1924 - 2080 WINE and BACCHUS (including PRINTS and DRAWINGS, GASTRONOMY)
- The first work rather seriously browned/ waterstained. Two blank margins repaired. The second work rather unobtrusively (water)stained in lower margin. Vellum over frontcover restored.
= Ad 1. The first Latin edition, published in the same year as the German version. Ferguson I, p.325 note; Duveen, p.254 (Latin ed., Amst., Janssonius, the same year); Caillet 4582 (German ed., Amst., Janssonius). Lists 39 chemical experiments. Ad 2. The first part only of 6, complete in itself. The first Latin edition, published together with the German version "Teutschlands Wohlfahrt". Ferguson I, p.327; Duveen p.256; Caillet 4587; Oberlé, Fastes 85; Schoene 4369. "Johann Rudolf Glauber (1603-1670?) was a pioneer chemist who was deeply involved with alchemical speculation. In 1648 he moved from Vienna to Amsterdam and remained there for the rest of his life as founder and director of an "Hermetic Institute". He discovered a salt named after him". (Manly P. Hall coll., p.81).
- Occas. sl. foxed; a few text lvs. w. some brown offsetting from plates.
= Landwehr 141; Bibl. Gastronomica 2206. The Dutch translation by A. Kreunen of Le livre de pâtisserie, Paris, 1878. "Le complément nécessaire du Livre de Cuisine" (Vicaire p.418). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
- Occas. sl. foxed. = Rare. Van Doorninck II, 4354.
- Trifle foxed, otherwise fine. = Very rare.
- Unobtrusive waterstain in lower inner margin.
= Extremely rare, not referable for us: not in the general bibliographies (Brunet, Adams etc.) and not in the specialised bibliographies (Oberlé etc.). On the consumption of two kinds of spiritual wine by the Carthusian Joannes Parceval.
- Trifle foxed; bookblock vol. 2 sl. loosening. Spine-ends and edges of wrappers sl. worn.
= Complete set. Plaquette no. 1. La belle au bois dormant. Text G. MONTORGUEIL. With loosely inserted wine-chart (4p.) with illustration by MARTIN, printed in red and black; Plaquette no. 2. Le mauvais génie. Bound with: R. BENJAMIN, Dialogue moderne en trois temps et trois coctails (Ibid., idem, (16)p. (incl. wrappers), 4to); Plaquette no. 3. France. Published as promotional brochures for the Nicolas Wine Merchants with striking Art Deco illustrations of contemporary life. The first vol. with humorous ills. showing a waiter at work (SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE). Vol. 2 comprises a series of 9 sinister images printed in pink and black based on photographic techniques showing the bad effects of American cocktails on a young couple. The third vol. is a political and chauvinist argument for French wine versus foreign alcohols, with angry depictions of the political regimes of Germany, Russia, Great Britain and the United States. Oberlé, Bibliothèque Bachique 538. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXI.
- Fold. plates sl. foxed.
= "C'est l'ouvrage qui rendit Jullien célèbre" (Oberlé, Fastes 962); cf. Vicaire 471 (note); Bitting 252 (1st ed.).
= Bitting p.261 (note).
- Binding sl. rubbed along extemities.
= Rare first edition of this Soviet cookery book. From the 2nd edition of 1952 (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the first) onwards, it was the standard cookery book present in nearly every household across the Soviet Union, going through numerous reprints.