{"title":"A Bordeaux Bookshelf - Six Rare Books on Bordeaux Wine, 1867-1924","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSix books that once might have shared a single Bordeaux shelf: a cellar manifesto against routine, a Sammelband binding four strands of the city's reading together, a medieval archive dug out and inscribed by its own author, an anonymous pamphlet that grew fourfold within six years, a bird's-eye survey absent from the standard bibliographies, and a dispute over the name Haut-Brion argued in someone's own footnotes. Spanning 1867 to 1924, they trace Bordeaux's wine trade less through its great chateaux than through the print culture that surrounded them.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"glady-notice-sur-la-fabrication-des-1875","title":"Notice sur la fabrication des vins","description":"\u003cp\u003e1875 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. 16\u003cbr\u003e\nBordeaux\u003cbr\u003e\nJ.A. Faure\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal blue-grey printed wrapper, soiled and waterstained, with a small loss to the fore-edge of the upper cover and to the corner; sewing sound. Text-block with light overall toning and scattered foxing. An honest, unsophisticated copy in its original state. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of a remarkably concise manifesto for practical wine improvement, joining cellar hygiene and disciplined vinification to the increasingly ampelographic idea that the quality of wine begins with the choice of grape. Writing from Bordeaux in 1875, Eugène Glady attacks growers who remain \"slaves to custom and routine,\" declaring routine \"the negation of all progress.\" Drawing on his experience buying wines in the Agenais and Quercy, he moves from fermentation, racking, topping-up and sulphuring to a geographical survey of superior cépages, linking Pinot to Burgundy, Cabernet Sauvignon to Lafite and Margaux, the principal white varieties to Sauternes and Barsac, and Petite Sirah to Hermitage. Citing the great ampelographer Comte Odart and recording his own experiments with varieties including Saperavi, Glady writes at the moment when empirical improvement and varietal selection were becoming central questions in French viticulture, just as phylloxera was beginning to overturn the vineyards themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe booklet opens straightaway with Glady launching directly into his argument. Drawing upon his recent purchases of wine in the Agenais and Quercy, he denounces what he calls the \"capital vice\" of proprietors who remain \"slaves to custom and routine,\" convinced that nothing can surpass the practices of their forebears. Routine, he concludes, is simply \"the negation of all progress.\"\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom this manifesto the pamphlet turns to practice. The opening section is a concise but remarkably concrete cellar manual, advocating fully ripened grapes, scrupulously clean vats and wine vessels, carefully limited quantities of grapes in each fermenting vat, timely drawing-off after eight to ten days in warm weather (and never beyond fifteen in cold conditions), regular racking twice a year, constant topping-up of barrels, and disciplined sulphuring with a sulphur match. Glady even cites the celebrated Comte Odart of La Dorée, recommending that fermenting vats be covered with vine leaves to protect the chapeau during fermentation.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe second half shifts from cellar practice to the vineyard itself, arguing that the quality of a wine begins with the choice of grape. Rather than merely listing varieties, Glady maps them to the regions where they achieve their greatest expression: Pinot for Burgundy; Cabernet Sauvignon as the dominant vine of Château Lafite and Château Margaux; Merlot and Malbec in the palus; Sémillon, Muscadelle, Sauvignon, and Fie Jaune for the great sweet wines of Sauternes, Yquem, and Barsac; Petite Sirah for Hermitage; and, across the south-west, Cot, Piquepoul de Thézac, Péricard, and the traditional grapes of Cahors and Quercy. Aramon is dismissed outright, while Glady also claims to have introduced the Persian variety Saperavi around 1855, an assertion that remains unverified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCalling routine \"the negation of all progress\" is a wonderfully bold way to begin a wine manual, and we were hooked immediately. Glady champions cleaner cellars, better grapes, and curious minds over inherited habits, mapping great cépages to the wines and vineyards that made them famous. All this in 1875, just as phylloxera was beginning to change the rules entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49376611893483,"sku":"147-1875--450.00-242.00-2026","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00147_IMG_8983.jpg?v=1788835830"},{"product_id":"chasteigner-les-vins-de-bordeaux-1869","title":"Les Vins de Bordeaux.","description":"\u003cp\u003e1869; 1868; 1870; 1870\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo, small. I. pp. 68, [1].\u003cbr\u003e\nII. pp. [4], 8, 10, [2], 15, 23, 64, 16, 20, 11, 23, [3], 19, 6, [2].\u003cbr\u003e\nIII. pp. 113, [11] advertising.\u003cbr\u003e\nIV. pp. [4], 99, [5] plates, [2].\u003cbr\u003e\nBordeaux\u003cbr\u003e\nLibrairie Centrale (B. de Laporte). Goudin. Féret. De Laporte \u0026amp; Vilotte\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary half-leather binding; spine gilt-ruled and lettered \"Œuvres de Meste Verdié.\" Front hinge worn but sound; board margins rubbed. The final ten leaves of the volume are slightly loose. Handwritten note on the front flyleaf; presentation inscription on the half-title of the fourth work. Various sets of illustrations throughout. Very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis Sammelband gathers four strands of Bordeaux's own reading culture around 1870 under a single binding: a vineyard owner's practical guide to the region's wines, a dead local poet's collected verse in Gascon dialect, a wine-trade almanac for the coming year, and a satirical civic pamphlet in defense of the city's women. Together they read less as four unrelated pamphlets than as a portrait of what an educated Bordelais of the period might have kept on a single shelf. The compilation spans two years. Paul de Chasteigner's Vins de Bordeaux, in its second and enlarged edition of 1869, opens the volume - its author a vineyard owner at Bourg-en-Gironde, writing for the general reader rather than the trade, and straying along the way into real estate history: the young Chateau Palmer under its earlier name, and Baron James de Rothschild's celebrated 1868 purchase of Chateau Lafite. Antoine Verdie, the Gascon poet known as Meste Verdie, had been dead almost half a century by the time Goudin issued this posthumous collected edition in 1868; Edouard Feret's Almanach du Buveur for 1870 - from the publisher that would make Bordeaux et ses vins a standard reference - closes with a dated account of the vine's newest and gravest disease. Jacques Le Doux's La Bordelaise, illustrated by the caricaturist Paul Hadol and co-published in Bordeaux and Paris the same year, completes the set. A contemporary handwritten note on the front endpaper lists all four in the order bound. A presentation inscription on the half title of the fourth work is hardly decipherable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI. Les Vins de Bordeaux (Chasteigner, 1869, 2nd edition). A practical guide to choosing, using, and keeping table wines. Notably recounts the history of Chateau Palmer: Alexandre-Antoine de Gasq, a councillor of the Parlement and friend of the Marechal de Richelieu, whose Cantenac vineyard - then known simply as Gasq - took the name Palmer only later, with a small woodcut, 'Ancienne construction du chateau Palmer.' A Chateau Lafite vintage price table, 1815-1868, and a portrait of Baron James de Rothschild, closes on the estate's celebrated 1868 sale.\u003cbr\u003e\nII. Oeuvres completes de Meste Verdie (Antoine Verdie, 1779-1820; posthumous collected edition, Goudin, 1868). Gascon-dialect comic and tragic verse, gathering several originally separate pieces that each retain their own pagination: 'Abanture comique de Meste Bernat ou Guillaoumet de retour dens sous Fougueys,' illustrated (signed H. Gouillaud, engraver); 'Catastrophe affruse arribade a Meste Bernat ou la separatioun dam Mariote,' illustrated (signed J.B. Benard and H. Gouillaud); 'La mort de Mariote ou Meste Bernat Benge,' illustrated (signed Renard and H. Gouillaud); 'La Mort de Guillaumet,' a tragedy in two acts and verse, first performed at the Theatre-Francais de Bordeaux on 11 January 1817; and 'Le Proces de Carnaval ou Les Masques en Insurrection,' a comedy in one act and verse.\u003cbr\u003e\nIII. Almanach du Buveur, du Negociant en Vins et du Viticulteur pour 1870 (Edouard Feret). Practical content for the wine trade and its customers: decanting apparatus and corkscrew figures; a book notice for Jules Gouffe's Le Livre de Cuisine, with two of its recipe plates reproduced, 'Lievre a la broche' and 'Pigeons a l'anglaise'; an illustrated account of Phylloxera Vastatrix under the heading 'Nouvelle maladie de la vigne', citing M. Planchon's microscope description and naming, in a footnote, M. Laliman of the Gironde; French wine export statistics by destination country; and, elsewhere in the volume. Illustrations in the text signed H. Gouillaud after J.B. Benard and Renard. Illustrations in the text.\u003cbr\u003e\nIV. La Bordelaise (Jacques Le Doux, illustrated by Paul Hadol, 1870, co-published Bordeaux and Paris). A humorous 'apologie,' historical and moral in its framing, defending the character of Bordeaux's women. Illustrated with a frontispiece, figures, and an illustrated wrapper. Five plates in total, unpaginated - including three named costume plates: 'La Bordelaise en 1795,' 'en 1800-1830,' and 'en 1827.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFour books, one Bordeaux: wine and vineyards, Gascon poetry, the trade's annual almanac, and a caricatured defense of the city's women, all bound together around 1870, when Château Lafite was just bought by Rothschild. We like sammelbands precisely for this: someone else's bookshelf reduced to a single volume, preserving not just what Bordeaux drank, but what it read, laughed at, and worried about.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49376612057323,"sku":"193-1869--800.00-42.00-2026","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00193_IMG_0282.jpg?v=1788836488"},{"product_id":"barennes-viticulture-et-1912","title":"Viticulture et Vinification en Bordelais au Moyen Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e1912 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [2] f.r., [1] wrapper, [4], VI, [1], 186, [1] wrapper, [2] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nBordeaux\u003cbr\u003e\nMarcel Mounastre-Picamilh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e20th-century half morocco over marbled boards, the spine with five raised bands, gilt-ruled and lettered; some rubbing at the edges. Original printed wrappers preserved (lightly toned), the front showing a woodcut vignette of a monk with a wine barrel. Presentation inscription, without the recipient's name, on the leaf between the original front wrapper and the half-title, signed by Barennes and dated 7 November 1912. The limitation leaf is numbered 5 in manuscript and signed by the publisher, Mounastre-Picamilh. Very little foxing. Fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Jean Barennes's study of medieval viticulture and winemaking in the Bordelais as newly attached archiviste-paléographe to the Gironde's own departmental archives. For the occasion, he gathered the result from a seven-part serialization in the Revue historique de Bordeaux et du département de la Gironde into this standalone edition, crowned by the Société d'Agriculture de la Gironde and prefaced by long-serving Gironde archivist J.-A. Brutails. This copy is signed as one of only fifteen printed on papier à bras from an edition of 315, numbered 5 and signed by the publisher, Marcel Mounastre-Picamilh, on the limitation leaf. It carries a second relevant mark beyond the publisher's own: on a separate leaf, Barennes has added his own autograph presentation inscription, dated 7 November 1912. That date falls in the same year Barennes married into the family of Édouard Bardinet and left the Gironde archives for good, taking up the administration of the family's Bordeaux rum and spirits house, a post he held until his death in 1934.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix chapters follow Bordeaux wine from vineyard to cellar: the vine-growing districts of the Bordelais; the fragmentation and leasing of vineyard holdings; grape varieties and the year's vineyard work; the harvest; and the practical business of vinification, cellars, vats, pressing, and the different qualities of wine that resulted. Barennes opens his chapter on vinification by admitting plainly that the documentary record for actual winemaking technique is thin, arguing that the sources' silence on procedures such as fining suggests that cellar practice remained comparatively rudimentary. A final chapter follows the storage and transport of wine in casks, pipes, and barriques, and the coopers who made them.\u003cbr\u003e\nA documentary appendix, Documents concernant la viticulture en Bordelais au Moyen Age (Documents concerning viticulture in the Bordelais during the Middle Ages), reproduces primary texts in Latin, Gascon, and French. Among them are a notarial release dated by the reign of Edward, eldest son of Edward III of England, as Prince of Aquitaine, and a Bénédiction de la Vigne (Blessing of the Vine), a liturgical blessing transcribed from a Bordeaux diocesan ritual that itself records an older exemplar.\u003cbr\u003e\nA preface by J.-A. Brutails, archivist of the Gironde departmental archives, opens the book, followed by an extensive bibliography and list of manuscript sources drawing on the Archives départementales de la Gironde, several Médoc château archives, the Archives Nationales, and the Bibliothèque Nationale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSeven years of medieval Bordeaux wine pulled from the archives, then a sudden change of career: in 1912 Barennes left scholarship to join his father-in-law's spirits business. Our copy is one of only fifteen on special paper, inscribed by Barennes that November, signed just as the historian of the old wine trade stepped into the modern one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49376612188395,"sku":"201-1912--200.00-42.00-2026","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00201_IMG_0269.jpg?v=1788836548"},{"product_id":"chasteigner-les-vins-de-bordeaux-1867","title":"Les Vins de Bordeaux","description":"\u003cp\u003e1867 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1] f.e., 31, [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nBordeaux\u003cbr\u003e\nÉmile Crugy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal wrappers, with light signs of wear. Manuscript ink addition to the front wrapper, \"dans le Bourgeais!\", added after the author's monogram and \"propriétaire de vignobles\"; curious pencil marginal note, \"le nez\" (the nose), at p. 17, beside the text's own phrase for the organ of smell. Fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished anonymously by a provincial Bordeaux press in 1867, under nothing more than the author's initials, this slender 31-page first edition is the seed of a text that would grow fourfold in six years. By its fourth edition of 1873 it had reached Paris under Chasteigner's full name, with a preface by Charles Monselet, the leading gastronomic writer of Second Empire Paris, a frontispiece by Ch. Donzel, and a dedicatory sonnet to the now very public author. Chasteigner was no professional man of letters but a vineyard owner at Bourg-en-Gironde, writing from direct experience of the world he describes: how to buy without being cheated, taste without prejudice, serve a proper Bordeaux dinner, and even warm a bottle correctly on a winter evening. He closes his case with two thousand years of borrowed authority (Pliny, Cicero, Virgil, the Bordeaux-born Ausonius, and a chorus of Church Fathers, with Solomon himself) marshalled in defense of moderate drinking. This copy carries two small, telling traces of its own working life: an ink addition to the wrapper naming the author's district, as though an early owner already knew which Chasteigner stood behind the initials, and a single pencilled word beside the discussion of the nose, evidence of a reader actually using the little guide at the table it describes. This first edition is unrecorded by both Vicaire and Simon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeneral considerations and hygienic advice open the book, with quotations from Pliny and Dr. Artaud's De la Vigne. Wine is presented as a \"medicinal food\": reds are more nourishing and slower to assimilate, whites more rapidly absorbed, stimulating, and diuretic. Its uses in convalescence and illness, contraindications, and even external applications follow, while Bordeaux's tonic reputation is attributed to an iron salt in its composition.\u003cbr\u003e\nPractical advice recommends that buyers specify only price, intended use, and a preference for lighter Graves or fuller Côtes, leaving the choice to the shipper. Dégustation (Tasting) treats tasting as a learned discipline: fine Bordeaux from a cold cellar may need fifteen minutes in the glass to reveal itself. Chasteigner also considers warming bottles in winter, the effects of food on the palate, decanting, and the treatment of opened bottles.\u003cbr\u003e\nOrdre de service des vins à table (Order of serving wines at the table) maps out a formal dinner, from Xérès or dry Madeira after soup and white Graves or Sauternes with oysters, through young Bordeaux and the great growths, to Tokay, Constance, Shiraz, or Cyprus with pastries and chilled Champagne last.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe concluding Le vin et la sagesse des nations (Wine and the wisdom of nations) gathers praise of moderate drinking from Pindar, Euripides, Plato, Cicero, the Church Fathers, and King Solomon. The volume closes with French wine proverbs from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, an Italian proverb, and a printer's tailpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom anonymous wine guide to a gastronome's blessing: this modest 1867 pamphlet grew fourfold by 1873, when Charles Monselet supplied its preface. But our favorite evidence is smaller: a reader's pencilled \"le nez\" (the nose) beside the text's phrase for the organ of smell, making us imagine the little book open on the table, glass in hand, its advice being put to the test.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49376612417771,"sku":"202-1867--250.00-42.00-2026","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00202_IMG_0117.jpg?v=1788836616"},{"product_id":"vene-bordeaux-a-vol-doiseau-1867","title":"Bordeaux à vol d'oiseau.","description":"\u003cp\u003e1867 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1] f.e., 58, [2], [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nBordeaux\u003cbr\u003e\nImprimerie Administrative de Ragot\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal wrappers. No defects. Fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRare first edition of this slim survey, pitched at a general readership rather than the wine trade itself and belonging to the promotional à vol d'oiseau genre common in French regional publishing of the period. The formula had already entered wine literature with Auguste Luchet's La Côte-d'Or à vol d'oiseau (1858), and was brought to Bordeaux by Dr. Aussel's much larger La Gironde à vol d'oiseau. Ses grands vins et ses châteaux in 1865. Vène's vol d'oiseau, appearing only two years later, is a remarkably concise Bordeaux contribution to the same genre. The book's own structure narrows twice over: the city of Bordeaux first, in a single sweep from its medieval walls to its 1867 population of two hundred thousand; then its vineyards, surveyed soil by soil and grape by grape; and finally its wines, ranked from the first growths of the Médoc down to the humblest palus reds, fit, in the author's own estimation, only for cheap taverns. Its Conseils vinicoles chapter turns practical, naming the tricks of merchants who fake a price \"sacrifice\" and counterfeiters trading under invented sociétés de propriétaires, a period consumer-protection notice tucked into a wine guide. Elsewhere, rather than explain fermentation himself, the author directs his reader to Pasteur's work by way of Saint Paul's question to the Corinthians. Absent from Simon, Vicaire, Labadie, and Oberlé.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first part, Bordeaux à vol d'oiseau, traces the city's development from its early foundations through the civil wars between 1451 and 1700 and its subsequent expansion. It concludes with a portrait of Bordeaux in 1867, when its population approached two hundred thousand, describing its principal thoroughfares and a harbor capable of accommodating eighteen hundred ships.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe second, Les Vignes de la Gironde, opens with a general account of the vine, distinguishing the wild Vitis labrusca from Linnaeus's cultivated Vitis vinifera, and discusses its productive life and principal enemies, including spring frost, insects, hail, and oïdium, still causing considerable damage at the time of writing. The author then examines Gironde viticulture, cultivated area, average yields, and the four principal types of terrain (côteaux, graves, palus, and hautes-plaines) identifying the gravel soils of the Médoc as the source of its finest wines.\u003cbr\u003e\nCépages Bordelais catalogues the principal red varieties of the Gironde, among them petit verdot, gros verdot, merlot, carmenet, carmenère, and malbeck, recording several of their contemporary local synonyms. De la Vinification concludes the section with observations on winemaking and the trade's distinction between a domaine, producing several wines from scattered parcels, and a propriété, producing only one. For the chemistry of fermentation, the author directs his reader to Pasteur.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe third part, Les Vins de Bordeaux, begins with a defense of wine's healthfulness and a short history of the Bordeaux wine trade. Particular attention is given to the great growths, with ownership histories, anecdotes, and production figures for Château-Lafite, Château-Margaux, and Château-Latour. Lafite is associated with the Maréchal de Richelieu and Louis XV; Margaux is described as the \"Versailles of the Médoc\"; and Latour's succession of owners is traced into the Société civile du vignoble de Latour.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe survey continues with Château-Haut-Brion, the first growth of Graves, renowned since the reign of Louis XI, and Château-Yquem, the great white wine of Sauternes. The author recalls personally purchasing the 1848 Yquem for a friend in Turin at seventeen francs a bottle. Further chapters cover Saint-Émilion, described as the Burgundy of the Gironde, the wider Médoc, Blaye, Bourg, Fronsac, the palus wines, and the whites of Sauternes, Barsac, Cérons, and Graves.\u003cbr\u003e\nConseils vinicoles provides practical guidance on choosing, tasting, and serving Bordeaux and warns against fraudulent intermediaries and counterfeit wines sold under invented sociétés de propriétaires. The book closes with the proper order of wines at a formal dinner, from Xérès before the soup to chilled Champagne at the end, followed by the author's playful promise that, whatever the faults of his prose, the wines he sends will be irreproachable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA candid cross-section of Bordeaux wine in its own day: the cépages Vène catalogues by name, from petit verdot to malbeck, sit beside the great estates as he knew them: Lafite recently passed to an Englishman, Margaux held by the Aguados, and Yquem under the Marquis de Lur-Saluces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49376612548843,"sku":"203-1867--350.00-15.00-2026","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00203_IMG_0127.jpg?v=1788836703"},{"product_id":"ferbos-les-origines-du-cru-de-haut-1924","title":"Les origines du cru de Haut-Brion-La Mission","description":"\u003cp\u003e1924 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo, large. Pp. [1] f.e., [2], 8, [2], [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nBordeaux\u003cbr\u003e\nImprimerie Cadoret\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal wrappers, worn and chipped at the extremities, with an old adhesive-tape repair to the spine. Autograph presentation inscription from the author in ink on the front free endpaper. Four period newspaper clippings, dated 1926 and 1927, loosely inserted. Very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst separate edition of Ferbos's tightly documented study of the origins of Château La Mission Haut-Brion, offprinted from tome XXXIX of the Actes de la Société Archéologique de Bordeaux. Ferbos traces the Lazarist fathers' ownership of the vineyard from a 1678 bequest and their installation as directors of the Bordeaux seminary in 1682, through more than a century of vineyard improvement, to the property's confiscation and sale as a bien national in 1792 (the history behind the \"Mission\" in Château La Mission Haut-Brion's name today). This copy is inscribed in French signed R.F. so presumably from the author, to \"Edmond Bastide, archéologue, numismate, bibliophile [...] son ami R.F.\", a particularly appropriate association copy since Bastide was the president of the very Société whose Actes had carried Ferbos's essay into print, and later the originator of the Prix Edmond Bastide for work in prehistory and archaeology. Laid loosely into the pamphlet are four contemporary newspaper clippings concerning the separate and considerably more famous Château Haut-Brion. Together, pamphlet and clippings form an unusually concentrated little dossier on Haut-Brion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFerbos traces the vineyard behind today's Château La Mission Haut-Brion through surviving documentary evidence. It begins with Jean de Fonteneil's 1678 bequest of the Haut-Brion and Arreguedeux vines to the Prêtres du Clergé de Bordeaux and the Congrégation de la Mission's installation as owners in 1682, confirmed by royal letters patent registered at the Parlement de Bordeaux the following year.\u003cbr\u003e\nFerbos then reconstructs more than a century of Lazarist management: new vineyard plantings under the superior René Simon in 1683-84; the blessing of the chapel of Notre-Dame de Haut-Brion in 1698; a 1713 building contract with the architect Étienne Buissier; a 1729 declaration recording some 4,000 livres in annual net yield; and the purchase of further vineyard land from Arnaud Lauferte in 1730. The sequence ends with the dispersal of the Congrégation and the property's confiscation and sale as a bien national in 1792. Ferbos closes by observing that the estate still bears the name of the sons of Saint Vincent de Paul. His reconstruction is closely documented from individual acts in the Archives départementales de la Gironde, series G, supplemented by Bernadau, Vinet, Baurein, Féret's revision of Cocks's Bordeaux et ses vins, and Bertrand's Histoire des séminaires.\u003cbr\u003e\nLaid loosely into this copy are four contemporary newspaper clippings concerning the senior and separate Château Haut-Brion. One celebrates the estate following owner André Gibert's donation of it to the Académie de Bordeaux; another reports the donation itself, dated in manuscript 12 June 1927. The remaining two preserve a particularly revealing exchange: Maurice Ferrus's article of 27 April 1926 argues that Haut-Brion is the name of a locality shared by several properties rather than the exclusive designation of a single estate; Gibert's reply of 17 May defends his claim to the name. Ferbos's essay had already approached the same question historically from the other side, establishing the distinct Lazarist origins of La Mission Haut-Brion. Unconnected with Ferbos's text when printed, the clippings now form a contemporary pendant to his historical investigation of neighboring La Mission Haut-Brion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA tiny pamphlet with a grand cru problem: who owns the name Haut-Brion? Ferbos goes back to seventeenth-century deeds to establish La Mission's distinct history; the newspaper clippings tucked into this copy show Bordeaux still arguing over the same name three years later. Add an author's presentation to the president of the Société Archéologique de Bordeaux, and this becomes a spicy little dossier of wine, history, and rivalry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49376612679915,"sku":"204-1924--650.00-15.00-2026","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00204_IMG_0156.jpg?v=1788836768"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/collections\/00204_IMG_0156.jpg?v=1788837774","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/en-eu\/collections\/a-bordeaux-bookshelf.oembed","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}