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Milan: N.p., 1812. Folio sheet. Image size 120 x 97 mm. (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches); sheet size 305 x 227 mm. (12 x 9 inches). Designed by Maria Longhi and engraved by Ernesta Bisi. With small blind stamp inititals below the image; some minor foxing, mounted and ready..... More
Bergamo: Dalla Stamperia Locatelli, ca. 1792. Folio. 410 x 285 mm. (16 x 11 inches). Engraved portrait by Domenico Cagnoni after a design by Pietro Roncalli. Original decorated paste paper wrappers. It is unusual for the woman of the house to receives such a beautifully printed tribute as the one..... More
Philadelphia: J. L. Sibole, Co., [1877]. [1877]. 4to. 295 x 225 mm., [11 ¾ x 9 inches]. 36 ff. Illustrated with four color lithographic plates, 8 tinted lithographs with gray and tan backgrounds, and 4 smaller black and white engravings. Bound in publisher’s green cloth, gilt title on upper board;..... More
Bellow Falls, Vermont: Bill Blake & Co., 1818. 8vo. 180 x 115 mm. (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches). 180 pp. Contemporary calf binding with red leather spine label. Rubbing to edges and cover. Half of front flyleaf is missing and rear attached endpaper is partially loose. Some light foxing, otherwise a very good copy. ..... More
Northampton: Published by J. H. Butler, 1842. 4to. 280 x 220 mm., (11 x 8 3/4 inches). 75 pp. Illustrated with 14 full-page lithographic plates (one folding) and 37 wood engravings in the text, one highlighted in color. Original brown ribbed cloth, title gilt on upper board; some fading to..... More
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1893. 8vo. 200 x 135 mm., [8 x 5 1/4 inches]. [iv], viii, 298 pp. Illustrated with 20 photo reproductions. Bound in original white cloth, decorated in gilt and blue and red on upper board, gilt title on spine. White cloth has some light soiling to..... More
New York: Grove Press, ]2000]. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 inches]. xvi, 427 pp.. Illustrated with 8 color plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy. First American edition. My aunt Iris, who at the age of 93 read and reviewed this work, wrote the following: ..... 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
Boston: David R. Godine, [2002]. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. [6], 373 [1] pp. Illustrated with 24 half tone images from the Origo Archive at La Foce. Publisher's blue boards with white linen spine, dust jacket. Very good copy. Highly readable biography of Iris Origo whose..... More
c 1820s. 12mo. 200 x 70 mm. [7 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches]. [11] pp. Manuscript with hand-sewn binding and small (25 mm.) straight pin near bottom corner. Edges worn with chipping and tears. Cover partially torn horizontally, but still attached. Damp staining to right edge of first three leaves, fragile condition, with expert paper repairs to folds and tears..... 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
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. 8vo. 195 x 120 mm. (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). 412 pp., plus 16 pp. ads dated May 1862. Original patterned cloth, embossed covers, title and author's name gilt on spine; very good copy. First edition. Stowe's novel of Italy during the..... More
