Renaissance survey of the world’s islands, richly engraved from Europe to Asia and the Americas.

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

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

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

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

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

Privately funded French vine science, with chromolithograph and folding field plans.

A Medoc shadow-classification printed in the year of the 1855 ranking.

Two Champagne books, and a whole industry in transition.

Early scientific pamphlet on wine diseases.

Foundational American viticulture manual: native grapes, vineyard craft, winemaking.

Victorian wine data across the world.

Rare first edition documenting Rhône and Beaujolais crus with 30 photographic plates.

Pre-Phylloxera wine chemistry, caught at the edge of a scientific rewrite.

Academic dissertation on wine as medicine.

An academic disputation on the grape across science, medicine, and theology.

Academic medical dissertation on wine, from its history to adulteration tests.

Academic dissertation on wine: chemistry and medicine, geography and enology.