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Mémoires du Vin

1968réf. 10436Zurich: Edition Caspar E Manz 1968. Second-hand hardcover. Eylaud J-M. Mémoires du Vin: ornés de cinquante-cinq dessins de Raymond Gautier-Constant. Edition Caspar E Manz: Zurich 1968. Folio 240x230mm loose folios 684pp. In French Limited Ed #299/400 SIGNED EYLAUD J.-M. Dr Jean-Max 1896-1979 Mémoires du Vin: ornés de cinquante-cinq dessins de Raymond Gautier-Constant. Hotel et Caves St-Gothard Zurich : Edition Caspar E. Manz October 1968. First edition limited #299 of 400. Engravings by Raymond Gautier-Constant; preface by Raymond Oliver. Printed by J H Waser & Fils Zurich. Folio 240x230mm 18 loose folios cream heavy handmade paper untrimmed edges 4684pp in boards and matching slipcase vellum gilt lettered spine; 55 original in-text monochrome lithographs. Signed to the colophon by the author the artist and the editor. In French Slipcase and boards faintly bowed faintly scuffed; faint small blemish to the title page else fine. Eylaud a native of Bordeaux was a doctor of medicine and sociology who devoted his life to the promotion of Bordeaux wine. Poet novelist essayist dramatist speaker journalist vigneron doctor and intensely involved in fields as varied as sociology medicine oenology local history literature and theatre Eylaud founded the Doctors Friends of Wine and the International Medical Committee for the Scientific Study of Grapes and Wine to defend wine in the light of medicine. A prolific writer Eylaud published a large number of works many on the wines of Bordeaux during his lifetime. He was also a champion of Montesquieu and the founder and president of the Académie Montesquieu in Bordeaux. Gautier-Constant 1907-1978 engraver and illustrator was also a native of Bordeaux from the Gironde and Professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux. Oliver 1909-1990 also a native of Bordeaux was the chef-patron of Le Grand Véfour in Paris one of the greatest traditional restaurants of France holding three Michelin stars from 1953 until his retirement. Delightful and poetical musings anecdotes composing a biography of wine from Parnassus until the 1960s by a devoted lover of the wines of Bordeaux elegantly illustrated. An excellent copy. § OCLC records 8 holdings; § cf Oberlé Fritsch 589 for a paperback edition; Edition Caspar E Manz unknown

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