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Expertise for your bookshelf: Wine, Wonders and illustrated Words. Buying/Selling Fine Books.

31/10/2026

Shall we dance? 💀☠️💀☠️
La Grande Danse Macabre, ca 1728 #
Kings and queens, merchants, bishops, beggars, and lovers all take Death’s hand in turn: so, do you want to join? 👻🎃

23/10/2026

“No decision making authority” and “Staff” wait for you at Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair booth #207 with MJ Rare Books & Manuscripts lovely companion of this adventure, Oct 24-25

11/10/2026

I am not sure what they were up to, but I want to be their friend!

Scienza della Natura Generale (-Particolare). Venezia, 1750

03/10/2026

LA Rare Books at Union Station. Sat 10/3, Sun 10/4. Come join the party at booth 405!

02/10/2026

When you’re wired a little differently, unexpected full-circle moments happen. 🍾💛📚

We picked this bottle of .legrand.latour Campanien because we love brut nature (doh!) and because of its fascinating label, depicting the fossils found in its chalky subsoil. Chalk, as it turns out, is essentially an accumulation of marine microorganisms and other prehistoric stuff. In a weird way, it reminded us of the pages of La Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève (1692) - wired differently, remember?
And while we were happily tripping about millions of years ago, sipping our Ch*****ne… WAIT. We’ve actually visited this vigneron 11 years ago! We visited its rather extraordinary museum AND slept at the property! (email proof attached, because - guess what - we archive everything, included emails from 2015…).
Today’s Legrand-Latour vineyards sit on an ancient seabed, whose chalky soils happen to be particularly suited to growing vines. And Patrice Legrand, a Ch*****ne producer and passionate paleontology enthusiast, created something truly special beneath his vineyards: the Cave aux Coquillages, an underground geological and paleontological museum in Fleury-la-Rivière. It reveals a 45-million-year-old fossilized seabed, a tropical marine world preserved beneath the Ch*****ne hills. The caves also serve as cellars where Legrand-Latour Ch*****nes age. Today, the estate is run by Patrice’s son, Thibault.

Never would I ever have thought that Sainte-Geneviève would eventually find her way into a Ch*****ne story 🍾💛📚.

(Baby-face Paola & Gio in the last slide, for the ones who had the patience to read and swipe all the way through.)

23/09/2026

Lately, we’ve been head under water, swimming instead of posting… with 500-year-old fish on La Fenice swim trunks. 🐟🐠🐡 This is what happens when you’re obsessed with old books and want to bring them on vacation, but they’re not exactly water-friendly (and you’re a little silly, too 😂).
Now we’re back in town, getting ready for LA Union Station book fair, October 4–5 Rare Books LA
See you at booth 105, with proper garments 🤪
P.S. The wonderful fish comes from Rondelet. And trunks are not for sale. But please tell Gio you like his creation, he is very proud of it!

03/09/2026

We are not good at math, but we are very good at recognizing a little gem of a book, especially if it’s connected to the w**e world and features curious woodcuts.
This ingenious manual taught the art of gauging w**e casks: basically, how to measure a cask without ever filling it, transforming mathematics into an everyday tool of the w**e trade.
It’s in fact the first edition, and the earliest independent German illustrated treatise on the subject. Owen Gingerich thought it was cool enough to have in his library, as his ex-libris proves.
And if you haven’t noticed the colophon (I know, the High German letters are not easy), it was printed by Peter Schöffer the Younger, son of Gutenberg’s celebrated partner, putting you just TWO degrees of separation from the invention of printing itself!
Add handsome diagrams, clever red-and-black typography, and a delightful woodcut or two, and this is exactly the sort of book our not-so-math-oriented brains can’t quite understand, but very much enjoy.
Keen, Ulrich
Eyn new Kunstlichs wolgegründts Visierbüchl (A New, Well-Founded Little Manual of the Art of Gauging)
Strasbourg, 1530. Peter Schöffer, bei Hansen Schwyntzern
PS 🍾: those are two bottles of Riesling, which ironically doesn’t like a casket if it’s not super big (aka, the fuder). So, take out your tape measure!

28/08/2026

Rondelet, Libri de Piscibus Marinis. Lugduni, 1554

21/08/2026

Here is the incredible opportunity to see THIS 🤌 Italian gesture performed by a real Italian!
Alright, maybe the opportunity is actually to flip through this wonderfully bizarre (but very serious!) volume with me: “La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano” (The Gestures of the Ancients Investigated through Neapolitan Gesture) by Andrea de Jorio. Napoli (Naples, obviously), 1832.
De Jorio’s premise is that the gestures of contemporary Neapolitans are directly connected to the gestures represented in ancient Greek and Roman art. So he sets out to explain the language of the hands, along with facial expressions, postures, and other bodily gestures - in real life Napoli and in archaeological remains.
It turns out that Neapolitan body language is, essentially, an archaeological survival.

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