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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
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
“Extraordinary is a much abused adjective but it certainly describes...Quaestiones definitae ex triplici philosophia, rationali, naturali, morali “ – F. R. Goff and V. I. Eaton –

Farnese Ottavio (1598-1643).

Quaestiones definitae ex triplici philosophia, rationali, naturali, morali, in Parmensi Academia publice triduum disputatae . Parma, Anteo Viotti, 1613.

Folio (338x233 mm). Collation: +4, A-Y8, Z10, Aa4. [8], 374 [i.e. 372], [8] pages. Complete with the last blank leaf. Woodcut printer's device at end. Fine engraved title-page by Francesco Villamena after Giovanni Battista...
Bodoni’s finest illustrated book

Paciaudi, Paolo Maria (1710-1785).

Descrizione delle Feste celebrate in Parma l’anno MDCCLXIX per le auguste Nozze di Sua Altezza Reale l’Infante Don Ferdinando colla Reale Arciduchessa Maria Amalia. nella Stamperia Reale, [1769].

Imperial folio (552x406 mm). [8], 76 pages. Parallel text in Italian and French. Engraved title-page within architectural border, the typographical title-page follows. Thirty-six engraved plates, thirty of which are...
€ 15.000
An incunable counterfeit

Petrus Ravennas (Pietro Tomai, ca. 1448-1508/09).

Phoenix seu De artificiosa memoria. Add: Verses by Antoninus Aegidius Canisius, Johannes Antonius Plebanus, Marcus Picardus, Hieronymus Butigella and C. Lycinius. [Bologna, Bazalerius de Bazaleriis, about 1492].

4° (201x141 mm). Collation: a-d4. [16] leaves. Text in one column, 28 lines. Type: 114R. Blank space for capital, with printed guide letter, on fol. b3r. Contemporary cardboard, sewing visible on the spine. A...
€ 28.000
The first enlarged Latin edition with a full set of splendid large woodcuts, in contemporary German binding

Mattioli, Pietro Andrea (1501-1578).

Commentarii in sex libros Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei de Medica materia... Adiectis magnis, ac nouis plantarum, ac animalium Iconibus, supra priores editiones longe pluribus, ad uiuum delineatis.... Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1565.

Folio (357x243 mm). Collation: *6, **8, A-M6, 2A-Z6, Aa-Zz6, Aaa-Zzz6, Aaaa-Zzzz6, Aaaaa-Zzzzz6, Aaaaaa-Ffffff6, Gggggg4, Hhhhhh6. [172], 1459, [13] pages. Roman, italic, and Greek type. Woodcut printer's devices on the...
€ 48.000
An ‘Apollo and Pegasus’ binding

Pindarus (518-after 446 BC).

Pindari Poetae vetustissimi, Lyricorum facile principis, Olympia Pythia Nemea Isthmia. per Joan. Lonicerum Latinitate donata: adhibits enarrationibus, è Graecis Scholijs, & doctissimis utriusque linguae autoribus desumptis.... Andreas Cratander, 1535.

4° (214x135 mm). Collation: α6, A-Z4, a-z4, Aa-Mm4, Nn6. [12], 458, [18] pages. Greek, italic, and roman type. Woodcut printer's devices on the title-page, and verso of the last leaf. Woodcut animated and...
€ 190.000
Foscolo’s 'divine Plutarchus'

Plutarchus (ca. 45-120).

Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera, cum Latina interpretatione. Ex vetustis codicibus plurima nunc primùm emendata sunt, vt ex Henr. Stephani annotationibus intelliges: quibus & suam quorundam libellorum interpretationem adiunxit. Aemylii Probi De vita excellentium imperatorum liber. Henri Estienne, 1572.

Seven volumes, 8° (174x105 mm). I. Collation: *8, a-z8, Aa-Cc8. 16, 778, 2 of [6] pages, lacking the blank Cc7 and Cc8, but complete with the blank Cc6. II. Collation: aa-zz8, AA-PP8. [2], 781-1381, 3 of [5] pages,...
€ 8.200

Polybius (200-118 BC).

Polybii Megalopolitani Historiarum quidquid superest. Recensuit, digessit, emendatiore interpretatione, varietate lectionis, indicibus illustravit Johannes Schweighaeuser... Tom. i. [- Tom. iv]. Editio nova. Oxford, William Baxter, J. Parker, and R. Bliss; London, George Whittaker and W. B. Whittaker, 1823. [together with:] Schweighauser, Johann (1742-1830). Lexicon Polybianum ab Is. et Merico Casaubonis olim adumbratum inde ab Jo. Aug. Ernesti elaboratum nunc ab Joanne Schweighaeusero passim emendatum.... William Baxter for George Whittaker, W. B. Whittaker, and J. Parker, 1822.

Two works, in a set of five volumes, 8° (213x131 mm). I. [4], clxxxv, [3], 448 pages; [4], 542 pages; [4], 560 pages; [4], 287, [1], 84, [166] pages. Text in Greek and Latin. The Index historicus et geographicus in the...
€ 2.400
Bound in painted vellum for Marquis Luigi Sylva

Curtius Rufus, Quintus (fl. 1st cent. AD).

Q. Curtio De' fatti d'Alessandro Magno, Re de' Macedoni,tradotto per M. Tomaso Porcacchi, con alcune Annotationi, dichiarationi, & avvertimenti, & con unalettera d'Alessandro ad Aristotele del sito dell'India, & con la Tavola copiosissima delle cose notabili. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1558.

4° (218x150 mm). Collation: *-****8, *****4, A-P8, Q6. [72], 249, [3] pages. Complete with the last blank leaf Q6. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page and fol. Q5v. Woodcut decorated initials,...
In a fine, contemporary Roman binding

Gonzaga, Scipione (1542-1593). .

Commentariorum rerum suarum Libri tres. Accessit liber quartus Παραλειπομενων auctore Josepho Marotto. Quos Valentius Gonzaga Card, primum edidit et Cajetano Fratri inscripsit. Rome, Giovanni Generoso Salomoni,Salvatore Bombelli, and Giuseppe Drudi, 1791.

Large 4° (276x200 mm). Printed on blue paper. [16], 430, [2] pages. Engraved vignette on the title-page presenting an allegory of the city of Mantua, executed by M. di Pietro, who was also responsible for the engraved...
In a fine, contemporary Roman binding

Gonzaga, Scipione (1542-1593). .

Commentariorum rerum suarum Libri tres. Accessit liber quartus Παραλειπομενων auctore Josepho Marotto. Quos Valentius Gonzaga Card, primum edidit et Cajetano Fratri inscripsit. Rome, Giovanni Generoso Salomoni,Salvatore Bombelli, and Giuseppe Drudi, 1791.

Large 4° (276x200 mm). Printed on blue paper. [16], 430, [2] pages. Engraved vignette on the title-page presenting an allegory of the city of Mantua, executed by M. di Pietro, who was also responsible for the engraved...
€ 2.400
Renaissance Architecture, printed on blue paper

Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554).

Il terzo libro... nel qual si figurano, e descrivono le antiquità di Roma, e le altre che sono in Italia, e fuori d’Italia. Venice, Francesco Marcolini, February 1540 (bound with:) Idem. Regole generali di architettura... sopra le cinque maniere de gli edifici, cioe, thoscano, dorico, ionico, corinthio, e composito, con gli essempi de l’antiquita, che per la maggior parte concordano con la dottrina di Vitruvio. Francesco Marcolini, February 1540.

Two works in one volume, folio (342x240 mm). Printed on blue paper. I. Collation: A2, B-V4. CLV, [1] pages. Lacking fols. H1 and H4, probably replaced by the first recorded owner with the leaves from an ordinary copy,...
€ 28.000

Sebastiano Serlio.

Il terzo libro... nel qual si figurano, e descrivono le antiquità di Roma, e le altre che sono in Italia, e fuori d'Italia. Venezia, Francesco Marcolini, Febbraio 1540. (legato con:) Idem. Regole generali di architettura... sopra le cinque maniere de gli edifici, cioe, thoscano, dorico, ionico, corinthio, e composito, con gli essempi de l'antiquita... Venezia, Francesco Marcolini, Febbraio 1540.. Francesco Marcolini, 1540.

With ink drawings, possibly by Francesco Bartoli Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554). Il terzo libro... nel qual si figurano, e descrivono le antiquità di Roma, e le altre che sono in Italia, e fuori d'Italia. Venice,...
A very scarce 1710 re-issue of the first edition (1687)

Hope, William (1660- 1724).

The Compleat Fencing-Master: in which is fully describ’d all the guards, parades and lessons belonging to the small-sword; as, also the best rules for playing against either Artists or others, with blunts or sharps. Together With Directions how to Behave in Single Combat on Horse-Back: Illustrated with Figures Engraven on Copper-Plates, representing the most necessary Postures... The third edition. W. Taylor, [1687]-1710.

Small 8° (152x90 mm). [22], 197 [i.e. 167], [17] pages. Title-page is a cancel. Twelve engraved folding plates. Nineteenth-century English calf, covers within double blind-ruled frame. Spine with five raised bands,...
€ 7.800
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