
Govi Rare Books
Rare books, manuscripts and first editions from Govi Rare Books LLC. For collectors, book lovers and institutions worldwide.
The Showcase

Il problema estetico in San Tommaso
Turin, Edizioni di “Filosofia” (Cuneo, Stabilimento tipografico editoriale “Saste”), 10 August 1956
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]
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
Il Cromuele tragedia del Co: Girolamo Gratiani Segretario, e Consigliere di Stato del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modona
Bologna, Manolessi, 1671
Essai sur la Turquoise et sur la Calaite
Moscow, Imperial University Press, printed at the expense of the Zozima Brothers, 1816
Dei delitti e delle pene
Livorno, Marco Coltellini, 1764![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 [...]](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1785408744/govi_stock/govi-fuchs-m-ckenkrieg-1600.png)
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![Tes tou Omerou Iliados o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece] (together with:) Tes tou Omerou Odysseias o tomos deuteros [-proteros] [graece]](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1787821562/govi_stock/govi-Homer-iliad-odyssey%20%282%29.jpg)
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
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![Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti disegnati da Pietro Ferrerio pittore et architetto. Libro primo [-secondo]](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1787830117/govi_stock/govi-ferrerio-falda-palazzi-di-roma-1655.jpg)
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]
Proef van Letteren, welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschedé
[Haarlem], J. Enschedé, 1768
Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Med en karta
Helsinki, Published by (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853Explore by Topic

Sixteenth Century

Eighteenth Century

Emblem Books

Chiromancy

Astrology Books

Early Greek Printing

Nineteenth Century

Bibliography

Linguistics

Non-Euclidean Geometry

Russian Literature

French Literature
Selected Authors and Typographers Index
A selection of masters whose works embellish our collections.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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