Florentiae: Barbera Editore, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Orig. blue cloth with gilt device to upper front board, xxv, 636pp. Rear free endpaper torn, some markings and a small white stain to rear board, o/w very good. A source book of Roman Statutes. More
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1977. Grifalconi, Ann. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Limited edition exclusively for the subscribers to The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers. 644 p.p. Grey moire endpapers, offsetting to front endpapers. Full blue morocco with gilt tooling on spine and boards. A.E.G., a...... More
Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2002. Soft Cover. 8vo. The Peter Paul Charitable Foundations Series of English Canadian Poetry, No. 9. Paperback. 207pp. Facing text translation in English and Italian. Illustrated. Curling to covers o/w near fine. More
Coconut Grove, Florida: Sunnyrest, 1948. Hard Cover. 8vo. 77 p.p. Original red cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Spine and edges are sunned, damp stain to head of boards, spine ends bumped, titling to spine is faded. Some red damp staining to head of front pastedown. Text is clean..... More
Beacon Hill, Boston: Beacon Press, 1957. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Translated from the Italian. 145 p.p. Green cloth boards with black stamped lettering to spine. Sunning to spine and edges, a few small stains, bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Light foxing to top edge of..... More
Venice: Marsilio, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. The Body and the Soul Series. Italian. Translation by Silia Montiglio and Agnese Grieco. 184 p.p. A few spots of minor rubbing to extremities, smudge to front cover, else a fine copy. Gerolamo Cardano (1501-1576) was an Italian polymath and professor of..... More
Torino: Stamperia Artistica Nazionale, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. 32mo. Disegnodiverso Series. Publishers red wraps with grey dustwrapper lettered in red. This is copy No. 184 of 700 limited copies. [60] unnumbered pages containing poetry, sketches, brightly coloured illustrations of bulls and bullfighting. Signed by author on first page. Disegnodiverso..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition, second impression. 267 p.p. Green cloth boards with black lettering to spine and device to front board. Light bumping to spine ends. Illustrated dust jacket has some wear to spine ends, edges and corners, chip to spine heel at..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition. 267 p.p. Red cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. Light bumping to spine ends and corners, and sunning to top edge.. Illustrated dust jacket is price clipped and has some wear to spine ends, edges and corners.Twelve unnumbered..... More
Editions Medicina Rara. Hardcover. 16mo. [1970?] Original quarter-green cloth binding with brown leather spine. Facsimile of the original Codex 1474 from the Bibliotheca Angelica of Rome. This is copy no. 1154 of 2300 limited copies printed for members of Editions Medicina Rara. [38] unnumbered pages with eighteen rich illustrations showing..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo. The Other Voices in Early Modern Europe Series. Paperback. xxvi, 300 p.p. Italian with facing translation to English. Curling to front cover and light bumping to lower corner, else a fine copy. Veronica Franco (1546-1591), the most famous courtesan..... More
Napoli: Gennaro Monte, 1904. Soft Cover. 8vo. Original blue wrappers, from the library of Lt. Col. De Guinzbourg, his bookplate on front inner cover, 96 pp., light foxing and staining to leaves, dampstains to top edge of front cover and to upper rear cover, ownership signature in red crayon to..... More
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1920. Hard Cover. 12mo. Limited to seven hundred copies for sale in America. viii, 215 p.p. Grean paper boards with white spine label. Short tears to spine tail. Deckled edges. Gift inscription to flyleaf. Dust jacket has several chips, spine is chiped and torn. Edges..... More
London: The Amalgamated Press Limited/The Fleetway House. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). [n.d., ca. 1925]. Scarce set in VG condition. Quarter bound in black morocco with blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine compartments. Red speckled fore and tail edges. General index to volume VII. Ex-libris stickers to front..... More
Ortono, Italy: Editioni Menabo, 2000. Soft Cover. 12mo (large). SIGNED with inscription from author to dedication page. Soft cover. 157 p.p. Very light wear wear to corners and spine ends. More
Vancouver: Hemlock Printers, 1990. Soft Cover. 4to (oblong). Orig. wrappers. Illustrated with seventeen plates of photographs. Signed by the author on half-title with inscription. Light rubbing and fading to wrappers, o/w near fine. A photographic essay exploring the heart of the Roman countryside. More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo [royal]. 3 Volumes plus [1] folder of maps. Original jacket and green cloth. Vol. I: xv, 522 p.p,.; Vol. II: vi, 1068; Vol. III: v, 448 p.p. Includes a collection of [7] maps laid-in, inside folder with matching jacket, illustrating: The Seven..... More
[Toronto]: Doubleday Canada, 2012. 1st Canadian Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo (medium). SIGNED by both authors. x, 316 p.p. Red paper boards and quarter bound in white cloth with green titling to spine, Bumping to spine ends, else a fine copy in a pristine jacket. Road to Valour tells the inspiring..... More
S.p.A., Ivrea: C: Olivetti & C., 1958. Hardcover. 8vo [imperial]. Original pictorial jacket and grey quarter-cloth binding.190 p.p. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the Olivetti and company. The Olivetti Company constructed and assembled the M I, the first typewriter in Italy and, in 1945, mass produced the Elettrosumma, a new..... More
Parma: Nella stampa di corte di S.A.S., 1694. Westerhout, Arnoldo V.; Dorigny, N.; Oddi, Mauro. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Halfbound vellum over patterned pasteboard. Title in gilt on yellow leather spine. All edges red. xvi, 303 p.p. Engraved frontispiece and author portrait by Arnoldo V. Westerhout, plus eleven [of twelve]..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958. Hard Cover. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gilt titling to spines. Each volume has a B&W frontis. Lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners. All volumes have light damp staining to fore edge. Dust jackets are price clipped, sunned at spine and edges, and have..... More
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2002. Soft Cover. Softcover. A very nice copy; as new. More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Soft Cover. Softcover. Lightly bumped on bottom right corner of back cover and small stain on tail. Otherwise a very good copy. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2002. Hard Cover. 12mo. The I Tatti Renaissance Library No. 6. xxx, 721 p.p. Facing Latin to English translation. Includes notes on chronology, notes to text and translation, and bibliography. Blue cloth boards with black spine label, gilt lettering. Dust jacket is sunned at spine..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Soft Cover. Softcover. A near fine copy. More