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Excellent nineteenth-century parchment binding with gold titles on two spine panels in red and blue morocco, with gilded ornaments.

1 blank sheet, [56] unnumbered pages, 2 blank leaves.
Rare third edition of this comedy by Ariosto. Derived from classical models (Terence,

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Ludovico Ariosto - Comedia di Lodovico Ariosto intitolata Gli Soppositi - 1525

Rare original edition of 1672 (Matteo Cosmerovio, Vienna) dedicated to Leopold I.

Illustrated history of Ferdinand III with portraits of emperors/generals, battle scenes and numerous large folded maps/views. A detailed and monumental chronicle of the reign of Ferdinand III of

History, Military, War history, Biographies and memoirs, Geography, Politics, Reference, Royalty, Cartography, Europe, Illustrated, Original artwork - Quantity: 1 - Book

Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato - Historia di Ferdinando III Imperatore - 1672

MILAN IS TOLD AS ETERNAL: CHRONICLE AND POWER IN THE HEART OF THE Lombard RENAISSANCE.
L’Historia di Milano by Bernardino Corio, printed in Venice in 1554 by Giovan Maria Bonelli, represents one of the foundational texts of Milanese historical identity in the Renaissance era.

History - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Corio - Historia di Milano - 1554

THE INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES: WHO OWNS THE LANDS THAT EMERGED FROM THE FLOOD???
FIRST EDITION - The Tiberiade represents one of the most remarkable moments in Renaissance legal reflection: a natural landscape, a river that changes, a contested territory become for Bartolo da

History, Geography - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Sassoferrato - Tiberiade - 1587

1595 FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED WITH 50 DETAILED ILLUSTRATIONS ON GEOMETRY, CARTOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, MATHEMATICS, GEOLOGY, WATER MANAGEMENT, PHYSICS, CIVIL AND MILITARY ENGINEERING. The author, Silvio Belli (1520-1579), was an important mathematician and engineer in the water

Agriculture, Archaeology, Art, Architecture, Cartography, Europe, Geography, History, Incunabula & early printing, Memorabilia, Illustrated, Mathematics, Military, Nature, Science, Technology, Topography - Quantity: 1 - Book

Silvio Belli - Quattro Libri Geometrici (Four Geometric Books) - 1595

5 LUXURIOUSLY GILT-BOUND VOLUMES IN PARCHMENT - GOOD MANNERS IN SOCIETY: THE GALATEO.
Excellent specimen of this “Opera Omnia” of the most famous “Maître de savoir-vivre.”
Some works, such as the Galateo, appear in versions more corrected than in previous editions; others, like

Literature - Quantity: 6 - Tipped in plates - Book

Monsignor Della Casa - Opere - [Galateo] - 1733

Orlando furioso by M. Lodovico Ariosto, newly corrected. With new topics by M. Lodovico Dolce, and new allegories by M. Thomaso Porcacchi for each Cant.
[Venezia, Domenico Guerra & Giovanni Battista Guerra, 1567]

328 carte.
Segue con proptio frontespizio:
Cinque canti di M.

Lodovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - 1567

Napoleon Code translated by order of H.M. the King of the Two Sicilies. Naples, Stamperia Simoniana, 1808. In octavo, pp. 624 + 96. Full contemporary parchment. Very good copy.

Law - Quantity: 1 - Book

Aa. Vv. - Codice Napoleone - 1809-1809

Giovanni Gherardini (ed.): Course of dramatic literature by Sir Augustus Wilhelm Schlegel followed by: Amours of Plants — Poem with philosophical notes by Erasmus Darwin: 2 volumes in 1.
Molina/Milan - 1844 - Literature/Philosophy - 2nd ed. - Excellent copy, original binding with

Literature, Philosophy - Quantity: 2 - Book

A. G.Schlegel - E. Darwin - G. Gherardini (trad.) - Corso di Letteratura Drammatica + Amori delle piante poema con note filosofiche - 1844

The Creso. A tragedy composed, and dedicated to His Royal Highness Peter Leopold I, Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, etc., etc., by Flaminio Scarselli. In Bologna, at the printing house of Lelio della Volpe, 1774. In 8° grande, pp. 8 + CVI. Beautiful modern binding in

Theatre - Quantity: 1 - Book

Flaminio Scarselli - Il Creso - 1774

THEOLOGY OF INSECTS, WHEN THE MINIMAL NATURE BECOMES PROOF OF THE DIVINE.
The Theology of Insects is one of the most fascinating and ambiguous works of eighteenth-century Europe, suspended between natural science, moral philosophy, and natural theology. In this monumental

Religion, Philosophy - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Lesser / Lyonnet - Teologia degl'Insetti - 1751

Very rare fourth edition (the original is from 1654) of one of the most important semiotics essays of the Seicento.
In it Emanuele Tesauro (1592-1675) authorizes intellectuals to use, as freely and unrestrainedly as possible, the rhetorical figure of metaphor.

Emanuele Tesauro,

Linguistics, Poetry, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Tesauro - Il Cannocchiale Aristotelico - 1664

1674 ILLUSTRATED EDITION, A MASTERPIECE OF NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE, BIOLOGY, MICROSCOPE, ENTOMOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY, AGRICULTURE, by Francesco Redi (1626–1697), an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist and microscopist. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental

Agriculture, Art, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Europe, Illustrated, History, Incunabula & early printing, Medicine, Memorabilia, Natural History, Nature, Ornithology, Physics, Science, Technology - Quantity: 1 - Book

Francesco Redi - Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti (Experiments on the generation of insects) - 1674

FALSE ANTIQUITIES, REWORKED HISTORY AND INVENTED AUTHORITY: BEROSUS BETWEEN ERESIA AND HUMANISM.
Berossos the Chaldean’s Antiquities represent one of the most famous and controversial cases in Renaissance historiography: a work that, beneath the veneer of antiquarian erudition,

History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Beroso Caldeo /  Nanni da Viterbo - Le Antichità - 1583

(METALLURGY; MINING; CHEMISTRY; PYROTHECNICS; ART; MILITARIA; ILLUSTRATED) Vannoccio BIRINGUCCIO (1480 c.-1539 c.)
Pirotechnia del s. Vannuccio Biringuccio senese, nella quale si tratta non solo della diversità delle minere, ma ancho di quanto si ricerca alla pratica di esse. E

Incunabula & early printing, Illustrated, Chemistry, Science - Quantity: 1 - Book

Vannuccio BIRINGUCCIO - PIROTECHNIA- The first printed work on metallurgy - 1559

Castore Durante's New Herbarium. In Venice by Gio. Giacomo Hertz, 1667. A rare seventeenth-century illustrated edition of the famous treatise on botany and medicine by the renowned Italian physician, botanist, and poet. The herbarium gathers over 950 medicinal plants from Europe

Botany, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

Durante Castore. - Herbario novo. Folio. - 1667

Rare and sought-after folio edition, richly illustrated, of this anthology of the works of the scientist and naturalist Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), some in first edition.

Physico-medical works printed and manuscript, of Cavalier Antonio Vallisneri, collected by his son...,

Natural History, Science, Animals, Medicine, Physics, Nature - Quantity: 3 - Tipped in plates, Fold out maps or plates - Book

Vallisneri - Opere Fisico-Mediche Stampate e Manoscritte - 1733

SECRET STORIES OF A REPUBLIC, OR FRENCE TOLD BY ONE WHO KNEW IT WELL.
The Florentine Stories by Bernardo Segni constitute one of the most lucid and disenchanted political chronicles of Italian the XVIth century, written by an eyewitness within the power balances of the Republic

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

Segni - Storie Fiorentine - 1763

In 16°, full parchment, contemporary, pp. XVI-191, Frieze on the frontispiece, initials, woodcut ornaments and tailpieces, Excellent copy.

Mathematics - Quantity: 1 - Book

Giusti Santi - Elementi d'arimmetica pratica corredati d'utilissime applicazioni ai piu' ovvi conteggi della - 1778

Geography in dialogue with a great many sensational, chronological pieces of news by Marco Antonio Cazzaiti.
Noble of Corfu, Zante and Kefalonia.
Dedicated to the Most Serene Doge of Venice Alvise Pisani.
In Venice 1838, at Giammaria Lazzaroni’s, under the sign of Saint Ignatius,

Geography - Quantity: 1 - Book

Marco Antonio Cazzaiti - Geografia in dialogo - 1738

Rare and uncommon Venetian edition of 1563 of the “Table of all the rhymes of Petrarch’s sonnets and songs,” printed by Nicolò Bevilacqua.

An autonomous work of high philological interest, conceived in the midst of the Renaissance as a technical tool for the systematic

Poetry - Quantity: 1 - Book

Petrarca, Francesco (1304–1374) - Tavola di tutte le rime – Pergamena coeva – Completo con registro - 1563

GRISELINI AND VENEZIAN ILLUMINATION: MEMOIRS AND ANECDOTES BETWEEN HISTORY AND POLITICS.
The Memoire anedote by Francesco Griselini, printed in 1760, represents a significant testimony of Venetian Enlightenment culture in the second half of the eighteenth century. The work fits

Griselini - Memorie Anedote - 1760

François d’Alberti di Villeneuve.
New French-Italian dictionary / New Italian-French Dictionary.
Bassano – Venice, Remondini, 1767.
Two folio volumes (Volume I: French-Italian; Volume II: Italian-French)
Italian first edition of the famous bilingual dictionary by François

Dictionaries and thesauri, Geography, History, Science - Quantity: 2 - Book

Francesco de Alberti di Villanuova - Nouveau Dictionnaire François-Italien / Nuovo Dizionario Italiano-Francese - 1777

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