[Rarebooks] fs: Why Whine about Wine?

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2 on Wine from our latest printed list-
"A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS"

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Henderson, J. Forbes. STARTLING PROFITS FROM WINE MAKING IN COMBINATION
WITH THE WINE, SPIRIT, AND AERATED WATER TRADES... Dundee; W. & D.C.
Thomson: (1897). 2nd edition. A fascinating work, aimed at the English
mineral and aerated water trade.Henderson explores the possibilities
offered to English business in the wine and wine-like spirits trade
including using raisins and currants as a base, making ginger beer,
orange, elderberry and prune wines, pine-apple wine and pine-apple rum...
need I go on?  Must I go on?

A scarce little work of which OCLC only locates 7 copies.  Hardcover. 
5"x7.5", 110 pages, portrait frontispiece of the author. Some very minor
soil, spotting to the endpapers and a light discoloration on the frontis
and title page where there was evidently a glassine plate guard; otherwise
a very nice, crisp copy. [29434] $125.00



Bleasdale, Rev. John I[gnatius]. AN ESSAY ON THE WINES SENT TO THE LATE
INTERCOLONIAL EXHIBITION BY THE COLONIES OF VICTORIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, AND
SOUTH AUSTRALIA, WITH CRITICAL REMARKS ON THE PRESENT CONDITION AND
PROSPCETS OF THE WINE INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA. Melbourne; F.F. Bailliere:
1876. An intriguing early report on the state of the 19th century
Australian wine industry by one of its strongest and most noted
supporters.

The Rev. Bleasdale (1822-1884) was a remarkable man. Born in England, he
emigrated to Australia in 1850 and then left for San Francisco in 1877,
where he was involved in establishing olive trees as a commercial crop. He
was a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Vice Chairman of the
Royal Commission for Technology, Trustee of the National Gallery of
Melbourne, and Director of the School of Mines at Ballarat; he was also a
staunch proponent of the daily moderate consumption of wine for health
purposes. His stature as an advocate of the young Australian wine industry
continues to this day, and a noted Australian winemaker named his winery
the Bleasdale Winery in the Reverend's honor.

The exhibition discussed in this pamphlet was held to select wines to
represent Australia at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. It
included 270 exhibits, 155 from Victoria, 68 from South Australia, and 47
from New South Wales. His report includes a list and description of the
wines exhibited, as well as a list of the winners which were sent to
Philadelphia. But there is much more here than that- his essay addresses
the state of the Australian wine industry, its successes, problems, and
suggestions to make it better. He notes- "I would here reiterate what I
have often stated, viz., that if the cellar management in the three
colonies were equal to the magnificent produce of the vines, no country on
earth could surpass in quality and variety of kinds Victoria, South
Australia, and New South Wales."

Bleasdale notes that his report should have been presented as a part of
the formal report on the exhibition, but "Circumstances arose in the
course of the awarding of the medals and other distinctions to the
successful Wine Exhibitors by the Executive Section of the Royal
Commission of which I was a member, that caused me to withdraw and decline
to take any part after the lapse of a few minutes either in the making of
awards or the preparing of a Report on the Wines." What went on? One can
only speculate... Bleasdale authored several other reports and pamphlets
on Australian wine, freezing meat, the gemstones of Victoria, and the
suitability of the olive tree for cultivation in California.

With only 3 copies located by OCLC this is a scarce report, and certainly
very scarce in this condition.

Softcover. 5.5"x8.5", 35 pages. Original printed softcovers, with light
fading around the edges, spine base and head worn and slightly split, name
at the top of the cover, but overall a very nice copy of a very fragile
item. [04860] $500.00



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