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Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Read More about Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy
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Ragionamento Sulla Mendicita. (Argument on Begging)...colle note dello stesso autore.
Naples: Nella Stamperia Simoniana, 1804. Second edition. Treatise on begging. Read More about Ragionamento Sulla Mendicita. (Argument on Begging)...colle note dello stesso autore
Price: $300
Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement.
a la Haye: Jean van Duren, 1741. Second edition. First published Paris (Didot) 1740. Read More about Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement
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‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’
Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino].
The Lido, Venice: June 1930. ‘Ringmaster of Society in the Eternal City’. The generally candid and richly entertaining autobiography of Princess Jane di San Faustino (1863-1938), recounting her origins in New Jersey and her entry in the highest ranks of the Italian aristocracy following her marriage to Carlo di Bourbon..... Read More about Lights Out [Memoirs: Princess di San Faustino
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Letters from Italy, in the years 1754 and 1755, by the late right honourable John Earl of Corke and Orrery...
London: B. White Horace’s Head, Fleet-Street, 1773. Pp.265-266 comprise: ’The genealogy of the House of Medicci’, apparently a table. Read More about Letters from Italy, in the years 1754 and 1755, by the late right honourable John Earl of Corke...
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The Last Days of Pompeii.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1834. First American edition. Bulwer-Lytton’s most celebrated novel, one which virtually established a new genre of historical fiction. Inspired by his visit to the studio of the Russian painter Karl Bryullov at Rome, where an enormous canvas representing the catastrophe was hung. Read More about The Last Days of Pompeii
Price: $225
Etruscan Bologna.
London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First edition, second issue (remainder binding). Read More about Etruscan Bologna
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Etruscan Bologna.
London: Smith, Elder, 1876. First edition. Read More about Etruscan Bologna
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Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System.
New York: G.P.Putnam, 1896. With the siganature of Hamilton Twombly, Jr. Madison, N.J. on the front free-endpaper. Read More about Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System
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Caii Julii Csaris. Commentarii de Bello Gallico...curavit F.P. Leverett.
Boston: Hilliard, Gray et Soc, 1839. Read More about Caii Julii Csaris. Commentarii de Bello Gallico...curavit F.P. Leverett
Price: $75
With Maps and Superb Woodcuts
[Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri.
Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. With Maps and Superb Woodcuts. Read More about Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri
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ANS. To Alfred Eisenstaedt. WITH: Nancy Kelly ANS. WITH: Margaret Tallichet ANS.
Hollywood or Beverly Hills: September 1938. WITH: Nancy Kelly (1921-1995), Actress ANS.Beverly Hills September 1938. WITH: Margaret Tallichet (1914-1991), Actress, wifec of William Wyler. ANS 3 different inscriptions on one leaf from Eisie's notebook. Read More about ANS. To Alfred Eisenstaedt. WITH: Nancy Kelly ANS. WITH: Margaret Tallichet ANS
Price: $100
Isabella d’Este Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539. A Study of the Renaissance.
London: John Murray, 1923. Later edition. Read More about Isabella d’Este Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539. A Study of the Renaissance
Price: $150
An Anti-Slavery Milestone
Il supplice schiavo indiano ... tradotto in Italiano per opera di Marco Ginammi.
Venice: Appresso Marco Ginammi, 1636. First edition in Italian. An Anti-Slavery Milestone. Bartoloméo de Las Casas, the great Spanish priest and advocate of the Indians, had witnessed the atrocities committed by the Spaniards in the New World, and upon his return to Spain he initiated a series of attacks on..... Read More about Il supplice schiavo indiano ... tradotto in Italiano per opera di Marco Ginammi
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Il Bel Mondo Inglese dell'ottocento (Il giovane Melbourne).
Milan: Longanesi, [1948]. Terza edizione. Read More about Il Bel Mondo Inglese dell'ottocento (Il giovane Melbourne
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La Vie ... Traduction par Léopold Leclanché.
Paris: A. Quantin, 1881. Read More about La Vie ... Traduction par Léopold Leclanché
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Cività sepolte Il romanzo dell'archeologia.
Torino: Giulio Einaudi, Editore, 1953. Read More about Cività sepolte Il romanzo dell'archeologia
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Di alcuni scritti pubblicati da Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna Veneziano dall'anno MDCCCVIII al MDCCCL.
[Venice: Molinari], 1850. First edition. Scarce bibliography of the works of the Venetian historian and antiquarian Cicogna (1789-1868). OCLC locates only 2 copies in the US. the attribution comes from NUC (via OCLC). Read More about Di alcuni scritti pubblicati da Emmanuele Antonio Cicogna Veneziano dall'anno MDCCCVIII al MDCCCL
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Compendio di Geografia Moderna, accresciuta delle ultime scoperte &c. Ad uso del Collegio Nazerno di Roma.
Venice: 1800. Seconda edizione Veneta. School geography, based upon earlier geographies printed at Rome by Zempel. The last chapter discusses “Nuovo Scoperte” including short accounts of Cook’s voyages and discoveries in the Antarctic regions. Only one copy recorded in OCLC. Read More about Compendio di Geografia Moderna, accresciuta delle ultime scoperte &c. Ad uso del Collegio...
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Corsica The Scented Isle.
London: Methuen, [1924]. First edition. Read More about Corsica The Scented Isle
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Letter signed (“fratello et servitor Cosimo de Medici”), to the Conte di Benevento, 6 di Novemb. 1539.
Florence: 6 November 1539. A letter of recommendation from Cosimo II de Medici (1519-1574), Duke of Florence and later the Grand Duke of Tuscany, for his counselor Agnolo Niccolini (1502-1567), addressed to the Conte di Benevento With a later Medici family letter: Medici, Carlo de. Letter signed, [N.p. , likely..... Read More about Letter signed (“fratello et servitor Cosimo de Medici”), to the Conte di Benevento, 6 di...
Price: $3,000