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Lecce: Nella pubblica Stamperia di Vincenzo Marino, e Fratelli, 1795. 4to. 240 x 180 mm., [9 ¼ x 7 inches]. 29 leaves plus 1 blank; printed on recto only on light blue paper. Illustrated with a title-page vignette. Bound in prepared paper wrappers decorated with a dot & gold star-bursts..... More
Roma: Appresso il Bernabo e Lazzarini, 1747. 4to. 263 x 198 mm. (10 1/4 x 8 inches). xii, 476 pp. Title-page in red and black, with an engraved bignette portraying the hall of the Capponi Library; decorative woodcut initial letter throughout. Uncut copy printed on strong paper; some scattered foxing..... More
Florentiae: Typographia Francisci, Moücke, 1791. Large 4to. 290 x 210 mm.,[ 11 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches]. xii, 160 pp. Illustrated with an engraved portrait based on a medal struck in 1493 with a likeness of Rinucinni on one side and a lion with a serpents tail on the other. ..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1846. 2 volumes. 8vo. 205 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 inches]. [xviii], 417 pp., plus 24 pp. ads dated 1846; [8], 515 pp. Original blind stamped publisher’s cloth; spine gilt; volume one a bit cocked, otherwise a near fine copy. Contemporary bookplates of T. Hayter..... More
Paris and Rome: EM Paul, L. Huard et Guillemin and I. Rossi, 1894. Two parts in one volume. 8vo. 237 x 152 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches). ii, 315, [1] pp.; [2], 308 pp. Late 19th century half vellum over decorated paper boards, edges rubbed but a sound..... More
London: Printed for John Taylor by George Smith of Liverpool, 1828. 12mo. 160 x 100 mm., (6 ¼ x 4 inches]. [11], 558 pp. Bound in half green calf, leather tips, marbled paper boards, gilt spine, red leather label; edges rubbed and a bit bumped, otherwise sound. This copy with..... More
Venezia: [Giambattista Albrizzi], 1760. Oblong folio. 310 x 430 mm., [12 ¼ x 17 inches]. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Piazzetta as an older man flanked by allegorical images of painting and sculpture; title-page printed in red and black ink with an allegorical engraving illustrating Venice and the Arts; 3 page..... More
Venezia: Stampata da Giambattista Albrizzi, 1745. Folio. 435 x 300 mm., [17 x 11 /34 inches]. [11] p. l., 254 leaves. Bound in contemporary mottled calf; raised bands and gilt spine, decorated endpapers; some minor pitting to the leather boards where the acid used to mottle the calf has deteriorated..... More
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Venetiis: In aedibus Aldi & Andreae Asulani, 1522. 8vo. 165 x 100 mm., [6 ¼ x 4 inches]. 204 ff., first 4 leaves unnumbered, leaf 136 numbered 236. Bound in contemporary Venetian brown calf, both boards decorated in blind with triple fillet borders, enclosing a larger border of embossed floral..... More
