The First Modern Wine Book: Redding’s Manifesto in a Bottle.

An illustrated Victorian bestseller on vine growing.

The first English pigeon book: breeding, breeds, frauds, and 13 plates.

Latin chemistry dissertation on sulphuric acid, alcohol, and ether.

Ampelographic Americana with bold illustrations and native grapes like Concord and Catawba.

Mapping U.S. wine’s first steps, with brains, bottles, and a bit of boldness.

Rare grapes, rich plates, and a vineyard’s lost soul in vivid color.

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

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

Practical Arabic manual for 17th century working missionaries

Tuscany’s Wine Sage Sent North: Fabbroni’s Fix for Lombardy.

Rare 1754 treatise, Maffei’s reasoned reply to witchcraft panic.

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

A witty symposium of wine, gossip, and erudition. Redi’s Ode to Tuscan Wine and Its Merry Chorus.

300 tiny woodcuts, a whole universe of human passion from the 16th century.

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

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

Illustrated fables by a pupil of Titian: 100+ woodcuts reveal an unexpected facet of Renaissance artistic brilliance.

Italian catalog of material samples and female manual crafts from the 70s.

Ampelographic gem tracing Albana’s DOCG roots and Lambrusco lineages.

Early 18th-century vellum binding with curious provenance.

Dog science, philology, medicine, and a touch of demonology sniff around the same page.

Leipzig medicine tests bad wine - and doubts the standard lead assay.