ANDRÉ JULLIEN (1766-1832) TOPOGRAPHIE DE TOUS LES VIGNOBLES CONNUS. [TOPOGRAPHY OF ALL KNOWN VINEYARDS] EDITION c. 1816. 1 VOLUME. IN FRENCH.

Printed by Madame Huzard (née Vallat La Chapelle) In-8, xxxij-566 pp. (title page missing), bound, plain spine, burgundy title label. Copy bearing the author’s signature. Certification: ‘All copies of this edition, placed under the protection of the Law, bear the author’s signature’. 21.5 x 14.2 x 5 cm André Jullien, a wine merchant in Paris, oenologist and French writer, devoted his entire life to the improvement of wines. This encyclopaedic and cartographic treatise on the world’s vineyards, accompanied by a classification of wines, marked the beginning of a scientific approach to oenology. The final page of the volume contains a description of the ‘cannelles-aérifères’ and other instruments of his own invention for the decanting and filtration of liquids, with their prices.