Rare 1883 Italian treatise on wine preservation methods for the rainy 1882 harvest.

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

Stevenson’s Napa: Wine Before the Boom.

Half the fun is in the hunt: can you spot the curious doubles among the plates?

Setting the Table in Style: Massialot’s Culinary Optics.

45 plates of water architecture of 16-century Rome

An illustrated cornerstone of mid-19th century American viticultural literature.

Gasparrini names the vine plague haunting Southern Italy’s vineyards.

Caruso backs terroir, touts Etna, and weighs in (unwillingly) on Chianti Classico vs. Rufina.

A photo-art book disguised as a fruit manual.

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

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

Rhetoric Bound in Echoes: A Venetian Cicero in Recycled Parchment.

Verri's definitive 6th edition on mulberry and vine cultivation, a pillar of Italian agricultural science.

Two treatises by Lipsius on gladiatorial spectacles and amphitheatres, freshly illustrated.

Limited De Luxe edition, signed by the author, a.k.a. the gatekeeper of the Gilded Age

Vermorel's memories and tales on Lyon and Beaujolais.

An antiquarian pamphlet on the office of the wine keepers in medieval Nuremberg.

Fifty-three plates of the finest Late Renaissance and Baroque Roman architecture on the go, for Italian and German artists.

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

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

America’s uncanny 1850s guide to indoor grape dreams and steamy glasshouses.

The Gilded Age timeless guide to elegant dining and flawless service