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 about Stories from the Decameron
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 about Conception, Birth and Infancy in Ancient Rome and Modern Italy
Torino: Stamperia Artistica Nazionale, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover. 32mo. Disegnodiverso Series. Publishers red wraps with grety 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. Inscribed by author on first page. Disegnodiverso... More about Tauromachie
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 about De balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum
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 about The Later Roman Empire: 284-602. A Social Economic and Administrative Survey
[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 about Road to Valour: A True Story of World War II Italy, The Nazis, and The Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation
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 about Olivetti: 1908-1958
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 about Bona espugnata: poema del cavalier conte Vincenzio Piazza ... Coll'Allegoria estratta dal conte...