{"title":"Wine \u0026 Viticulture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA dedicated collection of early printed books and treatises documenting the history of wine, viticulture, and estate management. These volumes trace the evolution of oenology from early modern agricultural manuals to nineteenth-century scientific studies of terroir and fermentation. Encompassing foundational texts on ampelography, regional practices, and the commerce of wine, the selection offers a bibliographically grounded perspective on the intersection of agriculture, chemistry, and culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vite-e-vino-a-venezia-bosisio","title":"Vite E Vino A Venezia","description":"\u003cp\u003eTracing Wine’s Tide in the Floating City. Vine and Wine in Venice Original Printed Paperback Venezia Tipografia Commerciale Pp. 23, including 5 black\/white photographic full page illlustrations. Original printed light green paperback, no flaws of sorts. Perfect conditions.  First edition A slim pamphlet in fine conditions, excerpt from Giornale Economico della Camera di Commercio di Venezia, in its original light blu paper binding.  This publication reflects the interest in the history of wine, winemaking and wine commerce in the Republic of Venice referencing this tradition from its earliest mentions in ancient documents through to the 18th century. The work includes references to specific city locations, habits, and regulations. The final pages are devoted to representations of wine-related topics in Venetian art, from Tintoretto’s Trionfo di Bacco e Arianna to ancient artifacts in the Archaeological Museum and the friezes of San Marco, which are featured in the accompanying photographic illustrations. Achille Bosisio’s Vite e Vino a Venezia is a quietly brilliant reminder that Venice’s history is soaked not only in saltwater and trade but also in wine. This rare 1963 first edition pamphlet distills the city's enological identity into 23 engaging pages. From the osterie customs to monastic viticulture on the Giudecca, Bosisio uncovers how vineyards once thrived amid the lagoon’s saline breath. With anecdoctal charm and scholarship, he elevates this niche subject into a compelling microhistory where art, commerce, and terroir coalesce, perfect for the collector who appreciates the intersection of wine and wonder. This little special booklet combines some of our favorite things in the world, and reminds us that it is cool to be art lovers, Venice enthusiasts, and wine connoisseurs - all in one small packet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922136223979,"sku":"000120254100","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/001_005_bright.jpg?v=1758841866"},{"product_id":"la-question-des-vignes-americaines-millardet","title":"La Question Des Vignes Americaines","description":"\u003cp\u003eAu Point De Vue Theorique Et Practique Par A. Millardet Professor A La Faculte Des Sciences Do Bordeaux, Delegue De L’Academie Des Science Millardet’s (Signed) Manifesto: The Turning Point in the Phylloxera War. The Question of American Vines from the Theoretical and Practical Point of View by A. Millardet, Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Bordeaux, Delegate of the Academy of Sciences signed by author or artist Original Printed Paperback Bordeaux Chez Feret \u0026amp; Fils Editeurs-Libraires Pp. [2], 82, [4]. Original light blue paperback. Front cover (with the author's signature) detached and damaged at the bottom left corner. Last couple of pages and back cover detached. Otherwise internally in perfect conditions. First edition A rare, author-signed copy of Millardet’s La question des Vignes Américaines, this modest-looking pamphlet marks a seismic shift in wine history.  Millardet, a key figure in the fight against the phylloxera epidemic that ravaged European vineyards, meticulously documented the problem and proposed its now-legendary solution: grafting European vines onto phylloxera-resistant American rootstock.  Dedicated to Pasteur, the work is as much a testament to scientific collaboration as it is to practical genius, and this signed edition offers a personal trace of the man who helped rescue French wine from collapse. As highlighted on the cover, the booklet focuses on how to resist Phylloxera, the different classes of American grape varieties, the characteristics to recognize resistant varieties and some practical instructions like the choice of a rootstock and the best grafting methods. A few illustrations in the text. A reminder that the fate of European wine hung on a few good grafts, signed by the very man who saved it. Basically like getting a handshake with phylloxera’s worst nightmare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922136322283,"sku":"0001202524100","price":380.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/003_003_bright.jpg?v=1758846072"},{"product_id":"vivai-di-viti-americane-strucchi","title":"Vivai Di Viti Americane","description":"\u003cp\u003eResistenti Alla Fillossera Accuratamente Selezionate In Reggio Emilia The Grafting Revolution Takes Root in Italy. Nurseries of American Vines Resistant to Phylloxera, Carefully Selected in Reggio Emilia N\/A Torino Vincenzo Bona (Tipografia) Trifold printed on both sides (6 pages). Trifold designed to be mailed; handwitten receiver address on one recto page \"Petellini avv. Ippolito\", with stamp and postmark. Decorative borders in red and black. Perfect. This postal catalog by A. Strucchi, Vivai di Viti Americane resistenti alla fillossera, is a highly relevant document in the history of viticulture because it reflects the practical implementation of the anti-phylloxera solution that saved European wine.  While the scientific breakthrough - grafting European vines onto resistant American rootstocks - had been established decades earlier by figures like Millardet, this catalog shows how the solution became industrialized and accessible at a regional level. It offers direct evidence of the commercial propagation and sale of American vine cuttings (talee) and rooted plants (barbatelle) in Italy, illustrating how nurseries supported vineyard recovery. As such, it's not just an agricultural trade item but a window into the long aftermath of the phylloxera crisis and the reshaping of European viticulture. A handsome little mailer that proves vineyard salvation could arrive in a trifold with a red-and-black border (addressed, stamped, and postmarked) offering growers the American roots that would keep European wine standing tall long after phylloxera tried to bring it to its knees.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922136486123,"sku":"000120255900","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/004_001_bright.jpg?v=1758323764"},{"product_id":"trattato-della-coltivazione-delle-viti-soderini","title":"Trattato Della Coltivazione Delle Viti","description":"\u003cp\u003eE La Coltivazione Toscana Delle Viti E D'Alcuni Arbori ... E Del Frutto Che Se Ne Può Cavare. Del S. Gioanvettorio Soderini Gentil'Huomo Fiorentino. E La Coltivazione Toscana Delle Viti, E D'Alcuni Arbori Del S. Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi Gentil'Huomo Fiorentino. The First Whisper of Sangiovese: Soderini’s Ode to Tuscan Vines. Treatise on the Cultivation of Vines and the Tuscan Cultivation of Vines and Certain Trees, and on the Fruit That May Be Obtained from Them, by Signor Giovanni Vittorio Soderini, Florentine Gentleman, and The Tuscan Cultivation of Vines and Certain Trees by Signor Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi, Florentine Gentleman. Contemporary Stiff Vellum Firenze Giunti Pp. [1] f.e., [8], 128, [8]; [4], 45, [3], [1] r.e. Later vellum binding (XIX century?), leather label at the spine with title in gold (very small losses), red sprinkled edges. Traces of old handwritten notes on the title page, illegible; very few contemporary handwritten notes in the margins. Silk green boookmark. Interesting attempt to replace two missing leaves in the dedication [5, 8], substituted with anastatic copies on slightly bluish antique paper, but taken from another edition, so the text between [5] and [6] is not perfectly sequential (with some repeated lines) and the layout is slightly different. Nevertheless, thanks to this probably nineteenth-century contrivance, the text is complete. Old repair to lower corner of p. 13 of the second pagination. Considering the makeshift repair to the dedication a minor flaw (or even a touch of addedd personality), this rare second edition is attractive and in good conditions. This edition of Trattato della coltivazione delle Viti by Giovanvettorio Soderini offers one of the earliest written mentions of Sangiogheto, now known as Sangiovese, the grape that would later underpin much of Tuscany’s wine identity.  Soderini, a Florentine nobleman with a gentleman farmer’s curiosity, praises the grape for being “juicy and overflowing with wine” and declares it “never fails,” a statement that borders on either satire or wishful thinking, considering “the grape’s notoriously fickle nature”, quoting Kerin O’Keefe’s mention of Soderini in her Brunello Di Montalcino.  “In Lombardy the grape Grappella is much praised, being similar, or almost the same, as that called Gallazzone: valued for making wine are the Voltoiane, the Schiavene nere, the Sangiovese - vines praised for making a great deal of wine - the Cornicchioni, the Trebbiani…” The author isn’t praising Sangiovese for finesse or nobility, but for its productivity and usefulness in making large quantities of wine. This reflects early 17th-century viticultural values, where yield and consistency were prized, since wine was both daily sustenance and trade commodity. The reference shows that by 1610, Sangiovese was already an established and recognized Tuscan grape variety, worthy of inclusion in a systematic viticultural manual. What makes this quote fascinating is the contrast with today: Sangiovese is now celebrated not for quantity but for quality, forming the backbone of Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino, and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. The volume includes both Soderini and Davanzati Bostichi, making it a compendium of Florentine agronomic thought. In one of the many chapters Soderini asks which is better: planting in vineyards, or as rows, stumps, little trees, or pergola. The pergola is presented as one of several possible training methods (others include low vines in rows, arboscelli, etc.). The discussion emphasizes that pergolas allow the vine to climb higher, which fits the plant’s natural tendency. This leads to a cheerful and vigorous vine, producing more clusters. However, the author warns: a vineyard trained too high may make the grapes less concentrated, while smaller vineyards often produce better quality wine.This passage reflects a long-running debate in viticulture between yield vs. quality. Bostichi touched on the subject too explaining how vines trained on pergolas can be pruned and spaced in a way that allows them to spread, giving them room to grow strong and bear fruit. Here pergolas are described as favorable for vines in orchards and gardens, where they can climb and spread, often over trellises or supports. In the Renaissance, the pergola was as much an architectural and social feature as an agricultural one -  used to shade walkways, courtyards, and gardens. Soderini acknowledges its aesthetic function but emphasizes that the fruit quality is not diminished by this “ornamental” training system. This places pergola viticulture at the intersection of utility and beauty, which is very Florentine. The historical trajectory from “a vine praised for making much wine” to one of Italy’s most prestigious varietals makes this passage a keystone in wine history. This second edition, rarer than the first, includes detailed guidance on vine training and arboriculture, all shaped by the Tuscan landscape. More than 400 years ago, Soderini understood that Sangiovese (or, in a much cuter antique way, Sangiogheto) was a drama queen which could swing from rustic to regal, and in the right hands it delivered some of the juiciest wines of the region. This rare second edition overflows with Tuscan vine lore, a spirited milestone in Italy’s wine story still referenced today by experts. Productivity meets beauty, long before terroir was a hashtag.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922136551659,"sku":"0001202552700","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/006_003_bright.jpg?v=1758323777"},{"product_id":"arte-di-fare-il-vino-per-la-lombardia-austriaca-fabbroni","title":"Arte Di Fare Il Vino Per La Lombardia Austriaca","description":"\u003cp\u003eE Metodi Pratici Per Fare I Migliori Vini Toscani In Risposta Specialmente Alle Domande Della Soc. Patriottica Di Milano Ma Con Regole Generali Adattabili Ad Ogni Possessione; E Che Puo' Servir Di Seguito All'Arte Di Fare Il Vino Premiata Dalla R. Accademia Dei Georgofili Di Adamo Fabbroni. Tuscany’s Wine Sage Sent North: Fabbroni’s Fix for Lombardy. The Art of Making Wine for Austrian Lombardy, and Practical Methods for Producing the Best Tuscan Wines, Written Especially in Response to the Questions of the Patriotic Society of Milan but with General Rules Applicable to Any Estate; Serving as a Sequel to The Art of Making Wine Awarded by the Royal Academy of Georgofili by Adamo Fabbroni. Original Plain Paperback Firenze Presso Giuseppe Tofani E Compagno pp. [1] f.e., [4], 74, [2], 3 folding plates, [1] r.e. Conditions: Original wrappers in decent condition, light foxing, untrimmed, many folios still closed; plates in perfect conditions. Reference: Vicaire 12; Sormanni, p.48. First edition In 1790, the Florentine scientist and agronomist Adamo Fabbroni, a leading enlightenment polymath, was the first to promote the idea that the agent responsible for fermentation was naturally present in the grape, a precursor to modern understanding of yeast. He was invited to Austrian Lombardy to address a pressing issue: the local wine was notoriously poor, and Milanese patriots demanded solutions. His response was Arte di fare il vino per la Lombardia Austriaca, a practical manual printed in Florence by Giuseppe Tofani e Compagno.  Blending Tuscan methods with Lombard conditions, Fabbroni drew on his work with the Florentine Academy of Georgofili to emphasize the local adaptation of viticultural techniques. He discussed fermentation practices, the treatment of must, and denounced the “barbaric” custom of boiling wine.  The work stands as both agricultural reform and regional diplomacy, marking a moment when Enlightenment wine wisdom began crossing boundaries.  The treatise opens with a philosophical prelude comparing winemaking to the cultivation of the human spirit. Fabbroni invokes ancient origins, citing Noah, Mount Ararat, Melchizedek, and Egyptian and Mauritanian traditions, framing wine as an art with divine lineage. He then turns to Lombardy, describing local agricultural conditions, grape varieties including Nebbiol Milanese, Pignola, Negriera Dolce, Rossetto, Schiava, Vernaccia Rossa, and Uva d’Oro alongside guidance on harvest timing, often in multiple passes according to the ripeness of each cru, an approach strikingly modern for its time. Detailed sections follow on pressing, fermentation, clarification (sviatura), preservation (custodia), Tuscan winemaking methods, and the production of white wines. Particularly notable is his section on Vino di Carmignano, where he lists the grape varieties employed: “...si pigliano delle Uve migliori, di Sangioveto, Colorino, Raveradolo, dolci e caninesi...”. Thus Sangioveto (an early form of Sangiovese) is explicitly included among the recommended grapes. Although absent from his Montepulciano “recipe”, the “Calabrese” mention may in fact identify Sangiovese, a connection with southern Italy later confirmed by modern research or possibly a reference to grapes believed to have foreign origins (sometimes confused with Spanish imports in Southern Italy). This makes Fabbroni’s text one of the earliest printed references to Sangiovese in Tuscan winemaking, linking it directly to Carmignano in the late 18th century. Alongside, he praises Trebbiano for vinifying “senza ribollire” [without boiling] and celebrates Malvasia as one of Tuscany’s most esteemed wines, valued for its history, cultivation, and blending qualities. Part reform, part diplomacy, it’s a snapshot of Enlightenment wine wisdom on the move: curious for what it praises (Trebbiano that “never re-ferments”) and for what it omits, no Sangiovese, no Brunello, just a practical Tuscan trying to civilize Lombardy one barrel at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922136617195,"sku":"00012025170000","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/008_003_bright.jpg?v=1758323774"},{"product_id":"the-mourning-after-girti","title":"The Mourning After","description":"\u003cp\u003eOr To The Rescue Of Those Poor Souls Who Have Had One Too Many The Night Before. A Hangover Handbook with a Wink: Postwar Remedies for the Morning After. Original Cardboard San Francisco The Mc Lellan Publishing Company Pp. [20]. Original wrappers, perfect conditions.  First edition This sly little guide for the self-inflicted sufferer, offering comic balm to those who’ve woken up with regret and a splitting head.  With text by John Girtin Forbes and illustrations by Ray Sullivan, this San Francisco pamphlet embraces the hangover with both sympathy and satire. Designed to “rescue those poor souls who have had one too many”, it delivers equal parts consolation and cheek, wrapped in black covers with a blue title and a laid-in printed note from the publisher, advertising the little pamphlet as the perfect gift for the holiday season or a birthday. In just 17 unpaginated pages, it manages to be both culturally sharp and deeply relatable, a postwar nod to the timeless ritual of overindulgence. A postwar pamphlet that proves some things never change; seventeen pages of hangover wisdom and remedies, for yourself or as a gift to a good friend - so relatable you’ll swear it was written last night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922136649963,"sku":"000120255500","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/009_001_bright.jpg?v=1758323771"},{"product_id":"a-history-and-description-of-modern-wines-redding","title":"A History And Description Of Modern Wines","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe First Modern Wine Book: Redding’s Manifesto in a Bottle. Original Cloth Binding London Whittaker, Treacher, \u0026amp; Arnot [1] f.e., XXXV, 407, [1] r.e. Original dark red cloth binding, gilt title on spine label; frontispiece detached. Numerous charming steel engravings as head- and tailpieces and within the text, all on oenological themes, some mythological or decorative, others illustrating the techniques described in the volume. Stain on pp. 22, 23. Very good condition. Reference: P. Lukacs, “Inventig Wine: A New History of One of the World’s Most Ancient Pleasures” pp. 147. First edition Cyrus Redding’s A History and Description of Modern Wines, first published in 1833 and revised through numerous editions until his death in 1870, stands as the most informed and influential wine book of its century.  The book was far more than a record of what was being drunk - it transformed how wine was described. Unlike his predecessors, Redding traveled through vineyards, evaluating wines by clarity, hygiene, and varietal character, while rejecting the fanciful mixtures and unscientific lore of antiquity. His work set a new standard for wine literature, built on empirical observation, comparative tasting, and a modern sensibility. Redding combined trenchant criticism with praise for progress. He condemned “stationary” traditions, particularly in Italy, where co-fermented grapes, dirty vats, and untrained vines produced wines he found rustic or sour, while applauding regions that embraced science and hygiene. These judgments were not mere snobbery but a call to reform, urging winegrowers to embrace purity, naturalness, and technical rigor. One striking chapter offers a glimpse into the Champagne trade of the early 19th century. Redding exposed how English merchants profited from deception, selling weak local wines as fine Champagne, or worse, refilling bottles with gooseberry wine to produce a counterfeit sparkle that fooled the inexperienced. In contrast, French growers, with reputations at stake, sold their lesser wines honestly rather than adulterating them. This tension revealed an early struggle over authenticity, showing how fraud thrived in markets detached from vineyards. Redding even noted a lawsuit brought against a publication that exposed Champagne fraud, proof that the deception was lucrative enough to protect through legal means. Through such accounts, Redding underscored that the value of terroir and the integrity of winemaking were already urgent concerns two centuries ago. His book was not just a catalog of bottles but a manifesto for modernity, marking a decisive shift in wine writing, from romantic idealism to critical analysis, technical literacy, and a global perspective that still informs how wine is described today. Redding taught wine to speak plain English: no myths, just taste, clarity, and truth. Before Parker, before Broadbent, Redding poured clarity into wine’s story with the first truly modern wine book: critical, empirical, and visionary, the standard-bearer for everything that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922136846571,"sku":"0001202534800","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/015_006_bright.jpg?v=1758842303"},{"product_id":"dellagricoltura-libri-tre-d","title":"Dell'Agricoltura Libri Tre","description":"\u003cp\u003eOra Per La Prima Volta Pubblicati Secondo Un Codice Della Biblioteca Comunale Di Siena Misquoted into Obscurity: Firenzuola, history of the first mention of Sangiovese. Three Books on Agriculture, Now Published for the First Time According to a Manuscript from the Municipal Library of Siena Original Paper Boards Siena Ignazio Gati Pp. [1] f.e., [10], 158, [1] r.e. Original blue paper binding with printed title and editorial notes on the verso. Spine well restored. Very wide margins. Excellent condition. First edition First printed edition of the 1552 manuscript originally a seven-book agricultural treatise titled Sopra la agricultura. This 1871 Siena printed edition contains 3 books instead of the original 7, and was condensed by an unknown hand, which restructured Firenzuola’s work and omitted details. No later scholarly edition has been produced. In Capitolo XVII (page with header “Regola a fare un vino prezioso, e mirabile”), we find this sentence: “Avverti da sangioveto, chè chi crede far vino fa aceto” (“Beware of Sangioveto, for whoever believes they are making wine with it ends up making vinegar”). This is an explicit mention of “sangioveto” (Sangiovese), making it historically the earliest known reference to the grape in writing. The treatise was long forgotten, only resurfacing in lectures in 1803. Today, three manuscript traditions exist: the original manuscript (Florence, BNCF), a clearer handwritten copy (Florence, BML), an abridged manuscript (Siena, Biblioteca Comunale). Though unpublished in his lifetime, it circulated in manuscript, and its influence can be traced (often unattributed and at times verbatim) in the writings of later Tuscan agronomists such as Davanzati, Soderini, and Tedaldi. The first part treats viticulture and wine, the second orchards, the third vegetables and flowers. This 1871 first printed edition presents only three books, streamlining and altering Firenzuola’s original text. A flawed but important artifact, it reveals both his early contribution to Tuscan viticulture and the irony of how his ideas were borrowed yet his name nearly erased. From Chianti Classico, by Bill Nesto and Frances Di Savino: “It was with great surprise that we found an author, Girolamo da Firenzuola, who mentioned Sangiovese even earlier. In 1552 he authored a seven-book agricultural treatise titled Sopra la agricultura. The first book covers viticulture; the second, vinification and maturation of wine. The remaining five discuss the cultivation of fruit trees and the principles of garden design. Though his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all served as high-level officials for the Medici rulers of Florence, Firenzuola was, in his own words, a man who had a “certain natural inclination” for grafting vines and fruit trees. He had inherited three properties in Galluzzo just north of San Casciano in Val di Pesa, but it is likely that he taught himself the “grande arte della Agricultura” [great art of agriculture] in his work as an administrator at the Vallombrosan abbey Badia di San Salvatore, in Vaiano north of Prato. Firenzuola wrote his treatise while serving a sentence in Florence’s Stinche prison (probably as a consequence of a dispute with the administrator of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence’s Duomo, or cathedral, regarding its lumber harvesting practices). He did not possess the writing skill of his brother, Agnolo, who was a well-known abbot and later author. His treatise was not a display of erudition but a practical handbook based on his personal experience planting and grafting vines and fruit trees, and making wine. Neither his manuscript nor his name publicly surfaced until 1803, when an abbot named Luigi Fiacchi (also known as Clasio) gave a lecture in Florence at the Georgofili Academy and another at the Academy of Science and Letters in Florence, called La Colombaria. In these lectures, he described an unedited work about agriculture from 1550 by a Girolamo di ser Bastiano Gatteschi da Firenzuola. He explained that it had been lost to history and, in contrast with the works of celebrated Tuscan authors such as Luigi Alamanni, Pier Vettori, Bernardo Davanzati, and Soderini, presented an entire system of agriculture, especially regarding the cultivation of olives and vines. According to Fiacchi, Firenzuola’s treatise was “sepolto ancora miseramente fra le tenebre di vergognosa dimenticanza” [still buried miserably in the shadows of shameful oblivion]. We discovered what we believe to be Firenzuola’s original handwritten text from September 16, 1552, in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (BNCF, or National Central Library of Florence). Its 157 numbered, double pages contain all seven books, the first two of which detail every aspect of planting vineyards, growing grapes, and making and aging wine. We also obtained a copy of what we assess to be an exact transcription, barring punctuation and spelling corrections, of this manuscript in a more legible handwritten version (though 117 double pages in length) from the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana [BML, or Laurentian Library] in Florence. The BML copy turned out to be our Rosetta stone for deciphering Firenzuola’s feverish and faded cursive script in the BNCF manuscript. His work was published in 1871 for the first and only time to date, in Siena. However, that volume contains only three books and is based on an abridged version of Firenzuola’s original manuscript in the Biblioteca Comunale di Siena [City library of Siena]. This version veers away from the other two, streamlining ideas, omitting details, and even changing the order of chapters. It must be a condensation of the original manuscript by someone who, sadly, did not understand the seminal value of Firenzuola’s work or the practical art of agriculture”. The first ever printed mention of Sangiovese, complete with a salty Renaissance warning, how could we resist? This mysterious manuscript that, unwittingly, shaped the wine history of Tuscany, at last it sees the light, and justice is restored. Cheers!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922137141483,"sku":"0001202515600","price":480.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/023_003_bright.jpg?v=1758842309"},{"product_id":"sulla-filossera-due-conferenze-tenutesi-nel-comizio-agrario-di-torino-rovasenda","title":"Sulla Filossera.","description":"\u003cp\u003eDue Conferenze Tenutesi Nel Comizio Agrario Di Torino. Storia - Progressi - Danni - Precauzioni - Mezzi Di Resistenza, Ecc., Ecc., Ecc. Conferenze Tenutesi Nel Comizio Agrario Di Torino Nelle Sere Del 23 Febbraio E 3 Marzo 1879 First Italian lectures on phylloxera, with rare technical insights on remedies. On Phylloxera. Two Lectures Held at the Turin Agricultural Meeting. On Phylloxera. History - Progress - Damage - Precautions - Means of Resistance, Etc., Etc., Etc. Lectures Held at the Turin Agricultural Meeting on the Evenings of February 23 and March 3, 1879. signed by author or artist Original Light Blue Printed Wrappers\u003cbr\u003e\nUnbound Torino Stab. Art-Lett. Torino Pp. 44, including steel engravings at p. 43, 44 depicting the insects. Original blue printed wrappers; unbound (as issued). Dedication by the Author on the first leaf: “Al Chiarissimo Sig. Console in attestato di stima, l’autore”. Steel engravings on the final numbered leaf (illustrations curiously numbered 14, 18, though collation is complete; the numbering may continue from other publications on the subject advertised by the publisher on the recto). Perfect condition. Rare first edition of two lectures by Giuseppe, Count of Rovasenda, on the phylloxera crisis, delivered at the Agricultural Assembly of Turin.  The dedication is addressed to the Console of Putignano (himself an author on vine diseases such as downy mildew), suggesting this pamphlet, together with some others in our availability, once belonged to his heirs. A crucial document for understanding Italy’s earliest responses to the arrival of the phylloxera louse. The text reflects the very moment of phylloxera’s first arrival in Italy. Citing Jules-Émile Planchon as a contemporary authority, Rovasenda traces its detection to a vineyard in Nice (recently annexed to France) after vines from Provence were planted there. He reviews the main remedies under debate (sandy soils, submersion, grafting), while emphasizing promising reports on the use of insecticides. Importantly, he stresses the need for discernment in selecting American rootstocks, noting that varieties such as Concord, Catawba, and Isabella were not equally suitable for replanting. The lectures also map the spread of phylloxera from France into Italy, region by region. Rovasenda employs the memorable phrase “Nemo dat quod non habet” to argue that Vitis vinifera could never develop resistance on its own. The work concludes with the “Riunione della Commissione Ampelografica della Provincia di Torino, 27 febbraio 1879,” offering a vivid glimpse into the scientific, agricultural, and communal efforts of vineyard owners and growers at the close of the 19th century. A front-row seat to Italy’s first response to phylloxera, with rare insights into 19th-century remedies like insecticides and grafting. An essential witness to a turning point in European wine history. The Count of Rovasenda calmly lecturs fellow agronomists in waistcoats, battling pests like botanical Sherlocks while the wine world burns... with original wrappers, and a note by the author himself!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922137403627,"sku":"0001202510800","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/029_003.jpg?v=1772427407"},{"product_id":"istruzioni-per-combattere-la-peronospora-della-vite-briganti","title":"Istruzioni Per Combattere La Peronospora Della Vite","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmministrazione Provinciale Di Bari. Cattedra Ambulante Di Agricoltura. Early Apulian use of Bordeaux mixture via Cavazza and Menozzi formulas. Instructions for Combating Downy Mildew in Grapevines. Provincial Administration of Bari. Itinerant Chair of Agriculture. Bari Giuseppe Laterza \u0026amp; Figli Pp. 8. Unbound brochure (as issued), intended to be folded and mailed. On the verso are a postage stamp and a handwritten address: \"Onorevole Console Giuseppe Consigliere Provinciale - Putignano\". Perfect conditions. Practical guidelines for combating peronospora, issued as part of a broader campaign to contain the disease.  The text emphasizes the use of copper sulfate, particularly the Cavazza formula with lime, while also mentioning the Menozzi formula with iron sulfate and lime. It details timing and duration of treatments, stressing the need for repetition after rainfall. Sent by G. Briganti to a Putignano consul, the document bears a fine 2-cent stamp. We love how this modest missive distills the experimental spirit of early Apulian winegrowers, putting Cavazza and Menozzi's empirical chemistry into real-world practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922137534699,"sku":"0001202510800","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/032_001.png?v=1758324016"},{"product_id":"atti-del-primo-congresso-per-le-malattie-della-vite-variou","title":"Atti Del Primo Congresso Per Le Malattie Della Vite","description":"\u003cp\u003eTenutosi In Milano Nei Giorni 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 Settembre 1881 Italy’s top minds unite in 1881 to save viticulture from phylloxera. Proceedings of the First Congress on Vine Diseases Held in Milan on 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 September 1881 Original Light Pink Printed Wrappers Milano Tipografia Riformatorio Patronato Pp. XVI, 174, [1]. Original light pink printed wrappers. Hardly visible slight foxing on a few leaves; very tiny losses at the upper right corner from p. 137 onward, more than 1 inch from the text. Excellent condition. Scarce and important proceedings from the first Italian congress devoted entirely to vine diseases, held in Milan in 1881.  This was a foundational event in the scientific history of European viticulture, marking a turning point in the response to the great vineyard crises of the late 19th century. By 1881, Italy - like much of Europe - had been devastated by phylloxera and was increasingly threatened by downy mildew (peronospora), powdery mildew (oidium), black rot, and other pathogens. The congress brought together Italy’s leading agronomists, plant pathologists, and viticulturists, along with ministers, journalists, noblemen, and delegates from agricultural commissions, enology schools, and regional consorzi. The proceedings record the sharp debate between Americanisti (supporters of grafting onto American rootstocks) and Conservatori (advocates of traditional methods). Opening statements urged less rhetoric and more practical science, stressing the urgency of solutions if viticulture were to survive. The Atti of Milan Congress stand as a landmark in the institutionalization of plant pathology and vineyard management in Italy. They reflect the shift from empirical farming to science-based agriculture and are frequently cited in later works on vineyard history, pest control, and enology. A landmark in the fight against phylloxera, with vivid voices of Italy’s top wine minds debating how to save the vine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922138058987,"sku":"0001202510800","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/033_001copy.png?v=1758842139"},{"product_id":"delle-varieta-de-vitigni-del-vesuvio-e-del-somma-semmola","title":"Delle Varietà De' Vitigni Del Vesuvio E Del Somma","description":"\u003cp\u003eRicerche E Annotazioni Dell'Avvocato Vincenzo Semmola Socio Corrispondente Del R. Istituto E Dell'Accademia Degli Affaticati Di Tropea Ec. Nelle Quali Si Ragiona De' Terreni, Della Coltivazione Della Vite, E Dell'Enologia Vesuviana. Lavoro Letto Nella Tornata Del R. Istituto D'Incoraggiamento Del 3 Febbraio 1848 Early Vesuvian ampelography, 112 grape types, volcanic terroir, many now vanished. On the Varieties of the Vines of Vesuvius and Somma: Research and Notes by Lawyer Vincenzo Semmola, Corresponding Member of the Royal Institute and the Academy of the Industrious of Tropea, etc., in Which Are Discussed the Soils, the Cultivation of the Vine, and the Oenology of Vesuvius. Work Read at the Session of the Royal Institute for the Promotion of Industry on February 3, 1848. Original Beige Wrappers\u003cbr\u003e\nFront Cover Missing Napoli Tipografia Del Reale Albergo De' Poveri Pp. [VIII], 136. Conditions: Contemporary beige wrappers. Front cover lacking. Uncut (with deckle edges). Some light foxing to the first leaves. Apart from the binding, an excellent, fresh, and uncut copy. Reference: Niccoli, Vittorio. Saggio Storico e Bibliografico dell’Agricultura Italiana, p. 478. Paleari Henssler, Maria. Bibliografia Latino-Italiana di Gastronomia (1998), p. 684. “Nel 1847 Vincenzo Semmola censì sul Somma Vesuvio 112 varietà di uva,” Il Mediano, 2020 (www.ilmediano.com) First edition This rare treatise stands as one of the earliest regional studies in ampelography, focused on the unique terroir of the Vesuvius area. Semmola identified 112 distinct grape varieties, describing each with meticulous attention to vine vigor (e.g. gagliardo, gentile, vigoroso), leaf morphology, and fruit quality. His account reflects both botanical precision and an intuitive understanding of winemaking potential. Many of these varieties, such as Aglianichella, Catavizza, Coda di Pecora, and Sciascinoso, have since disappeared, leaving his catalog an invaluable record of pre-phylloxera biodiversity. Semmola’s research was based on direct vineyard study in Somma-Vesuviana, where he observed that vine names were often inconsistent, varying from vineyard to vineyard. He noted that the richest concentration of native varieties appeared on the volcanic southwest slopes, though propagation there was limited due to the lava-rich soils, which often required imported plants. He also recorded varieties like Uva Greca, Guernaccia, Aglianica, Falanghina, and Calabrella, alongside many unnamed white and red grapes. Semmola linked grape character to soil, microclimate, and elevation, articulating an early version of the modern terroir concept. Remarkably, he even called for chemical analysis of volcanic soils, foreseeing their influence on viticulture long before it became scientifically established. He also reflected on the traditional belief that vineyard biodiversity tempered and strengthened the vines, anticipating modern discussions on polyculture and resilience. His monograph concludes with a detailed account of winemaking practices in southern Italy. Grapes were grown in “festoni” (pergolas), “arboscelli,” or even trained on trees, as in Etruscan times. He describes harvest selection, pressing technology introduced from France, and protocols for fermentation and barrel management. White wines were produced without skins, fermented for 40 days, and aged in sulfur-treated casks. He distinguishes between wines made from full bunches and those de-stemmed, preferring the former for giving body to lighter wines. He also exposes fraudulent practices such as producing \"lambiccato\": a partially fermented must used for adulteration in taverns. Semmola’s work is extraordinary not merely as a catalog of vines but as a cultural, historical, and scientific document. It captures a transitional moment between oral rural tradition and the emerging discipline of agronomy. His studies were serious enough to be reprinted in the Atti del Reale Istituto d’Incoraggiamento in 1855, placing them within the scientific discourse of his time on plant pathology and agricultural modernization. An extraordinary early terroir study, rooted in Vesuvian soil. This rare regional ampelography uncovers a forgotten viticultural world: 112 native grapes, many now extinct, cataloged with insight and flair by a 19th-century Neapolitan botanist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922138091755,"sku":"0001202546400","price":2750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/034_011.png?v=1758838733"},{"product_id":"lettres-patentes-du-roifalse","title":"Lettres Patentes Du Roi","description":"\u003cp\u003eContenant Reglement Sur Le Commerce Des Nouvelles Communautes Des Cabaretiers, Aubergistes, Cafetiers, Limonadiers, \u0026amp; Sur Celui Des Detailleurs D'Eaux-De-Vie \u0026amp; Des Vendans Vins \u0026amp; Autre Boissons. Donnee A Versailles Le 20 Decembre 1779. Registrees En Parlament Le 25 Janvier 1780 An early milestone in the rise of the modern restaurant, 1780. Letters Patent of the King Containing Regulations on the Trade of the New Communities of Cabaret Keepers, Innkeepers, Cafe Owners, Lemonade Holders, \u0026amp; on That of Retailers of Brandy \u0026amp; Vendors of Wines \u0026amp; Other Beverages. Given at Versailles on December 20, 1779. Registered in Parliament on January 25, 1780 Paris Imprimerie Royale Pp. [4]. Unbound folio royal letter patent, uncut. Decorative woodcut cartouche with royal arms of France (fleurs-de-lis), dated 1778. Blank recto. Excellent condition. Versailles, December 20, 1779; registered Paris, January 25, 1780; Paris, Imprimerie Royale. Quarto, laid paper. Royal letters of Louis XVI regulating the commercial rights of newly constituted communities of cabaretiers, aubergistes, cafetiers, limonadiers, retailers of eaux-de-vie, and vendeurs de vin et autres boissons.  The text reaffirms that these drink sellers may serve beverages à pot et assiette, meaning by the jug and with a simple accompaniment, yet not composed dishes, table service, or seated meals. It explicitly protects the privileges of the older food guilds, chiefly traiteurs and aubergistes, and orders police and courts to enforce the boundaries. The letters are signed by the King, countersigned by Amelot, seen and sealed by Phélypeaux, and registered by Dufranc in Parliament. A late Ancien Régime measure that preserves the guild hierarchy, centralizes control, and resists the emerging practice of drink shops sliding into meal service. The piece sits on the eve of the restaurant’s rise, nine years before the Revolution and the abolition of corporate monopolies in 1791. A last stand of the Ancien Régime: this royal edict draws the line between wine rights and restaurant service, just before the Revolution abolished it all. A gem for lovers of food law, wine culture, and proto-hospitality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922138157291,"sku":"2202517200","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/036_001.png?v=1758324157"},{"product_id":"bacco-in-toscana-redi","title":"Bacco In Toscana","description":"\u003cp\u003eDi Francesco Redi Accademico Della Crusca. Con Le Sue Annotazioni, Con L’Aggiunta Di Centocinquanta Brindisi Di Minto Accademico Filopono E Delle Viti E Del Vino, Traduzione In Ottava Rima Di Tirsi Albeno Accademico Apatista. A witty symposium of wine, gossip, and erudition. Redi’s Ode to Tuscan Wine and Its Merry Chorus. Bacchus in Tuscany by Francesco Redi, Academician of the Crusca. With his annotations, with the addition of one hundred and fifty toasts by Philoponus, Academician Mintus, and on vines and wine, translated into octave rhyme by Tirsi Albeno, Academician Apatista. Original Wrappers Venezia Stamperia Curti Q. Giacomo Pp. 192. Contemporary plain paper-covered boards, exposed cords, manuscript titles on spine with small library label. A genuine, well-preserved copy, uncut and without significant defects. Quitre rare. This 1791 Venetian edition revives Redi’s baroque hymn to Tuscan wines in all its rhetorical splendor. First published in 1685, the dithyrambic verses exalt Moscadello and other local vintages to mythic stature, casting Bacchus himself as a Florentine partisan. \"Poets also sang the wine’s praise, and Francesco Redi’s seventeenth-century dithyrambic ode to the greatest wines in Tuscany, Bacco in Toscana, sealed Moscadello’s celebrity status both in Italy and abroad, resulting in albeit brief popularity at the English royal court, as narratives from the day attest.\" from Brunello di Montalcino: Understanding and Appreciating One of Italy’s Greatest Wines by Kerin O'Keefe. The accompanying commentary enriches the text with useful explanations, such as the meaning of claretto (a quality wine) and tools like the pevera (a funnel). It mentions Pisciarello wine from Bracciano, describes coffee as a kind of legume, and omits references to Chianti, Brunello, or Sangiovese. The 150 brindisi are lighthearted, gossipy, and delightfully absurd, each one worthy of a toast. Finally, Albeno’s contribution likely renders Columella’s De Re Rustica, Book III “De vitis,” into verse as a learned exercise in classical imitation. This edition creates a kind of literary drinking party across the centuries. Bound alla rustica with exposed cords and a handwritten spine title, its untrimmed leaves emphasize the volume’s unfiltered charm. At once patriotic, poetic, and playfully tipsy, the book presents wine as both cultural symbol and linguistic performance. Because Redi’s verses sparkle with wit, and the commentary turns wine into a lively mix of scholarship and gossip. A book that toasts both the learned and the tipsy spirit of Tuscany.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922138222827,"sku":"0001202514600","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/038_002.png?v=1758324100"},{"product_id":"il-bacco-in-romagna-piolanti","title":"Il Bacco In Romagna","description":"\u003cp\u003eDitirambo Dell'Ab. Giuseppe Piolanti Da Lui Stesso Corretto E Ampliato In Questa Nuova Edizione. Con Altre Poesie Del Medesimo.  Nunc Vino Pellite Curas. Hor. L.1 Op 7. Romagna's wines, Redi-style verse, and a deluge of footnotes: cheers to excess. Bacchus in Romagna, a dithyramb by the Abbot Giuseppe Piolanti, corrected and expanded by him in this new edition. With other poems by the same author.  Nunc Vino Pellite Curas. Hor. L.1 Op 7. Original Wrappers Roma Tipografia De' Classici Pp. IX, 308, [2]. Original brown wrappers with decorative and typographic elements; small loss at lower margin of front cover. Some sections foxed, others pristine, overall not distracting. Despite some age-related flaws, an appealing copy, uncut and unopened, with wide margins. Quite rare. First published in 1819 for the wedding of Count Girolamo Saffi, Il Bacco in Romagna reflects both Giuseppe Piolanti’s patriotic pride and his flair for excess. The expanded 1839 edition opens with an earnest letter to the publisher, where the author excuses potential errors while invoking an impossibly vast pantheon of literary colleagues. The poem itself, modeled on Redi, celebrates Sangiovese, Aleatico, and other local wines with fervor, though one hopes it was not recited in full at the wedding. Piolanti adds hundreds of pages of notes in which he defines and comments on grapes such as Lambrusca, Vernaccia, and Balsamina, further embedding Romagna’s viticulture in classical and scholarly tradition. Supplemented with letters, madrigals, and epigraphs, the work sprawls beyond poetry into cultural anthology. How can one resist a wedding poem that turns into a full-blown encyclopedia of Romagna’s vines and muses? Between its scholarly footnotes, lyrical toasts, and endless tributes to Sangiovese, this book feels like a tipsy professor’s love letter to wine, learning, and local pride.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922138255595,"sku":"0001202514600","price":420.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/039_002.png?v=1758324123"},{"product_id":"catalogo-generale-descrittivo-ditt","title":"Catalogo Generale Descrittivo","description":"\u003cp\u003eDella Ditta Farina \u0026amp; C. Viticoltori In Castellanza - Prezzo Corrente - Coltura Speciale Di Viti Europee Ed Americane Per Uve Mangereccie (Sic) E Per Vino. Fruttiferi Diversi Ed Asparagi Phylloxera-free, richly printed, and packed with grape lore in disguise. General Descriptive Catalog of the Farina \u0026amp; C. Viticultural Company in Castellanza - Current Price - Specialty Cultivation of European and American Grapes for Edible Grapes (SIC) and Wine. Various Fruit Trees and Asparagus. Original Printed White Wrappers Busto Arsizio Tipografia E Litografia Pisoni \u0026amp; C. Pp. 51. Incomplete. Original light-blue paper binding (faded); title and notes printed in red and black within a typographic border in the same colors. Title page likewise framed, with text in red and black. The entire text is enclosed within a decorative red border. Some foxing, with notable browning on a few leaves (pp. 11, 36, 37, 40). Binding loose, pp. 27-28 missing and 29-30 detached. A decent copy. The Farina company of Milan offered European and American vine varieties for planting, along with a wide selection of fruit trees, shrubs, and vegetables. The catalog is elegantly paginated and exceptionally rare, containing detailed descriptions of numerous precious and sought-after grape varieties, both table and wine. It also includes a long list of fruit trees and shrubs, as well as a dedicated page featuring thirteen different varieties of asparagus. The catalog opens with a declaration by the “Government Delegate on Phylloxera,” certifying that Farina’s vines showed no signs of infestation. This is followed by purchase rules and notes on planting times, shipping, and payment (upon receipt). The first section presents table grapes, sold individually or in groups of ten, where it is noteworthy that Syrah is included. Next come the wine grapes, offered at proportionally lower prices and sold by the thousand. It remains an open question whether the lower pricing of certain varieties, such as Cabernet Sauvignon, reflects higher demand compared to others. The catalog then introduces rootstocks, described according to their vigor and the qualities they impart to wine. In a subsequent section, pears are given the greatest emphasis among fruit trees, while asparagus is offered in an unusually broad range of varieties. This is more than a plant catalog: it’s a beautifully printed, Phylloxera-certified snapshot of 19th-century viticulture. A rare case where a sales list reads like a field manual for future winemakers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46922138976491,"sku":"0001202511500","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/056_003.png?v=1758845426"},{"product_id":"metodo-razionale-per-piantare-una-vigna-achille-zita-1876","title":"Metodo razionale per piantare una vigna la quale fruttificasse presto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ee desse sempre un'abbondantissimo prodotto. 1876 First edition Rational Method for Planting and Cultivating a Vineyard Which Bears Fruit Early and Always Produces an Abundant Yield. Pp. 30, [2], 1 folded plate Original light-blue printed wrappers with decorative border and typographic frame. Front cover with slight toning; stamp “La Rassegna Settimanale - Palazzo Chigi - Roma” in the bottom margin. Marginal losses to the right lower corner of the cover and throughout the booklet, especially at first 10 leaves. Internally clean. Folding plate intact and crisp. A good copy of a fragile 19th-century ephemera. 9 x 6 1\/4 x 1\/8 Italian Practical vineyard manual with large fold-out plate of training and trellising systems. A rare nineteenth-century viticultural pamphlet, conceived as a practical guide to the rational establishment and management of vineyards. Its author, a physician-agronomist, grounds his method in close observation of Italian vineyards and above all, in the practice gained on his own \"podere\" (farm) with a view to improving both productivity and vine longevity. A curious and instructive little manual, distilled from direct experience at a moment when scientific viticulture was beginning to take shape in post-unification Italy. The small treatise moves systematically through soil preparation, varietal selection, fertilization, pruning, and the annual cycle of vineyard care, and is accompanied by a large folding plate illustrating contemporary training and trellising systems. The style is clear and practical, intended both for small landowners and for the agricultural technicians of the time. Achille Zita was an Italian physician and agronomist. Science meeting soil: physician among vines, preaching longevity over yield, and sketching trellises like poetry in geometry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138687221995,"sku":"63-1876--85-32-2025","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/063_003_870490d0-dc1a-45eb-9490-eb50b4467188.jpg?v=1764542986"},{"product_id":"mastice-mal-nero-achille-montagna-1898","title":"Mastice mal nero","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eAforismi di viticoltura relativi a taluni mezzi preventivi per combattere il mal nero o la gommosi della vite di O. Comes, compilati ed annotati da D. Achille Cav. Montagna 1898 Black rot mastic - Aphorisms on viticulture concerning certain preventive means to combat esca disease or vine gummosis Pp. 75, [1], [1] r.e. Original light pink printed wrappers, foxed yet well preserved. Hand-written address note at the upper margin of the front cover (\"All'ufficio di pubblicità del Bollettino della Società degli Agricoltori Italiani. Roma, Via Poli, 53 p.p.\"). A scarce agronomic ephemera overall in great condition. 9 1\/8 x 6.5 x 1\/8 Italian Esca vine disease insights from 1898 that still speak to today’s vintners. This pamphlet by Achille Montagna stands as both a tribute and a commentary on the pioneering work of Orazio Comes who explored the mysterious “black disease” afflicting the vine in the 19th century. Montagna gathers, quotes, and expands upon Comes’s reflections, weaving them with his own field observations and practical advice for Italian vintners at a time when vine health was a matter of national concern. What makes this work compelling today is its timeless focus on understanding the physiology of the vine and the balance between nature, soil, and climate, an approach that resonates deeply with modern viticulture. The \"mal nero or gommosa della vite\" that Comes and Montagna sought to prevent bears striking resemblance to what we now know as \"mal dell’esca\", one of the most persistent and destructive trunk diseases in contemporary vineyards. Though the preventive methods proposed here, careful pruning, aeration of the soil, protection from temperature extremes, and the use of natural mastics, reflect 19th century techniques, their underlying principles of hygiene, observation, and respect for plant vitality remain relevant. Today, as growers still battle wood maladies, this small work reads not only as a historical artifact but as a reminder that true viticulture is both science and devotion, a conversation across centuries between vine, vintner, and the living earth. The work opens with a Proemio discussing the origins and terminology of the vine disease known variously across regions, mal nero, verde secco, maladie noire, maromba, and others, reviewing its perceived causes and natural manifestations. Comes and Montagna explore the physiological versus pathological nature of the vine’s “gum” interpreting the disease within a broader study of vegetative exudation and climatic stress. The main portion of the book, organized into nine concise sections, presents a series of “aphorisms on viticulture” outlining preventive methods against vine decay. Topics include specialization, soil management, field labor, grafting and training (magliuoli), summer and winter pruning, root lowering, trunk height, and succession planting. Throughout, the text blends scientific observation with practical agricultural advice, written in a moral and civic tone typical of late 19th century Italian agronomy. Frequent references to the works of Comes, Viala, and other European viticulturists place this study within a wider Mediterranean context of agricultural modernization. Orazio Comes (1848-1917) was an Italian botanist and plant pathologist, director of the Agricultural Institute of Portici. Not a lot is known about Achille Montagna, agronomist. Montagna's pamphlet hums with southern warmth and 19th-century grit, still whispering truths to modern vineyards.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138687254763,"sku":"64-1898--110-32-2025","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/064_001.png?v=1764542859"},{"product_id":"istruzione-sul-arte-di-fare-il-vino-cadet-de-vaux-1800","title":"Istruzione su l'arte di fare il vino","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eDi A.A. Cadet De Vaux, Membro delle Società d’agricoltura de’ dipartimenti della Senna, di Senna ed Oise, del Doubs, ec. ec. 1800 First edition Instruction on the Art of Making Wine Pp.87 Original light-blue blank paper wrappers; spine with losses; old manuscript notes (numbers) on the front cover. Private library stamp on the title page (Melc. Gandola – Bellagio); a pale but broad damp-stain extending from the inner lower corner. Uncut and mostly unopened, giving this ephemeral publication an unexpected charm. Reference: Paleari-Henssler, I, p. 134. B.I.N.G., 369. Vicaire, 138 8 1\/2 x 5 1\/2 x 1\/2 Italian Science in the vineyard: rare 1802 first Italian edition of Enlightenment (natural) winemaking. First Italian edition, rare. Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743-1828), a friend of Duhamel and Parmentier, was a noted French agronomist, founder of the Journal de Paris, and collaborator on the Cours complet d’agriculture pratique published in six volumes. This essay was published in France the same year (Paris, Colas) and was inspired by Chaptal’s doctrine. Le Re (1802) states that this pamphlet “brings together all the new chemical theories.” It includes a printed letter from the Minister of the Interior (and Napoleon's younger brother), Lucien Bonaparte, addressed to the departmental prefect, ordering that this translation be widely disseminated. At once practical and visionary, L’arte di fare il vino transforms the empirical wisdom of Chaptal, Rozier, and Parmentier into a coherent method for winemaking grounded in observation rather than superstition. Cadet-de-Vaux guides the reader from the harvest through fermentation and preservation, explaining how temperature, air, and cleanliness shape the wine’s character. His aim is not only to improve quality but to dignify the vigneron’s craft through knowledge. This rational, humane approach quickly crossed borders, inspiring Italian translations and agricultural reforms that helped modernize Mediterranean viticulture in the early 19th century. Seen from today’s perspective, the book’s insistence on understanding natural processes, rather than forcing them, echoes the same respect for balance and authenticity that defines contemporary natural winemaking. It stands as a reminder that innovation and nature need not be opposed: the best wines, then as now, are born of harmony between science, soil, and human care. Antoine-Alexis Cadet-de-Vaux (1743-1828), French chemist, agronomist, and Enlightenment reformer, collaborator of Chaptal; promoted scientific winemaking and public hygiene. Enlightenment oenology made mainstream by Napoleon's brother: Cadet-de-Vaux makes chemical fermentation feel philosophical, a rational toast to natural wine avant la lettre.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138687385835,"sku":"67-1800--480-338-2025","price":480.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/067_004.jpg?v=1764545519"},{"product_id":"every-man-his-own-butler-cyrus-redding-1839","title":"Every man his own butler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eBy the Author of the \"History and description of modern wines\" 1839 First edition Every man his own butler pp. [1] f.e., xvi, 200, [1] e.r. Original publisher's gilt-titled and decorated brown cloth; minor losses at the edges of the spine; some spots at the spine; small label at the back internal plate \"Bound by Westleys \u0026amp; Clark - London\". Small illustration at the title page. Fine copy, rare. 7 x 4 1\/2 x 3\/4 English A gentleman’s guide to wine: sharp, witty, and unexpectedly scientific. Every Man His Own Butler is both a manual and a meditation on the art of wine stewardship in the early nineteenth century. Written when domestic cellaring was still a practiced science, the book guides the reader through buying, bottling, fining, and the effects of sulphur, treating wine care as a discipline of precision and taste - but with a personal take which adds charm to the pages. Redding presents wine knowledge as a complete craft, part chemistry, part conduct, part economy, demanding the same competence from a gentleman as from his butler. His reflections on adulteration and fraud reveal early concerns with authenticity and origin. Warnings against Cape mixtures or counterfeit Bordeaux anticipate modern debates on appellation and purity, capturing a time when blending could still pass for artful improvement rather than deceit. Equally striking is his esteem for wines of Portugal, Lisbon and its surrounding vineyards, then counted among Europe’s respected sources, but later eclipsed by shifts in trade, fashion, and fortification. The closing chapter, My Uncle's Wine Sayings, brings charm and humor to the technical text, offering flashes of worldly wisdom that still amuse by their odd insight. Among the most curious: “Repentance is a home-made wine of our own brewing,” “Love wine like a constant mistress; never abuse it, and you will find it bring no sorrows,” and “Never take wine with the ugliest lady; she may be one of many virtues.” Each saying distills the era’s mix of restraint, wit, and conviviality - but some might appear controversial to the modern reader. The List of Wines that follows preserves a Europe defined by local renown rather than commercial scale, a survey of vineyards before modern classification and branding. Together, these pages evoke a world where wine knowledge was a measure of education and where tending a cellar well was an act of judgment, memory, and civility. Cyrus Redding (1785–1870), English journalist, wine writer, lived in France for a time, gaining firsthand knowledge of European vineyards, which informed his classic wine history. Is regarded as one of the earliest English writers to systematically study and popularize wine culture. Redding blends chemistry, etiquette, and a dash of mischief, railing against fraud and praising forgotten vineyards. Smart, candid, a little too direct - totally our cup of… wine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138687484139,"sku":"70-1839--680-513-2025","price":680.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/070_004.jpg?v=1764545138"},{"product_id":"anleitung-den-rhein-zu-bereisen-a-schreiber-1818","title":"Anleitung auf die nützlichste und genussvollste Art den Rhein von Schafhausen bis Holland, die Mosel von Coblenz bis Trier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ede Bader am Taunus, so wie Aachen und Spa zu bereisen. Mit den Abstechern: von Straßburg nach Baden und in das Murgthal, von Mannheim nach der oberrheinischen Pfalz, über Heidelberg, die Bergstraße, nach Darmstadt und Frankfurt, von Rüdesheim durch 1818 Second Edition Guide to the most useful and pleasurable way to travel the Rhine from Schaffhausen to Holland, the Moselle from Coblenz to Trier, and the Taunus forests, including Aachen and Spa, with excursions to the main Rhine routes and an appendix (...) pp. [1] f.e., [1] folded map, XXVIII, [4], 524, 68, [1] folded map, [1] r.e. Contemporary half leather with spine label and marbled boards; slightly rubbed, corners a little worn, spine with small bookworm work. Rear endpapers and inside of back cover with minor wormholes in the bottom left corner. Scattered light foxing. Maps well preserved, although folded several times, with small marginal tears; old restoration at the back of the fold of the back map. An appealing, honest copy. 6 3\/4 x 4 1\/2 x 1 1\/2 German Riesling, Orleans and Romantic Rhine, mapped for the enlightened traveler. Schreiber’s Rhine handbook is far more than a picturesque travel guide. In this fully revised second edition, the author offers a meticulous itinerary along the Rhine from Schaffhausen to Holland and along the Moselle to Trier, enriched with historical notes, legends, spa culture and practical advice for the cultivated traveler of the Vormärz period. The section on the Rheinweine is of particular interest for the history of wine: in fact, here Schreiber records early nineteenth century perceptions of terroir, vineyard hierarchy and grape varieties at the very moment when Riesling emerges as the defining white of the region, and the old variety Orleans still holds its ground. As a synthesis of Romantic landscape writing, practical route book and early popular ampelography, this volume speaks directly to collectors interested in the cultural and grape history of the Rhine. In his journey, Schreiber notes the famed slopes of Johannisberg, Rüdesheim, Marcobrunn, Gräfenberg and others, links Assmannshausen with superior red wine, and draws attention to harvest timing, cellar practice and the distinction between early and late ripening grapes. Especially valuable is his mention of Orleanstrauben at Rüdesheim and the tradition attributing their introduction to Charlemagne, together with explicit references to Rieslinge on Johannisberg. Alongside these, Schreiber preserves historical style names such as Liebfrauenmilch, Bacharach, Bleickart and Dollenberger, offering a rare vernacular snapshot of Rhenish viticulture before phylloxera, modernization and the dilution of these once precise designations. The volume is completed by two large folding copper engraved maps, one of the Rhine from Schaffhausen to Mannheim with the Bergstrasse routes, the other from Mannheim to Wesel including the Moselle to Trier. The maps are clearly printed and rich in toponyms, becoming a visual key to the vineyards, towns and spa sites described in the text and a significant cartographic companion to Schreiber’s account. Aloys Schreiber (1761-1841), German writer, educator and Baden court historiographer, noted for elegant Rhine and south German travel guides. Schreiber catches the Rhine just as Riesling and Orleans still share the hill, where vineyards, legends and labels reveal a vanished wine world in a traveler’s pocket.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138687713515,"sku":"76-1818--420-204-2025","price":420.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/075_023.jpg?v=1764544498"},{"product_id":"rizzi-filippo-memoria-tempo-potatura-viti-1810","title":"Memoria sul tempo della potatura delle viti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePp. [2] of title page, 43, [1] r.e. Rebound in period-appropriate paper covers. Text block in good condition with minor age-related browning. Printed on blue paper; although some quires show light wear consistent with age. Nice copy. When to cut the vine became a scientific question, not a seasonal superstition. Printed in L’Aquila in 1810, this Memoria by Filippo Rizzi stands as a significant contribution to early Italian scientific viticulture. A physician by training and an active member of Florence’s Accademia dei Georgofili, Rizzi wrote for one of the most influential agricultural circles of his time, addressing vine growers, landowners, and learned agronomists engaged in reforming rural practice through reasoned inquiry. First published in Naples in 1802, this second edition reflects the growing circulation of Enlightenment agricultural thought in Italy. Rizzi confronts entrenched viticultural habits, particularly the unquestioned traditions surrounding pruning seasons, with methodical observation and medical logic. His work challenges the automatic reliance on inherited custom, proposing instead a rational evaluation of when and how vines should be cut.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47188299383019,"sku":"87-1810--550-359.31-2025","price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/087_003_7f35a77b-73ef-4af0-85a1-2050f1abec1a.jpg?v=1766887952"},{"product_id":"de-saporta-antoine-la-chimie-des-vins-1889","title":"La chimie des vins. Les vins naturels, les vins manipules et falsifies par Antoine De Saporta Avec figures intercalees dans le texte","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePp. 160. Original printed paperback; two different ownership signatures; wear to covers, some missing portions with earlier restorations, with reasonable care; front cover partially detached at the upper spine. Some reinforcements at the binding at pp. 16-17 32-33. Some light foxing. Many illustrations in the text. Internally in good conditions, and overall good copy. Before natural wine became a myth, chemistry was already defending it. Published in Paris in 1889, La chimie des vins is a foundational work in modern enological science and one of the earliest systematic studies of wine chemistry. Written at a time when wine adulteration was a widespread commercial and public concern, the volume reflects the scientific rigor of the French Third Republic and its commitment to analytical transparency. De Saporta dismantles the romantic notion of ancestral, untouched wine, demonstrating instead that wine has long been a scientific product, subject to chemical control, manipulation, and verification. Through careful laboratory analysis, he distinguishes natural wines from those altered or falsified, positioning chemistry as the guardian of authenticity rather than its enemy. The book addresses numerous falsification practices common in the nineteenth century, including plastering, sugaring, acidification, the use of dried raisins, artificial colorants, and other corrective techniques. These practices are examined not polemically, but analytically, offering tools to identify and measure their presence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47188299415787,"sku":"88-1889--250-69.6-2025","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/088_005.jpg?v=1765858612"},{"product_id":"gasparrini-osservazioni-malattia-vite-1855","title":"Osservazioni sulla malattia della vite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePp. 151-163, 1 folding plate. Publisher binding. Offprint from a conference paper, hence the pagination. Complete with the important folding lithographic plate showing diseased grape clusters in fine detail. Very clean, excellent conditions. 1855: Gasparrini names the vine plague haunting Southern Italy’s vineyards. Published in 1855, this seminal pamphlet by Guglielmo Gasparrini documents the first systematic Italian investigation into the vine disease that began spreading through the Neapolitan countryside in 1851. First observed in London in 1845, the disease had already reached Belgium and France before appearing in southern Italy, provoking widespread alarm among growers and scientific institutions alike. Recognizing the urgency of the phenomenon, the Accademia delle Scienze entrusted Gasparrini with the task of clarifying the nature of the pathogen, a mandate that resulted in what would become the first comprehensive and authoritative framework for understanding oidium in Italy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47188299448555,"sku":"89-1855--350-54.36-2025","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/089_005_5fc9c645-06a8-4a5a-a26d-3b96615f2795.jpg?v=1765858727"},{"product_id":"ferrero-ricerche-geologiche-sotterranee-1892","title":"Le Ricerche Geologiche e le Esplorazioni Sotterranee dei mezzi fertilizzanti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePp. 37, [1] index. Original printed wrappers. Fine conditions. Pioneering 1892 geological study of fertilizing substrates: early terroir science from the South of Italy. This pioneering geological treatise, published in 1892, represents Luigi Ottavio Ferrero’s systematic investigation into subterranean fertilizing substances, anticipating what would later be formalized as terroir studies. Bridging late 19th-century geology and agricultural science, the work examines the composition and agronomic potential of underground materials with particular attention to volcanic terrains, limestone formations, marl deposits, and gypsum-bearing strata.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47188299481323,"sku":"90-1892--150-20-2025","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/090_003.jpg?v=1765858834"},{"product_id":"cantoni-gaetano-solforazione-viti-1860","title":"La solforazione delle viti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003ePp. 16. Original printed wrappers. Label on the front cover \"Modena \u0026amp; Reggio - presso Carlo Vincenzi Tip, Libraio\". Minor foxing and browning. Three engravings at p. 14. Overall good conditions. Cantoni’s 1860 vine cure: sulfur, science, and social education in crisis response. A remarkable testament to 19th-century viticultural science, this pamphlet represents a crucial moment in the battle against oidium, the devastating fungal disease that threatened European vineyards in the 1850s. Cantoni's work, published at the height of the crisis, provided practical guidance to vineyard workers on sulfur application techniques, with the tones of a popular uprising \"CAMPAGNUOLI!\" [lit.], educating them of the revolutionary treatment that would save the wine industry. The three illustrations meticulously depict the specialized tools developed for sulfurization, making this both a scientific document and a piece of agricultural history. Written in accessible language for 'istruzione popolare' (popular education), it reflects the democratic spirit of scientific knowledge dissemination that characterized progressive Italian agriculture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47188299514091,"sku":"91-1860--120-34.8-2025","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/091_005.jpg?v=1765858367"},{"product_id":"rojas-viticultura-vinificacion-1950","title":"Viticultura y Vinificación","description":"\u003cp\u003eA foundational technical work on the history of Chilean wine growing, this treatise by agronomist engineer Manuel Rojas L. occupies a central place in the professional development of viticulture in Chile. Written during a decisive phase of modernization in the national wine industry, the book reflects the transition from traditional practice to a system grounded in scientific method and technical training. The fifth edition, issued in Santiago by Editorial Nascimento in 1950, represents the mature synthesis of the author’s long experience in vineyard management and enology, incorporating decades of accumulated observation and applied research. Conceived as a complete reference manual, the volume was designed to support both practitioners and students of viticulture at a moment when Chilean wine production was consolidating its technical foundations. Its substantial length (over eight hundred pages) attests to the scope of its ambition: to present grape growing and winemaking as integrated disciplines governed by biological principles, environmental conditions, and controlled procedures. For much of the mid-twentieth century, the book served as a standard guide for Chilean professionals, shaping vineyard practice and cellar technique during the formative years of the modern industry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47811296428267,"sku":"98-1950--320-210-","price":320.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/098_006.jpg?v=1771035231"},{"product_id":"trevisan-metodo-prevenire-bianco-grappoli-1853","title":"Metodo certo per prevenire i danni del bianco dei grappoli","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pioneering treatise on viticulture by the renowned Italian botanist Vittore Trevisan, addressing the prevention of grape cluster disease known as \"bianco dei grappoli.\" Published in 2000 copies only, this rare work represents early scientific approaches to vineyard disease management, making it a significant bibliographic rarity for collectors of agricultural and enological literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47811296493803,"sku":"100-1853--75-42-","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/100_003.jpg?v=1771035349"},{"product_id":"vermorel-trois-jours-beaujolais-1901","title":"Trois jours en Beaujolais","description":"\u003cp\u003eExcursions viticoles. Offert par la Station Viticole de Villefranche. Three Days in Beaujolais - Viticultural Excursions. 1901  Pp. [1] f.e., 64, [1] r.e. Villefranche (Rhône) Bureau du progrès agricole et viticole Modern marbled cardboard binding, with printed initials in the upper left corner, preserving the original light blue paper wrappers with title printed on the front cover. Pages 62–63 show traces of imperfect cutting, with a small loss of paper confined to the margin. Otherwise a pristine copy. A pioneering work in wine tourism literature, this slender volume chronicles three viticultural excursions through the Beaujolais region by Victor Vermorel (1848-1927), the distinguished French politician, senator, and wine expert who served as president of the Comice Agricole et viticole du Beaujolais. Published in 1901 as part of the Bibliothèque du progrès agricole et viticole series, this work represents an early example of systematic wine tourism documentation. Vermorel, renowned for his collaboration with Pierre Viala on the monumental Ampélographie (1901-1910), brings his scientific rigor to these intimate regional explorations. The text is enhanced with small photographic images, making it both a practical guide and a historical document of turn-of-the-century Beaujolais viticulture. The volume presents three carefully documented excursions through the Beaujolais wine region, each offering detailed observations on local viticultural practices, terroir characteristics, and wine production methods of the early 1900s. Vermorel's scientific background informs his precise descriptions of vineyard techniques, grape varieties, and regional wine-making traditions. The photographic illustrations provide visual documentation of the landscapes, vineyards, and wine-making facilities encountered during these journeys, creating a comprehensive portrait of Beaujolais viticulture at the dawn of the 20th century. Wine notes meet luggage tags: Vermorel maps wine with a scientist’s eye and a traveler’s curiosity, bottling a moment when terroir became a destination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364410603,"sku":"106-1901--90-50-","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00106_IMG_7334copy.jpg?v=1776194924"},{"product_id":"rozet-aventure-etonnante-don-quichotte-1946","title":"L'aventure étonnante de Don Quichotte et du vrai Moulin-à-vent","description":"\u003cp\u003etraduite fidèlement d'un manuscrit espagnol trouvé au pays beaujolais et sans nom d'auteur. The astonishing adventure of Don Quixote and the true windmill. 1946 First Edition Leaves (8) Romanèche-Thorins (Bourgogne) Château de Jacques Original illustrated paper wrappers, the title printed in red and black; a small illustration at the rear cover; central gathering left uncut. Edition limited to 2000 copies on papier de Hollande, this copy reserved for Doct. Chaumier, with a dedicatory inscription in blue ink, illegible. Slight discoloration to the title page. Illustrations in red and black throughout the text. Very good copy. Printed in 2000 copies; copy reserved to Monsieur le Docteur Chaumier. A delightful parody of Cervantes' immortal Don Quixote, reimagined through the lens of Beaujolais wine culture. Georges Rozet crafts an ingenious tale where the famous windmill episode takes on new meaning in the vineyards of Romanèche-Thorins. This charming booklet, generously illustrated by Line Touchet, represents a unique fusion of literary homage and regional pride, celebrating the renowned Moulin-à-Vent appellation of Beaujolais. As if Don Quixote needed improving, he detours through Beaujolais, retold in gleeful red-and-black plates. Cheeky, irreverent, and a tiny gem of reinvention. A witty collision of Cervantes and Burgundian folklore: literature with a splash of terroir. The kind of odd, cultured pairing that reminds us collecting should always surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364443371,"sku":"107-1946--80-50-","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00107_IMG_7461copy.jpg?v=1776194881"},{"product_id":"maigne-nouveau-manuel-sommelier-1884","title":"Encyclopedie-Roret - Nouveau manuel complet du Sommelier et du Marchand de vins","description":"\u003cp\u003eContenant des notions succinctes sur les vins rouges, blancs et mousseux (...). New Complete Manual of the Sommelier and Wine Merchant, containing succinct notions on red, white, sparkling wines. 1884 First Edition Pp. (4), 356, 72 Paris Roret Modern dark red cloth binding with title in gilt on a red leather spine label. Original printed front wrapper preserved, bearing the title and an illustration of wine workers; with a handwritten note “Châteaux de Belbeuf.” Some foxing throughout. The final 72 pages of advertisements printed on lighter, browned paper. A good copy. This comprehensive sommelier's manual from the renowned Manuels-Roret encyclopedic series served as an essential guide for wine professionals during the golden age of French viticulture, before the phylloxera crisis reshaped the industry. The work encompasses detailed knowledge of red, white, and sparkling wines, reflecting the sophisticated understanding of wine commerce in late 19th-century France. The volume contains systematic classifications of French wines by region and type, practical guidance for wine merchants on storage and handling, detailed descriptions of wine-making processes, and commercial advice for the burgeoning wine trade. Features numerous small etchings in the text illustrating wine-related equipment and techniques. The last 72 pp. are the catalog of Roret's editions, dated 1887. A pocket-savvy guide bearing practical wine wisdom and capturing the essence of 19th-century French culture through tasting, trade, experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364574443,"sku":"108-1884--100-50-","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00108_IMG_7326copy.jpg?v=1776194864"},{"product_id":"herpin-graisse-vins-1819","title":"De la graisse des vins","description":"\u003cp\u003eDes phénomènes de cette maladie, de ses causes, des moyens d'y remédier, et de ceux de la prévenir. On the ropiness of wines, on the phenomena of this disorder, its causes, the means of remedying it, and those of preventing it. 1819 Second Edition Pp. 40 Chalons-sur-Marne Boniez-Lambert Original paperback binding with printed cover with printed itle and decorative frame, and string seam construction. Untrimmed. Some light foxing. The cover is dated 1818 as the first edition, while the title page is marked 1819. Overall, a well-preserved copy. This work by Jean Charles Herpin addresses one of viticulture's most perplexing maladies: the 'graisse' or ropiness of wines, a bacterial fault that renders wine viscous and unpalatable. Published in 1819 as a revised second edition, this treatise represents early scientific inquiry into wine pathology, pre-dating modern microbiology by decades. Herpin's methodical approach to understanding wine diseases through chemical analysis marked a significant advancement in oenological science. This rare pamphlet offers invaluable insight into 19th-century viticulture and the evolution of wine science, making it essential for collectors of agricultural and scientific literature. The treatise systematically examines the phenomenon of wine 'graisse' (ropiness), analyzing its chemical manifestations and proposing remedies based on contemporary knowledge. Herpin details the symptoms of this wine fault, explores its probable causes through chemical reasoning, and suggests treatments involving tartaric compounds and controlled fermentation. The work includes observations on wine chemistry, fermentation processes, and preventive measures for maintaining wine quality. Written in the precise scientific language of the early 19th century, it reflects the era's transition from empirical winemaking to systematic chemical analysis. A tiny, wonderfully serious inquiry into wine gone wrong: cellar drama, early chemistry, and bad bottles become a doorway into the birth of modern oenology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364639979,"sku":"109-1819--260-50-","price":260.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00109_IMG_7456copy.jpg?v=1776194783"},{"product_id":"rheinlands-weine-1928","title":"Rheinlands Weine","description":"\u003cp\u003eMosel, Saar und Ruwer Weine. Rhineland Wines - Moselle, Saar and Ruwer Wines. 1928 First edition Pp. 103. Out of pagination: [3] full-color lithographic plates; [2] copper-red monochrome lithographic plates; [26] leaves with 58 monochrome copper red photographs; [1] folded map of the Mosel  Köln (Cologne) M. Dumont Schauberg Original cardboard covers, printed in black and red, with an embossed coat of arms highlighted in gold and silver. Small stain to the upper margin of the front cover; edges slightly worn. Title page with chromolithograph and decorative elements in copper red, title in black. The rich visual material comprises numerous single-color lithographs in an elegant copper-red tone within the text, together with a group of plates outside the pagination: 3 full-color lithographic plates, 2 copper-red lithographic plates, and, above all, 26 pages (in the second part of the volume) printed recto\/verso with 58 copper-red photographs with descriptive captions; with a folded map at the end. A fair copy, with minor blemishes and signs of use. Published in 1928 as the 4th installment in the series Schriftenfolge: Rheinlands Weine by the Propaganda-Verband Preußischer Weinbaugebiete in Bonn, this volume is a richly illustrated celebration of the wine regions along the Mosel, Saar, and Ruwer rivers.  The local viticultural heritage is presented simultaneously as ancient tradition, living landscape, poetic experience, and German national treasure - a multi-layered cultural and marketing argument entirely characteristic of its era.  The oblong octavo format, decorated cover, and the quality and variety of illustrative techniques, together with the printed handwritten dedication dated 1. März 1928, all reinforce the impression that this booklet was intended to assert the importance of viticulture in the region. The volume opens with sections including Romische Denkmaler vom Weinbau by Dr. Siegfried Loeschcke, Das Deutsche Weinmuseum in Trier, and Geschichtliche Entwicklung des Mosel-, Saar- und Ruwerweinbaues.  It also includes poetry, among it Es bluht der Wein by M. Hornscheid.  In teh second part of the volume, entirely photographic, the reader encounters views of wine villages including Piesport, Dhron, Canzem, Saarburg, and Trier. A map of the Mosel river's winding course marks the wine villages along its route (folded at the end).  The volume belongs to a moment in late Weimar culture when regional identity, landscape, and historical memory were being woven together with unusual sophistication and strong intention. The years 1928 and 1929 represent the \"hinge\" of the Weimar Republic, the precise moment where the optimism of the \"Golden Twenties\" collided with the onset of the Great Depression - making this little booklet even more relevant. A wistful toast to Weimar wine culture in 1928: regional pride with a light, folkloric touch, capturing that fleeting moment when progress felt endless and tradition still danced unselfconsciously in the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364705515,"sku":"111-1928--180-59-46103.5430555556","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00111_IMG_7411copy.jpg?v=1776194487"},{"product_id":"rudd-hocks-and-moselles-1935","title":"Hocks and Moselles","description":"\u003cp\u003eConstable's Wine Library. Edited by André Simon.  1935 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., x, 165, [1] folded map, [1] r.e. London Constable and Company Ltd. Binding in dark red cloth with dust jacket, with a woodcut-style illustration of bottles and glasses in a vivid yellow and white. Minor defects at the jacket back fold and front flap's bottom corner. In excellent condition, complete with the dust jacket. Hocks and Moselles is part of Constable’s Wine Library, edited by André L. Simon, a key figure in 20th-century British wine writing. The series (covering Madeira, Sherry, Champagne, Claret, Burgundy, Port, Wine in the Kitchen, and Hocks and Moselles) was written by specialists “in language the layman can perfectly understand,” (quoting the Morning Post), aiming to create both an authoritative reference and a form of consumer education for a more discerning British public. This first edition captures a revealing moment in British wine culture between commerce, travel, and connoisseurship. By 1935, as Rudd notes, “Hock” had broadened beyond its geographic origin to include wines from the Rhine, Nahe, and Palatinate - or even, more loosely, any German white wine in the long brown bottle. In practice, British consumers relied on bottle shape as a visual code: brown for Rhine, green for Moselle. Rudd writes within this culture of simplification while seeking to refine it. Unlike contemporary German perspectives framing the Mosel as Heimat, he presents the Rhine and Moselle as landscapes of pleasure, tourist and spa regions an English traveler might visit and return from with improved taste. The tone is one of appreciation rather than ownership, making the book a telling document of interwar British sensibility, where travel, wine knowledge, and polite consumption converge. This copy, with its bright mid-1930s retained dust jacket, preserves that original commercial immediacy unusually well. The book opens with a regional framing of the Rhine and Moselle as a landscape of scenic beauty, tourism, Roman ruins, spa culture, and wine. Its twelve chapters move systematically from general orientation to specific wine regions. Chapter I presents the Rhine and Moselle as an exceptional wine and travel region. Chapter II, \"What's In A Name\", explains German wine nomenclature for a British reader, including vineyard names, cask numbers, subdivisions, Auslese classifications, and the meanings of terms such as Eigensgewachs, Spatlese, Trockenbeeren Auslese, and Kabinett Wein; it also explains examples of bottle identification and origin, including Hochheim, Moselle bottling conventions, and traceable label forms such as \"Brauneberger Juffer, Growth Schmidt, Fuder Nr. 4, 1931\". Chapters III-XI proceed geographically from Coblenz through the Rheingau, Nahe Valley, Rheinhessen, the Palatinate, the Moselle Valley, Upper Moselle and Saar, and Middle and Lower Moselle. Throughout, the text uses personal travel and tasting experience as part of its exposition, including references to Bad Kreuznach, the 1921 Berncastler Doctor, cycling in the Palatinate, Amsterdam, the Nahe, and the Saar vineyards. Chapter XII, devoted to vintages, surveys important years from 1857 to 1933, with repeated emphasis on 1921 as a benchmark vintage, alongside years including 1868, 1886, 1893, 1895, 1904, 1911, 1915, 1920, and 1933. At the back is a folding map, a clean black-and-white cartographic rendering of the wine districts of the Rhine and Moselle, conceived as a practical navigational tool. The German wine maze turned into English leisure: labels and bottle shapes decoded, vintages ranked, even tourist tips - with 1930s clarity and a dust jacket that still sells the dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364738283,"sku":"112-1935--220-100-46103.5708333333","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00112_IMG_7515copy2.jpg?v=1776194405"},{"product_id":"tovey-wine-and-wine-countries-1862","title":"Wine and Wine Countries","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers.  1862 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [2], xiv, 365; 1 folding table b\/w p.360-361; [2] r.e.) London Hamilton, Adams \u0026amp; Co. Original green blind-stamped cloth with gilt-lettered spine; edges and spine slightly worn. Pages with minor toning and minor foxing. Signature in pencil on the title page (S. Wilson?) and probable notes by the same hand at the rear endpaper, including a short wine bibliography. Stamp of F.W. Needham, bookseller, on the front paste-down, together with a large ex libris of Max Lake, with an image of a vineyard. Folded table in perfect condition. Overall, a very good copy. This first edition belongs to a precise historical moment in British wine culture: the early 1860s, when questions of import, taste, taxation, national supply, and commercial knowledge had acquired new urgency. Set against the disrupted post–Cobden–Chevalier wine market, it is not simply a gentleman’s appreciation of wine, nor merely a merchant’s handbook, but a living Victorian attempt to describe the wine world as a connected commercial, geographical, and chemical system. The combination of trade manual, historical record, vintage register, and statistical document makes it a compact witness to how Victorian Britain sought to order the wine-producing world (geographically, commercially, and culturally) at a moment when consumers and merchants alike were being asked to think internationally about what they drank. The book opens with a lightly Homeric epigraph on the title page: “The weary find new strength in generous wine.” The chapters proceed geographically through the wines consumed in England, then Port and Portugal, Spain, France, Germany and Hungary, Italy and Sicily, Greece, Crimea, America, and the British Colonies. It continues with an inquiry into the chemistry of wine and the practical question of what wines to drink, and when. The appendix gathers bottle sizes, wine tables, measures, vintages, and alcoholic tint, together with tables of consumption from 1791 to 1861. It includes a folded statistical table between pp. 360–361, “Consumption of Wine from 1701 to June 30, 1861,” as well as a vintage table for Port, Claret, Rhenish, and Hungarian wines from 1800 to 1861 within the text. The work treats wine adulteration with notable directness and bears upon the emerging Australian wine industry, with material connected to James Busby. A Victorian mind mapping wine across the world to teach Britain how to drink globally: trade, taste, chemistry entwined, with data quietly educating the palate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097365885163,"sku":"124-1862--570-279-46105.6458333333","price":570.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00124_IMG_7494copy_a1a9d239-dc96-4907-8af9-091eaf6bbf7e.jpg?v=1776193747"},{"product_id":"husmann-cultivation-native-grape-1866","title":"The cultivation of the native grape and manufacture of American wines","description":"\u003cp\u003e1866 First Edition Pp. [2] f.e., viii, 9-192, [8], [2] r.e. New York Woodward Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titling and small decorative elements on the spine; brown endpapers. Some discoloration and wear, more pronounced at the spine. The front endpaper bears annotations in two distinct hands, likely ownership marks. Overall, a good copy. Issued in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and dedicated \"To the Grape Growers of 'Our Country, One and Indivisible,'\", this work belongs to the formative phase of American wine literature. Husmann emerges as a central figure in this context, not only as the author of the present manual, but as a key agent in the broader development of viticulture in the United States and beyond. He is notably associated with the introduction of phylloxera-resistant American rootstocks into France, a contribution of lasting consequence. His civic engagement is equally of note, as he took part in the drafting of Missouri's 1865 Ordinance Abolishing Slavery. The work offers a comprehensive treatment of grape varieties, viticulture, and winemaking, complemented by statistical guidance for the establishment of vineyards and the estimation of yields, with particular attention to varieties such as Catawba and Concord. Its emphasis on native and hybrid grapes reflects a distinctly American vision of viticulture, articulated at a moment prior to the predominance of European vinifera. Cultivation is explained from planting to trellising, while vinification and varietal analysis are treated with notable precision. The volume includes 13 full-page grape illustrations and numerous in-text engravings depicting grape varieties and winemaking apparatus. It also records the contemporary controversy surrounding the Norton's Virginia grape, debated by Nicholas Longworth. At the end, eight unnumbered leaves contain editorial advertisements for works on agriculture, horticulture, architecture, and rural economy. Ampelography meets Americana in this richly illustrated ode to native grapes and frontier winegrowing, an oenological origin myth in print.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097365950699,"sku":"125-1866--220-60-46106.7708333333","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00125_IMG_7343copy.jpg?v=1776193593"},{"product_id":"dubet-le-petit-vigneron-1910","title":"Le Petit Vigneron","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Little Winegrower. 1910 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., 206, [2], [1] r.e. Villefranche-sur-Saône P. Guillermet Original red binding with title printed on the front cover within a beautiful Art Deco frame. Edges and corners slightly worn. Muted fabric spine. Pages uniformly tanned due to paper quality, otherwise in very good condition. Numerous illustrations in the text, some full-page. Overall, a fair copy. Le Petit Vigneron is a practical winemaking manual for the small independent French farmer. It belongs to the moment when Pasteur's fermentation science was moving from laboratory theory into everyday vineyard practice. Dubet notes that the Romans heated wine for preservation two thousand years before Pasteur explained the process, while elsewhere he leads the reader through decimal calibration for correct mustimeter readings at harvest. The book follows small-scale production from harvesting and vatting through conservation, disease, distillation, and a directory of suppliers that preserves a snapshot of the early French wine equipment trade. Illustrated with engraved technical drawings, this first edition stands as both a working manual and a document of rural winemaking in transition. Seventeen chapters carry the reader through small-scale vinification from fermented beverages, grapes, must, and wine to fermentation, cultivated yeasts, sulfitage, cellar hygiene, harvest timing, vatting, wine improvement, conservation, wine diseases, special vinifications, tasting, analysis, brandy production, and the use of marc. There are sections on pied de cuve, fûts and casks, and pasteurization, including an illustration of a Brehier pasteurizer. The final portion includes recommended suppliers of products, machines, and winemaking apparatus, naming firms in Villefranche-sur-Saone, Paris, and Lyon. A vigneron’s manual alive with practice: yeasts, faults, tools, and trade, where cellar know-how absorbs the pulse of new science. Rustic knowledge, sharpened and set in motion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366016235,"sku":"126-1910--140-100-46107.6659722222","price":140.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00126_IMG_7378copy.jpg?v=1776193542"},{"product_id":"sutaine-essay-on-the-history-1845","title":"Essai sur l'Histoire des Vins de la Champagne. Bound with: Recherches (...) sur la culture de la Vigne (...) et la confection des vins de Champagne","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay on the history of Champagne wines. Bound with: Research (…) on vine cultivation (…) and the making of Champagne wines. 1845 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [1], 112. Pp. [8], 216, [1] r.e. Reims L. Jacquet; Matot Braine Contemporary half basane, the spine with four raised bands, gilt decoration, and two red morocco labels lettered in gold with both titles. Binding rubbed at the extremities, with more pronounced wear at the foot of the spine. Sutaine: foxing to the initial leaves, thereafter diminishing; a light waterstain to the upper inner margin of the first forty pages, not affecting the text. Plonquet: pronounced waterstaining to the upper inner margin from approximately p. 140, increasing toward the end of the volume (beginning to touch the text around p. 155). Overall, a sound copy, in nearly good condition. Two works on Champagne bound together in Reims in the mid-1860s, pairing Sutaine's historical essay with Plonquet's practical treatise at a decisive moment in the region's viticultural development. Sutaine wrote for the Congres scientifique de France, opening in Reims on 1 September 1845, in response to a set question on the origin and development of the Champagne wine trade. Twenty years later, Plonquet - a physician of Ay-Champagne - approached the same subject through cultivation, applied science, and production, in a work awarded a gold medal by the Comice agricole de Reims. Read in sequence, the two texts move from regional history and literary memory to varieties, pests, chemistry, and commerce, giving the composite volume a clear intellectual coherence beyond either work alone. Sutaine traces the history of the vine in Champagne from Roman and medieval origins to the seventeenth century, dwelling on the prestige of the still wines of Ay, Sillery, and Verzy and on the Ordre des Coteaux. Plonquet turns from that historical view to the vineyards of the Marne in practice: grape varieties, cultivation, vineyard pests, and the chemistry and commerce of sparkling wine production, including tirage, dosage, carbonic acid, and the question of cane versus beet sugar. The final section preserves proceedings of the section cantonale d'Ay from 1860 to 1865. A wonderfully coherent Champagne double act: memory and method bound as one, where Reims history gives way to vineyard science just as the region was learning to sparkle with modern precision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366049003,"sku":"127-1845--400-250-46107.6805555556","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00127_IMG_7428copy.jpg?v=1776193451"},{"product_id":"armailhac-la-culture-des-1855","title":"La culture des vignes, la vinification et les vins dans le Médoc","description":"\u003cp\u003eAavec un État des Vignobles d'après leur Réputation. The Cultivation of Vines, Vinification and the Wines of the Médoc, with a Survey of the Vineyards According to Their Reputation. 1855 Third Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [4], XIII, 556 (misnumbered 656), [1] r.e., 4 tables out of pagination Bordeaux P. Chaumas Contemporary half leather, spine with four raised bands, title on a red leather label, gilt decoration; marbled boards. Margins slightly rubbed; upper hinge showing signs of opening but sound; upper portion of the spine rubbed. Binding restored at the internal upper edge. Overall, a sound copy in good condition. Published in Bordeaux in 1855, this third and most complete edition follows the initial issue of 1844 and its revision of 1852. On the title page D’Armailhacq is defined as \"ancien magistrat, propriétaire en Médoc\", and corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux. Appearing in the very year of the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, the work offers a near-contemporary account of Médoc viticulture and reputation, arranged commune by commune and grounded in proprietary observation. The appendix on oidium refers to Berkeley’s identification of 1847 and traces the subsequent diffusion of the disease into the Médoc. The ampelographic sections preserve early local nomenclature, notably cabernelle ou carmenère. The author’s own estate, then Mouton d’Armailhacq, is recorded within the survey tables. Five parts cover vine physiology, Médoc grape varieties, soils, annual cultivation, vineyard maintenance, harvest and vinification, illustrated by 4 tables out of pagination. Particularly interesting is the illustrated section on ploughing include the Araire Gabat, Araire Courbe, and Courbe a Gorronter. Financial tables record vineyard renewal and fertilisation costs in the canton of Pauillac. The final gazetteer surveys communes in the arrondissements of Lesparre and Bordeaux, listing proprietors, vineyard area, production, and ranking categories from premiers crus to proprietors selling at peasant prices. An appendix on oidium describes symptoms, sources, and the disease's spread across Europe into the Medoc. A Médoc time capsule from the very year of the 1855 Classification: terroir, tools, costs, oidium panic, and even Carmenère under its old local name. Pure claret obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366278379,"sku":"128-1855--850-150.8-46107.6916666667","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00128_IMG_7709copy.jpg?v=1776193393"},{"product_id":"foillard-le-pays-et-le-beaujolais-1929","title":"Le Pays et le Vin Beaujolais","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuivi d'une Anthologie Bachique. The Land and the Wine of Beaujolais. Followed by a Bacchic Anthology. 1929 First Edition [1] f.e., XIX, 199, (3), [1] r.e., (1) folded map, (16) photographic plates Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Jean Guillermet Publisher’s light green printed wrappers, somewhat toned, with chipping and small tears at the extremities, particularly at the corners. Spine sunned, with minor cracking. Title within a rich frame on the front cover; bacchic mask vignette repeated on both covers. Text, plates, and folding map in very good condition. Overall, a sound copy in the original wrappers. This volume marks an early and deliberate modern statement of the Beaujolais as both wine country and cultural landscape. The book helped define the literary and promotional identity the region would cultivate over the following three decades. Its significance lies not simply in its subject, but in the way it presents Beaujolais as a lived pays: geographic, historical, convivial, and inseparable from the wines that gave it public meaning. The authors were business partners in the wine trade through their firm T. David et L. Foillard, established in 1919 at Saint-Georges-de-Reneins and Sorgues, and they wrote from within the commercial and civic world they sought to champion. Foillard in particular would later be known as the 'pere du Beaujolais' (the father of Beaujolais) for his sustained literary and public advocacy on behalf of the region's wines and people. The volume blends regionalism, wine literature, local memory, viticultural identity, and literary homage into a single programmatic book. The volume is arranged in six principal sections. Part I, Trois jours en auto dans le vignoble beaujolais, recounts a three-day motor tour from the Bas-Beaujolais to the Grand Beaujolais, with halts at Ternand, Salles-en-Beaujolais, Juliénas, and Romanèche-Thorins, interweaving topographical observation with local history, including the meteorite recorded at Salles in 1798 and the Lamartine family’s link to the Chapitre de Salles. Part II, Le Pays Beaujolais, surveys the region’s geography, prehistory, and historical formation. Part III, Le Folklore en Beaujolais, gathers customs and traditions, from the legend of Claude Brosse to dialect vocabulary, proverbs, boules, and seasonal fêtes. Part IV, Notre ami le vin, offers an anthologie bachique from antiquity to the nineteenth century, with citations from Ronsard, Boileau, and Victor Hugo. Part V, La Vigne, treats viticulture, including origins, cépages, soils, maladies, and vendange practices. Part VI, De la Qualité du Vin, concludes with technical inquiry, drinking customs, and medical and popular beliefs surrounding wine. The text is illustrated throughout with small and full-page engravings, which lend both clarity and a measured visual elegance to the volume. To complete the visual apparatus, there are sixteen photographic plates outside the pagination. The color woodcut frontispiece by Philippe Burnot, as noted on the title page, presents a vine-framed view of the Beaujolais countryside, with a bottle and glasses set upon a table. The folding color map, with a legend distinguishing rivers, routes, departmental boundaries, and railways, documents the Beaujolais road network of the interwar period; a light, playful note in the margin invites the reader to enter any café and ask for directions should the map prove insufficient. A bibliography on pp. 195–196 cites works including Vermorel and Danguy’s Vins du Beaujolais, Billiard’s La Vigne dans l’Antiquité, and Audin’s own Le Beaujolais (1926). A road trip, folklore, vines, and conviviality, all bottled into a charming manifesto, with engravings, photos, and a map adding extra sparkle to a region already in bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366343915,"sku":"130-1929--150-40-46121.5138888889","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00130_IMG_7716copy.jpg?v=1776193114"},{"product_id":"myard-vigneronnage-beaujolais-1907","title":"Le vigneronnage en Beaujolais","description":"\u003cp\u003eSharecropping In Beaujolais. 1907 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., (4), 338, [1] r.e. Lyon Imprimeries Réunies Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt fleurs-de-lis in two compartments, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to Louis Chevrotton, identified as \"mon cousin\": \"À mon cousin Louis Chevrotton, en gage d'affection sincère et en souvenir des bonnes heures passées ensemble lors de son séjour en France 1920-21.\" Signed F. Myard. Calf rubbed at the extremities, with darkening and surface scuffing to the upper board. Very mild toning, very good. An academic publication in law, on the subject of vigneronnage, the wine-growing system based on sharecropping, peculiar to the Beaujolais and its immediate Burgundian neighbors. As presented here, vigneronnage - a form of métayage à moitié fruits whose juridical contours had solidified by the eighteenth century - bound a landowner and a working vigneron in partnership over a small mixed holding, with costs shared and the harvest divided equally. It appears as both contractual framework and social order, one that endured for centuries before the late nineteenth-century viticultural crisis strained it toward collapse. The work stands at the meeting point of legal scholarship and near-contemporary rural crisis. The study is arranged in three substantial parts: historical, legal, and economic-social. It traces Beaujolais viticulture from the Gallo-Roman period through the Ancien Régime, then examines the formation, proof, obligations, guarantees, accounting, prescription, third-party relations, and dissolution of the vigneronnage contract. The final section turns to crisis conditions: mévente, collapsing revenues, abandoned contracts, and fraud in the wine trade, supported by parliamentary enquiry material of 26 April 1907. It concludes with an appendix on vigneron housing and an annex reproducing in full the twenty-one-article Bail à vigneronnage de l'Hospice civil de Beaujeu, approved at Lyon on 31 October 1900. A legal twist on Beaujolais: vigneronnage, a uniquely local sharecropping system, captured just as it slips from practice into memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366376683,"sku":"131-1907--250-119-46120.7694444444","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00131_IMG_7696copy.jpg?v=1776193077"},{"product_id":"vermorel-souvenirs-contes-1942","title":"Souvenirs, contes et nouvelles","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemories, Tales and Short Stories. 1942 First Edition Pp. 151, (1). Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Éditions du Cuvier, Jean Guillermet Publisher's printed light green wrappers, with small vignette; lightly tone, small tear at the upper spine. A very good copy. The volume gathers the literary writings of Jean Vermorel, a Lyonnais literary critic, archivist, and chronicler of Beaujolais and Lyon. The preface is by Justin Godart, with whom Vermorel had long been linked through political, intellectual and work collaboration (he was his secretary when attached to the Bibliotheque du Palais des Arts). Vermorel went on becoming the archivist of the city of Lyon from 1912 to 1934, a member of the Academie des Pierres Plantees under the pseudonym Joannes Papelard, and a founding member and vice-president of the Societe des Amis de Guignol. As a first edition issued in the year of his death (1942), this collection stands as a regional literary memorial of Lyonnais civic culture and Beaujolais print life. The frontispiece is a halftone photographic portrait of the author, Jean Vermorel, standing outdoors in the Beaujolais countryside, hat on and dark coat, a fitting image for a writer whose work is so thoroughly rooted in the landscapes and memories of the Lyon region. In the preface Justin Godart (1871-1956) recalls the social activism that animated Vermorel and himself in popular education and the city's cultural institutions. For context, Godart was a major figure of Lyonnais radical-socialist politics, lawyer and politician, Deputy for Lyon from 1906, Senator for the Rhone from 1926, Minister for Health in 1932, one of the \"Vichy 80\" who on 10 July 1940 voted against granting Petain full powers, later active in the Resistance and interim mayor of Lyon at its liberation in September 1944.  A richly varied miscellany, the volume moves through four distinct sections. Souvenirs Lyonnaises offers memoir and social observation, including reflections on Dr. Terme's tenure as mayor of Lyon and an eyewitness account of the city during the years 1840–1847. Études Lyonnaises follows with historical and literary essays, like Chateaubriand's connection to Lyon, the return of Napoleon, and the illness and death of a Lyonnais mayor in 1818. The center of the book belongs to Contes et Nouvelles, a gathering of seven short fiction pieces, among them La Baignoire, Le Brocanteur, Soeur Gentiane, and L'Outil. A slender poetry section, Le Livre de ma Vie, then offers verse meditations grouped under titles such as Doute, Les Asiles, and Retour à la Vie. The volume closes quietly with Au Bout du Chemin, a collection of pensées and impressions. Final bow for Vermorel (here in the less familiar role of storyteller) published in the year of his death, as if to gather a lifetime's observations into one last volume. The scientist softens into a raconteur; civic passion and the Beaujolais spirit find their quieter register.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366409451,"sku":"132-1942--40-40-46121.7173611111","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00132_IMG_7735copy.jpg?v=1776193014"},{"product_id":"lagrange-moi-je-suis-vigneron-1960","title":"Moi, je suis Vigneron","description":"\u003cp\u003eI, I Am a Winegrower. 1960 First Edition Pp. 359, (1), (1) photographic plate at the frontispice Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Éditions du Cuvier, Jean Guillermet Original wrappers, title in red. Overall, a near-mint copy. Begun in 1957 after extended research among Burgundy's wine-growing communes, it takes documentary ambition into literary form through the voice of le Pere Toine, a vigneron of Vinzelles in the Cote Chalonnaise. Across twelve months he recounts the labour, speech, and customs of a Burgundian village shaped by the vine, giving the book its distinctive place between regional literature and viticultural testimony. Each chapter corresponds to a month and takes its subtitle from the song of a bird. The sequence is followed by an Appendix, an Abreviations section, a Souvenir, and an In Memoriam.  Limited edition of 50 copies reserved for family, friends, and collaborators; this copy being the exemplaire de dedicace, no. 4, printed for Monsieur E. Jalabert.  The text interweaves the fiction of le Pere Toine's daily life with detailed ethnographic material on viticultural tools, dialect vocabulary, folk songs with musical notation, saints' days, pruning methods, vine training on American rootstocks, the making of vin de Bourgogne, and the rituals of the Saint-Vincent confrerie. Pages 138-139 include a dialogue on American vines, grafting, and the changes brought by phylloxera, including the old vigneron's attachment to the serpette over secateurs. The photographic frontispiece represents an elderly vigneron with wicker hotte, and a motto. The cut-out of a newspaper review praising the book's has been preserved. Vineyard memory and expertise, rendered with a very human tone. A private edition, circulated among family and friends, gathering the hard life of a vigneron with a lyrical touch: tools, songs, grafts, folk stories, saints to pray to - and the phylloxera debates that shadowed an entire generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366638827,"sku":"133-1960--40-40-46121.7152777778","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00133_IMG_7741copy.jpg?v=1776192980"},{"product_id":"foillard-le-vin-de-nos-vignes-1950","title":"Le Vin de nos Vignes","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouvenirs et pages d'autrefois. The Wine of Our Vines. Memories and Pages of Times Past. 1950 First Edition Pp. XIII, 3-127, (7) Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Éditions du Cuvier Original cream wrappers, titled in red and black with a small woodcut vignette on the upper cover; spine lettered in red. Uncut and in excellent conditions. This volume stands as the autumnal work of Léon Foillard (1880-1964), long regarded as a formative modern voice of Beaujolais wine culture. Issued when Foillard was seventy, the book gathers personal reminiscences, anecdotes, and reflective essays on the wine country he had championed across three decades as négociant, writer, mayor, and co-founder of the Ordre des Compagnons du Beaujolais. In Latreille's framing, it belongs to the quieter dignity of a man harvesting the vintage of his own memories. The verso of the half-title lists Foillard's earlier works, all marked épuisé, a concise sign that this volume was conceived as the mature summation of an already established regional author. Foillard's subject is Beaujolais as a lived moral and social landscape, rooted in the postwar France and its interest in wine writing, local history, memoir, and regional illustration. The preface is by André Latreille (1901-1984), the Lyon historian whose framing places the work at the intersection of local history and regional literary culture. The text is structured in three sections. Part I, \"Souvenirs du Jeune Âge,\" recounts youth in wine country - education, the death of a father, departure from the lycée, and early encounters with vignerons. Part II, \"Médecine Beaujolaise,\" offers essays on the therapeutic and convivial virtues of wine. Part III, \"Pour en finir,\" includes a valedictory meditation on wine as civilisation. The volume is followed by an \"Anthologie bachique.\" It includes a frontispiece photograph, two additional photographic plates outside the pagination, woodcut illustrations by Luc Barbier in the text, all enriching the storytelling. A late-life toast to Beaujolais by one of its fiercest champions. Foillard harvests his own past: wine not just tasted, but lived, shared, and lovingly remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366737131,"sku":"134-1950--60-40-46121.7118055556","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00134_IMG_7755copy.jpg?v=1776192904"},{"product_id":"bonnaud-la-vigne-en-fleur-1928","title":"La Vigne en fleur","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe flowering vine. 1928  Pp. 23 Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Jean Guillermet Original cream printed wrappers, overall a good copy of a fragile ephemeral publication. This French verse play celebrates the life and loves of a Beaujolais vigneron family through a blend of prose dialogue and verse, framed by an extended lyrical notice by the regional historian Joseph Balloffet, Vice-President de la Societe des Sciences et Arts du Beaujolais. The publication also functioned as a cultural and promotional work for Beaujolais, with a very large non-commercial distribution, making this modest pamphlet an early expression of the region's self-fashioning in print.  The work opens with Balloffet’s introductory essay, Au Pays de la Vigne en fleur, a poetic evocation of the Beaujolais landscape, naming the principal wine villages and situating the region within the Lyonnais, Forez, and Mâconnais. He describes the Saône valley, the vineyard slopes rising like an ancient amphitheatre, and the changing colors of the vine through treatment and seasonal decline. The text alludes to Claude Bernard, born at nearby Saint-Julien, and to the Romanesque profile of the château of Montmelas, concluding with dedicatory verses to the vigneron. The play proper is set in the kitchen of Jean Servigne, a vigneron of Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, rendered through detailed stage directions that inventory the farmhouse interior. Scene I introduces Clémence Servigne and her son Jean-Claude, who declares his love for Denise and seeks his mother’s support. Jean Servigne is initially reluctant but is persuaded by Clémence, and eventually blesses the union and delivers a climactic evocation of the vine in flower, the scent entering through the open window, and the approach of the vendange, with its sounds of cuve and pressoir, culminating in the promise of marriage and Denise’s role as “Servante de la Vigne.”  Jean Guillermet (1893–1975), editor and publisher, was a central figure in Beaujolais cultural life. His press, founded in 1929, later became the Éditions du Cuvier, issuing over 250 works devoted to the region. A vineyard staged like a theatre, with Beaujolais as its living set and love unfolding beneath flowering vines: rustic, lyrical, and ever so gently persuasive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366769899,"sku":"135-1928--40-40-46121.70625","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00135_IMG_7756copy.jpg?v=1776192844"},{"product_id":"beroaldus-du-vin-et-des-1939","title":"De Vino et eius proprietate","description":"\u003cp\u003eDu Vin et des propriétés d'icelui. Fac-similé du texte latin (...) et traduction française du poète André Berry. On Wine and Its Properties. 1939 First Edition Pp. 64 Paris Imprimerie Marchand Original illustrated paper wrappers with two-colour cover design (orange-red and black) by Valentin Le Campion depicting a large ornamental Gothic 'D' with viticultural scene and vine tendrils, signed with his monogram. Wrappers lightly toned. Text block clean and fresh. A loose invitation card is present, reading: \"Cette plaquette a ete composee sur la demande de Monsieur Pierre Andre a l'occasion de l'ouverture du Premier Bouffon de la Reine Pedauque en 1939. Nous pensons que ce souvenir vous sera agreable.\" A second loose slip bears an errata note advising that pages 26 and 30 of this edition are inverted. A well-preserved copy with its associated material. This bilingual pamphlet reintroduces an anonymous incunabular treatise on wine, De Vino et eius proprietate, in photographic facsimile of the Latin text dated circa 1480, accompanied by a French translation by the Bordelais poet Andre Berry. The publication is attributed to Philippus Beroaldus only provisionally, and the modern edition makes that uncertainty part of its scholarly interest rather than smoothing it away. With an avant-propos by Dr Alfred Gottschalk, physician and historian of gastronomy, it belongs to a moment when wine history, gastronomy, and bibliophilic printing were particularly relevant.  The avant-propos situates the original incunabulum within the history of printed wine literature, arguing that this anonymous tract is the first printed work devoted specifically to wine. Gottschalk notes that the only previously known edition was printed in Rome circa 1495, and is cited in the principal incunabula catalogues. With the assistance of the conservators at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Gottschalk discovered a second copy, anonymous and without printer's name, which appears intermediate between the present exemplar and the Roman edition. The authorship question is tantalising: Andre L. Simon was the first to suggest that the annotations found in late XV-century printed books bearing the name of Philippus Beroaldus the Elder point to him as possible author or annotator. Gottschalk assigns the paternity only tentatively, styling it putative and provisional. The treatise itself comprises twenty chapters treating practical viniculture and oenology from harvesting to detecting water adulteration in wine, protecting wine from thunder and lightning, wine turning to vinegar etc. Berry renders the Latin into a deliberately archaic French register. The woodcut initials that decorate the translation depict viticultural scenes: grape harvesting, cellar work, and vine motifs. A full-page xylographic illustration of La Plantation de la Vigne is reproduced from the German edition of Petrus de Crescentiis, Liber ruralium commodorum (1518). The title page is arranges in the shape of a bottle. The colophon, set in a distinctive inverted-pyramid typographic arrangement, states that the work was completed on 20 March 1939 at the Imprimerie Marchand, as the first in the collection of the Amis de la Reine.  A collector’s gem: a serious jeu d’esprit, an incunable chase crowned by a poet’s translation, with charming woodcut initials to seal the delight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366835435,"sku":"136-1939--120-40-46121.7020833333","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00136_IMG_7761copy_643844a9-fff0-4823-99e6-331b43503e8d.jpg?v=1776192826"},{"product_id":"vermorel-revue-trimestrielle-1890","title":"Revue trimestrielle de la Station Viticole de Villefranche (Rhône)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRésumé des Travaux des Laboratoires \u0026amp; Champs d'Expériences de M. V. Vermorel en 1889. Quarterly Review of the Viticultural Station of Villefranche (Rhone). Summary of the work of the laboratories and experimental fields of M. V. Vermorel in 1889. 1890 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., XII, 13-158, [16], plates A-I, [1] r.e. Mâcon Protat Frères Original printed wrappers, soiled and with foxing; upper wrapper with two small ink stains, and a manuscript annotation in pencil \"a conserver - Station ou Papa a travaille longtemps\" (To be kept - office\/station where Father worked for a long time). Both covers have been reattached with museum-grade tape. Interior clean. One lithographic plate in front of the title page. Eleven plates in the end of the volume, some in color lithography, all preserved by protective tissue paper. A good copy. This volume is the first issue of the quarterly sold  at the Station Viticole de Villefranche, the first privately funded viticultural research station in France, founded in 1888 by Victor Vermorel on the property known as Les Roches at Villefranche-sur-Saône. At a moment when French viticulture was emerging from the devastation of phylloxera while confronting a range of secondary insect pests, the publication served at once as the station's report on laboratory and field experiments and as a contribution to applied entomological science. The station joined chemical and microbiological work to field trials, framing insect study not as abstract natural history but as an urgent agricultural problem. Subscription was fixed at 20 francs per annum, with exchange copies offered to all agricultural stations and schools, underscoring its intended place within a wider scientific and agronomic network.  The volume opens with a black\/white lithographic image of the Laboratoire and a description of the station at Villefranche, followed by a letter dated Paris, 12 January 1890, in which Dr. Émile Guyot endorses Vermorel’s program, commending the union of laboratory science with practical field observation. The text is then organised around two principal studies. The first, Contributions à l’étude du Gribouri, examines Bromius obscurus, correcting the misconception that its larvae feed on leaves rather than roots. The second, more extensive, La Cochylis, constitutes a full monograph on Eupoecilia ambiguella, tracing its history, distribution, and life cycle, and situating it within both classical agronomic literature and modern viticultural practice. Vermorel discusses methods of control, including mechanical and chemical approaches, and illustrates his patented Décortiqueur Vermorel. The closing sections gather an extensive multilingual bibliography, a departmental register of correspondents reporting infestations, and a brief note on the hybrid rootstock Solonis Feytel. The plates constitute a substantial and carefully conceived apparatus of observation, uniting didactic clarity with scientific precision. Executed in both color and line, they render the successive states of the insects with notable exactitude, from ovum to larval and chrysalid forms, while also documenting the visible effects of infestation upon the vine. Particular attention is given to the conditions of experimentation: trellised enclosures, glass vessels, and other contrivances are depicted with an technical sobriety, allowing the reader to reconstruct the procedures adopted at the station. The visual program extends further to the microhabitats of the species, illustrating the concealed refuges of the chrysalis within bark and old wood, as well as the presence of parasitic predators. Complementing these analytical images, three plans presents the experimental vineyards, delineated with cartographic care and drawn to scale, thereby situating the entomological inquiry within its precise agricultural context. A nicely illustrated study of wine and its insects, born in France's first privately funded vine laboratory at a moment when viticulture itself was fighting for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366868203,"sku":"137-1890--220-40-46121.6402777778","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00137_IMG_7783copy.jpg?v=1776192563"}],"url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/collections\/wine-viticulture.oembed?page=2","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}