Vari - Lotto ristampe anastatiche Libri d’altri tempi - 1969

Three titles from the Ancient Libri d’altri tempi editions, specialized in high-quality anastatic reprints.

Chapter of the primiera game with the commentary by Messer Pietropaulo da San Chirico, Ancient 1969
82 pages
Copy 53/400
Anastatic print of the 1584 edition of the book on the primiera card game, born toward the end of the Quattrocento.
Editorial binding in green imitation leather, with gold title on the front board, spine with four raised bands with title and gold ornaments, marbled endpapers.

Memorie del calcio fiorentino: taken from various writings and dedicated to the Most Serene Highnesses Ferdinando, prince of Tuscany, and Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, Ancient 1969
Copy 174/400
134 pages
Reprint of the anthology of works on Florentine calcio by Pietro Bini, published to commemorate the match played during the wedding celebrations of Ferdinando de’ Medici and Princess Violante Beatrice of Bavaria in December–January 1688–89.
The works in this anthology include a new edition of the “Discorso” by Bard, originally published in 1580 and which was the first book printed on calcio. Also present is a Latin treatise on the Jesuit G. B. Ferrari’s game, a description of the game in Greek verse by Georgios Koresios followed by a Tuscan dialect translation by A. M. Salvini, and a “Cantata in music” by Jacopo del Borgo.
Full leather binding, spine with four raised bands, gilt title.

Alessandro Pascoli, Il corpo umano, o breve storia, dove con nuovo metodo si descrivono in compendio tutti gli organi suoi, e i loro principali ufizi, per istruire a bene intendere, secondo il nuovo sistema, la teorica e pratica medicinale, ancient 1969
Copy 83/400
470 pages
Reprint of the 1712 edition of the treatise on the knowledge of the organs of the human body and their specific functions, one of the most thorough on the subject; it was Pascoli’s most important work, a renowned physician and anatomy lecturer. At the end is attached the Latin work by Giorgio Baglivo, “De fibra motrice, et morbosa; nec non de experimentis, ac morbis salivae, bilis, et sanguinis. Ubi obiter de Respiratyione, & Somno.”
Full leather binding, spine with four raised bands, gilt title.