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1861 · réf. 9644 — Paris: Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique 1861. Second-hand hardcover. Guyot Jules. Culture de la Vigne et Vinification. 2nd Ed Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique: Paris 1864. 8vo 175x110mm 3/4 bnd navy blue calf over pebbled blue calf gilt lettered 4viii4182pp. In French ex-libris GUYOT Jules. 1807-1872 Culture de la Vigne et Vinification. Paris : Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique 1861. Second Edition first published 1860. Printed by Typografie Firmin-Didot Mesnil. In French. Duodecimo 175x110mm half bound black calf over black pebbled morocco boards gilt lettered and ruled smooth spine all edges speckled red 4viii4182pp : iⶠ1¹² 2ⶠ-etc. Forty six in-text wood block engravings many of vine pruning and caning techniques sixteen repeated in both parts one and two. Board corners lightly worn joints and front hinge cracked but firm; a little tight-backed; book binders ticket "D Hicks & Co Binders S.F." to front paste-down; ex-libris stamps "California Academy of Sciences Library" "Withdrawn" "Dec 2 1931 G P Rixford Bequest 27336" to title page and page i; endpapers lightly age-toned; occasional faint foxing; ¶ Culture de la Vigne et Vinification is one of the foundational text books of wine production. Guyot was a French physician and agronomist dedicated to making improvements in the cultivation and preparation of grapevines for the production of quality wines. He popularised and codified traditional vine cane pruning techniques developing the "Guyot system" of cane-pruning of vines for trellises single or double a system extensively and enthusiastically used around the world today. Culture de la Vigne also gives instruction on improving yields soil management improving vine health and improving wine production and storage. Guyot's work led to significant improvement in wine quality and production in France in the mid-nineteenth century. The California Academy of Sciences founded in 1853 is a significant research institute and museum of natural history in San Francisco. Guilian Pickering Rixford 1838-1930 was a pioneering figure in early Californian agriculture introducing the pistachio and the Smyrna fig. He served the Academy for many years including as Director of the Museum and was librarian for the Academy when he died in 1930 at the age of 92. An excellent copy of one of the landmark works on viticulture vine trellising and pruning. § OCLC records only two holdings in Australasia SLV and SLSA. § Simon BV 21; Oberlé Fritsch 166; Noling p184 later editions; not in Vicaire Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique unknown