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Bergamo: Dalla Tipografia Duci, (1789). 8vo. 190 x 145 mm., [7 ½ x 5 ½ inches]. 68 pp. Bound in original paste paper boards; with some minor soiling to the covers; otherwise, a very good copy. Exceedingly rare study of Enlightenment methods for cultivating vines and making them flourish in..... More
Hamburg: [s.n.], 1759. 8vo. 177 x 121 mm. (7 x 4 3/4 inches). 103 pp. Woodcut vignette on title-page. Printing flaw on page 26 with first few words at the beginning of each line are faintly printed. Text lightly soiled. Original paste-paper wrappers, orange paper back strip with paper label..... More
In Venezia: Lo Stampatore Carlo Palese, 1792. 8vo. 220 x 130 mm., [7 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches]. xvi, 285, [3] pp. Illustrated with an engraved oval portrait and one head piece engraving designed by Francesco Mingardi and engraved by Francesco Novelli. Bound in contemporary paste paper boards, paper label..... 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
Bononiae: Ex Typographia D. Thomae Aquinatis, 1792. 8vo. 215 x 130 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches]. 100 [1] pp. Original blue paper wrappers. Title-page vignette entitled “Truth Conquers”. Stamps of Pietro Tonelli, Censor on the final leaf along with the Imprimatur and errata. First edition, followed in 1797..... 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
Napoli: nella Stamperia dei Fratelli Raimondi, 1781. 4to. 250 x 190 mm., [9 ¾ x 7 ½ inches]. [4] ff., 48 pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author by Giuseppe Aloja. Bound in early 20th century leather spine over marbled paper boards. Offset from portrait to the title-page..... 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
Firenze: Presso Giovanni Silvestre, 1819. 8vo. 205 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 inches]. 101, [3] pp.. Illustrated with three engraved plates. Bound in original wrappers, stitched as issued, author and title printed on spine; a bit discoloration with age, minor foxing to the preliminary leaves. The final leaf contains..... More
In Napoli: presso Vincenzo Orsino e spese di Giuseppe Maria Porcelli, 1777. 8vo. 230 x 140 mm., [8 ½ x 5 ½ inches]. [8] ff, 130 pp. [3]ff. Illustrated with 3 folding plates, bound upside down. Bound in a modern paste paper board binding in the antique style; minor paper..... More
Paris: Dans un coin d’où voit tout, 1783. 8vo. 200 x 120 mm., [8 x 4 ¾ inches]. [1], 235, [3] pp., wanting half-title. Bound in contemporary leather back boards, decorated paper covers; head and tail of spine cracked, joints rubbed, edges and parts of boards scarped; text block and..... More
![Item #1369 [AMERICANA]. L’Elogio di Amerigo Vespucci. Composato dal Proposto Marco Lastri...](https://desimonecompanybooksellers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1369.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749739847)
Florence: Francesco Moijcke, 1787. 8vo. 205 x 135 mm., [8 x 5 ¼ inches]. 26 leaves. Printed on heavy paper. Caption title printed in red ink. Bound in late 19th century leather backed marbled paper boards. Only edition printed in 100 copies. Eulogy of the life of Amerigo Vespucci, citizen..... More
London: De l’imprimerie de W. et C. Spilsbury . . . 1798-1800. 36 numbers in 34 parts, 8vo (227 × 140 mm) in half-sheets; the earlier numbers printed on tinted paper; entirely uncut in the original printed wrappers; some misbinding in No. XIII, wrappers to Nos. VII, XXVIII, XXIX, and..... More
![Item #93 [Italian Enlightenment]. Projet d'une Reforme a faire en Italia, ou moyens de corriger...](https://desimonecompanybooksellers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/93.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1749753486)
Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1769. 8vo. 170 x 110 mm. (6 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches). [4], 279, [1], 24 pp. 18th century Dutch decorative paper boards; spine and joints rubbed, otherwise a sound copy.First edition in French, originally appearing in Villafranca (i.e. Venice) in 1767. Educated in the law..... More
Impressi in Venezia: da Piero Marcuzzi, 1782. 12 volumes. 8vo. 185 x 135 mm., [7 ¼ x 5 inches]. Complete copy with a very complicated pagination scheme; detail upon request. Bound in original stiff wrappers covered in decorative paper , white paper label at head of spine. The front wrapper..... More
Lausanne: Chez Durand, Ravanel et Comp., et Paris, Chez Fuchs, 1795. 8vo. 195 x 132 mm. (7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches). 203 pp. Woodcut device on the title-page. Original blue paper wrappers, some soiling to wrappers, paper label with title in ink, early paper repair to lower part of..... More
In Venezia; [Venezia]: Nella Stamperia di Antonio Zatta, 1766. Folio. 80 pp. Title-page printed in read and black ink, illustrated with a full-page engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page vignette, 7 engraved head-pieces, 7 engraved tail-pieces. and decorative printer’s ornaments separating verses throughout. Folio. 72 pp. plus 1 blank. Title-page printed in..... More
Londres, 1764. 8vo. 190 x 120 mm., [7 ½ x 4 ½ inches]. viii, 344, [1] pp. Bound with half-title in contemporary Dutch decorated paper boards, vellum spine and corner tips. Frontispiece portrait of Hugo Grotius dated 1790 probably added when bound. Some contemporary manuscript notes in the text and..... More
(Venice): A. Zatta, 1780. 12 mo. 172 x 95 mm., [6 ½ x 3 ¾ inches]. cccvii, [3 blank] pp. Contemporary paste-paper boards, laces visible; boards lightly soiled, otherwise an excellent copy. Inventory catalogue documenting a part of the Zatta business enterprise. The catalogue includes over 3,000 titles, with printed..... More
