La Fenice Antiquaria

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

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

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

An 1820s sammelband with Port wine in a storm: monopoly, free trade, taxation, and the fight for control

A pocket guide to Armour's global pork trade, from the days when Dale Carnegie was one of its salesmen

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

A Portuguese history of creation, between the Bible and Science

First edition of the first printed French manual of silk design, published against the wishes of the Lyon silk guild

The first training method for horse and rider published by a woman, a Paris milliner turned écuyère who trained the Tsar's own horses. Illustrated

First edition of the only written treatise by a Versailles écuyer, with nine plates

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

Early Italian translation of a leading French occultist manual, with hypnosis, magic, and vampirism all together

An Italian pamphlet on wine filtration that doubles as hardware catalogue