BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

fino al regnante gran signore Achmet IV e delle più riguardevoli cose appartenenti a quella monarchia. Rome: Vescovi, Neri, 1786.Rare first and on...

Illustrated first edition (second overall) of this chivalric novel by Luigi Alamanni.4to, (203 x 145mm). Title-page within an elegant woodcut fram...

First edition of this monumental work on the history of Florence from its foundation to the year 1433 commissioned by Cosimo I and first printed h...

arabe per cura d'un religioso. Jerusalem: Tipografia dei Padri Francescani, 1878.Fine copy of one of the first modern Italian-Arabic and Arabic-It...

the colophon).Scarce work of heraldry complete with the first part which has never appeared at auction (RBH), illustrating with elegant engraved p...

Paris): s.e., 1656.A scarce work of a historiographical-heraldic nature collecting 14 of the most illustrious Tuscan families with their engraved ...

segnalate memorie del sagr'ordine militare di s. Stefano p. e m. e de' suoi cavalieri colle glorie antiche, e moderne dell'illustri loro patrie. F...

corruptione Aristotelis...Item questiones Alberti de Saxonia in eosdem libros. Venice: Ottaviano Scoto, 1520.Copy in fine internal condition conta...

Venice: De Sabio, 1526 [BOUND WITH:] Aristotelis Quinque de animalium generatione libri ex interpretatione Theodori Gazae cum Philoponi. Venice: D...

First edition of the only medieval Italian translation of Augustine's City of God, traditionally attributed to the 14th-century Florentine Dominic...

Ferrara: Laurentium de rubeis de valentia, Andream de grassis de castronuouo, 1492.Scarce work in the Aristotelian field never sold at auction (RB...

dell'Italia superiore parte sinora sconosciuti. Venice: Carlo Palese, 1794.Fine copy of the first edition of this work on the first printed books ...

Copy of this scarce edition with early annotations of a lexical nature and numerous underlinings of sentences and specific words, suggesting that ...

Giuntina edition of Boethius' opera omnia.Folio, (318 x 220mm). Printer's device on the colophon and title-page, woodcut initials and illustration...

First edition of this history of Florence narrated from the Deluge to 1410 (in Variant C according to OPAC) with the date 1579 on the colophon.4to...

Milan: presso l'autore, 1828-29.Interesting lot dedicatd to chivalric novels with Ferrario's learned study, illustrated by aquatints by Hayez, San...

plénipotentiaire de France. Amsterdam: s.e., 1774.First edition of this work on public administration written by the chevalier d'Eon, known for be...

Wide-margined copy of this incunable collection of Cicero's philosophical works including De fato, De legibus, De natura deorum, De finibus bonoru...

One of the first works to be printed in Venice by Spira (the first was Cicero's Epistulae ad familiares only two years earlier in 1469) and the se...

carmina quaedam latina inedita. Avignon: Guichard, 1776.First complete edition of the works of this scholar from Como, donated by the editor, Card...

Genoa, 1589.Anti-Spanish account of the union of the Portuguese and Spanish monarchies, in a contemporary binding. The author, a merchant by profe...

prose, e poesie di varj autori in morte di Miccia gatta d'un pittore di Mondov¿. Mondov¿: Giovanni Andrea Rossi, 1790.Scarce continuation, with on...

Christophoro Landino. Venice: Giovanni Giolito da Trino, 1536.Incomplete copy, with early Sicilian provenance and censorship of the parts explicit...

sua Comedia dell'Inferno, del Purgatorio, & del Paradiso. Venice: Pietro da Fino, 1568.Fine copy with a touching dedication, written in elegant li...

Milan: Edoardo Sonzogno, 1868-1869.First Italian edition, in a contemporary binding, of The Divine Comedy illustrated with Doré's famous plates, p...

Copy with an important dedication by D'Annunzio to Attilio Susi (1874 -1935), interventionist socialist, elected to parliament in 1919 on the D'av...

signore e de' signori cavalieri napoletani. Naples: Mosca, 1728.First and only edition of this scarce monograph containing general rules and princ...

Lot of two first editions of poetic works in elegant bindings. The first is a sammelband of Benedetto dell'Uva's religious poetic works, including...

A copy in fine binding and ex dono auctoris in the B variant reported by SBN with the date 1773 in the colophon. Brooks 25: Graziosissimo libro.4t...

Pinzi, Fontana, 1497.Good incunable edition of this famous repertory of the lives of the philosophers of antiquity, in the Latin translation by Am...

First edition edited by Girolamo Colonna (1534-1586) and first separate printing of the surviving writings of Ennius, the founder of Roman poetry,...

s.e, after 1765].Scarce sequel to the Cicalata sopra la coda, published in 1765, a burlesque letter to a mysterious lady N. N. in which erotic all...

Amsterdam: De Wetstein; Chatelain, 1761.An unknown variant, bound in contemporary morocco and lacking the engraved vignettes to the title-page and...

Scarce and highly sought-after edition of the histories of Polybius translated into French by the Benedictine Vincent Thuillier, with Folard's rev...

duce della Rep. di Genova. Genoa: Pavoni, 1634.Lot of three works on the Doria family.4to, (240 x 175 mm). Engraved title-page within an elaborate...

alla pace d'Aquisgrana. Leiden [i. e. Modena]: [Soliani], 1750.Wide-margined copy of this important history of Genoa enriched by a map depicting t...

Maria Farroni, 1636.An amateur's copy, fully remargined in the 19th century to increase its size, of this scarce first and only edition of the wor...

Germany): s.e., 1764.First edition of this fascinating work of fiction that narrates Nicolas Roubiouni's ascension to the throne of the principali...

Douai: Bogard, 1594.Scarce first French translation, with only one appearance at auction (RBH) of the famous biography of Ignatius of Loyola origi...

Scarce miniature book with Jewish prayers for the whole year according to Sephardic usage, in a contemporary binding.36mo, (71 x 53mm). Title page...

comprennent l'histoire de France...Tome troisiéme. La suite des rois depuis Charles V jusqu'è Louis XI. Paris: Gandouin, 1731.Important binding wi...

Splendid bilingual reglé edition, in Latin and French, of the Office of Darkness within an elegant contemporary binding with the arms of Louis XV,...

1747.Contemporary binding in red morocco, richly gilt with the arms of a count and the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God.4to, (270 x 203mm). Of...

imperiale e reale Alessandro gran-duca principe imperiale ereditario di Russia. Turin: Chirio and Mina, 1839.Elegantly bound copy with the arms of...

Elegantly bound copy of the first edition of this refined poetic text.8vo, (180x110 mm). Frontispiece engraved in etching by Bracquemond from a dr...

Beautiful English binding in neo-Renaissance style signed by the Bumpus Brothers of Oxford in the style of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson (1840-192...

An ex dono auctoris copy; Michel de Marolles, an abbot and collector, amassed 123,000 prints, which were purchased in 1667 by Colbert for Louis XI...

First Latin translation, edited by Cosimo Pazzi (1466-1513), of the 41 lectures by the Neo-Platonic philosopher Maximus of Tyre on philosophical a...

anticristiana e antisociale ora massoneria. Bologna: Società tipografica dei compositori, 1876-1878.A very rare work, never proposed complete, whi...

First edition of this important French etymological dictionary, compiled as a result of Menage's mastery of old French and of early forms of other...

juridictionibus, titulisque insignium [BOUND WITH:] Vicecomitum...genealogica monumenta. Milan: Malatesta, 1714.A finely bound copy of this herald...

Fine copy, unfortunately lacking 3 plates, with early Austrian aristocratic provenance. Scarce first edition of this work on military and chivalri...

Siebmacher, 1603.Incomplete copy of this first edition concerning the military history of the region of Austria-Hungary between 1395 and 1602. The...

secoli moderni hanno gloriosamente guerreggiato. Rome: Mascardi, 1646.A fine copy of this work, illustrated with over 100 portraits of famous mili...

Scarce edition, in a contemporary binding, of this work dedicated to the great victory of the Piedmontese, led by Giovanni Battista Cacherano di B...

Baba, 1654.Second edition, improved and enlarged compared to the first, of this classic of Italian military treatises. It is written with much eru...

Giacomo Spinelli], 1552.Volume collecting the work of Elianus devoted to Roman military tactics illustrated by numerous reproductions of attack an...

De Rossi, 1648.Scarce treatise on fortifications illustrated by perspective plates with an unusual bird's-eye view that succeeds in rendering clea...

1639.First edition of this treatise on fortifications structured in 7 chapters: in the first two the author takes up what he had already discussed...

Ferdinanden, Ertzhertzogen zu Oesterreich, herrlich angerichtet. Nìrnberg: Weigel, 1735.Eighteenth-century edition of the famous catalogue of the ...