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1910. Two original watercolor drawing on artists board. I: mat size 500 x 375 mm., [19 ½ x 15 inches] and image size 485 x 320 mm [19 x 12 ½ inches]. II: mat size 500 x 390 mm., [19 x 15 ½ inches] and image size 485 x 360 mm., [19 x 14 inches]. Bright red, green, yellow and blue tones of watercolor highlighted with grey, white and brown. Signed by the Artist in lower margins. Manuscript legend written on lower border of mat I, which reads "Clapped his hands to his bloody face howling with pain and freight." Removed from original matting, card stock with some browning from age in margins, and some shadow of mat. Original art work by the noted book illustrator and artist Frank Merrill for the first edition of W. D. Wattle's Hell Fire Harrison and an untitled watercolor signed. Frank T. Merrill was an artist born in Boston in 1848. He studied art at the Lowell Institute and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and travel to England and Europe to study the masters. "His water…
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I: Scene from W. D. Wattles Hell Fire Harrison. and II: Untitled Watercolor. Original Watercolor Drawing, Signed
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I doveri dello stato coniugale. Canto
by Leonardi, Domenico Felice
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Lucca: Giovanni Riccomini, 1767. 8vo. 203 x 135 mm. (8 x 5 1/4 inches). 32 pp. Engraved title-page vignette of a putti and a dolphin; two woodcut decorative initial letters, head- and tail-pieces of putti and designed backgrounds. Original red Italian decorative paper wrappers; remnants of a paper label on lower spine and a small stain to the edge of upper wrapper, light fading to upper cover, otherwise an attractive copy. Only edition of this rare laudatory poem on the joy and responsibility of marriage and the correct conduct of a mother to newborn children. The book is dedicated to Maria Luisa Boccella (Mansi) an old friend of the author and written for her daughter Isabella, who is engaged to marry Girolamo Parensi. In the poem Leornadi speaks about obedience of wife to husband, the tenderness of the man to the women, and that child birth is the expected outcome of the married life. The poem, typical of its type, is remarkable for a long note about motherhood, discusses the use of swaddling,…
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I.llmo ac Rever.mo Dno Iosepho Renato Imperiali S.Rom.Ecclesiae Generali Thesaurario Gloriosa SS. Martyrum Certamina Provt in Templo S.Stephani in Montecoelio. Nicolai Pomerancii Pictoris Egregii Manu Visvntvr Expressa Collegium Germanicum Et Hungaricum Patrono Svo Benemerent.mo D.D.
by Circignani, Niccolo (known as Pomarancio.)
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Roma, ca, 16980. Small folio. 300 x 210 mm., (12 x 8 ¼ inches). Engraved architectural title-page with two women holding the crown over the text, 31 number plates of Martyrs after paintings by Niccolo Circignani engraved by Giovanni Battista Cavaliere, plus and additional plate designed by Cornelio Cort of the Holy Trinity and presumably printed by Cavaliere. Bound in 17th century vellum with the arms of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali gilt on both covers, set within decorative gilt borders. As the title-page reads, this copy was printed specially for Cardinal Imperiali, a nobleman from Genoa and general treasurer under Pope Innocent XI. There is stamp of the Imperiali Library on the title-page as well as an inscription in brown ink. Along with the library stamp, there is printed in the pedestal on lower right of the architectural border, an "eagle with a crown", the arms of the Imperiali family, which is repeated on the covers of the vellum binding. The book is a collection of…
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INFLUENCED BY ALBERTI, DELLA FRANCESCA, AND PACIOLI: The City of the Sun. Introduction: Prof. Luigi Firpo. Translation: Ann Berman.
by Campanella, Tommaso
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Folio. 360 x 250 ½ mm., [14 x 10 inches]. (10), 35, (1) pp. Engraved stiff paper wrappers, text loose in sheets; enclosed in a hinged plexiglass box.Edition of 180 numbered copies (90 in English + 90 in Italian)
Includes two original engravings signed by Walter Valentini, one designed as the cover of the work and a second, large format engraving in addition to the text. Engravings printed on Alcantara paper, executed on a hand press by Giancarlo Sardella. Text printed on Duchêne paper by the Istituto Grafico Bertieri.
English translation of the early utopian text by the Italian Dominican philosopher Tomaso Campanella. Written in 1602 following a period of imprisonment for heresy and sedition, the work describes an ideal republic. In the form of a dialogue between a Grand Master of the Knights of Malta and a Genoese sea captain, the latter describes a place visited on his travels, an industrious and peaceful community where men, united in work, study and play, are stripped of all ambition or… Read More
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Il Nuovo Maestro d'Ogni Sorte di Tinture, tanto in Tela, Seta, e Lana quanto di Vernici, e d'altre varie cose di simil genere. Traduzione di Francese. In Milano: Nella Stamperia Sirtori, 1788. bound after: Traité des couleurs matérielles, et de la manière de colorer, relativement aux différens Arts & Métiers
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Milano & Paris: Nella Stamperia Sirtori & Saugrain & Lamy, 1788. Two volumes in one. 12 mo. 165 x 100 mm., [6 ½ x 4 inches]. [4], 124 pp.; xii, 242, [4] pp. Bound in contemporary leather backed boards over speckled marbled paper. First Italian edition and the first French edition published nine years apart bound together in one volume. Very good copy of these two editions of d'Apligny's classic work on mixing colors for the use in dying textiles and decorative cloth. The detailed methods and color combinations revealed in this book were quickly recognized and an edition was printed in Leipzig the same year as the Paris edition. This was followed by editions printed in Augsburg (1781), Moscow (1788) the same years as this Italian edition, and London (1789). The Italian edition offered here is not cited in NUC, OCLC, and is not in the National Gallery of Art Library in Washington D.C.. It is also not cited in Cicognara's near definitive catalogue of books on art, see below.…
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Il Palio degli Asini. Poemetto giocoso con note
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Firenze: Grazioli, 1791. Small 4to. 175 x 125 mm (7 x 4 ¾ inches). 99 pp. Illustrated with a hand colored engraving designed by Giuseppe Piattoli and engraved by Vascellini. Later decorated paste paper boards. Very good copy. Rare first edition. Very attractive copy of Rastrelli's poem that satirizes a century's old festival originally organized in Florence by Cosimo I after the restitution of his power in 1537. The poem, followed by historical notes on Cosimo's victory, focuses on the losers in that battle, who were made to ride through the city on the backs of donkeys, and receive the wrath of the population and the humiliation that comes with defeat. The engraving is designed by the noted Florentine painter, Giuseppe Piattoli and is characteristic of his playful manner. This copy from the library of Giannalisa Feltrinelli and like so many Florentine illustrated books is very rare. OCLC lists only one copy in London, NUC adds copies at NYPL, Harvard, and Newberry. In addition to the first…
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Il Paradiso Perduto, Poema Inglese. Dal quale non si erano publicati se non i primi sei Canti. Tradotto in verso sciolto dal Signor Paolo Rolli, Compagno della Reale Societá in Londra. L'Acclamato nell' Accademia degl'Intronati in Siena e Pastore Arcade in Roma. Con la vita del Poeta e con le annotazioni sopra tutto il Poema di G. Addison, Aggiunte alcune Osservazioni critiche
by Milton, Giovanni
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In Parigi: [Venice]: A Spese di Giannalberto Tumermani Stap. Veron., 1742. Folio. 350 x 240 mm., [ 13 x ½ x 9 ¼ inches]. [viii], 143, 96 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 24 engravings in the text. The typographical design of the poem is Ricchi, who divided each page into two columns and separated the text with the use of decorative ornaments in the antique style. Bound in full contemporary vellum, leather title-label on the spine; vellum showing some signs of aging, but a very good copy in a contemporary binding. This copy with an old catalogue description pasted to front free endpaper. Very good copy of this landmark book in the history of Italian book illustration and printing is illustrated by some the most important artists of the period. Including a monumental design of the "Creation of Adam" and a smaller design of the "Expulsion of Satan from Eden" by G. B. Piazzetta; an allegorical design in his recognizable classical style by Antonio Balestra; a half-page design by Antonio Mella…
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Il Pasticciere e Confettiere Moderno. Raccolta complete di ricette per ogni genere di Biscotti, Tore, Paste al Lievito, Petits Fours . . . Metodo practica per la decorazione delle tore e dei dolci fantasia. . . Prefazione del Dott. Cav. Alberto Cougnet
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Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1923. Small 8vo. 150 x 105 mm., [6 x 4 inches]. lxxvii, 574 pp. Illustrated with 170 illustrations e 24 chromolithographic plates. Bound in white printed and decorated boards; some spotting to the boards and light foxing to the preliminary leaves, otherwise sound and not unattractive. Fourth edition, originally published in 1907. Giuseppe Ciocca was a principle cookery author for the Hoepli series Manuali, which brought instruction on numerous domestic arts and crafts to newly arrived city dwellers from the Italian countryside. Cicco was the author of this work on desserts as well a book on gelato and frozen ices and a book on making candy, caramels, fruit drops. Il Paticciere contains 700 recipes, many illustrated. The 24 chromolithographic plates illustrate the method and style for decorating cakes, pies, and other baked desserts. According to Salvatori, his cookery books were prepared for the professional chef as well as the home cook. He calls this…
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Il Re dei Cuochi. 1500 - Modo - 1500 per Cucinare le Vivande
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Firenze: Editore Nerbini, 1934. Thick 8vo. 210 x 155 mm., [8 ¼ x 6 inches]. 779 pp. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings. Original boards, decorative cover of a chef surround by implements of his trade, brown cloth spine. Originally published in 1868, this is one of many editions of Nelli's recipe book that was published in Italy over a seventy five year period. In the introduction the editor states that the reason this book of recipes has been so successful rests in the descriptions of the art of cooking in all its components and its emphasis on the culture of the kitchen and the resources that are available to the modern chef. "Today the art of cooking is not limited to the simple preparation of food; the skilled cook must possess a vast culture and all the resources of the science." Very good copy. Henssler, Maria Paleari. Bibliografia Latino-Italiana di Gastronomia, pp. 519-20. .
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Il Testamento Politico del Presidente John F. Kennedy
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Roma - Italia: Marabu Press, 1963. 8vo. 215 x 140 mm., [8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches]. 20 pp. Original printed wrappers. Inscribed from the author to Dr. Donald C. Yelton and dated Rome 15-6-'69. Rare eulogy of President Kennedy written by a Greek American who resided in Rome and published works on international subjects. Con.
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Il primo libro del trattato delle perfette proporzioni di tutte le cose che imitare, e ritrarre si possano con l'arte del disegno..
by Danti, Vincenzo
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Firenze: (Torrentino), 1567. Small 4to. 227 x 155 mm., (9 x 6 inches). [8], 62 pp., wanting final blank. Title-page illustrated with a monumental architectural border in the mannerism style and floral and historiated initial letters throughout the volume. Bound in 19th century decorated paper binding; some minor discoloration to the paper binding, otherwise very good. Extremely rare printing of a contemporary treatise on the proportions of the human body, demonstrating the influence of Michelangelo's ideas of anatomy and the fine arts. It was written by Vincenzo Danti, second son of the artists and engineer Giulio and brother of the mathematician Egnazio Danti, now remembered for his publication on architectural perspective and Euclid. Il Primo Libro is the only work by Vincenzo to survive and it was the first book in a series of fifteen projected studies that he intended to publish, based on the anatomical teachings of Michelangelo. Danti grew up in Florence under the shadow of…
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I'm Off for Charleston
by African Americana
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Philadelphia: T. M. Scroggy, Publisher No. 443 Vine Street, 1853. Broadside. 8vo. 210 x 155 mm., [8 x 6 inches]. Lyrics only printed in five stanzas with chorus, enclosed within a decorative printed border. Small stain to upper right corner, corners with slight folds, otherwise an excellent copy. Rare song sheet written in Negro dialect, telling the story a young man and his true love Nell and his all the girls he met on his way to Charleston. Lyrics by S. W. Auner who was the author of the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee" first printed in 1861. I'm off to Charleston was published in a number of editions in the 1850's, apparently the first was in 1853, printed in Philadelphia by Eckel and Johnson. This issue published by T. M. Scroggy appeared between 1853 and 1858. A number of editions also appeared in New York. All editions are rare. OCLC cites copies of the 1853 edition at New York Historical Society and our copy printed by T. M. Scroggy only at AAS. No copy was located at…
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Images and Shadows, Part of a Life: With a Foreword by Gian Giacomo Migone.
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London: John Murray, 1998. 8vo. x, 278 pp. Illustrated with 16 pages of photo reproductions. Publisher's green cloth, title gilt on spine, dust jacket. Very good copy. Originally published in 1970, this appears to be a fourth printing. "This is a small classic of autobiography in which Iris Origo recreates the lost mad world of Bernard Berenson and the Ango-American artistic coterie in Florence. Her courageous account of wartime struggles at La Foce in Tuscany where she lived after her marriage is one of the most moving memoirs of the Second World War I have ever read" Fiona MacCarthy.
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Improved Air-Tight Stoves, Manufactured and for Sale by H. & F. Simpson, Agents for Dr. Orr. Corner of Congress and Water Streets . . . Boston
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Boston: J. G. Torrey, printer, 1838. Broadside. Folio. 400 x 275 mm. (15 3/4 x 11 inches). Text printed within an ornamental "greek key" border. Folded, with a printed strip of text with a change of address pasted beneath the title. Attractive and apparently rare broadside which advertises the manufacture and sale by H. & F. Simpson of a new line of air-tight stoves invented by Dr. Isaac Orr. The business of supplying safe and efficient home heating and cooking products was one of the most competitive markets in the growing urban centers of the northeast. Dr. Orr's invention, was considered one of the most reliable and safe stoves produced in the 1830's and 1840's. His design and Simpson's manufacture of the air-tight stove for burning coal was considered "a good article" and won a Diploma of Merit by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association in 1844. The same year Simpson's Improved Cooking Range won a Silver Medal and called a "superior…
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Improved Steam Pumps, Pumping Engines and Hydraulic Machinery, Air Pumps, Condensers, Evaporators, and Distilling Apparatus
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Brooklyn, N. Y.: M. T. Davidson, 1897. (Trade Catalogue: Pumps) M. T. Davidson. Improved Steam Pumps, Pumping Engines and Hydraulic Machinery, Air Pumps, Condensers, Evaporators, and Distilling Apparatus. 8vo. 200 x 150 mm., [8 x 6 inches]. [2], 115 pp. Illustrated throughout. Wanting publisher's wrappers. Romaine, Guide to American Trade Catalogues, p. 296.
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The Indian Captive; or a Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Zadock Steele. Related by Himself. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Burning of Royalton
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Montpelier, Vt.: Published by the Author, E. P. Walton, Printer, 1818. 12mo. 160 x 100 mm., [6 ½ x 4 inches]. 142, [2] pp. Contemporary calf, worn. Paper stock brown with age, edges of preliminary leaves and final leaves with small tears to edges; a few leaves with minor paper repair; wanting from free endpaper. Library label marked discarded. Famous Indian captivity, reported by Zadock Steele who was taken by British forces including a party of nearly 300 Mohawk Indians. He was taken Canada, imprisoned for two years and finally escaped. His account of the burning of Royalton comprises the first forty-eight pages of the narrative. Sabin, Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 91164. Howes, U.S.Iana S930 "aa". McCorison, Vermont Imprints 2045. Eberstadt 136:306.
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Indice de'Libri a Stampa citati per testi di Lingua nel Vocabolario de'Signori Accademici della Crusca. Con un Lettera preliminare ed alcune Osservazioni
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Venizia: Presso Antonio Savioli, 1775. 8vo. 200 x 140 mm., [7 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches]. 107 [1] pp. Contemporary paste-paper boards; binding soiled, title in ink on spine, text block lightly foxed throughout. First edition, followed by a Verona edition, with addition, printed in 1798. A select bibliography, listing over 300 titles, by authors, editors, and commentators who were represented in the Vocabulario Della Crusca and were recognized for their contributions to the standardization of the Italian language. The best editions of both classical and contemporary authors are described by Bravetti, who annotates his list with notes on previous edition and comments on the quality of the language used by the original authors and their editors. This is one of the earliest bibliographical studies of Italian literature and follows the work of Giuseppe Baretti and Alessandro Pompeo Berti and Domenico Giorgi and their catalogue of the Capponi collection published in 1747. Bravetti's work was based…
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Industrial Drawing; Comprising the Description and Uses of Drawing Instruments, the Construction of Plane Figures, the Projections and Sections of Geometrical Solids Architectural Elements, Mechanism, and Topographical Drawing; With Remarks of the Method of Teaching on the Subject
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New York: John Wiley, 1863. 8vo. 240 x 150 mm., [9 ½ x 6 inches]. xvi, 156, [1] pp. Illustrated with 20 folding diagrams; tear to plate 6 without loss. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, title gilt on spine; spine chipped and expertly repaired. Ownership inscription of C. Whitaker, and Harriet N. Whitaker on the title-page. . Second edition, revised and corrected; published again at the height of the Civil War. Includes instruction on method of drawing and its instruments, construction of arcs and circles, problems of rectilinear figures, construction of proportional lines and figures, projection, drawing machinery and topographical drawing. Fully illustrated with diagrams to compliment the text. Dennis Hart Mahan was a graduate of West Point, who after graduating continued his education in Europe and upon his return became Professor of Civil and Military Engineering at the Academy. In addition to this work on drawing, he was the author of six other text books, focusing on…
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Treatment of the Prevailing Epidemic called Spotted Fever, &c. &c., in Three Parts
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Boston: Bradford & Read, 1815. 8vo. 213 x 125 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 inches). 216 [4] pp., including a leaf of instructions to the binder and errata leaf. Illustrated with 5 engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, leather label on spine; upper and lower margins with tide marks, some natural toning to the paper, otherwise quite a good copy. Presentation copy to Richard Fletcher whose inscription appears on the front fee endpaper (detached) and the title-page. First edition. Attractive copy of Job Wilson's study of the influence of climate on the epidemic of spotted fever (meningitis) that spread throughout New England in the first years of the 19th century. Organized in three parts, Wilson begins with a short description of the climate in New England from 1630 until 1806. Wilson expands the details of his study to show climate variations from 1801 to 1814 and their correlation with the rise and fall of the disease. This is one of the earliest studies in America to offer data on climate and…
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An Inquiry into the Accordance of War with the Principles of Christianity; and an Examination of the Philosophical Reasoning by which it is Defended; with Observations on the Causes of War and Some of its Effects. With a Dedication to Sunday-School Teachers and Scholars, and Notes by Thomas Smith Grimké of Charleston South Carolina. Together with an Appendix containing Extracts of Several of his Writings, Vindicating or Illustrating the Principles of Peace
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Philadelphia: Ashmead,& Co., 1834. 8vo. 185 x 110 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ½ inches]. xx, pp-13 - 300 (collation complete). Publisher's remainder binding in blue pebble cloth, leather labels on spine. Labels scuffed; paper bookplate of "Inness" on front pastedown; some light foxing. Ownership marks of James A. Inness of Carlisle, Pa. and "Vinton Donation/ Nov. 1865" in pencil on front free endpaper. First American edition, originally published London, 1823. Influential essay on War by a leading English Quakers who did much to "promote that earnest advocacy of Peace between Nations." Dymond's essay contains a distinctive tone, one that reflected not only the Christian point of view but relied heavily on his views of the nature of mankind from a philosophical dimension. It was a preview to the behavior analysis of men at war. Thomas Grimké's essay places Dymond's thought in an American context. His discussion of the education of the public against the cruelty of war was to reverberate…
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