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Firenze: Dalla Tipografia di Luigi Pezzati, 1836. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm. (9 1/2 x 6 inches). Portrait of Rivani by Niccolò Palmerini. vi, 159 pp. Disbound. Portrait lightly foxed with offset to title-page. First edition. Interesting private library of printed books, maps and manuscripts donated to the Società Colombaria, founded..... More
Boston: Printed by Benjamin Edes and Sons, 1780. Small 4to. 185 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ½ inches]. 35 pp., including half-title. Old library pamphlet binder. Marked “Withdrawn Bowdoin College Library” pencil mark “Dup” on paper label. First edition. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences was founded..... 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
Waynesville, North Carolina: United Methodist Church, [1979]. 8vo. 220 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. [iv], 138 pp. Illustrated with a map of Sicily and half tone photos of the Sicilian landscape. Original cloth, dust jacket; some staining to front wrapper. This copy with an inscription reading "..... 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
Modena: Presso la Societa'Tipografica, 1796. 8vo. 200 x 143 mm., (7 ¾ x 5 ½ inches). 36 pp. Illustrated with one folding plate. Disbound. Rare bio-bibliography of the literary historian and bibliographer, Girolomo Tiraboschi, whose Biblioteca Modenese, published between 1781-86 in six volumes, set a standard for future historians studying the..... More
(Venezia): nella Stamperia degli Stessi, 1779. (64). 4to. 245 x 190 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches). xii, (first leaf blank), 328 pp. 19th century cloth backed marbled paper boards; inner hinge cracked yet very sound. Bookplate of Anthony Hobson. Very good copy of a rare catalogue. First edition..... 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: Anchor Books, 2001. 8vo. 205 x 130 mm., [8 x 5 1/4 inches]. [14], 396 pp. Illustrated with a map of Italy. Paperback binding.Biographies of fifty eminent Italians in the arts, sciences, and government who had an impact on the development of modern Italy and the world. More
Bostoni, in Nov-Anglia, Excusum: 1737. 8vo. 190 x 120 mm., [7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches]. [2], 9 pp. Pictorial title page, with woodcut skull and cross bones at top of black funeral border. Text in Latin. Modern card stock wrappers. First and only edition. When he wrote this eulogy..... 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
London: Nicholas Kaye, 1955. 8vo. 225 x 155 mm., [8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches]. 226 [2] pp. Illustrated with a folding map of Naples and 173 heliogravure photo reproductions. Original cloth , dust jacket; jacket chipped at head and tail of spine and a bit fragile; protected with mylar..... More
New York: James Pott & Co., 1907. 8vo. 215 x 155 mm., [8 1/2 x 6 inches]. xii, 323 pp., plus 2 pp. ads. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 29 half tone photographs. Publisher's decorated terra cotta cloth; spine sunned and a bit soiled, otherwise a very good copy.First impression..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. 8vo. 125 x 160 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches]. 6, 351 pp. Fully illustrated with plates and images in the text. Cloth, dust jacket.First edition. "This wonderful chronicle of Florence is worthy of the City and its lucky inhabitants. Reading it..... More
N. p., (J. T. Moss). 1909. Large 8vo. 235 x 175 mm., [9 1/4 x 7 inches]. 400 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of photographs taken especially for this volume. Original cloth, with medallion of the Red Cross in center of the upper board and the title in gilt surrounding the..... More
Venezia: Per Pietro Savioni, 1782. 12mo. 190 x 110 mm. (7 3/4 x 4 /12 inches). [2], 7-293pp., missing preliminaries, pp. 1-6. Contemporary vellum; recased, with title-page soiled, otherwise a very good copy. Rare first edition of this catalogue of Italian historiography, written by Jacopo Morelli, Librarian of the Biblioteca Marciana..... More
Firenze: Presso Domenico Ciardetti, 1805. 2 volumes. 4to. 260 x 185 mm. (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches). xii, 531 pp.; xii, 551 pp. Late nineteenth century calf spine and tips, over marbled paper boards; some rubbing to joints and a few scrapes to corner pieces, but sound and attractive..... More
New York: Macmillan Company: a Giniger Book, 1966. Tall 8vo. 250 x 190 mm., [10 x 7 ½ inches]. 302 pp. Illustrated with 49 color photographs by Mario Carrieri, maps, historical views, and portraits of the Popes throughout the text. Pale blue publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. A very good copy. First..... More
Naples: Electa, for the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, 2016. 8vo. 240 x 170 mm., [9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches]. 136 pp. Illustrated throughout with color plates. Pictorial wrappers.Guide to the collectioins on Herculaneum, the Egyptian Collection, Mosaic Collections, Greek culture in the Bay of Naples and more. 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
Italy (Rome?): N.p., ca. 1630. Folio. 305 x 210 mm. (12 x 8 ½ inches). 17th century Latin manuscript in one hand, highly legible, covering the years 1492-1503. 608 numbered leaves. Illustrated with two engraved title-pages by Francesco Villamena (1566-1624) in the monumental style with a large architectural border and..... More
Paris: Libraire de Lagny Freres, 1842. 8vo. 225 x 140 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches). 4 pp. Folded as issued. Bookseller's prospectus for a new publication by M. Laurentie on the hsitory of France from the age of the Gauls to the present time. Also included is a list..... More
Brescia: Giambattista Bossini, 1776. 8vo. 200 x 140 mm. (8 x 6 inches). 120 pp. Engraved portrait by Domenico Cagnoni, woodcut ornament on the title-page. Contemporary red paste-paper boards; some small abrasions to edges, joints rubbed, but sound and attractive. Ownership stamp of Fratelli Campori on the title-page. First..... More
Orlando, Austin, New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2003. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm., [9 x 6 inches]. xii, 368 pp. Original cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy.Rubenstein, a professor from George Mason University, writes an adventure story, based on history, philosophy, and biography, to produce a highly readable account of the..... More
1849. Folio. 330 x 200 mm., [13 x 8 inches]. 2 pp. of text. Folio sheet folded into quarters after writing; small tears at folds, expertly repaired, light tide marks and some soiling to the paper stock. Likely the student essay of Dr. Charles Henry Strong (1828-1912) who was from..... More
