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 about Manuscript Journal of a month in Rome
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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
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Il Decamerone.
Milan: ULRICO HOEPLI, Nd. Sesta Edizione integra. Read More about Il Decamerone
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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 about Parallèle des Romains et des François par rapport au gouvernement
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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 about Accademia d’Armi da Eseguirsi il Giorno Ventisei Agosto in San Zeno in Monte Dalli Signori...
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Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings.
Chicago: A. c. McClurg & Co, 1904. First edition. Read More about Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings
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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
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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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Hoc Volumine Continentur Haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri 8. De bello civili Pompeiano. Libri 4. De bello Alexandrino. Liber...
Venice: Aldus, 1519. Second Aldine edition. Commentaries of Caesar's campaigns in Africa, Spain, and France, reprinted from the 1513 Aldus edition, including the prefaces written by Aldus and the architect Giovanni Giocondo, as well as the same woodcuts (cf. Renouard, p. 88). The volume is an excellent example of the..... Read More about Hoc Volumine Continentur Haec. Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri 8. De bello civili...
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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 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
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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 about Isabella d’Este Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539. A Study of the Renaissance
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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 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: Rome]..... Read More about Letter signed (“fratello et servitor Cosimo de Medici”), to the Conte di Benevento, 6 di...
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