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,... share +
The first Italian translation of Valturio Valturio, Roberto (1413-1484). De re militari [Italian]. Opera dell’arte militare. Tr: Paolo Ramusio. Boninus de Boninis, de Ragusia, 17 February 1483. Chancery folio (302x208 mm). Collation: [*]6, a-d8, e6, f–g8, h10, i-u8, x-y6, z8, &8, cum6, rum6, A-B6, C-E8, F-G6, H-I8, K10, L-N8, O10. 312 of [314] leaves, lacking fols. [*]1 and O10 blanks, whereas the blank... € 90.000 share +
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 share +
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 share +
Poetry, fortune, and gambling. The Spello-Game. [Spello?]. Vago e diletteuole giuoco della diuitia di Spello. Illustrated manuscript on paper, in Italian. Spello (?), end of the seventeenth century- beginning of the eighteenth century. 273x205 mm. 34 leaves. Complete. Four quires. Collation: 18 (the first blank leaf used as front pastedown), 2-38, 410. Blanks: 1/1, 1/2r, 4/10. Contemporary inked foliation in the upper outer corner (used... € 18.000 share +
La chartreuse est un grand et beau Livre... — Honoré de Balzac Stendhal [pseud. of Marie-Henri Beyle, 1783-1842]. La chartreuse de Parme. Par l’autheur de Rouge et Noir. Ambroise Dupont, 1839. Two volumes, 8° (203x123 mm). I. [4], 402 pages. II. [4], 445 pages. Both volumes complete with half-title. Lacking – as with the majority of recorded copies – the last leaf of the second volume,... € 34.000 share +
The Soranzo-Smith copy, printed on large blue paper Svetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (70-126). Le vite de’ dodici Cesari... Tradotte in volgar Fiorentino da F. Paolo Del Rosso Cavalier Gerosolomitano. Nuova edizione con le vere effigie de’ Cesari Ed altre illustrazioni.... Francesco Piacentini, 1738. Folio (296x215 mm). Printed on blue paper. [2], XIX, [1], 377, [3] pages. Complete with the last blank leaf. Title-page printed in red and black. Half-title within a frame executed and signed by John Baptist Jackson... € 8.500 share +
Opere... con la traduzione in Volgar Fiorentino del Signor Bernardo Davanzati Posta rincontro al Testo Latino. Con le Postille del medesimo e la Dichiarazione d’alcune voci meno intese... Novella Edizione, purgata dagl’innumerabili errori di tutte le precedenti... Tacitus, Caius Cornelius (ca. 55 – ca. 120). Opere... con la traduzione in Volgar Fiorentino del Signor Bernardo Davanzati Posta rincontro al Testo Latino. Con le Postille del medesimo e la Dichiarazione d’alcune voci meno intese... Novella Edizione, purgata dagl’innumerabili errori di tutte le precedenti.... Giuseppe Comino; Giovanni Antonio Volpi and Gaetano Volpi, 30 August 1755. Two parts in one volume, large 4° (245x174 mm). Printed on blue paper. lxxx, 343; [5], 344- 669, [1] pages. Complete with the last blank leaf. Text in two columns. Engraved Comino printer's device at the end.... € 7.800 share +
Tarozzi Giuseppe. APOLOGIA DEL POSITIVISMO. Formiggini Angelo Fortunato, 1927. Legatura editoriale in mezza tela con piatti di guardia decorati. Pagine 92. Ottimo stato. Prima edizione. € 25 share +
The last Soncino book printed in Italy Folengo, Teofilo (1491-1544). Orlandino qual tratta darme e damor per Limerno Pitocco da Mantua composto. Girolamo Soncino, 1527. 8° (155x111 mm). Collation: A-P4, Q6. LXVI leaves. Roman and gothic type. Title-page printed in red and black within an elaborated woodcut frame. Half page woodcut vignette on fol. A2r, showing Berta and Milone.... € 5.800 share +
The invention of Macaronic language Folengo, Teofilo (1491-1544). Merlini Cocai poetae mantuani liber Macaronices libri XVII. Non anteimpressi.. Venice, Alessandro Paganini, 1 January 1517. 16° (138x86 mm). Collation: +12, A-P8. [132] leaves. Complete with fol. P8 blank. Italic and roman type. Handsome nineteenth-century blue morocco, signed by Parisian bookbinder Antoine Bauzonnet (d. 1848). Covers framed with... share +
An absolute gem of sixteenth-century book production Folengo, Teofilo (1491-1544). Opus Merlini Cocaii Poetae Mantuani Macaronicorum, totum inpristinam formam per me Magistrum Acquarium Lodolam optime redactum, in his infra notatistitulis divisum... . Toscolano, Alessandro Paganini, 5 January 1521. 16° (120x72 mm). Collation: A-Z8, AA-MM8. 272, [8] leaves. Italic, gothic, and roman type. Fifty-four full-page woodcut illustrations in text. Nineteenth-century red morocco, signed by Parisian binder Hippolyte Duru... share +
The South Sea Bubble Baston, Thomas (fl. 18th century). Thoughts on Trade, and a Publick Spirit. Consider’d under the Following Heads, viz. I. Companies in Trade. II. Stock-jobbers. III. Projectors. IV. Corruptions in the Law and Public Offices. V. Of a Public Spirit.... Printed for the Author, 1716. 8° (189x114 mm). [16], 212 pages. Woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary English mottled calf, over pasteboards. Boards within gilt fillets, spine with five raised bands, underlined by gilt... € 6.500 share +
An extraordinary set, in its contemporary uniform binding Livius, Titus (59-17 BC). Historiae Romanae decades [Italian]. apud Sanctum Marcum (Vitus Puecher), 30 May - 20 July 1476. Three volumes, folio (372x260 mm). I. Collation: [*8, 1-310, 46, 510, 68, 7-910, 108, 11-1410, 15-168, 1710, 188]. [174] leaves, first and last leaves blank. II: Collation: [*12, 1-510, 612, 76, 814, 9-1210, 138, 146, 1512, 1610,... € 220.000 share +
From the celebrated Pillone Library Vecellio’s drawings on vellum covers Tomai, Tomaso (d. 1593). Historia di Ravenna... Diuisa in quattro parti. Nella quale oltre le cose notabili di questa Repubblica; breuemente si trattano principalissime guerre di diuerse nationi.... Francesco Tebaldini, 1580. 4° (196x127 mm). Collation: †4, 2†2, A-Z4, Aa-Dd4. [12], 214 [i.e. 216] pages. Roman and italic type. Woodcut arms of Pope Gregory XIII on the title-page. Woodcut decorated initials. In its original... € 95.000 share +
Trucchi Ernesto. Esposizione della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Inferno. Purgatorio. Paradiso. Milano, Toffaloni, 1936. Tre volumi in-8°. Pagine 615; 575, 571, [1]. Brossura editoriale illustrata con busto di Dante ad opera di Gamba. Lievi mende alle copertine. € 140 share +
A troubled publication, between French Revolutionism and Austrian Conservatism Foscolo, Ugo (1778-1827). Vera storia di due amanti infelici, ossia Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis.... [Bologna, Jacopo Marsigli, 1799]. Two parts in one volume, 16° (130x85 mm). [4], 138; [8], 139-264 pages. The first leaf of the second part is blank. Frontispiece with an engraved medallion portrait of Foscolo, in bistro (85x63 mm), uncounted in... € 22.000 share +
Unopened, in its publisher’s wrappers Foscolo, Ugo (1778-1827). Poesie inedite di Nicolò Ugo Foscolo tratte da un manoscritto originale. Lugano, Giuseppe Ruggia and Co, 1831. 8° (170x104 mm). [8], 87, [1] pages. Original publisher's wrappers. A very good copy, quires unopened. $ 1,400 First edition, dedicated to his childhood friend Costantino Naranzi, of this collection of early poems by the... share +
Roberto Valturio. De re militari. Giovanni da Verona, 1472. In-Folio (mm 310x215). Collazione: [16, 2-810, 914, 102; 11-1310, 1412, 158, 166; 17-1910, 2012, 21-2610, 2712]. 262 carte (comprendenti la quinta e la sesta carta, entrambe bianche, e la carta bianca 197 non in segnatura e... share +
A defence of Raphael and Carracci, printed on blue paper Victoria, Vicente (1658-1712). Osseruazioni sopra il libro della Felsina pittrice per la difesa di Raffaello da Urbino, dei Caracci, e della loro scuola. Publicate, e diuise in sette lettere.... Gaetano Zenobi, 1703. 8° (198x129 mm). Printed on blue paper. 114, [2] pages. Complete with the last blank leaf. Large engraved vignette with the coat of arms of Pope Clement XI on the title-page, rendered by Victoria. Full-page... € 3.200 share +
The most famous Italian poetess of her age Colonna, Vittoria (1490-1547). Rime... di nuovo ristampate, aggiuntovi le sue stanze, e con diligenza corrette. [Venice, Niccolò Zoppino?], 1539. 8° (141x95 mm). Collation: A-F8. [48] leaves, complete with the last leaf blank. Roman and italic type. Old vellum over pasteboards, inked title on the spine. A very good copy. Slightly foxed and waterstained in... € 3.200 share +
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita. Paris, The Olympia Press, 1955.. 2voll.178x110mm; 188pp.;223pp.Brossureeditorialiastampaincartaverdepallido.Scatola moderna in tela. Esemplare in buono stato di conservazione, qualche piccola perdita e abrasione al dorso delle brossure, piccola abrasione... share +
Le meilleur des mondes possibles — PMM Voltaire [François Marie Arouet de] (1694-1778). Candide, ou l’Optimisme. [Geneva], [Gabriel Cramer], 1759. 12° (161x95 mm). 299, [3] pages. Complete with the penultimate blank leaf, fol. N7 but the final fol. N8 (instructions to the binder) being only a stub. Woodcut ornament to the title-page, and... € 48.000 share +
Walter Disney. Le avventure di Topolino [vol I-II].. Torino, Frasinelli, 1933.. Due volumi 217x157 mm; 38 pagine, due pagine non numerate; 36 pagine, una pagina non numerata. Cartonato originale con disegno di Topolino a colori al piatto anteriore. Esemplari in ottimo stato di conservazione. share +
The first original work on obstetrics published in England by an Englishman — Hagelin Harvey, William (1578-1657). Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu: de membranis ac humoribus uteri: & de conceptione. William Dugard for Octavian Pulleyn the Elder [Elzevier], 1651. 4° (225x159 mm). Collation: [π]4, a4, B-Z4, Aa-Ss4. [32], 301, [3] pages. Complete with the blank leaves [π]1, C4, and Ss4. Roman and italic type. Engraved frontispiece on fol. [π]2v, showing Jove seated on... € 12.000 share +
in carta Turchina con Rami cinabrio — Libri Stampati da Giuseppe Bettinelli Valaresso, Zaccaria (1686-1769). Rutzvanscad il Giovine. Arcisopratragichissima Tragedia. Elaborata ad uso del buon gusto de’ Grecheggianti Compositori da Cattuffio Panchianio Bubulco Arcade. Giuseppe Bettinelli, 1737. 8° (204x138 mm). CXXXV, [1] pages. Printed on blue paper. Engraved allegorical frontispiece in orange ink, counted in the foliation. On the title-page engraved vignette in orange ink. Two engraved initials and... € 12.000 share +
Une des plus belles bibliothèques de l’Europe — Peignot [Bibliotheca Pinelliana]. Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti magno jam studio collecta, a Jacopo Morellio... descripta et annotationibus illustrata. Tomus primus [-sextus]. Carlo Palese for Lorenzo Baseggio, 1787. Six volumes, 8° (230x156 mm). I. LIV, 377, [3] pages. Maffeo Pinelli's portrait as a frontispiece, engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1827-1815). II. V, 468 pages. III. IV, 367, [1] pages, one folding plate, showing... € 2.300 share +
