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Published by Rey in Lyon, this work stands as both historical document and practical guide, capturing French viticulture at a pivotal moment before the Great War transformed the wine landscape forever. The text provides detailed analysis of individual communes and crus, including insights into the impact of grafting on Gamay varieties and coverage of prestigious appellations like Condrieu. The text combines practical viticulture with regional geography, making it invaluable for understanding early 20th-century French wine production. The plates are of particular interest, not only for their documentation of these now celebrated vineyards and landscapes more than a century ago, but also for their distinctly poetic tone. This quality emerges in the proud figures posed among the vines or dispersed within the landscape, offering a rare glimpse into the significance such photographic moments must have held for the community. A pre-war love letter to French terroir: learned, lavishly photographed, and poised at that poignant threshold just before modernity changed the vineyard forever.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364377835,"sku":"105-1914--250-100-","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00105_IMG_7474copy2.jpg?v=1776195279"},{"product_id":"vermorel-trois-jours-beaujolais-1901","title":"Trois jours en Beaujolais","description":"\u003cp\u003eExcursions viticoles. Offert par la Station Viticole de Villefranche. Three Days in Beaujolais - Viticultural Excursions. 1901  Pp. [1] f.e., 64, [1] r.e. Villefranche (Rhône) Bureau du progrès agricole et viticole Modern marbled cardboard binding, with printed initials in the upper left corner, preserving the original light blue paper wrappers with title printed on the front cover. Pages 62–63 show traces of imperfect cutting, with a small loss of paper confined to the margin. Otherwise a pristine copy. A pioneering work in wine tourism literature, this slender volume chronicles three viticultural excursions through the Beaujolais region by Victor Vermorel (1848-1927), the distinguished French politician, senator, and wine expert who served as president of the Comice Agricole et viticole du Beaujolais. Published in 1901 as part of the Bibliothèque du progrès agricole et viticole series, this work represents an early example of systematic wine tourism documentation. Vermorel, renowned for his collaboration with Pierre Viala on the monumental Ampélographie (1901-1910), brings his scientific rigor to these intimate regional explorations. The text is enhanced with small photographic images, making it both a practical guide and a historical document of turn-of-the-century Beaujolais viticulture. The volume presents three carefully documented excursions through the Beaujolais wine region, each offering detailed observations on local viticultural practices, terroir characteristics, and wine production methods of the early 1900s. Vermorel's scientific background informs his precise descriptions of vineyard techniques, grape varieties, and regional wine-making traditions. The photographic illustrations provide visual documentation of the landscapes, vineyards, and wine-making facilities encountered during these journeys, creating a comprehensive portrait of Beaujolais viticulture at the dawn of the 20th century. Wine notes meet luggage tags: Vermorel maps wine with a scientist’s eye and a traveler’s curiosity, bottling a moment when terroir became a destination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364410603,"sku":"106-1901--90-50-","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00106_IMG_7334copy.jpg?v=1776194924"},{"product_id":"rozet-aventure-etonnante-don-quichotte-1946","title":"L'aventure étonnante de Don Quichotte et du vrai Moulin-à-vent","description":"\u003cp\u003etraduite fidèlement d'un manuscrit espagnol trouvé au pays beaujolais et sans nom d'auteur. The astonishing adventure of Don Quixote and the true windmill. 1946 First Edition Leaves (8) Romanèche-Thorins (Bourgogne) Château de Jacques Original illustrated paper wrappers, the title printed in red and black; a small illustration at the rear cover; central gathering left uncut. Edition limited to 2000 copies on papier de Hollande, this copy reserved for Doct. Chaumier, with a dedicatory inscription in blue ink, illegible. Slight discoloration to the title page. Illustrations in red and black throughout the text. Very good copy. Printed in 2000 copies; copy reserved to Monsieur le Docteur Chaumier. A delightful parody of Cervantes' immortal Don Quixote, reimagined through the lens of Beaujolais wine culture. Georges Rozet crafts an ingenious tale where the famous windmill episode takes on new meaning in the vineyards of Romanèche-Thorins. This charming booklet, generously illustrated by Line Touchet, represents a unique fusion of literary homage and regional pride, celebrating the renowned Moulin-à-Vent appellation of Beaujolais. As if Don Quixote needed improving, he detours through Beaujolais, retold in gleeful red-and-black plates. Cheeky, irreverent, and a tiny gem of reinvention. A witty collision of Cervantes and Burgundian folklore: literature with a splash of terroir. The kind of odd, cultured pairing that reminds us collecting should always surprise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364443371,"sku":"107-1946--80-50-","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00107_IMG_7461copy.jpg?v=1776194881"},{"product_id":"maigne-nouveau-manuel-sommelier-1884","title":"Encyclopedie-Roret - Nouveau manuel complet du Sommelier et du Marchand de vins","description":"\u003cp\u003eContenant des notions succinctes sur les vins rouges, blancs et mousseux (...). New Complete Manual of the Sommelier and Wine Merchant, containing succinct notions on red, white, sparkling wines. 1884 First Edition Pp. (4), 356, 72 Paris Roret Modern dark red cloth binding with title in gilt on a red leather spine label. Original printed front wrapper preserved, bearing the title and an illustration of wine workers; with a handwritten note “Châteaux de Belbeuf.” Some foxing throughout. The final 72 pages of advertisements printed on lighter, browned paper. A good copy. This comprehensive sommelier's manual from the renowned Manuels-Roret encyclopedic series served as an essential guide for wine professionals during the golden age of French viticulture, before the phylloxera crisis reshaped the industry. The work encompasses detailed knowledge of red, white, and sparkling wines, reflecting the sophisticated understanding of wine commerce in late 19th-century France. The volume contains systematic classifications of French wines by region and type, practical guidance for wine merchants on storage and handling, detailed descriptions of wine-making processes, and commercial advice for the burgeoning wine trade. Features numerous small etchings in the text illustrating wine-related equipment and techniques. The last 72 pp. are the catalog of Roret's editions, dated 1887. A pocket-savvy guide bearing practical wine wisdom and capturing the essence of 19th-century French culture through tasting, trade, experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364574443,"sku":"108-1884--100-50-","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00108_IMG_7326copy.jpg?v=1776194864"},{"product_id":"herpin-graisse-vins-1819","title":"De la graisse des vins","description":"\u003cp\u003eDes phénomènes de cette maladie, de ses causes, des moyens d'y remédier, et de ceux de la prévenir. On the ropiness of wines, on the phenomena of this disorder, its causes, the means of remedying it, and those of preventing it. 1819 Second Edition Pp. 40 Chalons-sur-Marne Boniez-Lambert Original paperback binding with printed cover with printed itle and decorative frame, and string seam construction. Untrimmed. Some light foxing. The cover is dated 1818 as the first edition, while the title page is marked 1819. Overall, a well-preserved copy. This work by Jean Charles Herpin addresses one of viticulture's most perplexing maladies: the 'graisse' or ropiness of wines, a bacterial fault that renders wine viscous and unpalatable. Published in 1819 as a revised second edition, this treatise represents early scientific inquiry into wine pathology, pre-dating modern microbiology by decades. Herpin's methodical approach to understanding wine diseases through chemical analysis marked a significant advancement in oenological science. This rare pamphlet offers invaluable insight into 19th-century viticulture and the evolution of wine science, making it essential for collectors of agricultural and scientific literature. The treatise systematically examines the phenomenon of wine 'graisse' (ropiness), analyzing its chemical manifestations and proposing remedies based on contemporary knowledge. Herpin details the symptoms of this wine fault, explores its probable causes through chemical reasoning, and suggests treatments involving tartaric compounds and controlled fermentation. The work includes observations on wine chemistry, fermentation processes, and preventive measures for maintaining wine quality. Written in the precise scientific language of the early 19th century, it reflects the era's transition from empirical winemaking to systematic chemical analysis. A tiny, wonderfully serious inquiry into wine gone wrong: cellar drama, early chemistry, and bad bottles become a doorway into the birth of modern oenology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364639979,"sku":"109-1819--260-50-","price":260.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00109_IMG_7456copy.jpg?v=1776194783"},{"product_id":"moore-a-treatise-on-domestic-pigeons-176","title":"A Treatise on Domestic Pigeons","description":"\u003cp\u003eComprehending all the different species known in England (...); with the Method of Building and Furnishing a Lost, Area, Trap (...). The Generation of Pigeons (...) and Progress of the Egg. (...) Remarks on their Diet (...) . The fraudulent Methods (...).  1765 First Edition, second issue Pp. [2], [1] illustration, xvi, 144, [2], [13] plates London C. Barry Contemporary full leather binding with some peeling and 5 raised bands on the spine; gilt greatly faded; red spines. Back cover joint with slight damage; front cover joint splitting, but sound, despite a slight detachment at the bottom of the first pages (see images).  First free endpaper detached. Exlibris inside the cover of Robert D'Arcy, Earl of Holdernesse, with the coat of arms of the House of D'Arcy. Second modern exlibris on the first free endpaper with an image of a bird and the name Erich Horstkötter. Ink stain to the outer margin of the first plate and title page. Some woodcut ornaments and tailpieces. 13 refined etchings depict different pigeon breeds in a vivid and engaging manner. Despite the binding defects, a beautiful, rare copy with interesting provenance. First edition, second issue of this Treatise, which stands as the first English book devoted to pigeons, and as a work of marked rarity. In late 18th cent England dovecots were extremely trending among affluent property owners and belonged to a wider culture of improvement, breeding, and close practical observation of domestic animals. This volume presents a comprehensive manual on pigeon breeding and care, gathering all known English varieties and weighing their respective qualities with the method of an experienced fancier. The book explains the construction and management of housing - lofts, traps, and related arrangements - together with breeding methods used by expert breeders. It also treats the biology of pigeons, including the development of the egg, and extends its instruction to diet, common diseases and their treatment, and fraudulent practices in the pigeon trade. Intended alike for experienced breeders and beginners, the work joins practical guidance to a broader natural-historical curiosity, while its illustrations, drawn from life, render the birds in a vivid manner and with accurate detail. This copy also carries an interesting provenance, described below. John Moore (d. 1737) privately printed this work with the title Columbarium in 1735 in a very small batch. It was later published in 1765 under the title A Treatise on Domestic Pigeons in an edition of only 750 copies (to which the current one belongs). This second printing was published anonymously by a practical pigeon fancier. However, it is an exact reproduction of Moore's Columbarium of 1735 with a longer title and the addition of the engraved plates. According to the vulgata, the present volume is considered the second issue of the first edition by Moore, but some scholars disagree, preferring to attribute the volume to an unknown author.  The book is an extensive treatise on pigeons that surveys the breeds found in England, outlining their defining traits and standards of quality. It provides practical instruction on constructing and equipping lofts, selecting and breeding desirable birds, and managing their feeding and health, including remedies for common illnesses. The work also examines reproduction and egg formation, warns against deceptive sales practices, and was designed for both seasoned enthusiasts and newcomers. A detailed account of the prized Almond Tumbler gives particular prominence to one of the most admired varieties of the period. It is supported by 13 detailed, life-based etchings representing different pigeon breeds in a vivid and engaging manner, as well as 1 dynamic illustration of a dovecot with a mouse and a cat (facing the title page). It also includes digressions on folklore that reflect the cultural limitations of the period, such as on pp. 140–141, where the Prophet Muhammad is described as having trained pigeons to appear to whisper divine revelations in his ear.  The volume contains two ex libris, the first of which offers notable provenance, indicating ownership by Robert D'Arcy (or Darcy. 4th Earl of Holderness (1718-1778), British diplomat and politician, who served in Venice and the Hague, on top of several roles in England under King George II and III. Given his life dates, he was most likely the first owner of the book. Notably, during the remodeling of his property Arbour Hill farm in 1760, a dovecot was added to provide fresh eggs and meat, as per the trends of the period. Curiously, he collaborated with the musician Handel in the production of the opera Deidamia. No relevant info has been traced about the second, modern exlibris. Pigeons step boldly into 18th-century England with wit and swagger, at last receiving the attention their curious intelligence deserves. This rare first English treatise - here in its first edition - pairs lively, life-based etchings of breeds with a playful dovecot scene (cat and mouse included). Its aristocratic provenance becomes an additional quiet delight, gently enchanting the reader (and the fortunate collector) appreciating the charm and dignity of these curious birds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364672747,"sku":"110-1765--1850-1044-46101.7166666667","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00110_IMG_7352copy.jpg?v=1776208879"},{"product_id":"rheinlands-weine-1928","title":"Rheinlands Weine","description":"\u003cp\u003eMosel, Saar und Ruwer Weine. Rhineland Wines - Moselle, Saar and Ruwer Wines. 1928 First edition Pp. 103. Out of pagination: [3] full-color lithographic plates; [2] copper-red monochrome lithographic plates; [26] leaves with 58 monochrome copper red photographs; [1] folded map of the Mosel  Köln (Cologne) M. Dumont Schauberg Original cardboard covers, printed in black and red, with an embossed coat of arms highlighted in gold and silver. Small stain to the upper margin of the front cover; edges slightly worn. Title page with chromolithograph and decorative elements in copper red, title in black. The rich visual material comprises numerous single-color lithographs in an elegant copper-red tone within the text, together with a group of plates outside the pagination: 3 full-color lithographic plates, 2 copper-red lithographic plates, and, above all, 26 pages (in the second part of the volume) printed recto\/verso with 58 copper-red photographs with descriptive captions; with a folded map at the end. A fair copy, with minor blemishes and signs of use. Published in 1928 as the 4th installment in the series Schriftenfolge: Rheinlands Weine by the Propaganda-Verband Preußischer Weinbaugebiete in Bonn, this volume is a richly illustrated celebration of the wine regions along the Mosel, Saar, and Ruwer rivers.  The local viticultural heritage is presented simultaneously as ancient tradition, living landscape, poetic experience, and German national treasure - a multi-layered cultural and marketing argument entirely characteristic of its era.  The oblong octavo format, decorated cover, and the quality and variety of illustrative techniques, together with the printed handwritten dedication dated 1. März 1928, all reinforce the impression that this booklet was intended to assert the importance of viticulture in the region. The volume opens with sections including Romische Denkmaler vom Weinbau by Dr. Siegfried Loeschcke, Das Deutsche Weinmuseum in Trier, and Geschichtliche Entwicklung des Mosel-, Saar- und Ruwerweinbaues.  It also includes poetry, among it Es bluht der Wein by M. Hornscheid.  In teh second part of the volume, entirely photographic, the reader encounters views of wine villages including Piesport, Dhron, Canzem, Saarburg, and Trier. A map of the Mosel river's winding course marks the wine villages along its route (folded at the end).  The volume belongs to a moment in late Weimar culture when regional identity, landscape, and historical memory were being woven together with unusual sophistication and strong intention. The years 1928 and 1929 represent the \"hinge\" of the Weimar Republic, the precise moment where the optimism of the \"Golden Twenties\" collided with the onset of the Great Depression - making this little booklet even more relevant. A wistful toast to Weimar wine culture in 1928: regional pride with a light, folkloric touch, capturing that fleeting moment when progress felt endless and tradition still danced unselfconsciously in the glass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364705515,"sku":"111-1928--180-59-46103.5430555556","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00111_IMG_7411copy.jpg?v=1776194487"},{"product_id":"rudd-hocks-and-moselles-1935","title":"Hocks and Moselles","description":"\u003cp\u003eConstable's Wine Library. Edited by André Simon.  1935 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., x, 165, [1] folded map, [1] r.e. London Constable and Company Ltd. Binding in dark red cloth with dust jacket, with a woodcut-style illustration of bottles and glasses in a vivid yellow and white. Minor defects at the jacket back fold and front flap's bottom corner. In excellent condition, complete with the dust jacket. Hocks and Moselles is part of Constable’s Wine Library, edited by André L. Simon, a key figure in 20th-century British wine writing. The series (covering Madeira, Sherry, Champagne, Claret, Burgundy, Port, Wine in the Kitchen, and Hocks and Moselles) was written by specialists “in language the layman can perfectly understand,” (quoting the Morning Post), aiming to create both an authoritative reference and a form of consumer education for a more discerning British public. This first edition captures a revealing moment in British wine culture between commerce, travel, and connoisseurship. By 1935, as Rudd notes, “Hock” had broadened beyond its geographic origin to include wines from the Rhine, Nahe, and Palatinate - or even, more loosely, any German white wine in the long brown bottle. In practice, British consumers relied on bottle shape as a visual code: brown for Rhine, green for Moselle. Rudd writes within this culture of simplification while seeking to refine it. Unlike contemporary German perspectives framing the Mosel as Heimat, he presents the Rhine and Moselle as landscapes of pleasure, tourist and spa regions an English traveler might visit and return from with improved taste. The tone is one of appreciation rather than ownership, making the book a telling document of interwar British sensibility, where travel, wine knowledge, and polite consumption converge. This copy, with its bright mid-1930s retained dust jacket, preserves that original commercial immediacy unusually well. The book opens with a regional framing of the Rhine and Moselle as a landscape of scenic beauty, tourism, Roman ruins, spa culture, and wine. Its twelve chapters move systematically from general orientation to specific wine regions. Chapter I presents the Rhine and Moselle as an exceptional wine and travel region. Chapter II, \"What's In A Name\", explains German wine nomenclature for a British reader, including vineyard names, cask numbers, subdivisions, Auslese classifications, and the meanings of terms such as Eigensgewachs, Spatlese, Trockenbeeren Auslese, and Kabinett Wein; it also explains examples of bottle identification and origin, including Hochheim, Moselle bottling conventions, and traceable label forms such as \"Brauneberger Juffer, Growth Schmidt, Fuder Nr. 4, 1931\". Chapters III-XI proceed geographically from Coblenz through the Rheingau, Nahe Valley, Rheinhessen, the Palatinate, the Moselle Valley, Upper Moselle and Saar, and Middle and Lower Moselle. Throughout, the text uses personal travel and tasting experience as part of its exposition, including references to Bad Kreuznach, the 1921 Berncastler Doctor, cycling in the Palatinate, Amsterdam, the Nahe, and the Saar vineyards. Chapter XII, devoted to vintages, surveys important years from 1857 to 1933, with repeated emphasis on 1921 as a benchmark vintage, alongside years including 1868, 1886, 1893, 1895, 1904, 1911, 1915, 1920, and 1933. At the back is a folding map, a clean black-and-white cartographic rendering of the wine districts of the Rhine and Moselle, conceived as a practical navigational tool. The German wine maze turned into English leisure: labels and bottle shapes decoded, vintages ranked, even tourist tips - with 1930s clarity and a dust jacket that still sells the dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364738283,"sku":"112-1935--220-100-46103.5708333333","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00112_IMG_7515copy2.jpg?v=1776194405"},{"product_id":"bezzelius-spicilegium-1782","title":"Spicilegium de Butigulariis Norimbergensibus","description":"\u003cp\u003eAd Commentationem Viri Immortalis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii. A Gleaning on the Nuremberg Butler, supplementing the commentary of the immortal Christian Gottlieb Schwarz. 1782 First Edition Pp. 16 Altorfii (Altdorf)  Unbound, quires loosely sawn together. paper toned but clean; edges slightly worn. Ex libris Dr. Bassermann Jordan. Woodcut borders and tailpieces. Alean, well-preserved copy. A learned contribution to legal history and to the institutional study of the free imperial city of Nuremberg, this work stands in continuity with the 1724 Exercitatio of Christian Gottlieb Schwarzii, presenting itself as a spicilegium (a gleaning) that gathers and extends the earlier inquiry into the office of the Butigularius, the official responsible for wine within civic and courtly structures. The term, variously attested as buticularius or botellarius, is situated within its Latin and Romance tradition, while the office itself is restored to its proper administrative and juridical context. Bezzelius reexamines both etymology and function, rejecting Gundling’s Old Franconian derivation and preserving the interpretation of cup-bearer or butler. He compiles a chronological survey of named Butigularii Norimbergenses from charters, monastic records, and civic chronicles, thereby extending Schwarzii’s work through a disciplined accumulation of sources. The text reflects the methods of late eighteenth-century German scholarship: incremental, source-driven, and closely tied to diplomatics and the constitutional past. The treatise opens with a philological discussion of the term Butigularius, its variants, and its semantic range, engaging directly with Schwarzii while correcting earlier conjectures. Particular attention is given to competing etymologies and to the practical functions of the office within medieval urban and courtly administration. The core of the work consists of a documented series of Butigularii Norimbergenses, arranged in approximate chronology and supported by references to archival and historiographical sources. Issued as a Latin occasional publication dated 9 October 1782, and dedicated to Ioannes Nicolaus Weiss on the fiftieth anniversary of his doctorate at Altdorf, it presents itself as a learned homage while functioning as a precise antiquarian supplement, shaped by the scholarly and familial networks of its time. A curious pamphlet on the office of the butler or keeper of wine in Nuremberg’s civic and courtly life. 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The grape serves as the occasion for a learned exercise that balances classical authority, biblical reference, and natural observation, reflecting Lutheran university practice, wherein the study of nature is interwoven with moral and religious thought. The pamphlet names Johann Ernest Gering as professor presiding over the session, with Hieronymus Sigismund Gerlach of Meissen as respondent, defending his thesis. The work examines the etymology of the grape, drawing on Latin, German, and Greek terminology; distinguishes between fresh and dried grapes; considers the vine within pagan and biblical traditions; and discusses the qualities of old and new wine. It cites Galen, Pliny, Dioscorides, Columella, Varro, Isidore, Horace, Ovid, Tibullus, Juvenal, Homer, Maimonides, Buxtorf, Ambrose, Apuleius, and Macrobius. This ephemera belongs to the tradition of academic disputations in natural philosophy, that is, the study of the natural world. 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Title page darkened; ex libris Dr Bassermann-Jordan at the back; ear at the external margin. Some spots in the margins. Fair. Late seventeenth-century Lutheran academic dissertation that reads Genesis 49:11 (\"He Shall Wash His Robe in Wine, and His Garment in the Blood of Grapes\") as the starting point for a philological and theological inquiry into prophecy, Christology, and sacramental language. The author traces the synonymous pairing of \"wine\" and \"blood of grapes\" through Hebrew exegesis, advances a Messianic reading focused on the Passion with John 19:34 as hinge, treats Christ's humanity and the purification of the Church, and mounts an explicit anti-Reformed rebuttal to Piscator on figurative language and Eucharistic theology.  The disputation is proposed by Quandt, an assistant pastor, for public discussion under the presidency of Bernhard von Sanden. The text is in learned Latin with embedded Hebrew and Greek and frequent patristic and classical citation. 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Burmester's dissertation belongs to the cosmopolitan medical faculty of the University of Göttingen. His identification as “Pernavo-Livonus” (from Pärnu, in Livonia, i.e., present-day Estonia) places him among the Baltic German students drawn to that faculty at the end of the century. The text reflects Göttingen’s international medical culture, engaging authorities from across Europe and the Atlantic, and demonstrates the faculty’s practical orientation toward clinical therapeutics.  Latin inaugural dissertation on the medical use of wine. It opens with prolegomena on wine's long medicinal use, then treats its chemical constitution and the therapeutic use of wine combined with fixed air (references to Priestley, Murray, Percival). It divides maladies into pure debility and debility with putrid diathesis, discussing nervous fevers, spasmodic and nervous disorders, wasting diseases, convalescent weakness, colliquative sweats, putrid fevers, tetanus, and hydrophobia. It cites many authorities including Boerhaave, van Swieten, Pringle, Frank, Priestley. An uncut, wandering dissertation on wine’s virtues by an academic of the 18th century: how can one resist stepping into the shoes of these curious scholars, discovery still sealed in its pages?.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097364902123,"sku":"117-1797--120-50-46104.8763888889","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00117_IMG_7434copy.jpg?v=1776194086"},{"product_id":"langheinrich-de-vinis-1823","title":"De Vinis","description":"\u003cp\u003eDissertatio Inauguralis Medica. On Wines. Inaugural Medical Dissertation. 1823 First Edition Pp. 44 Berlin Formis Bruschckianis Modern grey paper tape holds the pamphlet together; no covers. Ownership stamp of Dr. Bassermann-Jordan (Deidesheim) to the title page, with his ex libris on the verso. Slight foxing throughout. Good copy. Pamphlet published a inaugural dissertation submitted to the University of Berlin for the highest honors in medicine and surgery by Langheinrich, on the topic of wine as medical remedy. The dissertation ranges across viticultural history, fermentation, the medical efficacy and harms of wine, and forensic questions of artificial alteration and adulteration. It combines oenological and toxicological perspectives and cites Rozier, Fabbroni, Thenard, and Hahnemann. The dissertation unites classical learning, contemporary chemical discussion, and medical theory. The text opens with wine history (references to Noah, Georgia and Armenia, Syria, Egypt, Homeric vineyards), and the vine's spread into Germany and Gaul; then treats production and fermentation (ripe grapes, must, carbonic gas) and the diversity of wines by locality, cultivation, storage, age, and Galenic qualities. it moves into medical efficacy with citations to Homer, Plato, Galen, Pliny, and Avicenna. Later sections treat artificial improvement and a forensic chapter on adulteration (arsenic, corrosive sublimate, alum, vegetable colourants, brandy, aromatics, belladonna, excess sulphur) with detection methods; the dissertation concludes with the author's curriculum vitae. 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This dissertation was presented to the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Berlin, for the degrees of Medicine and Surgery. The pamphlet situates wine within early nineteenth-century academic medicine and chemistry and reflects the converging practices of clinical observation, chemical theory, and natural-historical classification in Berlin's medical culture. It bears the formal Latin apparatus of the university dissertation. The dissertation defines wine as an intoxicating liquid produced by fermentation; discusses fermentation, alcohol formation, tartrate deposits and related chemical principles, citing Georg Ernst Stahl. It considers production and determinants of character (climate, region, vintage, grape variety, method, and age) and advances a geographic classification of European wines, surveying Rhenish, Moselle, Franconian and northern German wines; Hungarian (including Tokaji and Ausbruch); Italian (Lacryma Christi, Vinum de St. Albano, Monte Fiascone, Montepulciano, Vin Santo); Portuguese Port; and Greek sweet wines from Cyprus. Later chapters treat medical uses (diuretic, circulatory, nervous, gastric, certain infant diseases). 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Blind stamp to the title page, “Dr. Farkas Mihály.” One small dark spot to the final leaf. A sound copy with moderate exterior wear. Friedrich Mohr's Der Weinbau und die Weinbereitungskunde, published in 1865 as part of Dr. B. Bolley's Handbuch der chemischen Technologie, records mid-19th-century viticultural science immediately before the Phylloxera crisis. Written 26 years before Sahut's study, it privileges chemical analysis, fermentation theory, and laboratory technique over later disease response. Mohr's molecular notation and quantitative fermentation work sit on the cusp of nineteenth-century shifts: Pasteur's biological proof of yeast (1857) had not yet displaced older chemical explanations. The volume exemplifies the period's effort to link chemistry, agriculture, and industry and is a primary-source witness to pre-Phylloxera enological thought. The volume is illustrated with 39 engravings and opens with a botanical definition of the Weinstock (Vitis), accompanied by fig. 4. It proceeds to outline methods of pruning and training, followed by a treatment of nineteenth-century fermentation theory, with fig. 6–13 elucidating the process. Fig. 20 presents a beam-and-screw Weinkelter, together with the corresponding pressing technique. The text specifies a fermentation period of 18 to 30 days and includes quantitative tables indicating a ratio of 1 g ferment to 100 g sugar. A section entitled Zur Beurtheilung des Weines classifies adulteration into three groups and discusses their chemical detection. Fig. 21–22 depict instruments for measuring acidity, noting a value of 7.5 Gradchen. The work concludes with a section devoted to wines derived from honey and small fruits. A pre-phylloxera snapshot in which chemistry engages with craft: Mohr explains, depicts, and measures sugar, yeast, and veracity before Pasteur resolves the matter through science.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097365131499,"sku":"122-1865--210-87-46104.9284722222","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00122_IMG_7395copy2.jpg?v=1776193869"},{"product_id":"tovey-wine-and-wine-countries-1862","title":"Wine and Wine Countries","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Record and Manual for Wine Merchants and Wine Consumers.  1862 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [2], xiv, 365; 1 folding table b\/w p.360-361; [2] r.e.) London Hamilton, Adams \u0026amp; Co. Original green blind-stamped cloth with gilt-lettered spine; edges and spine slightly worn. Pages with minor toning and minor foxing. Signature in pencil on the title page (S. Wilson?) and probable notes by the same hand at the rear endpaper, including a short wine bibliography. Stamp of F.W. Needham, bookseller, on the front paste-down, together with a large ex libris of Max Lake, with an image of a vineyard. Folded table in perfect condition. Overall, a very good copy. This first edition belongs to a precise historical moment in British wine culture: the early 1860s, when questions of import, taste, taxation, national supply, and commercial knowledge had acquired new urgency. Set against the disrupted post–Cobden–Chevalier wine market, it is not simply a gentleman’s appreciation of wine, nor merely a merchant’s handbook, but a living Victorian attempt to describe the wine world as a connected commercial, geographical, and chemical system. The combination of trade manual, historical record, vintage register, and statistical document makes it a compact witness to how Victorian Britain sought to order the wine-producing world (geographically, commercially, and culturally) at a moment when consumers and merchants alike were being asked to think internationally about what they drank. The book opens with a lightly Homeric epigraph on the title page: “The weary find new strength in generous wine.” The chapters proceed geographically through the wines consumed in England, then Port and Portugal, Spain, France, Germany and Hungary, Italy and Sicily, Greece, Crimea, America, and the British Colonies. It continues with an inquiry into the chemistry of wine and the practical question of what wines to drink, and when. The appendix gathers bottle sizes, wine tables, measures, vintages, and alcoholic tint, together with tables of consumption from 1791 to 1861. It includes a folded statistical table between pp. 360–361, “Consumption of Wine from 1701 to June 30, 1861,” as well as a vintage table for Port, Claret, Rhenish, and Hungarian wines from 1800 to 1861 within the text. The work treats wine adulteration with notable directness and bears upon the emerging Australian wine industry, with material connected to James Busby. A Victorian mind mapping wine across the world to teach Britain how to drink globally: trade, taste, chemistry entwined, with data quietly educating the palate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097365885163,"sku":"124-1862--570-279-46105.6458333333","price":570.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00124_IMG_7494copy_a1a9d239-dc96-4907-8af9-091eaf6bbf7e.jpg?v=1776193747"},{"product_id":"husmann-cultivation-native-grape-1866","title":"The cultivation of the native grape and manufacture of American wines","description":"\u003cp\u003e1866 First Edition Pp. [2] f.e., viii, 9-192, [8], [2] r.e. New York Woodward Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titling and small decorative elements on the spine; brown endpapers. Some discoloration and wear, more pronounced at the spine. The front endpaper bears annotations in two distinct hands, likely ownership marks. Overall, a good copy. Issued in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War and dedicated \"To the Grape Growers of 'Our Country, One and Indivisible,'\", this work belongs to the formative phase of American wine literature. Husmann emerges as a central figure in this context, not only as the author of the present manual, but as a key agent in the broader development of viticulture in the United States and beyond. He is notably associated with the introduction of phylloxera-resistant American rootstocks into France, a contribution of lasting consequence. His civic engagement is equally of note, as he took part in the drafting of Missouri's 1865 Ordinance Abolishing Slavery. The work offers a comprehensive treatment of grape varieties, viticulture, and winemaking, complemented by statistical guidance for the establishment of vineyards and the estimation of yields, with particular attention to varieties such as Catawba and Concord. Its emphasis on native and hybrid grapes reflects a distinctly American vision of viticulture, articulated at a moment prior to the predominance of European vinifera. Cultivation is explained from planting to trellising, while vinification and varietal analysis are treated with notable precision. The volume includes 13 full-page grape illustrations and numerous in-text engravings depicting grape varieties and winemaking apparatus. It also records the contemporary controversy surrounding the Norton's Virginia grape, debated by Nicholas Longworth. At the end, eight unnumbered leaves contain editorial advertisements for works on agriculture, horticulture, architecture, and rural economy. Ampelography meets Americana in this richly illustrated ode to native grapes and frontier winegrowing, an oenological origin myth in print.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097365950699,"sku":"125-1866--220-60-46106.7708333333","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00125_IMG_7343copy.jpg?v=1776193593"},{"product_id":"dubet-le-petit-vigneron-1910","title":"Le Petit Vigneron","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Little Winegrower. 1910 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., 206, [2], [1] r.e. Villefranche-sur-Saône P. Guillermet Original red binding with title printed on the front cover within a beautiful Art Deco frame. Edges and corners slightly worn. Muted fabric spine. Pages uniformly tanned due to paper quality, otherwise in very good condition. Numerous illustrations in the text, some full-page. Overall, a fair copy. Le Petit Vigneron is a practical winemaking manual for the small independent French farmer. It belongs to the moment when Pasteur's fermentation science was moving from laboratory theory into everyday vineyard practice. Dubet notes that the Romans heated wine for preservation two thousand years before Pasteur explained the process, while elsewhere he leads the reader through decimal calibration for correct mustimeter readings at harvest. The book follows small-scale production from harvesting and vatting through conservation, disease, distillation, and a directory of suppliers that preserves a snapshot of the early French wine equipment trade. Illustrated with engraved technical drawings, this first edition stands as both a working manual and a document of rural winemaking in transition. Seventeen chapters carry the reader through small-scale vinification from fermented beverages, grapes, must, and wine to fermentation, cultivated yeasts, sulfitage, cellar hygiene, harvest timing, vatting, wine improvement, conservation, wine diseases, special vinifications, tasting, analysis, brandy production, and the use of marc. There are sections on pied de cuve, fûts and casks, and pasteurization, including an illustration of a Brehier pasteurizer. The final portion includes recommended suppliers of products, machines, and winemaking apparatus, naming firms in Villefranche-sur-Saone, Paris, and Lyon. A vigneron’s manual alive with practice: yeasts, faults, tools, and trade, where cellar know-how absorbs the pulse of new science. 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Binding rubbed at the extremities, with more pronounced wear at the foot of the spine. Sutaine: foxing to the initial leaves, thereafter diminishing; a light waterstain to the upper inner margin of the first forty pages, not affecting the text. Plonquet: pronounced waterstaining to the upper inner margin from approximately p. 140, increasing toward the end of the volume (beginning to touch the text around p. 155). Overall, a sound copy, in nearly good condition. Two works on Champagne bound together in Reims in the mid-1860s, pairing Sutaine's historical essay with Plonquet's practical treatise at a decisive moment in the region's viticultural development. Sutaine wrote for the Congres scientifique de France, opening in Reims on 1 September 1845, in response to a set question on the origin and development of the Champagne wine trade. Twenty years later, Plonquet - a physician of Ay-Champagne - approached the same subject through cultivation, applied science, and production, in a work awarded a gold medal by the Comice agricole de Reims. Read in sequence, the two texts move from regional history and literary memory to varieties, pests, chemistry, and commerce, giving the composite volume a clear intellectual coherence beyond either work alone. Sutaine traces the history of the vine in Champagne from Roman and medieval origins to the seventeenth century, dwelling on the prestige of the still wines of Ay, Sillery, and Verzy and on the Ordre des Coteaux. Plonquet turns from that historical view to the vineyards of the Marne in practice: grape varieties, cultivation, vineyard pests, and the chemistry and commerce of sparkling wine production, including tirage, dosage, carbonic acid, and the question of cane versus beet sugar. The final section preserves proceedings of the section cantonale d'Ay from 1860 to 1865. 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Chaumas Contemporary half leather, spine with four raised bands, title on a red leather label, gilt decoration; marbled boards. Margins slightly rubbed; upper hinge showing signs of opening but sound; upper portion of the spine rubbed. Binding restored at the internal upper edge. Overall, a sound copy in good condition. Published in Bordeaux in 1855, this third and most complete edition follows the initial issue of 1844 and its revision of 1852. On the title page D’Armailhacq is defined as \"ancien magistrat, propriétaire en Médoc\", and corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux. Appearing in the very year of the 1855 Bordeaux Classification, the work offers a near-contemporary account of Médoc viticulture and reputation, arranged commune by commune and grounded in proprietary observation. The appendix on oidium refers to Berkeley’s identification of 1847 and traces the subsequent diffusion of the disease into the Médoc. The ampelographic sections preserve early local nomenclature, notably cabernelle ou carmenère. The author’s own estate, then Mouton d’Armailhacq, is recorded within the survey tables. Five parts cover vine physiology, Médoc grape varieties, soils, annual cultivation, vineyard maintenance, harvest and vinification, illustrated by 4 tables out of pagination. Particularly interesting is the illustrated section on ploughing include the Araire Gabat, Araire Courbe, and Courbe a Gorronter. Financial tables record vineyard renewal and fertilisation costs in the canton of Pauillac. The final gazetteer surveys communes in the arrondissements of Lesparre and Bordeaux, listing proprietors, vineyard area, production, and ranking categories from premiers crus to proprietors selling at peasant prices. An appendix on oidium describes symptoms, sources, and the disease's spread across Europe into the Medoc. 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New Theater of Machines, i.e. Newly Enlarged Survey of the Mechanical Arts, treating of various water-, wind-, horse-, weight-, and hand-driven mills, and their application to grinding grain, papermaking, stamp-milling, sawing, boring, fulling, pressing. 1661 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., (12), 68, 154 plates Nürnberg (Nuremberg) Paulus Fursten; Christoff Gerhard Contemporary full vellum with yapp edges, five sewing stations visible on spine, smooth spine with early handwritten label, and bookplate at inner front cover. Frontispiece restored at the back with three very small pieces of museum grade tape to prevent detachment. Some stains and surface soiling at the back cover. Wormwork at front inner hinge; small marginal worm trace affecting the rear endpapers and last two plates. Small restoration at the lower margin of p. 61 and small tears at the lower margins of plates 20-25. An incredibly  fresh, wide-margined copy in excellent condition. The Theatrum Machinarum Novum belongs to the distinguished tradition of illustrated machine book that flourished across Europe from the mid-sixteenth century through the Baroque period. That tradition was initiated by Ramelli's Le diverse et artificiose machine (1588) and continued by Besson, de Caus, and Zonca before reaching its German apogee in this work. The book presents Mechanica not merely as artisanal practice but as a noble art grounded in geometry and physics, balancing speculative thought with practical application. The result is a publication that belongs equally to the history of mechanics, architecture, and visual knowledge: a Baroque machine theater in which technical instruction, engraved invention, and intellectual self-definition converge with unusual coherence. The frontispiece presents an allegorical introduction to the subject. At left stands Archimedes, personifying Studium (study), while at right a mechanic or engineer (Mechanicus) embodies Labor (labor). Beyond a drawn curtain unfolds an animated industrial landscape of mills, aqueducts, and water-powered machines, all framed within a classical architectural setting. The preface defines Mechanica as a noble art derived from geometry and physics, divided into speculative and practical branches. The text (pp. 1–68) comprises an introduction to mechanical principles, followed by a systematic commentary on each plate. The 154 engraved plates constitute a comprehensive repertory of motive-power technology. They treat water-, wind-, horse-, weight-, and hand-driven mills, hydraulic pumps, fire-engines, Archimedean screws, and paper-making machinery. The designs are largely drawn from Böckler’s own inventions, with additional material derived from Jacopo Strada’s Kunstliche Abriss (1617–18). Appended is the Saxon Mühlordnung of 1568. Among the machines illustrated is an attempted design for a perpetual motion device (p. 59). The final plate is of particular significance, offering one of the earliest printed accounts of a fire-engine associated with a known maker and date (Hautsch, 1658). It describes large siphons of copper, brass, and iron, devised to project water for extinguishing fires. These machines employed dual chambers to ensure continuous pumping and were capable of raising water to a height of 80–100 feet, a remarkable achievement for the period. Both fixed and portable models are recorded, the latter sufficiently light to be operated by a single individual. Constructed and tested in Nuremberg in 1658 by Joannes Hautsch, they represent among the earliest practical fire-engines capable of reaching rooftops, contributing materially to his reputation in mechanical invention. While the mechanics and physics completely escape this reader, the engravings are as captivating as scenes from a grand Baroque theater. 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Followed by a Bacchic Anthology. 1929 First Edition [1] f.e., XIX, 199, (3), [1] r.e., (1) folded map, (16) photographic plates Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Jean Guillermet Publisher’s light green printed wrappers, somewhat toned, with chipping and small tears at the extremities, particularly at the corners. Spine sunned, with minor cracking. Title within a rich frame on the front cover; bacchic mask vignette repeated on both covers. Text, plates, and folding map in very good condition. Overall, a sound copy in the original wrappers. This volume marks an early and deliberate modern statement of the Beaujolais as both wine country and cultural landscape. The book helped define the literary and promotional identity the region would cultivate over the following three decades. Its significance lies not simply in its subject, but in the way it presents Beaujolais as a lived pays: geographic, historical, convivial, and inseparable from the wines that gave it public meaning. The authors were business partners in the wine trade through their firm T. David et L. Foillard, established in 1919 at Saint-Georges-de-Reneins and Sorgues, and they wrote from within the commercial and civic world they sought to champion. Foillard in particular would later be known as the 'pere du Beaujolais' (the father of Beaujolais) for his sustained literary and public advocacy on behalf of the region's wines and people. The volume blends regionalism, wine literature, local memory, viticultural identity, and literary homage into a single programmatic book. The volume is arranged in six principal sections. Part I, Trois jours en auto dans le vignoble beaujolais, recounts a three-day motor tour from the Bas-Beaujolais to the Grand Beaujolais, with halts at Ternand, Salles-en-Beaujolais, Juliénas, and Romanèche-Thorins, interweaving topographical observation with local history, including the meteorite recorded at Salles in 1798 and the Lamartine family’s link to the Chapitre de Salles. Part II, Le Pays Beaujolais, surveys the region’s geography, prehistory, and historical formation. Part III, Le Folklore en Beaujolais, gathers customs and traditions, from the legend of Claude Brosse to dialect vocabulary, proverbs, boules, and seasonal fêtes. Part IV, Notre ami le vin, offers an anthologie bachique from antiquity to the nineteenth century, with citations from Ronsard, Boileau, and Victor Hugo. Part V, La Vigne, treats viticulture, including origins, cépages, soils, maladies, and vendange practices. Part VI, De la Qualité du Vin, concludes with technical inquiry, drinking customs, and medical and popular beliefs surrounding wine. The text is illustrated throughout with small and full-page engravings, which lend both clarity and a measured visual elegance to the volume. To complete the visual apparatus, there are sixteen photographic plates outside the pagination. The color woodcut frontispiece by Philippe Burnot, as noted on the title page, presents a vine-framed view of the Beaujolais countryside, with a bottle and glasses set upon a table. The folding color map, with a legend distinguishing rivers, routes, departmental boundaries, and railways, documents the Beaujolais road network of the interwar period; a light, playful note in the margin invites the reader to enter any café and ask for directions should the map prove insufficient. A bibliography on pp. 195–196 cites works including Vermorel and Danguy’s Vins du Beaujolais, Billiard’s La Vigne dans l’Antiquité, and Audin’s own Le Beaujolais (1926). A road trip, folklore, vines, and conviviality, all bottled into a charming manifesto, with engravings, photos, and a map adding extra sparkle to a region already in bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366343915,"sku":"130-1929--150-40-46121.5138888889","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00130_IMG_7716copy.jpg?v=1776193114"},{"product_id":"myard-vigneronnage-beaujolais-1907","title":"Le vigneronnage en Beaujolais","description":"\u003cp\u003eSharecropping In Beaujolais. 1907 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., (4), 338, [1] r.e. Lyon Imprimeries Réunies Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt fleurs-de-lis in two compartments, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to Louis Chevrotton, identified as \"mon cousin\": \"À mon cousin Louis Chevrotton, en gage d'affection sincère et en souvenir des bonnes heures passées ensemble lors de son séjour en France 1920-21.\" Signed F. Myard. Calf rubbed at the extremities, with darkening and surface scuffing to the upper board. Very mild toning, very good. An academic publication in law, on the subject of vigneronnage, the wine-growing system based on sharecropping, peculiar to the Beaujolais and its immediate Burgundian neighbors. As presented here, vigneronnage - a form of métayage à moitié fruits whose juridical contours had solidified by the eighteenth century - bound a landowner and a working vigneron in partnership over a small mixed holding, with costs shared and the harvest divided equally. It appears as both contractual framework and social order, one that endured for centuries before the late nineteenth-century viticultural crisis strained it toward collapse. The work stands at the meeting point of legal scholarship and near-contemporary rural crisis. The study is arranged in three substantial parts: historical, legal, and economic-social. It traces Beaujolais viticulture from the Gallo-Roman period through the Ancien Régime, then examines the formation, proof, obligations, guarantees, accounting, prescription, third-party relations, and dissolution of the vigneronnage contract. The final section turns to crisis conditions: mévente, collapsing revenues, abandoned contracts, and fraud in the wine trade, supported by parliamentary enquiry material of 26 April 1907. It concludes with an appendix on vigneron housing and an annex reproducing in full the twenty-one-article Bail à vigneronnage de l'Hospice civil de Beaujeu, approved at Lyon on 31 October 1900. A legal twist on Beaujolais: vigneronnage, a uniquely local sharecropping system, captured just as it slips from practice into memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366376683,"sku":"131-1907--250-119-46120.7694444444","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00131_IMG_7696copy.jpg?v=1776193077"},{"product_id":"vermorel-souvenirs-contes-1942","title":"Souvenirs, contes et nouvelles","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemories, Tales and Short Stories. 1942 First Edition Pp. 151, (1). Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Éditions du Cuvier, Jean Guillermet Publisher's printed light green wrappers, with small vignette; lightly tone, small tear at the upper spine. A very good copy. The volume gathers the literary writings of Jean Vermorel, a Lyonnais literary critic, archivist, and chronicler of Beaujolais and Lyon. The preface is by Justin Godart, with whom Vermorel had long been linked through political, intellectual and work collaboration (he was his secretary when attached to the Bibliotheque du Palais des Arts). Vermorel went on becoming the archivist of the city of Lyon from 1912 to 1934, a member of the Academie des Pierres Plantees under the pseudonym Joannes Papelard, and a founding member and vice-president of the Societe des Amis de Guignol. As a first edition issued in the year of his death (1942), this collection stands as a regional literary memorial of Lyonnais civic culture and Beaujolais print life. The frontispiece is a halftone photographic portrait of the author, Jean Vermorel, standing outdoors in the Beaujolais countryside, hat on and dark coat, a fitting image for a writer whose work is so thoroughly rooted in the landscapes and memories of the Lyon region. In the preface Justin Godart (1871-1956) recalls the social activism that animated Vermorel and himself in popular education and the city's cultural institutions. For context, Godart was a major figure of Lyonnais radical-socialist politics, lawyer and politician, Deputy for Lyon from 1906, Senator for the Rhone from 1926, Minister for Health in 1932, one of the \"Vichy 80\" who on 10 July 1940 voted against granting Petain full powers, later active in the Resistance and interim mayor of Lyon at its liberation in September 1944.  A richly varied miscellany, the volume moves through four distinct sections. Souvenirs Lyonnaises offers memoir and social observation, including reflections on Dr. Terme's tenure as mayor of Lyon and an eyewitness account of the city during the years 1840–1847. Études Lyonnaises follows with historical and literary essays, like Chateaubriand's connection to Lyon, the return of Napoleon, and the illness and death of a Lyonnais mayor in 1818. The center of the book belongs to Contes et Nouvelles, a gathering of seven short fiction pieces, among them La Baignoire, Le Brocanteur, Soeur Gentiane, and L'Outil. A slender poetry section, Le Livre de ma Vie, then offers verse meditations grouped under titles such as Doute, Les Asiles, and Retour à la Vie. The volume closes quietly with Au Bout du Chemin, a collection of pensées and impressions. Final bow for Vermorel (here in the less familiar role of storyteller) published in the year of his death, as if to gather a lifetime's observations into one last volume. The scientist softens into a raconteur; civic passion and the Beaujolais spirit find their quieter register.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366409451,"sku":"132-1942--40-40-46121.7173611111","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00132_IMG_7735copy.jpg?v=1776193014"},{"product_id":"foillard-le-vin-de-nos-vignes-1950","title":"Le Vin de nos Vignes","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouvenirs et pages d'autrefois. The Wine of Our Vines. Memories and Pages of Times Past. 1950 First Edition Pp. XIII, 3-127, (7) Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Éditions du Cuvier Original cream wrappers, titled in red and black with a small woodcut vignette on the upper cover; spine lettered in red. Uncut and in excellent conditions. This volume stands as the autumnal work of Léon Foillard (1880-1964), long regarded as a formative modern voice of Beaujolais wine culture. Issued when Foillard was seventy, the book gathers personal reminiscences, anecdotes, and reflective essays on the wine country he had championed across three decades as négociant, writer, mayor, and co-founder of the Ordre des Compagnons du Beaujolais. In Latreille's framing, it belongs to the quieter dignity of a man harvesting the vintage of his own memories. The verso of the half-title lists Foillard's earlier works, all marked épuisé, a concise sign that this volume was conceived as the mature summation of an already established regional author. Foillard's subject is Beaujolais as a lived moral and social landscape, rooted in the postwar France and its interest in wine writing, local history, memoir, and regional illustration. The preface is by André Latreille (1901-1984), the Lyon historian whose framing places the work at the intersection of local history and regional literary culture. The text is structured in three sections. Part I, \"Souvenirs du Jeune Âge,\" recounts youth in wine country - education, the death of a father, departure from the lycée, and early encounters with vignerons. Part II, \"Médecine Beaujolaise,\" offers essays on the therapeutic and convivial virtues of wine. Part III, \"Pour en finir,\" includes a valedictory meditation on wine as civilisation. The volume is followed by an \"Anthologie bachique.\" It includes a frontispiece photograph, two additional photographic plates outside the pagination, woodcut illustrations by Luc Barbier in the text, all enriching the storytelling. A late-life toast to Beaujolais by one of its fiercest champions. Foillard harvests his own past: wine not just tasted, but lived, shared, and lovingly remembered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366737131,"sku":"134-1950--60-40-46121.7118055556","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00134_IMG_7755copy.jpg?v=1776192904"},{"product_id":"bonnaud-la-vigne-en-fleur-1928","title":"La Vigne en fleur","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe flowering vine. 1928  Pp. 23 Villefranche-en-Beaujolais Jean Guillermet Original cream printed wrappers, overall a good copy of a fragile ephemeral publication. This French verse play celebrates the life and loves of a Beaujolais vigneron family through a blend of prose dialogue and verse, framed by an extended lyrical notice by the regional historian Joseph Balloffet, Vice-President de la Societe des Sciences et Arts du Beaujolais. The publication also functioned as a cultural and promotional work for Beaujolais, with a very large non-commercial distribution, making this modest pamphlet an early expression of the region's self-fashioning in print.  The work opens with Balloffet’s introductory essay, Au Pays de la Vigne en fleur, a poetic evocation of the Beaujolais landscape, naming the principal wine villages and situating the region within the Lyonnais, Forez, and Mâconnais. He describes the Saône valley, the vineyard slopes rising like an ancient amphitheatre, and the changing colors of the vine through treatment and seasonal decline. The text alludes to Claude Bernard, born at nearby Saint-Julien, and to the Romanesque profile of the château of Montmelas, concluding with dedicatory verses to the vigneron. The play proper is set in the kitchen of Jean Servigne, a vigneron of Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, rendered through detailed stage directions that inventory the farmhouse interior. Scene I introduces Clémence Servigne and her son Jean-Claude, who declares his love for Denise and seeks his mother’s support. Jean Servigne is initially reluctant but is persuaded by Clémence, and eventually blesses the union and delivers a climactic evocation of the vine in flower, the scent entering through the open window, and the approach of the vendange, with its sounds of cuve and pressoir, culminating in the promise of marriage and Denise’s role as “Servante de la Vigne.”  Jean Guillermet (1893–1975), editor and publisher, was a central figure in Beaujolais cultural life. His press, founded in 1929, later became the Éditions du Cuvier, issuing over 250 works devoted to the region. A vineyard staged like a theatre, with Beaujolais as its living set and love unfolding beneath flowering vines: rustic, lyrical, and ever so gently persuasive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366769899,"sku":"135-1928--40-40-46121.70625","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00135_IMG_7756copy.jpg?v=1776192844"},{"product_id":"vermorel-revue-trimestrielle-1890","title":"Revue trimestrielle de la Station Viticole de Villefranche (Rhône)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRésumé des Travaux des Laboratoires \u0026amp; Champs d'Expériences de M. V. Vermorel en 1889. Quarterly Review of the Viticultural Station of Villefranche (Rhone). Summary of the work of the laboratories and experimental fields of M. V. Vermorel in 1889. 1890 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., XII, 13-158, [16], plates A-I, [1] r.e. Mâcon Protat Frères Original printed wrappers, soiled and with foxing; upper wrapper with two small ink stains, and a manuscript annotation in pencil \"a conserver - Station ou Papa a travaille longtemps\" (To be kept - office\/station where Father worked for a long time). Both covers have been reattached with museum-grade tape. Interior clean. One lithographic plate in front of the title page. Eleven plates in the end of the volume, some in color lithography, all preserved by protective tissue paper. A good copy. This volume is the first issue of the quarterly sold  at the Station Viticole de Villefranche, the first privately funded viticultural research station in France, founded in 1888 by Victor Vermorel on the property known as Les Roches at Villefranche-sur-Saône. At a moment when French viticulture was emerging from the devastation of phylloxera while confronting a range of secondary insect pests, the publication served at once as the station's report on laboratory and field experiments and as a contribution to applied entomological science. The station joined chemical and microbiological work to field trials, framing insect study not as abstract natural history but as an urgent agricultural problem. Subscription was fixed at 20 francs per annum, with exchange copies offered to all agricultural stations and schools, underscoring its intended place within a wider scientific and agronomic network.  The volume opens with a black\/white lithographic image of the Laboratoire and a description of the station at Villefranche, followed by a letter dated Paris, 12 January 1890, in which Dr. Émile Guyot endorses Vermorel’s program, commending the union of laboratory science with practical field observation. The text is then organised around two principal studies. The first, Contributions à l’étude du Gribouri, examines Bromius obscurus, correcting the misconception that its larvae feed on leaves rather than roots. The second, more extensive, La Cochylis, constitutes a full monograph on Eupoecilia ambiguella, tracing its history, distribution, and life cycle, and situating it within both classical agronomic literature and modern viticultural practice. Vermorel discusses methods of control, including mechanical and chemical approaches, and illustrates his patented Décortiqueur Vermorel. The closing sections gather an extensive multilingual bibliography, a departmental register of correspondents reporting infestations, and a brief note on the hybrid rootstock Solonis Feytel. The plates constitute a substantial and carefully conceived apparatus of observation, uniting didactic clarity with scientific precision. Executed in both color and line, they render the successive states of the insects with notable exactitude, from ovum to larval and chrysalid forms, while also documenting the visible effects of infestation upon the vine. Particular attention is given to the conditions of experimentation: trellised enclosures, glass vessels, and other contrivances are depicted with an technical sobriety, allowing the reader to reconstruct the procedures adopted at the station. The visual program extends further to the microhabitats of the species, illustrating the concealed refuges of the chrysalis within bark and old wood, as well as the presence of parasitic predators. Complementing these analytical images, three plans presents the experimental vineyards, delineated with cartographic care and drawn to scale, thereby situating the entomological inquiry within its precise agricultural context. A nicely illustrated study of wine and its insects, born in France's first privately funded vine laboratory at a moment when viticulture itself was fighting for survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097366868203,"sku":"137-1890--220-40-46121.6402777778","price":220.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00137_IMG_7783copy.jpg?v=1776192563"},{"product_id":"saint-aubin-art-du-brodeur-1770","title":"L'Art du Brodeur","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Art of the Embroiderer. 1770 First Edition Pp. [1], (4), 50, 10 plates, (2), [1] r.e. Paris Saillant \u0026amp; Nyon et Desaint Contemporary half calf, spine with seven raised bands, gilt title on a leather label; marbled boards; slight scuffing to the edges; some fading to the upper portion of the leather on both boards. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate to the upper pastedown of P.J.A. Morange. Gathering G browned. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces. Fresh plates. A very good copy. A famous volume from the apogee of French decorative arts, in which Saint-Aubin codifies embroidery as a disciplined art and cultivated expression of an elevated lifestyle. In fact, the treatise forms part of a broader eighteenth-century effort, overseen by the Académie des Sciences, to codify the métiers of luxury.  L’Art du Brodeur unites historical reflection with technical precision, tracing the practice from antiquity to its most refined manifestations in the courts of Europe. Saint-Aubin advances embroidery as an art where balance, proportion, and harmony derive from the primacy of drawing. His reflections on materials and global traditions, from Chinese silk to the inventive transformation of natural substances, situate the craft within a broader testimony on human industry and ornament. The authority of the treatise is attested by its enduring reception: Emile Zola in Le Rêve draws extensively on Saint-Aubin’s work: its workshop scenes, vocabulary, and even compositional details closely modelled on the engravings and terminology of L’Art du Brodeur (source: the Voltaire Foundation). A comprehensive manual of techniques, encompassing relief embroidery both high and low, gold and silver thread applied over shaped supports, shaded gold, satin stitches in their traditional and modified forms, chain stitch, tambour, couching, knots, sequins, appliqué, and white work. These instructions occupy the first 31 pages and are followed by a vocabulary explaining the principal terms necessary to understand the art of embroidery (pp. 32–41), an explanation of the illustrative tables (pp. 42–50), and finally ten etchings, each composed of multiple detailed elements. The plates, executed by Augustin de Saint-Aubin, render tools, patterns, and procedures with notable clarity. The author, active within a family of embroiderers who rose from provincial origins to Parisian distinction, inherited a craft already dignified by royal patronage. His father held the title of Brodeur du Roi, and Charles-Germain himself enjoyed the favour of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour, adopting the designation Dessinateur du Roi pour la Broderie et la Dentelle. What is more delicate than embroidery, and more luxurious than the French court of the eighteen century? This manual marries technical precision with artistic beauty, documenting what the king and his court adored, and elevating craftsmen (and craftswomen) to celebrity status, so much so that even Émile Zola drew inspiration from it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097442201835,"sku":"81-1770--870-460-2025","price":870.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/0081_IMG_7562copy2.jpg?v=1776294163"},{"product_id":"bocchi-symbolicarum-quaestionum-1574","title":"Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere","description":"\u003cp\u003eQuas serious ludebat, libri quinque. Emblems or Symbolic Questions, of different kinds, which the author played seriously, in five books. 1574 Second Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [48], CCCLVII, [1], [1] r.e. Bononiae (Bologna) Apud Societatem Typographiae Bononiensis Contemporary yapp binding in limp vellum, with a gilt double fillet border and foliate corner pieces to the boards; the smooth spine is divided by five double fillets enclosing four floral rosettes. Some expected rubbing to the edges and spine, particularly at head and foot. The title page bears a circular ink stamp ex-libris of Pasquale Oliva, 1976, and a second armorial ex-libris label of the Lamberti family with the motto \"Cosa fatta capo ha\"; a third ex-libris appears on the front pastedown, for Malesci, with the motto \"Silendo volo\", signed by the artist B. Bartoccini, 1990. A fresh, wide-margined, clean copy in excellent condition throughout. Achille Bocchi's Symbolicarum Quaestionum de Universo Genere is one of the most intellectually ambitious emblem books of the sixteenth century. First published in Bologna in 1555 at Bocchi's own Nova Academica Bocchiana press, the work appears here in its second and final edition of 1574 — the first publication issued by the newly founded Società Tipografica Bolognese. The title announces its programme through the phrase serio ludere — playing seriously — a humanist ideal in the spirit of Horace's Ars Poetica, placing the work within a tradition that includes Erasmus's Adagia and the emblem literature inaugurated by Alciati's Emblemata of 1531. Bocchi's relation to Alciati was one of intellectual kinship: the Syntagma index records at p. 87 the dedication Ad Andream Alciatum amicorum optimum - to Andrea Alciati, best of friends - an explicit homage to the founder of the genre embedded within the body of the work itself. Symbolic literature is treated here not as light diversion but as a vehicle for theology, philosophy, moral inquiry, and philology, structured across four formal classes as the Syntagma makes clear. The visual programme is equally distinguished. The 151 full-page copperplate engravings were executed by Giulio Bonasone after designs principally by Prospero Fontana, with some attributed to Parmigianino. Bonasone, who is believed to have trained with Marcantonio Raimondi, brought to the plates a formal elegance well suited to Bocchi's allegorical register. For this 1574 edition, the plates were retouched throughout by Agostino Carracci — then seventeen years old and at the very beginning of his career as an engraver — who also appears to have newly engraved plate I in copper, replacing the woodcut that had served in the 1555 printing. The occurrence of first and second states varies from copy to copy, making precise collation complex, as noted by Ruth Mortimer. A further biographical thread connects the artists: Prospero Fontana, who provided the majority of the designs, later opened the Bolognese painting school attended by the young Carracci cousins, making the Symbolicarum Quaestionum a small but telling document in the formation of that tradition. The work comprises five books and 151 emblems, each furnished with a Latin or Greek title, an individual dedication, a verse epigram, and a full-page copperplate illustration. The complete scholarly apparatus is present in this copy, including the Syntagma — a thematic index distributing all 151 emblems across four classes: theological and metaphysical emblems; natural philosophy; ethics, governance, and exemplary conduct; rhetoric, dialectic, and language. Greek formulae pervade the scholarly apparatus, and the four-class structure draws on Aristotelian categories, while the emblems themselves engage extensively with mythographic and Neoplatonic traditions (the two strands running in productive parallel rather than strict philosophical alignment, in a manner typical of the Bolognese university milieu). The dedicatees map the intellectual geography of mid-sixteenth-century Italy: Cosimo I de' Medici receives the opening emblem Sapientiae species inenarrabilis; other dedicatees include Andrea Alciato, Farnese and Sforza family members, alongside civic emblems such as the city of Bologna. Among the most visually pleasing images are the moral ones, addressing governance, avarice, patience, ambition, and military virtue alongside classical exempla. A work of exceptional scholarly completeness, representing one of the summits of the Renaissance emblem tradition in its most refined printed form. Humanist gems on paper: Bocchi turns theology, myth, and philosophy into emblems, while Parmigianino and a teenage Agostino Carracci show their mastery on some plates, engraved by Giulio Bonasone on designs by Fontana.  Serious play (quoting the title page), and utterly our weakness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097442234603,"sku":"83-1574--2100-1470-46109.7256944444","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/0083_IMG_7363copy.jpg?v=1776195748"},{"product_id":"porcacchi-l-isole-piu-famose-1572","title":"L'isole più famose del mondo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most famous islands of the world. 1572 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [24], 117, [3] , [1] r.e. Venetia (Venice) Simon Galignani Modern mute vellum binding with modern endpapers. Architectural frontispiece with putti and statues; early manuscript ownership note in ink at the lower margin “Joannis Cesaris Scholaris.” Occasional marginal staining, but the copy is generally fresh and clean, with wide margins. Small tear with loss to the margin of the first two leaves; the lower margins of the same leaves worn. A small ink stain at the Dedication, with a minute hole touching the text but not affecting legibility. Leaves a–a4 and b–b2 (Tavola di tutte le cose) misbound after quire b3 (Prohemio), so that the proemio is interrupted by the index, though complete. The final leaf of the introduction is blank and shows a small wormhole in the lower inner corner; a similar defect appears on p. 1, both with early restoration. Tear in the lower margin of p. 11 restored. Very slight restorations at the inner margins of a few other leaves at the beginning of the volume, likely executed at the time of rebinding. Woodcut initials and tailpieces. Page 51 misnumbered 50. Tear with small loss at the lower corner of p. 57, well clear of the text. Early manuscript note in Italian in the margin of p. 102 \"Animale di stravagante figura\". Printer's device at the last leaf. The famous 30 engraved copper plates with geographical maps are fresh and in great condition. A complete copy, in a modern binding, internally in excellent condition. L'isole piu famose del mondo stands at the point where Renaissance humanism, cartography, and the literature of discovery briefly converged in a new form. It is the most influential Italian 'isolario' (book about islands) of the sixteenth century, and the first book of its kind to be illustrated with beautiful copper-engraved maps. Conceived by Tommaso Porcacchi, a Florentine humanist and protege of Cosimo I de' Medici, as a comprehensive geographical and historical survey of the world's notable islands, it moves from the familiar shores of the Mediterranean to the newly discovered territories of the Americas and the Pacific. In doing so, it transforms the older isolario tradition from a mainly derivative descriptive genre into a more ambitious work of historical geography, one that Porcacchi explicitly grounded in both classical authorities and reports gathered from travellers and mariners. That claim, unusual in the genre, is part of what gives the book its intellectual modernity. The edition also matters as a landmark in the visual history of geography. Its maps were engraved by Girolamo Porro of Padua, whose fine copperwork gave the volume a precision and elegance unmatched by the woodcut isolarii of Bordone and his predecessors. What distinguishes this form in particular is the way its engraved apparatus carries new geographic knowledge into a format long associated with inherited cosmography. The New World material is especially significant, above all the reduced map of North America derived from Paolo Forlani's 1565 prototype, which helped secure the book's lasting place in the history of cartography. Issued before the enlarged 1576 edition, it preserves the work at the moment of its original conceptual clarity: a humanist survey of islands as sites of history, empire, commerce, and marvel, shaped for readers living in the immediate aftermath of Mediterranean conflict and transoceanic expansion. The work opens with a dedication to Don Giovanni d'Austria, Admiral of the Holy League, and a prefatory Proemio by Porcacchi. The volume presents 30 maps within the text and detailed descriptions of islands from the Mediterranean to the newly discovered territories, treating their locations, characteristics, inhabitants, and historical significance. The New World section includes descriptions and maps of Hispaniola (identified as the first island discovered by Columbus, where gold apparently sprouts from the soil, and the strange iguanas live) and Cuba. The Mondo Nuovo (New World) map incorporates a reduced version of Paolo Forlani's landmark 1565 map of North America - the first printed map to depict the continent as a single geographical entity. Porro's reduction shows the Strait of Anian, the Sierra Nevada named for the first time, part of the course of the Colorado traced from Coronado's expedition, and Ochelaga, the Iroquois village around which Montreal would be built, placed in the Land of Labrador, while Antiquarius Japan floats in the middle of the Pacific in the inherited Gastaldi tradition. The early manuscript note in Italian in the margin of p. 102 points at the description of a strange animal with a pouch on its belly, most likely a South American marsupial. The descriptions of Indigenous traditions are shaped by disturbing bias and tales (as it happens for the native populations of other islands throughout the book). Porcacchi also includes a description of the Moluccas drawn from accounts of the spice trade, of Sri Lanka as Taprobana, treated as an island of almost supernatural abundance, of England and Scotland in separate entries, and of Iceland with its marvels of volcanoes and perpetual ice. These maps did not appear in any isolario before Porcacchi and reached a wide audience through successive editions of the work. Further interesting maps include Tenochtitlan (spelled Temistitan), the capital of the Aztec reign destroyed by the Spanish about 50 years earlier. Despite its location is approximately the same as Mexico City, the ancient capital was surrounded by a marvelous artificial lake - hence considered an island. The volume closes with the Discorso intorno alla carta da navigare (pp. 114), accompanied by a nautical chart of the world, and the Descrittione del Mappamondo, a reduction of Camocio's world map of 1567, both among the most important cartographic items in the book. What's cooler than a book about islands? The relatively small and sun-baked (Sicily, Malta, Cyprus, Cuba) and the gloriously oversized (Britain, Iceland, even America - yes, it counts, water goes all the way around!). Better yet, Porcacchi was among the first to report on newly discovered lands, with newly etched maps, blending classic knowledge and fresh-off-the-boat dispatches into something that feels both charmingly naïve and sharply humanist. Add sea monsters on the maps, and you have a front-row seat to the greatest show on earth: the world discovering itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097442267371,"sku":"82-1572--5100-3050-46109.7381944444","price":5100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/0082_IMG_7527copy2.jpg?v=1776294140"},{"product_id":"durer-della-simmetria-dei-corpi-umani-1591","title":"Della simmetria dei corpi humani","description":"\u003cp\u003eLibri quattro. On the Symmetry of Human Bodies. 1591 First Italian Edition Leaves [1] f.e, [6], 143 (including 3 folded plates), [1] colophon; [1] r.e. Venetia (Venice) Domenico Nicolini Modern period-style binding, full morocco, with blind and gilt tooling to boards and spine; spine with five raised bands. Leaf 29 misnumbered 27; leaf 74 skipped in the pagination (but complete, as in other copies). Four double-page plates on three folded leaves (the first two only on the recto; the others printed on recto and verso on the same leaf, pp. 96–97). 110 woodcut illustrations throughout the text. Very small numerical calculations in ink on the front endpaper, in an early hand; possibly the same hand annotated the rear endpaper with notes in Italian relating to the subject matter of the book, with references to Michelangelo Buonarroti. Minor worming at the upper inner margin of the last 40 leaves, well away from text and images. The folded plate 98 has been professionally restored at the back of the fold. Light browning to a few of the final text pages. A crisp copy, in very good condition. First Italian edition of Albrecht Dürer’s celebrated treatise on human proportion, translated from the Latin version printed in Nuremberg between 1532 and 1534. Originally conceived as an instructional manual for artists and first published in German in 1528, the work applies mathematical proportion to the depiction of the human body in pursuit of harmonious form. Dürer’s position within Renaissance debates is distinctive: unlike Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo, he rejected anatomical dissection, believing that anatomy fragmented the body and obscured its unity. Geometry and proportion, by contrast, offered a comprehensive vision of the figure. Published posthumously in Venice by Nicolini in 1591, this folio edition is a cornerstone of scientific anthropometry. The translation by Giovanni Paolo Gallucci expands the original four books with a fifth, addressing the artistic representation of human diversity. Celebrated and influential, the work bridges Renaissance art theory and scientific inquiry. This treatise, written, illustrated, and designed by Dürer, is the first printed work to address comparative and differential anthropometry, drawing on classical sources (Villard de Honnecourt, Vitruvius, Alberti, and da Vinci) while presenting an original study of human physiques. Dürer’s mathematical system of proportion aimed to provide artists with tools to depict all human types, treating beauty as relative and grounded in geometry. The four books cover proportions of adults and infants, mathematical transformations of proportions, and the geometry of bodily movement, accompanied by detailed woodcut diagrams with early cross-hatching techniques. The volume contains three double-page plates and over a hundred full-page woodcut illustrations demonstrating Dürer’s mathematical and geometric approach to the human form. The illustrations are copies of the original woodcuts from the first German edition (Nuremberg, 1528), executed by Hieronymus Andreä \"Formschneider\" (literally \"the woodblock cutter\") after Dürer's widow request.  The text systematically examines human proportions through constructed scales and measurements: the body divided into seven and eight parts, separate studies of men, women, and children, variations of corpulence and thinness governed by mathematical rules, and figures shown in movement and foreshortening. Giovanni Paolo Gallucci’s Italian translation proved the most enduring and frequently cited version of Durer's masterwork during the following centuries. The work is grounded in the relationship between beauty and proportion, and between microcosm and macrocosm, concepts central not only to early modern visual theory but also to music, physiognomic and humoral theory, astronomy and astrology, cosmology, theology, philosophy, and even mnemonics and poetry. Gallucci further expanded the original work by adding a Preface, a Life of Dürer, and a Fifth Book, which provides a philosophical framework for interpreting Dürer’s original four books and situates the mathematical study of the body within a broader humanistic worldview. A chance to see inside Dürer’s mind as he works through form, proportion, and beauty, across more than a hundred woodcuts on his own design, supporting his original approach: rigorous, systematic, and unmistakably brilliant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097442300139,"sku":"84-1591--4900-2548-2025","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/0084_IMG_6864.jpg?v=1776196008"},{"product_id":"bonifacio-arte-de-cenni-1616","title":"L' arte de' cenni","description":"\u003cp\u003eCon la quale formandosi favella visibile si tratta della muta eloquenza, che non è altro che un facondo silentio. Divisa in due parti. The Art of Gestures, by which visible speech is formed. It treats of mute eloquence, which is nothing other than an eloquent silence. Divided into two parts. 1616 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e.,[20], 1-8, 5-624, [1] r.e. Vicenza Francesco Grossi Contemporary full rigid vellum, plain; smooth spine; some scratches, abrasions, and signs of age, including early ink doodles. Small split at the head of the spine; a small portion of vellum lacking at the top of the rear cover, approximately 1 inch. Leaf 7–8 (A4) inserted twice, and an additional index leaf inserted between A2 and A3 (with a loss at the lower corner affecting several lines of text), making the quire marks A1, A2, extra index, A4, A3, A4. Woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Small worming in the lower inner margin of the first one hundred leaves; a light waterstain at the lower outer corner, more or less visible; a further stain in the upper margin of the initial leaves. Overall, a charming copy of this scarce edition. First edition of this significant cultural work. Giovanni Bonifacio's L'Arte de' Cenni is recognized as the earliest European treatise devoted exclusively to the systematic study of gesture and nonverbal communication. Bonifacio, a jurist who had spent decades as advocate and assessor in the tribunals of the Venetian Terraferma, framed the book as an escape from the courts,from the 'strepiti forensi,' (forensic clamour)and from the 'odioso cianciume e garralità' (the hateful prattle and garrulity) that he names in his dedication. What emerged from that retreat was a vast encyclopedic dictionary of the body's expressive possibilities - a learned attempt to make 'visible speech' legible through the resources of humanist erudition. Its importance lies in that unusual crossing of disciplines: legal experience, philology, moral reflection, and the history of performance are brought together in a single inquiry into how the body speaks before, beside, and sometimes against words. The verso of the title page bears a manuscript epigraph from Dante, Purgatorio X, 94-96: 'Colui, che mai non vide cosa nuova, \/ Produsse esto visibile parlare, \/ Novello a noi, perche qui non si troua. Part One, the great bulk of the text, proceeds 'a capite ad calcem' (from head to foot) through the body's parts, devoting chapters to the head and all its specific parts (forehead, eyebrows, eyelids, nose, lips, cheeks, chin, ears), arms, hands, fingers, chest and bosom, belly, flanks, hips, legsand feet, and even genitalia Within each chapter, specific gestures are catalogued, their significance expounded, and their meaning confirmed by an extraordinary apparatus of classic authors (Aristotle, Cicero, Pliny, Virgil, Ovid and many more), religious ones (the Church Fathers andScripture) and more modern authorities (Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, among many others). The curious chapter on the genitals treats with forensic calm such subjects as the display of the pudenda, the gesture of assuming feminine nature, and castration ('Tagliarsi il membro'), justifying the inclusion of 'gesti obsceni' as necessary to render more persuasive the invitation to avoid them. Part Two demonstrates the utility of gestural knowledge across twenty-one domains of human activity, among which:metaphysics, astrology, music, arithmetic, geometry, grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, poetry, history, ethics, economics, politics, agriculture, militia, medicine, navigation, architecture, wool-working, and hunting. The chapter on agriculture (Cap. XV, p. 589) invokes Hesiod, Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladio, and Virgil to argue that the farmer's art depends as much on reading natural signs as on verbal precept. In the section on dialectic (Cap. VIII, p. 545), the well-known anecdote of Zeno the Stoic illustrates the distinction between rhetoric and dialectic through a single gesture—open palm for the former, closed fist for the latter. The discussion of economia (Cap. XIII, p. 573) extends this logic to domestic governance, citing Hesiod, Aristotle, Solomon, and Ariosto on the husband's need to interpret his wife's unspoken signs. The work carries a dedication to the Accademici Filarmonici of Verona, of which Bonifacio was a member under the academic name 'L'Opportuno.'  Bonifacio turns every nod, wink, movement, and awkward silence into scholarship, sustained by learned citation and an almost encyclopedic command of sources. The treatise unfolds as a continually surprising inquiry, poised between Semiotics, Anthropology, and Rhetoric, and animated throughout by the intellectual energy of humanist proto-theory, dense with quotation and attentive to the strata of learned tradition and folklore alike. The body speaks; this book gives it footnotes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150053454059,"sku":"138-1616--920-494.48-2026","price":920.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00138_IMG_8007_9533c603-d369-490f-9714-733c1ee0e820.jpg?v=1777186871"},{"product_id":"cavallo-a-complete-treatise-1777","title":"A complete treatise of electricity in theory and practice","description":"\u003cp\u003ewith original experiments A Complete Treatise of Electricity in Theory and Practice, with Original Experiments 1777 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., xvi, viii, 412 [4], III folded plates London Edward and Charles Dilly Contemporary light blue boards, with slight signs of wear. Uncut, very light foxing at limited leaves. Pp. 41-48 omitted in pagination, as customary. In excellent condition. First edition of the author's first substantial scientific publication, and one of the most important English-language treatises on electricity of the 18th century, when discoveries about electricity (linked to figures like Franklin and Volta, and to devices such as Leyden jars, lightning rods, and electrometers) were being organized into a clearer, teachable system.Published just two years before his election as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1779, the Treatise established his reputation as the foremost English-language systematizer of electrical knowledge, thanks to its disciplined arrangement of a rapidly expanding field: electricity becoming not only a subject of wonder, but a practical, illustrated, and increasingly standardized science. The treatise is divided into four parts, reflecting the author's conviction that the science could be presented with full rigour only by separating established fact from hypothesis, and both from practical instruction. Part I, \"Fundamental Laws of Electricity,\" treats basic terminology, electrics and conductors, positive and negative electricity, methods of excitation, communicated electricity, the Leyden phial, atmospheric electricity, practical advantages, and a summary of principal properties. Part II, \"Theory of Electricity,\" is expressly hypothetical, with the preface noting that this section relates \"not to facts, but to opinions\" and that the \"great improbability of most of these hypotheses\" kept it brief. Part III, \"Practical Electricity,\" covers apparatus, machine design, components, experimental setup, attraction and repulsion, electric light, the Leyden phial, charged electrics, lightning conductors, the electrical battery, and further properties of the Leyden phial. Part IV, \"New Experiments in Electricity,\" presents the author's contributions: the electrical kite and kite experiments, atmospheric and rain electrometers, the electrophorus, a machine for producing perpetual electricity, experiments on colours, and promiscuous experiments. The introduction traces the history from Theophrastus and amber through William Gilbert (hailed as the father of the science), Boyle, Otto von Guericke, Newton, Hawkesbee, and Stephen Grey, whose rediscovery marks the \"true flourishing era.\" The three folding copperplates, engraved by John Lodge after drawings by T. Conde, depict machines, Leyden jars, electrometers, conductors, kite apparatus, and related instruments. The work went through three further editions in the author's lifetime, the second in 1782 and the third in three volumes between 1786 and 1795, each substantially enlarged, and remained a standard reference for both neophytes and advanced experimenters.  Cavallo's treatise tames electricity's chaos into elegant order, complete with gleaming instruments and bold ideas: Enlightenment curiosity wired into a beautifully teachable form - for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150053552363,"sku":"139-1777--850-123-2026","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00139_IMG_8001.jpg?v=1777186983"},{"product_id":"tourneux-encyclopedie-chemins-1844","title":"Encyclopédie des chemins de fer et des machines a vapeur","description":"\u003cp\u003eà l'usage des praticiens et des gens du monde Encyclopedia of Railways and Steam Engines. For the use of practitioners and people of the world 1844 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [8], 520, XII folded tables, [1] r.e. Paris Paul Renouard Half calf over marbled boards, smooth spine with seven decorative gilt fillets, gilt title; edges sprinkled in blue. Foxing, slightly more pronounced at the beginning of the volume, becoming progressively rarer thereafter. Twelve plates mounted at the time of the binding and folded, in very good conditions. Small engraved illustrations in the text. A very good copy. First edition of this richly documented encyclopedic dictionary of railway and steam technology, published two years after the Paris-Versailles disaster of 8 May 1842, which intensified public, scientific, and legislative scrutiny of rail safety. Tourneux places rail transport within its full nineteenth-century framework: mechanics, metallurgy, bridge engineering, steam power, law, tariffs, measurement, and administration. The alphabetical form gives that rapidly evolving vocabulary practical order, preserving a field still experimental and at times dangerous, yet increasingly shaped by the conviction that disciplined knowledge could make modern transport safer and more legible. Arranged alphabetically, the work covers the technical, commercial, juridical, and scientific language of the railway and steam age. Entries move from mechanics to infrastructure and governance: \"Abattre\" (lowering heavy machine components for inspection), \"Accéléré\" (acceleration and motion), \"Dent\" (gear teeth), \"Fer\" and \"Fil de fer\" (industrial iron and wire), and \"Ferme\" (truss construction), alongside \"Abonnement\" (subscription contracts), \"Barrières\" (level crossings), \"Bascule\" (weighbridges), \"Bassin\" (hydrographic basins for route planning), \"Jurisprudence,\" \"Jury\" (indemnification tribunals under the law of 3 May 1841), and metrological entries such as \"Kilogramme\" and \"Kilomètre.\" Particularly notable is \"Chemin de fer,\" which tabulates decreed, conceded, and operational European lines as of 1844, organized by country and illustrated with major routes across France, the British Isles, and the German-speaking states. \"Accidens\" treats railway danger with unusual frankness, describing uncontrolled steam as destructive and presenting accidents as a structural risk of technical progress pending fuller scientific control. The scope also includes steam navigation (\"Bateaux à vapeur\") and vehicle dynamics (\"Lacet,\" on lateral carriage oscillation), with comparison to the 7-foot broad gauge (about 2.13 m) of the Great Western Railway. Illustration is substantial: twelve hors-texte engraved plates, including several folding sheets, plus numerous in-text woodcuts and technical diagrams. Together they depict locomotives, boilers, wheel and carriage assemblies, bridge and rail profiles, and related machinery, reinforcing the book's function as a practical technical reference. Shaped by the lessons of early railway mishaps, and anchored in a lovingly father-son tribute, this dictionary turns steam-age complexity into clarity: law, commerce, safety, and iron networks spark into ordered, purposeful knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150053617899,"sku":"140-1844--850-123-2026","price":850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00140_IMG_8089.jpg?v=1777187073"},{"product_id":"du-chesne-diaeteticon-polyhistoricon-1606","title":"Diaeteticon polyhistoricon","description":"\u003cp\u003eOpus utique varium, magnae utilitatis ac delectationis, quod multa Historica, Philosophica, \u0026amp; Medica, tam conservandae sanitati, quam variis curandis morbis necessaria contineat Polyhistorical Dietetics. A varied work, of great utility and delight, containing many things historical, philosophical, and medical, necessary both for preserving health and for curing various diseases. 1606 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., 6, 171 [recte 170], 369-463, [6], [1] r.e. Parisiis [Paris] Claudium Morellum Contemporary limp vellum, hand written title and long-stitch sewing visible at spine, traces of two ties lacking. Faint early handwritten inscription at top edge of title page. The engraved author's portrait normally on *4 is missing. Some occasional foxing. A very good copy of this foundational treatise. First edition of this notable compendium of medical secrets by Du Chesne, physician to Henri IV, Calvinist diplomat, and one of the most combative promoters of chemical medicine in late sixteenth-century France.his Paracelsian treatise on dietetics, hygiene, maladies and the deleterious passions of the soul (like lust or avarice), he addresses the distinct cause of illness, situating it within a broader social context while incorporating historical anecdotes, and outlining symptoms, effects, and recommended treatments and dietary regimens. The volume was issued almost simultaneously to its French counterpart, Le Pourtraict de la sante, in an interesting case of self-translation which speaks to the large interest and popularity of the work. Drawing on ancient, medieval, and contemporary sources, it attempts to reconcile inherited medical authority with the newer ambitions of chemical medicine, in a moment when medicine, moral philosophy, household regimen, and chemical therapeutics could still meet within a single learned architecture, before the modern separation of diet, psychology, pharmacology, and moral conduct. The work is structured in three sections, following the Galenic framework of the non-naturals, enriched throughout with Paracelsian interpretation and extensive historical and medical citation. Section One, devoted to the perturbations of the soul, comprises nine chapters examining the medical consequences of ambition, avarice, envy, carnal love (amor venereus), wrath arising from bilious affection, joy, fear, and sadness. Each is treated through a combination of historical exempla, symptomatology, physiological analysis, and therapeutic guidance, forming a discourse that bridges moral philosophy and medicine. The notable chapter \"De amore venereo\" (Cap. V) traces erotic pathology from desire through jealousy, fury, and vengeance, to the ultimate fear of punishment, accompanied by marginal glosses identifying the \"fructus venereæ amoris.\" Section Two addresses the external non-naturals, including air, winds, and alimentation. Pathological discussions encompass sudor anglicus (sweating sickness), scurvy, Alsatian colic, Hungarian fever, and scrofula, alongside detailed treatment of bread and potable preparations. Central to this section is Chapter VI, \"De Vino, aliisque potibus\" (from fol. 104), a substantial and self-contained treatise on wine. Du Chesne presents wine as a divine gift for the recreation of the heart, before establishing a systematic taxonomy by colour (white, straw, pale, ruby, granato), taste (sweet, austere, pontic, mature, unripe), consistency (subtle and spirituous versus dense and sedimented), and odour. French wines receive extended attention: those of Narbonnais, Beaune, and Burgundy for their body and vigour, Gascon wines for their thickness, and Bordeaux wines, notably those circulating through the vast urban cellars described as extending beyond the city itself. Wines of Coussy, d'Hai, and Orléans are singled out as the most salubrious, favoured by French kings for their lightness and lack of noxious vapours. The discussion proceeds to the medicinal virtues of wine, extensively citing Hippocrates, Galen, Aëtius, Oribasius, and particularly Alexander of Tralles on its use in fever, phrenitis, and consumption. The chapter concludes with observations on wine in old age (after Celsus), its use as an antidote to rabid dog bite, and comparative notes on Norman cider and aqua vitae. Section Three offers practical regimens for daily life, treating herbs, fruits, meats, poultry, fish, harmful animal parts, condiments, and foods functioning both as nourishment and remedy, as well as drinks and the medicinal application of wine. Among the more notable passages are recommendations for dental hygiene, including powders of red coral and rose preparations, and a striking denunciation of sugar, described as concealing \"under its whiteness a great blackness,\" causing thirst and dental decay, and to be particularly avoided by the young. The preliminary leaves contain laudatory Latin verses. The tabula capitum at the conclusion provides a detailed index to all three sections, followed by a substantial errata leaf. We suspect Du Chesne knew it all already: he makes diet the quiet engine of health, weighing wine, air, and food with almost moral urgency. He lingers on wine's subtleties, classifying it like a physician of taste, while prescribing daily regimens that bind kitchen to clinic. What charms us are the curiosities: coral powders for teeth, sugar hiding a \"blackness,\" and unruly passions - lust, envy, wrath - corroding the body as surely as any ill-chosen meal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150053716203,"sku":"141-1606--1800-230-2026","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00141_IMG_8023.jpg?v=1777187167"},{"product_id":"durante-il-tesoro-della-sanita-1612","title":"Il tesoro della sanità","description":"\u003cp\u003eNel qual s'insegna il modo di conservar la sanità, \u0026amp; prolongar la vita; et si tratta della natura de' cibi, \u0026amp; de' remedij de' nocumenti loro. The Treasury of Health. By Castor Durante da Gualdo, Physician, \u0026amp; Roman Citizen. In which is taught the manner of preserving health, \u0026amp; prolonging life; and it treats the nature of foods, \u0026amp; of remedies for their harms. With a copious table of notable thing 1612  Pp. [1] f.e., [30], 480, [1] r.e. Torino Giovanni Domenico Tarino Binding in contemporary limp vellum, with moderate wear. Handwritten title at the spine, partially legible. Front free endpaper replaced. Scattered foxing and occasional signs of handling; small wormhole at pp. 107-134. Pp. 465-478 (Vino section) with losses of text at the upper external margin, particularly significant at pp.475-76. Woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. A study copy. Il Tesoro della Sanità is a compact vernacular guide to preserving health, prolonging life, understanding the nature of foods, and correcting their nocumenti, or harms. The work belongs to the early modern culture of regimen: medicine as cure, but also daily governance of air, diet, sleep, movement, evacuation, and the passions of the soul. Its physiology is rooted in the Hippocratic-Galenic system of the four humours - bile nera, bile gialla, flemma, and sangue - and their corresponding temperaments, making bodily balance the organizing principle behind its advice. The book derives from Durante's unpublished Latin manuscript De victus et exercitationis servanda ratione, presented to Sixtus V and preserved at the Biblioteca Estense, Modena. Dedicated to Sixtus V, the Tesoro proved unusually durable, enjoying some thirty editions through the early eighteenth century. The Proemio opens with a historiated initial and sets out Durante's medical philosophy, dividing medicine into the preservation of health and its recovery, announcing that this work addresses only the former. The text opens with a Latin Sommario advising the reader to seek pure air, avoid marshy or sirocco-tainted skies, and orient toward the rising sun. Chapters follow on air, exercise, sleep, repletion and evacuation, and the passions of the soul, before the work turns to its extensive alphabetical treatment of foods, drinks, and medicinal substances. Each entry follows a consistent format: a Latin verse distich summarising the item's humoral qualities, then Italian prose covering its names, qualities (hot, cold, wet, dry, and degree), manner of election, benefits, harms (nocumenti), and remedies. The entry on truffles is characteristic: the Latin warns they generate black bile and injure the nerves, while the Italian prose recommends cooking them with pepper and vinegar against flatulence. The wine section is the most expansive, with the Tavola alone indexing over twenty separate wine-related entries, one of the most detailed vernacular classifications of wine types in any sixteenth-century Italian health manual. Remedies against wine's harms prescribe wormwood beforehand and bitter almonds, cabbage, and saffron afterward - a practical guide to hangover management circa 1600. The work closes with chapters on purgatives and clyster preparations, preceded by an extensive twenty-page Tavola delle cose più notabili serving as both index and ready reference. A sixteenth-century wellness manual with truffles, humours, and hangover cures? Medicine has rarely sounded so practical, poetic, and dangerously close to dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150053781739,"sku":"143-1612--500-230-2026","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00143_IMG_8059.jpg?v=1777191711"},{"product_id":"da-laquila-arabicae-linguae-1650","title":"Arabicae linguae novae","description":"\u003cp\u003eNon ad vulgaris duntaxat Idiomatis; sed etiam ad Grammaticae doctrinalis intelligentiam, per Annotationes in Capitum Appendicibus suffixas, accomodatae. New and Methodical Institutions of the Arabic Language. Adapted not only to the vernacular idiom, but also to the understanding of doctrinal grammar, through annotations appended in the chapter appendices. 1650 First Edition Pp. [1] f.e., [40], 678, [1] r.e. Romae (Rome) Propaganda Fide Contemporary limp vellum binding, spine with five raised bands and contemporary manuscript title; small wormhole at the upper portion. Wormhole at the lower part of the front hinge. The four folding conjugation tables are lacking, as in many surviving copies of a grammar intended for daily use. Some light browning. Latin and Arabic types. Given the rarity of such heavily used 17th-century manuals, it's considered a very good copy. First edition of an important contribution to the understanding of Arabic language studies in Europe during the 17th century. Arabicae Linguae Novae served the various needs, but all very common 17th century, of missionary training, Roman oriental scholarship, and the practical Arabic learning in the Levant. This substantial Arabic grammar was designed not merely for the vulgar idiom but also for the understanding of doctrinal grammar, as its title declares. Its author, Antonio ab Aquila, also known as Antonio dall'Aquila, was a Franciscan of the Strict Observance whose career gave the book its particular authority: in fact, hee departed for Egypt in 1630, served first as superior of the Alexandrian residence, then as commissary of the mission and guardian at Aleppo. After a decade in the Levant, he was recalled to Rome to teach Arabic at the Franciscan College of San Pietro in Montorio, where the Propaganda Fide had appointed him lector of Arabic. The grammar reflects that institutional world: Arabic was not being studied as an antiquarian ornament, but as a working language for preaching, teaching, reading, and doctrinal transmission across Eastern Christian and Islamic contexts. The book succeeds and substantially expands the earlier work of Tommaso Obicini da Novara, Antonio's teacher and the first lector of Arabic at San Pietro in Montorio, whose 1621 Grammatica Arabica had been closely tied to Ibn Ajurrum's Muqaddima. Antonio's work  is broader in scope and more explicitly pedagogical, suited to missionary students of differing levels. Antonio later served as reviser of the Arabic Bible project then underway at the Propaganda press, working alongside Ludovicus Marracci, Filippo Guadagnoli, Athanasius Kircher, and Sergio Risi on the commission for the Arabic scriptures. The grammar is divided into three parts, following the classical tripartite structure of Latin grammars adapted to Arabic morphology. Part One, Orthography, covers the Arabic alphabet in six chapters, with a full tabular \"Alphabetum Arabicum\" showing each letter in its isolated, initial, medial, and final forms, together with Latin transliterations and annotations on pronunciation. Part Two, Etymology, is divided into two books: Liber Primus \"De Verbo\" treats verb conjugation in twenty-five chapters, covering sound, weak, deaf, assimilated, and defective verbs, with paradigm tables for the ten Arabic verb measures, or awzan; Liber Secundus \"De Nomine \u0026amp; Particula\" treats nouns, pronouns, particles of negation, optation, and vocative in a further twenty-six chapters. Part Three, Syntax, addresses concord, word order, verbal and nominal constructions, and the construction of the comparative and superlative. The work concludes with an elaborate pedagogical apparatus: graded exercises for four classes of students, a section \"De Triplici Lectione in Libros Arabicos\" explaining three progressive methods for reading Arabic codices, three reading exercises in the form of a prayer of thanksgiving in Arabic and Latin, \"Agimus tibi gratias o Deus potens super omnia pro universis beneficiis\", an Index Dictionum, or vocabulary, and an \"Epitoma Indubitatae Fidei Veritatis\", a catechetical summary of Christian doctrine in Arabic. The Admonitio ad Lectorem names the Arabic books printed in Rome for which the grammar is preparatory: the Sacred Bible, the four Gospels, the Doctrina Christiana, the Apologia of Filippo Guadagnoli, and the Ars Medicinae and Philosophy of Avicenna. The chapter on Syriac characters, Cap. VI, addresses the Garshuni tradition - the practice of writing Arabic in Syriac script, used by Eastern Christian communities. This acknowledges that missionaries in the Levant would encounter Arabic not only in Arabic script but in the Syriac alphabets of Maronite, Melkite, and Jacobite communities, a practical reality that few European grammars of the period addressed. A missionary grammar with real dust on its boots, shaped between Rome and the Middle East, where language meant action. A grammar that is lived, preached, negotiated, where doctrine, ink, and travel meet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48150053880043,"sku":"142-1650--840-290-2026","price":840.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00142_IMG_8043.jpg?v=1777187288"}],"url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/collections\/highlights.oembed","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}