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The complete catalog of La Fenice Antiquaria. This inventory presents a rigorously curated selection of rare books, early printed treatises, and illustrated works spanning the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. 

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  • Atlante monumentale del Basso e dell'Alto Egitto

    Segato, Girolamo; Valeriani, Domenico

    Atlante monumentale del Basso e dell'Alto Egitto

    1837

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

    £6,218.00 GBP
  • Grapes And Grape Vines Of California

    Bosqui, Edward

    Grapes And Grape Vines Of California

    1980

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

    £1,896.00 GBP
  • Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae

    Faerno, Gabriele

    Fabulae centum ex antiquis auctoribus delectae

    1564

    First Edition, Second Issue

    One hundred Aesopian fables illustrated by Du Pérac after Ligorio: classical antiquity reimagined for Counter-Reformation education

    £3,943.00 GBP
  • Il tesoro della sanità

    Durante, Castor

    Il tesoro della sanità

    1612

    Pocket vernacular guide to health: early modern regimen, c.1600

    £380.00 GBP
  • Diaeteticon polyhistoricon

    Du Chesne, Joseph (Quercetanus)

    Diaeteticon polyhistoricon

    1606

    First Edition

    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

    £1,365.00 GBP
  • Encyclopédie des chemins de fer et des machines a vapeur

    Tourneux, Félix

    Encyclopédie des chemins de fer et des machines a vapeur

    1844

    First Edition

    An illustrated encyclopedic dictionary devoted to railway and steam technology

    £645.00 GBP
  • A complete treatise of electricity in theory and practice

    Cavallo, Tiberio

    A complete treatise of electricity in theory and practice

    1777

    First Edition

    The first and most important English-language treatises to teach electricity, with 3 plates

    £645.00 GBP
  • Della simmetria dei corpi humani

    Dürer, Albrecht

    Della simmetria dei corpi humani

    1591

    First Italian Edition

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

    £3,716.00 GBP
  • Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere

    Bocchi, Achille

    Symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere

    1574

    Second Edition

    The best of Renaissance thinking in 151 emblems, with Parmigianino and Agostino Carracci’s marks on the plates.

    £1,593.00 GBP
  • Revue trimestrielle de la Station Viticole de Villefranche (Rhône)

    Vermorel, Victor

    Revue trimestrielle de la Station Viticole de Villefranche (Rhône)

    1890

    First Edition

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

    £167.00 GBP
  • La Vigne en fleur

    Bonnaud, Paul

    La Vigne en fleur

    1928

    Verse play from Beaujolais, printed as a charming ode to regional wine culture.

    £61.00 GBP
  • Le Vin de nos Vignes

    Foillard, Léon

    Le Vin de nos Vignes

    1950

    First Edition

    Mid-century Beaujolais memory literature.

    £61.00 GBP
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron

    Lagrange, André

    Moi, je suis Vigneron

    1960

    First Edition

    Vineyard memory and expertise, with a lyric and human tone.

    £61.00 GBP
  • Souvenirs, contes et nouvelles

    Vermorel, Jean

    Souvenirs, contes et nouvelles

    1942

    First Edition

    Vermorel's memories and tales on Lyon and Beaujolais.

    £61.00 GBP
  • Le vigneronnage en Beaujolais

    Myard, François

    Le vigneronnage en Beaujolais

    1907

    First Edition

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

    £190.00 GBP
  • Le Pays et le Vin Beaujolais

    Foillard, Léon; David, Tony

    Le Pays et le Vin Beaujolais

    1929

    First Edition

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

    £114.00 GBP
  • Theatrum Machinarum Novum

    Böckler, Georg Andreas

    Theatrum Machinarum Novum

    1661

    First Edition

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

    £3,943.00 GBP
  • La culture des vignes, la vinification et les vins dans le Médoc

    Armailhacq, Albert D'

    La culture des vignes, la vinification et les vins dans le Médoc

    1855

    Third Edition

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

    £645.00 GBP
  • Essai sur l'Histoire des Vins de la Champagne. Bound with: Recherches (...) sur la culture de la Vigne (...) et la confection des vins de Champagne

    Sutaine, Max; Plonquet, J.L.

    Essai sur l'Histoire des Vins de la Champagne. Bound with: Recherches (...) sur la culture de la Vigne (...) et la confection des vins de Champagne

    1845

    First Edition

    Two Champagne books, and a whole industry in transition.

    £474.00 GBP
  • Le Petit Vigneron

    Dubet, J.

    Le Petit Vigneron

    1910

    First Edition

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

    £148.00 GBP
  • The cultivation of the native grape and manufacture of American wines

    Husmann, George

    The cultivation of the native grape and manufacture of American wines

    1866

    First Edition

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

    £167.00 GBP
  • Wine and Wine Countries

    Tovey, Charles

    Wine and Wine Countries

    1862

    First Edition

    Victorian wine data across the world.

    £433.00 GBP
  • Hocks and Moselles

    Rudd, Hugh R.

    Hocks and Moselles

    1935

    First Edition

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

    £167.00 GBP
  • Rheinlands Weine

    Various Authors

    Rheinlands Weine

    1928

    First Edition

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

    £137.00 GBP

All Books

Rooted in curatorial authority and bibliographic precision, the collection encompasses the history of science, the development of viticulture, cartography, and humanist thought. Each volume is selected for its historical significance, textual integrity, and material condition.

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