Tobacco as a miracle herb, with images of Native American traditional knowledge, Persian pipes recorded in a Western book for the first time, and botanical beauties.

Esca vine disease insights from 1898 that still speak to today’s vintners.

Practical vineyard manual with large fold-out plate of training and trellising systems.

Phylloxera-free, richly printed, and packed with grape lore in disguise.

Romagna's wines, Redi-style verse, and a deluge of footnotes: cheers to excess.

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

An early milestone in the rise of the modern restaurant, 1780.

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

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

Early Apulian use of Bordeaux mixture via Cavazza and Menozzi formulas.

First Italian lectures on phylloxera, with rare technical insights on remedies.

Early 18th-century vellum binding with curious provenance.

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

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

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

A Hangover Handbook with a Wink: Postwar Remedies for the Morning After.

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

The Grafting Revolution Takes Root in Italy.

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

Tracing Wine’s Tide in the Floating City.

The Gilded Age timeless guide to elegant dining and flawless service

Illustrated practical geometry for the wine trade, printed by the son of Gutenberg's collaborator.

Fully illustrated Bibliothèque bleue edition (with noble provenance) of one of the most famous books of the late Middle Ages.