Dürer's foundational treatise on human proportion, first Italian edition with over 100 woodcuts.

The first English pigeon book: breeding, breeds, frauds, and 13 plates.

A spectacular stage of 17th-century machines, where art and invention steal the show.

Magnificent plates for the definitive 18th century guide to French court embroidery.

The first learned manual to decipher body language and eloquent silence

The first and most important English-language treatises to teach electricity, with 3 plates

An illustrated encyclopedic dictionary devoted to railway and steam technology

Diet and the passions of the soul as both cause and cure of illness, in one of the earliest treatises to bind kitchen and medicine into a single discipline

Pocket vernacular guide to health: early modern regimen, c.1600

Practical Arabic manual for 17th century working missionaries

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.

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

The foundation of modern mechanical engineering.

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

The pyrotechnics scientific manual that first combined the military and theatrical study of gunpowder and fireworks.

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

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

Early 20th-century Italian botanical herbarium with 12 specimens

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