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Gospel According to Mark with fifteen plates by Aligi Sassu. Florence, Fin. Edit. Art. Florence, 1980. Size 44.5 x 33 cm, full leather binding, 115 pages. Edition of 1,499 numbered copies printed on Fabriano paper, our no. 1367 (part of the edition that has no original

Religion, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Book

Aligi Sassu - Pietro Annigoni - Vangelo secondo Matteo e Marco illustrati da Sassu e Annigoni - 1974

First Giolitian edition, printed by Bartolomeo Zanetti. In this important commentary by Vellutello, published for the first time in 1525, the editor and scholar of Lucca origin divided the Petrarchan Canzoniere into three parts, in addition to the Trionfi.
Full leather binding

History, Biographies and memoirs, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

Francesco Petrarca, Alessandro Vellutello - Il Petracha Con L'Espositione D'Alessandro Vellutello E con piu Utili Cose in Diversi Luoghi Di - 1538

Castiglione, Baldassare.
The Courtier of Count Baldassarre Castiglione, newly re-encountered with the original manuscript by the author. With a brief collection of the qualities sought in a perfect courtier, and in a palace lady.
In Lyon: next to Guillaume Rouillé, 1553.
[16],

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Guglielmo Rouillio - Il Cortegiano del conte Baldassarre Castiglione - 1553

Dolce Lodovico. The First Adventures of Orlando Innamorato. In Venice at Leonardo and Giammaria Bassaglia brothers, 1784. Rare edition of the famous sixteenth-century heroic-chivalric poem on the youthful deeds of the paladin of the prolific Venetian humanist. The work narrates

Illustrated, Literature - Quantity: 2 - Book

Dolce  Lodovico, Carteromaco Niccolò - Lotto di Poemi Burleschi - 1784

I am offering a limited edition of only 200 numbered copies, printed on high-quality watermarked paper and with artisanal binding. This is number 144. It has 164 pages and measures 31 x 21 cm. In perfect condition.

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Slipcase - Book

Robert Louis Stevenson - Viaggio in canoa sui fiumi del Belgio e della Francia - 1983

BELLA REMONDINIANA - DIVINE DISCIPLINE AND SECRET PLEASURES: WHEN FAITH BECOMES ART.
This Venetian Remondini of 1751, seemingly intended for daily practice of Christian devotion, actually reveals a much more complex cultural stratification: it is an object of piety, but also a

History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Remondini / Piazzetta - Divozioni - 1751

Very rare first and only edition of this poem in Latin dedicated to the hemp plant, written by the Turinese poet and physician Giovanni Bernardo Vigo (1719–1805).

His composition "Cannabis" is a scientific-didasactic poem, a genre that united the elegance of Latin verses (often

Natural History, Botany, Science, Technology, Poetry, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Vigo - Cannabis Carmen - 1777

All the Works of NICOLO MACHIAVELLI, Citizen and Secretary of Florence, Divided into Five Parts and anew with utmost accuracy reprinted for the Most Holy and Beatissimo Father Our Lord CLEMENT VII. Pont. Max.
Seventeenth-century edition of Machiavelli's works, even if dated 1550,

Politics, History, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Nicolò Machiavelli - Tutte le Opere di Nicolò Machiavelli - 1550-1620

Anonymous. The Piedmontese Cook. Turin, Beltramo Antonio Re, 1784. A famous cookbook born from the encounter between the Savoyard tradition and refined French techniques. The treatise harmonizes peasant country cooking with the splendor of court cuisine and marks the birth of the

Cookery, food & drink - Quantity: 1 - Book

Anonimo. - Il Cuoco Piemontese. - 1784

378 PLATES.
Important illustrated work in 26 volumes (1829–1833)

Monumental original edition of Il Costume antico e moderno by Giulio Ferrario, published in Turin between 1829 and 1833. The work, complete in 26 volumes, represents one of the most ambitious nineteenth-century

History, Art, Illustrated, Religion, Reference, Geography, Africa, America, Anthropology, Architecture, Asian art, Europe, Travels, Oceania, Original artwork, Japan, China - Quantity: 26 - Fold out maps or plates, Tipped in plates - Book

Giulio Ferrario - Il Costume Antico e Moderno - 1829-1853

Schauplatz der Natur und der Künste – 2 annate rilegate (1777–1779) – 96 tavole incise – Vienna.
Completo delle 96 tavole.
Rara e affascinante opera enciclopedica dell’Illuminismo illustrata e dizionario poliglotta del XVIII secolo, pubblicato a Vienna da Joseph Edlen von

Natural History, Illustrated, Agriculture, Encyclopedias, History, Science, Nature, Linguistics - Quantity: 1 - Book

J. Edlen von Kurzböck - Schauplatz der Natur und der Künste, Spectacle de la Nature et des Arts - 1777-1779

THE GOSPEL AS A WORK OF ART - BETWEEN MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LUXURY EDITORIAL.
This elegant edition of the Gospel published by Paoline Editions presents itself as a refined homage to the medieval manuscript tradition, reinterpreted through a modern typographic design with a strong

Religion - Quantity: 1 - Book

AA.VV - Vangelo - 1978

SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY BETWEEN LONDON AND NAPLES, ON BEHALF OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
This “Essay of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society,” translated by Tommaso Dereham and published in Naples in 1731, represents one of the most important channels for the diffusion of

Science - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Dereham - Transazioni Filosofiche - 1731

The Divine Comedy.
Marciana Manuscript Facsimile.
Limited Edition 1/299.
ITET Grandi Opere.
Not-for-sale edition bound in fine leather with the original case.
The facsimile faithfully reproduces the 14th-century manuscript preserved in Venice at the Marciana Library.
With a

Dante Alighieri - La Divina Commedia - 2004

Important nineteenth-century work on Catholic missions.
Numerous Illustrations.
B. Henrion.
Universal History of Catholic Missions from the XIIIth century to the present times.
First Italian edition, with critical and illustrative notes by the translator.
Turin, G. Pomba and

History, Religion, Travels, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Tipped in plates - Book

B. Henrion - Storia Universale delle Missioni Cattoliche - 1846-1849

STROZZI, Giulio. The Built Venice. Venice: Girolamo Piuti, 1626.
12°. Allegorical title page with image of Venice, portrait of Strozzi engraved by M. Antonio Romito, 24 full-page plates opening with each canto. Contemporary calf binding, spine decorated in gold, gilded edges.
A

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Giulio Strozzi - La Venetia edificata - 1626

De Bourcard Francesco. Customs and Manners of Naples and Contorni. Naples Alberto Marotta 1965. Famous facsimile edition of the classical work that describes and illustrates the life, traditions and Neapolitan characters. Two richly illustrated volumes that describe the customs,

Illustrated, Literature - Quantity: 2 - Tipped in plates - Book

De Bourcard Francesco. - Usi e Costumi di Napoli e Contorni. - 1965

Il Decamerone. 5 volumes complete – Giovanni Boccaccio / Hubert-François Gravelot (illustrations) / François Boucher (illustrations) / Charles-Nicolas Cochin (illustrations) / Charles Eisen (illustrations) 

Londra [London]: No publisher mentioned [Paris: Pierre Prault], 1757. 5

Literature, Illustrated - Quantity: 5 - Tipped in plates - Book

Giovanni Boccaccio / Hubert-François Gravelot (illustrations) / François Boucher (illustrations) / - Il Decamerone. 5 volumes complete - 1757

MAJESTIC AND GRAND NAPOLETANE EDITION OF THE ART OF BUILDING BY RONDELET.
This imposing Neapolitan edition, richly illustrated with 234 two-page engravings, of Jean-Baptiste Rondelet’s treatise represents one of the peaks of the 19th-century transmission of European constructive

Architecture - Quantity: 4 - Tipped in plates - Book

Rondelet - Arte di Edificare - 1840-1841

Rare bound fake collection, containing nine arrangements for voice and piano of 19th-century Italian operas, published in Naples by Girard et successeur, it contains several major composers such as: Giuseppe Verdi, Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante, Vincenzo Bellini and

Music - Quantity: 1 - Book

G. Verdi; G. Donizetti; V. Bellini et plusieurs autres - Recueil d'airs d'opera italiens - 1840

Traiano Boccalini.
Pietra del paragone politico.
Cosmopoli (fictional), for Cornelio Last, 1664.

A fine seventeenth‑century edition of one of Traiano Boccalini’s best‑known works, a central figure in Italian political‑satirical literature of the early seventeenth century.

Politics, Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Book

Traiano Boccalini - Pietra del paragone politico - 1664

Full leather binding with the Coat of Arms of the Princes of Borromeo.
Motto --UMILITAS-- year 1600/1700.
rectangular covers with a double gold filet.
additional panel with a gold flower rosette.
gold embellishments Palmette - at the four corners - spine with five ribs-
internal

Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Slipcase - Book

BORROMEO - STEMMA  -PRINCIPE  BORROMEO CON MOTTO --UMILITAS - 1600-1700

The secretary of Apollo. That follows Boccalini's Ragguagli di Parnaso. In Venetia (i.e. Leiden): Published in Leiden by Severyn Matthysz: cf. Parenti, Dictionary of false, invented or supposed printing places, p. 193: by Fran. Ma. Boccafranca, 1653. Natural signs of age and use,

Boccalini - Santacroce - La secretaria di Apollo - 1653

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