In Piacenza: Per Giacomo Ardizzoni Stampatore Camerale, 1627. Folio.  450 x 330 mm., [17 ½ x 13 inches].  Some ancient paper repairs to verso of the folio, paper restoration by leaf casting new paper on left and top margins, some minor staining, illegible signature on version; with faults a stable..... More

New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1973. 8vo.  200 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches].  638 pp.  Original brown publisher's cloth, head and tail of spine frayed, cloth boards a bit faded and marked.First edition.  Dedicated "To all who are opposed to the aristocratic privilege of the..... More

Bologna: Per Vittorio Benacci, Stampator Camerale, 1602. Broadside.  433 x 310 mm., [17 x 12 ¼ inches].  Illustrated at the top of the sheet with the coat-of-arms of Monsignor Marsilio Landriani and of the City of Bologna.  Previously folded with a small tear at the lower fold, not affecting the..... More

Printed for A. Millar, London:, 1755. 8vo.  210 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 ¼ inches].  xi, 467 pp.  Bound in contemporary speckled calf, double gilt fillet borders on both boards, spine with five raised bands; paper label with title partially missing and another paper label with the inventory number..... More

London: Puttick and Simpson, 1865. 8vo. 205 x 145 mm., [8 x 5 ¾ inches].  15 pp.  Stitched as issued.  Edges a bit fragile but paper stock sound; small ink stain on upper margin of two pages. Nice private library of a little known collector, focusing on Italian history and..... More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1958. 8vo.  205 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches].  [16], 272 pp.  Gray publisher's cloth, embossed publisher's mark on upper board, blue label on spine, dust jacket.  Some very minor fraying to head and tail of spine, dust jacket..... More

New York: Macmillian and Co., 1894. 8vo.  195 x 125 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches].  [10], 297 pp.  Illustrated with a frontispiece and 20 half tone plates.  Publisher's blue cloth, a few scrapes and nicks to the spine, otherwise sound and attractive copy.  Engraved bookplate of Sarah Gilbert Wood..... More

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 8vo 240 x 170 mm., [9 ½ x 6 ½ inches]. xvi + 396pp., including Index. Six preliminary maps; 16 pages in two sections of historical photographs. Publisher’s red paper over boards with silver stamping on spine; photographic jacket. Book Near Fine. Jacket Near..... More

A source collection of antiquarian books and engravings formed by Richard von Hunderdorff on Cicisbeismo, the unusual social convention peculiar to the Italian Enlightenment.  The subject of the catalogue is the relationship between married women and young men of noble birth in 18th century Italy and Spain.  This collection is..... More

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

In Napoli: Cuciniello e Bianchi, 1827. Folio.  400 x 280 mm., [15 ½ x 11 inches].  Printed title on upper board, 24 full page lithographic plates.  Bound in original leather back boards, printed title on upper board; some rubbing to the paper on the boards and edges, sine very lightly..... More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Large 8vo. 285 x 220 mm., [11 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches]. xvi + 176pp. B&W photographs by the author throughout; 35 reproductions in color of paintings by the mid-18th century artist Gabriel Bella. Publisher’s maroon cloth with gold stamping on spine and title..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 8vo.  240 x 140 mm., [9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches].  [viii], 291, [23] pp.  Publisher's brown boards, red spine, dust jacket.  Near fine copy. Well researched and documented story of the love affair of Di  Robilant's ancestor Andrea Memmo, one of the last..... More