Renaissance guide to memory with vivid woodcuts and the first image of a street bookshop.

Over a hundred Roman war machines (including incredible diving bells) charming readers for centuries.

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

Forty-five plates to document one of the first museums and libraries, still shimmering with Baroque wunderkammer flair.

A gentleman’s guide to wine: sharp, witty, and unexpectedly scientific.

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.

A sparkling fusion of chemistry and theatre in a rare fireworks manual.

Vineyards of Riesling and Orleans, Romantic Rhine, mapped for the enlightened traveler.

Nearly 200 engravings reveal 19th-c. grape culture in vivid, botanical detail.

An illustrated Victorian bestseller on vine growing.

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

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

Science in the vineyard: rare 1802 first Italian edition of Enlightenment (natural) winemaking.

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

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

Deluxe, richly illustrated guide to pre-1600 wine books.

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.