{"product_id":"husmann-american-grape-growing-and-1928","title":"American Grape Growing and Wine Making","description":"\u003cp\u003e1928 Fourth Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1] f.e., viii, 269, [10], [1] r.e.\u003cbr\u003eNew York\u003cbr\u003eOrange Judd Publishing Co., Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher's dark blue cloth with orange border and lettering; dust jacket present. Very light and limited rubbing; jacket chipped at the head and tail of the spine, with advertisements on the rear panel and flaps. The front pastedown carries an ink signature, \"Robert R. Doherty,\" and a partially legible circular San Francisco bookseller's stamp; the rear free endpaper carries a matching ink ownership stamp, \"Robert R. Doherty.\" Very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book was never conceived simply as a technical manual. Paul Lukacs, in \"American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine,\" credits Husmann's writing with a visionary zeal alongside its practical instruction: Husmann wanted Americans to grow grapes and make their own wine, presenting wine itself as \"the best agent\" of \"true temperance.\" Lukacs calls him, plainly, \"the most expert American wine grower of the day.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRef. Simon, 243 (ed. 1880); Lukacs P., American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine (2000), pp. 52, 54-55, 68-74, 87 onward (on Husmann's career and place in American wine history).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fourth edition, revised and rewritten, incorporates the expanded treatment of California's grape industries announced on its title page, reflecting a transformation in Husmann's own thinking. Lukacs records that Husmann remained skeptical of California wine as late as 1879; a visit west changed his mind, convincing him that the state's soils and climate offered extraordinary possibilities. He subsequently became deeply involved in California viticulture and in the response to phylloxera, bringing with him the practical knowledge of resistant American vines developed during his Missouri career. His sometimes contentious encounter with Eugene Hilgard's more rigorously experimental Berkeley viticulture places Husmann at a revealing transition between the self-taught American winegrower of the nineteenth century and the institutional wine science that followed.\u003cbr\u003eThere is something remarkable in finding Husmann's late-life voice still being sold new by Orange Judd in 1928, twenty-six years after his death in 1902. His revised preface looks back over a career that began with a first vineyard planted as a twenty-year-old in the Missouri backwoods and eventually carried him to California. This copy carries the marks of a later reader: an ink signature and matching ownership stamp, both reading \"Robert R. Doherty,\" on the front pastedown and rear free endpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work moves from grape growing to winemaking, combining practical instruction with Husmann's larger argument for an American wine culture. Chapters include \"Pure Wine as a Promoter of Temperance,\" accounts of individual growers and viticultural conditions in Missouri and New Mexico, and an extensive section on California corresponding to the additional material announced on the title page. Part III turns explicitly to \"American Wine Making.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe text proper opens with Husmann's \"Preface to the Revised Edition,\" in which he looks back across his career and dates its beginning precisely: he planted his first vineyard \"as a youth of twenty\" on his father's farm in the backwoods of Missouri in 1847. Woodcut illustrations accompany the practical instruction, including diagrams for renewing and pruning old vines and an engraving of pruning shears.\u003cbr\u003eThe index reveals the breadth of the manual: acidimeters, anthracnose, bitter rot, black rot, downy mildew, fermentation, fining and clarification, bottling, cellar and cask practice, and grafting techniques including the cleft and Champin grafts. Its geography is equally broad, extending through the Hudson River Valley, Central New York, Central Ohio, the Chautauqua grape belt, Missouri, Texas, and California, with substantial attention to California wine grapes, cultivation, raisins, and the state's wine industry. Authorities include L. H. Bailey on grape training and girdling, T. V. Munson and George Engelmann on the classification of American grape species, and Norman J. Colman.\u003cbr\u003eTen pages of Orange Judd advertisements are bound at the rear, while the surviving dust jacket advertises further titles in the publisher's \"Farm and Garden Library.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn author revising his own prejudice in real time: Husmann doubted California wine until 1879, then built this edition's added chapters around the state that changed his mind. We like a wine writer willing to admit he was wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67895166238955,"sku":"196-1928--180.00-80.00-2026","price":175.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00196_IMG_0360.jpg?v=1791393086","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/en-eu\/products\/husmann-american-grape-growing-and-1928","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}