Products
Ditta Farina
Catalogo Generale Descrittivo
1883
Phylloxera-free, richly printed, and packed with grape lore in disguise.
Zampini, Mario (designer); Perrault, Charles (after)
Cenerentola
1940
First Edition
An Italian pop-up carousel Cinderella, designed by a La Scala scenographer
Verdizotti, Giovanni Mario
Cento favole morali
1577
Third Edition
Illustrated fables by a pupil of Titian: 100+ woodcuts reveal an unexpected facet of Renaissance artistic brilliance.
Collection of material samples of manual crafts
Italian catalog of material samples and female manual crafts from the 70s.
Malavasi, Lodovico
Contributo All'Ampelografia Modenese
1879
Ampelographic gem tracing Albana’s DOCG roots and Lambrusco lineages.
Gervasius Brisacensis
Cursus Theologicus
1706
Early 18th-century vellum binding with curious provenance.
Peckham, P. Annetta
Cuttings
1877
A temperance tract from the heart of California's growing wine trade, written by a woman and printed by a suffragist, witha photograph by Bradley & Rulofson. Author's presentation copy, with remarkable Seattle provenance
Paullini, Christian Franz
Cynographia Curiosa Seu Canis Descriptio
1685
Dog science, philology, medicine, and a touch of demonology sniff around the same page.
Dance Like Death Is Watching Tee – Black
Dance Like Death Is Watching Tee – White
Gehler, Ioannes Carolus
De dubia vini adulterati per liquorem probatorium
1782
Leipzig medicine tests bad wine - and doubts the standard lead assay.
Herpin, Jean Charles
De la graisse des vins
1819
Second Edition
Early scientific pamphlet on wine diseases.
Davini, Giovanni Battista; Vallisneri, Antonio
De Potu Vini Calidi Dissertatio
1725
Hot wine heals - or harms - on the path towards Enlightenment medicine.
Vegetius, Renatus Publius Flavius
De re militari libri quatuor
1553
Over a hundred Roman war machines (including incredible diving bells) charming readers for centuries.
Burmester, Theophilus Andreas
De Usu Vini Medico
1797
Academic dissertation on wine as medicine.
Gerlach, Hieronimus Sigismundus
De Uva, ex Physicis
1666
An academic disputation on the grape across science, medicine, and theology.
Langheinrich, Henricus Adolphus
De Vinis
1823
Academic medical dissertation on wine, from its history to adulteration tests.
Schuetz, Guilelmus
De Vino
1829
Academic dissertation on wine: chemistry and medicine, geography and enology.
Garelli, Felice
Del miglior modo di fare i vini comuni
1869
Rural-school enology from post Italian Unification. With provenance
Da Firenzuola, Girolamo
Dell'Agricoltura Libri Tre
1871
Misquoted into Obscurity: Firenzuola, history of the first mention of Sangiovese.
Fabbroni, Adamo
Dell'arte di fare il vino
1787
An early fermentation theory, tested with artificial must - and noticed by Jefferson
Dürer, Albrecht
Della simmetria dei corpi humani
1591
First Italian Edition
Dürer's foundational treatise on human proportion, first Italian edition with over 100 woodcuts.
Semmola, Vincenzo
Delle Varietà De' Vitigni Del Vesuvio E Del Somma
1848
Early Vesuvian ampelography, 112 grape types, volcanic terroir, many now vanished.
Zindel, Christian Siegmund
Der Eislauf oder das Schrittschuhfahren
1825
Early ice skating manual, with charming illustrations and Goethe poetry
All Books
Wine & Viticulture
Illustrated Wonders & Varia
Science & Natural History
A Treatise on Domestic Pigeons
A Treatise on the Culture and Management of Fruit Trees
Acidum Sulphuricum Quam Vim in Alkoholem Exerceat (...) Dissertatio
Al gioco cinese chiamato il Rompicapo