Author: MULDER, G.J.- WINE.-
Title: De wijn scheikundig beschouwd.
Description: Rotterdam, H. A. Kramers, 1855. 8vo. In superb full red mor., covers w. 2 single giltruled lines, corners of the inner border w. a floral handtool in each of the corners. Spine w. large machine pressed floral gilttooled decoration , name and title in gilt handlettering 'Mulder', 'De Wijn'. Edges of covers w. gilt diagonal pattern, roll. Original mintgreen endpapers. 2 extra binder's blanks preceding and following the text. [n5, 1 - 20 in 8s]. (X, 1 - 319, I (blank) pp.). (All edges gilt.). Ex bibliotheca Royal Library The Hague, 'KB Verwijderd' [Deaccessioned, withdrawn, ausgeschieden]. Really superb copy, one of undoubtedly a smal number of de lux copies for friends and acquaintances, this particular copy probably presented to the Royal Library. DSB IX, 557/9: Partington IV, 319 a.o.pl.: Bitting 334: Lucia, Hist. of. wine, 194 (Engl .ed. 1857): 'The principal acids, salts, mineral components, had already been identified by 1854, when...G.J. Mulder...wrote this comprehensive work....': Waring II, 745.

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