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.

A wine merchant's and sommelier's vademecum from the prestigious Manuels-Roret series.

Interwar Britain explains German wine through taste, travel, and bottle shapes.

Charming Don Quixote parody set in Beaujolais wine country, illustrated by Line Touchet.

Mid-century Beaujolais memory literature.

A unique sharecropping system, a later note by the author and crisis-year relevance.

From Roman heat to mustimeter math: a practical vigneron's manual in transition.