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The Medici wedding spectacle of 1661

[CARDUCCI, Alessandro, Giovanni Andrea MONIGLIA, and Stefano DELLA BELLA]. Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cav allo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.
Florence, Nella stamperia di S.A.S., 1661. 4to. With 3 fold-out engravings, 1 woodcut initial, and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], 7-66, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 22,500
Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Horses & Horsemanship Italy Music, Theatre & Dance
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From admiration to critique: Casanova’s account of Voltaire

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Scrutinio del libro eloges de M. de Voltaire par differens auteurs.
Venice, Presso Modesto Fenzo, 1779. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, and 1 woodcut initial. Later gold-tooled brown morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 96 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets France History / 18th Century Italian Literature Italy
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The making of the first complete French edition of Casanova’s Mémoires

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases. [4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
History / 18th Century Italy Travel & Voyages Europe
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The beautifully illustrated luxury issue, of which only a 100 copies were printed

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Garnier frères, [1880]. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 145 full-page engravings, the wrappers and titles of each volume are printed in red and black.
Contemporary gold-tooled half morocco by Lambert, marbled paper sides, the title, author, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, surrounded by a gold-tooled frame with onlaid morocco ornaments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. [6], XVII, [1 blank], 507, [1 blank]; [6], 530, [4]; [6], 516; [6], 533, [3]; [6], 569, [3]; [6], 563, [1]; [6], 567, [1 blank]; [6], 551, [3] pp. Full description
€ 12,000
Bindings Erotica France French Literature History / 18th Century Italian Literature Italy Law & Politics Prints & Print Series
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Splendid large watercolour view of ruins in Sicily

[CASSAS, Louis Francois]. [View of the Taormina theatre ruins (Sicily) with Mount Etna in the distance].
[Sicily or Paris], [ca. 1781 or somewhat later?]. 46 x 81 cm (frame 85 x 128 cm). Watercolour with pencil outlines and highlighted with white, laid in on paper pasted on wood.With a later blue and gold passe-partout in a contemporary gilt frame. Full description
€ 25,000
Archaeology City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity Drawings & Watercolours Italy
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Includes excellent logarithmic-trigonometric tables

CAVALIERI, Bonaventura Francesco. Trigonometria plana, et sphaerica, linearis, & logarithmica. Hoc est, tam per sinuum, tangentium, & secantium multiplicationem, ac divisionem iuxta veteres: quam per logarithmorum simplicem fere additionem iuxta recentiores; ad triangulorum dimetiendos angulos, & latera procedens.
Bologna, heirs of Victor Benati, 1643. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 28 geometrical figures on a folding engraved plate. Contemporary vellum, with manuscript title on spine. [16], 71, [1 blank]; [4], 44, [4] ll. (tables) Full description
€ 2,500
Italy Mathematics
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One of the earliest works on hydraulic mechanics: an important study on the improvement and use of the Archimedes screw

CEREDI, Giuseppe. Tre discorsi sopra il modo d'alzar acque da'luoghi bassi. Per adacquar terreni. Per levar l'acque sorgenti, & piouute dalle campagne, che non possono naturalmente dare loro il decorso. Per mandare l'acqua da bere alle città, che n'hanno bisogno, & per altri simili vsi.
Parma, Seth Viotti, 1567. 4to. With a woodcut title-vignette, woodcut decorated initials, 13 woodcut illustrations in the text and 4 folding woodcut plates. Modern half calf, boards covered with two early modern (?) leaves of liturgical music printed on paper in red and black. [1], [1 blank], [18], "100" [= 99], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Italy Technology
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Correspondence of Emperor Charles V with King Francis I and Pope Clement VII
during the Italian Wars, from the library of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun

[CHARLES V]. Pro invictiss[imo] Caesare Carolo ... ad epistolam Franci Regis ad Principes Imperii transmissam, necnon ad apologiam Madriciae conventionis dissuasoriam, responsio, ac erudita admodum refutatio. Cum aliis nonnullis ... (&c.).
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 19 August 1527. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the final page of ad 1, and 2 decorated woodcut initials in ad 2. With (bound before ad 1): [CLEMENT VII, Pope]. Epistolae duae, Altera Clementis VII Papae ad Karolum V Imperatorem Aug. etc. Altera Karoli V, Imp. Aug. etc. Clementi respondentis.
Cologne, [Petrus Quentell?], March 1527.17th-century vellum. [88]; [48] ll. Full description
€ 3,950
Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church Early Printing - 16th century France History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Religion (16th Century) Spain
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