Titles starting with L from The Bookpress, Ltd.

1963. LA BANCA NAZIONALE DEL LAVORO, 1913-1963. (Rome: Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro, 1963.) Folio. Cloth, slipcase. Frontispie xix, 305, (1) pages, 61 plates. First edition. This illustrates the buildings of the Bank's head offices, branches and distr offices, marking the 50th anniversary of Banca Nazionale Del Lavoro, with illustrations and 61 plates. Very good. ... more information

1930. Paperback. (RAHIR) LA BIBLIOTHEQUE DE FEU EDOUARD RAHIR. Paris: Francisque Lefrancois, 1930. 4to. Three-quarter leather, marbled pane end papers and slipcase. viii, 64, (1) pages, 59 plates including 13 double p plates. An elegant auction catalogue of two hundred and fifty items, being the first part of Rahir's library sale. The plates are of bookbindings. The original wrappers are bound-in and the top edge is gilt. Some wear to front hinge. Lessing J. Rosenwald's copy. ... more information

BOINET, Amedee. LA CATHEDRALE DE BOURGES. Paris: Henri Laurens, n.d. 8vo. Cloth spine, boards. Ex-library copy. ... more information

MERLET, Rene. LA CATHEDRALE DE CHARTRES. Paris: Henri Laurens, n.d. 8vo. Cloth. Bookplate, else very good. ... more information

1965. Paperback. (CHURCH) LA CHIESA DI S. CATERINA IN PISA. Pisa: N.P., (1965.) 4to. Wrappers. 36 pages. First edition. Illustrated. Good. ... more information

1987. MUSEI DELL'UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA. LA CITTA DEL SAPERE. Bologna: Silvana, (1987). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. 184 pages. First edition. A lavishly printed history of the museum, its buildings, history, library, et with text by Pier Luigi Cervellati, and others. Fine. ... more information

1920. Paperback. (CERVANTES) SERIS, Homero. LA COLECCION CERVANTINA DE LA SOCIEDADD HISPANIC DE AMERICA. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1920. 8vo. Cloth, original wrappers bound-in 158, (1) pages, plates. First edition. An annotated catalogue of the edition of Cervantes' Don Quixote. Very good. ... more information

1988. Paperback. TRAME, Umberto (editor). LA CULTURA DELLA VILLA. Pordenoni: Biblioteca Dell'Immagine, (1988). 4to. Wrappers. 210 pages. First edition. A survey of Italian villas. Part of the Il Friuli Occidentale e Venezia nel '700 series. Very good. ... more information

1852. (EXPOSITION--LONDON--1851) LA ESPOSIZIONE DI LONDRA OSSIA RACCOLTA DI TUTTE NOTIZIE RELATIVE ALLA GRAN MOSTRA COSMOPOLITICA DEL-INDUSTRIA UMANA. Venice: Cecchini, 1852. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-calf. (ii), 286 pages, 42 lithographed plates, 2 of which are folding. First edition. A rare Italian guide book to the Great Exposition, illustrated with forty-two charming lithographic plates including a full page portrait of Paxton, the Crystal Palace's architect. Included are plates of Hoe's rotar... more information

1963. Paperback. HAUTECOEUR, Louis. LA FORMATION DE L'IDEAL CLASSIQUE, LA PREMIERE RENAISSANC (1495 A 1535-1540). Volume I. Paris: Picard, 1963. 4to. Wrappers. (iii)-xix, (1), 563, (2) pages. Nouvelle edition. This is Volume I, Part 1 of Hautecoeur's Histoire de L'Architecture Classique France, the standard work on the history and philosophy of classical French architecture. Illustrated with 256 text figures. The wrappers are slightly soiled. ... more information

1937. (TINTORETTO) LA MOSTRA DEL TINTORETTO. Venice: Ca' Pesaro, 1937. 8vo. Cloth. 222, (21) pages. Second edition. This catalogue was published in concurrence with the Tintoretto exhibit held Venice; text in Italian. With a separate introduction, written in English. Spine sunned, endpapers darkened. ... more information

1929. Paperback. MAURAULT, Oliver. LA PAROISSE. Montreal: Louis Carrier & Cie, 1929. 8vo. Wrappers. Frontispiece, 334, (1) pages. First edition. Discusses the construction and contents of Notre Dame, Montreal, commonly cal "La Paroisse." Written in French, with illustrations. Covers worn, else goo ... more information

1976. DENIS, V. LA PEINTURE FLAMANDE. (Bruxelles): Meddens, (1976). Tall 4to. Boards, dust jacket. 220 pages. Firs edition. Flemish painting from the 15th-17th centuries is examined, with 43 tipped-in, color illustrations and 73 in-text figures; bibliography. Fine. ... more information

1949. Paperback. SANPAOLESI, Piero. LA PIAZZA DEI MIRACOLI. Florence: Del Turco, (1949.) 4to. Wrappers. Very good. ... more information

1973. DE FEO, Vittorio. LA PIAZZA DEL QUIRINALE. (Rome): Officina Edizione, (1973). 8vo. Boards, dust jacket. Frontispiece, 1 (2) pages. First edition. De Feo describes the Piazza Del Quirinale, with plans, drawings, maps, and a photographs. Signature in ink on title page, else fine in lightly used dust jacket. ... more information

1953. COLETTI, Luigi and Rodolfo Pallucchini. LA PITTURA VENEZIANA DEL CINQUECENTO Two volumes. Novara: Istituto Geografico de Agostini, (1944 and 1953). 8vo. Cloth. xciv, (ii) pages, 184 plates; lxiv, (ii) pages, 116 plates. First edition. A presentation of 14th and 15th-century, Venetian art. Spines sunned, signat in ink on front endpaper of Volume I, text of Volume II loose. ... more information

1801. CAMPOLONGO. LA POLIFEMEIDE, SONETTI.... Napoli: Stamperia Simoniana, 1763. 4to. Later cloth. (vii), 224, (4) pages. Second edition. Emmanuel Campolongo (1732-1801) was an Italian poet who served as a professor humanities in Naples. La Polifemeide, Sonetti was his first published work, also wrote La Mergellina, Opera Pescatoria, La Galleide, and more. Ex-librar copy, with appropriate markings, text foxed, else very good. ... more information

1985. Paperback. (BOOKBINDING) BERNARD, Georges. LA RELIURE EN BELGIQUE AUX XIXe ET XXe SIECLES. Bruxelles: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1985. 4to. Wrappers. 296 pages. First edition. Written for the Societe Royale des Bibliophiles et Iconophiles de Belgique, t catalogue describes one hundred sixty eight Belgian bookbindings from the nineteenthth and twentieth centuries. Each book is photographed and fully described. Very good. ... more information

1864. BERTY, Adolphe. LA RENAISSANCE MONUMENTALE EN FRANCE. Two volumes. Paris: A. Morel, 1864. Folio. Publisher's quarter-morocco. Irregular pagination, 97 plates, 2 of which are folding. First edition. First issued in fifty parts between 1859 to 1864, this is the first book edition. It consists of a series of engravings showing ornaments from identif French Renaissance buildings, including the Louvre, Chambourd and the Hotel d'Assezat at Toulouse, many of which having been altered and are no long... more information

ZANNETTACCI, Pierre. LA RESIDENCE DE L'EUROPE. (Paris: Zannettacci), n.d. Small square folio. Cloth. (41) pages. Discusses modern interior designs for residences. Included in a rear pocket eleven floor plans and three sets of typewritten addenda. Rubbing and some scratches to covers, chipping to head of spine, light shaking, a good copy on ... more information