Description
Roy 8vo, II, 336pp. Hardcover in royal blue cloth with gilt titles on spine only in excellent condition with only slight shelf wear on edges and pictorial d/w with colour photo of grapevine and bold white titles in fine condition protected by clear archival covering, internal text is in pristine condition devoid of any internal markings with the book barely coverbroken. best classified as a specialist wine book rather than a geologic scientific work its value is really found in part II with all the areas of France described in detail explaining how wines vary so much when they may be from vines only ten metres apart. A highly detailed and complex work that is fascinating for all serious oenophiles.