BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

century].Interesting large fragment of an antiphonary from the French-Italian area, illustrated with 56 large illuminated initials and numerous mi...

Psalterium nocturnum ac diurnum. Venezia: Giunta, 1505.Two illustrated post-incunabula in contemporary bindings, among the largest books at the ti...

Wide-margined copy of this elegant edition of the poems of Anacreon, whose style, characterised by a suffused hedonism and dedicated to the pleasu...

Stamperia Reale, 1788. Handsome edition of the anthologies of Greek epigrams collected by Massimo Planude and Costantino Cefala, edited by the Nea...

Scarce work printed in only 200 copies collecting letters sent to the 'flagello dei principi' by the main protagonists of 16th century Europe.2 pa...

Copy printed on fine paper of this elegant edition of Ariosto's masterpiece illustrated with engravings by some of the most celebrated Parisian an...

Elegant counterfeit of the 1527 edition of Boccaccio's Decameron printed in only 300 copies and published at the request of the English consul Jos...

A richly annotated copy of Boccaccio's Decameron in a contemporary hand, featuring philological observations and variations on the printed edition...

Elegant counterfeit of the 1527 edition, printed in only 300 copies and published at the request of the English consul Joseph Smith, reproducing t...

corrispondenti. Bologna: Della Volpe, 1835.One of the first attempts to catalogue and define the Bolognese dialect, comparing it with Italian and ...

SIGONIO, Carlo (1524-1584). De episcopis Bononiensibus libri quinque. Bologna: Benacci, 1586. 4to, (222 x 145 mm). allegorical vignette to title d...

Venezia: Valuasensis, 1692.Scarce edition of this work on the hermits of the Hieronymite order from the library of Leonardo Tirssino, a Vicentine ...

Large calligraphic proof in six languages (Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Old Syriac, Latin, and Italian) by the priest and scholar Cornelio Geri and ...

Priuilegi concessi da' Sommi Pontefici alla religione. Borgo Novo: Antonio Scionico, 1719Scarce edition of the collection of the statutes and priv...

Stefano papa, e martire, con la serie.. de' suoi gran maestri. Parma: Monti, 1718.Scarce work on the history and succession of the knights of the ...

Florence: Giunti, 1577 [BOUND WITH:] Dichiarazioni del capitolo generale MDLXXVIII. Florence: Giunti, 1583.Rare edition of the statutes of the Kni...

in Caramania, e di due galere capitane, et altri vasselli turcheschi. Florence: Giunti, 1613.A scarce work (OPAC SBN finds two copies only) with L...

Caesar's famous commentaries, here in a contemporary binding and annotated by a contemporary reader.8vo, (160 x 100mm). Several contemporary margi...

breuiter, artificioseque continentur. Venice: Valgrisi, 1576.Scarce edition, first published in 1529, of this detailed work on the rights and duti...

First Aldine edition, scarcely found complete with both volumes, of Cicero's philosophical works, printed entirely in italics and in a beautiful l...

Parma: Bodoni, 1811.Excellent copy, in the original publisher's binding, of Jacques Guillaume Legrand's (1743-1807) French translation of the famo...

PLAUTUS. Comoediae vigiti. Venice: 1518. Folio (317 x 215mm) Engraved printer's device on title page and colophon, wood-engraved initials and 87 b...

medi, fattasi contro li trè conti Francesco Nadasdi, Pietro di Zrin, e Francesco Christofforo Frangepami. Vienna, Milan: Malatesta, 1671.A handsom...

First and only Aldine edition of the works of Curtius Rufus, which include the 'Histories of Alexander the Great', a work that significantly influ...

Christophoro Landino. Venice: Giovanni Giolito da Trino, 1536.Second Giolito reprint of the 1512 edition with the same illustrative apparatus and ...

First edition in which the title 'Divina' is applied to Dante's Commedia, a formula that became the standard in all subsequent editions.12mo, (137...

'The smallest Dante legible to a naked eye' at the time of printing (1898) in its original gilt editorial binding with Dante's portrait on the fro...

Glass tondo reproducing one of the frescoes painted in 1503 by Luca Signorelli for the Chapel of San Brizio in Orvieto Cathedral. It depicts an ep...

A fine Art Nouveau sculpture of the author of the Divine Comedy by Fortunato Gori, a pupil of Augusto Rivalta and the Parisian sculptor Victorien-...

Bonducci, 1786.An unsophisticated copy of this first edition, one of the most comprehensive repertories on maritime insurance published at the tim...

relitti del mare Adriatico . Rome: Mainardi, 1759.Scarce (not recorded at auction auction), curious, and learned examination of the casuistry of f...

Lot containing an edition of The Consulate of the Sea, a primary source of maritime law that provides a vast collection of information on European...

metodo di costruire le strade. Naples: s.n. (ma Stamperia francese), 1826.First Italian edition based on the London edition of 1822, which also co...

l'exploitation des mines traduit de l'allemand par m. Monnet, à Paris 1773.. Per quanto speziale appartiene alla pratica estrazione dei carboni fo...

Herman, 1664.Lot including one of the earliest modern treatises on economic and banking theory reflecting seventeenth-century liberal ideas on cre...

Lot of three works: STRACCA, Benvenuto (1509-1578). De mercatura [BOUND WITH:] Tractatus duo de Assecurationibus. Amsterdam: Schipper, 1668-1699. ...

Complete manuscript of one hundred salacious sonnets, the nature of which is well explained by the following passage from the introduction: 'Vidi ...

Scarce first edition (not recorded at auction, RBH) of the main work by Farra, member of the Accademia degli Affidati in Pavia and governor of Asc...

Alessandro dei Paganini, 1521. Composite copy by the famous bibliophile Joseph Knight (1827-1907) of this satirical work accompanying Imberti's 15...

Lettres sur les vallees de Lanzo". Turin: Chirio et Mina, 1823.Important lot including the original manuscripts of the work dedicated to Lanzo Tor...

Borbone Infante di Spagna Duca di Parma, Piacenza, Guastalla. Parma: Bodoni, 1803.Work illustrating the funeral ceremony and the great ephemeral a...

mêlent de dépenses de Maisons. Bruxelles. Bruxelles: Guillyn, 1746.Scarce first edition (only one record at auction on RBH) of one of the classics...

Brescia: Ragnoli, 1795.A list of food provisions issued by the government of the district of Brescia, revealing a complex and advanced system legi...

government.4 works: BELLONE, Marco Antonio (15th cent.). Decisiones Rotae Genuae de mercatura, et ad eam pertinentibus. Venice: Zenaro, 1606. 4to,...

A copy in excellent internal condition and in elegant binding style of this Horatian edition, printed in only 150 copies 'Beautiful edition in all...

metod polevoj ezdy i obucenija ej. San Pietroburgo: R. Golike e A. Vilborg, 1911.Copy ex dono Auctoris to General Filippo di Sambuy, horseman and ...

la principessa imperiale Maria Luigia. Parma: Bodoni, 1824.Scarce work (only 2 at auction in the last 30 years, RBH) illustrating the many project...

Lot of 5 volumes containing works by Dante, Galilei, Foscolo and Leopardi from the series directed by Giosué Carducci for Gaspero Barbera of ancie...

[s.l: s.e.: ], 1796-1799.Fresh copy, but without the two engraved plates, of this anonymous edition of Machiavelli's work designed to escape censo...

Bologna: Manutius, 1586.Work dedicated to the exploits of Cosimo De' Medici (1519-1574) last Duke of Florence and first Grand Duke of Tuscany.4to,...

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 XIV...

Reproduction Trojan Codex, over four metres long, one of only three Mayan books that have come down to us, discovered in mid-19th-century Spain an...

efficaces [WITH:] Fustis Daemonum adiurationes, formidabiles. Venice: Guerra, 1597.One of the most famous treatises on exorcisms and demonology ed...

Good edition of this famous work, considered the most successful historiographical reconstruction of Milanese events during the Renaissance.Large ...

for Samurai. Tokyo,Tenpo¯ 10 (1839).Interesting manual for Samurai illustrated by Hiroki Onom, Japanese draughtsman and artist active in the Edo p...

differents peuples du monde. Paris: Aime Andre, 1820.Fine lot devoted to militaria and military orders.4to, (272 x 215mm). half-title, allegorical...

Pellecchia, 1753.Scarce illustrated Italian edition of this treatise on war and the deployment of soldiers, written by the French general who serv...

universale dell'infanteria della serenissima Repubblica di Venezia. Venice: Pinelli, 1735.Fine copy of this work containing instructions for offic...

debolezza, & incertitudine del discorso humano.Venice: Ginammi, 1634.First Italian translation of Raymond Sebond's apology, the most articulate an...

Bodoni edition of Monti's tragedy in five acts performed at the Teatro Ducale in Parma. Brooks 312.4to, (285 x 210mm). Frontispiece designed by Ma...