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A curated collection of rare manuscripts and first editions for the discerning collector. Explore centuries of knowledge and typographic mastery.
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Första Resa fran Cairo till Arabiska Öknen i April 1845. Fragment. Med en karta
Helsinki, Published by (S. Baranovskij for) J. Simelius, 1853
Opyt geomtrii o chetyrekh izmereniakh. Geometriia sinteticheskaia. ("An Essay on the Geometry of Four Dimensions. Synthetic Geometry")
Tiflis (Tbilisi), Tipographia S.G. Melikova, 1877
Architectura von Vestungen. Wie die zu unsern zeiten mögen erbawen werden, an Stätten Schlössern, unnd Clussen, zu Wasser, Land, Berg, unnd Thal, mit jren Bollwerken, Cavalieren, Streichen, Gräben und Leuffen, sampt deren gantzen anhang, und nutzbarkeit, auch wie die Gegenwehr zu gebrauchen, was für geschütz dahin gehörig, und wie es geordnet, unnd gebraucht werden soll, alles auss grund un deren Fundamenten
Strasbourg, Bernhardt Jobin, 1589
Il torneo a piedi, e l’invenzione, ed allegoria, colla quale il Signor Borso Bonacossi comparì a mantenerlo: e l’Alcina maga favola pescatoria fatta rappresentare dal suddetto Signore nella Sala detta de’ Giaganti in Ferrara, alla presenza di tre Altezze Serenissime di Mantova, de i due Eminentissimi Cardinali Sacchetti, e Spada, nel Carnovale dell’Anno 1631. Descritti dall’Aggirato Accademico Fileno. Evvi aggiunto il Tebro Epitalamio, che fu dispensato nella sera, e nel Teatro, in cui si fece il Torneo
Ferrara, Gioseffo Gironi & Francesco Gherardi, 1631![Ivrogniana, ou Bons mots et Aventures d’ivrognes, Recueil de cabaret, Suite de Grivoisiana, Brunétiana, […] avec la Relation des Bals des Bois et les Fêtes Roulantes […] par Anagrame Dauneur](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1784640887/govi_stock/govi-ivrogniana-1804.jpg)
Ivrogniana, ou Bons mots et Aventures d’ivrognes, Recueil de cabaret, Suite de Grivoisiana, Brunétiana, […] avec la Relation des Bals des Bois et les Fêtes Roulantes […] par Anagrame Dauneur
Paris, Chez Madame Cavanagh, 1804
Emblemata
Colophon: Bologna, Clemente Ferroni, April 1628
Sprüchwörter Gemeiner Tütscher nation, erstlich durch Sebastian Francken gesammlet, nüwlich aber in kommliche ordnung gestellt und gebessert
Zurich, Eustachius Froschauer, [1545]
Von Erdbiden, Etliche Tractat, alte und newe, hocherleuchter und bewärter Scibenten: inn welchem klärlich angezeigt, was dieselbigen jeder Zeit gutes oder böses mitgebracht: Auch was darauff erfolgelt sey: Weil nach des Herrn Christi Weissagung, zu den letzten Zeiten, vil Erdbiden geschehen söllen: Zeit jeder menigklich tröstlich unnd nützlich zu wissen
Munich, Adam Berg, [1582]
Disegni del nuovo teatro de quattro cavalieri eretto in Pavia l’anno MDCCLXXIII opera del Cav. Antonio Galli Bibiena
N.pl. [Pavia], n.pr., n.d. [c. 1773]
Dei delitti e delle pene
Livorno, Marco Coltellini, 1764![Celestina tragicocomedia [sic!] di Calisto e Melibea nuovamente tradotta de spagnolo in italiano idioma](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1787817538/govi_stock/govi-rojas-celestina-1543.jpg)
Celestina tragicocomedia [sic!] di Calisto e Melibea nuovamente tradotta de spagnolo in italiano idioma
Venice, Bernardino Bindoni, 1543![De venatione, et natura animalium libri quinque. Quibus ex uniuerso antiquitatis penu triginta fere millia Auctorum oracula eduntur: & passim quae ad Temporum emendationem; Gentium transmigrationem: Philologorum: ac Vatum monimenta: […]](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1784629504/govi_stock/govi-andrea-cirino-four-works-in-first-edition.jpg)
De venatione, et natura animalium libri quinque. Quibus ex uniuerso antiquitatis penu triginta fere millia Auctorum oracula eduntur: & passim quae ad Temporum emendationem; Gentium transmigrationem: Philologorum: ac Vatum monimenta: […]
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Selected Authors and Typographers Index
A selection of masters whose works embellish our collections.
Josse Bade
Jodocus Badius Ascensius (born Josse Bade; 1462–1535) stands as one of the quintessential figures of the Northern European Renaissance—a master...
Publius Ovidius Naso
Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – AD 17/18), known universally to the Western canon as Ovid, stands alongside Vergil and...
Sagittarius Johannes
Johannes Sagittarius (the Latinized moniker of Johann Schütz or Schütze, 1531–1584) stands as a emblematic, if historically complex, representative of...
Scipione Gonzaga
Scipione Gonzaga (1542–1593) stands as one of the most intellectually luminous and politically influential figures of the late Italian Renaissance—a...
Johannes Enschedé
Johannes Enschedé (1708–1780) stands as one of the most distinguished figures in the history of eighteenth-century European typography, print culture,...
Bernardino Bindoni
Bernardino Bindoni (fl. 1532–1574) stands as a vital exemplar of the industrious artisan-publishers who defined the golden age of Venetian...
Louis-Charles François Petit-Radel
Louis-Charles-François Petit-Radel (1756–1836) stands as one of the pivotal intellectual figures spanning the tumultuous transition between the late Enlightenment, the...
Ludovico Ariosto
Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533) stands as the supreme poet of the High Italian Renaissance, a monumental figure whose literary masterpiece, the...
Adam Berg
Adam Berg (c. 1540–1610) stands as one of the most pivotal figures in early modern South German typography and book...
Flaminio Flaminio
Flaminio Scala (1552–1624), known by his celebrated stage pseudonym Flavio, stands as a monumental figure in the annals of early...
Francesco Patrizi
Francesco Patrizi da Siena (1413–1494), known in Latin scholarly circles as Franciscius Patricius Senensis, stands as one of the most...
Jean de Tournes
Jean I de Tournes (1504 – 7 September 1564) stands as one of the most transcendent figures in the history...