Item #23621 OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE: A Practical Treatise on the Garden and Vineyard Culture of the Vine, and the Manufacture of Domestic Wine. Designed for the Use of Amateurs and Others in the Northern and Middle States . . .to which is Added a Selection of Examples of American Vineyard Practice and a Carefully Prepared Description of the Celebrated Thomery System of Grape Culture. John Phin.
OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE: A Practical Treatise on the Garden and Vineyard Culture of the Vine, and the Manufacture of Domestic Wine. Designed for the Use of Amateurs and Others in the Northern and Middle States . . .to which is Added a Selection of Examples of American Vineyard Practice and a Carefully Prepared Description of the Celebrated Thomery System of Grape Culture.

OPEN AIR GRAPE CULTURE: A Practical Treatise on the Garden and Vineyard Culture of the Vine, and the Manufacture of Domestic Wine. Designed for the Use of Amateurs and Others in the Northern and Middle States . . .to which is Added a Selection of Examples of American Vineyard Practice and a Carefully Prepared Description of the Celebrated Thomery System of Grape Culture.

NY: C.M. Saxton, 1862. First edition. Original green pebbled cloth; small octavo; xvi, (17)-375 pp. Engraved illustrations in the text. Moderate wear to covers, spine ends lightly frayed, near very good. Item #23621

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 grape culture. Gabler (2nd edition) 33950; Amerine & Borg 2614.

Price: $400.00

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