[Rarebooks] FS: 1901/02 French Wine Merchant Brochure & Letter to US Navy Ship Captain.

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27. [Wine]  1901/1902 French Wine Merchant Price Brochure & Letter to US 
Navy Ship Captain.

An interesting pair- a 4-page (folio-folded sheet) price list of wines 
available through Alfred Le Vavasseur of Bordeaux, dated November, 1901, 
and a partially-printed form letter dated January 1, 1902, addressed to 
“Monsieur le Commandant, USS. Urdaneta”, desiring the honor of selling 
him wines for his ships’ store. The list includes red and white wines, 
champagnes, ports, madeiras, cognacs, and aperitifs such as curaçao, 
flavored brandy, and absinthe. The USS Urdaneta was a 70-foot, 42-ton, 
iron-hulled gunboat launched by the Spanish navy in 1883. Captured in 
the Philippines by the Americans in 1898, she served at Subic Bay and 
other points in the Philippines until being decommissioned on December 
12, 1902. She was reinstated a few years later as a tug and served 
through at least 1916, at which point she disappears from Naval records.

Single sheet 8.5”x11” letter, and 4-page 8.5”x11” price list, both 
printed on thin, onion-skin paper. Minor soil, light wear, folds.  
[43493]  $125

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