[Rarebooks] FS: Redding, History & Description of Modern Wines, enlarged & corrected, 1851

[Bob Petrilla]

Redding, Cyrus. A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF MODERN WINES: Third Edition,
with Additions and Corrections. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Third Edition.
pp: viii, 440, index; engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, and
chapter headpieces. Bound for John Wanamaker in 3/4 dyed calf and marbled
boards, gilt spine decorations, t.e.g. 7" x 4.5" Very Good. Calf-backed
boards.
Contains a new preface and essay on ancient and modern wines as well as
chapters on viticulture, vintages, keeping wines, sophistication of wines,
and the wines of France, Spain and the Canaries, Germany and Switzerland,
Portugal and Madeira, Italy and the Islands, Greece, Persia and the East,
Africa, and America. (#036139)        $150.00


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