Loubat, Alphonse.

The American Vine-Dresser's Guide. New and Revised Edition.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1872.

Octavo, 123 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Facing English and French texts. Second edition, reproducing the original G.&C. Carwill edition of 1827. By one of the first to recognize the potential of American soil for quality grapes. Loubat had as many as 1100 vines planted in New Jersey and Long Island. Internally fine, but with some wear to head and foot of the spine, in somewhat spotty purple morocco textured cloth, brightly stamped in gold. [Gabler 28040].