A Masterpiece of Venetian Woodcut (Benedetto Bordone). Lucianus Samosatensis (125–after 180 BC). Vera historia. Tr: Lilius (Tifernas) Castellanus. Add: De asino aureo; Philosophorum vitae; Scipio; Tyrannus; Scaphidium (Dialogus de funerali pompa); Palinurus; Charon; Diogenes; Terpsion; Hercules; Virtus dea; In amorem; Timon; Sermo de calumnia; Laus muscae. Ed: Benedictus Bordonus; Maephus Vegius: De Felicitate et miseria. Simon Bevilaqua, for Benedetto Bordone, 25 August 1494. 4° (216x155 mm). Collation: a8, b4, c-g8, h4, i-p8. [112] leaves. Text in one column, 29 lines. Type: 5:110R. White on-black woodcut candelabra border on fol. a2r, by Benedetto Bordone. Blank spaces for... € 12.000 share +
The Painted Page Lucianus Samosatensis (ca. 125-after 180). Διάλογοι. Lorenzo de Alopa, 1496. Folio (330x235 mm). Collation: Α-Β8, α-ω8, αα-ηη8. 262 of [264] leaves, lacking the first and last blanks. Text in one column, 41-44 lines. Type: 5:IIIGk. Blank spaces for capitals, with... € 125.000 share +
The Aldine Lucianus, bound by the Mendoza Binder Lucianus Samosatensis (125–182). Opuscula Erasmo Roterodamo interprete. Aldo Manuzio's heirs and Andrea Torresano, May 1516. 8° (165x93 mm). Collation: a-z8, aa-ff8, gg6. 236 (misnumbered 136), [2] leaves. Italic and roman type. Woodcut Aldine device on the title-page and on the verso of the last leaf. Blank spaces for capitals,... € 48.000 share +
A handsome French painted entrelac binding, from Benedetto Varchi’s library Alamanni, Luigi (1495-1556). La coltivatione... al christianissimo re Francesco Primo. Robert Estienne, 1546. 4° (209x136 mm). Collation: a-t8, u-x2, *2. [158] leaves. In this copy fols. *1-*2 bearing the dedicatory epistle to 'Madama la Dalphina' are bound after fols. x1 and x2, consisting of the privilege of François... € 38.000 share +
The true porchetta Nardi, Luigi (1777-1837). Porcus troianus o sia la porchetta. Cicalata ne le nozze di messer Carlo Ridolfi veronese con madonna Rosa Spina riminese. Nobili Press, 1821. 8° (209x144 mm). [2], XVI, 134, [2 blanks] pages. Contemporary wrappers, small losses to the spine. A fine, uncut copy. € 800 share +
A late first edition of a lascivious Cantare Carnacialesco, printed on blue paper Pulci, Luigi (1432-1484). Tractato del Prete cole Monache. Tipografia Crapelet, 1840. Large 8° (210x135 mm). Printed on blue paper. [8] leaves. Set in gothic type. Large woodcut vignette on the title-page depicting the encounter between a priest and three nuns. Two woodcut decorated initials, on... € 1.800 share +
The Little Red Book, in the rare paper wrappers Mao Zedong (1893-1976). Mao Zhu Xi Yu Lu [Quotations of Chairman Mao. In Chinese]. Shenyang, Political Department, Air Force Division of Shenyang Military Region, December 1963. 12° (126x91 mm). [6], 351, [1] pages. Text organized into five divisions, sixteen chapters, and sixty-four sections. Publisher's cream-colour wrappers, red-lettered upper wrapper and spine. A good copy, cover stained,... € 19.000 share +
On Sailors’ education Scotti, Marcello Eusebio (1742-1800). Catechismo Nautico o vero de’ particolari doveri della gente marittima. Tratti principalmente dalla S. Bibbia, e dalle massime fondamentali della Religione... Parte prima. Doveri in generale di tutti gli abitatori delle Città marittime. Di Simone, 1788. 8° (182x110 mm). XLIV, 281, [3] pages. Complete with the last blank leaf. Contemporary vellum, over pasteboards. Smooth spine, title and imprint on double morocco lettering-piece. Covers and spine somewhat worn and... € 2.500 share +
The correct eyebrow length Olmo, Marco Antonio (fl. 16th-17th century). Physiologia Barbae Humanae. In tres sectiones divisa, hoc est de fine illius philosophico, & medico. Giovanni Battista Bellagamba, 1601. Folio (286x198 mm). Collation: †4, ††6, A-I4, L-Y4, Z1 (singleton), Aa-Rr4, Ss2. [20], 1-72, 81-317, [1] pages. The book is complete: quire K omitted by the printer. Roman and italic type.... € 6.000 share +
Rare example of a Neapolitan 'speaking-binding' with lettering on the lower cover Sabellicus, Marcus Antonius Coccius (1436-1506). Rapsodiae historiarum Enneadum... ab orbe condito pars prima (-posterior) quinque complectens Enneades. Josse Bade for Jean Petit, 5 January 1513 – 1 March 1516. Two volumes, folio (321x205 mm). Collation: I. ã12, ê10, a-z8, A-Z8, &8, cum8, rum10. [22], CCCXCIIII leaves. II. ãã10, ê8, aa-qq8, rr10, ss-zz8, AA-VV8, XX10. [18], CCCLV [i.e. CCCLVI]... € 32.000 share +
Navigating Venetian painting Boschini, Marco (1613-1678). La carta del nauegar pitoresco dialogo tra un Senator venetian deletante, e un professor de Pitura, soto nome d’Ecelenza, e de Compare. Compartì in oto venti Con i quali la Naue venetiana vien conduta in l’alto Mar dela Pitura, come assoluta dominante de quelo a confusion de chi non intende el bossolo dela calamita.... Francesco Baba, 1660. 4° (203x150 mm). Collation: [π]4, a-b4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Zzz4, Aaaa-Qqqq4, Rrrr6. [24], 680 [i.e. 682; pages 638-639 repeated in numbering], [10] pages. Roman and italic type. Allegorical frontispiece,... € 6.500 share +
Marcus Elieser Bloch. Ichtyologie, ou histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des poissons.. Berlin, l’Autore e François de la Garde, 1785-1788.. Parti 1-6 (di 12) in 3 volumi in-folio (mm 460 x 270). [16], 206, [2]; [4], 170, [2]; [4], 160, [2]; [4], 134, [2]; [4], 130, [2]; [4], VIII, 150, 2 pp. Illustrato da 216 tavole incise a colori e finite a mano da F.G. Berger, G.... share +
Maria Montessori. Il metodo della pedagogia scientifica applicato all’educazione infantile nelle case dei bambini. Città di Castello, S. Lafi, 1909.. In-4° (mm 287x207). 283 pagine numerate, 1 tavola litografica ripiegata e 15 tavole fuori testo che illustrano gli argomenti esposti. Brossura editoriale originale. Esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. share +
The descendants Ariosto’s characters Telluccini, Mario (fl. end of the 16th century). Le pazzie amorose di Rodomonte secondo, composte per Mario Teluccini, sopranominato il Bernia. Seth Viotti, 1568. 4° (200x150 mm). Collation: A-N8, O6. 218, [2] pages. Roman and italic type. Large woodcut printer's device on the title-page; a different device at the end. Woodcut animated initials. The Argomenti, at... € 1.400 share +
Living in Platonic Style Ficino, Marsilio (1433-1499). De vita libri tres (De triplici vita); Apologia; Quod necessaria sit ad vitam securitas. Add: Poem by Amerigus Corsinus. Antonio di Bartolomeo Miscomini, 3 December 1489. Folio (257x187 mm). Collation [*]2, a-d8, e6, f-k8, l6, m4. [90] leaves. Text in one column (the tables in two columns), 32 lines. Type: 112R. Four lines of gilt letterpress at the head of the text on the recto of fol.... € 38.000 share +
The Manzoni-Cavalieri-Martini copy Boiardo, Matteo Maria (ca. 1441-1494). Orlando innamorato. I tre libri dello innamoramento di Orlando... Tratti dal suo fedelissimo essemplare. Nuovamente con somma diligenza revisti, e castigati. Con molte stanze aggiunte del proprio auttore, quali gli mancavano. Insieme con gli altri tre Libri compidi. Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio, March-April 1539. Two parts in one volume, 4° (199x144 mm). A-Z8, AA-DD8, EE10; Aa-Kk8, L-Q8, Rr-Xx8. 226; 167 (numbered I-XLVI, 47-167) of 168 leaves. Lacking the last blank. Roman type. First title-page printed in red and black... € 5.200 share +
One of the two known copies printed on blue paper Biondo, Michelangelo (1500-1565). Della nobilissima pittura, et della sua arte, del modo, et della dottrina, di conseguirla, agevolmente et presto. al segno di Apolline, Bartolomeo Imperatore, 1549. 8° (152x100 mm). Printed on blue paper. Collation: A4, A-G4. [4], 27, [1] leaves. Italic and roman type. Woodcut printer's device on the verso of the last leaf. Woodcut decorated initials. Dark blue morocco signed... € 16.500 share +
A spectacular wide-margined and complete set of Canaletto etchings, in a contemporary binding together with a series by Marieschi Canaletto, Antonio Canal called (1697-1768) - Marieschi, Michele (1710-1743). Vedute Altre prese da i Luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal e da esso intagliate poste in prospetiva umiliate All’Ill.mo Signor Giuseppe Smith Console di S.M. Britannica appresso la Ser.ma Repubblica di Venezia. In segno di stima ed ossequio. [Venice, Giambattista Pasquali, after June 1744]. (bound with:) Marieschi, Michele (1710-1743). Magnificentiores selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum prospectus, quos olim Michael Marieschi Venetus Pictor, et Architectus in plerisque tabulis depinxit. Nunc vero ab ipsomet acurate delineante, incidente, tijpisque mandante, iterum in sexdecim aeris tabulis in lucem aeduntur. Venice, at the author’s atelier, 1741. Two works in one volume, large oblong folio (429x614mm). I. Thirty-one unnumbered etchings printed on eighteen leaves (for the different states see below). Bromberg nos. 1-11, 13-16, 18-33, as no. 12 is the undivided... € 480.000 share +
The first bio-bibliography of Florentine authors, used for writing Ciriaco Strozzi’s biography Poccianti, Michele (1536-1576). Catalogus scriptorum Florentinorum omnis generis, quorum, et memoria extat, atque lucubrationes in literas relatae sunt ad nostra usque tempora... Florence, Filippo Giunta, 1589. (bound with:) Monti, Zaccaria (fl. 16th-17th century). Vita Kyriaci Strozae. Auctior. Paris, Adrien Périer for the Officina Plantiniana 1604. . Filippo Giunta, 1589. Two works in one volume, 4° (231x156 mm). I. Collation: *2, A-L8, M4. [4], 172, [12] pages. Roman and italic type. Giunti's device on the title-page. Woodcut animated and decorated initials. II. Collation: A4. 7,... € 6.700 share +
Ilustrada con differentes estampas muy donosas, y apropriadas a la materia Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616). Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero don Quixote de la Mancha... Nueva edicion, coregida y ilustrada con differentes estampas muy donosas, y apropriadas a la materia. Jan Mommart, 1662. Two volumes, 8° (188x118 mm). I. Collation: †10, ††4, A-Z8, Aa-Pp8, Qq4. [28], 611, [5] pages. II. Collation: *8, A-Z8, Aa-Ss8. [16], 649, [7] pages (pages 529-576 misnumbered 525-572). Roman... € 35.000 share +
Exceedingly rare complete set of Molière’s first Italian edition Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673). Le opere di G. B. P. di Moliere, divise in quattro volumi, & arricchite di bellissime figure. Tradotte da Nic. di Castelli […] Tomo I [-IV]. Leipzig, Johann Ludwig Gleditsch at the author's expense, 1697-1698. Four volumes, 12° (147x77 mm). General title-page printed in red and black in each volume, bearing the date 1698; each play has a separate title-page (dated 1697) along with its own pagination. The volumes are complete, as... share +
The Giunta-Blado competion to print Machiavelli Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527). Historie fiorentine di Niccolo Machiavelli cittadino, et segretario fiorentino. Florence, Bernardo Giunta, 27 March 1532. 4° (205x133 mm). Collation: [A]4, B-Z8, AA-EE8. [4], 9-224 leaves. As in many copies, lacking the final four-leaf quire signed FF, with the errata (fols. FF1-2), fol. FF3 blank, and the printer's device (FF4v). Due to a... share +
From the library of Franchino Gaffurio, musicus and phonascus Perotti, Niccolò (ca. 1430-1480). Cornucopiae linguae Latinae. Baptista de Tortis, 19 October 1490. Folio (307x212 mm). Collation: A-B8, a-z8, &8, cum8, rum8, A-O6. [16], 291, [1] leaves. Complete with the last leaf blank, often lacking in the recorded copies. Text in one column, 64 lines. Type: 78R, 78Gk. On... € 45.000 share +
One of the 'One Hundred Famous Books in Science’ — Horblit Steno, Nicolaus (1638-1687). De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus. Insegna della Stella, 1669. 4° (225x169 mm). Collation: [π]2, A-K4. [4], 78, [2] pages. Complete with fol. [π]1 blank. Roman and italic type. Title-page printed in red and black, with engraved vignette. Seven-line decorated initial... € 32.000 share +
Nicolaus Perottus. Cornucopiae linguae latinae. Venezia, Battista de Tortis, 19 ottobre 1490.. In-folio (mm 307x212). Segnatura: A-B8, a-z8, &8, cum8, rum8, A-N6; O6. 16 carte non numerate, 291 carte, una carta bianca. Carattere: 78 R; 78 Gk. Spazi capitali. Testo su 64 linee. Al margine inferiore della carta a3r... share +
One of thirty printed on Japon Ancien, bound by Madeleine Gras Bonnard, Pierre (1867-1947) - Mirbeau, Octave (1848-1917). Dingo. Ambroise Vollard, 1924. 4° (371x274 mm). 193, [11] pages. Fifty-five original etchings, some with drypoint: fourteen hors-texte plates, forty inthe text, one at the end; etched initials, headpieces and vignettes, all by Bonnard. Black and... € 18.000 share +
The fifth known copy Leonicenus, Omnibonus (1412-1474). Brevis et utilissimus ad scandendum tractatus [De arte metrica]. [Venice, Adam de Ambergau, ca. 1471]. 4° (193x132 mm). Collation: [16, 28]. [14] leaves. Text in one column, 24 lines. Type: 112R, 112Gk. On the first leaf the initial 'P' drawn in ink, by a contemporary hand. Modern green morocco over pasteboards.... € 16.000 share +
A eulogy for Newton, printed on blue paper Arrighi Landini, Orazio (1718-1755). Il Tempio della Filosofia. Poema... di Orazio Arrighi Landini fra gli Agiati, Dorinio (i) In cui con accrescimenti, e osservazioni del medesimo Autore s’illustra. (2) il Sepolcro d’Isacco Newton. Con gli Argomenti di Leontippo Accad. Agiato. Marco Carnioni, 1755. Small 4° (213x142 mm). Printed on blue paper. XVI, 142, [2] pages. Engraved frontispiece signed by Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), bearing two medallions, the first portraying the author, the second showing an allegory... € 2.900 share +
Their splendour cannot be described, and anyone who did not see it could not believe it — J. M. Saslow Scarabelli, Orazio (fl. 1580-1600) - D’Alfani, Epifanio (fl. 1586-1615). Festival prints relating to the wedding of the Grand Duke Ferdinando I de’ Medici to the Princess Christine de Lorraine. Filippo Suchielli, [after 1592]. An album with fifteen double-page etchings and engravings, each leaf approximately 315x418 mm, tipped onto stubs. Eighteenth-century écaille calf, covers within gilt triple-fillet border, at the centre of the... € 68.000 share +
Bound by Georg Friedrich Krauss for Duke Albrecht Kasimir August von Sachsen-Teschen Bayardi, Ottavio Antonio (1695-1764). Catalogo degli antichi monumenti dissotterrati dalla discoperta città di Ercolano... Naples, Regia Stamperia, 1755. (uniformly bound with:) Le antichità di Ercolano, esposte. Regia Stamperia, 1757 - 1792. Nine volumes, large folio (510x390 mm). Complete, with 609 plates (the extra plate no. 610 recorded in RIBA, is usually not included in the known copies). The first six volumes of the Antichità feature a frontispiece... € 58.000 share +
