45 hand-colored plates for over 300 images of ancient Egypt in large folio format

One hundred Aesopian fables illustrated by Du Pérac after Ligorio: classical antiquity reimagined for Counter-Reformation education

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

An archaeological masterpiece: 65 chromolithographs preserving Pompeii's vanished frescoes.

Forty-five plates to document one of the first museums and libraries, still shimmering with Baroque wunderkammer flair.

Early 18th-century vellum binding with curious provenance.

Early ice skating manual, with charming illustrations and Goethe poetry

First edition of the first printed French manual of silk design, published against the wishes of the Lyon silk guild

Early Italian translation of a leading French occultist manual, with hypnosis, magic, and vampirism all together

First edition of the only written treatise by a Versailles écuyer, with nine plates

Horse husbandry by a skilled military, naivë woodcuts and expert plates

The first training method for horse and rider published by a woman, a Paris milliner turned écuyère who trained the Tsar's own horses. Illustrated

A pocket guide to Armour's global pork trade, from the days when Dale Carnegie was one of its salesmen