Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951-1964. First edition. 10 volume set, quartos, original green cloth, various paginations, frontispiece illustration in each volume, jackets. Publication announcement and subscription order form laid in. Published for the Bancroft Library in an edition of 1000 copies. An eleventh (index) volume was published in 1968..... More

Sacramento: James J. Ayers, Supt. State Printing, 1884. First edition. Original embossed brown cloth with gilt spine title; octavo; 184, 67, 61, 62 pp. Many engraved illustrations in the text. Folding table. This voume contains both the second and third reports of the Chief Executive Viticultural Officer to the Board..... More

New York: Adolph Wittemann, 1885. Original edition. 69 photo-lithograph views on 20 accordion-fold panels, 11 pap. text at rear; embossed red cloth covers, 5x7.25 inches. A remarkably well preserved example of this charming view book. Scarce. More

San Francisco: Bancroft Co., 1889. Original edition. 42 photo-lithograph views on 28 accordion-fold panels, embossed red cloth covers, 5x6 inches. A remarkably well preserved example of this charming view book. Scarce. More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1966. First edition. 49 pp., illustrated. 11 facsimile pamphlets in rear pocket. Octavo, beige cloth with gilt spine title, front cover ornament in black. Publisher's printing announcement/prospectus laid in. 500 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Note: the prospectus says that 13 facsimiles..... More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original brown boards with paper spine label; 58 pp., illustrated. The original leaf is page 325/326 and contains Bewick's wood engraving and the full text of the fable "The Sun and theWind." The restrike impression is from Bewick's engraving..... More

NY: Orange Judd, 1908. "New, Revised and Enlarged Edition" Original green cloth with gilt title on spine, small octavo; 282 pp., 15-page publisher catalogue at rear. Originally published in 1864. Gabler (2nd ed. 21290; Amerine & Borg 1463. More

New York: Orange Judd & Co., (1866). First edition. 143 pp., i full-page engraving, 6 engraved figures in the text, small octavo,, original burgundy cloth with gilt spine title. An anonymously-published account of a New England printer who abandoned his settled life to try his hand at grape growing in..... More

Cincinatti: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co, 1855. Fifth edition. Hardbound. Original blind stamped brown cloth with gilt spine title, small octavo (5 x 7.5 inches), pp x, 9-142. One engraving in the text. A popular manual with a primary focus on grape growing in the Ohio valley. Gabler (2nd. ed..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1869. First edition. 332 pp + 4 pages ads at rear; small octavo, original burgundy cloth with gilt spine. The author spent several months touring the European wine regions of France, Italy, Austria, and the Rhinelands studying viticultural methods. The text discusses how European practices..... More

NY: C.M. Saxton, 1862. First edition. Original green pebbled cloth; small octavo; xvi, (17)-375 pp. Engraved illustrations in the text. First edition of a popular work on grape culture and wine making (though the section on wine-making focuses largely on fruits other than the grape). Includes an extensive bibliography of..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. First edition. 222 pp., 25 plates, including 7 chromolithographs, 11 from photos, 7 engraved; ctavo, origianl burgundy cloth with gilt spine titles, An important work on a pest devasting to the vineyards of California and throughout the southwest. The vine disease caused by the bacterium..... More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1982. Limited edition. Hardbound. Original brown linen; oblong quarto (12.25 x 9.25 inches); 44 pp. and 44 color plates. Publication announcement/prospectus laid in. A facsimile reproduction of the artist's portfolio of watercolor drawings created for a book project that remained unfinished in Vischer's own..... More