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| This selection contains 16 title(s) on 1 page. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 16 |
| Original Stereocard Photograph: Tokay Grapes--In a California Vineyard, Acampo, Calif. Keystone View Company. 3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 236-16747 by the publisher. Shows a woman and child picking grapes with a barn and house in the background. Acampo is located in central California's San Joaquin County. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on the back discussing grape growing and wine production nationwide. Fine. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 8165 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| Original Stereocard Photograph. "Andalusian Carts Coming Into Town, Almeria, Spain." Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 15828 (438). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about southern Spain known as Andalusia and the port city of Almeria. Photo of a group of carts coming into the town with children possing at the front. Carts are loaded to the gils with barrels of wine. Clean copy. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 9404 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| Original Stereocard Photograph. "Toiling in the Vineyards - Picking the Luscious Grapes, Rudesheim, Germany." Meadville, PA, Keystone View Company. # 10352 (390). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the production of grapes on the terraced side of the Rhine Valley in Germany. View of workers, both men and women, tilling the vines with a German monument in the far background. Clean copy with very slight bump to lower right corner. Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 9415 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| Original Sterocard Photograph. "Tivoli Beer Garden, Hanover, Germany." New York, New York, Underwood & Underwood. 1904. Original stereograph on tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title on the front cover. Image of some gentlemen seated in the Beer Garden with an elaborate stage in the background for a band. A fine clean copy. Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 11312 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| Original Stereocard Photograph. "Knoll's Beer Garden, a Popular Resort of Berlin, Germany." New York, N.Y. Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers. 1894. 'Sold by Underwood & Underwood, New York ..' printed on the right side of the stereograph on tan board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with title printed on the backside in six languages. Nice view of the beer garden with several people seated . Clean copy with slight bumps on several corners. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 9096 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| A Vade Mecum for Malt=Worms, or, a Guide to Good Fellows; Being a Description of the Manners and Customs of the most Eminent Publick Houses, in and about the Cities of London and Westminster; with a Hint on the Props (continued) Printed and Sold by T. Bickerston. Circa 1870. London.. Cloth. Illustrations. Title continued: ".(or Principal Customers) of each House; in a Method so Plain that any Thirsty Person (of the Meanest Capacity) may easily find the Nearest Way from one House to Another". Pages 45-48 have small piece of top edge missing; does not affect text. Page edges are uncut. Following is a partial example of a description of a Publick House: "The Magpye now, that Party-colour'd Gipsie, Calls on its Guests to enter and be Tipsie, Not only to regale their Taste but Sight, and Gives to every sense an Appetite; etc.". On the bottom of some pages are very brief descriptions of other Publick Houses such as: "Old Winter, at the Stones-end, sells excellent Bub, and has a Parrot that swears as fast as a Dragoon"; "N ag's Head near St. George's Church; -- Who is always possess'd of as many Buts of humming Bibble, as there are Days in the Year"; "Magpye and Bear, both at the Bridge-foot, good Beer"; etc. USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 99.5 | £UK 90.5 | JP¥ 12899] Book number: 2934 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| The Vine in Early California The Book Club of California. 1955. San Francisco.. Publisher's cloth slip case. 12 parts, complete. 950 copies printed by Adrian Wilson. 12 folders each with a reproduction of an early vinous item from the wineries of: Inglenook, Paul Masson, Nouveau Medoc, San Gabriel, Buena Vista, El Aliso, The Mamm oth Vine, Charles Krug, Wente Bros. Stanford-Vina, Korbel and Italian Swiss Colony. USD 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.5 | £UK 60.5 | JP¥ 8599] Book number: 1709 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| BIOLETTI, FREDERIC Supports for Vines University of California College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station. 1922. Circular No. 252. Illustrated with photos and diagrams showing trellises, wire, staking, etc. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 7824 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| BIOLETTI, FREDERIC T Vineyard Plans University of California College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station. 1922. Circular No. 253. (Davis, CA). Illustrated with charts and plans. 11 pages. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 7823 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| BONNET, L.O. The Home Vineyard University of California College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station. 1921. Wraappers. Circular No. 231. (Davis, CA). Illustrated with photos, tables and drawings. 12 pages. Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1290] Book number: 7832 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| COLBURN, FRONA EUNICE WAIT In Old Vintage Days...with Decorations by Dorothy Payne. San Francisco, John Henry Nash. 1937, First Edition. Leather backed boards in slip case. Limited edition, one of 750 copies printed, this being one of 250 in this binding. This copy not numbered or signed on the limitation page. From Nell O'Day, A Catalog of Books Printed by John Henry Nash, pages 97-98: "..an interesting tale of the (18)90's set in one of the lovely vineyard districts of California. Mrs. Colburn is an authority on grape culture, her book entitled "Wines and Vines" published in 1889 heuing a source book on the subject. "In Old Vintage Days" is a colorful romance with the facts of the wine war that took place at the turn of the century, resulting in havoc to many of the California grape grower. It gives a vivid picture of the pleasant mode of living among tghe prosperous vintners which, as Mrs. Colburn say in her Foreword, will never be entirely relived." 178 pages, plujs colophon. As New. USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 | £UK 30.25 | JP¥ 4300] Book number: 1092 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| COLBURN, FRONA EUNICE WAIT In Old Vintage Days...With Decorations By Dorothy Payne San Francisco, Printed by John Henry Nash. 1937, First Edition. Number 166 of 750 copies printed. Signed by the author on the limitation page Cloth backed boards. An as new copy in the original dust wrapper. From Nell O'Day, "A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash" pages 97 & 98: "..an interesting tale of the (18)90's set in one of the lovely vineyards of California. Mrs. Colburn is an authority on grape culture, her book entitled "Wines and Vines" publsihed in 1889 being a source book on the subject. "In Old Vintage Days is a colorful romance with the facts of the wine war that took place at the turn of the century, resulting in havoc to many of the Califor nia grape growers. It gives a vivid picture of the pleasant mode of living among the prosperous vintners which, as Mrs. Colburn says in her Foreword, will never be entirely relived." 178 pages, plus colophon. As New/As New. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6450] Book number: 2938 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| EARLE, ALICE MORSE Stage-Coach and Tavern Days New York, The MacMillan Company. 1922, Later Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Photo illustrated, including some tavern signs. 449 pages, including index. Very Good. USD 17.50 [Appr.: EURO 11.75 | £UK 10.75 | JP¥ 1505] Book number: 8332 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| KANE, FRANK Anatomy of the Whisky Business Manhasset, New York, Lake House Press. First Edition. (1965). Publisher's red cloth with gtilt lettering. In slipcase. Number 233 (of an unknown limitation), signed by author. A variety of articles on the liquor business by Kane, publisher of "Frank Kane's Weekly Letter for Liquor Executives" and the "National Liquor Review." 204 pages. Fine. USD 37.50 [Appr.: EURO 25 | £UK 22.75 | JP¥ 3225] Book number: 8372 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| OTTLEY, ALLAN R. Vines, Rails & Comet Tails: Mother Lode Byways of California History Sacramento, The Sacramento Book Collectors Club. 1977, First Edition. Wrappers. 24 pages. 300 copies printed by the Feathered Serpent Press. Chapter on: Vineyard House (Coloma); Bayley House; Ice; John A. Stone; Latrobe; George Madeira; Calaveras Skull. Fine. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 | £UK 15.25 | JP¥ 2150] Book number: 7181 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. | ||
| PINNEY, THOMAS John Ignatius Bleasdale: a Friend of Wine in New Worlds. San Francisco, California, The Book Club of California. 2006, First Edition. Publication Number 221, by The Anchor & Acorn Press, Petaluma. viii, 67 pages; illustrations; bound in light burgandy cloth (7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inch). Biography of John Ignatius Bleasdale (1822-1884) who played a major role in both Australia and California wine industries and includes a biblography of his wine writings from 1867 to 1884 with annotations as to content. Fine clean copy. Fine. USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 83 | £UK 75.5 | JP¥ 10749] Book number: 11462 Click here to order or inquire at Barry Cassidy Rare Books. |
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