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WINE -- A collection of seven books and one map, all French works, comprising:
CHAPTAL, Jean Antoine Claude. Traité Théoretique et Pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne. Paris: Delalain, 'An IX' [1801]. 2 volumes, 8° (207 x 128mm). Half-titles. 21 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum-backed boards. Provenance: contemporary manuscript annotations. FIRST EDITION.
JULLIEN, A. Manuel du Sommelier. Paris: Colas, 1813. 4° (162 x 104mm). Half-title. One folding engraved plate. Contemporary marbled sheep (spine chipped).
DUBRUNFAUT. Traité Complet de l'Art de la Distillation. Paris: Bachelier, 1824. 2 volumes, 8° (203 x 129mm). 8 engraved plates. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt. Provenance: Samuel Rickards (bookplate).
Plan Statistique des Vignobles ... de Bourgogne. Beaune: 1861. Hand-coloured lithographic map (1755 x 268mm), mounted on linen and folding into original brown cloth portfolio (portfolio soiled).
GUYOT, Jules. Étude des Vignobles de France. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1876. 3 volumes, 8° (235 x 153mm). Contemporary blue cloth.
MONTORGEUIL, Georges and Louis FOREST. Monsieur le Vin. Paris: Nicholas, 1926-1927. 5 volumes in the series with variant titles, 4° (193 x 136mm). Coloured illustrations. Uniform contemporary calf with longitudinal morocco spine labels. Provenance: A. Vander Poel (bookplate).
GRILLET, Claudius. Un Grand Vigneron Lamartine. Lyon and Paris: Emmanuel Vite, 1933. 8° (185 x 120mm). Calf-backed boards preserving original wrappers.
DELAMAIN, Robert. Histoire du Cognac. Paris: Stock, 1935. 8° (195 x 144mm). Contemporary half morocco by Riviere for Henry Sotheran, Picadilly, gilt spine tooled with a repeated bunch of grapes.
The above three lots constitute a broad range of titles, many of which are now classics in the history of viniculture. (16)
CHAPTAL, Jean Antoine Claude. Traité Théoretique et Pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne. Paris: Delalain, 'An IX' [1801]. 2 volumes, 8° (207 x 128mm). Half-titles. 21 engraved plates. Contemporary vellum-backed boards. Provenance: contemporary manuscript annotations. FIRST EDITION.
JULLIEN, A. Manuel du Sommelier. Paris: Colas, 1813. 4° (162 x 104mm). Half-title. One folding engraved plate. Contemporary marbled sheep (spine chipped).
DUBRUNFAUT. Traité Complet de l'Art de la Distillation. Paris: Bachelier, 1824. 2 volumes, 8° (203 x 129mm). 8 engraved plates. Contemporary polished calf, spine gilt. Provenance: Samuel Rickards (bookplate).
Plan Statistique des Vignobles ... de Bourgogne. Beaune: 1861. Hand-coloured lithographic map (1755 x 268mm), mounted on linen and folding into original brown cloth portfolio (portfolio soiled).
GUYOT, Jules. Étude des Vignobles de France. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1876. 3 volumes, 8° (235 x 153mm). Contemporary blue cloth.
MONTORGEUIL, Georges and Louis FOREST. Monsieur le Vin. Paris: Nicholas, 1926-1927. 5 volumes in the series with variant titles, 4° (193 x 136mm). Coloured illustrations. Uniform contemporary calf with longitudinal morocco spine labels. Provenance: A. Vander Poel (bookplate).
GRILLET, Claudius. Un Grand Vigneron Lamartine. Lyon and Paris: Emmanuel Vite, 1933. 8° (185 x 120mm). Calf-backed boards preserving original wrappers.
DELAMAIN, Robert. Histoire du Cognac. Paris: Stock, 1935. 8° (195 x 144mm). Contemporary half morocco by Riviere for Henry Sotheran, Picadilly, gilt spine tooled with a repeated bunch of grapes.
The above three lots constitute a broad range of titles, many of which are now classics in the history of viniculture. (16)
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