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Extraordinary and very rare libretto of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, one of the greatest masterpieces in the history of music and world opera.

This is the first Italian edition from 1872, published on the eve of the historic Italian premiere of the opera, staged at La Scala in

Theatre - Quantity: 1 - Book

Giuseppe Verdi - Aida - 1872

The Fables of G. Fedro, rendered into Italian verse by Oronzio Petitti and published in Campobasso in 1843 by the Nuzzi Typography, are offered in an edition of extraordinary rarity and period elegance from the Bourbons era. The volume is clothed in a splendid contemporaneous

Literature, Children's books, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Tipped in plates, Hand coloured illustrations - Reference book

Oronzio Petitti - Le favole di G. Fedro - 1843-1843

GIL BLAS DI SANTILANO, GALANTE HISTORY (6 tomes in 3 volumes)

Antonio Bortoli, Venice 1742-1746.

The book was originally written in French by the author Alain-René Lesage under the title L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane.

It is considered the last great picaresque novel in

Literature - Quantity: 3 - Book

Le Sage; Giulio Monti - Gil Blas di Santillano. Storia galante - 1742-1746

(SCIENCES,MEDICINE; BIOLOGY;  ILLUSTRATED). FRANCESCO REDI (1626 - 1698)
Opere di Francesco Redi Gentiluomo Aretino, ed Accademico della Crusca. Venezia, per Gio. Gabriello Ertz (1712-30)
§ 8vo, (216 x 136) 7 tomes in 6 volumes: 4 engraved frontispieces, 2 portraits, 2 folding

Science, Medicine, Biology, Illustrated, Animals, Natural History - Quantity: 6 - Book

Francesco Redi - Opere. A magnificent science set - 1712-1730

Single volume 29.5 x 22.5 x 2 cm - weight 870 g.
This collection is a box set containing an illustrated necklace of popular and traditional fairy tales from different cultures around the world, in addition to thematic volumes dedicated to Aesop, Pirates, and Native Americans.
The

Children's books - Quantity: 10 - Book

Maurizio turazzi - Le fiabe classiche di tutto il mondo - 1987

First rare Italian edition, donated to subscribers of Corriere della Sera, of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with splendid drawings by Gustave Doré. A monumental work in the format 45.5 x 34 cm, with 3 vignettes in the text, a frontispiece, and

Illustrated, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Gustave Dore - La leggenda del vecchio marinaio - 1889

Opera: The Canzoniere - Marotta publishing house.
Prestigious fine-leather edition of 1974.
Made for the municipality of Arezzo, on the occasion of the sixth centenary of the death of Francesco Petrarca.
Printed on handmade paper manufactured by the ancient Amatruda paper mill of

Literature, Poetry - Quantity: 1 - Slipcase - Book

Francesco Petrarca; note critiche di Giacomo Leopardi - Il Canzoniere - 1974

3 volumes. 16mo (15.3 cm x 10 cm), paperback binding, 9 copper-engraved plates printed outside the text (three per volume). A compendium work of the Universal History by the Count of Segur. Light yellowing on a few pages (particularly inside the softcover). Marginal signs of

History, Geography - Quantity: 3 - Tipped in plates - Book

Gio. Malcolm; Davide Bertolotti - Storia della Persia dalla conquista degli arabi fino ai tempi presenti - 1823-1824

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

Games and pastimes, Medicine - Quantity: 3 - Book

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

Italian, Latin, and Greek Bucolic Poems.
Eritisco Pilenejo.
Parma, from the Royal Press.
1780.
First Edition 

Eritisco Pilenejo, Pastor Arcade, pseudonym of the author: Luca Antonio Pagnini (grecist, scholar and Carmelite translator)
A lyric collection inspired by the classical

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Eritisco Pilenejo - Poesie buccoliche italiane, latine, greche - 1780

Important seventeenth-century edition of the Ecclesiastical Annals drawn from those of Cardinal Baronius, by Odorico Rinaldi Trivigiano, priest of the Congregation of the Oratory in Rome.

Edition published in Rome in 1683, at the press of Zenobi Masotti and Niccolò Chellini, at

History, Religion - Quantity: 4 - Book

Cardinal Baronio; Odorico Rinaldi Trivigiano - Annali Ecclesiastici - 1683

In-4 (Cm 30 x 22), pp. 335, publisher's illustrated softcover with a dust jacket and flaps. Full-color plates outside the text, black-and-white illustrations in the text. AS NEW

Medicine, Botany, History, Regional interest - Quantity: 1 - Book

Salvatore Pezzella - Fitoterapia e Medicina in Umbria dal XV al XVIII secolo - 1997

A finely produced limited facsimile edition of the celebrated Girolamini Dante manuscript (CF 2 16), issued by Treccani in 2021 to commemorate the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death. Complete with commentary volume and publisher’s presentation case. One of 2,000 numbered copies.

TRECCANI - Il Dante Svelato Dei Girolamini - 2021

Uncommon edition of the first three parts of Il Giorno pariniano. La sera is the work of GB Mutinelli, added to Parini's compositions. Full contemporary parchment binding, rigid, with a small loss to the spine. Shipping only within Italy.

Parini Giuseppe e Mutinelli GB - Il Mattino, Il Mezzogiorno, e La Sera - 1779

Rimes of the Abbot Pellegrino Salandri.
First edition – Nice, at the Typographic Society, 1783.
16 × 10 cm; pp. 222 + [2].

Elegant original edition of this eighteenth-century collection of poems, published posthumously (the author, Pellegrino Salandri from Reggio Emilia,

Literature, Poetry, Religion - Quantity: 1 - Book

P. Salandri - Rime - 1783

Bartolomeo Pinelli, Illustrated Mythology. Introduction and descriptive text by Angelo de Gubernatis. Rome, Maussier e Maruca, 1987. Hardcover in cloth with applied medallion. Illustrations by Barolomeo Pinelli. Traces of time on the cover - 2 corners detached - diffuse foxing.

Art - Quantity: 1 - Book

Bartolomeo Pinelli - Mitologia illustrata - 1897

Complete set of The Stories of the Forest... In condition like new... the inside is fantastic..
Never browsed through.....all 1st edition...1987

Children's books, Illustrated - Quantity: 6 - Book

Tony Wolf - Storie del Bosco - 1987

Set of two Harry Potter books:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, first edition, third printing, January 2000.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, first edition absolute, October 2003.
Very good condition

Young adult fiction - Quantity: 2 - Book

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter e la camera dei segreti / Harry Potter e lordine della fenice - 2000-2003

Author: Armando Pappalardo.
Title: Telepathy (Transmission of Thought)

Series: Hoepli Manuals.
Publisher: Ulrico Hoepli (Publisher-Bookseller to the Royal Household)

Place of publication: Milan.
Year of publication: 1899.
Language: Italian.
The volume shows the normal signs of

Esotericism - Quantity: 1 - Reference book

Armando Pappalardo - La Telepatia (Trasmissione del Pensiero) - 1899

Iconography of the Fishes of Italy's Inland Waters.
Limited edition, 2002.
33 color plates by Titti De Ruosi (34x49 cm) + a book with data on the various species of fish (S. Zerunian)

Nature - Quantity: 1 - Book

De Ruosi - Iconography Italian inland water fishes  Portfolio 33 Tavole colori + libro Iconografia dei pesci - 2002

Lot consisting of three original nineteenth-century musical scores, representative of European and Italian music publishing of the period.

The lot includes:

Enea Zenoni – Album of Dances for Piano.
Milan, Gio. Canti, late XIX century (circa 1880–1890).
Collection of piano

Music - Quantity: 3 - Book

Enea Zenoni, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioachino Rossini - Tre spartiti musicali ottocenteschi – Zenoni, Meyerbeer, Rossini – Milano ed edizioni europee, XIX - 1885-1895

"Culture of Food" is a prestigious 4-volume encyclopedic work published by UTET Grandi Opere in 2015, produced as a limited edition for the EXPO Milano 2015 world event. The books are new and I have taken photos only of one volume I opened to take pictures, because the others are

Cookery, food & drink - Quantity: 4 - Book

M. Montanari, F. Sabban, A. Capatti - Cultura del cibo - 2015

Autograph unpublished manuscript – “Igiene del Bestiame” by Angelo Pongiluppi, late 19th century (1860-1899)

Elegant contemporary hardcover pocket-sized notebook (cm 18 x 12), consisting of pp. (2b.), 15, (23 b.).

Clear, neat Italian cursive writing in brown ink on laid paper.

Quantity: 1 - Signed by author - Manuscript

A. Pongiluppi - Manoscritto autografo inedito — Igiene del Bestiame - 1860

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