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Volpe, 1742.A very good copy of this botanical text devoted mainly to the plants of Malabar (India), illustrated with 185 engraved plates by Giuse...

1631.Complete series consisting of 8 plates in the first state (of two), and 12 in the second state, apres la lettre with the name of the author a...

Famous engraving by Callot, one of his few large-scale works, illustrating the temptation of Saint Anthony inspired by Bosch's fantasies.Copper en...

Complete series consisting of three plates in the scarce first state, the others in the second state apres la lettre including the publisher's nam...

Langlois, 1646.Scarce complete series (last appearing at auction in 2009) illustrating the life of the Blessed Virgin through emblems, avoiding de...

Copy of the second edition of Cosimo Bartoli's (1503-1572) translation and the second edition of Ludovico Domenichi's translation (1515-1564) of '...

Milan: Bestetti and Tuminelli, 1914.Work, unfortunately incomplete, on Arab-Norman architecture in Sicily.Folio, (495 x 350 mm). 110 (of 120) loos...

Work dedicated to the historical architecture of present-day Croatia: Diocletian's palace, Split and the excavations of Salona, the monuments of Z...

prouincie, le prospettiue, et tutte le altre cose terrene. Venice: Combi, 1614.Genuine copy, unfortunately lacking the two folding plates, of this...

Presso l'autore, 1810.A good copy of this first complete suite of 102 engraved plates, scarce, designed by one of the most important Italian neocl...

degli scritti del medesimo intorno all'insigne tempio di S. Lorenzo Maggiore di Milano. Milan: Galeazzi, 1771.Fine copy of this scarce reprint of ...

di Bologna dipinto dal famoso Lodovico Carracci. Bologna: Pisarri, 1694.First edition of this famous work reproducing the frescoes in the octagona...

tempi d'ogni popolo e di ogni stile. Venice: Antonelli, 1833.Bilingual edition, the first Italian edition, of this immense repertory of architectu...

Extra-illustrated with 4 additional plates (following OPAC SBN collation), of this collection of biographies written by Fèlibien Des Avaux, histor...

quali à Como nel Museo del Giouio si veggiono. Florence: Torrentino, 1552 (colophon: 1551).First Italian edition of what may be considered one of...

J. Rouam, 1877.Complete work of the four hitherto unpublished plates of 'Los Proverbios' by Francisco Goya y Lucientes: 'Lluvia de toros', 'Otras ...

(1741-1824). Histoire de France, représentée par figures accompagnées de discours. Parigi: David, 1787-1796.Rare, fine work covering French histor...

S. Benedetto in Padova delle nobili signore contesse Orsola e Cecilia sorelle Santonini. Padua: Conzatti, 1763.A scarce collection of plates made ...

Milan: Stamperia Reale, 1810.Important historiographical work on the figure of Leonardo da Vinci commissioned to Giuseppe Bossi by the Viceroy of ...

Reggiani; Brigola, 1877-1885.The annals of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo from its foundation in 1387 to 1875, with no apperances at auction, in...

Callisto Ferranti, 1636.Scarce first edition, published posthumously, complete with the 42 finely engraved plates. In 1684 the five works by Monta...

di San Paolo. Rome: Aurelj, 1840.First edition of this work that describes the tabernacle or ciborium of St. Paul sculpted by Arnolfo di Cambio (1...

Andrea Palladio raccolti ed illustrati da Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi. Vicenza: Giovanni Rossi, 1786 [BOUND WITH:] Le terme dei romani disegnate da ...

pittorico dall'origine delle belle arti a tutto l'anno 1775. Firenze: Allegrini & Pisoni & C, 1776.Scarce supplement extending and enriching the o...

[BOUND WITH:] Osservazioni .. sopra la Lettre de m. Mariette. Rome, 1765.Della Magnificenza ed Architettura de Romani (Of the Magnificence and Arc...

Pisa. Pisa: Prosperi, 1834.Beautiful collection of plates depicting the monuments of Pisa.Oblong 8vo, (210 x 280 mm). 13 engraved plates, printed ...

CampoSanto di Pisa. Pisa: Didot, 1814-1825.Important work on the sculptural collection of the Pisa Cathedral, many of which were lost during the A...

'Ecco su l'Arno la pisana gente in finta agone a guerreggiar del Ponte. E se in gioconda pugna ha l'armi pronte, ha già in campo ostil guerriera m...

Honorem Deiparae Virginis in Coelum Assumptae. Rome, 1705.Collection of plates designed by the Melani brothers, pupils of Camillo Gabrielli, depic...

dietro il celebre programma di Mattia Giuseppe Sganzin. Venice: Antonelli, 1847-1853.First Italian edition of this monumental work on engineering,...

città , con li loro prospetti [BOUND WITH:] Le fontane delle ville di Frascati nel Tusculano con li loro prospetti . Rome: De Rossi, [c.1670]. Fir...

vor alten Zeiten gebaut gewesen. [Norinberga: Sandrart, 1685].Reduced reprint of the celebrated map of ancient Rome designed by Pirro Ligorio and ...

A fine copy of Nolli's famous map of Rome. The work was commissioned by Pope Benedict XIV to produce a census of Rome and to help create the demar...

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

moderna. Rome: Matteo Gregorio Rossi, 1690.First edition of this scarce collection of plates devoted to the fountains of Rome in their original b...

Moroni, 1823.Scarce first edition of this famous monograph on the well-known Renaissance architect Sanmicheli, published serially in Verona in bet...

1619.A worn but genuine copy of this richly illustrated treatise covering and representing much of the European architectural knowledge of the per...

Work collecting the monumentalist and neoclassical designs and projects by the Florentine architect Giovanni Battista Silvestri, designer of the l...

del lago di Sesto o sia di Bientina. Lucca: Bonsignori, 1782.First edition of this treatise on hydraulic engineering in which Leonardo Ximenes, Ru...

Aa, [1729].Complete collection devoted to Zeeland, complete with all the plates and in good condition, from the collection 'Galerie Agréable du Mo...

Sardegna, Malta, l'isola di Calipso, etc. Turin: Giuseppe Pomba, 1834-1838.First Italian edition of this work dedicated to the cities, monuments, ...

parties du Monde. Paris: Bellin, 1764.First edition of one of the best-known French maritime atlases of the 18th century, with contemporary colour...

eglises: tome troiseme, Le royaume de Naples et de Sicile [ WITH:] tome quatrieme, de la ville de Rome. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1704. Mortier'...

1853-1858.First edition of this famous book on the inhabitants of Naples, masterfully illustrated with 100 coloured plates depicting the trades an...

l'Amerique septentrionale & meridionale. Amsterdam: Honore & Chatelain, 1719.The sixth volume of Chatelain's work, discussing the geography, custo...

Scarce first edition of the largest map drawn by Civelli, updating and expanding that of Rizzi Zannoni published in 1821. The author began as an a...

Complete album of 52 plates printed on strong paper, probably accompanying a Neapolitan edition of Cook's Journey. The large map of the southern h...

Russie; Turquie; Espagne; Chine; France; Suisse (3 volumes). Paris: Gide fils, [c. 1820].A delightful collection of watercoloured plates depicting...

A lively account of big-game hunting adventures during an eight-month shooting trip in Baltistan, Ladakh and Kashmir. In addition to numerous phot...

A very scarce work on the market (RBH finds a single record at auction, in 1983) of this atlas and chronicle of Europe with 33 maps based on those...

et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. Paris: Du Halde, 1735.First edition of this grandiose encyclopaedic work on China....

A fine work describing 18th century London.6 volumes, 8vo, (203 x 122mm). Frontispiece to first volume, 76 engraved plates, 3 large folding maps, ...

regna exhibens. Augusta: Lobeck, [circa 1760].Interesting pocket atlas with fine watercoloured maps engraved by Tobias Lobeck from drawings by Lot...

Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1682.Scarce first edition, unfortunately lacking the geographical maps, of this description of the Dutch colonial terr...

imperatorem. Amsterdam: Van Meurs, 1668.A copy in excellent condition, with clearly printed plates, of the first Latin edition of the account of N...

1930.An account of Piacenza's 1913 exploration of Ladakh and the Kashmiri Himalayas culminating in the first ascent of Kun, the first peak above 7...

et introduttioni universali sopra la Geografia. Venice: Sessa, 1598-1599.Fourth edition of the translation by Girolamo Ruscelli, enlarged and edit...

secolo nono v'andarono. Bologna: Tommaso Colli, 1749.Scarce (only one appearance at auction, RBH) first edition in Italian of the travel accounts ...

Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile". Paris: Clousier, Jacques-Gabrie, 1781-1786.Collection of plates from this famous Grand Tour mast...

1726-1727]. Collection of 31 (of 63 plates provided) extrapolated from the work dedicated to Marian abbeys, monasteries, convents and places of de...