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First edition of an extensive work on gymnastics intended for the Sicilian army troups View picture(s) 1 ABBONDATI, Niccoló. Instituzione di arte ginnastica per le truppe di fanteria di S.M. Siciliana. Compilata sulle teorie de' più accurati scrittori antichi, e moderni. Napoli, Reale Tipografia Militare, 1846. 3 parts in 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary green boards. With 45 numbered folding engraved plates with exercises a.o. fencing. 192; 192, (8), VII, 193- 472 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Duelling  Fencing  Italy  Militaria  Sports & Recreation  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on fire-fighting. The invention of the fire-fighter helmet View picture(s) 2 ALDINI, Giovanni Le Chevalier. Art de se préserver de l'action de la flamme, appliqué aux pompiers et à la conservation des personnes exposées au feu; avec une série d'expériences faites en Italie, à Genève et à Paris. Paris, Madame Huzard (née Vallat la Chapelle), 1830. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments, red title label, lettered in gold, marbled edges. With a lithographed author's portrait and 4 lithographed folding plates by De Langlumé, after Lemoine Benoit, with the equipment and actions of firemen. [VII], [1], 142, [2] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Fire Fighting  Italy  Medicine  Science  Scientific Instruments  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Largest assembly of natural history illustrations published before the 18th century View picture(s) 3 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse. Opera. Bologna, 1599-1667. 13 volumes. Folio (35 x 24 cm). Contemporary blind-stamped vellum. With engraved title to each volume, engraved full page portrait of Aldrovandi in 3 volumes and several thousand woodcut illustrations in text, mostly after designs by J. Ligozzi and many full-page. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  17th Century  Botany  Collections  Encyclopædic Works  Fishing  Italy  Natural History  Science  Shells  Whaling  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Allioni's first publication on Piedmont flora View picture(s) 4 ALLIONI, Carlo. Rariorum pedemontii stirpium. Specimen primum. Turin, Zappata and Avondus, 1755. 4to. Contemporary green painted vellum. With the title-page printed in red and black, 12 folding engraved plates. X, 56 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Botany  Illustrated Books  Italy  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Presentation copy by the author in fine binding View picture(s) 5 ANNUNZIO, Gabriele d'. Sogno d'un mattino di primavera. (I sogni delle stagioni, 1). Milan, Fratelli Treves, 1899. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco, gilt spine with title lettered in gold, sides with gilt ruling and cornerpieces, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers; the original green wrappers are preserved. (4), 104, (+ 15 pp. with advertisements) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Italy  Literature  Theatre  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important work on astrology and medicine by an Italian Professor at Padua View picture(s) 6 ARGOLI, Andreas. De diebus criticis et ægrorum decubitu libri duo. Padua, Paulus Frambottus, 1652. 4to. Contemporary publishers boards with title in ink on spine. With almost 230 woodcut diagrams. (8), 6, (2), 371 (109-112 unpag.), 1 blank, (11) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Astrology  Italy  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two dissertations on an important cult of Venus View picture(s) 7 BALBI, Ambrogio. Dissertazioni risguardanti il culto di Venere Ericina. Turin, Widow Pomba and sons, 1824. 8vo. Half green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, with the gilt coat of arms of J. Gomez de la Cortina, better known as the marquis de Morante, a well-known Spanish bibliophile, on both covers, sprinkled edges. 90 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Armorial Bindings  History  Italy  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two beautifully produced and extremely rare schoolbooks in one volume View picture(s) 8 BARLANDUS, HADR. Dialogi LVII, ad profligandam e scholis barbariem longe utilissimi, quibus iam recens accesserunt sex ante hac non excusi. Item Augustini Reymarij Mechliniensis Dialogus unus, de ludo chartarum. Barlandi opusculum de insignibus oppidis inferioris Germaniae. Antwerp, Michael Hillenius, 1527, Mense Martio. 8vo. Contemp. overlapping vellum, with vellum endpapers. With title within a fourpart ornamental woodcut border, with John the Evangelist in the top border, and the portrait of Virgil in the lower border, and some fine woodcut initials. (28) lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Humanism  Italy  Louvain  Schoolbooks  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Italian for beginners View picture(s) 9 BARNABÈ, Stephanus. Teutsche und Italianische Discurs, Sambt etlichen Proverbien, Historien und Fabeln. München, In Verlag Johan Herman von Gelder, Gedruckt bey Sebastian Rauch, 1673. Small 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed, sides richly blind stamped in panel design with the armorial supralibros of the "Conventus Lincensis Carmelitar Discalceator" on frontcover, with 2 small brass clasps. 229, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Bindings  Children's Books  Education  Fable Books  Fairy Tales  German  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Most important work on the Jesuit missionary activities in Goa View picture(s) 10 BARTOLI, Danielle. Missione al Gran Mogor del P. Ridolfo Aquaviva della Compagnia di Giesu, Sua vita e morte, e d'altri quattro compagni uccisi in odio della fede in Salsete di Goa. Roma, Per il Varesi, 1663. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine. 218, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  India  Italy  Japan  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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An ounce of peace is better than a pound of victory View picture(s) 11 BELLARMINE (BELLARMINO), Robert. De Arte Bene Moriendi, Libri Duo. Venetiis, Apud Joannem Tiberninum, 1746. 12mo. Contemp. vellum, with red title-label. With small woodcut vignet on title. 216 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Italy  Jesuits  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Sixteenth century illustrated French edition of Boccaccio's first work View picture(s) 12 BOCCACCIO. Le Philocope, Contenant l'histoire de Fleury & Blanchefleur, divise en sept livres traduictz d'Italien en Francoys par Adrian Sevin. Paris, Denys Ianot for Iehan André, 24 February 1542. Folio. 18th century calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with black title-label, with blindstamped fillet borders on sides, g.e. With woodcut device of Iehan André on title and 36 woodcuts in text within four-part borders of various design, several with a coat-of-arms in the lower border. 6, 174 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  French  Illustrated Books  Italy  Literature  Woodcuts  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Scarce, beautifully illustrated 17th century herbal View picture(s) 13 BOCCONE, Paulo. Icones & descriptiones rariorum plantarum Siciliae, Melitae, Galliae, & Italiae. Quarum unaquaeque proprio charactere signata, ab aliis eiusdem classis facile distinguitur. (Oxford), e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1674. 4to. Early 19th century treecalf, spine ribbed in 6 compartments, 5 with gilt flowers, 1 with black morocco title-label, black sprinkled edges. Title-engraving depicting the Sheldonian Theatre, 52 fine engraved illustrations showing numerous plants and flowers. (8), 96, (7, 1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Botany  France  Italy  Natural History  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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17th-century atlas of the Greek archipelago View picture(s) 14 BOSCHINI, Marco. L'arcipelago contutte le isole, scogli secche, e bassi fondi, con i mari, golfi, seni, porti, citta e castelli... Venice, Francesco Nicolini, 1658. 4to. Modern half vellum, marbled boards. With the title-page within border build up out of fleurons, etched plate with the coat of arms of the Farnese family and 49 etched maps (3 folding outside text, 46 full-page in text). [5], [1 blank], 101, [3 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Greece  Italy  Levant  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare first edition of the German translation View picture(s) 15 BOSWELL, James. Beschreibung von Corsica nebst vielen wichtigen Nachrichten und Anecdoten vom Pascal Paoli dem General der Corsen. Leipzig, Caspar Fritsch, 1768. 2 parts in 1 vol. 8vo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt-tooled, with red title label, red painted edges. With an engraved folding map of Corsica. (14), 346 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cartography  Italy  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In memory of Classical Antiquity View picture(s) 16 BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius & [Tobias FENDT]. Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis. Utrecht, Gysbert van Zyl, 1671. Folio. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red label with title lettered in gold, blindstamped sides, blue edges. With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved  plates (of which 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all with grave-stones and tombs of famous Italian men. (2), 176, 8, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Archaeology  Classical Antiquity  Italy  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Travel adventures of the first Swedish feminist View picture(s) 17 BREMER, Frederika. Italië in zijn natuur en volksleven, geschets. Uit het Hoogduitsch vertaald door W.C. Mauve. Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1862. 2 vols. Contemporary boards. With 2 lithographed frontispeces, each showing 2 views, of Rome, Turin, and the mountain Baziglia. VI, 310; VI, 363, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dutch  Italy  Sweden  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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In defense of the lady of the Renaissance; feminism in the 16th century View picture(s) 18 BRUNI, Domenico. Opera di M. Domenico Bruni da Pistoia intitolata Difese delle donne, nella quale si contengano le difese loro, dalle calumnie dategli per gli scrittori, & insieme le lodi di quelle. Nuovamente posta in luce. Florence, (colophon: Giunti), 1552. Small 8vo (15.5 x 10.2 cm). 19th-century red half morocco, gilt and ribbed spine, blue edges. With woodcut printer's device on title and verso colophon, woodcut initials. [1], 2-86, [1= colophon] ll. Full description >> Related Subjects: Cultural History  Italy  Social Science  Women  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Five rare works by the Italian orthopaedist Lorenzo Bruni (1804-1848) bound together View picture(s) 19 BRUNI, Lorenzo. Sopra la sezione del tendine d'achille e di qualche altro tendine come mezzo curativo dei piedi torti. Seconda edizione. 1845.- Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano... offre e dedica nel presente atlante ripristinate nel loro stato naturale le varie deformita che nello spazio di un quinquennio ha avuto a curore nella clinica. 1845.- Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale. 1844.- Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841.- Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842. Naples, 1841-1845. 5 works in 1 vol. Contemporary half calf with gilt title on spine, marbled boards. Ad 2: 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs. Ad 4: 4 folding lithographed plates of 20 x 24 cm. Ad 5: 3 lithographed plates, of which one folding (19,5 x 23,5 cm). 24; (38); 14, (2 blank); (4), 24; (2), 43, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Italy  Lithographs  Medicine  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The history of Sicily View picture(s) 20 BURIGNY, [Jean Lévesque] de. Histoire generale de Sicile, dans laquelle on verra toutes les différentes revolutions de cette isle depuis le tems òu elle a commencé à être habitée, jusq'à la derniéree paix entre la Maison de France, & la Maison d'Autriche. The Hague, Isaac Beauregard & Pierre Gosse, 1745. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spines ribbed and gilt, with two red title labels lettered in gold to each volume, triple gilt fillet borders on covers, red painted eges, marbled endpapers. With a vignette on both titles, two large folding maps in vol. 1, and several fine woodcut initials, head- and endpieces by B. F. Immink (1743). Vol. 1 (16), 512 pp., vol. 2 (8), 454, (8) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Cartography  Italy  Sicily  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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