Catawba’s Spark: Buchanan’s Manual from Cincinnati’s Champagne Moment.

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

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

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

The foundation of modern mechanical engineering.

A pocket science book: classical study, observation, naive woodcuts, and contemporary notes.

Cornerstone of wine literature, law, and Bacchus in a rare red-and-black Giunta folio.

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.

Pyrotechnics: from military craft to a disciplined science of spectacle.

The pyrotechnics scientific manual that first combined the military and theatrical study of gunpowder and fireworks.

The First Whisper of Sangiovese: Soderini’s Ode to Tuscan Vines.

A late Renaissance bridge between philology and agronomy in this treatise on olive oil.

Pioneering wine tourism guide through Beaujolais by renowned viticulturist Vermorel, with period photographs.

Second enlarged edition of a pioneering English treatise on cider production and fruit-wines, with engravings of ingenious machines and bees as essential partners in the orchard.

Simon at his most lyrical, charting wines like a gourmand maps memory.

Visconti dukes, serpent emblems, and manuscript pages.

Tracing Wine’s Tide in the Floating City.

Foundational Chilean viticulture manual by agronomist Manuel Rojas L., the industry's definitive 1950 reference.

The Grafting Revolution Takes Root in Italy.

Simon signs off with style: wine wisdom, wit, and woodcuts in one elegant sip.

Victorian wine data across the world.