New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1891. Hardcover. Quarto size, 671 pp. This hefty and thorough reference work contains information on the temperance movement and the "drink question", as a rising tide of anti-alcohol sentiment, largely led by religious groups, grew in the United States; the volume includes information about legislation..... More
![Item #22020703 The Land of the Wine [Association Copy, Inscribed to Angelo Heilprin]; Being an...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/22020703_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1700509042)
London: The Author's Syndicate, 1901. Hardcover. Two volumes (complete), octavo size, 567 pp., inscribed by Biddle to Angelo Heilprin. An interesting work about the history of the Madeira Islands, inscribed to one fascinating man by another. The author, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr. (1894-1948) was (per Wiki) "a millionaire whose..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California [Yolla Bolly Press], 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, 91 pp., in slipcase. An essay on early California winemaking, first published in Adelaide, Australia, in 1885, with reproductions of historical photographs, wine industry trade cards and labels illustrating the..... More
New York: Leslie-Judge Company, [1927]. 4th Printing. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 63 pp. Norman Hume Anthony (1889-1968), cartoonist and illustrator, editor of Judge Magazine and, later, Life Magazine, authored this bar book during Prohibition in America. A predecessor of the 1930 "Savoy" cocktail book, which takes many recipes from "Here's How!"..... More
![Item #CNJL2085 La Bourgogne: Types et Coutumes [Burgundy: Types and Customs]. Gaston Roupnel,...](https://swansfinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/CNJL2085_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1531615281)
Paris: Editions des Horizons de France, 1936. Graux, Louis W. Original wraps. Quarto size, 142 pp., in French. "La Bourgogne" is a history of Burgundy, a region in France well-known for its vineyards and winemaking; this book comprises the history and development of the region, as well as the tradition..... More
(Turin): Printed by Vincenzo Bona for Editions Glenat, (1991). Viala, Pierre; Vermorel, Victor. Hardcover. Folio size, 167 pp., in French. All oenophiles revel in the beauty not just of the wine sparkling in the glass, but in the delicate vines and glowing fruit; to be in a vineyard, surrounded by..... More