WINE
WINE
AMERICAN
Grapes AMERICAN
Wine AMERICAN Author 
(AMERICAN).
Husmann, George. American grape growing and wine making ... fourth
edition — revised and rewritten. New York: Orange Judd, 1902. 8vo (18.5
cm, 7.25"). viii, 269, [11 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
Provenance: Ownership stamp of “C. Witter . . . St. Louis, Mo.”
• Amerine & Borg, Bibliography on Grapes, Wines, Other Alcoholic Beverages, & Temperance, 1851. Publisher's dark green cloth, covers with blind-stamped grapevine borders, spine with gilt-stamped decorative title; spine extremities slightly rubbed, front cover with a few tiny spots of faint discoloration, otherwise a clean, fresh copy. Title-page with private owner's rubber-stamp in lower margin. Pages clean. A nice book. (20691)
“Cookery is Become a
Science . . . Which Seems Now
Perfection” Collingwood, Francis, & John Woollams. The universal cook, and city and country housekeeper. Containing all the various branches of cookery.... London: Pr. by R. Noble for J. Scatcherd & J. Whitaker, 1792. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.4"). [28], 451, [1] pp.; 14 plts.
illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the two authors, along with 13 other plates showing bills of fare and carving techniques.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Sherwin family.
• ESTC T50471; Bitting 94–95; Cagle 625. Contemporary sheep, rebacked; spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and gilt-ruled compartments, board edges with gilt roll; corners and edges rubbed. Front pastedown with bookplate. Frontispiece lightly foxed; light spotting scattered throughout. A sound, clean, pleasant copy. (24532)
The “Who’s Who”Great Britain. Parliament. A true and exact list of the lords spiritual and temporal, also of the knights[,] commissioners of shires, citizens and burgesses, chosen to serve in the Parliament of Great Britain. [London], 1741. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 16 pp. 
wine).
The current U.K. Parliament website sums up the terms thusly: “The Lords
Spiritual are made up of the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops
of London, Durham and Winchester as well as specific bishops of the Church of
England. The Lords Temporal are made up of Hereditary Peers elected under Standing
Orders, Life Peers, Law Lords, the earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain.”
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the image to the left Uncommon:
ESTC locates only four copies, none of which are in the U.S.
• ESTC T26238; Goldsmiths’-Kress 7877.5. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Pages age-toned, with some dustsoiling.
ENCYCLOPAEDIC Johnson, Hugh. The world atlas of wine. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. Folio. 272 pp.; illus.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with silver-stamped title, in original dust jacket; dust jacket with upper outer corners slightly rubbed and short tears to head and foot of spine. Quite a nice copy. (24832)
Canary Wine — a Favorite
Among thePURITANS?Meers, James. D.S. Boston, New England, 28 October 1676. Oblong 12mo (3.5" x 9"). 1 p.
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In the 17th and and 18th centuries “Canary wine” was a popular sweet wine from Tenerife that found much favor among the English, colonial and other.
• Generally very legible. One small portion of lower blank are torn with loss of paper. Old “clear,” non-cello, non-press-apply tape repair to missing area and to corners for mounting in an album. With pencilled dealer’s code (Sessler’s). Good or good+ condition.
The Choir Master OwnedVineyardsRamírez Carrillo, Alonso. Document (“escritura pública de donación”). In Spanish, on paper. Peñafiel, Spain, 24 April 1615. Folio. [10] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. A contemporaneous certified copy of the original document.
• Written in a clear notarial hand. Very good condition.
Enlarged & First Illustrated Edition Smith, Mrs. The female economist; or, a plain system of cookery, for the use of families, containing upwards of 850 valuable receipts ... twelfth edition, enlarged. London: Samuel Leigh, 1828. (18.5 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., lx, 299, [1] pp.
Baths & Beverages
Hot & Cold —
Use & Abuse!
Vallisneri, Antonio. Dell’uso, e dell’abuso delle bevande, e bagnature calde, o fredde... terza impressione. Napoli: Felice Mosca, 1727. 4to (23.5 cm, 9.25"). [2] ff., 124, 48 pp. 
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wine,
and baths — having first experimented on himself. Tea and coffee are specifically
mentioned in passing (only) — in reference to the quantities drunk in
Constantinople as opposed to western Europe. The work is followed by Giovanni
Batista Davini’s De potu vini calidi, a shorter essay on the use
of heated wine, which preceded Vallisneri’s treatise in the first edition.
• Bitting 117 (second ed.); Cagle 1132 (first ed. of Davini only); Osler, Biblotheca Osleriana, 2428 (first ed.); Vicaire 250 (second ed.); not in Hünersdorff, Coffee. Contemporary vellum, darkened, with a few pinholes of insect damage and some minor spots of staining. Title-page with inked ownership inscription in Latin, dated 1728. Pages a bit cockled, with edges darkened; most mildly to moderately foxed.
“GoodChampagne
Does Not Rain
Down from the Clouds, Vizetelly,
Henry. Facts about champagne and other sparkling wines, collected
during numerous visits to the Champagne and other viticultural districts of France,
and the principal remaining wine-producing countries of Europe...with one hundred
and twelve illustrations. London: Ward, Lock, & Co., 1879. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25").
[16 (adv.)], [2], 235, [1], [14 (adv.)] pp.; 40 plts., illus.
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Vizetelly was, in addition to being a well-known connoisseur of wines, an engraver and publisher who eventually came to grief over his publication of Zola’s works — not to mention his having been a co-author of the fictitious Four Months Among the Goldfinders in Alta California, which helped jump-start the California gold rush.
Binding: Publisher’s grape-colored cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; front cover with gilt-stamped vignette of a putto stomping grapes.
• NSTC 0783299; not in Cagle, not in George, Speise und Trank.
On Vizetelly, see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Bound as above,
cloth rubbed over corners and spine extremities; a bit of wrinkling over back
cover, with spine gently sunned and edges darkened. Back hinge cracked and
front hinge starting (inside), with covers soundly holding but sewing just
starting to loosen in some signatures. Endpapers and some advertisements showing
light age-toning and offsetting, with pages clean save for one instance of
pencilled bracketing. Utterly engaging.
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