[Rarebooks] FS: A Pioneer American Wine Maker in the new Bookin'!

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"H.T. Dewey & Sons Co. Pioneer American Wine House"
 New York; ca.1897.

H.T. Dewey was established in Sandusky, Ohio in 1857 after young Hiram
Dewey, who had apprenticed in the family clock business and not had much
luck running a jewelry store, purchased a small farm and planted grapes.
His vineyard was successful immediately, and in 1862 he switched from
supplying grapes for the dinner table to making wine. Despite a
longstanding prejudice against native American wines (which probably had a
solid basis) he was successful at that as well, and in 1865 the firm H.T.
Dewey opened a New York office. Vineyards were established in Egg Harbor,
New Jersey, and the business flourished into the 1920s.

This catalog offers a variety of fortified wines such as port, claret,
sherry, and brandy, as well assorted wines, white wines, sweet wines and
champagne. Interestingly, a search of the internet will also find period
advertisements for some H.T. Dewey wine-based patent medicines, featuring
such lip-smacking combinations as cod liver oil and port wine. such
nostrums were apparently never more than a sideline, however, and the
Dewey firm, along with many other American wineries, died a quick death
with the enactment of the 18th Amendment and Prohibition.

Softcover. 6"x3.25", 32 pages, black & white illustrations. With a Special
Offer insert. Some soil. Last several pages detached, covers detaching
along the spine. [39739] $125

Pictures?
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