A comet first observed through a telescope, Galileo's misstep, Gingerich provenance, and splendid constellation illustrations

63 colored plates of South European wild orchids, with the author's own presentation inscription

Northern lights over Venice, explained through Newtonian optics

A Portuguese history of creation, between the Bible and Science

Early ice skating manual, with charming illustrations and Goethe poetry

First edition of the first printed French manual of silk design, published against the wishes of the Lyon silk guild

Early Italian translation of a leading French occultist manual, with hypnosis, magic, and vampirism all together

First edition of the only written treatise by a Versailles écuyer, with nine plates

Horse husbandry by a skilled military, naivë woodcuts and expert plates

The first training method for horse and rider published by a woman, a Paris milliner turned écuyère who trained the Tsar's own horses. Illustrated

A pocket guide to Armour's global pork trade, from the days when Dale Carnegie was one of its salesmen

Illustrated practical geometry for the wine trade, printed by the son of Gutenberg's collaborator.

A call to save Bordeaux's wine trade from phylloxera

Centuries of Franconian wine history, tangled up with weather notes, dragons and prodigies - plus 22 manuscript pages, and provenance

First monumental ampelography of Georgia: 57 colored plates, 500+ grape varieties

An early fermentation theory, tested with artificial must - and noticed by Jefferson

An 1820s sammelband with Port wine in a storm: monopoly, free trade, taxation, and the fight for control

Supporting closed vats more than sixty years before Pasteur, with handwritten estate records and Ricasoli Firidolfi provenance

Sulfur enters the vineyard as a remedy, and travels across Europe in a few months. With provenance

A new way to grow Riesling, illustrated. With provenance

A Bohemian vineyard manual in forty-three questions. With provenance

Tokaj history. Wiith provenance

One hand-colored illustration for a snapshot into the vineyard of the future: cordons, trellises and pruning