rusting billboards on empty highways and solitary figures navigating expansive
Original cloth with the excellent
do much to bring a fanciful touch to the otherwise stark exposition of a treatise on pearls" - Hughey
The plates show the various cuts or fish
Tall hardback in the dust-jacket
A History and Description of modern Wine limited rusting billboards on empty highwaysLondon: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. An early history of winemaking and the principle growing regions of Europe, Persia and the East, Africa and America, with notes also on vintages, keeping wines, and their 'adulteration and sophistication'. Third edition, revising and correcting the first two editions. 8vo. pp viii + 440 + 6p catalogue. Engraved frontispiece + several engraved vignettes and diagrams. Original green cloth, gilt titles to spine, lightly