Gli ornati delle pareti ed i pavimenti delle...
in Napoli: dalla Stamperia Regale, 1796; and1808. 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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Lettera del Signor Conte Abate Giambatista Roberti al Signor Cavalier Conte Giambatista Giovio Ciamberlano attuale delle LL.MM.II e riposta del...
Lugano: Per gli Agnelli, 1777. Roberti (1719-1786) was a Jesuit scholar, known today for his homage to the strawbery: "Le fragole poemetto." He was born in Bassano, namesake of the 16th-century painter Jacopo Bassano, subject of this essay. 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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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. Read More
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The Present State of Music in France and Italy. Or, The Journal of a Tour through those Countries, undertaken to...
London: Printed for T. Becket and Co. in the Strand, 1771. First edition of the author's first book. First edition of Burney's musical tour of France and Italy. Burney was the famous British composer, music historian, and member of the Johnson circle, whose seminal General History of Music was published... 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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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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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
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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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Notarial Documents of the time Christopher Columbus lived in Genoa
Autograph Manuscript Records of the noble Passano family of Genoa, Italy compiled for Antonio Da Passano the 123rd Doge of...
Genoa, Italy: 15th century -17th century. Notarial Documents of the time Christopher Columbus lived in Genoa. The journal of Antonio Da Passano, Doge of Genoa and Corsica (July 1675- July 1677), is a collection of notarial documents concerning the history of the patrician family Passano in the senate since the... Read More
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Lettre trentième concernant l'imprimerie et la librairie de Paris, traduite de l'Anglais, avec des Notes, par G.A. Crapelet...
Paris: Crapelet, 1821. First edition, one of 100 copies printed. Dibdin's treatment of the Paris printing and bookselling scene in his Bibliographical Tour provoked this translation and annoyed response (in the preface and footnotes) from the great printer Crapelet, who took exception to numerous aspects of Didbin's account, including the... Read More
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Summer Islands.
New York: The Colophon, 1931. Willard, Howard. First American Edition, No. 229 of 450 copies, Signed. Read More
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Roman Religion and Military Discipline
Discours de la Religion des anciens Romains, de la castramentation & discipline militaire d'iceux. Des bains & Antiques exercitations Grecques...
Lyon: Guillaume Rouill, 1567. First combined edition (first published separately 1556 and 1555, respectively), and first quarto edition. Roman Religion and Military Discipline. Du Choul's classic works on Roman religion and Roman military practices, featuring the beautiful woodcuts attributed to Pierre Eskric, were intended to be published together, but in... Read More
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Calendario del R. Esercito Ministro delaa Guerra A/XV-XVI.
[Rome]: 1937]. Daily chronicle of Italy's War on Ethiopia. Read More
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The Universities of Italy.
[Bergamo]: Fascist University Group, [Year 1934 - XII of the Fascist Era]. First edition. Read More
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Roman Antiquities.
Oxford: D.A. Talboys: and 118, Flleet Street, 1840. Translated from the last edition. Read More
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