Journal of a Recent Visit to the Principal vineyards of Spain and France:

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giving a minute account of the different methods pursued in the cultivation of the vine and manufacture of wine with a catalogue of the different varieties of grape; an attempt to calculate the profits of cultivating the vine; an estimate of the profits of Malaga fruits; together with observations relative to the introduction of the vine into New South Wales. Philadelphia: Jacob Snider Jr. 1838. 8vo. Contemporary cover with marbled papers. Fresh endpapers. (xi 178pp.). With sympathetic facs. title-page appendix and index. Fine condition. NOTE: A sought-after 1838 reprint of the N.S.W. 1834 edition from the father of the Australian wine-industry James Busby's journal to Spain and France.