An illustrated cornerstone of mid-19th century American viticultural literature.

Gasparrini names the vine plague haunting Southern Italy’s vineyards.

Caruso backs terroir, touts Etna, and weighs in (unwillingly) on Chianti Classico vs. Rufina.

A photo-art book disguised as a fruit manual.

Privately funded French vine science, with chromolithograph and folding field plans.

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

Rhetoric Bound in Echoes: A Venetian Cicero in Recycled Parchment.

Verri's definitive 6th edition on mulberry and vine cultivation, a pillar of Italian agricultural science.

Two treatises by Lipsius on gladiatorial spectacles and amphitheatres, freshly illustrated.

Vermorel's memories and tales on Lyon and Beaujolais.

An antiquarian pamphlet on the office of the wine keepers in medieval Nuremberg.

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

First Italian lectures on phylloxera, with rare technical insights on remedies.

The best of Renaissance thinking in 151 emblems, with Parmigianino and Agostino Carracci’s marks on the plates.

America’s uncanny 1850s guide to indoor grape dreams and steamy glasshouses.

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

Catawba’s Spark: Buchanan’s Manual from Cincinnati’s Champagne Moment.

A Hangover Handbook with a Wink: Postwar Remedies for the Morning After.

A spectacular stage of 17th-century machines, where art and invention steal the show.

A spectacular stage of 17th-century machines, where art and invention steal the show.

The foundation of modern mechanical engineering.

A pocket science book: classical study, observation, naive woodcuts, and contemporary notes.

Cornerstone of wine literature, law, and Bacchus in a rare red-and-black Giunta folio.