VIALA (P.) & VERMOREL (Victor) Lot n° 289 Bis

VIALA (P.) & VERMOREL (Victor) - Ampélographie - Traité de viticulture - Peintures de A. Kreyder et J. Troncy - Paris, Masson et Cie, 1910, 01 02 03 04 05 - Ft in 4°, burgundy percale, smooth spine (defects to binding dt fragile inner jaws, binding on ribbon sometimes fragile, foxing, lacking serpente, small bites) T1 plates in black (pl 28 bound head to foot, T2 with 6 plates HT in colour (T2 snags on about 20 pages and 8 chromolithographs, the Black Alicante plate is detached with fringes in the margins, T5 p238 plate glued in one place on the right, T6 Concord plate p178 is mounted upside down, p106 black trace to the plate, p 168 small angular lack to the plate) T7 no plates. First edition of this monumental work. Illustration including 570 lithographs HT, dt 500 in colors and 820 engravings in the text. Meticulous description of the most important grape varieties of vineyards in France and abroad as well as notes on small, almost confidential vines