Over 400 woodcuts for one of the foundational books of modern ichthyology

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

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

45 plates of water architecture of 16-century Rome

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

The Gilded Age timeless guide to elegant dining and flawless service

Practical Arabic manual for 17th century working missionaries

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

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

An illustrated encyclopedic dictionary devoted to railway and steam technology

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

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

Renaissance survey of the world’s islands, richly engraved from Europe to Asia and the Americas.

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

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

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

Mid-century Beaujolais memory literature.

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

Vermorel's memories and tales on Lyon and Beaujolais.

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

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

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

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