Beautiful collection of 4 bound books on wine: - Lot 142

Beautiful collection of 4 bound books on wine: 1. LÉCHALET (Jacques): La cave bourgeoise. Paris, Librairie des Annales Politiques et Littéraires, s.d. [ca 1909]. One volume. 13 by 20 cm. 224 pages. Publisher's full illustrated almond cloth. Cover slightly soiled. Light spotting on first 3 quires. In-text illustrations. First edition. Collection Familia. Simon is missing; no copy in the Fritsch collection. In his preface, the author presents this work as the first practical manual on the domestic wine cellar. He insists that merchants will not find any recipes for sophistication, but consumers will find sure ways to spot them. Extract from the table: Buying wine; installing wine; wine in pieces; bottling wine; wine diseases and easy ways to recognize them; wine measures; management and beverages; cider in the cellar; cider diseases; beer. The second part deals with economic drinks (from grapes, dried apples, mead, fruit wines, coffee drinks, licorice, lemonades, etc.). 2. ROOS (L.): Diffusion applied to grape marc. Depletion of marc without a press. With 43 figures in text. Montpellier, Coulet et Fils, and Paris, Masson et Cie, 1905. One volume. 12.5 by 19.5 cm. 157-(3) pages + 6 ff. n.ch. of advertisements bound between the last two ff. and printed on gray-blue paper. Modern bradel boards, cover boards cons. A fine copy. First edition. Chwartz R: 64. Roos is the inventor (1896) and main propagandist of this winemaking process. Diffusion wine "is the product obtained by extracting the wine retained in the grape marc, by means of diffusion. Pressurized water displaces the wine from the pomace, which is placed in diffusion batteries. The law of 1933 prohibited the holding of such wine for consumption; it could only be distilled." (Déage and Magnet, Le vin et le droit, p. 60). Since 1950, its manufacture has been prohibited. 3. Opinions on Champagne wine addressed to Mr. Armand Bourgeois by various literary and artistic personalities. Preface by Armand Bourgeois. Chalons-sur-Marne, Martin Frères, 1894,One volume. 17 by 22.5 cm. 48 pages. Modern bradel boards, cover boards preserved. Very good condition. Very fine handwritten ex-dono by Armand Bourgeois in the upper margin of the title page. First edition. Chwartz B: 138. 4. MACHARD (Henri): Traité pratique sur les vins. Fifth edition of the Traité de vinification, revised and considerably enlarged. Crowned from the outset by the Société d'agriculture du Doubs, and awarded a first-class medal at the Besançon Universal Exhibition in 1860. Besançon, J. Bonvalot, 1874. One volume. 10.5 by 17.5 cm. VIII-424 pages. Contemporary modest red half-basane. Copy with pencil marks in margins, and some foxing. 5th edition (E.O.: 1845). Chwartz M: 1. Important treatise containing one of the first ampelographic notes on savagnin, a grape variety used in the vinification of certain white wines from Arbois and which "is the essential grape variety for the production of vin jaune du Jura, especially Château-Châlon". (Dominique Denis). A chapter is devoted to vin de paille.