Verona: Various Printers, 1758-86. Rare Series of Twenty-Four Festival Broadsides Celebrating the Accomplishments and Appointments of Members of the Dionisi Family of Verona During the Middle Years of the Eighteenth Century. Including celebratory broadsides commemorating civil appointments, ordinations, taking of religious habits by the women of the family, retirements, and..... More
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Description of the View of Venice; taken and painted by Messrs. Baker and Burford, from the Piazza S. Marco; with a Representation of the Carnival; Now exhibiting in their Panorama, Strand.
London: J. and C. Adlard, 1819. 8vo. 220 x 140 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. 12 pp. Illustrated with a folding plate depicting the Piazza San Marco, Venice. Original blank wrappers, separated at the spine, folded plate loose in binding. Stamp of the Minnesota Historical Society (withdrawn). Tiny..... More
Browning's Italy: A Study of Italian Life and Art in Browning
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1907. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches]. [16], 382 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 20 photographic reproductions. Bound in publisher's green cloth, with color printed pastoral scene pasted to the upper board, gilt title on spine; binding showing..... More
Practical Discourses on Death, Judgment, Heaven & Hell in Twenty-Four Sermons.
Boston in New-England: Printed by J. Draper for D. Henchman, 1726. 8vo. 195 x 125 mm., [7 ¾ x 5 inches]. [2], v, [1], 350 pp. Bound in contemporary sheep, decorated in blind in the Regency style, raised bands, leather title label; joints expertly repaired with Japanese paper. Contemporary signature..... More
Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New England from its First Planting in the year 1620, unto the Year of our Lord, 1698. In Seven Books.
Hartford: Published by Silas Andrus, Roberts a& Burr, Printers, 1820. Two volumes. 8vo. 225 x 1 35 mm., [9 x 5 ½ inches]. [1], 573 pp; 595 pp.; each book with a separate title-page. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, read leather labels; upper joint rubbed with a short crack at..... More
The Poetical Works. Containing, The Shade of Plato, Knight and Quack, and the Subtlety of Foxes.
Boston: Published by Etheridge and Bliss, Oliver & Munroe, Printers, 1806. 12mo. 180 x 105 mm., [7 x 4 ¼ inches]. [xvi], 17 -164 pp; plus 2 pp. ads. Bound in contemporary brown sheep skin, red leather label; some minor rubbing to the joints, head of spine missing. Stamped “Ex..... More
Seasonable Thoughts on the State of Religion in New England. A Treatise in Five Parts.
Boston: Printed by Rogers and Fowle for Samuel Eliot in Cornhill, 1743. 8vo. 195 x 120 mm., [7 ¾ x 4 ¾ inches]. xxx, 18, 424 pp. Bound in contemporary mottled calf, raised bands, red leather label. The binding shows minor rubbing at joints, some discoloration due to age, but..... More
La coltivazione del Riso del Marchese Gian Battista Spolverini.
Verona: Stamperia Giuliani, 1796. 4to: 305 x 130 mm., [12 x 9 inches]. xvi, 224 pp. Engraved portrait of the author by de Bernardi after Agos. Ugolini. Bound in contemporary boards, spine a bit chipped, edges bumped and a bit worn, and joints previously repaired. Printed on good paper with..... More
La Cucina Classica. Studi Pratici, Ragionati e Dimonstrativi della Scuola Francese Applicata in Servizio alla Russa. . . Prima traduzione pubblicata nell’idioma Italiano.
Milano: Societá dei Cuochi Milanesi, 1892. Two volumes. Large 4to. 300 x 220 mm., [11 3/3 x 8 ¾ inches]. lvi, 303 [1] pp; 363, [3] pp. Illustrated with 64 plates with numerous images per plate. Bound in contemporary leather backed boards; expertly repaired at the joints of both volumes..... More