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It should be a Parmesan binding... — Bernard Quaritch

Marmitta, Giacomo (1504-1561).

Rime di M. Giacomo Marmitta Parmeggiano. Seth Viotti, 1564.

4° (206x152 mm). Collation: A4, 2A-Z4, a-c4. [8], 198, [10] pages. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Woodcut animated initials and headpieces throughout the text. Contemporary (Parma?) brown, gilt-tooled morocco, over pasteboards. Covers within a broad border with an interlacing design and small floral tools, central shaped compartment built up...
€ 9.500
The vehicle by which the concept of historical development at last entered the thought of Western Europe — PMM

Giambattista Vico (1668-1744).

Principj di una scienza nuova intorno alla natura delle nazioni per la quale si ritrovano i principj di altro sistema del diritto naturale delle genti. All’Eminentiss. Principe Lorenzo Corsini amplissimo Cardinale dedicati. Felice Mosca, 1725.

12° (147x78 mm). 270, [12] pages. Small woodcut ornament on the title-page. Woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, with yapp edges. Traces of ties, title inked on the spine, renewed flyleaves. A good, clean copy. Small, almost invisible tears in the text, skilfully repaired.
€ 82.000
“The vehicle by which the concept of historical development at last entered the thought of Western Europe” — PMM —

Vico, Giambattista (1668-1744).

Principj di una scienza nuova intorno alla natura delle nazioni per la quale si ritrovano i principj di altro sistema del diritto naturale delle genti. All'Eminentiss. Princip e Lorenzo Corsini amplissimo Cardinale dedicati. Naples, Felice Mosca, 1725.

12° (147x78 mm). 270, [12] pages. Small woodcut ornament on the title-page. Woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary vellum, with yapp edges. Traces of ties, title inked on the spine, renewed flyleaves. A good, clean copy. Small, almost invisible tears in the text, skilfully repaired. $ 78,000 The first edition of the most influential work by the great Neapolitan...
One of the great achievements in the history of European printmaking

Tiepolo, Giandomenico (1727-1804).

Idee pittoresche sopra la Fugga in Egitto. [1753].

Complete set, comprising the engraved dedication, engraved frontispiece and title-page (on the same leaf), and the series of the twenty-four etchings printed two by two. All printed over fourteen very large sheets (each 537x385 mm; platemarks 190x252 mm, and smaller), on thick cream laid paper, with watermark A, or V and reversed F surmounted by three stars, 1753; final states...
€ 85.000
From the celebrated Pillone Library Vecellio’s drawn maps on vellum covers

Anania, Gianni Lorenzo da (1545-1609).

L’uniuersale fabrica del mondo, overo Cosmografia... Diuisa in quattro Trattati... Di nuouo ornata con le figure delle quattro parti del Mondo in Rame. Andrea Muschio for Giacomo Aniello De Maria, 1582.

4° (218x157 mm). Collation: †8, ††4, a-d4, A-Z4, Aa- Zz4, Aaa-Bbb4, Ddd6. [56], 402 pages, lacking the last blank leaf. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. One double-page engraved map of 'ORBIS DESCRIPTIO'; four folding engraved maps depicting Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Woodcut decorated initials, head- and...
€ 140.000

Pincio, Giano Pirro (fl. 1st half of the 16th century).

De gestis ducum Tridentinorum. De Gallorum Senonum aduentu in Italiam. De origine vrbis Tridentinae. De appellatione et transitu Alpium. De confinibus Italiae. Libri duo. Venturino Ruffinelli, 1546.

Two parts in one volume, folio (310x205 mm). Collation: A-B8; †8, A-M8, N10. 16; [8], 104, [2] leaves. Complete with the last two leaves blank. Roman and italic type. Blank spaces for capitals, with printed guide letters. Contemporary limp vellum. Spine with three raised bands, with inked title. Outer corners of the upper cover skilfully repaired. A good, and genuine copy. A...
€ 3.500
The two rarest Giordano Bruno editions

Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600).

Figuratio Aristotelici Physici auditus... Ad illustrem admodum atque reuerendum dominum D. Petrum Dalbenium Abbatem Belleuillae. Paris, Pierre Chevillot, 1586. [bound with:] Idem. Dialogi duo de Fabricii Mordentis Salernitani propè diuina adinuentione ad perfectam cosmimetriae praxim. Pierre Chevillot, 1586.

Two works in one volume, 8° (163x101 mm). I. Collation: ã8, A-E8, F2, 2A-B8. [8], 14, [2] leaves. The copy is incomplete, and contains the preliminary quire ã8 (title-page, dedicatory epistle to Pietro Dalbene, Iordanus Brunus Nolanus de Quindecim imaginibus auditionis physicae figuratiuis, the woodcut on fol. ã6v, and the Divisio Universae Philosophiae),...
€ 110.000
Giordano Bruno’s philosophical lexicon

Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600).

Summa terminorum metaphysicorum... Accessit eiusdem praxis Descensus, seu applicatio Entis ex manuscripto, per Raphaelem Eglinum Jconium Tigurinum. Rudolph Hutwelcker, 1609.

8° (155x95 mm). Collation: A-P8, Q4. [16], 229, [3] pages. Roman and italic type. Woodcut ornament on the title-page; woodcut headpieces and decorated initials. Some diagrams in the text. Contemporary limp vellum; smooth spine with running stitches, and traces of inked title, in a contemporary hand. Traces of ties. Binder's waste from a printed seventeenth-century German...
€ 16.500
Bruno and the revival of Lullism in the Renaissance

[Giordano Bruno]. Lull Ramón (1232-1316).

Opusculum Raymundinum De auditu Kabbalistico siue ad omnes scientias introductorium... Paris, Gilles Gorbin, 1578. (bound with:) Idem. Ars brevis illuminatis Doctoris Magistri Raymundi Lull. Quae est ad omnes scientias pauco & breui tempore assequendas introductorium & breuis via... Paris, Gilles Gorbin, 1578. (bound with:) Bruno, Giordano (1548-1600). Philoteus Iordanus Brunus Nolanus De compendiosa architectura, & complementi artis Lullij. Ad illustriss. D.D. Ioannem Morum pro serenissima Venetorum R.p. apud Christianissimum Gallorum & Polonorum regem, legatum. Gilles Gorbin, 1582.

Three works in one volume, 16° (113x69 mm). I. Collation: A-K8. 82 [i.e. 80, omitted leaves 63 and 66] leaves. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Six plates hors-texte, including one folding (TABVLA GENERALIS), and one with a volvelle between fols. B4 and B5. The outer margin of one plate trimmed. Woodcut diagrams in the text. Woodcut headpiece,...
€ 52.000
The first publication of the Inquisitorial sentence against Galileo

Polacco, Giorgio (1570-ca. 1650).

Anticopernicus catholicus, seu De terrae statione, et de solis motu, contra systema Copernicanum, Catholicae Assertiones.... Guerigli Press, 1644.

4° (230x166 mm). Collation: *4, A-M4, N6 (quire L signed K). [8], 107, [1] pages. Roman and italic type. Engraved diagram of the solar system on the title-page. Two engraved illustrations on fols. C1v and C2r, showing the moon and sun spots. Woodcut decorated initials and headpieces. Later bound 'alla rustica' (possibly a remboîtage). A good copy, uncut. Title-page...
€ 46.000
Le plus grand poète priapique qui ait jamais existé et en même temps l’un des poètes les plus lyriques du XVIIIme siècle — Guillaume Apollinaire

Baffo, Giorgio (1694-1768).

Le Poesie di Giorgio Baffo Patrizio Veneto. [London or Venice ?], 1771.

Large 12° (179x111 mm). [2], 250 pages, lacking the last blank leaf. Nineteenth-century half-calf, over pasteboards. Marbled covers. Spine tooled in gilt, title in gold on red morocco lettering-piece. Marbled flyleaves; edges marbled. A good copy, repair to the outer blank margin of the title-page, slight foxing in places. A few leaves browned.
€ 5.200
Se ne trovano copie in carta grande ed in carta turchina — S. Bongi

Pigna, Giovanni Battista (1529-1575).

Gli Heroici di Gio. Battista Pigna, a Donno Alfonso da Este II. Duca di Ferrara V.... Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, 1561.

4° (210x152 mm). Printed on blue paper. Collation: A-M4, N6, *4, **4. 105, [19] pages. Complete with fol. N6 blank. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page, a different device on fol. N5v. Woodcut animated initials, head- and tailpieces. Fol. L4v within woodcut architectural border. Nineteenth-century cardboards, covered with brown paper. Spine with...
€ 12.000
At age twenty-three... he already had the talent of a genius — Robison

Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778).

Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive inventate ed incise da Giambatista Piranesi architetto veneziano, tra gli Arcadi Solcindio Tiseio. [Rome, late 1760s-early 1770s]. (bound with:) Idem. Antichità Romane de’ tempi della Repubblica, e de’ primi Imperatori, disegnate, ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi architetto veneziano: e dallo stesso dedicate all’Ill.mo e Rev.mo Sig. Monsig. Giovanni Bottari Cappellano segreto di N.S. Benedetto XIV. Uno de custodi della Biblioteca Vaticana, e canonico di S. Maria in Trastevere. Parte prima. Roma, si vende dall’Auttore dirimpetto l’Accademia di Franzia, [1748, but late 1760s-early 1770s].

Two works in one volume, folio (330x465 mm). I. Seventeen etched plates. Watermarks: Robison 39 (late 1760s-early 1770s). II. Thirty etched plates (two titles, dedication to Giovanni Gaetano Bottari dated 20 July 1748, two plates of inscriptions and index, and twenty-five views). Watermarks: Robison nos. 17 and 36 (late 1760s-early 1770s). This copy also includes nine etchings...
€ 45.000
The device of three interlaced crescents

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375).

Il Decamerone... alla sua intera perfettione ridotto, et con dichiarationi et auuertimenti illustrato, per Girolamo Ruscelli.... Vincenzo Valgrisi and Baldassare Costantini, 1557.

Two parts in one volume, 4° (219x167 mm). Collation: *4, A-Z8, AA-II8; a-g4 (fol. HH2 signed H2). [8], 496, [16]; [56] pages. Roman and italic type. Valgrisi's serpent device on both title-pages, and at the end. Each giornata introduced by a large woodcut (fols. A5v, D2v, H5v, L8v, O8v, R8v, T5v, Y2r, BB7r, DD6v). Numerous woodcut animated initials. Contemporary French calf,...
€ 9.500
A sixteenth-century Lucca edition printed on blue paper

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375).

La Theseide... Innamoramento piaceuole, & honesto di due Giouani Thebani Arcita & Palemone; D’ottaua Rima nuouamente ridotta In Prosa per Nicolao Granucci di Lucca. Aggiuntoui un breve Dialogo nel principio e fine dell’Opera diliteuole, & vario. Vincenzo Busdraghi for Giulio Guidoboni, 1579.

8o (154x100 mm). Printed on blue paper. Collation: a8, A-S8 (fol. F4 signed G4). 8, 144 leaves. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Woodcut decorated seven-line initials and headpieces. Fine Parisian red morocco over pasteboards, signed by Hippolyte Duru, and executed in 1847. Covers within double blind fillet. Spine with five small raised-bands,...
€ 18.000
Two enigmatic, unidentified monograms,on an early sixteenth-century Venetian binding

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375).

 Laberinto d'amore... con una Epistola à Messer Pino de rossi confortatoria del medesimo autore. Florence, Heirs of Filippo Giunta, 1521.

8° (160x95 mm). Collation: A-I8. 72 leaves. Roman and italic type. Blank spaces for capitals, with printed guide letters. Fine contemporary Venetian red morocco over pasteboards. Covers within blind fillets and a gilt acorn and leaf roll. At the centre of both covers two gilt strapwork-pattern tools, the gilt letters ‘.F.G.T.' on the upper cover and ‘. M.A.G.D.' onthe lower one....
Printed on blue paper

Calderia, Giovanni (1395-1474).

Concordantiae Poetarum Philosophorum &Theologorum... opus vere aureum, quod nunc primum in lucem prodijt ex antiquo exemplari Authoris.... Giuseppe Comino da Trino, 1547.

8° (150x93 mm). Printed on blue paper. Collation: *4, A-Z4, AA-YY4. [4], 179, [1] leaves. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Numerous woodcut animated initials. Early twentieth-century mottled calf, over pasteboards. Covers within two floral borders. Smooth spine divided into compartments with gilt fillet, gilt title on blue lettering-piece,...
€ 9.500
The first appearance in print of the Galateo

Della Casa, Giovanni (1503-1556).

Rime, et Prose... Con le Concessioni, & Priuilegij di tutti i Prencipi. Niccolò Bevilacqua for Erasmo Gemini, October 1558.

4° (220x157 mm). Collation: a4, b2, A-X4, Y2. [12], 170, [2] pages. Roman type. Woodcut ornaments on the title-page. Woodcut animated initials, one blank space for capital on fol. A1r, with printed guide letter. Eighteenth-century vellum, over pasteboards. Smooth spine, title lettered in gilt. Edges speckled red. Minor wear to the upper portion of the spine. A wide-margined...
€ 7.000
The first book entirely devoted to good manners

Della Casa, Giovanni (1503-1556).

Trattato di meser Giovanni Della Casa, nel quale sotto la persona d'un vecchio idiota ammaestrante un suo giovanetto si ragiona de modi, che si debbono o tenere, o schifare nella comune conversatione, cognominato Galatheo. Milan, Valerio Meda and Brothers for Giovanni Antonio degli Antoni, 1559..

8° (162x96 mm). Collation: A-E8, F4. 44 leaves. Italic and roman type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page and at end. Woodcut decorated initials. Twentieth-century light brown leather, richly gilt tooled. Covers within concentric frames and one lozenge, at centre large fleuron. Spine with five raised bands, title in gilt lettering. Gilt edges. A fine copy. $ 2,200 The first separate...
A reversal of del Tuppo’s celebrated Hercules and Antaeus lunette

Vipera, Giovanni Mercurio (1426-1527).

De divino et vero numine apologeticon. Rome, Marcellus Silber, 1514-1515. (bound with:) Idem. De disciplinarum virtutumque Laudibus opusculum. Rome, Etienne Guillery, 14 September 1515. (bound with:) Idem. Orationes. Rome, Etienne Guillery and Ercole Nani, 30 September 1514. (bound with:) Idem. Oratio [de justiciae laudibus]. [Rome, Johannes Beplin, ca. 1513].

Four works in one volume, 4° (198x130 mm). I. Six parts. Collation: a-b4, c6; a-d4; a-b4, c6 ; a-c4; a-b4, c6; a-f4. [94] leaves. Roman type. Each part with separate title-page within a fine woodcut compartment of floral design on black ground. II. Collation: A-T4. [76] leaves. Roman and gothic type. Title-page within woodcut border on black ground from the celebrated del Tuppo...
€ 9.500
The first collection of Bembo’s Latin prose

Bembo, Pietro (1470-1547).

De Aetna ad Angelum Chiabrielem Liber. Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio and Brothers, 1530. (bound with:) Idem. Petri Bembi ad Herculem Strotium De Virgilii Culice et Terentii Fabulis Liber. Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio and Brothers, 1530. (bound with:) Idem. Petri Bembi ad Nicolaum Teupolum De Guido Ubaldo Feretrio deque Elisabetha Gonzagia Urbini Ducibus Liber. Venice, Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio and Brothers, 1530. (bound with:): Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco (1469-1533). Io. Francisci Pici Ad Petrum Bembum De Imitatione Libellus. Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio and Brothers, 1530.

Four works in one volume, 4° (210x150 mm). I. Collation: AA-BB8. [16] leaves, the first leaf is a blank. Italic and roman type. One blank space for initial, with printed guide letter. II. Collation: a-d8, e4. [36] leaves, with the first and the two final blanks, and the extra line printed at the bottom of fol. b1r. Italic and roman type. III. Collation: A-G8. [56] leaves, with...
€ 6.500
Counter-Reform Music in Roman Churches

Palestrina Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525-1594).

Missarum liber tertius. Valerio and Luigi Dorico's Heirs, 1570.

Large folio (407x270 mm). Collation: A-U6, X8. 127 of [128] leaves, lacking fol. X8 blank. Gothic and roman type. Title within an elaborate woodcut border showing musical instruments and mythological figures performing music, at the bottom the printer's device. The same border is repeated on fol. X7v, surrounding the colophon, register, and including a different printer's device....
€ 35.000
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