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THE GREATEST EQUINE TREATISE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: THE GLORY OF THE HORSE OF CARACCIOLO.
Monumental Italian Renaissance treatise on horses and one of the most extensive works ever published on the horse in the sixteenth century. In The Glory of the Horse Pasquale Caracciolo

Animals - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Caracciolo - Gloria del Cavallo - 1589

Il Cesare. Tragedy of Mr. Ab. Antonio Conti Noble Veneto With some notes concerning the work itself, printed in Faenza in 1726 in the print shop of Gioseffantonio Archi Cameral Impressor and of the S. Uficio under the Apollo sign with license from the Superiors, presents itself

Theatre, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Antonio Conti - Il Cesare. Tragedia - 1726-1726

THE TREATISE THAT INVENTS MODERN HORSEMANSHIP AND THE VETERINARY MANUAL THAT COMPLETES IT.
Important Venetian collection that brings together in a single volume two distinct but closely complementary works by Federico Grisone, a foundational figure of modern European

War history - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Grisone - Ordini di Cavalcare [Bound w:] Infermità de’ Cavalli - 1590

THE FACTORY OF THE VOLGARE: DANTE, PETRARCA AND BOCCACCIO, NOMINATORS OF THINGS.
As Ulysses dominates the world by naming things, so Francesco Alunno attempts to reconstruct the entire universe of the Italian language through the words of its three greatest authors: Dante,

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Alunno - Fabrica del Mondo - 1562

Capello Giovanni Batista 
Pharmaceutical-Chemical Lexicon 
Eighth edition 
In Venice, 1763.
Printed in Venice by Domenico Lovisa.
Contemporary eighteenth-century binding in full solid parchment as shown in the photo.
Boards with contemporary annotations and calculations in the

Medicine, Chemistry - Quantity: 1 - Book

Gio: Battista Capello - Lessico farmaceutico-chimico - 1763

AMORI, WAR AND KNIGHTS: THE EPIC OF THE Mantuan COURT – AFTER ARIOSTO AND TASSO.
Rare Venetian edition of Fido Amante, Curzio Gonzaga’s monumental heroic-couplet poem, one of the most significant testimonies of late Renaissance Italian epic production. Composed in the Mantuan

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Gonzaga - Il Fido Amante - 1591

EDITIO PRINCEPS - MASTERPIECE OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY POLITICAL SATIRE – VENICE 1612-1613.
Magnificent specimen of the first edition of the most famous political-satirical work of the early Seicento Italian. In Ragguagli di Parnaso, Traiano Boccalini imagines Mount Parnassus as the

Politics - Quantity: 1 - Book

Boccalini - Parnaso [Bound w:] Pietra del Paragone Politico - 1613-1615

FIRST EDITION - BETWEEN GALILEO AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE LETTERS OF SCIENCE, DIPLOMACY, AND NATURE.
First edition of one of Lorenzo Magalotti’s most fascinating works, a central figure in Tuscan culture between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and a protagonist of the

Science - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Magalotti - Lettere Scientifiche - 1721

RIDDLES AND IMPOSSIBLE LOVES, INFATUATED LADIES, FURIOUS KNIGHTS, MAGIC AND BATTLES.
51 SILK-ENGRAVINGS FOR THE GREATEST CHIVALRIC POEM OF EUROPEAN LITERATURE.
Magnificent Venetian edition illustrated by no fewer than 51 full-page wood engravings, one of the most spectacular

Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - 1587

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

Posthumous work by Father Carlo-Ambrogio Cattaneo of the Society of Jesus.  
In Venice, at Niccolò Pezzana, (1742).

Volume in-16° (16 × 9 cm), pp. 285, (3).
Contemporary parchment binding, spine with manuscript title in ink ("Esercizj del

Religion, Bibles - Quantity: 1 - Signed - Book

S. Ignazio - Esercizi Spirituali di S. Ignazio - 1742

AGRIPPA (Camillo)

Treatise on the Science of Arms, with a Dialogue on Philosophy.
Rome, Antonio Blado Stampatore Apostolico, 1553, in-4 (22.7 x 16.5 cm), 4 unnumbered leaves - 71 leaves, parchment, title on the back, drawing on the last plate, armorials drawn on the title,

History - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

AGRIPPA Camillo - Trattato di Scientia d'Arme, con un Dialogo di Filosofia - 1553

FIRST EDITION OF 1664 WITH 9 FOLIO PLATES: THE TREATISE THAT TRANSFORMED HYDRAULICS INTO A SCIENCE.
Published in Florence in 1664, the Treatise on the Direction of Rivers represents one of the most important Italian contributions to the birth of modern hydraulics. The work arises

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

Michelini - Direzione de’ Fiumi - 1664

THE ANCIENT GREEK OLYMPIADS - PINDAR WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PANHELLENIC GAMES.
Extraordinary engraving apparatus dedicated to the Olympic Games and to the panhellenic competitions.
Magnificent first edition of the work that established Alessandro Adimari among the greatest

Poetry, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Adimari - Ode di Pindaro - 1631

I four volumes with antique half-leather bindings and elegant gilt decorations on the spine, the inner pages in excellent condition with some foxing; they are part of a work by Robert Joseph Pothier, the French jurist of the 18th century.
Two volumes concern the: “Treatise on the

Law - Quantity: 7 - Book

Pothier; Bernardi - Trattato della Comunione de' Beni; Trattato del Contratto di Matrimonio - 1808-1813

THE SCIENCE OF FORTRESSES: THE FUNDAMENTAL TREATISE OF MODERN DEFENSE - FIRST EDITION.
In the midst of the Renaissance military revolution, when artillery rendered medieval high walls obsolete, Girolamo Cataneo published one of the most influential treatises on military

War history - Quantity: 1 - Fold out maps or plates - Book

Cataneo - Fortificare, Offendere et Difendere - 1564

Rare Baroque Lottery: Acts and Chronicle of the Relics of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle – Double Frontispiece (Latin/Italian) – Benevento, 1698.
Description of the Work.
On auction a splendid, rare and important ecclesiastical-historical volume printed in Benevento in 1698 at the

History, Religion, Law - Quantity: 1 - Book

Sacro Corpo di San Bartolomeo Apostolo - Rarissimo Lotto Barocco: Atti e Cronaca delle Reliquie di San Bartolomeo Apostolo – Doppio - 1698

1622 EDITION ON NATURAL HISTORY, ZOOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY, FALCONRY, HUNTING, VETERINARY, MEDICINE, DOGS by Francesco Sforzino da Carcano (ca. 1500-1590). In this manual, the author explains how to raise and train birds of prey for hunting, recognize their character and establish a

Agriculture, Animals, Art, Archaeology, Botany, Cavalry and chivalry, Europe, Games and pastimes, History, Illustrated, Incunabula & early printing, Hunting, shooting and fishing, Literature, Memorabilia, Nature, Ornithology, Medicine, Natural History, Royalty, Science, Sports - Quantity: 1 - Book

Francesco Sforzino da Carcano - Tre libri degli uccelli da rapina NATURAL HISTORY, ORNITHOLOGY, FALCONRY - 1622

Lessons of Materia Medica by Dr. Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti.
Professor of Botany and Materia Medica.
Florence at Guglielmo Piatti 1821.
Fine manual bearing the signature of the celebrated Florentine botanist (1755-1829), which gathers for the use of his pupils the lectures on

Botany, Medicine - Quantity: 1 - Book

Ottaviano Targioni Tozzetti - Lezioni di Materia Medica - 1821

Carlo Casalicchio (or Casalichio), of the Society of Jesus.

Meditations on the Sacred Canticle of Solomon for every day of the year.
In Naples, at the Giacomo Raillard printing house, 1694.

Original edition. Three volumes out of four (the IV Tome/Quarter missing), format 15 ×

Religion, Bibles, Esotericism - Quantity: 3 - Signed - Book

C. Casalicchio - Meditationi  Sacra Cantica di Salomone - 1694

THE VOICES OF THE ITALIAN COURTS: THE LETTERS OF ANNIBALE CARO IN THE GIUNTINA EDITION.
Famous two-volume epistolary collection by Annibale Caro, one of the foremost masters of Italian prose in the 16th century. The Familiar Letters constitute one of the monuments of Renaissance

Annibal Caro - Lettere Familiari - 1587

PORCACCHI AND THE IMAGINARY OF DEATH: THE Book of Lost Rites.
The plates by Girolamo Porro, one of the era’s most active engravers, contributed to the iconic fortune of the work, making it a reference point for the representation of funeral rites in modern Europe.
A work of

History - Quantity: 1 - Book

Porcacchi - Funerali Antichi - 1591

Giacomo Masò. 
Treatise on the Armillary Sphere, Astrology and Magnetism. Part Four (complete) of the mathematical course dedicated to spherology and divided into 2 books.
Palermo, 1661.
Richly illustrated with woodcuts in the text and a folded plate.

DETAILS OF THE VOLUME.

Astronomy, Astrology, Science, Physics, Mathematics - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates - Book

Giacomo Masò - Trattato della Sfera Armillare, Astrologia e Magnetismo. - 1661

FIRST EDITION: THE SECRET MANUAL THAT TAUGHT THE SOVREIGNS HOW TO CONQUER FORTRESSES.
ALTERNATIVE TITLES.
THE SOVOIA MILITARY MANUAL IN ITS ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION: TRENCHES, MINES AND BATTERIES.
Extremely rare first edition of one of the most important Italian treatises on

Busca - Espugnatione et Difesa delle Fortezze - 1585

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