Products
Armour and Company
Pork Cuts
1910
A pocket guide to Armour's global pork trade, from the days when Dale Carnegie was one of its salesmen
Clerc, M.
Principes sur la culture de la vigne en cordons
1825
One hand-colored illustration for a snapshot into the vineyard of the future: cordons, trellises and pruning
Caruso, Girolamo
Questioni Urgenti Di Viticoltura
1871
Caruso backs terroir, touts Etna, and weighs in (unwillingly) on Chianti Classico vs. Rufina.
Markham, Ernest
Raspberries
1936
First Edition
A photo-art book disguised as a fruit manual.
Vermorel, Victor
Revue trimestrielle de la Station Viticole de Villefranche (Rhône)
1890
Privately funded French vine science, with chromolithograph and folding field plans.
Various Authors
Rheinlands Weine
1928
Weimar wine culture: Mosel, Saar, and Ruwer in words and images.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Rhetoricorum Ad Herennium
1576
Rhetoric Bound in Echoes: A Venetian Cicero in Recycled Parchment.
Rondelet 1554 Sea Fishes Swim Trunks
Verri, Carlo
Saggi di agricoltura pratica sulla coltivazione dei gelsi e delle viti
1840
Sixth Edition
Verri's definitive 6th edition on mulberry and vine cultivation, a pillar of Italian agricultural science.
Biffi Tolomei, Matteo
Saggio d'agricoltura pratica toscana
1804
Supporting closed vats more than sixty years before Pasteur, with handwritten estate records and Ricasoli Firidolfi provenance
Lipsius, Justus
Saturnalium Sermonum libri duo, qui de Gladiatoribus
1604
Second Edition
Two treatises by Lipsius on gladiatorial spectacles and amphitheatres, freshly illustrated.
Praun, Sigmund von
Schmetterlinge u. Raupen. Abbildung und Beschreibung europäischer Schmetterlinge.
1859
Over 2,300 lavishly hand-colored butterflies and moths
McAllister, Ward
Society as I have found it
Limited De Luxe edition, signed by the author, a.k.a. the gatekeeper of the Gilded Age
Vermorel, Jean
Souvenirs, contes et nouvelles
1942
Vermorel's memories and tales on Lyon and Beaujolais.
Bezzelius, Erhardus Christophorus
Spicilegium de Butigulariis Norimbergensibus
1782
An antiquarian pamphlet on the office of the wine keepers in medieval Nuremberg.
Specchi, Alessandro; De Rossi, Domenico
Studio d’architettura civile sopra gli Ornamenti di Porte e Finestre tratti da alcune Fabbriche insigni di Roma (...)
1716
Fifty-three plates of the finest Late Renaissance and Baroque Roman architecture on the go, for Italian and German artists.
Rovasenda, Giuseppe
Sulla Filossera.
1879
First Italian lectures on phylloxera, with rare technical insights on remedies.
Bocchi, Achille
Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere
1574
The best of Renaissance thinking in 151 emblems, with Parmigianino and Agostino Carracci’s marks on the plates.
Chorlton, William
The American'S Grape Grower Guide
1852
America’s uncanny 1850s guide to indoor grape dreams and steamy glasshouses.
Tschirky, Oscar
The cook book by "Oscar" of the Waldorf.
1896
The Gilded Age timeless guide to elegant dining and flawless service
Husmann, George
The cultivation of the native grape and manufacture of American wines
1866
Foundational American viticulture manual: native grapes, vineyard craft, winemaking.
Buchanan, Robert
The Culture Of The Grape And Wine Making
1855
Catawba’s Spark: Buchanan’s Manual from Cincinnati’s Champagne Moment.
Fuller, Andrew S.
The Grape Culturist
America’s 19th-c. grape revolution, illustrated with 100+ images.
Girtin Forbes, John
The Mourning After
1947
A Hangover Handbook with a Wink: Postwar Remedies for the Morning After.
All Books
Wine & Viticulture
Illustrated Wonders & Varia
Science & Natural History
Catalogo Generale Descrittivo
Cenerentola
Cento favole morali
Collection of material samples of manual crafts