century].Interesting large fragment of an antiphonary from the French-Italian area, illustrated with 56 large illuminated initials and numerous mi...

Psalterium nocturnum ac diurnum. Venezia: Giunta, 1505.Two illustrated post-incunabula in contemporary bindings, among the largest books at the ti...

Wide-margined copy of this elegant edition of the poems of Anacreon, whose style, characterised by a suffused hedonism and dedicated to the pleasu...

Stamperia Reale, 1788. Handsome edition of the anthologies of Greek epigrams collected by Massimo Planude and Costantino Cefala, edited by the Nea...

Scarce work printed in only 200 copies collecting letters sent to the 'flagello dei principi' by the main protagonists of 16th century Europe.2 pa...

Copy printed on fine paper of this elegant edition of Ariosto's masterpiece illustrated with engravings by some of the most celebrated Parisian an...

A richly annotated copy of Boccaccio's Decameron in a contemporary hand, featuring philological observations and variations on the printed edition...

corrispondenti. Bologna: Della Volpe, 1835.One of the first attempts to catalogue and define the Bolognese dialect, comparing it with Italian and ...

SIGONIO, Carlo (1524-1584). De episcopis Bononiensibus libri quinque. Bologna: Benacci, 1586. 4to, (222 x 145 mm). allegorical vignette to title d...

Large calligraphic proof in six languages (Hebrew, Samaritan, Syriac, Old Syriac, Latin, and Italian) by the priest and scholar Cornelio Geri and ...

Priuilegi concessi da' Sommi Pontefici alla religione. Borgo Novo: Antonio Scionico, 1719Scarce edition of the collection of the statutes and priv...

Stefano papa, e martire, con la serie.. de' suoi gran maestri. Parma: Monti, 1718.Scarce work on the history and succession of the knights of the ...

Florence: Giunti, 1577 [BOUND WITH:] Dichiarazioni del capitolo generale MDLXXVIII. Florence: Giunti, 1583.Rare edition of the statutes of the Kni...

Caesar's famous commentaries, here in a contemporary binding and annotated by a contemporary reader.8vo, (160 x 100mm). Several contemporary margi...

First Aldine edition, scarcely found complete with both volumes, of Cicero's philosophical works, printed entirely in italics and in a beautiful l...

Parma: Bodoni, 1811.Excellent copy, in the original publisher's binding, of Jacques Guillaume Legrand's (1743-1807) French translation of the famo...

PLAUTUS. Comoediae vigiti. Venice: 1518. Folio (317 x 215mm) Engraved printer's device on title page and colophon, wood-engraved initials and 87 b...

First and only Aldine edition of the works of Curtius Rufus, which include the 'Histories of Alexander the Great', a work that significantly influ...

Christophoro Landino. Venice: Giovanni Giolito da Trino, 1536.Second Giolito reprint of the 1512 edition with the same illustrative apparatus and ...

First edition in which the title 'Divina' is applied to Dante's Commedia, a formula that became the standard in all subsequent editions.12mo, (137...

'The smallest Dante legible to a naked eye' at the time of printing (1898) in its original gilt editorial binding with Dante's portrait on the fro...

Bonducci, 1786.An unsophisticated copy of this first edition, one of the most comprehensive repertories on maritime insurance published at the tim...

relitti del mare Adriatico . Rome: Mainardi, 1759.Scarce (not recorded at auction auction), curious, and learned examination of the casuistry of f...

Lot containing an edition of The Consulate of the Sea, a primary source of maritime law that provides a vast collection of information on European...

l'exploitation des mines traduit de l'allemand par m. Monnet, à Paris 1773.. Per quanto speziale appartiene alla pratica estrazione dei carboni fo...

Herman, 1664.Lot including one of the earliest modern treatises on economic and banking theory reflecting seventeenth-century liberal ideas on cre...

Lot of three works: STRACCA, Benvenuto (1509-1578). De mercatura [BOUND WITH:] Tractatus duo de Assecurationibus. Amsterdam: Schipper, 1668-1699. ...

Scarce first edition (not recorded at auction, RBH) of the main work by Farra, member of the Accademia degli Affidati in Pavia and governor of Asc...

Alessandro dei Paganini, 1521. Composite copy by the famous bibliophile Joseph Knight (1827-1907) of this satirical work accompanying Imberti's 15...

Lettres sur les vallees de Lanzo". Turin: Chirio et Mina, 1823.Important lot including the original manuscripts of the work dedicated to Lanzo Tor...

mêlent de dépenses de Maisons. Bruxelles. Bruxelles: Guillyn, 1746.Scarce first edition (only one record at auction on RBH) of one of the classics...

Brescia: Ragnoli, 1795.A list of food provisions issued by the government of the district of Brescia, revealing a complex and advanced system legi...

government.4 works: BELLONE, Marco Antonio (15th cent.). Decisiones Rotae Genuae de mercatura, et ad eam pertinentibus. Venice: Zenaro, 1606. 4to,...

A copy in excellent internal condition and in elegant binding style of this Horatian edition, printed in only 150 copies 'Beautiful edition in all...

la principessa imperiale Maria Luigia. Parma: Bodoni, 1824.Scarce work (only 2 at auction in the last 30 years, RBH) illustrating the many project...

Lot of 5 volumes containing works by Dante, Galilei, Foscolo and Leopardi from the series directed by Giosué Carducci for Gaspero Barbera of ancie...

[s.l: s.e.: ], 1796-1799.Fresh copy, but without the two engraved plates, of this anonymous edition of Machiavelli's work designed to escape censo...

An ex dono auctoris copy; Michel de Marolles, an abbot and collector, amassed 123,000 prints which were purchased in 1667 by Colbert for Louis XIV...

Reproduction Trojan Codex, over four metres long, one of only three Mayan books that have come down to us, discovered in mid-19th-century Spain an...

Good edition of this famous work, considered the most successful historiographical reconstruction of Milanese events during the Renaissance.Large ...

Pellecchia, 1753.Scarce illustrated Italian edition of this treatise on war and the deployment of soldiers, written by the French general who serv...

debolezza, & incertitudine del discorso humano.Venice: Ginammi, 1634.First Italian translation of Raymond Sebond's apology, the most articulate an...

Bodoni edition of Monti's tragedy in five acts performed at the Teatro Ducale in Parma. Brooks 312.4to, (285 x 210mm). Frontispiece designed by Ma...

Bartolomeo Soliani, 1714.First edition of this important treatise quoted by Manzoni himself in chapter XXXII of Promessi sposi on the subject of a...

Bodoni, 1769.Copy in good internal condition of one of the most celebrated books published by Bodoni, published in the early stages of his career ...

Lot containing two important works on Padua and its history.Folio, (335 x 225 mm). View of Padua to title-page verso, printer's device to title-pa...

Triom[phi]. Venice: Nicolini da Sabbio, 1533.Lot of two incomplete copies of Petrarch's work.4to, (213 x150mm). Text with marginal commentary (mis...

Copy never seen at auction (RBH) of this 'Petrarchino', the name used to indicate small-format editions of Petrarch's Canzoniere designed to accom...

humanae philosophiae. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 20 July 1497.First edition of this philosophical and theological treatise dedicated to Savonar...

Panegyrique de Pline a Trajan en latin & en françois. Turin: François Mairesse, 1717.Beautiful set collecting the two preparatory manuscripts and...

illustribus in re militari, et in admnistranda rep...prodigiorum liber. Florence: Giunta, 1515.Lot containing an early sixteenth-century edition o...

of Tasso and Ariosto printed by Castello and Guerra.TASSO Torquato (1544-1595).La Gerusalemme liberata. Genoa: Castello, 1617. 4to (276 x 195mm) E...

Good Bodoni edition of Sallust. Brooks 748. Folio, (347 x 245mm). Small frieze to title page, uncut (light sporadic foxing). Twentieth-century pas...

Manuscript of this satirical work by Giulio Cesare Cordara, first published in 1737 and put on the Index in 1739 by Clement XII, based on the Hagu...

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

Antonio Groppo, 1761.Sumptuously illustrated edition of Tasso's work, with the addition of ''Annotazioni sopra la Gierusalemme liberata'' by Scipi...

ms. Vatican.Parma: Bodoni, 1786.Uncut copy of this beautiful edition of the last two chapters of Theophrastus' Characters. Dibdin II, 503: 'A very...

Bodoni, 1793.Copy in contemporary green morocco of this Bodoni edition of Kempis' work based on the lecture by Abbot Valart. Brooks,484Folio, (460...

Tipografo Gio: Battista Bodoni cittadino parmigiano. Parma: Bodoni, 1806.Scarce second edition (only one record at auction on RBH) of this encomia...

1796.An elegant edition of 'The Sack of Troy', an epic poem of 691 verses, narrating events from the capture of the Trojan seer Elenus to the depa...