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![[HENDERSON, ALEXANDER]. - The History of Ancient and Modern Wines.](http://www.richardneylon.com/Gallery/Gallery_Illustrations/Henderson5792b.jpg)
[HENDERSON, ALEXANDER]. The History of Ancient and Modern Wines.London, Baldwin & Craddock 1824. Quarto diced calf (rebacked, edges & corners worn); xviii,408pp, mounted wood engravings by William Harvey. Without half title? Some browning or spotting but a pretty good copy. ¶ 'Turn over these costly pages, and feast your eyes with the delicious vignettes, that ever and anon glance out from between the leaves, like the ruby clusters of Bacchus himself ... The Doctor is, absque omni dubio, the first historian of our age. He unites in his single person the most admirable qualifications of all the other masters in this great branch of literature ' (William Maginn in 'Blackwood', July 1824).
Offered for AUD 1200.00 = appr. US$ 1250.70 by: Richard Neylon, Bookseller - Book number: 5792