American Vines (Resistant Stock): Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation.
Rare First Edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz's American Vines
American Vines (Resistant Stock): Their Adaptation, Culture, Grafting and Propagation.
VIALA, Pierre and Louis Ravaz; Raymond Dubois and Edmund Twight.
$975.00
Item Number: 147239
San Francisco: Press of Freygand-Leary Co, 1903.
Rare first American edition of Pierre Viala and Louis Ravaz’s of ‘Les Vignes Americaines,’ translated in its entirety from the original French by Raymond Dubois and Edmund H. Twight. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, botanical endpapers, illustrated with diagrams. In near fine condition, Santa Cruz Department of Agriculture stamps to the front pastedown.
Also referred to as the 'California Edition' in the book's introduction, Dubois and Twight's translation of 'Les Vignes Americaines' allowed for the dissemination of vital agricultural information to English-speaking readers. The book establishes the threat of phylloxera, small yellow insects that decimated American vines in the Napa, Sonoma, Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, and provides advice on the removal and extermination of the pests.
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