BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

héros. Paris: Chaumerot, 1810.Lot comprising a scarce biographical work on Napoleon and Marie-Louise d'Habsburg and the trial proceedings relating...

1330) Canones poenitentiales [CON:] NIEVO, Alessandro (1417-1484) Consilia contra Iudaeos fenerantes. Venice: Franciscus Renner de Heilbronn; Nico...

Ludovicum fratres Brixienses, 1552.Copy from a papal library of the first and only edition of this work dedicated to Charles V's campaigns in Tuni...

Arcadii Honoriique tempora. Venice: Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, 1593.Beautiful edition of Guido Panciroli's work containing allegorical dep...

Genuine copy of this first edition of Paruta's work that seeks to reconcile reason of state with morality while putting commitment to the public a...

Jean Petit, 1531.Scarce 16th-century edition of this work by the humanist and philosopher Francesco Patrizi.Folio, (215 x 320mm). Title-page withi...

matrimonio. Turin: at the expense of Sig. Abbot Don Ciccio Finfin, 1778.Pedagogic lot with the first Italian edition of the humorous opera by the ...

Maria Ferrari, Niccolò da Gorgonzola, 1506.Incomplete copy of this early 16th-century edition after the 1489 editio princeps of Perotto's most imp...

Brugnolo: ac mirifice concinnatum cum tabula prioribus aliis copiosiori utiliori faciliorique. Milan: Scinzenzeler, 1510.Scarce Milanese edition, ...

Reprint of this biography dedicated to Petrarch in its original appearance.8vo, (157 x 97mm). Portrait of the author to title-page and woodcut of ...

Fine illustrated edition of Plinus in which the woodcuts from Sessa's 1515 edition are reused.Folio, (289 x 257 mm). Title page printed in red and...

A good copy with ancient coloured interventions from the Milanese antiquarian market in the mid-nineteenth century.2 parts in one volume, folio, (...

Frankfurt: Sigismundi Feyerabendt, 1580.Scarce 16th-century edition of Plutarch's famous Parallel Lives enriched with 62 splendid engravings depic...

Excellent copy of the first edition of the collected works of the celebrated Florentine humanist. Poliziano began arranging the publication of his...

Interesting lot dedicated to French sovereigns, comprising the signatures of Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Louis XVIII. (250 x 485mm). Manuscript on ve...

vitae curriculo et morte. Leipzig: [Ernst Voegelin], 1566.Copy probably belonging to the Reformed theologian Urbanus Pierius of this first edition...

Important Russian binding decorated with miniatures on metal depicting the resurrection of Christ and the four gospels. The work is written in Old...

Folio, (340 x 215mm). Title-page in engraved border, frontispiece, 5 full-page plates to text depicting the evangelists, woodcut running-titles an...

contengono gli ordini, le dichiarationi, & l'inuentioni di tutte le sorti di Caualieri, che sono stati istituiti da Principi sino a' tempi nostri....

1774.Scarce first edition of I quadrupedi di Sardegna, a text of considerable historical and scientific importance completely devoted to Sardinian...

intitolate Carta de Logu. Rome: Fulgoni, 1805.Scarce edition of the first Italian translation of Eleonora d'Arborea's Carta de Logu, the collectio...

Monti, 1683.From the Landau library, scarce first edition symbolically illustrating man's relationship with mysticism and the occult, emphasising ...

1736-37.Important practical treatise on fencing, designed for the instruction of French army officers, illustrating numerous duelling techniques w...

difesa, con un Trattato dell'inganno, & con un modo di essercitarsi da se stesso, per acquistare forza, giudicio, & prestezza. Venice: Giordano Zi...

Incomplete copy of the very rare first edition (last auctioned in 2006, RBH) of the work by the main master of the Bolognese school of fencing, a ...

Genuine copy of the fourth edition of Marozzo's work with the original woodcuts replaced by plates by Giovanni Battista Fontana and Giulio Fontana...

Edition that collects, in joint form, the texts concerning agriculture from the Scriptores rei rusticae . 4to, (200 x 145mm). Engraved printer's ...

transcriptions from Belli. [1880-1890].Important corpus of twenty autograph poems in Roman dialect and eight lyrics in unidentified handwriting wi...

Aldo Manuzio and Andrea Torresano, 1526.First edition of Simplicio's commentaries on Aristotle, a copy in a beautiful contemporary binding, with n...

1769.Popular devotional publication dedicated to the sanctuary of Loreto, with a large folding map illustrating the house of the Virgin.8vo, (198 ...

Soffietti, [1790-1800].Curious popular edition of the Astuzie di Bertoldo (Bertoldo's wiles) that testifies to its popularity and diffusion more t...

A copy in a beautiful original binding and with numerous contemporary annotations of this scarce translation of Herodianus and Suetonius by Marco ...

First edition of Tacitus' annals translated into Italian by Giorgio Dati in an elegant contemporary binding.4to, (150 x 220 mm). Title page with p...

First edition of the Italian translation by the Italian scholar Jacopo Nardi (1476-1563) dedicated to the Marquis of Vasto don Alfonso d'Avalos.Fo...

Reprint of Mattaioli's poem in in honour of the renovation of Trento castle commissioned by Prince-Bishop Bernardo Clesio, with a lengthy manuscri...

Lusitaniae. Antwerp: Belleros, 1621.First edition of this scarce work on the history of Portuguese rulers, illustrated with their portraits.4to, (...

Lot dedicated to the city of Venice, including a fine album of late 19th-century albumen prints and two volumes of 17th-century Venetian history.O...

Andrea Alciato's book of emblems, in a contemporary binding, first compiled in 1531 and here enriched with comments by Claude Mignault and Francis...

gesta virorum illustrium. Milan: Bonacina, 1648.Illustrated book dedicated to the life and images of St. Francis and of the first Capuchin friars ...

A masterpiece of the Barbat press and one of the first books printed in polychrome lithography, offering a catalogue of the possibilities offere...

Stamperia Palatina, 1752.Presentation copy in fine binding (in need of restoration) of this five-volume edition of the Prodromo delle antichitá d'...

Rome: Giovan Giacomo de Rossi, 1680.Complete series of 26 prints, with title and progressive numbering, of the triumphs painted by Andrea Mantegna...

Antonino Augusto dicata eius rebus gestis in germanica, atque sarmatica expeditione insignis. Rome: Domenico de Rossi, 1704.Famous work depicting ...

delle Lettere, e delle Belle Arti, ragionamenti istorici. Venice: Recurti, 1741.Illustrated work on the various members of the Medici family.Folio...

monumenti di pittura e di scultura. Florence: Batelli, 1837.Excellent edition, in a fine binding, of the translation of Bonnard's work devoted to ...

Reale, 1810.Important historiographical work on Leonardo da Vinci commissioned to Giuseppe Bossi by the Viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais an...

lettres, aux poetes, aux artistes. Parma: Carmignani, 1759.Folio edition of this valuable work on iconology by the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Boudard,...

gemme e cammei con molti monumenti inediti di antichita statue bassorilievi gemme opera di Domenico Augusto Bracci della societa reale antiquaria ...

Raimondiniana, 1772.Copy probably belonging to the famous engraver Luigi Rossini and dated to the period when he was studying architecture at the ...

An excellent edition illustrating the cycle of frescoes painted by Annibale Carracci for the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, now the seat of the French E...

march.si Gerini di Firenze divisa in due parti. Florence: Niccolò Pagni and Giuseppe Bardi, 1786.A rare series of finely engraved plates depicting...

des Maques & Monogrammes, chiffres, lettres initiales, signes figuratifs. Paris: Henri Laurens, [1893].Interesting lot devoted to collecting betwe...

Interesting lot of works devoted to bibliophilia and collecting in the later 19th century, including Uzzane's work on modern bookbinding.6 volumes...

attitudes de l'Allemande avec un discours préliminaire sur l'origine et l'utilité de la danse. Paris: Dufour, 1768.First edition of this descripti...

Societe typographique, 1780-1781.Beautiful three-volume edition of the stories of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre. The three volumes contain title pa...

Doré. Paris: Hachette, 1855.Lot including the two volumes of the Divine Comedy illustrated by Doré in editorial binding, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso...

édition. Sardanapalis: aux depens des amateurs, 1791.Scarce edition illustrated with 6 pornographic plates one for each canto of this erotic poem,...

First edition, from the Landau library, with more than 400 heraldic engravings in the text.2 parts in one volume, folio, (320 x 230 mm). Title-pag...

1890-1904.Interesting album of photochromes illustrating Berlin at the end of the nineteenth century at the height of the Wilhelmine era. Oblong ...

Palermo: Reale stamperia, 1789.Fine copy of this work describing the ceremonies for the funeral of Charles III of Bourbon (1716-1788) on 13 August...