Wine and wine making - Early works to 1800

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The art and mystery of vintners and wine-coopers : containing one hundred and fifty-eight approv'd receipts for the conserving and curing all sorts of wines, whether Spanish, Greek, Italian, or French, a work useful and necessary for all sorts of people.
Date: 1750
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The vineyard a treatise shewing I. The nature and method of planting, Manuring, Cultivating, and Dressing of Vines in Foreign Parts. II. Proper Directions for Drawing, Pressing, Making, Keeping, Fining, and Curing all Defects in the Wine. III. An Easy and Familiar Method of Planting and Raising Vines in England, to the greatest Perfection; illustrated with several useful Examples. IV. New Experiments in Grafting, Budding, or Inoculating; whereby all Sorts of Fruit may be much more improved than at present; particularly the Peach, Apricot, Nectarine, Plumb, &c. V. The best manner of raising several sorts of compound fruit, which have not yet been attempted in England. Being the observations made by a gentleman in his travels.
S. J.Date: M.DCC.XXXII. [1732]
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Memorial for John Dingwall writer in Edinburgh, in the process at his instance, partly for his own behoof, and partly for behoof of John Baillie writer in the Signet, against Gustavus Munro of Culrain
Dingwall, John, writer in Edinburgh.Date: 1748]
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The general gauger or, the principles and practice of gauging beer, wine, and malt. Containing, I. Decimal Arithmetick, the Extraction of the Square and Cube-Roots, and the Use of them in the Way of Gauging. II. The Necessary Problems in Geometry relating to Gauging and Measuring. III. The Use of the Sliding-Rule in Measuring Timber, and other Surfaces and Solids. IV. The Theory and Practice of Gauging in all the Varieties, perform'd by Pen, and Sliding-Rule. Each Proposition being Wrought in Beer, Wine, and Malt. V. The Construction of the Table of Segments, and all the Varieties of Ullaging of Casles. VI. A Table of Area's in Malt Bushels, &c. To which is added, An Appendix for measuring Boards, Timber, Stone, &c. With Rules and Examples for measuring most sorts of supersicial and solid Figures: Also surveying of Land. The whole laid down more methodically than any Performance of this Nature yet extant. By Mr. John Dougharty, Teacher of the Mathematicks at Worcester.
Dougharty, John, 1677-1755.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]
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The fortune hunters shewing, (from experience) 1. How people may improve their fortunes, and raise themselves in London, by different and quite opposite Ways. II. How Servants, of various Denominations, may obtain the Favour of their Masters and Mistresses, the Love of their Fellow Servants, the Esteem of all People, and gain Preferment. III. Many useful Instructions and Receipts for a great Variety of Businesses; as Brewing, Gardening, Making Wines, Dressing a Turtle, and Victuals of all Sorts, &c. &c. IV. The most distinguishing Characteristics of the several Sects and Professions of Religion in this great City; with some Queries proposed to the Atheistical Clubs. V. How pernicious some epidemic vices practised in London are to the welfare of society; with Proposals for the Suppression thereof. Being a Guide to such as are Strangers to the Ways and Customs of London. By John Breues, Late of Perth, Merchant, &c.
Breues, JohnDate: [1754]