Venezia: Presso Antonio Zattae Figli, 1791. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); later period-style parchment, two olive gilt-lettered morocco spine onlays, speckled endpapers; [8],196 [but 296]pp. ([*]4 A-S8 T4); steel engraved medallion to title page, fifteen engraved scenes printed in text throughout. Light wear to extremities, chiefly at corners, else a...... 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. Covers shows..... More

Venezia: Nella Stamperia Remondini, 1758. First Italian Edition. Two volumes in one; 12mo (15.5cm.); full contemporary vellum retaining original endpapers; xii,216;420pp. (*6 A-I12, A-R12 S6 [Q signature missigned P]); nine folding plates of engravings, woodcut head- and tail-pieces throughout. Vellum rather stained with some loss along fore-edge of rear cover..... More

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

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

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

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

Palermo: Sellerio, [1999]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey card wrappers printed in white, photographic element mounted to upper cover, French flaps; 161pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear from handling, spine a bit sunned, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Italian. Uncommon monograph devoted entirely to the pictorial..... 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