Father of California Wine, Agoston Haraszthy

Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press, 1979. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo quarter bound in maroon cloth with tan boards; dust jacket; 126 pp: 3 unnumbered leaves of plates; 24 cm Near Fine(+) in Good(+) dust jacket; gIft inscription in red ink to half title page, else pages clean and binding tight; dust jacket shows closed tear to front with mild wrinkling, open tear to back edge of jacket. Jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780884960928

Photocopy of an article from the 'Daily Alta California' Volume 21, Number 7099, August 1869 laid in with a complete multi-page transcrtiption of same. Unique copy thus. Book itself includes reprint of the 1862 edition of author's Grape Culture, Wines, and WineMaking, published by Harper, New York; purportedly the first book on California viticulture. | Biographies, California, Europe, Haraszthy, Agostin, 1812-1869, Haraszthy, Agoston, 1812-1869, Négociants en vins Californie Biographies, Vintners, Vintners California Biography, Viticulteurs Californie Biographies, Viticulture, Viticulture California, Viticulture Californie, Viticulture Europe, Viticulturists, Viticulturists California Biography, Wine and wine making, Wine and wine making California, Wine and wine making. Hungarian emigres.