![[Item #59319] A Practical Treatise on the Culture and Treatment of the Grape Vine: embracing its history with directions for its treatment, in the United States of America, in the open air, and under glass structures, with and without artificial heat. John Fisk ALLEN.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/59319.jpg?auto=webp&v=1663801360)
A Practical Treatise on the Culture and Treatment of the Grape Vine: embracing its history with directions for its treatment, in the United States of America, in the open air, and under glass structures, with and without artificial heat
New York: A.O. Moore, 1859. Third edition, enlarged and revised. Octavo; publisher's grey-green cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow coated endpapers; 330pp + 6pp ads; frontispiece, 2 inserted leaves of plates; text illus. Cloth abraded along upper edge of front board; generally rubbed and dulled externally but still a tight, sound, internally clean copy, complete and Good or better. Substantially expanded (by some hundred pages) from the 1848 first edition.
"A detailed guide to cultivating grapes in enclosed structures...To Allen goes the credit for producing the first named and widely disseminated hybrid between the American Vitis labrusca and the European Vitis vinifera" (GABLER, Wine Into Words G10680).
Price: $125.00
