Rossi, Giuseppe de.

[COOKERY & VITICULTURE]. Sammelband of Three First Editions.

Presso Ranieri Prosperi, Pisa:, 1829-1831. Item #1236

I: Memoria diretta a variare sistema sulla fattura dei vini. Pisa: Presso Ranieri Prosperi, 1831. 96 pp. bound with:

II: Rossi, Giuseppe de. Modo di fare I vini all’uso di Francia, col method di. M. Salmon. Pisa: Presso Ranieri Prosperi, 1829. 96 pp. Illustrated with one folding plate. with:

III: Rossi, Giuseppe de. Modo di coltivare la vigna al’uso di Francia. Presso Ranieri Prosperi, 1830. 96 pp. Illustrated with one folding plate of vines grafts.

Three volumes in one. 12mo. Bound in contemporary green leather backed marbled papers boards, vellum tips; some minor wear to the heal of the spine, marbled paper wrappers a bit rubbed; sound and not unattractive copy.

First editions of Rossi’s three manuals for making wine, a veritable complete guide for the cultivation of vines in the French manor and making stable, long aging wines. Written partially as a critique of the poorly crafted vinos of Tuscany, Rossi challenges local wine makers to take the best practices from the French and apply them to Tuscan terroir. In his Memoria Rossi provides comparative methods for caring for vines, grafting varieties, and maintaining the soil used by winemakers in Burgundy, Alicante, Málaga, Tokji and others. His study of French or Burgundian winemaking begins with scathing critic of the methods used by Tuscan makers and expands into a tutorial on French style of making subtle claret that would compliments the cuisine of Tuscany. Giuseppe de Rossi was the author of numerous books on wine making, and in addition to his manuals, wrote on the impact of climate and place on wine cultivation.

OCLC cites copies of the Memoria at Fresno State in the USA. For II, OCLC cites copies at Fresno State and Princeton in the US and for III, OCLC cites copies at Fresno State, Harvard, Princeton and UC Davis.

Niccoli, Saggio Storico e Bibliografico dell’Agricultura Italiana, pp. 486, 494, 521. Paleari Henssler, Bibliografia Latino-Italiana di Gastronomia, listing 8 titles between 1816 and 1834. Westbury, Handlist of Italian Cookery Books, p. 193-94.

Price: $2,750.00