The Wine and Brandy dealer's Complete Guide and Stock Book Containing a New and Complete Treatise on Ullaging Made Perfectly Easy in all its Branches; With Short Rules, Illustrated by Various Examples, Worked at Length by Pen and Rule, with an Imperial Diagonal line From Half a Gallon to Three Hundred Gallons; and Rules, with Examples, containing all possible Cases for Charging the Spirit Duties by the Saccharometer; for Buying and Selling Spirits by their Strength; for Ascertaining the Strength, Temperature, and indication of Spirit; Raising, Reducing, and Compounding Spirits, Wine, and Medicine, from any given to any required Strength, by Pen, Rule, and by Inspection, by Extensive New Tables; Also for Compounding Grocery, Ores, & by the P

Published by Whittaker and Co., London, 1835

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A fascinating scarce guide on the wine and brandy trade. A scarce volume institutionally held in five libraries only. A guide for wine and brandy dealers with a complete stock book and notes on ullaging, compounding groceries and ores, rules and examples of hydrostatics and much more content. In full diced calf binding. Externally sound with shelfwear and edge wear. Slight rubbing to front and rear joints and spine as well as extremities. Slight loss to head of spine. Small bookseller sticker to front pastedown. internally, firmly bound. Minor offsetting to title page, otherwise pages are bright and clean. With one folding plate to frontispiece. Good Only.

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The Wine and Brandy dealer's Complete Guide and Stock Book Containing a New and Complete Treatise on Ullaging Made Perfectly Easy in all its Branches; With Short Rules, Illustrated by Various Examples, Worked at Length by Pen and Rule, with an Imperial Diagonal line From Half a Gallon to Three Hundred Gallons; and Rules, with Examples, containing all possible Cases for Charging the Spirit Duties by the Saccharometer; for Buying and Selling Spirits by their Strength; for Ascertaining the Strength, Temperature, and indication of Spirit; Raising, Reducing, and Compounding Spirits, Wine, and Medicine, from any given to any required Strength, by Pen, Rule, and by Inspection, by Extensive New Tables; Also for Compounding Grocery, Ores, & by the P
Author
Samuel Roose
Publisher
Whittaker and Co., London
Publication year
1835
Condition
Good Only
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book
Binding
Leather
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None
Item weight
0.5 kilograms
Dimensions
8.5" by 5.5"
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