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Bartenders and cocktail enthusiasts intent on searching out-of-print cocktail books for the bygone mixology secrets therein need to have a lot of money, a lot of luck and quick eBay reflexes. In the near future, however, they may only need Internet access.

Rémy Cointreau, the French liquor conglomerate, has assembled and digitized a collection of roughly 300 historic and rare first-edition books of cocktails, dating from 1862. The entire collection, which includes titles like “Snake Bites or Something” and “When It’s Cocktail Time in Cuba,” will be on display, in both material and digital form, from Sunday to Tuesday at a pop-up event space at 632 Hudson Street called La Maison Cointreau.

“To idea was to go back and give bartenders the knowledge we could find,” said Richard Lambert, a global brand ambassador for Rémy Cointreau USA and a curator of the collection. “It is absolutely amazing when you go through them, the information you can find. There are forewords in these books that talk about the quality of the bartender, about the sense of being an artist.”

The oldest volume in the library is, of course, “The Bon Vivant’s Companion,” the first American cocktail book, written by the 19th-century bartending superstar Jerry Thomas. Some of the titles, like Frank Meier’s “The Artistry of Mixing Drinks,” published in 1936, and George J. Kappeler’s “Modern American Drinks,” from 1895, have been reprinted in recent years by the Manhattan imprint Mud Puddle Books. But most remain out of reach.

Cointreau has more than 20 titles from the 1800s, and 50-plus books from the first two decades of the 20th century. More than 50 volumes hail from the Roaring ’20s. Because the United States was then under Prohibition’s thumb, these were largely published in France (“L’art du Shaker”), Germany (“Handbuch für Mixer”), Argentina (“Guia del Cocktelero”), Spain (“Los Cocktails Más Sabrosos”), England (“Practical Recipes for Aerated Beverages”) and elsewhere. Once Prohibition was repealed, there was an explosion in cocktail-book publishing; books from the 1930s outnumber all other decades. The thirsty needed guidance.

Every page of every volume has been scanned and will be available via an iPad at the Hudson Street town house. The collection can be searched by title or even by cocktail ingredient. After its Manhattan stay, the books will travel to Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles. After the tour, Cointreau will decide upon the best format by which to make the digitized library accessible.

Cocktail enthusiasts can sign up for time slots at La Maison Cointreau here. Mixologists and other members of the bar trade may sign up here.