La Fenice Antiquaria

A comet first observed through a telescope, Galileo's misstep, Gingerich provenance, and splendid constellation illustrations

63 colored plates of South European wild orchids, with the author's own presentation inscription

Northern lights over Venice, explained through Newtonian optics

A Portuguese history of creation, between the Bible and Science

Early ice skating manual, with charming illustrations and Goethe poetry

An ironic take on the European craze for the Chinese tangram, with 12 hand-colored plates

First edition of the first printed French manual of silk design, published against the wishes of the Lyon silk guild

An Italian pop-up carousel Cinderella, designed by a La Scala scenographer

Early Italian translation of a leading French occultist manual, with hypnosis, magic, and vampirism all together

Illustrated horsemanship for women

First edition of the only written treatise by a Versailles écuyer, with nine plates

Horse husbandry by a skilled military, naivë woodcuts and expert plates

The first training method for horse and rider published by a woman, a Paris milliner turned écuyère who trained the Tsar's own horses. Illustrated

A pocket guide to Armour's global pork trade, from the days when Dale Carnegie was one of its salesmen