Collection of 7 works on vines and wine, in 9 volumes. - Lot 143

Collection of 7 works on vines and wine, in 9 volumes. 1. CONGRÈS CENTRAL D'AGRICULTURE. First session. (February 26 to March 4, 1844). Second session. (May 12 to 20, 1845). Compte-rendu et procès-verbaux des séances. Paris, Bureau, 1844-1845. 2 volumes. 13.5 by 22.5 cm. (4)-474-(2); (4)-380 pages. Paperback, in printed covers. Spine of volume 2 very slightly cracked, otherwise excellent condition. Some rare foxing. First two of 8 years published between 1844 and 1851. Periodical Cat. B.N. II-p. 204. pp. 341-370 of the first volume contain the report by E. Dezeimeris' report on wines (session of March 3, 1844), in which the rapporteur stresses the need to repress the adulteration of wines. Volume 2 also deals with wines in 1845 (rapporteur: E. Dezeimeris). 2. MARION (Antoine-Fortuné): Application of carbon sulfide to the treatment of phylloxera vines. Campaign of 1878. Rapport sur les expériences et les applications réalisées et sur les résultats obtenus. Paris, Paul Dupont, 1879. One volume. 21 by 27 cm. 82 pages. Paperback, in printed cover. Very good condition. 3rd report. First edition. Chwartz M: 29. Antoine-Fortuné Marion, from the Faculty of Sciences in Marseille, member of the higher commission on phylloxera, headed the department of the Comité régional d'action contre le phylloxera (regional committee for action against phylloxera) from 1876, set up in Marseille and financed, on the initiative of its general manager Paulin Talabot, by the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (P.L.M.). Over a period of eight years, the committee conducted field experiments to determine the best practical method for destroying phylloxera. It was thanks to the work of Marion and his colleagues that carbon sulfide was able to establish itself as an insecticide, extending the life of many vines by several years. Between 1876 and 1883, six reports were published by the P.L.M. on the work carried out by this department. They give an account of the experiments carried out and the results obtained during the campaigns of 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1881, 1882 and 1883. 3. COURTY (Etienne): Reconstitution des vignobles par les plants américains. Resistance, adaptation, choice of grape varieties, chlorosis, mildew, cultivation, grafting, costs, harvests. Seventh edition, revised and enlarged. Montpellier, Camille Coulet and Paris, G. Masson, 1894. One volume. 12 by 18.5 cm. 200 pages. Paperback, in printed cover. Minor flaws on cover, very good condition inside. 7th edition (E.O.: 1884). 4. RAVAT (J.-F.): La vigne à grand rendement par les nouvelles méthodes de culture et de taille et par les hybrides producteurs directs [et hybrides français à vins fins]. [Third edition]. Besançon, Jacques et Demontrond (tome I) and Marcigny (Saône-et-Loire), Chez l'Auteur (tome II), 1936-1939. 2 volumes. 14 by 22.5 cm. 325-(2) pages, + 16 plates on 8 ff. h.t. and 214 pages + 28 in-text plates. Paperback, in printed cover. Good condition. 3rd edition (E.O.: 1929). J.-F. Ravat, a mining engineer, was one of France's leading producers of hybrid vines. His "greatest success was undoubtedly the Ravat 262 vine, [not described in this book], which gives a light red wine reminiscent of Beaujolais in the United States." (Lichine, Encycl. des vins, p. 613). The first volume contains descriptions of numerous hybrids, with information on their qualities or disadvantages, produced by Seibel, Couderc, Bertille-Seyve, Baco, Malègue and others. The second volume is a plea in favor of hybrids. It includes a description of Ravat 6, the author's best white wine vine (cf. Lichine). Surprisingly, there is also a chapter on dowsing applied to hybridization. 5. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS FOR FRANCE. Appendix to the 1929 survey. Monographie agricole du département de la Gironde. [Bordeaux, Delmas], 1937. One volume. 16 by 24 cm. 564-(1) pages. Paperback, in printed cover. Small flaws on cover (not missing), good condition inside. Illustrations in the text. First edition. Chwartz S: 50. 6. BEL (Jules): Les maladies de la vigne et les meilleurs cépages français et américains. With 111 figures interspersed in the text. Paris, J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1890. One volume. 11 by 17.5 cm. 312 pages. Publisher's full wine-red percaline. A fine copy. Illustrations in the text, including ampelography plates. Pages 307 to 312 contain the J.-B. Baillière et Fils catalog. Another Baillière catalog, 6 pp. long, is printed on green paper and bound at the beginning and end of the book. First edition. Chwartz B: 55. By a botany teacher at the Stanislas boarding school in Saint-Sulpice (Tarn). 7. DEGRULLY (L.) and GASTINE (G.): Essais de t