Philadelphia; Pittsburgh: James Kay, Jun. & Brother; C.H. Kay & Co., 122 Chestnut St. [circa 1834-43; copyright 1829]. Octavo (22.5 x 14 cm.), 456 pages. Index. Early printing, styled "A New American from the Latest London Edition. Printer's slug to title page: "Kay's Improved & Enlarged Edit." Copyright statement says 1829, no date on title, but the publisher, James Kay, Jr., and Brother, was located at the 122 Chestnut St.....

Paris: J. Barreau, Imp. Edit.; Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, No Date. Quarto-sized booklet, stapled in wrappers (26.5 x 19 cm.), 19, [1] pages. Illustrated with two maps in black and red, and with two color plates, and many black and white illustrations in the text. The text is a review of towns and cities in the Jura and Burgundy, with small, inset photographic images of famous buildings in each.....

London: Printed by H.C. [Henry Cruttenden] for H. Brome, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1677. Duodecimo (15 x 10 cm.), [2], 251, [8] pages. Table of contents at rear. Printer's name from Wing. ~ Stated Third Edition corrected, first published in 1669. A classic of seventeenth-century English food writing that belies the author's youthful adventures as handsome courtier, ardent lover, swordsman, pirate, and possible double agent. Later, more serious.....

Berkeley & Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto (26.5 x 22 cm.), 336 pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The gonzo wine memoir from the original Rhone Ranger, one of California's great innovative vintners. Fine, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Boldly signed by the author on the half-title.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1994. Folio, xxiii, 64 pages. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; one of 450 numbered copies on Mohawk Superfine paper printed at the Yolla Bolly Press. First published in Adelaide, Australia, in 1885. Edited and with an introduction by Thomas Pinney. Foreword by Robert Mondavi. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Fine publisher's slipcase.

Paris: Chez Helleu et Sergent, 1925. Small octavo, 108, [2] pages. FIRST EDITION. A simple and lovely book devoted to the cuisine of Berry. The recipe list is not long, but includes "boeuf au cornichons", "veau en etuvee", "rognons de moutons a la mode de Bourges", and "truffiat ou galette aux pommes de terre". With a section on the wines of the region and a collection of local drinking songs.....

Luguni; [Lyon]: Sebastien Gryphe, 1549. Octavo (16 x cm.), [1-2] 3-184, [8] pages. Collation: 2A-2M8. With decorative initials, printer's devices to title page and final page. Text in Latin. An early Lyon edition. A Roman agricultural treatise from the late 4th or early 5th century, well-known throughout the medieval period, also called Opus Agriculturae. Palladius tells us that he owned land in the Neapolitan countryside and in Sardinia and that.....

London: Sprague & Co., [circa 1898]. Thin octavo (13 x 19 cm.), 41, [2] pages. Illustrated with photographic illustrations (Funchal Bay from Reid's New Hotel, Reid's Hotel, Carmo Garden), plus an unindexed black & white folding map of the Island of Madeira;. Stated "Third Issue". One of a series of issues of this guide book, each featuring revisions to Steamer changes and variations in rates. A guide to the island.....

London: Geo. G. Sandeman Sons & Co. Limited; Lund Humphries & Co., Ltd., 1955. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), 63 pages. Photographically illustrated, and with a frontispiece silhouette portrait. FIRST EDITION. A short treatise on the two special wines, with a focus on the House of Sandeman, founded in 1790. The work begins with an "historical background of Port wine", and moves on to descriptions of "Port from Portugal", and.....

London: Duckworth, 1926. Thick octavo (22 x 15 cm.), 273, [1] pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Publisher's advertisement at rear. FIRST EDITION; a U.S. edition was issued the following year by Maynard Small of New York. The author conceived this work as a followup to his massive three volume History of the Wine Trade in England, which covered the wine trade from the Roman Invasion to the end.....

[New York: the company]; Neuman & Dinglinger, Lith. 1881. Trade card (15.5 x 8.7 cm.). Recto is a chromolithograph printed in red, pale blue, and gold; verso printed in red and black. A trade card advertising the G.H. Mumm Champagne imported by Fred de Bary & Co., located at the time at 43 & 44 Warren Street in New York City. The card lists the comparative quantities of champagnes brought.....

Brooklyn: A. Johnson Machine Works, circa 1910. Octavo, 68 pages. Illustrations throughout. FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue featuring machines for manufacturing of crown corks, crowning machines, machines for manufacturing of corks and cork discs, machines for screw caps, and special machines which include a friction capping machine, automatic rotary cap spinning machine, single head cap spinning machine, and an automatic rotary screw cap capping machine. Each item includes detailed rendering, as.....

[Otley, West Yorkshire: Peter Willis; Smith Settle], 1990. Thick octavo (24.7 x 15.5 cm.), 261, [14] pages. On thick stock. Illustrated. Advertisements. Top edge gilt. Facsimile of the first edition, DELUXE ISSUE, numbered "XXXIX" of 60 copies. An additional 510 standard copies were issued. The original was published by Vizetelly in 1880. Vizetelly, an Italian-born British publisher and journalist, spent enough years in Paris as correspondent to the Illustrated London.....