Rare 1883 Italian treatise on wine preservation methods for the rainy 1882 harvest.

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

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

Exceptional 51-piece early 900 Italian botanical herbarium with original Latin labels.

107 exquisite chromolithographic plates showcasing the finest German poultry breeds.

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

Second enlarged edition of a pioneering English treatise on cider production and fruit-wines, with engravings of ingenious machines and bees as essential partners in the orchard.

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

A nineteenth-century laboratory where chocolate, wine, and spirits learn to behave scientifically.

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

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

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

An illustrated Victorian bestseller on vine growing.

Renaissance guide to memory with vivid woodcuts and the first image of a street bookshop.

Half the fun is in the hunt: can you spot the curious doubles among the plates?

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

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

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

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

Wine crystals science meets Verdiso and Prosecco, in Italy’s industrial dawn.

A prequel to Vermentino’s comeback.

A photo-art book disguised as a fruit manual.

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