[Rarebooks] FS: Uncommon wine books

[Nina W. Matheson]

For your consideration:


Loubat, Alphonse. The American vine dresser's 
guide. New and revised edition. New York, d. 
Appleton & Company, 1872. Engraved author's 
portrait frontis-piece. Second title-page of the 
Carwill 1827 edition. Text in English and French. 
123 pp. Purple cloth with gilt author and title 
on front panel. Corners worn, backstrip faded, 
small gouge to top edge of back board. 
Contribution to the history of American wine-making. $150.

Simon, André Louis. Wine in Shakespeare's days 
and Shakespeare's plays. Read at the four hundred 
and sixty-third meeting of the Sette of Odd 
Volumes held at the Savoy Hotel London on the 
24th day of November MCMXXXI. London, Imprinted 
at the Curwen Press, 1931. First edition. 12 mo. 
35 pp. Wrappers very dusty. No. 38 of 199 copies. 
Inscribed to G. D. Roberts, Gladiator by the author, in his hand.  $100.

Simon, André L. The history of the wine trade in 
England. London, Wyman & Sons, Ltd., 1906. Vol. 
1: The rise and progrress of the wine trade in 
England from the earliest times until the close 
of the Fourteenth Century. Green cloth. T.e.g. 
Extremities lightly rubbed, bottom edge stained, 
forre-edge darkened. Solid and tight. First 
edition. 387, 15 pp. adverts. A singluar work. $150.

Trade discount available.



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