAL Botany Hunting Italian Wine Ruralia Commoda

An exceedingly rare 16th-century edition of Petrus Crescentiis's history of agriculture. Crescentiis (or Crescenzi) was a 13th-century horticulturist known for his famous writings on agriculture. 'Ruralia Commoda' was written between 1304-09 and would become the first printed text on agriculture in 1471. It would see nearly 60 editions throughout the next century. (Anderson).
This work was an important aid to gardeners in the 16th-century century for providing information on care for plants, astronomers and their research on the skies, and even bizarre instances of 'man-plants'! Crescenzi also discussed husbandry, hunting and trapping, and wine making. Incredibly rare and important – only one copy of this book is found in institutional libraries in the United States!
Item number: #10042
Price: $1950
CRESCENTIIS, Petrus de
Opera di agricoltura: nellaqual si contiene à che modo si debbe coltiuar la terra: seminare,… Read More

1867 1ed Marquart 600 Miscellaneous Recipes Cooking WINE Alcohol Liquor Perfumes

John Marquart's '600 Miscellaneous Valuable Receipts' is a fine 19th-century collection of recipes for American homemakers. It not only includes recipes for cooking, but it also features instructions on making perfumes, paints, and dyes. Though, perhaps the focus of this book was the preparations of alcohols, wines, and spirits.
Item number: #11563
Price: $399
MARQUART, John
600 miscellaneous valuable receipts, worth their weight in gold a thirty years collection, to which is added two simple guaging tables, to enable merchants to take inventory of their stock.
Philadelphia: John E Potter & Co., 1867. First edition.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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· Provenance: Bookplate – D. Miller
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
· Size: ~ 7.5in X 5.25in (19cm x 13cm)

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(7) leaves letterpress text, 1 leaf half-title (première section) 111 numbered leaves (recte 109) ; plates numbered 10 through 111 are printed on recto only, with plate numbers 40, 63 and 92 omitted according to a printed note at the end of the index, but including an extra plate 35bis) ; 1 leaf half-title (cinquième section annexe), (8) leaves numbered I-XVII (omitting numbers XV/XVI) with text and illustrations on both sides. The plates with numerous printed black and white labels, mounted chromolithographed labels and colourful chromolithographed labels on white glazed paper. Publisher's red cloth, gilt title to spine and front cover. Oblong folio (456 x 320 mm). Extremeties worn, front cover spotted. A fine example showing the wealth of French industrial and agricultural products displayed in black and white facsimiles and color mounted product labels and renderings of trademarks of producers and manufacturers. The most important part is the third section of this catalog showing agricultural… Read More

Due parti in un volume in-8°, cc. 71, [1]. Bell'esemplare, con legatura coeva in pergamena. L'opera del Lando è legata con Symeoni, Comentario alla Tetrarchia di Vinegia, 1548.
Provenienza: al frontespizio, antiche annotazioni manoscritte e nota di possesso; Collezione Maria Paola Moroni Salvatori.
Rarissima terza edizione (la princeps, priva di dati tipografici: Venezia 1548). Paleari Hensselr, 414. B.IN.G., 1080.
Il Commentario del Lando - tra i più geniali poligrafi rinascimentali, traduttore in italiano dell'Utopia di Tommaso Moro (1548) - è inoltre assai celebre in quanto alcune sue pagine "illustrano un ideale itinerario gastronomico per le città d'Italia, con riferimento a cibi e vini di cui l'autore mostra di aver acquisito conoscenze di prima mano" (L'arte della cucina in Italia, a cura di E. Faccioli, Torino 1992, p. 275).
"Questo testo costituisce un catalogo etnico-socio-gastronomico estremamente eterogeneo, inserito in un itinerario quasi iniziatico che si snoda attraverso la… Read More

London, Henry Renshaw, 1873.. SECOND EDITION, rewritten and enlarged, 1873, 8vo, approximately 185 x 120 mm, 7¼ x 4¾ inches, grapes vignette on title page, frontispiece (8 woodcut images of deposits in bottled wine), woodcut head- and tailpieces, pages: xii, 180, plus 6 pages of adverts for wine and wine making accessories, bound in original publisher's blind stamped dark green cloth over limp card cut flush, gilt vignette (repeating title vignette) and gilt lettering to upper cover, spine plain, pale yellow endpapers, printed on recto and verso with adverts for wines, glasses, and wine makers' apparatus. Top of spine has small neat repair, spine very slightly wrinkled, corners very slightly rubbed, inner paper hinges front and rear strengthened with close matching paper, tiny bookseller's blind stamp to corner of front endpaper, pencil name to front endpaper, slight faint foxing to margins of title page and next 2 leaves and occasionally in top margins, faint browning to inner margins of 2 facing… Read More

London, Longman Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864.. SECOND EDITION 1864, (revised and enlarged), 8vo, approximately 220 x 140 mm, 8¾ x 5½ inches, folding frontispiece depicting The Vintage, 29 illustrations in the text including 2 full page and a full page map, plus 2 folding tables, pages: xvi, 540 including index, plus 43 page publisher's catalogue dated August 1875, bound in the publisher's blind decorated fine grained red cloth, gilt illustration and lettering on gilt panels on upper cover, lettering on gilt panels on spine with gilt vine leaves and gilt bands at head and tail of spine, brown endpapers. Spine darkened with some dark spotting, very slight wear to head and tail of spine, tiny string dent to top and bottom of upper cover, tiny bump to top corner of upper cover, tiny spot on upper cover, small stain on lower cover, a crease across lower corner of title page, not affecting printed area, occasional pale fox spot, 1 margin lightly soiled, otherwise contents clean. A very good… Read More

In Vicenza: per il Megietti, 1623. Nelli quali si contiene il vero, & utilissimo modo di coltivare le cose di Villa. Con l'aggiunta ancora del Settimo Libro intorno alle pescagioni, et la Tavola delle cose notabili, per ordine d'Alfabeto. SECOND EDITION 1623, text in Italian, small 8vo, approximately 140 x 95 mm, 5½ x 3¾ inches, pictorial device on title page showing 2 hens either side of a tall plant, another the same on verso, large publisher's device on final unnumbered leaf with an anchor and a dolphin, on verso is another the same but more crudely engraved, a few decorated initials and headpieces, pages: (32), 444, (2); collation: *-**8, A-Ee8, bound in full 19th century vellum over boards, border to covers of double blue rules, pale blue gilt decorated and lettered vellum label to spine, pale yellow edges, marbled endpapers. Book I deals with cultivation of different types of land and growing various crops; Book II: constructing farm buildings, tree felling for use in construction, wells and… Read More

Basileae: Per Henricum Petrum, 1538, [mense Augusto anno M. D. XXXVIII] .. causaque & vires rerum ita explicatae, ut confidamus non solum oeconomiae studioso, & medico, verumetiam philosopho aliquid hinc accessurum. Autore optimo agricola & philosopho Petro Crescentiensi. Qui haec senator Bononiae, multis legationibus functus, rogatu regis Siciliae Caroli, ante AN. CXX literis mandavit. Nunc autem tandem castigata ad exemplaria, autoris tempore scripta. Early Swiss edition 1538, dated from colophon, LATIN TEXT, small 4to, approximately 195 x 135 mm, 7¾ x 5½ inches, publisher's pictorial device on title page and verso final page (anvil, hammer, flames fanned by wind), pictorial initials, pages: [40], 1-574, [2], (last page misnumbered 564). Bound in contemporary blind panelled calf, decorative blind borders to covers with central floral lozenge, rebacked at sometime, raised bands, no lettering or label, all edges red, original endpapers. Covers slightly worn and rubbed, spine crinkled, tiny surface… Read More

London, New York and Toronto, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd, 1957.. FIRST EDITION 1957, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY ANDRE SIMON TO MAURICE KIDD on the half-title: "For Maurice Kidd who knows and who loves good wine as much as I do! Andre L. Simon Christmas 1957". Bookplate of Maurice Kidd Writer to Her Majesty's Signet on verso front endpaper. 4to, approximately 260 x 180 mm, 10¼ x 7¼ inches, 24 full page colour photographs by Percy Hennell showing mainly grapes, but also vineyards, bottles, glasses, 8 coloured maps and decorations by Asgeir Scott, pages: xii, 180 including index and glossary, bound in the original publisher's quarter cream parchment and burgundy cloth sides, small gilt vignette to upper cover, gilt lettered spine, top edges yellow, coloured photo endpapers of wine bottles, candle and glass, in dustwrapper with the same image. Tiny lightly darkened area at head and tail of spine, very little pale foxing to fore-edges, small closed tear to lower edge of plate page 132, neatly… Read More