An Italian pop-up carousel Cinderella, designed by a La Scala scenographer

Illustrated fables by a pupil of Titian: 100+ woodcuts reveal an unexpected facet of Renaissance artistic brilliance.

Italian catalog of material samples and female manual crafts from the 70s.

Ampelographic gem tracing Albana’s DOCG roots and Lambrusco lineages.

Early 18th-century vellum binding with curious provenance.

A temperance tract from the heart of California's growing wine trade, written by a woman and printed by a suffragist, witha photograph by Bradley & Rulofson. Author's presentation copy, with remarkable Seattle provenance

Dog science, philology, medicine, and a touch of demonology sniff around the same page.

Leipzig medicine tests bad wine - and doubts the standard lead assay.

Early scientific pamphlet on wine diseases.

Hot wine heals - or harms - on the path towards Enlightenment medicine.

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

Academic dissertation on wine as medicine.

An academic disputation on the grape across science, medicine, and theology.

Academic medical dissertation on wine, from its history to adulteration tests.

Academic dissertation on wine: chemistry and medicine, geography and enology.

Rural-school enology from post Italian Unification. With provenance

Misquoted into Obscurity: Firenzuola, history of the first mention of Sangiovese.

An early fermentation theory, tested with artificial must - and noticed by Jefferson

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

Early Vesuvian ampelography, 112 grape types, volcanic terroir, many now vanished.

Early ice skating manual, with charming illustrations and Goethe poetry