New York: c. 1901. Cards. 12 x 7.25 cm. 8 Barclay Street was one of New York Cities most notorious gambling locations from the mid 1860s until 1902 - these activities probably went on upstairs. A "wineroom" or most likely a saloon was run by Leo Herzog in this space..... More

London: SANDEMAN, 1972. Third revised edition. Hardcover. 61 pages. 22 x 17 cm. Signed on half title page by David Sandeman. A full history of Sandeman Sherry, Capa Negra Brandy and Port. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Interior and boards crisp and clean, dust wrapper lightly rubbed at..... More

New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. 125 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Societies' drinking customs and habits reflect their fabrics, tensions, and dynamics. Using historiacal methods, observational techniques, and international statistics, this book separates myth from reality and discusses modern trends. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. More

New York: THE CENTURY CO., 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 360 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Presentation copy: "To my dear friend Elsie Hill: with the hope that she may find a new dish, Mary Louise Barroll." on half title page. This early international culinary guide offered traditional recipes from Europe..... More

New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1985. Hardcover. 299 pages. 28 x 17 cm. A comprehensive wine guide including: an introduction to each region, how wine is classified, and the hard facts about quality - price ratio of each wine. Illustrated throughout. Interior, boards and dust wrapper clean and crisp. Covered..... More

Crosswicks, NJ: Edgar Brick & Sons, c. 1920's. Loose_leaf. 17 x 51 cm. A rare Prohibition relic, Mince Meat with "PROOF ALCOHOL BY VOLUME 14 PER CENT" stating: FEDERAL PROHIBITION PERMIT N.J. H-926. Almost as soon as prohibition came into force in 1920, people began lobbying for popular culinary items..... More

Gloucestershire: Constable - In association with Christie's Wine Publication, 1983. Hardcover. 160 pages. 22 x 25 cm. In 1875, two English brothers - Walter and Alfred Gilbey - Bought from an ancient French noble family the château, vineyard and estate of Loudenne, in the heart of the Médoc. They were..... More

[Augsburg, Heinrich Streiner, 1533?]. Hardcover. 38 leaves, (6 pp. manuscript). With large and unusually detailed woodcut (10 x 12 cm.) on title-page revealing an extravagant banquet and a man vomiting, by H. Weiditz, with decorated woodcut initials. Set in schwabacher types with incidental fraktur. A treatise on the excesses of..... More

New York: M. Barrows & Company, Inc., 1944. Fourth printing. Hardcover. 128 pages. There is nothing better than a well-used cookbook or cocktail book. This edition of Gaige's classic cocktail book has not only been used but our previous owner has laid in four handwritten cocktail recipes (also used), as..... More

London: Sotheby Publications, 1984. Hardcover. 208 pages. 25 x 18 cm. The author, Rosemary George, traces the history of the vineyards of Chablis (which goes back to Roman times), the legal steps takes to protect the quality of the wines grown to them, and describes both the traditional and the..... More

Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985. Hardcover. 255 pages. 27 x 19 cm. In this scholarly and poetic volume, the author introduces the reader to the romance of the Southern Hemisphere's viticulture and viniculture. It is a fabulous saga, a history of pioneering, of desperate failure, and of glorious..... More

Port Melbourne: Lothian Publishing Co., 1985. Hardcover. The fascinating story of Chateau Tahbilk - how this Victorian vineyard came to be set down in one exact spot on the banks of the Goulburn River in 1860, how it grew, and why it looks as it does today with its mile-long..... More

New York: THE JOHN DAY COMPANY, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. 63 pages. 12.5 x 8 cm. Norman Hume Anthony, known by the pen name Judge, Jr. was a noted cartoonist and editor of Judge Magazine, later Life Magazine. In defiance of the dry laws, his first book, HERE'S HOW, was..... More