ROZIER (Abbot François). Memoir on the best way to make and - Lot 235

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ROZIER (Abbot François). Memoir on the best way to make and - Lot 235
ROZIER (Abbot François). Memoir on the best way to make and manage wines, either for use or to make them pass the seas. Paris, Ruault, 1772. In-8, paperback, untrimmed, modern marbled paper cover. viii and 350 pp, (2) ff, 3 plates in fine. Second edition, rare, of this memoir on the wine of Provence, awarded the prize of Marseille in 1770, published the same year as the original, in Lausanne and Lyon by Rosset. Illustrated with 3 plates of oenological tools, the work studies the red and white grape varieties of the South of France, and gives three dissertations: "on the means used to renew a vineyard", "on the economic uses of the different parts of the vineyard", "on the vessels suitable to contain the grape harvest", etc. A copy with full margins, complete with the errata leaf, which according to Oberlé (Bachique, 109) has disappeared in this corrected Parisian edition. "This very rare book is missing from almost all collections" (Oberlé). Corners corroded, margins dusted, trace of glue on the first two leaves. Oberlé, Bachique, 109 (1770) - Oberlé, Fastes, 936 - Simon, 1315.
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