Products
Racinet, Auguste
L'Ornement Polychrome
1869
First Edition
100 chromolithographic plates shimmering in gold and silver.
Mendola, Antonio
La chiarificazione del vino ed il filtro olandese Carpenè.
1885
An Italian pamphlet on wine filtration that doubles as hardware catalogue
De Saporta, Antoine
La chimie des vins. Les vins naturels, les vins manipules et falsifies par Antoine De Saporta Avec figures intercalees dans le texte
1889
Before natural wine became a myth, chemistry was already defending it.
Rompini, Omero
La Cucina Dell'Amore
1926
Erotic satire meets truffled tabarin, straight from 1920s Sicily.
Armailhacq, Albert D'
La culture des vignes, la vinification et les vins dans le Médoc
1855
Third Edition
A Medoc shadow-classification printed in the year of the 1855 ranking.
Anonymous
La grande danse macabre
1728
Fully illustrated Bibliothèque bleue edition (with noble provenance) of one of the most famous books of the late Middle Ages.
Cavazza, Domizio
La Lotta Contro La Peronospora Nel 1891
1891
Cavazza, pioneer of Bordeaux mix in Italy, updates vineyard owners preventing mildew disaster.
La Lotta Contro La Tignola Dell'Uva
Vineyard pests, featuring a flamethrower and early integrated pest management.
Papus (Gérard Encausse)
La Magia e l'Ipnosi
1930
Early Italian translation of a leading French occultist manual, with hypnosis, magic, and vampirism all together
De Jorio, Andrea
La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano
1832
First ethnographic study of Neapolitan street gestures, as a key to ancient art
Millardet, Alexis
La Question Des Vignes Americaines
1877
Millardet's (Signed) Manifesto: The Turning Point in the Phylloxera War
Cantoni, Gaetano
La solforazione delle viti
1860
Cantoni’s vine cure: sulfur, science, and social education in crisis response.
Pollacci, Egidio
La teoria e la pratica della enologia
1872
Second Edition
Plain explanations of Pasteurian chemistry in Italian cellar, illustrated
Bonnaud, Paul
La Vigne en fleur
1928
Verse play from Beaujolais, printed as a charming ode to regional wine culture.
Manzi, Luigi
La viticoltura e l'enologia presso i romani.
1883
Roman wine science, rebuilt for Conegliano with presses, vessels, and ancient rites
Du Molinet, Claude
Le Cabinet de la Bibliotheque de Sainte Genevieve
1692
Forty-five plates to document one of the first museums and libraries, still shimmering with Baroque wunderkammer flair.
Joubert de l'Hiberderie, Antoine-Nicolas
Le Dessinateur, pour les fabriques d'etoffes d'or, d'argent et de soie
1765
First edition of the first printed French manual of silk design, published against the wishes of the Lyon silk guild
Foillard, Léon; David, Tony
Le Pays et le Vin Beaujolais
1929
Mapped and Illustrated Beaujolais: terroir, memory, and wine in a literary homage.
Dubet, J.
Le Petit Vigneron
1910
From Roman heat to mustimeter math: a practical vigneron's manual in transition.
Ferrero, Luigi Ottavio
Le Ricerche Geologiche e le Esplorazioni Sotterranee dei mezzi fertilizzanti
1892
Pioneering geological study of fertilizing substrates: early terroir science from the South of Italy.
Myard, François
Le vigneronnage en Beaujolais
1907
A unique sharecropping system, a later note by the author and crisis-year relevance.
Foillard, Léon
Le Vin de nos Vignes
1950
Mid-century Beaujolais memory literature.
Presuhn, Émile
Les décorations murales de Pompéi; with Choix des plus belles et intéressantes peintures de Pompéi
1878
An archaeological masterpiece: 65 chromolithographs preserving Pompeii's vanished frescoes.
Ferbos, René
Les origines du cru de Haut-Brion-La Mission
1924
The claim to the Haut-Brion name traced back to 1682, with period newspaper clippings laid in. Inscribed by the author.
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