The Vine and its Fruit,
more especially in relation to the production of wine: embracing an historical and descriptive account of the grape, its culture and treatment in all countries, ancient and modern.
Stock Code 115383
London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875
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A comprehensive history of winemaking with chapters on the vineyards of Portugal, Spain, France, Germany & Switzerland, Italy, Austria-Hungary, South Africa, Madeira & the Canary Islands, Greece, Persia & Arabia, India, China & Australia, and America.
Illustrated with two colour folding maps showing the principal wine regions of Europe, and the vineyards of Athens.
'A very interesting work and especially valuable for the considerable store of historical and geographical information it contains about all the wines of the world' (p.13).
Second edition, revised and enlarged; 8vo (21.5 x 15 cm); 2 colour folding maps, engraved ornaments; publisher's bevelled maroon cloth, gilt Bacchus device to upper panel within gilt framed, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers split but holding, corners bumped, minor wear to extremities, partially repaired in tape, light spotting to title and occasionally thereafter, very good; xvi, 518pp.
Simon p.13
Illustrated with two colour folding maps showing the principal wine regions of Europe, and the vineyards of Athens.
'A very interesting work and especially valuable for the considerable store of historical and geographical information it contains about all the wines of the world' (p.13).
Second edition, revised and enlarged; 8vo (21.5 x 15 cm); 2 colour folding maps, engraved ornaments; publisher's bevelled maroon cloth, gilt Bacchus device to upper panel within gilt framed, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers split but holding, corners bumped, minor wear to extremities, partially repaired in tape, light spotting to title and occasionally thereafter, very good; xvi, 518pp.
Simon p.13
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