Lucca: della Tipografia Bertini, 1826. Rare edition of this modest publication of wedding poetry dedicated to bride, Francesca Cosi del Vollia and her husband the noted engraver Antonio Viviani. This affectionate series of congratulatory poems includes sonnets by Leonardo Cardella, a local priest from Lucca, Domenico Ricchi, and the noted..... More

Venizia: Presso Antonio Savioli, 1775. 8vo.  200 x 140 mm., [7 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches].  107 [1] pp.  Contemporary paste-paper boards; binding soiled, title in ink on spine, text block lightly foxed throughout. First edition, followed by a Verona edition, with addition, printed in 1798.  A select bibliography, listing..... More

Milano: Philippe Foyot per Rocco & Ambrosio da Valle, 1521. Two parts on one volume.  Large 8vo.  280 x 190 mm., [11 x 7 ¼ inches].  [18] including a blank leaf, 161, [1] ff.; [16], 146 ff.  Large woodcut frontispiece introducing the second part of an image representing and a...... More

New York: Phaedra Inc. - Publishers, 1970. 8vo.  210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  [vi], 311 pp.  Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; jacket a bit toned and bumped at the corners and small tear at lower edge of the front wrapper.  Previous owners stamp on front pastedown..... More

Santa Rosa (CA), Black Sparrow Press, 1989. 8vo.  230 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches].  266 pp., plus a full-page portrait of Fante and a one page biography.  Original printed wrappers.  Very good copy.First Black Sparrow edition, originally printed in 1938.  Fante's first novel, an autobiographical story of..... More

Milano: dall Tipografia dell'Autore, 1828. 4 volumes. 8vo. 227 x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches). xvi, 332, [2] pp; 382, [2] pp. viii, 430 [2] pp. vii, [1], 304 pp. Illustrated with 34 aquatint illustrations by Angelo Biasoli, 3 genealogical tables, and illustrations in the text. Uncut copy in..... More

New York: The Modern Library, 1995. Illustrated from Etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi. Three volumes.  Thick 8vo.  liii, 840 pp.; [12], 841-1668pp.;  [12], 1669-2538 pp.  Illustrated with reproductions of images of Rome by G. B. Piranesi and numeorus maps of the Empire showing the changing nature of the influence of..... More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm. , [8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches].  [xii], 188 pp.  Publisher's cloth and dust jacket, small chip to the top edge of the lower cover.  First edition.  Hughes, the noted historian of 20th century Europe tackles the literary genre with his..... More

Lucca: Giovanni Riccomini, 1767. 8vo. 203 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/4 inches). 32 pp. Engraved title-page vignette of a putti and a dolphin; two woodcut decorative initial letters, head- and tail-pieces of putti and designed backgrounds. Original red Italian decorative paper wrappers; remnants of a paper label on..... 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

In Parigi: [Venice]: A Spese di Giannalberto Tumermani Stap. Veron. 1742. Folio.  350 x 240 mm., [ 13 x ½ x 9 ¼ inches].  [viii], 143, 96 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 24 engravings in the text.  The typographical design of the poem is Ricchi, who divided each page into two..... More

London:2017. Puskin Press, 8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  [6], 184 pp., plus 2 pp. ads.  Original black boards, dust jacket.  Very good to fine condition.First edition.  Published from a newly discoverd diary, the textt describes the prelude to the coming of the WWII as..... More

London: John Lehmann, [1952]. 8vo.  190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches].  189 pp.  Publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket by John Minton.  Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, the whole rather foxed, especially the verso and rear panel, white portions of the spine showing toning, additional light..... More