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.

Two Champagne books, and a whole industry in transition.

From Roman heat to mustimeter math: a practical vigneron's manual in transition.

Foundational American viticulture manual: native grapes, vineyard craft, winemaking.

Victorian wine data across the world.

Interwar Britain explains German wine through taste, travel, and bottle shapes.

Weimar wine culture: Mosel, Saar, and Ruwer in words and images.

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