Il Vino. Undici conferenze fatte nell’inverno dell’anno 1880

8vo.  200 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 ¼ ibches].  [8], 502 pp.  Illustrated with three lithographic plates and numerous diagrams in the text.  Bound in half red morocco with leather tips, marbled paper boards, raised bands with title in gilt in the second panel.  Original front and back wrappers bound-in.  Signature of Celestino Terai on front wrapper.  Very good copy with large margins. 

First edition of this report on wine making containing twelve writers, all enologists, writing on different aspects of wine cultivation and production.  The authors include such renowned viticulturalists as Edmondo de Amicis, Michele Lessona, Angelo Mosso, Giuseppe Giacosa e Cesare Lombroso, and also Arturo Graf, Alfonso Cossa, Corrado Corradino, S. Cognetti De Martiis, Giovanni Arcangeli, and Giulio Bizzezero.  Some of the subjects reported on include essays on the chemical make-up of wine, diseases that damage grape crops, commerce of wine growers, the biological composition of grapes, wine and health, historical legends on wine, the poetry of wine, and the psychological effects of drinking wine.

Maria Paleari Henssler.  Bibliografia Latino-Italiana di Gastronomia, I, pp.758, II. pp. 387, 506.  For citations for individual authors see Vittorio Niccoli, Saggio Storico e Bibliografico dell’Agricultura Italaina dalle Origini al 1900, pp. 478-529.