Modena: Circolo Tipografico Modenese, 3 Marzo 1894. Broadside Calligraphic Manuscript.  398 x 49 mm., [15 ½ x 19 ½ inches].   Written in red and black ink, with lettering highlighted with gold and blue.  Capital letters enhanced with flourishes in red ink and with a corner piece in purple ink with..... More

Klagenfurt, 1757. Manuscript on paper.  Small 4to.  205 x 155 mm. 8 x 6 ¼  inches.  96 pp., plus initial and final blanks.  Written in ink on good quality laid paper.  Bound in full contemporary calf, all edges gilt; a few minor marks and stains to the paper stock, otherwise..... More

Livorno, Calcografia Vignozzi, 1830 -(1852). Oblong format.  170 x 338 mm., [6 ¾ x 13 inches].  Engraved title-page dated 1830, date on the printed wrapper dated 1852.  Comprised of 16 engraved plates of calligraphic specimens; with one inserted calligraphic specimen leaf published by Tomso Finiguerra of Florence, dated 1852.  Stitched..... More

Padova: Per il Conzatti e S. Fermo, 1783. 8vo. 200 x 140 mm., [8 x 5 ½ inches].  125 pp.  Illustrated with three folding plates illustrating Franklin’s scientific experiments.  Bound in contemporary paste-paper boards.  Good clean copy with wide margins. First Italian edition, published in Italy while Franklin was at..... More

(Rome): (Carlo Labruzzi), 1796. Folio. 415 x 302 mm. (16 ¼ x 11 ½ inches). 13 full-page etchings printed in sanguine on laid paper, each plate with a loosely inserted guard sheet (also of laid paper) with 5 dark pencil points marked as guides to the artists. Early 19th-century red..... 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: Printed for Richard Ware at the Bible & Sun in Amen Corner Warwick-Lane, [1732-33]. 8vo.  205 x 140 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ½ inches].  Engraved title-page and 12 engraved plates.  Bound in later decorated paper boards.  With a typed paper label identifying this copy as “Nevinson Loan 1979..... More

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

Venice: Appresso Paolo Colombani, 1792. 8vo. 180 x 110 mm., (7 x 4 1/4 inches). viii, 156 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title. Bound in contemporary Venetian brown calf, decorated in gilt floral rococo patterned borders on both boards; a few bumps and rubbing to binding, and some..... More

(Venice): A. Zatta, 1780. 12 mo. 172 x 95 mm., [6 ½ x 3 ¾ inches]. cccvii, [3 blank] pp.  Contemporary paste-paper boards, laces visible; boards lightly soiled, otherwise an excellent copy. Inventory catalogue documenting a part of the Zatta business enterprise. The catalogue includes over 3,000 titles, with printed..... More