An archaeological masterpiece: 65 chromolithographs preserving Pompeii's vanished frescoes.

Pyrotechnics: from military craft to a disciplined science of spectacle.

Second enlarged edition of a pioneering English treatise on cider production and fruit-wines, with engravings of ingenious machines and bees as essential partners in the orchard.

The foundation of modern mechanical engineering.

Exceptional 51-piece early 900 Italian botanical herbarium with original Latin labels.

Forty-five plates to document one of the first museums and libraries, still shimmering with Baroque wunderkammer flair.

Over a hundred Roman war machines (including incredible diving bells) charming readers for centuries.

Tobacco as a miracle herb, with images of Native American traditional knowledge, Persian pipes recorded in a Western book for the first time, and botanical beauties.

Renaissance guide to memory with vivid woodcuts and the first image of a street bookshop.

A gentleman’s guide to wine: sharp, witty, and unexpectedly scientific.

Early Vesuvian ampelography, 112 grape types, volcanic terroir, many now vanished.

Gasparrini names the vine plague haunting Southern Italy’s vineyards.

Tuscany’s Wine Sage Sent North: Fabbroni’s Fix for Lombardy.

Rare 1754 treatise, Maffei’s reasoned reply to witchcraft panic.

A nineteenth-century laboratory where chocolate, wine, and spirits learn to behave scientifically.

The First Whisper of Sangiovese: Soderini’s Ode to Tuscan Vines.

A witty symposium of wine, gossip, and erudition. Redi’s Ode to Tuscan Wine and Its Merry Chorus.

Vineyards of Riesling and Orleans, Romantic Rhine, mapped for the enlightened traveler.

A luminous blend of Norwegian folklore and jewel-like, sinuous Art Nouveau plates.

Pruning beyond seasonal superstition, in blue paper.

Science in the vineyard: rare 1802 first Italian edition of Enlightenment (natural) winemaking.

Misquoted into Obscurity: Firenzuola, history of the first mention of Sangiovese.

A sparkling fusion of chemistry and theatre in a rare fireworks manual.