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

An illustrated Victorian bestseller on vine growing.

A week by week guide to training vines on open walls near Chichester, UK. With provenance

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

An English fruit-and-vine manual adapted for America, just as European vinifera met a very different reality

Latin chemistry dissertation on sulphuric acid, alcohol, and ether.

An ironic take on the European craze for the Chinese tangram, with 12 hand-colored plates

Ampelographic Americana with bold illustrations and native grapes like Concord and Catawba.

Husmann's American wine manual, revised and expanded for California

Mapping U.S. wine’s first steps, with brains, bottles, and a bit of boldness.

Rare grapes, rich plates, and a vineyard’s lost soul in vivid color.

Nearly 200 engravings reveal 19th-c. grape culture in vivid, botanical detail.

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

Tuscany’s Wine Sage Sent North: Fabbroni’s Fix for Lombardy.

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

45 hand-colored plates for over 300 images of ancient Egypt in large folio format

Italy’s top minds unite in 1881 to save viticulture from phylloxera.

A witty symposium of wine, gossip, and erudition. Redi’s Ode to Tuscan Wine and Its Merry Chorus.

300 tiny woodcuts, a whole universe of human passion from the 16th century.

Deluxe, richly illustrated guide to pre-1600 wine books.

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

Illustrated horsemanship for women

First impression of the novel behind one of the world's best-loved operas