BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

Stato di Milano con le loro dichiarazioni. Milan: Agnelli, 1707.Fine copy on thick paper, with contemporary watercolouring, of this first edition ...

Librairie Internationale, 1868.Lot of three scarce French military works, the first illustrating the unsuccessful Unionist campaign of the Potomac...

Naples: Bonino, 1618.Scarce first edition, last appearing at auction in 1995 (RBH), of this work on the history of Naples, inspired by the work of...

The Hague: Gosse and Beauregard, 1742.A finely bound copy of the first French translation attributed to Desmonceaux de Villeneuve.4 vols, 4to, (24...

Scarce and important newspaper published by Ricordi, leading music publishers of the period, dedicated to the Milanese and Italian performing arts...

Genuine copy, unfortunately missing a leaf from the first work, of this collection of the works of Origen, Greek theologian and philosopher, direc...

Swiss edition of Ovid's erotic works with commentary by Micyllus, born Jakob Moltzer, philologist and humanist who was in close contact with Melan...

1585.Interesting post-Tridentine work investigating the subject that was the first battleground of the Protestant Reformation.8vo, (159 x 100mm). ...

Scarce edition, in an elegant morocco binding, of this popular grammar illustrated by a beautiful woodcut engraving on the title page of King Manu...

notabili dell'antica città di Rauenna. Bologna: Recaldini, 1678.Scarce work, never sold at auction, dedicated to the history and monuments of Rave...

Napoli & di Sicilia. De re di Ungaria. Venice: Vincenzo Vaugris, 1543.Fine copy, with excellent provenance and some contemporary annotations, of t...

Savona. Rome: Campana, 1697.Scarce work on the history of Savona, with only one appearance at auction (RBH).2 parts in one, 8vo, (165 x 107mm). Ha...

con nuovo metodo. Venice: Occhi, 1801.Scarce edition of this renowned chess treatise.3 parts in one, 8vo, (183 x 125mm). Engraved tables in the te...

R. ospizio di beneficienza, 1844.Lot of two scarce first editions presented by the author, the fencer and Blasco Florio, fencer and theorist of sw...

People, scum of the world, who will lead you? (transl.). A very rare work, never before sold at auction, depicting the popular uprising in Palermo...

Scarce first edition of this work of erudition celebrating Palermo and the city's main families as well as its historic glory and patron saints.4 ...

sotto il governo degli arabi. Palermo: Reale stamperia, 1789-1792.Scarce work (last seen at auction in 1978, RBH) and testimony to one of the most...

p. Fedele da S. Biagio pittore cappuccino . Palermo: Valenza, [1788].First edition of this scarce work (only one result at auction, RBH) by the pr...

Cortesi, Capitani, 1789.Scarce work, with only one appearance at auction (RBH), on the city of Tolentino.4to, (266 x 195mm). 5 folding engraved pl...

de Portesio [for Luc'Antonio Giunta], 1511.Incomplete copy of this edition, richly illustrated with wood engravings originally prepared for the 14...

Copy with numerous contemporary annotations of the Quodlibetan disputations, i.e. the collection of 12 answers to free questions investigated by S...

Chiappini, ed Antonio Cortesi, 1780.First and only edition of this work dedicated to the origins of Montecchio.4to, (288 x 210mm). Woodcut vignett...

Schreyer, Kammermeister, 1493.View of the city of Rome and on the verso Genoa from a bifolium taken from the most famous illustrated book of the 1...

fratris, 1544.The first illustrated edition of the first scientifically accurate depiction of the plan of ancient Rome. The work was first printed...

Scarce original edition of this guide to Roman antiquities, containing between pp. 155 and 316 the first printed publication by Ulisse Aldrovandi ...

Rome: Carlo Losi, 1773.Very rare reimpression, with only one previous auction result (RBH) of this map of ancient Rome drawn by Pirro Ligorio, eng...

Fourth edition issued from the presses of Ziletti of this guide to the antiquities of Rome. On page 115 begins the chapter written by Ulisse Aldro...

First edition of the codification of Roman civil law printed by Antonio Blado in Rome, an account of the constitutions and historical laws of the ...

perspettiva . Rome: Della Vaccheria, 1575.Incomplete copy of this scarce first edition collection of engravings, all double-page illustrations of ...

First edition of this famous collection of portraits of the popes from St. Peter to Gregory XIII.8vo, (165 x 115mm). 2 engraved title-pages, front...

Franzini, 1588.Elegant edition of this classic work on ancient Rome, with 90 in-text woodcuts and annotations by Girolamo Ferrucci. Choix 17515: ...

Incomplete copy of this important work with engraved plates by Bonifazio Natali based on drawings by Fontana. The work documents the moving and r...

Liber primus [secundus]. Rome: Giuseppe de Rossi, 1618.Incomplete copy of this scarce work on the ruins of ancient Rome, from the library of Scott...

[BOUND WITH:] Tabernacoli diversi. Roma: [s.n.] 1628 [BOUND WITH:] Diversi ornamenti capricciosi per depositi o altari vtilissimi a virtuosi. Rome...

Famous work by Lauro on ancient and modern Rome that was very popular with his contemporaries and illustrates the most important monuments of the ...

with important presences. Rome: De Rossi, 1600-1689.Important collection of works printed by the de Rossi typography in Rome during the 17th centu...

Beautiful view of Rome, a smaller copy of the original sketched by Antonio Tempesta in 1593, and engraved and edited by Matteo Merian to be includ...

città di Roma dessegnate et intagliate da Domenico Parasacchi con la nuova aggiunta dis. da Girolamo Felice. Rome: Rossini, 1647.Fine copy, comple...

Scarce original edition of this work entirely dedicated to Villa Borghese, of which the author was the guardian. Among the Villa's treasures liste...

1650.Scarce view of Rome showing the city as it was in 1650 and accentuating in particular the obelisks and triumphal columns, reproduced on the m...

Collection engraved by Collaert, who signed the first plate illustrating the 7 Roman basilicas depicted with their saints and their attributes in ...

Scarce series of finely engraved plates by Greuter based on drawings by Maggi, each illustrating the seven churches that are pilgrimage destinatio...

Edition before numbering (the firstà) of one of the most beautiful collections of Roman Baroque depicting fountains built in the 16th and 17th cen...

facies ad magnificentiam qua prioribus annis urbs ipsa directa exculta et decorata est. Nuremberg: Sandrart, 1677.A crisp copy of this scarce Germ...

architetti. Rome: Rossi all'insegna di Parigi alla Pace, [1683].A collection that includes plates from Ferrario's work on the main ecclesiastical ...

Stadt Rom. Frankfurt: Merian, 1681.Beautiful illustrated edition, edited by Meryan, of this report of the antiquities of Rome illustrated by Theod...

Nuremberg: Froberg, 1680-1685.Volume containing two works richly illustrated by Sandrart, with over 140 engraved plates in total. The first work i...

Abbildung. Nuremberg: Froberg, 1685.The third part, in itself complete, of this work on the fountains of Rome, opening with the preface, followed ...

Romae adhuc supersunt. Rome: [Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi], 1690.Work dedicated to the imperial Roman triumphal arches with 43 (of 46) large finely ...

Matteo Gregorio Rossi, 1690.First edition of this scarce collection of plates devoted to the fountains of Rome in their original binding. The pla...

van Waesberge; Wolters, 1694.First Dutch edition after the first 3 Roman prints of this illustrated guide to the ancient monuments and buildings o...

Roma. Rome: Andreoli, 1699.Second edition, published a year after the first, with curious provenance of a work that, through 13 treatises, describ...

strade piazze et edificii de tempii palazzi giardini et altre fabbriche antiche e moderne. Rome: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, 1705.Monumental and sc...

con le auttorità, di Bartolomeo Marliani, Onofrio Panuinio, Alessandro Donati, e Famiano Nardini, e d'altri celebri scrittori antichi, & antiquari...

Edited edition by Mortier of the map originally published by Blaeu in 1672 and dedicated to Cardinal Flavio Chigi, with the arms of the fourteen R...

Enlarged edition of this guide to Rome, enriched with numerous engraved plates both in-text and separate, illustrating the monuments, buildings an...

Guide to Rome in Spanish, accompanied by 60 half-page woodcuts of Roman monuments, palaces, churches and emperors. With an interesting short chapt...

Augsburg: Haffner, [ca 1740].Scarce bird's-eye view of Rome depicted in an unusual Nordic style with domes and bell towers more reminiscent of Eas...

An elegant collection of portraits of cardinals printed on strong paper and with wide margins. Following a chronological order, the first cardinal...

dallo sbocco della Nera fino al mare e profilo di livellazione del medesimo : il tutto fatto l'anno 1744 per comando del N.S. Papa Benedetto XIV f...