{"title":"German Speaking Wine","description":"\u003cp\u003eWine written in German, and the wines of the German-speaking lands, from the hand-press period to the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe earliest book here is Ulrich Kern's \u003cem\u003eVisierbüchl\u003c\/em\u003e (Strasbourg, 1531), a manual for gauging wine casks with a measuring rod. Conrad Caspar Häulen's \u003cem\u003eJahrbuch\u003c\/em\u003e (Ansbach, 1743) is a Franconian chronicle of vintages, wine and grain prices, frost and flood; our copy carries its owners' handwritten continuation into the 1750s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nineteenth century brings the practical treatises: Lintemer on laying out a new vineyard (1801), Johann Philipp Bronner on improving viticulture with the Riesling (1830), a survey of the Tokaj vineyards of the Hegyalja (1835), Chappuis-Brun on vine growing in the Ryff valley of the Vaud (1844), and Schmidt on vines trained on walls, grown in pots and kept for altar wine (1871). Schreiber's 1818 guide to travelling the Rhine from Schaffhausen follows the river through its vineyards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twentieth century closes the collection with \u003cem\u003eRheinlands Weine\u003c\/em\u003e (1928) and Rudd's \u003cem\u003eHocks and Moselles\u003c\/em\u003e (1935).\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"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":"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":"kern-eyn-new-kunstlichs-wolge-1530","title":"Eyn new Kunstlichs wolgegründts Visierbüchl","description":"\u003cp\u003e1531 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Folio. Leaves [1] f.e., [1], lvi, [1] folding woodcut plate, [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nStraßburg (Strasbourg)\u003cbr\u003e\nPeter Schöffer, bei Hansen Schwyntzern\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eModern olive brown morocco, richly gilt- and blind-tooled, spine with four raised bands. The upper margins are somewhat shorter than in an otherwise well-margined copy; in a couple of larger illustrations, the upper margins have been trimmed close to the upper edge, causing minor losses, due to the fact that the images were originally printed well beyond the normal text area. many other small and big woodcuts in the text. Later bookplate of Owen Gingerich on the front pastedown, with the motto \"Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei\" and the initial G enclosing a globe. Handwritten ownership note at the back of leaf lvi \"Alessandro Volpi\". A clean, fresh, and attractive copy of this rare work, with distinguished provenance. Fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Kern's important illustrated German treatise on the practical art of gauging wine casks, a remarkable vernacular work bringing geometry directly into commerce and the wine trade. With provenance from the Library of Owen Gingerich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCompleted on 1 April 1531, Kern himself announces its novelty on the title-page, claiming that it is never before printed or issued (dergleichen noch nie getruckt oder außgangen). A wine cask became a commercial object only after its capacity had been determined, and this Visierbuch (gauging book) addresses precisely the practical art by which an irregular barrel could be measured with a graduated Visierrute (gauging rod) and converted into local units of capacity. Written in Early New High German, with Latin mathematical headings, the work identifies its author in both the dedication and closing verses as Ulrich Kern von Freysing, Rechenmeyster und teutscher schreiber (Ulrich Kern of Freising, reckoning-master and German scribe). The dedication to the merchant Hans Volmar of Rottweil reveals the intended audience: merchants, coopers, and tax officials whose livelihood depended upon accurate measurement rather than abstract mathematics. Kern also acknowledges his teacher, Christoff Rudolff of Jauer, author of the first German algebra book and commonly credited with introducing the radical sign, placing the work firmly within the Rechenmeister (reckoning-master) tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe printer's family name will not pass unnoticed by any scholar or lover of early printing. Peter Schöffer the Younger was the son of the celebrated Mainz printer Peter Schöffer the Elder, Gutenberg's apprentice and collaborator; he was also the grandson of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's primary financier. The younger Schöffer carried this remarkable printing dynasty into the Reformation era, working successively in Mainz, Worms, Strasbourg, Basel, and Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume was printed during Schöffer's Strasbourg partnership with Johann Schwintzer, at a moment when practical mathematical knowledge previously transmitted through local teaching and workshop practice was increasingly finding durable printed form. Kern's insistence on adapting the measuring rod to the different weights and measures of individual regions makes the book particularly revealing of the problem it sought to solve: applying a common geometrical method across a commercial world still governed by highly local systems of capacity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe large woodcut printer's device on the colophon leaf is notable in its own right. Signed with the monogram \"HG\" and traditionally attributed to Hans Baldung Grien, it is Schöffer's elaborate 1531 device, incorporating the family arms and flanked by shepherds and a richly dressed couple. Schöffer reused the block in later publications, including the \"Rerum musicorum opusculum\" printed with Matthias Apiarius in 1535.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book opens with an illustrated title page: a woodcut depicts a cooper or wine gauger standing behind a large wooden cask, demonstrating the use of a gauging rod (Visierrute). Holding the long graduated rod horizontally across the barrel while taking a measurement with his right hand, he illustrates the practical operation at the heart of the Visierbuch: determining the capacity of a cask geometrically without filling it. The barrel is shown with pronounced staves and iron hoops, emphasizing its commercial rather than decorative function.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe following text is divided into three parts. The first explains the construction of gauging rods from geometrical principles, introducing square and cube roots through tables and diagrams. The second applies these methods to the differing systems of measurement used throughout the German lands, illustrating the geometrical constructions with numerous diagrams and a striking folding plate. The final section presents completed gauging rods for the principal regional measures, together with multiplication tables, worked examples, exchange calculations, and the printed rod scales used in practice. Throughout, the units are those of the barrel trade, including Fuder, Saum, Ohm, Eimer, Viertel, and Maß.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume is illustrated with numerous text diagrams, a large folding plate, and a handsome colophon woodcut. Particularly noteworthy is the use of red and black printing in the rod scales: the red rules form continuous measuring lines while the black dots mark the graduations, making color an essential functional element rather than decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWine, geometry, and the dawn of printing, what's not to love? This ingenious little manual taught merchants how to measure a cask without ever filling it, transforming mathematics into an everyday tool of the wine trade. But we also fell for its printing pedigree: produced by Peter Schöffer the Younger, son of Gutenberg's apprentice and grandson of his financier, it leaves you only two degrees of separation from the invention of printing itself. Add handsome diagrams, clever red-and-black typography, and a delightful woodcut or two, and this is exactly the sort of book that makes our hearts skip a beat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49353634250987,"sku":null,"price":3800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00152_IMG_8683_fc547ba9-8305-4965-9e9c-448d6ded079a.jpg?v=1788647044"},{"product_id":"haulen-jahrbuch-alter-und-neuer-1742","title":"Jahrbuch alter und neuer Nachrichten oder historische Beschreibung","description":"\u003cp\u003e1743 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 4to. Pp. [16], 112, [22].\u003cbr\u003e\nOnolzbach (Ansbach)\u003cbr\u003e\nChristoph Lorenz Messerer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary green full leather, with warped boards, scratches and losses along the edges, especially at the corners. Endpapers missing. Scribbles to the pastedowns. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan, wine historian. The printed text block is soiled and browned; the edges show signs of heavy use. Paper loss at pp. 111-112, affecting the first three lines of text. The manuscript leaves are generally sound and less browned, except for the final verso. There are signs that some manuscript leaves have been removed at the end. A heavily worn but rare and significant copy. Fair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExceptionally interesting \"yearbook\" in the Franconian Jahrbuch tradition, with a manuscript appendix and ex-libris Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of Geschichte des Weinbaus, which is the wine library of record for German viticultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\nAt the heart of the book are wine and weather. Häulen records exceptional vintages alongside disastrous crop failures, noting wine and grain prices as measures of abundance and scarcity: a good or failed vintage affected rents, trade, household economies, and the prosperity of an entire wine-producing region. Grain prices therefore stand beside wine prices, as part of the same economic and environmental cycle. The chronicle also records extreme weather and natural disasters, including floods of the Main, prolonged rains, and destructive hailstorms. War, mortality, civic ceremonies, and other local events enter the same register, providing the circumstances in which harvests and prices acquired their significance. Häulen's interpretation of abundance and catastrophe through divine providence further reveals the religious framework through which an eighteenth-century community understood environmental events.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the preface, Häulen reveals some peculiarities of this specific volume: a manuscript covering only the previous century came into his hands by chance; he then sought out older reports to extend it and published the result at the request of many. Blank paper was expressly bound in at the rear so that each owner might continue the record year by year and assemble, as he puts it, a small house-chronicle for his descendants. In this copy, that invitation was taken up: twenty-two pages at the rear carry a manuscript continuation from 1742 into the 1750s in more than one hand (interestingly enough Häulen did publish a continuation in 1749, covering 1743-1748, see VD18 12344702). Blank paper for owners' entries was common in early modern Germany, most familiarly in the \"Schreibkalender\", produced in vast numbers from the 1540s. But the calendar was disposable, superseded each January, whereas Häulen attached continuation paper to a chronicle reaching back to antiquity and asked its owner to carry it forward (Ref. Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, The Schreibkalender - writing calendar - of early modern German-speaking Europe). Rarer still is a copy in which that invitation was actually taken up and the resulting record survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaken as a whole, the \"Jahr-Buch\" is a printed Franconian wine and grain chronicle useful for local record; today it reads as an unusually rich primary source for Franconian viticulture, historical climatology, agricultural and commodity history, and the social history of the region.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book begins in antiquity, with the vintage of 126 BC cited to Pliny and Funccius, before settling into an \"Anno Christi\" sequence running from AD 312 to Häulen's own time in 1742. Year after year, wine provides one of the principal measures of history. Prices are recorded by \"Eymer\", \"Fuder\", and \"Mass\"; grain prices later appear by the \"Malter Korn\"; values move between Batzen, Kreuzer, and Gulden. Most entries are followed by a \"Geschicht\" (History) rubric. The result is wonderfully indiscriminate in the best sense: economic history, weather observation, local memory, and the marvelous sit comfortably beside one another. In 593 there is a \"Drach grosser in Rom\" (a great dragon in Rome); the enormous vintage of 1296 produces a \"Fässer-Mangel\", a shortage of casks; in 1373 comes \"Veits-Tanz\", the phenomenon of dancing mania; 1382 is remembered simply as the \"Jahr ohne Wind\", the year without wind. In 1426 wine was so cheap that a \"Fuder\" could be bought for two florins \"mit samt dem Faß\", cask included, effectively leaving the barrel worth more than its contents.\u003cbr\u003e\nSome entries move still further into the territory where meteorology, marvel, and collective memory become difficult to separate. The year 1456 brings \"Fleisch- und Blut-Regen\", a rain of flesh and blood. In 1531, at Kitzingen, there was supposedly such an abundance of wine that they \"allda mit Wein gemahlen\": milled with wine, using it in place of water. Then comes 1540, the extraordinary heat-and-drought vintage, remembered here as producing \"Wein, der rareste in diesem Seculo\" (the rarest wine in this century). Elsewhere the chronicle catches sudden catastrophe: in 1659 the \"Pulver-Hauß zu Delfft fleucht in die Lufft\", the Delft powder-house flies into the air, an apparent recollection of the Delft Thunderclap, though entered several years later than its generally accepted date of 1654.\u003cbr\u003e\nAs the chronology approaches Häulen's own lifetime, this distant historical compilation increasingly becomes local memory. The closing printed \"Supplementum\" concentrates on Mainbernheim and its surroundings, recording plague mortality, the sack of Marckbreit, local wine prices, and the 1729 \"Huldigung\" (tribute) for Baron von Seckendorff. The movement is almost imperceptible: what begins with Pliny, ancient vintages, dragons, prodigies, and medieval chronicles gradually arrives at the prices, weather, deaths, ceremonies, and harvests of Häulen's own community.\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd the book was designed not to end there. The manuscript continuation at the rear takes up the printed chronology in German cursive Kurrentschrift and carries it forward into the 1750s. Here the boundary between public and private history becomes even thinner, in alignment with Häulen's conception of the book: history beginning in antiquity, narrowing gradually toward Franconia and Mainbernheim, and finally arriving inside the reader's own house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWine, weather, dragons, dancing mania, and a year when the barrel cost more than the wine inside it. The author invited his readers to carry the chronicle forward, and someone took him up on it, continuing the entries by hand in 22 additional pages. What begins with Pliny and the vintage of 126 BC narrows to Franconia, then to Mainbernheim's own prices and deaths, and finally to the household that owned the book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385892741355,"sku":"157-1743--2500.00-237.00-2026","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00157_IMG_8834.jpg?v=1788991512"},{"product_id":"chappuis-brun-ueber-den-rebbau-wie-1844","title":"Ueber den Rebbau, wie er im Ryff-Thale, Kantons Waadt, betrieben wird","description":"\u003cp\u003e1844 First German Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. VI, 7-32\u003cbr\u003e\nAarau\u003cbr\u003e\nJ. J. Christen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal contemporary pink printed wrappers; the front wrapper has a longer tear at the lower part, which has been recently restored with Japanese paper. Light browning, no foxing. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of Geschichte des Weinbaus, which is the wine library of record for German viticultural history. Ink stamp with same provenance at the head of the title page. Good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst and only German translation from the second French edition of Brun-Chappuis's practical manual of pre-phylloxera Swiss viticulture. Brun-Chappuis writes as a practicing vine-grower from Vivis, now Vevey, in Canton Vaud, drawing on experiments made in the Ryff valley on the shores of Lake Geneva. The book answers a mid-nineteenth-century moment in which vineyard knowledge moved through agricultural societies as well as through local practice, and field experience was being tested, translated, and adapted for cantonal use. The Landwirthschaftliche Gesellschaft im Aargau financed and distributed this German printing chiefly for its members, with annotations intended to make Vaud methods applicable under Aargau conditions. The unnamed translator worked from the revised French text, preserving the manual's preference for district terminology over learned abstraction. Taken whole, the pamphlet is a case study in how one lakeside vineyard practice was converted into institutional agricultural advice for another Swiss canton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Society's prefatory note is followed by Brun-Chappuis's Vorwort, which opens with an appeal to experiment: \"Ich habe Kenntniss vom Rebbau erhalten wollen und mich, da ich keinen sicherern Führer fand als die Erfahrung, mehrere Jahre lang mit Versuchen beschäftigt\" (the author wished to learn viticulture and, finding no surer guide than experience, spent several years in trials). He warns that the prose will offer clarity and simplicity rather than elegance, and that its vocabulary follows the usage of vine-growers in his own district. Nineteen numbered articles then move from soil preparation and the choice of cuttings to planting, pruning, earthing-up, layering, hoeing, manuring, weed control, and the recovery of exhausted vineyards. The sharpest practical intervention comes in the article on kitchen-garden cultivation among vines, where a common mixed-use practice is rejected from direct experience. The prefatory program recommends Klevner and white Gutedel for Aargau, while calling for the eradication of white Hünsch and Kleinburger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn unassuming little wine pamphlet with the dirt of the Ryf Valley, Canton Vaud (Switzerland), under its fingernails: Brun-Chappuis captured mid-19th-century Aargau's forgotten ampelographic knowledge with experiment - and plain prose. Add Bassermann-Jordan provenance - viticultural pioneer and the most influential wine historian active some 50 years after publication - and it's viticultural history with pedigree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385892806891,"sku":"160-1844--300.00-193.88-2026","price":310.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00160_IMG_9002.jpg?v=1788991669"},{"product_id":"lintemer-kurze-abhandlung-wie-man-1801","title":"Kurze Abhandlung, wie man einen neuen Weingarten regelmäßig anlegen und ferner methodisch bearbeiten soll","description":"\u003cp\u003e1801 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [8], 12, 72\u003cbr\u003e\nPrag (Prague)\u003cbr\u003e\nCaspar Widtmann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal editorial mute wrappers with pen and pencil shelfmarks. Spine worn, but sound. Uniform browning. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine-estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of the monumental \"Geschichte des Weinbaus,\" the standard reference work for the history of German viticulture. Fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn early nineteenth-century Bohemian vineyard manual by Franz Anton Lintemer, a practical agricultural reformer writing for ordinary vine-growers rather than academic agronomists. The small book answers a local problem stated in the preface: Bohemian viticulture lagged behind, although, in Lintemer's phrase, \"Die Urquelle alles Reichthums ist ohne allen Zweifel die Erde\" (the primary source of all wealth is without doubt the earth). The book belongs to the Enlightenment culture of agrarian improvement, where better cultivation, regular method, and written record were treated as instruments of provincial prosperity. Its dedication to Jakob von Wimmer, a decorated imperial officer and Bohemian estate lord, places that program within the managed economy of landed reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe forty-three questions proceed from site selection (the author argues that Lage (aspect) is more decisive than climate) through soil preparation, planting, pruning, first and second hoeing, manuring, leaf management, pest control, and finally the harvest.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe fold-out plate is of particular ampelographic interest. It opens with a model \"Verzeichniß\" (register) for vineyard record-keeping, with columns for section number, variety name, color, and observations on virtues and faults. Three varieties are entered as examples: Muskateller, green, producing the best wine but requiring a warm summer to ripen; Zirifandel, also green, very fruitful and frost-hardy, and therefore \"verdienet daher vielen Vorzug\" (deserving much preference); and Elbing, white and fruitful, but prone to rot in wet weather.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Appendix then expands into descriptions of more than thirty Bohemian grape cultivars, organized by berry shape - Langbeerige (oblong) and Rundbeerige (round) - and ranging from Weisser Muskateller and Weisse Zuckerweinbeere through Kleine Rieslinge to Corinthentrauben and the curious parsley-leaved Petersilientraube (Vitis laciniola). More significantly, the author proposes a systematic, inter-regional method for identifying grape varieties: each should be carefully described at harvest, and these descriptions exchanged between wine-growing regions so that local names and varieties might be compared and cross-identified.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA small practical manual with surprisingly large ambitions. Lintemer begins with the everyday work of making and tending a Bohemian vineyard, but ends by proposing something much broader: a systematic method for describing grape varieties at harvest and exchanging those descriptions between wine regions, so that growers might determine which local grapes were actually the same. The fold-out vineyard register makes the idea wonderfully concrete - Muskateller, Zirifandel, Elbing, virtues and faults all reduced to columns - while the Bassermann-Jordan provenance places this modest provincial handbook in the library of the scholar who would later write the great history of German viticulture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385892937963,"sku":"162-1801--500.00-226.20-2026","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00162_IMG_8907.jpg?v=1788991857"},{"product_id":"nemety-versuch-einer-darstellung-1835","title":"Versuch einer Darstellung der Lage und Ausdehnung des Hegyallyaer Weingebirges","description":"\u003cp\u003e1835 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1] f.e., 102, [2] blank, [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nWien (Vienna)\u003cbr\u003e\nFr. Beck's Universitäts Buchhandlung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e19th century half-cloth binding; printed paper label to the spine that appears to be taken from the original wrappers. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of Geschichte des Weinbaus, which is the wine library of record for German viticultural history. Ink stamp to the title page with same provenance. Very limited foxing. Fine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEarly nineteenth-century systematic account of Tokaj, written by Joseph Némety as an organizer of practical regional wine knowledge rather than as a celebrant of a famous name. At the time, wine districts were increasingly described through topography, archival record, and agricultural observation; Némety instead gives Hegyalja the form of a viticultural landscape, relating communes, soils, exposures, varieties, and cellar practice to the production of Tokayer Ausbruch. The wine already carried a learned reputation: Franz Forgách called it \"vinum nobilissimum atque praestantissimum\" and Hermann Conring named it \"vinum generossissimum.\" Némety's contribution is to bring that reputation under documentary and technical description, including the chronology of botrytised berry selection and vineyard labor. The book is a historical and practical treatise on the Hegyallya wine region and the cultivation, preparation, and treatment of Tokaji Ausbruch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume opens by defining the Hegyallya district through its wine communes, naming Tokay, Zambor, Tállya, and related places before turning to soils, exposures, and vineyard parcels. It then describes the cultivated grape varieties and the preparation and treatment of Tokayer Ausbruch. The historical section traces the emergence of Ausbruch through parliamentary records of 1655 and urbaria (feudal land registers or property records), arguing that the separate gathering of botrytised berries was not practiced before that point. Némety also treats the labor term \"trina fossio\" and connects its triple working of the vines with usage after 1560, quoting the phrase \"separataque selectione, uvae passae\" (separate selection of dried berries). The Anmerkungen (Notes) move through Claudian on the vine-clad Ister, Sextus Aurelius Victor on Pannonian vineyards, the Anonymous Notary of King Béla, and Hungarian historians including Szirmay, Wagner, Kaprinay, and Forgách. The closing observations place Habsburg wine production at 36 to 40 million buckets annually and record the presentation of 300 Hungarian wine varieties at Maria Theresia's court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEarly documentary wine history, uncommon in 1835, with a specifically narrow purpose: Hegyalja, its vineyards, and the making of Tokaji Aszú, one of Europe's most celebrated wines. We like books that catch a great wine before modern oenology and standardized its language, taking us from the wine mountain into the cellar and how this wine was made circa 1830.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385893003499,"sku":"163-1835--500.00-290.00-2026","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00163_IMG_8898.jpg?v=1788991911"},{"product_id":"bronner-die-verbesserung-des-1830","title":"Die Verbesserung des Weinbaues durch praktische Anweisung den Rießling ohne Pfähle und Latten","description":"\u003cp\u003e1830 First Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1] f.e., XII, 77, [], [1] folding plate, [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nHeidelberg\u003cbr\u003e\nC. F. Winter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e19th century half-cloth binding; manuscript paper label to the spine. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of Geschichte des Weinbaus, which is the wine library of record for German viticultural history. Reinforced when bound, with a small loss to the inner margin of the first few leaves. Title page heavily browned, the remainder lightly foxed. Folding plate with light foxing. Good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst edition of Bronner's first published book, a remarkably focused monograph on Riesling by a Wiesloch apothecary who became a viticulturist after clearing and planting a plot of waste ground. The timing was urgent: the severe winter of 1829-30 devastated vineyards across Baden and the Rhineland, and the damage formed part of the immediate background to Bronner's intervention. He wrote from his own vines, testing methods at home and against what he observed in the Palatinate and Rheingau.\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat makes the book particularly interesting is its concentration on a single named grape. Rather than treating pruning and training as universal techniques, or burying Riesling among dozens of \"Rebsorten\" (grape varieties), Bronner makes it the subject of an entire practical experiment: how does this particular vine behave, how should it be trained, and can changing its cultivation produce better wine at lower cost? His answer is the \"Bockschnitt\" (bush-pruning system), dispensing with the usual stakes and laths. The result is an early German contribution to variety-specific viticulture, where close observation of Riesling meets the practical economics of running a vineyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title page announces \"Mit 11 Abbildungen\" (with 11 illustrations - all collected in one folded plate), and Bronner's preface, signed at Wiesloch on 24 July 1830, immediately declares improved vine training a \"Bedürfniß der Zeit\" (need of the time). His complaint is economic as much as agricultural: when markets readily paid for inferior wine, growers had little reason to change. Better viticulture begins when better wine becomes worth making.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe numbered sections move from argument to experiment. \"Zweck und Nutzen der niederen Erziehungsart\" (purpose and advantages of low vine training) makes the case for cultivation without stakes and singles out Riesling as \"die edelste der Rebsorten\" (the noblest of grape varieties), weighing the new system against established practices such as the Bechtheim method. \"Der Rebsatz\" (planting the vineyard) follows the vine from selection and soil preparation through planting, winter earthing, yield, and, unusually, a year-by-year account of Bronner's \"Bockschnitt\" (bush-pruning system) from the first season through the sixth.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe final section, \"Traubenspaliere mit Winkelschnitt\" (grape espaliers trained by angle pruning), moves from the vineyard toward the house. Bronner sets out his \"Winkelschnitt\" (angle-pruning system), contrasts it with the \"fächerförmige\" (fan-shaped) method, and engages with Metzger's \"Rheinischer Weinbau\" (Rhenish Viticulture). The large folding plate by Th. Hengstenberg gathers the argument into eleven numbered figures, progressing from young vines through increasingly elaborate espalier forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBefore single-grape monographs were fashionable, Bronner writes Riesling a love letter: low-trained, near today's regenerative bush-vine enthusiasms, and two centuries early.\u003cbr\u003e\nAn apothecary becomes a winegrower, plants Riesling, and decides the way everyone trains it can be improved. We like the combination of specificity and experiment: one grape, one vineyard problem, eleven illustrations, and a practical system worked out vine by vine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385894314219,"sku":"167-1830--550.00-258.00-2026","price":550.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00167_IMG_8965.jpg?v=1788992611"},{"product_id":"schmidt-der-weinstock-am-spalier-1871","title":"Der Weinstock am Spalier und in Töpfen sowie im Dienste des Altars","description":"\u003cp\u003e1871 Second Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1], f.e., [4], 72, [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nAugsburg\u003cbr\u003e\nLiterarisches Institut von Dr. W. Huttler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e19th century half-cloth binding; manuscript paper label to the spine. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of Geschichte des Weinbaus, which is the wine library of record for German viticultural history. Paper with scattered foxing, some browning at the first and last leaves. Very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSecond improved edition of a practical German vine manual written for the household and parish rather than the commercial vineyard. Schmidt brings together three traditions of nineteenth-century horticulture: the established German methods of Kolbe, the newer French espalier (trellis) system of Hardy at Versailles, and Jäger's geometrical forms of vine training. The result belongs to a gardening culture in which the vine could be trained against the walls and windows of the house, cultivated ornamentally in pots, and taken through to small-scale domestic winemaking.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe title's unusual \"im Dienste des Altars\" (in the service of the altar) asks that the espalier vine serve not only the house but also the religious service, while the potted vine pleases the eye and raises the heart, with an appealingly complete vision of domestic viticulture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first chapter analyzes Kolbe's method, beginning with the preparation and setting of cuttings and following the progressive formation of the vine against the wall from its first through fourth year. Schmidt treats the pruning of \"Fruchtreben\" (fruiting canes), winter protection, defense against spring frost, and the correction of old, irregularly trained stocks.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe second one turns to Hardy (\"directeur du Potager impérial\", director of the Imperial Kitchen Garden at Versailles) and Jäger, introducing their newer systems of espalier training. Here the vine takes increasingly architectural forms, including the \"Herzstamm\" (heart-shaped trunk) and \"Winkelzug\" (zigzag cordon), with Schmidt proposing a combination of the latter with Kolbe's older practice.\u003cbr\u003e\nA later section moves from cultivation to household winemaking, treating vines in pots before following their grapes into the cellar. Its most mechanical passage illustrates a compact domestic press (fig. 30) and a sealed fermentation vessel fitted with a \"Gährlufe\" (fermentation airlock, fig. 31), with instructions for maintaining the must between 12 and 24 degrees Réaumur.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book closes with a priced list of varieties suitable for espalier and pot culture, available from nurseries in Frauendorf, Stuttgart, Erfurt, and Unterauach near Bamberg. Thirty-one in-text woodcuts accompany the instructions, showing successive stages of training, window and pier espaliers, and the apparatus of pressing and fermentation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom vine on the garden wall to wine on the altar, we like the wonderfully complete scale of Schmidt's domestic viticulture, where a cutting is trained around windows and walls, grapes are pressed in a tiny household press and fermented under an airlock, and the finished wine can ultimately serve the church; practical horticulture, home winemaking, and devotional life all contained within one little manual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385894346987,"sku":"168-1871--250.00-129.00-2026","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00168_IMG_8942.jpg?v=1788992732"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/collections\/00157_IMG_8813.jpg?v=1792599386","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/en-eu\/collections\/german-wine.oembed","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}