The comet Newton would use to prove gravity's reach, reported through observation, correspondence and comparison with earlier comets, with a sewn-in folding chart

A comet mapped in real time against the constellations and earlier comets, with a folding plate and an author who declines to read it as an omen

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

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

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

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

Tobacco as a miracle herb, with images of Native American traditional knowledge, Persian pipes recorded in a Western book for the first time, and botanical beauties.

Over a hundred Roman war machines (including incredible diving bells) charming readers for centuries.

The foundation of modern mechanical engineering.

Pyrotechnics: from military craft to a disciplined science of spectacle.

A sparkling fusion of chemistry and theatre in a rare fireworks manual.

Early 20th-century Italian botanical herbarium with 12 specimens

Rare 1754 treatise, Maffei’s reasoned reply to witchcraft panic.

Diet and the passions of the soul as both cause and cure of illness, in one of the earliest treatises to bind kitchen and medicine into a single discipline

A Portuguese history of creation, between the Bible and Science

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

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