![Idee elementari di architettura civile per le scuole del disegno di Giovanni Antolini Architetto di S.M. Imperiale e Reale [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/808/374/1608374808.0.l.jpg)
Idee elementari di architettura civile per le scuole del disegno di Giovanni Antolini Architetto di S.M. Imperiale e Reale [...]
by ANTOLINI, Giovanni (1756-1841)
Folio (454x329 mm). 40, [2] pp. and XXIV engraved plates. Etched vignette on title page. Contemporary half vellum (rubbed and worn, spine edges missing). Some foxing and occasional marginal staining, all in all a good, wide-margined copy. First edition published in conjuction with the brothers Masi, whose name appears in certain copies instead of that of Marsigli. A second, enlarged edition was issued soon after in the same year at the author's expenses. A third edition was printed in Milan in... Read More
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Delle lettere facete et piacevoli di diversi huomini grandi et chiari, & begli ingegni. Raccolte per M. Dionigi Atanagi, libro primo. Riveduto, scelto, & corretto dal medesimo & con somma diligenza ristampato. (Bound with:) TURCHI, Francesco (1515-1599). Delle lettere facete, et piacevoli, di diversi huomini grandi, et chiari & begli ingegni. Scritte sopra diverse materie. Raccolte per M. Francesco Turchi. Libro secondo.
by ATANAGI, Dionigi (1504-1573)
Two parts in one volume, 8vo (160x106 mm). [20], 438, [2]; [16], 575, [1] pp. Collation: †8 ††2 A-DD8 EE4; *8 A-NN8. Printer's device on title pages. Early 20th-century half vellum, double lettering piece on spine. Some marginal staining, small loss to the outer margin of a few leaves without loss. A very nice copy, uncut with deckle edges. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Atanagi's Delle lettere facete was first published in Venice in 1561. Atanagi had planned a second book, but his... Read More
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Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XXXXIIII. Batrachomyomachia Homeri, hoc est ranarum et murium pugna. Galeomyomachia, hoc est, felium et murium pugna, tragoedia Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione
by AESOPUS (c. 620-560 BC)
FIRST DE TOURNES GREEK AND LATIN EDITION 16mo (122x70 mm). 375, [9] pp. Collation: a-z8 A8. Greek portion of title romanized. Greek and Latin text in parallel columns from p. 3 to p. 279, on opposite pages from p. 280 to p. 375. Woodcut printer's device on title page and prism device to verso of otherwise blank final leaf. With 40 woodcut illustrations in text illustrating the fables of Aesopus, of which 37 are ascribed to Bernard Salomon and 3 (fables... Read More
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![Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/852/374/1608374852.0.l.jpg)
Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...]
by BERTOLA DE’ GIORGI, Aurelio (1753-1798)
A VERY RARE BODONI OFFPRINT Large 4to (286x207 mm). [4], 35, [1 blank] pp. Frontispiece with a portrait of Livia Doria Carafa engraved by Raffaello Morghen after a design by Fedele Fischetti. Fine engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled half calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt foliate tools, gilt title on a red morocco lettering piece, panels covered with marbled paper, red edges (some losses to the headcaps, slightly worn and rubbed). Some occasional very light foxing. A very good... Read More
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![Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas [...] Per Georgium Andream Bocklerum, architectum & ingeniarum. Ex Germania in Latium recens translatum opera R.D. Henrici Schmitz, [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/647/1692647985.0.l.jpg)
Theatrum machinarum novum, exhibens aquarias, alatas, iumentarias, manuarias; pedibus, ac ponderibus versatiles, plures, et diversas molas [...] Per Georgium Andream Bocklerum, architectum & ingeniarum. Ex Germania in Latium recens translatum opera R.D. Henrici Schmitz, [...]
by BÖCKLER, Georg Andreas (1617-1687)
Folio (330x220 mm). Engraved title-page (Noribergae, sumptibus Pauli Furstii, technipragmatici, 1662), [10], 55, [1 blank] pp. and 154 full-page plates engraved by Eberhard Kieser and Balthasar Schwan after drawings by Böckler himself. Collation: ¶4-¶¶1 A-G4. Contemporary stiff vellum, spine with five raised bands and ink title. On the front pastedown engraved bookplate "Otiis comitis Fontanellati &c" of Alessandro Sanvitale di Fontanellato (1731-1804), founder of the Accademia degli Erranti in Fontanellato. Some occasional light browning and staining, small loss of paper... Read More
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Tavola di quanto è stato raccolto per M. Alessandro Canobbio intorno la nobiltà, antichità, e fatti della città di Verona
by CANOBBIO, Alessandro (1532/35-1607/8)
THE TABLE OF CONTENTS AS AN EDITORIAL PROSPECTUS 4to (195x144 mm). [24] leaves. Collation: A-F4. With the woodcut arms of the city of Verona on the title page. Late 18th-century red morocco, panels with gilt floral borders, gilt edges, decorated endpapers (a few scratches). Some very light occasional foxing. A very good copy. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the table of contents of a comprehensive chronicle of the city of Verona, intended by Canobbio to show the plan of his Historia intorno... Read More
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![Ricordi overo ammaestramenti [...], ne quali con prudenti, e christiani discorsi si ragiona di tutte le materie honorate, che si ricercano a un vero gentil’huomo](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/100/174/1338174100.0.l.jpg)
Ricordi overo ammaestramenti [...], ne quali con prudenti, e christiani discorsi si ragiona di tutte le materie honorate, che si ricercano a un vero gentil’huomo
by CASTIGLIONE, Sabba da (1480-1554)
4to (214x152 mm). [8], 135, [1] leaves. Collation: *4 †4 a-z4 A-L4. With the large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page and the printer's device on last leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum, inked title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties (new endpapers, small stains). On title page manuscript ownership's inscription Ballybay Library. Inner margin of the title page reinforced, small holes to the gutter of the first two leaves with no loss of text,... Read More
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Saggio filosofico e critico sulli giuochi di azzardo
by CICALA, Francesco Bernardino (1765-1815)
ON GAMBLING 8vo (205x 127 mm). VIII, 232, [4] pp. The first leaf, a blank, is included in the pagination. The name of the printer can be found in the printing license at the end of the volume. Typographic ornament on the title page. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with lettering piece, marbled boards, sprinkled edges (some minor restoration to spine and corners). On the title page manuscript initials "N.C.". Contemporary manuscript note at p. 39. Some... Read More
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Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici Affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche
by CONTILE, Luca (1505-1574)
ACCADEMIA DEGLI AFFIDATI-PAVIA Folio (349x230 mm). [6], 1-43, [1], 44-161 [recte 162], [1] leaves. Collation: *6 A-Z4 Aa-Pp4 Qq4(-Qq4) Rr8. The final quire was added later, so the previously final leaf Qq4 was excised, and its content (register, errata, and table) was reprinted on the recto and verso of leaves Rr1 and Rr8, respectively. A few other leaves were sometimes cancelled, in this copy leaves S1-2, Aa4, Bb3, Cc1, Hh4 and Mm4 appear to be cancels. Roman type, 54 lines plus... Read More
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![Nel sontuoso Convito, e Leggiadro Festino. Dell’Illustriss. et Ecceentiss. [sic] Sig. Andrea Cornaro Capitanio, e Vice Podestà di Brescia. A Dame, e Cavaglieri](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/763/210/1576210763.0.l.jpg)
Nel sontuoso Convito, e Leggiadro Festino. Dell’Illustriss. et Ecceentiss. [sic] Sig. Andrea Cornaro Capitanio, e Vice Podestà di Brescia. A Dame, e Cavaglieri
by BROADSHEET-ANDREA CORNER-BRESCIA
405x277 mm. Text within a typographic border. Woodcut decorative initial. Traces of folding, restorations along the folding, some foxing, all in all well preserved. Celebratory broadsheet printed on the occasion of a dinner party given by the vice-podesta of Brescia Andrea Cornaro (or Corner), containing a laudatory sonnet signed by Pietro dalla Curte. Andrea Corner, born in Venice in 1610 into a noble Venetian family, became a member of the Maggior Consiglio at only 20 in 1630. He had a very successful... Read More
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![Ein schönes Büchlin der kunst Chiroma[n]tia deß wolgelerte[n] Magistri Andree corui vo[n] Mira[n]dula](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/162/415/1717415162.0.l.jpg)
Ein schönes Büchlin der kunst Chiroma[n]tia deß wolgelerte[n] Magistri Andree corui vo[n] Mira[n]dula
by CORVUS, Andreas (Andrea Corvo della Mirandola, 1470-1514)
THE SECOND COPY KNOWN OF THE SECOND TREATISE ON PALMISTRY IN THE GERMAN LANGUAGE 8vo (147x100 mm). [104] leaves. Collation: A-N8. Colophon on l. N8r. Woodcut decorated initials. With overall 168 woodcut illustrations in text including the one on the title page. The woodblocks cover approximately two-thirds of the page. The title woodcut (l. A1r), showing a closed fist surrounded by a floral pattern on a black background, is repeated on l. N7r. At the end of the theoretical section, the... Read More
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![Les contes et discours d’Eutrapel [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/059/773/1653773059.0.l.jpg)
Les contes et discours d’Eutrapel [...]
by DU FAIL, Noël (ca. 1520-1591)
"Un text en prose de la force de Villon" (Sainte-Beuve) 8vo (159x92 mm). [2], 223 [recte 219], [1] leaves. Collation: *2 A-Z8 Aa-Dd8 Ee4. Typographic ornament on the title page. Full burgundy morocco, gilt spine with five raised bands, double blind-ruled fillet on the panels, inside gilt dentelle, gilt edges (Pagnant). A very good copy. Original edition, second issue (first: 1585) of the author's final collection of stories. This second issue is identical to the first including in the pagination errors, but... Read More
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Il problema estetico in San Tommaso
by ECO, Umberto (1932-2016)
UMBERTO ECO'S FIRST BOOK GIUSEPPE FLORES D'ARCAIS'S COPY 4to (250x176 mm). 157, [3] pages. Original publisher's wrappers. A good copy, uncut and mostly unopened, leaves slightly uniformly browned. Provenance: Giuseppe Flores d'Arcais, considered the founder of the school of personalized pedagogy (his large signature on the front cover and the label of his library on the spine). First edition of the first book by the famous Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco. Il problema estetico in San Tommaso consists of an enlargement of... Read More
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![Triumphus D. Ferdinando I. Ro. Imperatori Invictiss. P.P. Augustiss. Archigymansii Viennensis nomine pro foelicibus Imperij auspicijs renunciatus [...] Ad eunden panegyrica aliquot doctissimorum hominum carmina [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/378/038/1297038378.0.l.0.jpg)
Triumphus D. Ferdinando I. Ro. Imperatori Invictiss. P.P. Augustiss. Archigymansii Viennensis nomine pro foelicibus Imperij auspicijs renunciatus [...] Ad eunden panegyrica aliquot doctissimorum hominum carmina [...]
by EDER, Georg (1523-1587)
4to (199x150 mm). [76] leaves. Collation: A-T4. This is one of the copies without the leaflet with a supplementary poem pasted on leaf F1r (basically, beside this copy, only two of the five known copies have this addition). On the title page ownership's inscriptions "Conventus S. Wenceslai Egrensis" and "Ex libris Joannis Sedleckij". Contemporary limp vellum (soiled), ties, new endpapers, some light damp stains throughout, but a good copy. FIRST EDITION. Soon after the death of the humanist and poet Konrad... Read More
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Proef van Letteren, welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschedé
by ENSCHEDÉ, Johannes (1708-1780)
THE MOST IMPORTANT TYPE SPECIMEN PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS IN THE 18TH CENTURY Large 8vo (212x127 mm). Ornamental frontispiece engraved by A. van der Laan after Taco Hajo Helgersma, title page with engraved vignette by A. van der Laan, engraved portrait of Johann Enschedé by C. van Noorde, 2 engravings of the statues of Lourens Janszoon Coster and Adrianus Junius, [32] pp. of introduction, engraved portrait of Johann Michael Fleischmann by C. van Noorde dated 1769, [74] leaves of specimens printed... Read More
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![Pseudocicero, dialogus […] In hoc non solùm de multis ad Ciceronis sermonem pertinentibus, sed etiam quem delectum editionum eius habere, & quam cautionem in eo legendo debeat adhibere, lector monebitur.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/426/038/1297038426.0.l.0.jpg)
Pseudocicero, dialogus […] In hoc non solùm de multis ad Ciceronis sermonem pertinentibus, sed etiam quem delectum editionum eius habere, & quam cautionem in eo legendo debeat adhibere, lector monebitur.
by ESTIENNE, Henri (1531-1598)
8vo (158x93 mm). [4], 228 pp. Collation: *2 a-n8 o-p4 q2. With the printer's device on the title-page. Later stiff vellum, ink title on the spine, sprinkled edges. Slightly uniformly browned, some marginal foxing, but a fine copy. FIRST EDITION of the second attack of Henri Estienne's on Ciceronianism. The first was published a year previously under the title De latinitate falso suspecta expostulation (with an appendix on the style of Plautus). The last volume of his critic, aimed especially at... Read More
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Nova auris internae delineatio
by FOLLI, Cecilio (1614-1682)
4to. [4] leaves. Collation: A4. Printer's device on title page (an eagle with spread wings above a vase containing three lilies supported by a hand coming out of the clouds, in a figurative frame). Woodcut initial and headpiece. On l. A3r full-page engraving by Giacomo Pecini (c. 1617-1669) containing six numbered figures. Some light foxing, traces of folding as the pamphlet was presumably sent as a letter, a very good, wide-margined copy. EXCEEDINGLY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION (first issue) of the most... Read More
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Sprüchwörter Gemeiner Tütscher nation, erstlich durch Sebastian Francken gesammlet, nüwlich aber in kommliche ordnung gestellt und gebessert
by FRANCK, Sebastian (1499-1542/43)
"UN SUCCÈS IMMENSE" (GRATET-DUPLESSIS) Two parts in one volume, 8vo (153x100 mm). [8], ccxlvii, [1 blank]; [4], cxcii leaves. Collation: *8 a-z8 A-H8; †4 aa-zz8 Aa8. Leaf H8 is a blank. Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards dated 1558 and signed with the initials "A.K." (repeated in manuscript at the bottom of the title page), two clasps preserved (slightly soiled, spine rubbed). Stamp of "Menno P.W. de Limburg" on the front pastedown and flyleaf. A superb copy with some contemporary annotations... Read More
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![Contentione di Pluto & Iro composta per il Magnifico Cavagliero Mesere Antonio Fregoso Phileremo Poeta Facondissimo. Colophon: Impressum Mediolani p[er] Petrum Martyre[m] & fratres de Mantegatiis anno Salutis M.D.vii. die. xv. Septe[m]bris Impensis. P. Francisci Tantii Cornigeri](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/567/212/1685212567.0.l.jpg)
Contentione di Pluto & Iro composta per il Magnifico Cavagliero Mesere Antonio Fregoso Phileremo Poeta Facondissimo. Colophon: Impressum Mediolani p[er] Petrum Martyre[m] & fratres de Mantegatiis anno Salutis M.D.vii. die. xv. Septe[m]bris Impensis. P. Francisci Tantii Cornigeri
by FREGOSO, Antonio (ca. 1460-ca. 1530)
EDITIO PRINCEPS 4to (199x135 mm). [10] leaves. Collation: a6 b4. Colophon at l. b4r. At the last leaf verso is an epigram by Francesco Tanzi. Woodcut decorative initials on black ground. Early 20th-century half morocco, gilt title on spine (Wood, London). On the front pastedown armorial bookplate "Biblioteca di Casate Vecchio". Marginal staining and light foxing, pale ink stain to the outer margin of the last five leaves, outer corner of the final leaf repared not affecting the text, old pen... Read More
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Opera nova del cavalier Fregoso Antonio Phileremo. Lamento d’amore mendicante. Dialogo de musica. Pergoletta de le laudi d’amore. Discorsi cottidiani non volgari De l’instinto naturale De la probità. De i tre peregrini. Colophon: Stampata in Vinegia per Nicolo Zoppino di Aristotile di Ferrara ne l’anno di nostra salute MDXXVIII
by FREGOSO, Antonio (ca. 1460-ca. 1530)
8vo (149x99 mm). 82, [2 blank] leaves. Collation: A-K8 L4. Title page within an elaborate woodcut border. Leaves L3 and L4 are blank. Colophon and register at l. L2v. Roman and italic types. Variant A before the correction of "guanci" in "guancie" in the final line of text at l. A6r. On title-page verso note to the reader by Enrico Boscano. Later stiff vellum, inked title on spine, marbled edges. Lacking a small portion of paper from the upper margin... Read More
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Disegni del nuovo teatro de quattro cavalieri eretto in Pavia l’anno MDCCLXXIII opera del Cav. Antonio Galli Bibiena
by GALLI BIBIENA, Antonio (1697-1774)
THE TEATRO FRASCHINI IN PAVIA Folio (412x287 mm). Engraved architectural title page by Giovanni Ramis after Paolo Mescoli, dedicaton leaf to the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, [1] leaf of text, and [3] double-page plates engraved by Giovanni Ramis after Paolo Mescoli and Antonio Martorini, showing the plan, the façade and a section of the theater. Contemporary colored wrappers (spine repaired, worn and faded). A very good copy printed on thick paper. Extremely rare first edition, probably printed after 24 May... Read More
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Commentariorum rerum suarum Libri tres. Accessit liber quartus Παραλειπομενων auctore Josepho Marotto. Quos Valentius Gonzaga Card, primum edidit et Cajetano Fratri inscripsit
by GONZAGA, Scipione (1542-1593)
FIRST EDITION OF SCIPIONE GONZAGA'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY PRINTED ON BLUE PAPER Large 4to (276x200 mm). [16], 430, [2] pp. and one engraved plate between fols. Zz2 and Zz3, bearing a portrait of Gonzaga along with his family's coat of arms. Engraved vignette on the title page presenting an allegory of the city of Mantua, executed by M. di Pietro, who was also responsible for the engraved vignettes on fols. A1r, K1r, and Aa4r. Another full-page engraved portrait of the author on the verso... Read More
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Opyt geomtrii o chetyrekh izmereniakh. Geometriia sinteticheskaia (“An Essay on the Geometry of Four Dimensions. Synthetic Geometry”)
by HULAK, Mykola Ivanovich (1821-1899)
A FORGOTTEN WORK ON FOUR-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY BY AN UKRAINIAN HERO 8vo (250x165 mm). [6], 150, [4] pp. and one large folding plate with geometrical figures. Editor's printed wrappers (worn, marginal paper loss, spine broken and roughly repaired). Some quires loose. A genuine copy preserved in a cloth box. Incredibly rare first and only edition of this pioneristic work on four-dimensional geometry. Mykola Ivanovich Hulak (or Nikolai Ivanovich Gulak or Goulak) was born in Warsaw in 1821 into a noble, but poor family from... Read More
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Emblemata
by MACCIO, Paolo (1576-1638)
OUTSTANDING PROVENANCE 4to (203x140 mm); 18th-century full calf, panels within a triple fillet in gilt, spine with five raised bands and gilt title on morocco label, marbled endleaves, gilt edges (joints and top of the spine partially restored); 331, (5) pp. With frontispiece, portrait of the Madonna di San Luca and 81 full-page emblems, all engraved by Giovanni Battista Coriolano (1595-1649), Oliviero Gatti (1598-1646) and Agostino Parisini (fl. 1625-1636) after drawings by Florio Macchi and Giovanni Battista Coriolano. Provenance: Jean-Baptiste Colbert... Read More
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Vite de’ prencipi di Vinegia di Pietro Marcello, tradotte in volgare da Lodovico Domenichi. Con le vite di quei prencipi, che furono doppo il Barbarigo, fino al doge Priuli. Nelle quali s’ha cognitione di tutte le istorie venetiane fino all’anno 1558. Con una copiosissima tavola di tutte le cose memorabili, che si contengono in esse
by MARCELLO, Pietro (fl. 15th-16th cent.)
AN UNCUT COPY WITH DECKLE EDGES AND CONTEMPORARY CARDBOARDS 8vo (164x106 mm). [12], 371 [i.e. 373], [63] pp. Collation: A-EE8. Repeated in pagination the pp. 163-164. The last leaf is a blank. Colophon at l. EE7r. Printer's device on title page and l. EE7v. Light marginal staining and foxing on a few leaves. Outer margin of the title page soiled. Contemporary cardboards, spine covered with a later colored paper, lettering piece on spine (panels slightly soiled, minor losses to spine). A... Read More
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