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Il problema estetico in San Tommaso
Umberto Eco’s first book-Giuseppe Flores d’Arcais’s copy
Umberto Eco

Il problema estetico in San Tommaso

Turin, Edizioni di “Filosofia” (Cuneo, Stabilimento tipografico editoriale “Saste”), 10 August 1956
$3,000
Catalogus personarum et officiorum Societatis Jesu in Alba-Russia ex anno 1784 in annum 1785
The survival of the Jesuits in White Russia after the suppression of 1773
Stanisław Czerniewicz

Catalogus personarum et officiorum Societatis Jesu in Alba-Russia ex anno 1784 in annum 1785

Mohiloviae (Mohilev or Mogilev), In Privilegiata a Sua Imperatoria Majestate Typographia Illustrissimi Archiepiscopi, [after 18 July 1785]
$4,200
Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici Affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche
The Accademia degli Affidati
Luca Contile

Ragionamento di Luca Contile sopra la proprietà delle imprese con le particolari de gli Academici Affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche

Pavia, Girolamo Bartoli, 1574
$5,500
Il Cromuele tragedia del Co: Girolamo Gratiani Segretario, e Consigliere di Stato del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modona
A 17th-century Italian tragedy on the English Civil War pitting the tyrant Oliver Cromwell against the martyr Charles I.
Girolamo Graziani

Il Cromuele tragedia del Co: Girolamo Gratiani Segretario, e Consigliere di Stato del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modona

Bologna, Manolessi, 1671
$6,500
Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite
First edition of the first substantial scientific monograph devoted to turquoise. an exceptional presentation copy to Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), president of the Royal Society, preserved in its original printed wrappers
Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim

Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite

Moscow, Imperial University Press, printed at the expense of the Zozima Brothers, 1816
$9,000
Dei delitti e delle pene
PMM, 209 - The most significant and celebrated work of the Italian Enlightenment.
Cesare Beccaria

Dei delitti e delle pene

Livorno, Marco Coltellini, 1764
$20,800
Mückenkrieg, Darin zu befinden, Welcher Gestalt die Mücken, neben ihren Mitverwanthen und Bundsgenossen, sich wider die Ameissen, und derselben Beistand, in mercklicher anzal un[d] übergrossem Heer zu Feld gelagert: [...] und ein überauß greuliche und blutige Schlacht einander geliefert haben. Alles mit sondern Fleiß verfasset in unterschiedliche Drey Bücher [...]
A German free adaptation of Teofilo Folengo’s juvenile mock epic Moscheide
Hans Christoph Fuchs

Mückenkrieg, Darin zu befinden, Welcher Gestalt die Mücken, neben ihren Mitverwanthen und Bundsgenossen, sich wider die Ameissen, und derselben Beistand, in mercklicher anzal un[d] übergrossem Heer zu Feld gelagert: [...] und ein überauß greuliche und blutige Schlacht einander geliefert haben. Alles mit sondern Fleiß verfasset in unterschiedliche Drey Bücher [...]

Muckenthal bey Ameißhoffen [Amberg, Michael Forster], 1600
$2,000
Tes tou Omerou Iliados o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece] (together with:) Tes tou Omerou Odysseias o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece]
The celebrated Foulis' edition
Homer

Tes tou Omerou Iliados o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece] (together with:) Tes tou Omerou Odysseias o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece]

Glasgow, Robert & Andrew Foulis, 1756-1758
$2,500
Orationes, Dialogi, Epistolae, Carmina, tam Latina quàm Graeca: cum eruditoru(m) de ea testimonijs & laudibus. Hippolytae Taurellae elegia elegantissima. Ad Sereniss. Angliae Reginam D. Elisabetam
Second, greatly enlarged edition, published by the Italian emigrant scholar Celio Secondo Curione (1503-1569) with a new dedication to Queen Elizabeth of England
Olympia Fulvia Morata

Orationes, Dialogi, Epistolae, Carmina, tam Latina quàm Graeca: cum eruditoru(m) de ea testimonijs & laudibus. Hippolytae Taurellae elegia elegantissima. Ad Sereniss. Angliae Reginam D. Elisabetam

Basle, Petrus Perna, 1562
$5,800
Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti disegnati da Pietro Ferrerio pittore et architetto. Libro primo [-secondo]
The first publication to provide systematic, measured, and uniformly scaled illustrations of Roman palaces
Pietro Ferrerio - Giovanni Battista Falda

Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti disegnati da Pietro Ferrerio pittore et architetto. Libro primo [-secondo]

[Rome], Si vendeno per Gio. Giacomo Rossi all'insegna di Parigi alla Pace, [1655-1691]
$4,300
Proef van Letteren, welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschedé
The most important type specimen printed in the Netherlands in the 18th century
Johannes Enschedé

Proef van Letteren, welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschedé

[Haarlem], J. Enschedé, 1768
$4,000
Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Med en karta
Wallin’s journey through Arabia
Georg August Wallin

Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Med en karta

Helsinki, Published by (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853
$3,200

Selected Authors and Typographers Index

A selection of masters whose works embellish our collections.

Ritratto di Michael Neander

Michael Neander

Michael Neander (born Michael Neumann ; April 3, 1525 – April 26, 1595) stands as one of the most distinguished,...

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Ritratto di Jacopo Antiquari

Jacopo Antiquari

Jacopo was probably the son of the physician Stefano Antiquari. After studying under Giovanni Antonio Campano, who taught at Perugia...

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Ritratto di Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon (born Philipp Schwarzerdt ; February 16, 1497 – April 19, 1560) stands alongside Martin Luther as one of...

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Ritratto di Antoine Saint-Denis

Antoine Saint-Denis

Very few is known about this Author: probably a priest from the diocese of Mans, who seems to have been...

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Ritratto di Francesco Berni

Francesco Berni

Francesco Berni (Ferrara, 1610–13 October 1673), not to be confused with the celebrated sixteenth-century Tuscan poet of the same name,...

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Ritratto di Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Volta

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745–1827) stands as one of the quintessential figures of the European Enlightenment and a foundational...

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Ritratto di Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro

Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC), whom Petrarch famously designated alongside Cicero as one of the twin luminaries of Roman intellect...

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Ritratto di Marco Antonio Sabellico

Marco Antonio Sabellico

Marcantonio da Coccio, better known as Marcantonio Sabellico, was born of poor parents in Vicovaro (northeast of Rome). He received...

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Ritratto di Pietro Mengoli

Pietro Mengoli

Pietro Mengoli (Bologna, probably 1626 or 1627 – Bologna, 7 June 1686) occupies an unusually distinctive place in seventeenth-century mathematics....

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Ritratto di Johannes Aventinus

Johannes Aventinus

Johannes Aventinus (born Johannes Thurmair or Turmair ; July 4, 1477 – January 9, 1534) stands as one of the...

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Ritratto di Stanisław Czerniewicz

Stanisław Czerniewicz

Stanisław Czerniewicz —Latinized as Stanislaus Czerniewicz and variously rendered in Western European sources as Stanislas or Stanislao—was born on 15...

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Ritratto di Giovanni Andrea Moniglia

Giovanni Andrea Moniglia

Giovanni Andrea Moniglia (1625–1700) was a Florentine physician, poet, dramatist, and librettist whose career developed at the intersection of Medicean...

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