THE WINE PRESS AND THE CELLAR: A Manual for the Wine-Maker and the Cellar-Man. (FOUNTAINGROVE VINEYARDS' COPY with ink stamp of Fountaingrove Winery on copyright page and signature of winery workers E.C. Romano and Tomoki Ijichi).
San Francisco and NY: Payot, Upham & Co. and D. Van Nostrand, 1883. First edition. (xxiv), 240 pp., 57 engraved illustrations in the text; original slate blue cloth with gilt and blind-stamped cover title and ornaments. San Francisco attorney Emmett Rixford (1841-1928) planted his 40-acre “La Questa Vineyard” in the..... More