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)
Second U.S. Edition: An Influential Classic Carter, Susannah. The frugal housewife: Or, complete
woman cook. Philadelphia: James Carey, 1796. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). 132 pp.; 2 plts.
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homemade
wines, and is illustrated with two engraved plates that
depict trussing techniques for cooking fowls and hares.
Provenance: Flourishing old signatures of “J. Lowry” to pastedown and title-page.
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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.
“DUTYS”
— Wine
Brandy
Silks &
Linen
(International
Trade). The consequences of a law for reducing the dutys upon
French wines, brandy, silks and linen, to those of other nations. With remarks
on the Mercator. London: A. Baldwin, 1713. 8vo signed in 4s (19.4 cm, 7.625").
24 pp. 
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.
A Tour of
RUSSIA Conducted by a SPECIALIST Tooke, William. View of the Russian empire, during the reign of Catharine the second, and to the close of the eighteenth century ... the second edition. London: Pr. by A. Strahan & G. Woodfall for T.N. Longman & O. Rees, 1800. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 3 vols. I: xxxvi, 630 pp.; 1 fold. map. II: [2], 574 pp. III: [2], 628 pp. (pagination skips 561–64).
Click the images for enlargements. The state of the Russian military forces is here described at length. The commerce section includes chapters on viniculture, sericulture, and apiculture, as well as mining and salt harvesting; at the back of the third volume are extensive tables of Russian imports and exports, merchant ships arrived and sailed, duties and taxes, and names of the most active St. Petersburg merchants. Coins and measures are also examined.
Binding: Contemporary treed calf, flat spines with gilt tooling of several sorts creating compartments, each with a large device; gilt-stamped green leather title and volume labels.
• ESTC T109837; Allibone 2434. On Tooke, see: Dictionary of
National Biography online. Bound as above, two volumes with front covers
off and all other joints weak; covers showing some gouges and spines some
chips, the set apparently having been exposed not only to normal wear/rubbing
but sometime long past to something (heat? “repairs”?) that darkened
and roughened them irregularly. Ex–social club library: front pastedowns
each with 19th-century bookplate and inked numerals, title-pages pressure-stamped.
Intermittent light foxing and light to moderate offsetting throughout; vol.
III with waterstaining in upper margins. Map lightly foxed but otherwise in
excellent condition. A set of booksstill
striking, and priced to permit the next owner to contemplate
repairs. (26366)
Baths
& Beverages
Hot &
Cold —
Use &
Abuse!
Vallisneri
(or, Vallisnieri), 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. 
Click any image above for an enlargement. wine,
and baths — having first experimented on himself. Tea and coffee are mentioned
at least twice, once in reference to the greater quantities drunk in Constantinople
than in western Europe. There
is also some Americana interest when the author discusses in several places
the drinking of chocolate. 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); Hünersdorff, Coffee, I, 395; Osler, Biblotheca Osleriana, 2428 (first ed.); Vicaire 250 (second ed.); Alden & Landis, European Americana, 727/231. 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.
See also COOKERY — click
here.
TheLatest Agricultural Innovations, with COLOR-PRINTED Plates Wells, David Ames. The year-book of agriculture; or, the annual of agricultural progress and discovery, for 1855 and 1856. Exhibiting the most important discoveries and improvements.... Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45"). 399, [1] pp.; 5 plts. (4 col.).
Click the images for enlargements. Andrew J. Downing, “the most eminent of American horticulturists and professors of Rural Architecture” (p. 5). Much interesting material is present here on the cultivation of various fruits and vegetables, the introduction of exotic domesticated animals (Chinese yaks, cashmere goats, camels) into the United States and Europe, statistics of American production, and various mechanical and technical innovations.
Illustrated with four color plates done by Max and Louis N. Rosenthal of the famed Philadelphia firm Rosenthal's, producers of some of the earliest chromolithographs in the U.S. The frontispiece here, after a drawing by B.L.C. Wailes, depicts a blossoming cotton plant, while the three other chromolithographed plates show a more mature example, the cotton caterpillar, and rot in cotton. The volume is additionally illustrated with a number of in-text steel and wood engravings.
• Allibone 2641. Not in Reese, Stamped with a National Character. Publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine sunned, chipped at head, and with small darkened area. Ex–social club library: Call number on front pastedown, front free endpaper lacking, title-page and several others (not plates) with old, round, light rubber-stamp. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. (26420)
Recipes
& Wine
Suggestions . . .Willard, John. Game is good eating. Helena, MT: State
Publishing Co., © 1958. 8vo. [6], 106 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's textured brown cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green, front cover with vignette of deer in pot, dustwrapper chipped at corners, upper edges, and spine extremities with spine lightly sunned. Front fly-leaf with inked owner's name. Pages clean. (26903)
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