Dissertation sur la Situation de la Bourgogne, sur les vins quelle produit, sur la manier de cultiver les vignes, de faire le vin ..

[Luzarches, France]; London: [Imprimeries r*eunies de Senlis pour Daniel Morcrette]; Samuel Jallasson, 1978. FACSIMILE. Small octavo (17.5 x 11 cm.), 55 pages. One folding map. Text in French. FIRST EDITION THUS, no. 75 of 150 copies initialed by the publisher. A facsimile of the extremely rare original, published London 1728 by Samuel Jallasson (only six copies of the original are recorded by OCLC). Considered the earliest known work on the wines of Burgundy. The book discusses Burgundy and its wines, its climates, the manner of managing the vines, of vinifying the grapes, testing and marketing wines, and offers a plea for the export of bottled wine to be authorized. One of the series of handsome facsimiles of culinary works made by the important collector Daniel Morcrette of Limoges. In full reddish brown calf-skin, gilt-titled and -decorated. With the bookplate of the Carl Sontheimer Foundation. Scarce. [OCLC locates six copies of this facsimile (five in the US) and six copies of the 1728 original; Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 06590.1; Oberlé 279 (for this facsimile and citing the rarity of the original)].