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Il problema estetico in San Tommaso
Turin, Edizioni di “Filosofia” (Cuneo, Stabilimento tipografico editoriale “Saste”), 10 August 1956![La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo [...] Et co nuove & bellissime figure in istampe di rame, ove, oltre alle XXVI antiche di Tolomeo, se ne son'aggiunte XXXVI altre delle moderne. Con la carta da navicare...](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1788792879/govi_stock/govi-ptolomaeus-ruscelli-ziletti-1564%20%285%29.jpg)
La geografia di Claudio Tolomeo [...] Et co nuove & bellissime figure in istampe di rame, ove, oltre alle XXVI antiche di Tolomeo, se ne son'aggiunte XXXVI altre delle moderne. Con la carta da navicare...
Venice, Giordano Ziletti, 1564![Cosmographia elementaris, propositionibus physico-mathematicis in Alma, Caesarea, Regiaq[ue]; Universitate Pragensi Carolo-Ferdinandea, anno superiore proposita quam praenobilis D. Balthasar Tobias Türchner à Müllenau, […] publicè defendendam susceperat. Editio Secunda, cum Indice necessario](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1785749290/govi_stock/govi-knittel-cosmographia-elementaris-1674.jpg)
Cosmographia elementaris, propositionibus physico-mathematicis in Alma, Caesarea, Regiaq[ue]; Universitate Pragensi Carolo-Ferdinandea, anno superiore proposita quam praenobilis D. Balthasar Tobias Türchner à Müllenau, […] publicè defendendam susceperat. Editio Secunda, cum Indice necessario
Nürnberg, Johannes Aandreas & Wolfgang Endter, 1674
Proef van Letteren, welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschedé
[Haarlem], J. Enschedé, 1768
Epistolae familiares propter singularem elegantiam & argumenti materia(m) Scholis & adolescentum studiis captiviq(u)e acco(m)modatae, ex omnibus, quas reliquit, literis summo doctissimorum iudicio segregatae
Basle, Bartholomaeus Westheimer, 1538
Ordo quando mulier post partum expletis diebus purificationis primo Ecclesiam ingreditur
Piacenza, Giovanni Bazachi, 1589
La donna delinquente. La prostituta e la donna normale
Turin-Rome, L. Roux,
Exceptional Sammelband of the Scriptores rei rusticae owned and fully annotated by the Viterbo humanist Latino Latini (1513-1593)
Lyon, Sébastien Gryphius, 1542-1549
German Sammleband containing censored and expurged texts probably bound together to cover up other more sensitive texts, particularly Camerarius’ lenghty prologue against witchcraft and Acronius’ treatise on miraculous phenomena.
Basel-Leipzig, 1536-1621![Melodaesia sive epulum musaeum. In quo, praeter recèns apparatas, lautiores iterùm apponuntur quamplurimae de fugitivis olim columbis poeticis: Et unà eduntur Ludi iuveniles Martinalia & Bacchanalia: Cum production Gynaecei [...]](https://res.cloudinary.com/ozscbgip/image/upload/w_3840,q_auto:eco,f_avif,c_limit/v1785413025/govi_stock/govi-melodaesia-1597-novae-parodiae-ad-odas-quasdam-horatianas-1596.png)
Melodaesia sive epulum musaeum. In quo, praeter recèns apparatas, lautiores iterùm apponuntur quamplurimae de fugitivis olim columbis poeticis: Et unà eduntur Ludi iuveniles Martinalia & Bacchanalia: Cum production Gynaecei [...]
Leipzig, Michael Lantzenberger for Thomas Schürer, 1597![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]
Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum bibliothecae Cottonianae (bound with:) Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae in unum collecti cum indice alphabetico
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Selected Authors and Typographers Index
A selection of masters whose works embellish our collections.
Georg August Wallin
Georg August Wallin (1811–1852) , known in Arabic contexts by the name ʿAbd al-Wālī , was one of the most...
Agnolo Firenzuola
Agnolo Firenzuola (1493–1543), born Michelangelo Girolamo Giovannini, occupies a singular position in the literature of the Italian Renaissance: novelist, dialogist,...
Georg Sabinus
Georgius Sabinus (Schuler) was educated at Wittenberg under Melanchthon. In 1530 he accompanied the latter to the diet of Augsburg...
Hiob Ludolf
Hiob Ludolf (also known as Jobus Ludolfus or Hiob Leutholf, 1624–1704) stands as one of the most luminous figures in...
Giuseppe Ginanni
Count Giuseppe Ginanni (1692–1753) stands as one of the most distinguished figures in eighteenth-century Italian natural history, serving as a...
Alessandro Canobbio
Alessandro Canobbio, a native of Milan, was first active in the wool manufacture and trade at Verona and was for...
Samuele Cassini
Samuele da Cassini (also recorded in contemporary Latinity as Samuel de Cassinis , Samuel Cassinensis , or Samuele da Casale...
Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany
Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany (17 September 1674 – 14 August 1728), Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and younger brother...
Giovanni Andrea Moniglia
Giovanni Andrea Moniglia (1625–1700) was a Florentine physician, poet, dramatist, and librettist whose career developed at the intersection of Medicean...
Oronce Finé
Oronce Fine —also encountered as Oronce Finé and in Latin as Orontius Finaeus Delphinatus —was born at Briançon in the...
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco was born at Alessandria on 5 January 1932 and died in Milan on 19 February 2016 . Philosopher,...
Celia Romana
Celia Romana (fl. second half of the sixteenth century) represents one of the most compelling and enigmatic figures within the...