AN EVENING WITH BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND THOMAS JEFFERSON: DINNER, WINE, AND CONVERSATION
BY JAMES M. GABLER, U.S. $29.95 ISBN 0-9613525-6-6
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In An Evening with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the reader, through a dream sequence, is transported back in time to 18th century Paris. In the comfort of Jefferson's residence on the Champs-Elysées, Franklin and Jefferson tell in their own words the most interesting stories of their lives. There are nearly nine hundred citations of authority to support all of Franklin and Jefferson's comments.
They talk about their early years, their embarrassments, disappointments, intrigues, travels, social activities in London and Paris, the women in their lives, the libel and slander they suffered at the hands of their political enemies, slavery, religion, their opinions of and associations with George Washington, John Adams, John Paul Jones, Marquis de Lafayette, the charismatic Edward Bancroft, a British spy who was Franklin's secretary and friend, and much more.
WINE INTO WORDS: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WINE BOOKS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (Second Edition)
BY JAMES M. GABLER, U.S. $75.00 ISBN 0-9613525-5-8
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The second edition of Wine Into Words contains nearly 8,000 bibliographical entries, thousands of historical annotations covering everything wine has touched: art, literature, music, history, food, winemaking, grape growing, poetry, politics, economics, war, and hundreds of biographical sketches of the men and women who pioneered the development of wine and reported its history.
In addition to the author index, the second edition of Wine Into Words contains an alphabetically arranged short-title index of all the titles, and a subject index (new to this edition), that allows for easy access to its store of information.
PASSIONS: THE WINES AND TRAVELS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON
BY JAMES M. GABLER, U.S. $29.95 ISBN 0-9613525-3-1
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Passions was the winner of the Veuve Cliquot "Wine Book of the Year" competition in 1995. Through a combination of original research, imaginative writing and beautiful illustrations, Jim Gabler has captured an intimate portrait of Thomas Jefferson at leisure, enjoying two of his passions: wine and travel. Jefferson was the most knowledgeable wine connoisseur of his age, and his favorite wines continue to be favorites of wine lovers today. He also loved to travel "to see what I have not yet seen."
Passions takes the reader with Jefferson to the vineyards of Burgundy, Cote Rotie, Hermitage, Bordeaux, Champagne, through Provence, over the Alps into Italy, along the French and Italian Rivieras, through Languedoc on the Canal-du-Midi, down the Rhine with tastings at famous German vineyards. Readers will eavesdrop on dinner conversations at Jefferson's Paris residence, at the White House and Monticello where the finest wines were served; accompany Jefferson and John Adams into the English countryside; and bear witness through Jefferson's eyes to the telltale signs of the French Revolution.
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REPRODUCTIONS
Bacchus Press has less than 50 copies each of exact reproductions of five classic wine books printed on acid free paper and beautifully bound in bonded leather:
- A HISTORY OF ANCIENT AND MODERN WINES, By Alexander Henderson, 1824, U.S. $75.00
- A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF MODERN WINES, By Cyrus Redding, 1833, U.S. $50.00
- WINE, THE VINE AND THE CELLAR, By Thomas G. Shaw, 1864, U.S. $60.00
- FACTS ABOUT PORT AND MADERIA, By Henry Vizetelly, 1880, U.S. $45.00
- FACTS ABOUT SHERRY, By Henry Vizetelly, 1872, U.S. $35.00
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