Pioneering geological study of fertilizing substrates: early terroir science from the South of Italy.

A nineteenth-century laboratory where chocolate, wine, and spirits learn to behave scientifically.

Cantoni’s vine cure: sulfur, science, and social education in crisis response.

Before natural wine became a myth, chemistry was already defending it.

Pruning beyond seasonal superstition, in blue paper.

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 cornerstone of mid-19th century American viticultural literature.

An illustrated Victorian bestseller on vine growing.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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