1857 The Bordeaux wine and liquor dealers' guide

PREFACE

TO THE FIRST A..MEBIO.A.N' EDITION'.

IT is proper to offer a few prefatory remarks in regard to the nature and design of any work to which the author would direct attention, showing the object he had in view in presenting to the public his ideas as contained therein. This work is the result of many years' experience of a practical distiller, manufacturer, and chemist in Bordeaux and New York. Its design is not only to present a concise and practical treatise on the subject on which it treats, but also to ilnl1rona atnd p<>ir a<>nna any '11UJi,erial, not f(fUITl,(f, by chemical, anaU!Jaia t,o emiat in the ori,girwl, tpiri,t we aeek t,o

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