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

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

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

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

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

An illustrated encyclopedic dictionary devoted to railway and steam technology

Pocket vernacular guide to health: early modern regimen, c.1600

Practical Arabic manual for 17th century working missionaries

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

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

Two Champagne books, and a whole industry in transition.

Early scientific pamphlet on wine diseases.

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

Victorian wine data across the world.

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

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

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

Mid-century Beaujolais memory literature.

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

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

Mapped and Illustrated Beaujolais: terroir, memory, and wine in a literary homage.

Verse play from Beaujolais, printed as a charming ode to regional wine culture.

Weimar wine culture: Mosel, Saar, and Ruwer in words and images.