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

Firenze: Nuova Italia Editrice, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pale grey wrappers printed in red and black; ix,[1],278pp. Moderate wear to extremities from handling, margins and textblock rather toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper with accompanying pencil note along bottom margin, else Very Good, internally clean and sound..... More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1931. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,296pp. Dust jacket verso backed in archival tissue by prior owner with rather extensive color touchups to external margins, with evidence of earlier shallow chips at spine ends and some tears along folds; cloth..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, [ca. 1929.] Third Edition. Quarto. 403 pp. Full color, two color, and black and white illustrations throughout. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt, blue, gray, red, and green. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with some chewing and exposure to edges, spine..... More

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; xvi + 693pp, including 27 appendices (on Intelligence structure; U-boats; bombing; air offensive; the Nuremberg raid; etc.) and index. Ten tipped-in fold-out maps or site plans, several in six colors. Coated black dust jacket; hunter green cloth with gilt spine lettering..... 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

Milano: Federico Motta Editore, 2001. First Edition. Tall octavo (9.75" x 6.25"); [72]pp. Photos throughout. Trilingual (Friulian, Italian, and English) poems. Illustrated card wraps with French flaps. Covers a bit shelfworn with light bumping at top corners and some general smudging to surface. Dime-sized inkstain to half title with adjacent..... More

[Napoli]: Bibliopolis, [2006]. First Thus. Two volumes; publisher's cloth in tan printed dust jackets; 573,[1]; [574]-1085,[1]pp.; eight leaves of color illus. printed on rectos and versos, additional halftone text illus. throughout. Corners and spine ends rather bumped, else Very Good, clean and sound. The first two volumes in what would..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's black buckram, upper cover and spine stamped in red; xi,[1],250pp. Minor discoloration to cloth, light shelf wear, later (1993) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Uncommon treatise on modern education by Giovanni..... More

Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket; xiv,409pp.; 6 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear, faint surface scratch to rear jacket panel, small dent at bottom edge of rear board, else Very Good or better... More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1951, 1956. First Editions. Two volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in publisher's dark blue-green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines, black topstains; xvi,342; xciv,450pp. Moderate shelf wear, textblocks a bit shaken in bindings, contemporary partly-redacted ownership signature to front free endpapers and rather extensive marginalia to first fifty..... More

Firenze: Alinari - Arsenale, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. 142 pp. Black and white illustrations and photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards. Text in Italian. Light wear to edges of dust jacket with a few short tears and light dust soiling. Boards with minor bumping to edges. Binding..... More

Bononiæ [Bologna]: Typographia Instituti Scientiarum, 1788. 16mo (6" x 3.5"); 430pp. Stained brown paper-covered boards with green paper spine. Boards lightly warped with a number of chips and scrapes to paper. Front hinge cracked and book falls open easily to between a few gatherings, with binding feeling as if it's..... More