![I Promessi Sposi con Note Inglesi [The Betrothed with Appended Notes in English]. Alessandro Manzoni](/pictures/thumb/7498.jpg?v=1602085869)
Boston: S.R. Urbino / Schönhoff and Möller, 1870. Octavo; 615pp + 12pp of notes + 3pp of publisher's advertisements. In Schönhoff and Möller bookseller binding of blue-gray percaline, with gilt spine lettering and seller's medallion in gilt on front panel; blind-stamped borders on both panels. Main text entirely in Italian..... More
Venice: "Presso gli Editori Sopraindicati Rio Terrà S. Toma al N. 1652," [c. 1830]. (The "editori sopraindicati" are not named, though space is allotted on the front panel for an individual bookseller's name.) Quarto volume of 48 engravings, each on its own leaf, with additional portfolio of 18 loose engravings..... More
Casale Monferrato: Casa Editrice S.A. Fratelli Marescalchi, 1949. Stated Third Edition. 12mo. 153, [6] p. Two in-text black and white illustrations. Original printed wrappers. A detailed work on wine appreciation, with the final chapter focusing on vermouth. Cheap postwar paper browning. A little worn with chipping..... More
Naples: Riccardo Ricciardi Editore, 1927. First Edition, one of 200 copies printed. Octavo (25x17x1cm); 79pp, including appendix and index. Laid paper wrappers of warm limestone gray, imprinted with publisher's elegant naval emblem and motto: Ventis Secundis—Under Favoring Winds. B&W portrait of Vico as frontispiece. Entirely in Italian. Wrapper shows..... More
Napoli: Montanino Editore, ca. 1960. First Thus, Limited to 1000 sets. Octavo; pictorial card chemise containing preliminary text leaves and thirteen leaves of color plates printed on stiff card stock. Some minor wear and dust-soil to chemise, else Very Good, contents fine. Series of plates depicting Neapolitan street..... More
Senigallia: Tipografia Lazzarini, 1837. First Edition. Octavo; [vi] + xlvi + 234pp. Engraved portrait of Arsilli as frontispiece. Quarter bound in sea-green leather with small leather corners. Boards in coordinated stone-marbled paper; textblock faintly speckled on all edges in same sea-green. Gilt lettering and ornament on spine; title set off..... More
![Il Fuoco [The Flame]. Gabriele d'Annunzio](/pictures/thumb/6396.jpg?v=1592733225)
Milan: Fratelli Treves Editori, 1904. Octavo; 560pp. The 24 documentary B&W photographs of Venice—augmented with one professionally transcribed aria score, photographically reproduced, and tipped onto a stub—appear to have been added by the binder. That handsome binding is from the celebrated American bindery of Stikeman & Co., and presents crimson..... More
![Georg Baselitz: La Grande Notte in Bianco [The Long Sleepless Night]. Georg Baselitz, Achille...](/pictures/thumb/11016.jpg?v=1632239080)
Rome: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Tall Quarto (31x26x1.5cm); 76pp. Nineteen full-page color reproductions of Baselitz's paintings, with many additional background and documentary images. Pictorial boards over sewn gatherings of heavy stock. Text in both Italian and English. Boards are sturdy and square with a couple faint bumps to bottom..... More
Hardcover. Napoli: Dalla Tipograpfia Masi, 1817. Octavo; [iv], 402p +1 errori at back. Engraved portrait frontis. Brown boards with leather spine and gilt lettering. Joints splitting with amateur rust-colored tape repair over spine ends and down front joint. Boards otherwise edgeworn with a few bumps and the starts of a...... More
New York: S.F. Vanni, 1950. Octavo. 243 pages. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Text in original Italian with English translation facing. No dust jacket. Originally published in 1877, Odi Barbare is the sixth book of poetry from the first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Light..... More
Firenze: Casa Editrice Marzocco, [1946]. Tredicesima Edizione. Small, slim quarto (22cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 70pp.; three leaves of plates, text illus. throughout. Boards a bit rubbed with some brief exposure, tiny damp spot at spine foot, stock uniformly brittle and toned due to inferior quality; still, Very Good overall..... More
Rome: Edizioni Punctum, 2005. First Edition. Signed by photographer on title page, which is gathered with text at the end rather than the beginning of the volume. Octavo; unpaginated [76pp + xiii]. Sixty-two full-page photographs in color and B&W. Ancillary text in parallel Italian and English. Coated paper on boards;..... More
![Orazioni Scelte di M.T. Cicerone [Biblioteca Universale di Scelta Letteratura Antica e Moderna]....](/pictures/thumb/8244.jpg?v=1614363664)
Milano: Nicolò Bettoni, 1828. Two volumes in one; 24mo (12.5cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, elaborately gilt-tooled spine, all edges speckled; 163, 141pp. Light wear to spine edges with tiny chips at crown, small early 20th-century private library spine label, faint foxing to preliminaries, else a Very Good, internally fresh copy..... More
Milano: Presso Luigi Cioffi Editore-Libraio, 1860. Seconda Edizione. Small 12mo (16cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, all edges speckled (briefly bleeding to text block); 215pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Some general shelf wear, small contemporary private library spine label; overall Very Good and sound. Uncommon edition of this popular account..... More
Milano: Dalla Società Tipografica de'Classici Italiani, 1822. 32mo (11cm.); full contemporary gilt-tooled morocco, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges gilt; 127pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Ex-British Embassy of Rome with their bookplate to front free endpaper, leather scuffed at extremities and joints significantly rubbed and cracked, 1cm. loss at spine..... More