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Tre libri di lettere [...] E i termini della lingua Toscana
Rare first edition of all three books of Doni's collected letters
Anton Francesco Doni

Tre libri di lettere [...] E i termini della lingua Toscana

Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1552
$4,200
Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cavallo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del Sereniss. Gran Duca, per le reali nozze de’ Serenissimi Principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d’Orleans
The equestrian ballet performed for the wedding of Cosimo III de Medici (1642-1723) and Marguerite Louise d Orléans (1645-1721)
Alessandro Carducci - Giovanni Andrea Moniglia

Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cavallo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del Sereniss. Gran Duca, per le reali nozze de’ Serenissimi Principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d’Orleans

Florence, Nella Stamperia di S.A.S., 1661
$7,800
Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XXXXIIII. Batrachomyomachia Homeri, hoc est ranarum et murium pugna. Galeomyomachia, hoc est, felium et murium pugna, tragoedia Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione
First de Tournes Greek and Latin edition
Aesopus

Aesopi Phrygis Fabulae elegantissimis eiconibus veras animalium species ad vivum adumbrantes. Gabriae Graeci fabellae XXXXIIII. Batrachomyomachia Homeri, hoc est ranarum et murium pugna. Galeomyomachia, hoc est, felium et murium pugna, tragoedia Graeca. Haec omnia cum Latina interpretatione

Lyons, Jean de Tournes, 1551
$2,600
Directorium chori ad vsum sacrosanctae Basilicae Vaticanae, & aliarum Cathedralium, & collegiatarum ecclesiarum collectum opera Ioannis Guidetti Bononiensis, eiusdem Vaticanae Basilicae clerici beneficiati, et sanctissimi d.n. Gregorii XIII capellani.
One of the most important books for the history of church music (Lathrop Harper)
Giovanni Domenico Guidetti

Directorium chori ad vsum sacrosanctae Basilicae Vaticanae, & aliarum Cathedralium, & collegiatarum ecclesiarum collectum opera Ioannis Guidetti Bononiensis, eiusdem Vaticanae Basilicae clerici beneficiati, et sanctissimi d.n. Gregorii XIII capellani.

Rome, Robert Granjon, 1582
$3,000
Epistolica dissertatio de principiis iusti, et decori, continens apologiam pro tractatu clarissimi Hobbaei, De cive. Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1651 [bound with:]. [EIUSDEM]. Disputatio de finito & infinito, in qua defenditur sententia clarissimi Cartesii, de motu, spatio, & corpore
The reception of Hobbes and Descartes in the Netherlands in the Mid-17th-Century
Lambert Velthuysen

Epistolica dissertatio de principiis iusti, et decori, continens apologiam pro tractatu clarissimi Hobbaei, De cive. Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1651 [bound with:]. [EIUSDEM]. Disputatio de finito & infinito, in qua defenditur sententia clarissimi Cartesii, de motu, spatio, & corpore

Amsterdam, Lowijs Elzevier, 1651
$3,200
Nova auris internae delineatio
Exceedingly rare first edition, first issue, of the most accurate description of the ear up to its time
Cecilio Folli

Nova auris internae delineatio

Venice, Giovanni Antonio Giuliani, 1645
$18,500
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
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
Les oeuvres de Me François Rabelais, docteur en médecine. Contenant cinq livres de la vie, faictz et dits héroïques de Gargantua et de son fils Pantagruel. Plus, la Prognostication Pantagrueline avec l'Oracle de la Dive Bacbuc et le mot de la Bouteille
Very rare edition in sumptuous binding
François Rabelais

Les oeuvres de Me François Rabelais, docteur en médecine. Contenant cinq livres de la vie, faictz et dits héroïques de Gargantua et de son fils Pantagruel. Plus, la Prognostication Pantagrueline avec l'Oracle de la Dive Bacbuc et le mot de la Bouteille

Lyon, Jean Martin, 1585
$5,800
De speculo ustorio, ignem ad propositam distantiam generante, liber unicus. Ex quo duarum linearum semper appropinquantium, & numquam currurrentium colligitur demonstratio
The first modern treatise on optics printed in France
Oronce Finé

De speculo ustorio, ignem ad propositam distantiam generante, liber unicus. Ex quo duarum linearum semper appropinquantium, & numquam currurrentium colligitur demonstratio

Paris, Michel Vascosan, 1551
$2,500
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.
Joachim Camerarius' dissertation on witchcraft
Joachim Camerarius

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
$7,800
Lettere del Signor Don Alessandro Volta patrizio comasco, e decurione regio professore di fisica sperimentale reggente delle pubbliche scuole di Como membro della Società di Fisica di Zurigo e dell'Accademia R. delle Scienze di Mantova sull'aria infiammabile nativa delle paludi
Dedication Copy
Alessandro Volta

Lettere del Signor Don Alessandro Volta patrizio comasco, e decurione regio professore di fisica sperimentale reggente delle pubbliche scuole di Como membro della Società di Fisica di Zurigo e dell'Accademia R. delle Scienze di Mantova sull'aria infiammabile nativa delle paludi

Milan, Giuseppe Marelli, 1777
$5,500

Selected Authors and Typographers Index

A selection of masters whose works embellish our collections.

Ritratto di Andrea Corner

Andrea Corner

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Ritratto di Taddeo Duno

Taddeo Duno

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Ritratto di Mykola Ivanovich Hulak

Mykola Ivanovich Hulak

Mykola Ivanovych Hulak occupies an unusually compelling place in nineteenth-century intellectual history because no single discipline adequately contains him. Jurist...

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Ritratto di Giuliano Goselini

Giuliano Goselini

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Ritratto di Louis-Charles François Petit-Radel

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...

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Ritratto di Hiob Ludolf

Hiob Ludolf

Hiob Ludolf (also known as Jobus Ludolfus or Hiob Leutholf, 1624–1704) stands as one of the most luminous figures in...

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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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Ritratto di Andreas Corvus

Andreas Corvus

Andrea Corvo, also known in Latin as Andreas Corvus, is a fascinating yet elusive figure in the history of Renaissance...

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Ritratto di Girolamo Parabosco

Girolamo Parabosco

Girolamo Parabosco (ca. 1524 – 21 April 1557) stands as one of the most versatile, intellectually luminous, and historically representative...

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Ritratto di Filippo Beroaldo

Filippo Beroaldo

Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (Filippo Beroaldo il Vecchio; Philippus Beroaldus Senior, 1453–1505) was one of the most influential teachers, editors,...

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Ritratto di Antonio Pagani

Antonio Pagani

Antonio Pagani (born Marco Pagani; Venice, 1526–Vicenza, 4 January 1589) was a Franciscan Observant, canon lawyer, preacher, spiritual director, and...

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Ritratto di Giuseppe Ginanni

Giuseppe Ginanni

Count Giuseppe Ginanni (1692–1753) stands as one of the most distinguished figures in eighteenth-century Italian natural history, serving as a...

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