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.

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

An illustrated encyclopedic dictionary devoted to railway and steam technology

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.