A cellar manifesto against routine, from pre-phylloxera Bordeaux.

The claim to the Haut-Brion name traced back to 1682, with period newspaper clippings laid in. Inscribed by the author.

The embryo of a pamphlet destined for wide circulation, with a curious handwritten note.

A forgotten bird's-eye view of Bordeaux wine, from cépages and soils to the trade.

1 of 15 papier à bras copies inscribed by the author as he left the Gironde archives for the Bordeaux spirits trade.

Ten grapes, one portfolio, and California's first colored ampelography preserved

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

Early scientific pamphlet on wine diseases.

Two Champagne books, and a whole industry in transition.

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

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

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

Vineyards of Riesling and Orleans, Romantic Rhine, mapped for the enlightened traveler.

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

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

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

Pioneering wine tourism guide through Beaujolais by renowned viticulturist Vermorel, with period photographs.

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

Victorian wine data across the world.

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

A gentleman’s guide to wine: sharp, witty, and unexpectedly scientific.

The First Modern Wine Book: Redding’s Manifesto in a Bottle.

Millardet's (Signed) Manifesto: The Turning Point in the Phylloxera War