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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
![Item #1284 The New Life [La Vita Nuova]. Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot Norton](https://desimonecompanybooksellers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1284.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733081971)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. 8vo. 250 x 185 mm., [9 ¾ x 7 ¼ inches]. iv + 149pp. Publisher’s green cloth over heavy boards with beveled edges, gold stamping on spine. Book Very Good: textblock very clean with a handful of light marginal pencil vertical delineations; previous owner’s name..... More
Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Essential Books, 1960. 8vo. 220 x 170 mm., [9 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches]. 200 pp. Illustrated a map of Rome and 168 heligravure images in black and white. Bound in original gray cloth, decorative dust jacket by Yves Brayer. Dust jacket shows minor wear..... 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: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1917. Small 8vo. 225 x 145 mm., [8 ¾ x 5 ¾ inches]. x + 67pp. Fifteen reproductions of selected woodcuts. Booklet of 1917 has been handsomely rebound in hunter green cloth with title, publisher, and date reproduced on brown laid paper and affixed..... More
![Item #962 [ALDINE EDITION] [BINDING]. Externae historiae in compendium ab Justino Redactae. ...](https://desimonecompanybooksellers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/962.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1651091168)
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
