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Groton(?), Connecticut, 1824-25. 8vo. 215 x 175 mm. [ 8 ¼ x 7 ½ inches]. 45 pp. Original blotter paper wrappers, hand sewn; edges slightly tattered; text written on unruled paper, pages lightly brown with age and a bit faded. Legible hand. Rare manuscript diary, organized by day of the..... More
Paris: Chez Gregoire Dupuis; De l’Imprimerie de Jean Baptiste Coignard, Imprimeur Ordinaire du Roy, 1719. Large 4to. 265 x 185 mm., [10 ¼ x 7 ½ inches]. xlii, 1-120, 131-140, 131-358, [2] pp; page numbers 121-130 were misprinted as 131-140 and then repeated, signatures correct and text complete. Illustrated..... More
Klagenfurt, 1757. Manuscript on paper. Small 4to. 205 x 155 mm. 8 x 6 ¼ inches. 96 pp., plus initial and final blanks. Written in ink on good quality laid paper. Bound in full contemporary calf, all edges gilt; a few minor marks and stains to the paper stock, otherwise..... More
Firenze: Presso Guglielmo Piatti, 1809. In two parts. 8vo. xvi, 195 pp; 124 pp. Bound in contemporary decorative paper covered boards, leather label. Decorative paper shows some wear at edges and spine; a few signatures showing tide marks in outer margins; otherwise a good, sound copy. First edition. Tozzetti’s work..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1998. 8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [viii], 272, [ii] pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; rear of jacket with a cut from a blade about two inches in length. First edition, later printing. We received and reviewed historical novel by..... More
New York: Phaedra Inc. - Publishers, 1970. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [vi], 311 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; jacket a bit toned and bumped at the corners and small tear at lower edge of the front wrapper. Previous owners stamp on front pastedown..... More
London: Chatto and Wndus, 1878. 8vo. 195 x 140 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. xii, 283 pp., plus 36 pp. ads dated October 1877. Illustrated with 10 full-page plates and 18 half-page wood engravings by Randolph Caldecott. Original decorated publisher's cloth; edges bumped and showing very minor wear;..... More
New York: Julian Messner, 1960. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [viii], 246 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with rubbing at the edges, head and tail of spine with minor tears, a bit fading to the color of the jacket, otherwise very good copy.First..... More
London: Peter Owen, [1953]. 8vo. 190 x 12o mm., [7 1/4 x 5 inches]. 211 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; jacket with some light abrasion and a bit of fading to the red; verso of the jacket shows some discoloration, otherwise a very good copy.First English edition. Collection of Pavese's..... More
London: John Lehmann, [1952]. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches]. 189 pp. Publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket by John Minton. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, the whole rather foxed, especially the verso and rear panel, white portions of the spine showing toning, additional light..... More
London: Nicholas Kaye, 1955. 8vo. 225 x 155 mm., [8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches]. 226 [2] pp. Illustrated with a folding map of Naples and 173 heliogravure photo reproductions. Original cloth , dust jacket; jacket chipped at head and tail of spine and a bit fragile; protected with mylar..... More
Waynesville, North Carolina: United Methodist Church, [1979]. 8vo. 220 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. [iv], 138 pp. Illustrated with a map of Sicily and half tone photos of the Sicilian landscape. Original cloth, dust jacket; some staining to front wrapper. This copy with an inscription reading "..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. 8vo. 125 x 160 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches]. 6, 351 pp. Fully illustrated with plates and images in the text. Cloth, dust jacket.First edition. "This wonderful chronicle of Florence is worthy of the City and its lucky inhabitants. Reading it..... More
New York: Book of the Month Club, 1992. 8vo. 235 x 160. [9 1/4 x 6 inches]. xxviii, 682, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with reproductions for early books and charts, chosen by Joan Paterson Kerr. Cloth with dust jacket; in original blue cloth box; cloth of box showing some discoloration. ..... More
New York: Anchor Books, 2001. 8vo. 205 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 1/4 inches]. [14], 396 pp. Illustrated with a map of Italy. Paperback binding.Biographies of fifty eminent Italians in the arts, sciences, and government who had an impact on the development of modern Italy and the world. More
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Comoany, 2011. 8vo. 245 x 165 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches]. [10], 356 pp. Illustrated throughout with plates and text images. Cloth, dust jacket.National Book Award winner Stephen Greenblatt, pitches a story that combines the evolution of modern thought with..... More
New York: Penguin Books, 1995. 8vo. 200 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches]. xl, 600 pp. Illustrated with 23 maps. Stiff paper wrappers."A Work of Art -- Far nobler than mere scholarship. Its insights are variously luminous, startling and curious. Braudel's portrait of the planet is immensely..... More
Oxford University Press, 2006. 12mo. 170 x 110 mm., [6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches]. 135 pp. Illustrated throughout. Stiff paper wrappers; some underlinging and notes in the text. More
London and New York: Longman, 1987. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 inches]. x, 357 pp. Stiff paper wrappers; binding showing some wear, otherwise a good copy.Standard general survey of the Enlightenment period in Italian history "offering English speakers a richly detailed picture of Italy in the..... More
Orlando, Austin, New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. xii, 368 pp. Original cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy.Rubenstein, a professor from George Mason University, writes an adventure story, based on history, philosophy, and biography, to produce a highly readable account of the..... More
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. 8vo. 215 x 135 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [xiv] 335 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 plates. Original red cloth, dust jacket.Well researched biography of Johann Heinrich Petalozzi, the Swiss born Italian immigrant whose ideas about education reflected the transitions..... More
New York: Rae D. Henkle Co., Inc., 1927. 8vo. 230 x 160 mm., [9 x 6 1/4 inches]. [xiv], 305 pp. Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece, 33 photographic plates by Marian O. Hooker and 4 by permission of the Architectural Book Publishing Company. Original blue cloth, decorated gilt cover and..... More
Exeter, N.H. 1813 – 1847 [ with gaps during 1820-22, 1824, and 1834-39]. 14 volumes. Including 12 narrow folio volumes 410 x 170 mm., [16 ¼ x 7 inches] of Day Books and Customer sales; and 2 large folio volumes 440 x 290 mm., [17 ½ x 11 ½ inches]..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1925. Folio. 310 x 240 mm., [12 x 9 ¼ inches]. 13 pp. text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 126 photogravures. Original gray cloth, decorated with the title in blue; dust jacket, with a chip at the head of the spine. Very good..... More
ca. 1930. Oblong 4to. 240 x 320 mm., [9 ¼ x 12 ½ inches]. Illustrated with 40 photographic gravure reproductions. Bound in still paper wrappers, sewn with red cord; some discoloration of paper stock but sound and attractive copy. Souvenir of the City of Florence illustrated with the iconic sites..... More
