Manuscript Journal of a month in Rome
Roma: 1860. The loose leaves bear no name, but it opens with Stocking reporting rounds to various offices... Read More
Price: $1,750
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![[Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs à Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit]. Collection of Architectural Woodcuts from the first Giunta edition of Vitruvius. Architecture, Pollio; Julius FRONTINUS Vitruvius.](/pictures/thumb/311995.jpg?v=1534808939)
[Vitrvvivs itervm et Frontinvs à Iocvndo revisi repvrgatiqve qvantvm ex collatione licvit]. Collection of Architectural Woodcuts from the first Giunta edition...
[Florence: Giunta, 1513]. First octavo edition. Incomplete copy of an important edition of Vitruvius, with the woodcut illustrations in reduction from the 1511 edition. Read More
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Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First edition. Read More
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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
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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
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Accademia d’Armi da Eseguirsi il Giorno Ventisei Agosto in San Zeno in Monte Dalli Signori Alunni del Collegio de’Molto RR...
[Verona]: 1795. Exceedingly rare advertisement broadside for a fencing performance organized and directed by Benedetto Lauberg, fencing teacher. The broadside lists the attendants and notes that there will be a dance interlude. Read More
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Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings.
Chicago: A. c. McClurg & Co, 1904. First edition. Read More
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Delle Historie Memorabili contiene le Guerre d'Italia de' nostri Tempi: Di Girolamo Brusoni Racconti undeci. E questo Volume viene ad...
Venice: Turrini, 1656. First edition. Read More
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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
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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
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![[Opera] C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant. Ex recensione Ios. Scaligeri. Julius Caesar.](/pictures/thumb/62362.jpg?v=1534804723)
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
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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
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Isabella d’Este Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539. A Study of the Renaissance.
London: John Murray, 1923. Later edition. Read More
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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
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Il Bel Mondo Inglese dell'ottocento (Il giovane Melbourne).
Milan: Longanesi, [1948]. Terza edizione. Read More
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Cività sepolte Il romanzo dell'archeologia.
Torino: Giulio Einaudi, Editore, 1953. Read More
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Romance of Imperial Rome; Romance Of Roman Villas; Romance of Italian Villas; Romance of the Feudal Chateaux; Romance of the...
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910-1911. Read More
Price: $400
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
Price: $350
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
Price: $250
Letter signed to Marie de' Medici offering condolences on the assassination of her husband, Henry IV.
Florence: 26 May, 1610. A heartfelt letter of condolence to his cousin, the widow of Henry IV of France. In addition, Cosimo (the Duke of Tuscany) has also sent his secretary, Andrea Cioli, and offers the assistance of the house of Medici: "di tutta questa sua Casa." Marie de' Medici and... Read More
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Costumes Anciens et Modernes. Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto il mondo…precédés d'un Essai sur la Gravure sur Bois Par...
Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Frères Fils & Cie, 1859-63 [1860 on front wrappers of first two volumes]. Fifth edition. Read More
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La Divina Commedia.
Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1949. Quattordecesima edizione (completa). Read More
Price: $100