Hebrew Printing in Sabbioneta 1 AFFO, Ireneo - Schulz-Falster Rare ...

decorative wrappers; spine a little worn, with some loss of spine
covering at foot; throughout with mss corrections, reXecting the rate
changes of 11 July 1788, as attested in the mss note on the Wnal page by
Filippo de Felice, Stimatore; a very good copy.
A fascinating document charting the taxes and import tariVs applied to all
manner of textiles in the PontiWcal States. The tariVs apply to both manufactured
and raw fabrics, and all manner of clothing, made out of every
conceivable material and in all European countries. In alphabetical order
more than a thousand textile products in diVerent sizes are listed, their value
is given and then both import and export tax. Values and tariVs applied are
printed for 30 June 1788, and then corrected upwards in manuscript for 11
July 1788, by the ‘stimatore’ Filipp de Felice.
The textile products come from all parts of Italy, with distinctive price
diVerences between similar sounding products from diVerent regions,
but also from all over Europe, English wool and camel-hair, German felt,
Dutch, French and Spanish products, but also Chinese silk.
A fascinating document both of economic and textile history.
Rare, KVK lists two copies in Rome, not found in OCLC; not in Kress, Goldsmiths’
or Einaudi.
116 [VALLARDI, Giuseppe.] Catalogo dei Libri d’ogni genere
e in varie lingue in assortimento specialmente di quelli pubblicati
dalla antica ditta Pietro e Giuseppe Vallardi. Milan, 1833. £380
8vo, pp. [iv], 360; contemporary full cloth, spine lettered in gilt; a
good, tight copy.
First edition of this detailed priced bookseller catalogue, produced by the
Milan Wrm of Vallardi and prepared by Giuseppe Vallardi (1784–1861).
The catalogue covers both antiquarian and new books, in the classical languages,
Italian, and French, English, Spanish, German and Dutch. Over
four thousand titles are arranged in subject areas, beginning with manuscripts,
followed by incunables and early printing, classics in Greek and
Latin, then books on Wne art in Italian and various other European languages,
followed by miscellaneous scientiWc books again Wrst in Italian, then
other European languages. A special brief section is devoted to Ebraica and
Arabic books, followed by Aldine editions and books printed by Cominus.
In each case author, title, year, format, number of volumes, number of
illustrations are given, together with the price. Curiously a large number
of sixteenth century books are listed and only very few seventeenth century
ones. The largest proportion are of course nineteenth century books, with
those published by Vallardi marked by an asterisk, for trade discounts. According
to the preface an earlier ‘general catalogue’ had been published in
1823, and there is an even earlier record for 1819.
The Vallardis were also dealing in prints.
OCLC lists a copy at the Grolier Club and the 1823 edition at Georgetown University.
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