Grape Culture, Wines, and Wine-Making. With Notes upon Agriculture and Horticulture

by Agoston Haraszthy

$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1862. First edition of one of the earliest and most important references on California wine-making. 420, 4 ads pp. with frontispiece of Buena Vista Ranch in Sonoma and numerous in-text and full page illustrations. Bound in publisher's Perkin's purple cloth ruled in blind and stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with toning and slight fading to spine with wear and minor fraying to ends and

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