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Libreria Belriguardo di Francesco Magnani
Italian Rare Books
Brief selection of Rare books on Italy and Italian Books
from the XV up to the XIX century
June 2021
GIOVIO Paolo / ALCIATI Andrea
Paolo GIOVIO – Ragionamento di Mons. Paolo
Giovio sopra i motti, et disegni d’arme, et d’amore,
che communamente chiamano imprese. Con un
discorso di Girolamo Ruscelli, intorno allo stesso
soggetto – 1556. In Venetia, appresso Giordano
Ziletti, all’Insegna della Stella (BOUND
WITH:) / Andrea ALCIATI – Les Emblemes de
Maistre Andre Alciat, mis en rime francoyse, et
puis nagueres reimprime auec curieuse correction
– 1539. On les vend a Paris, en la maison de
Chrestien Wechel.
Full eighteenth-century rigid vellum, with gilt
titleson a leather patch applied to the spine and,
handwritten, to the lower edge, sprayed edges,
sedicesimo, 16,3 cm; pp. (2b) + (16) + 236 (real
232), 245 + (3b); title pages of both works very
lightly stained, rare blooms in the first work,
missing the last sheet of Alciati’s which would
carry the repeated Wechel letterpress mark on the
verso, overall an excellent copy.
Ragionamento: letterpress in woodcut on the title
page (allegory of the star with the motto “inter
omnes”), some talking caps and final in woodcut,
text in italics.
Emblemes: title page almost entirely in Gothic characters, with beautiful letterpress in woodcut representing Pegasus, woodcut caps,
introduction in French in Gothic type, followed by Latin text in italics with a French translation always in Gothic type; in total 112
allegorical representations in woodcut (most mid-page, some smaller, some larger, two full-page) of emblems.
Graceful and curious juxtaposition of works in some ways similar: the first edition of Giovio's Ragionamento on Enterprises and
the Ruscelli’s Discorso - always on the same theme - and the very rare Latin-French edition of the Emblemata by Alciati. This is
the re-edition, also by Wechel, of the first (French) of 1536, which includes the magnificent woodcut apparatus attributed to Jean
Mercure Jollat, composed of more than one hundred allegorical and symbolic woodcuts.
€ 3570 / $ 4353
(Various Authors)
Beatae Mariae Virginis Officium – 1740.
Venetiis, apud Jo. Baptistam Pasquali //
(BOUND WITH:) Ad Majorem Dei
Gloriam. Laudate Dominum in Sanctis
Ejus Vocatis in Societatem Filii ejus Jesu –
1 7 5 6 . Ve n e t i i s , e x Ty p o g r a p h i a
Remondiniana.
Full leather with gilt titles, friezes and fillets
on the boards and spine, gilded edges with
d r y e m b o s s i n g , h a r d s l i p c a s e ;
ventiquattresimo, 13,5 cm; 2 works bound
in one volume; pp. (40) + 427 + (5),
XXXVII; slight traces of use on the case,
overall an excellent copy.
First work: title page with vignette, 16 fullpage
tables and 15 endings, all in copper
engraving by Marco Pitteri based on
drawings by Piazzetta. Second work:
framed title page with vignette, framed
text, 18 full-page copper plates.
€ 1445 / $ 1762
(Various Authors)
Codice di Napoleone il grande pel regno
d’Italia Edizione originale e la sola
ufficiale – 1806. Milano, dalla Stamperia
Reale (“Stampato per cura di L. Nardini,
direttore della Regia stamperia”, as from
the frontispiece).
Half leather with golden titles and fillets
on the spines, boards with floral
decorations in relief; quarto, 31 cm; pp. (2)
+ XXXVI + 633 + (3); both hinges
slightly tired and worn, very rare and
almost imperceptible internal blooms,
overall more than a good copy, fresh and
on rustling paper.
First edition, variant without portrait. Text
in Italian, French and Latin, shown on
page V the promulgation of the code, at
the end of the work “Tavola delle distanze
da Milano a tutti i Capo-luoghi dei
Dipartimenti regolate col ragguaglio del
miriametro al miglio italiano. Seconda
impressione”.
€ 807,50 / $ 984,50
(Various Authors)
Officium Hebdomade Sancte, secundum
consuetudinem Sancte Romane Ecclesie.
A Dominica Palmarum sive Olivarum,
usque ad tertium die Pasche, cum
quibusdam novis orationibus ante
communiones et post, nuper adiectis –
1563. Venetiis impressum, in officina
heredum Luceantonii Juncte (from the
colophon).
Full moder n r ig id vellum with
handwritten titles in gothic characters on
the spine; ventiquattresimo, 14,7 cm;
leaves 155 + (1); title page a little worn,
overall more than a good copy. Title page
in red and black with typographic mark of
the Giunta in woodcut at the bottom and
woodcut vignette with Jesus Christ
entering Jerusalem on a donkey, following
a beautiful full-page woodcut depicting
Christ on the cross, all text in red and
black with (also talking) initials and 23
woodcut friezes. Ex-libris Renzo and
Mirella Comastri on end paper.
€ 552,50 / $ 674
(Various Authors)
Statuti et ordinationi dell’honoranda
Compagnia de’ Fabbri dell’inclita città di
Bologna. Di nuovo r ifor mati, &
confirmati dall’illustre Reggimento di
detta città – 1579. In Bologna, per
Giovanni Rossi.
Full rigid vellum, entirely covered with
beautiful - leather style - paper, full of
embossed decorations; quarto, 30,8 x 23,3
cm; pp. (2b) + 59 + (3) + (2b); binding
with slight traces of use, almost all papers
(with the exception of the first and last
blank) reinforced at the inner margin, the
first woodcut reinforced on the verso on
all edges, slight blooms. Acephalous copy,
the entire preface and the two woodcuts
representing the Via Crucis and the
Crucifixion of Christ are also missing.
Two beautiful full-page woodcuts, in an
architectural frame, both with a beautiful
vignette relating to the shoeing of a horse
and coats of arms of the city of Bologna,
of Pope Gregory XIII and of the
company of blacksmiths, woodcut
headlines and initials. On the first
endpaper, old bookstore label that indicates the volume as 'very rare'.
First, unique and in fact very rare edition of these statutes relating to the “Compagnia dei Fabbri della città di Bologna”, a
consortium that was responsible for the continuous supply of coal for the city. The internal regulations to be followed for the
members, the rules for elections and the functions of the council are dealt with and then move on to 'technical' addresses on
shoeing, nailing, the type of metals to be used and on how to carry out trade in lawful way.
€ 1530 / $ 1865
ALIGHIERI Dante
Dante con l’espositione di Christofoto
Landino, et di Alessandro Vellutello, Sopra
la sua Comedia dell’Infer no, del
Purgatorio, et del Paradiso. Con tavole,
argomenti, & allegorie, & riformato,
riveduto, & ridotto alla sua vera lettura,
per Francesco Sansovino fiorentino –
1564. In Venetia, appresso Giovambattista,
Marchiò Sessa, et fratelli.
Full rigid vellum with handwritten titles
on the spine and hot stamped on the
lower edge, raised bands; folio, 32,4 x 22,9
cm; sheets (1b) + (28) + 163 + (4) +
[164-392] + (1b); coeval binding with
Japanese paper restorations on the spine
and little damages at the corners,
reassembled (nineteenth-century guard
cards) as well as the title page, title page
with small defects restored on the verso
and deleted ownership notes, restoration
at the bottom corner of the last leaf of the
index table, slight blooms, some burnished
paper, some halo.
Beautiful oval woodcut portrait of Dante with allegorical frame on the title page, headboards and initials in woodcut, 47 beautiful
woodcuts adorn Hell, 22 Purgatory and 28 Paradise, canonical Sessa letterpress mark on the back of the last page. Famous 'nasone'
edition (so known for the portrait of the Poet on the title page, reissue of the first 1544, adorned with a rich and splendid
iconographic apparatus engraved on wood.
€ 5100 / $ 6218
Appianus
De Civilibus Romanorum bellis historiarum libri quinque. Eiusdem libri
sex: Illyrius, Celticus, Libycus, Syrius, Parthicus, Mithridaticus, &
Romanae historiae prooemium. P. Vellei Paterculi historiae Romanae duo
volumina (BOUND WITH:) // P. Vellei Paterculi. Historiae Romanae
duo volumina, ad M. Vinicium Cos. progenerum Tiberii Caesaris, per
Beatum Rhenanum Selestadiendem ab interitu utcumque vindicata –
1538. Parisiis, ex Officina Michaelis Vascosani.
Full rigid vellum, spine and corners covered in nineteenth-century
parchment, gilded titles on a patch applied to the spine; quarto, 33,5 x 22
cm; two parts in one volume; pp. (36) + 283 + (1b), (20) + 41 + (1b);
slightly stained binding and with traces of wear, marginal woodworm
holes and slight halos at the inner margin for the entire volume but
without ever damaging the text, overall a good copy, marginal, fresh and
on strong and rustling paper.
Modern endpapers, beautiful double woodcut title page, in full page
architectural frame, with cherubs and portraits, beautiful vignette with
representation of the typographic process inside; talking initials - even
large ones - always in woodcut, numerous coeval handwritten glosses.
Fine Parisian edition of the Roman History of Appianus from Alexandria
and the work of Velleius Paterculus, always focuesed on the history of
Rome.
€ 1445 / $ 1762
ARIOSTO Ludovico
Orlando Furioso di M. Lodovico Ariosto,
tutto ricorretto, et di nuove figure
adornato. Con le Annotationi, gli
Avertimenti, & le Dichiarationi di
Ieronimo Ruscelli. La Vita dell’Autore,
descritta dal Signor Giovan Battista Pigna.
Gli Scontri de’ luoghi mutati dall’Autoree
doppo la sua prima impressione. La
Dichiaratione di tutte le Istorie, & Favoole
toccate nel presente libro, fatta da M.
Nicolò Eugenico. Di nuovo aggiuntovi Li
Cinque Canti, del medesimo Autore. Et
una Tavola de’ principij di tutte le Stanze.
Con altre cose utili, & necessarie / I
Cinque Canti di M. Lodovico Ariosto, i
quali seguono la materia del Furioso. Tutti
di nuovo revisti et ricorretti da molti
importantissimi errori, che sin quì sono
stati in tutti gli altri. Con gli argomenti in
rima, & discorsi di M. Luigi Grotta d’Aria.
Con alcune brevi & impor tanti
annotationi del medesimo – 1565. In
Venezia, appresso Vincenzo Valgrisi.
Full late seventeenth-century vellum with
gilded and framed titles on the spine;
quarto, 25 cm; pp. (16) + 654 + (34); slightly worn binding with traces of handwritten notes on the back board, the corners and
especially the hinges stripped, small lack at the lower edge of the spine, lower headband loose, trimmed title page with very slight
loss of the engraving at the upper margin, slight millstone that goes flat slowly disappearing up to page 255, some slight other small
marginal gore, some browned pages.
Double title page (the first entirely in
woodcut, beautiful architectural frame
with the portrait of the author and female
figures at the top, Valgrisi’s typographical
mark supported by two cherubs under the
title; the second - on page 533 - with
only the mark, also repeated at the end
volume), text on one and two columns,
also in italics, some numbering errors,
speaking initial in woodcut, before each
‘canto’ a beautiful full-page woodcut
vignette is inserted (for a total of 51 fullpage
woodcuts), subject of each panel in a
beautiful woodcut frame that takes up
almost half a page.
Nice illustrated Valgrisi’s edition, printed
along the lines of the first of 1556 but in
this more complete version, being the first
to accompany the 'last five' to the first 46
‘canti’. The edition here shows the dedication by Ruscelli to Alfonso Este dated 1556, it follows the life of Ariosto written by the
Este’s secretary Giovanni Battista Pigna, finally 'To the readers' always by Ruscelli, a short table of names to then begin the poem .
The last 'cinque canti' with notes by Luigi Grotta, follow the ‘stanze' of Mr. Luigi Gonzaga, known as Rodomonte, to M. Lodovico
Ariosto and 'Scontri de’ luoghi, i quali M. Lodovico Ariosto mutò doppo la prima impressione del suo Furioso. Et la cagione
perche lo facesse di luogo in luogo. Raccolti et essaminati dal S. Gio. Battista Pigna’ and, finally, the table edited by Giovanbattista
Rota.
Perhaps the most beautiful Valgrisi’s edition of the Furioso, in which the 'usual' iconographic repertoire is enriched by the woods
that precede each of the further and final Cinque Canti. The full-page woodcuts, in which the representation of the canto is
entirely surrounded by a beautiful allegorical border, can be traced back to Dosso Dossi, although there is no certain attribution.
€ 1700 / $ 2073
BAROTTI Gian Andrea
Memorie istoriche di letterati ferraresi Opera
postuma di Giannandrea Barotti – 1792 / 1793.
In Ferrara, per gli eredi di Giuseppe Rinaldi.
Half vellum with gilded titles imprinted on
leather patch applied to the spine, sprayed edges,
folio, 28,7 cm; 2 vols.; pp. 423, 387; very slight
traces of use to the binding, very slight blooms,
supplementary restoration to the first blank page
of volume II, overall more than a good marginal
and rustling copy.
€ 510 / $ 622
BIRINGUCCIO Vannuccio
Pirotechnia del S. Vannuccio Biringuccio senese; nella quale si tratta non solo della diversità delle minere, ma anche di quanto si
ricerca alla pratica di esse. E di quanto s’appartiene all’arte della fusione, ò getto, dei metalli. Far campane, arteglierie, fuochi
artificiali, et altre diverse cose utilissime. Nuovamente
corretta, et ristampata. Con la tavola delle cose notabili –
1559. In Venetia, appresso P. Gironimo Giglio, e
compagni.
Eighteenth-century half leather with gilt titles and
friezes imprinted on the spine; ventiquattresimo, 14,8
cm; leaves (1) + 345 + (7); slightly worn corners, ancient
paper reinforcement at the inner margin between the
verso of the title page and the verso of the preface first
page, a couple of two-page tears without losses, slight
and sporadic halos and blooms, overall a good copy,
slightly trimmed at the upper margin. Old annotations
of ownership on the title page and on the first blank,
beautiful letterpress in woodcut on the title page,
woodcut initials and 84 vignettes, also in woodcut, in the
text. Fourth edition (third Italian) of this famous
illustrated treatise dedicated to metal casting techniques
and other various and interesting topics such as
mineralogy, pyrotechnics, alchemy, making bells,
goldsmithing, mint, creation of typefaces. Worthy of
mention is the part relating to antimony, the first description of which in order to isolate it dates back to this treaty, the technique is
in fact traced back to Biringuccio.
€ 2295 / $ 2798
BULIFON Antonio
Carte de’ Regni di Napoli, e di Sicilia,
loro provincie, ed isole adjacenti, fatte
esattamente incidere da Antonio Bolifoni
nel 1692, ed ora dal dottor Luigi Bolifoni
suo nipote, con piccole mutazioni fatte
ristampare e dedicate alla Sacra Maestà di
Carlo Re di Napoli, infante di Spagna,
Duca di Parma, di Piacenza, e di Castro,
&c. e Gran Principe di Toscana, &c –
1734. In Napoli, nella Stamperia di
Francesco Ricciardo.
Full contemporary leather with gilt titles
and friezes imprinted on the spine, with
embossed raised bands, quarto, 27,5 x 22,5
cm; leaves (1b) + (4); tear with lack of the
first upper compartment of the spine,
slight wear on the hinges, slight internal
blooms, overall good copy. 19 doublepage
copper engravings, almost all
engraved by Francesco Cassiano De Silva
(Kingdom of Naples, Terra di Lavoro,
Campagna Felice, Isola d’Ischia and view
of Procida, Abruzzo Ultra, Abruzzo Citra,
Basilicata, Terra di Bari, Terra d’Otranto,
Calabria Citra, Calabria Ultra, Kingdom
of Sicily, Mazara Valley, Demona Valley, Noto Valley, Headmasters of His Catholic Majesty in Tuscany).
In the dedicatory Luigi Bulison tells of the discovery of the branches dedicated to Naples by his uncle Antonio, “miraculously saved
from the sack” perpetrated by the Alemmanic’s. It is also indicated how this edition was printed in “some few copies to be able to
present them to your Majesty and distribute them to his Ministers, and General Officers” in view of a campaign to acquire the
territories engraved on these plates.
Work – in first and only edition – of good rarity, currently present in only five national libraries in Italy and one foreign, almost
always absent on the market.
€ 6500 / $ 7925
CAPRIATA Pietro Giovanni
The History of the Wars of Italy from the year MDCXIII to
the Year MDCXLIV. In XVIII Books. Written originally in
Italian, by Pietro Giovanni Capriata, Dr at Law. And rendred in
English by Henry Earl of Monmouth – 1663. London, printed
by J. Macock.
Full leather with handwritten titles, visible raised bands and gilt
friezes imprinted on the nails; quarto, 28.5 cm; pp. (2b) + (12)
+ 797 + (5b); very slight traces of use to the binding, giving
about 5 cm to the upper front hinge that does not affect the
strength of the binding, first blank leaf partially detached,
overall a good copy with very fresh and crunchy papers. Small
woodcut vignette on the title page, beautiful double-page
copper plate (with a slight halo in the upper part and probably
re-glued) with a central view of the city of Rome with the
papal coat of arms and 12 other smaller views on the sides (St.
Peter’s Basilica, Basilica of St. Paul, Basilica of St. John Lateran,
Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Basilica of Santa Croce in
Gerusalemme, Basilica of San Sebastiano outside the walls,
Basilica of San Lorenzo, Loreto, Naples, Pozzuoli, Malta and
Lucca), ex libris Sir John Dashwood King. First – and very rare
– English translation of the Capriata war chronicle, here
embellished with a beautiful table with 13 views engraved in
copper.
€ 722,50 / $ 881
CARTARI Vincenzo
Le vere e nove Imagini de gli Dei delli antichi di
Vicenzo Cartari Reggiano. Ridotte da capo a piedi in
questa novissima impressione alle loro reali, & non piu
per l’adietro osservate simiglianze. Cavate da’ Marmi,
Bronzi, Medaglie, Gioie, et altre memorie antiche; con
esquisito studio, et particolare diligenza da Lorenzo
Pignoria Padovano. Aggiontevi le Annotationi del
medesimo sopra tutta l’opera, et un Discorso intorno le
Deità dell’Indie Orientali, et Occidentali, con le loro
Figure tratte da gl’originali, che si conservano nelle
Gallerie de’ Principi, et ne’ Musei delle persone private.
Con le Allegorie sopra le Imagini di Cesare Malfatti
Padovano, migliorate, & accresciute novamente. Et un
Catalogo del medesimo di cento piu famosi Dei della
gentilità. Il tutto ridotto a somma perfettione, come si può facilmente vedere nella prefatione al Lettore – 1615. In Padova appresso
Pietro Paolo Tozzi, Nella stampa del Pasquati.
Half leather with gilt titles and friezes imprinted on the spine, marbled boards; octavo, 20.8 cm; pp. (2b) + (31) + (1b) + 576 + (4)
+ LXIII + (3b); somewhat loose binding in correspondence with the endpapers (the last white sheet partially detached), missing
pages from LIX to LXII included (therefore missing two woodcuts) of the second part, overall very fresh and clean interiors, very
light and marginal halos. Beautiful vignette engraved on wood on the title page, always on the title page old stamp of belonging
formerly canceled, woodcut heads, initials and endings, 2 woodcut folded plates out of the text, 225 total full-page woodcuts
engraved by Cesare Malfatti. Beautiful edition from the Tozzi press, to which the "Seconda parte delle imagini de gli Dei Indiani"
by Pignoria is added to the Imagini by Cartari.
€ 850 / $ 1036
CLUVER Philipp
Philippi Cluveri Italia Antiqua Opus post
omnium curas elaboratissimum; tabulis
geographicis aere expressis illustratum.
Ejusdem Sicilia Sardinia et Corsica, cum
Indice locuplettisssimo / Philippi Cluveri
Sicilia Antiqua; cum minoribus insulis, ei
adjacentibus. Item Sardinia et Corsica.
Opus post omnium curas elaboratissimum;
taublis geographicis, aere expressis,
illustratum – 1619 / 1624. Lugduni
Batavorum, ex Officina Elseviriana.
Full coeval vellum with handwritten titles
on the spine, modern fastenings; folio,
36.5 x 24 cm; 2 complementary works
bound in 3 volumes (2 Italia antiqua + 1
Sicilia); pp. (2b) + (20) + 786 + (2b), (2b)
+ (4) + [787-1338] + (21) + (3b), (2b) +
(16) + 510 + (12) + (4b); small tear to
two plates without affecting the image,
some blooms in the second volume of
Italia Antiqua, some numbering errors but
complete text, lack of part of the
fastenings in the Sicily antiqua volume, on
the whole more than a good copy with
wise margins. Italia Antiqua: half-title,
beautiful copper engraved portrait of Cluverio in an oval frame at the front door, beautiful allegorical copper engraved title page to
volume I, old handwritten annotation of possession in the lower white margin, to the first volume 9 double-page copper
geographical maps (Summa Italiae Descriptio , Alpium Cottiarum Maritimarum, Rhaetiae et Lepoontiorum, Venetiae, Histriae et
Carnici Agri descriptio, Alpium Penninarum, Etruriae Antiquae descriptio, Umbriae Antiquae descriptio, Sabinorum et Marsorum
Agri carta descriptio, Piceni et Vestinorum – NOTE: Unfortunately missing the plate Galliae Circumpadanae) to the second
volume, title page with classic Elzevirian typographic mark, 4 double-page copper geographical maps (Latii Utriusque, Samni et
Campaniae, Apuliae Mesapiae in qua Calabri ac Salentini et Lucaniae descriptio, Brutii Agri descriptio) and a beautiful engraved
view of Rome always in double page (Antiquae Urbis Romae Descriptio). Sicilia Antiqua: half-title, beautiful copper engraved
allegorical titlepage, old handwritten annotation of possession in the lower white margin, 4 geographical maps on double-page
copper (Siciliae Antiquae Descriptio, same card in Greek with minimal modifications, Insularum Orientali Siciliae lateri divina in
three panels, Corsicae / Sardiniae antiquae descriptio) and a beautiful double-page copper engraved view of Syracuse (Veterum
Syracusarum typus).
First, uncommon edition, of this milestone of Italian geography, elaborated by the famous German geographer following the trip he
made to the peninsula just one year before giving life to this work, which began in 1619 with the relative “commentary” volume to
the islands, later completed and published posthumously in 1624 with the two volumes relating to the entire country.
€ 7000 / $ 8500
FERRARIO Giulio
Il costume antico e moderno o storia del
governo, della milizia, della religione, delle
arti, scienze ed usanze di tutti i popoli
antichi e moderni provata coi monumenti
dell’antichità e rappresentata cogli
analoghi disegni del dottor Giulio Ferrario
// (WITH:) Aggiunte all’opera Il costume
antico e moderno di tutti popoli cogli
analoghi disegni del dottore Giulio
Ferrario. 1823 / 1837 – 1841. Firenze, per
Vincenzo Batelli.
Half leather with golden titles imprinted
on the spine, marbled boards; octavo, 23.5
cm; 29 volumes in 34 tomes; pp. 11746
overall; very slight traces of use to the
binding, some woodworm holes at the
spines and endpapers, without ever
affecting text or tables, some slight blooms
and physiological redness, 2 detached but
present tables, 3 tables with small tears, overall a good copy. (2) 1661 plates (including maps, views, portraits, landscapes) and 5 tables,
but most of them watercolored in color and some folded several times. Incorrect numbering, as per the index, as some plates are
reported in the same map while other plates have a sub-number. The main work is part of Batelli’s revised and augmented second
edition, with the exception of the first volume of Asia and of the first volume of America (whose number of pages and tables is
unchanged), taken from the next edition, always from Batelli.
€ 3400 / $ 4145
GINANNI Marc’Antonio
L’arte del blasone dichiarata per alfabeto. Con le figure necessarie per la intelligenza de’ termini in molte tavole impresse in rame, e
tre indici, due delle voci in franzese, e latino, uno
d’ nomi delle famiglie, comunità e società, di cui
vi sono l’Ar me blasonate. Del conte
Marc’Antonio Ginanni – 1756. In Venezia, presso
Guglielmo Zerletti.
Full contemporary vellum, boards framed in
double embossed fillet, gilt titles and friezes
imprinted on the spine, raised bands; folio, 33.5
cm; pp. (2b) + 392 + (2b); minimal tears at the
c o r n e r s o f t h e b i n d i n g , l o o s e n e d i n
correspondence with both guard papers, very
fresh interior, strong and rustling paper, beautiful
marginal copy. Nice full page frontispiece
engraved on copper, designed by Andrea Barbiani
and engraved by Pietro Monaco, with a knightly
tournament scene, red and black title page with
vignette, engraved headers, drop caps and endings,
35 copper plates in the text representing a total of
881 Italian families coats of arms. First (and only
original) uncommon edition of the work that
made the Ravenna-born Ginanni famous. Often
considered as the best modern heraldic dictionary,
it is an accurate and very precise treatment of the Italian noble families (to whom the work is dedicated), embellished with a
remarkable iconographic apparatus, with several hundred representations of shields, heralds and blazons.
€ 850 / $ 1036
GIOVANNELLI Pietro
Cantus Novi Thesauri Musici Liber
Primus Quo Selectissime Planeque Novae,
Nec Unquam In Lucem Editae Cantiones
Sacrae (Quas Vulgo Moteta Vocant)
Continentur Octo, Septem, Sex, Quinque;
Ac Quatuor Vocum, A Prestantissimis Ac
Huius Aetatis, Precipuis Symphoniacis
Compositae, Quae In Sacra Ecclesia
Catholica, Summis Solemnibusque;
Festivitatibus, Canuntur, Ad Omnis
G e n e r i s I n s t r u m e n t a M u s i c a ,
Accomodatae: Petri Ioannelli Bergomensis
De Gandino, Summo Studio Ac Labore
Collectae, Eiusque Expensis Impressae.
Venetis, apud Antonium Gardanum, 1568.
Full parchment with raised bands, large
letter G handwritten in gothic font on the
front board; octavo, 24 cm; excellent and
very fresh copy. Five title pages, one for
each book, with minimal variations of
titles, all in an architectural frame with the
Imperial coat of arms of Maximilian II of
Habsburg at the top and at the bottom
two lions holding up a rose with the
Gardano’s motto Concorde Virtute et Naturae Miraculis; hundreds of woodcut drop caps; dedication to the Emperor Maximilian II;
portrait of Ferdinand I on pp. (8) and 405, coat of arms of Maximilian II on pp. (10) and 413, coat of arms of Ferdinand I on pp.
(12) and 423, coat of arms of Charles Archduke of Austria on pp. (14) and 427 and the coat of arms of Pietro Giovannelli on p. 459,
all by Donat Hubschmann (and not by Daniel Hopfer as reported in some bibliographies); musical notations on staff; indices. Very
rare first edition of this sort of anthology of music at the time of the Habsburgs. It contains, among the many, compositions by
Jacob Regnart, Jacobus Vaet, Matthias Zaphelius, Michel-Charles des Buisson, Henri de la Corte. For some of these composers, the
works reproduced in the cantus novi thesauri musici remain the only testimony of their works.
This is one of the most sumptuous and pretentious works of a musical nature in the book production of the Renaissance, with a
clear intention to commemorate the Habsburg court as well as the music itself. These are five books in a single volume, with a
height of approx. 24 cm, an unusual format at the time for musical texts. Signature a-ooo4 for pages (15) + 467 (real 466). Each
book has its own title page, each of which differs only in the title of the book. This is enclosed in a very elegant woodcut
architectural frame: at the base, a typographic mark by Gardano, a lion and a bear holding a flower and the motto Concordes virtute
et naturae miracolis; on the sides two human figures, one male and one female, like columns; in the center at the top imperial coat
of arms of Maximilian II and two winged figures with laurel wreaths. Dedication to the emperor himself, dated 10 August 1568;
various portraits and woodcut coats of arms follow: Ferdinand I (c. A3r, repeated in gggr), coat of arms of Maximilian II (c. A4r,
repeated in hhhr), coat of arms of Ferdinand I (c. Br, repeated in iii2r), vignette with nature dead (c. B2v), coat of arms of Charles
Archduke of Austria (c. B2r, repeated in iii4r), insignia of Pietro Giovannelli (c. Nnn4r). In reference to these numerous woodcuts,
at least in a past auction sales, the author of the same was indicated in Daniel Hopfer. But this is a mistake. Now, the monogram that
identifies each engraving is, yes, DH, but it is the monogram of Donat Hubschmann, as can be seen from numerous other
compositions by him with the same monogram as their signature. Each book contains an index of the various musical compositions
motets, to be precise as the last page. The entire volume, decorated with hundreds of talking drop caps, is articulated on the staff.
There is scarce news about Pietro Giovannelli (Petrus Ioannellus Gergomensis de Gandino). It is known that he was born in
Gandino di Bergamo in the sixteenth century and that he was a musician. There are those who identify him with a character of the
same name, typographer and bookseller who practiced in Emilia Romagna, but there are no certainties. His name is only
remembered by virtue of the compilation of this book. On Antonio Gardano instead we know something more. Part of an active
family of Venetian printers (active from the mid-sixteenth century to almost the entire seventeenth century), he is probably the
most famous of his lineage. In addition to being a typographer, he was also a musical composer and this certainly helped him in the
innovations he brought to the printing of musical texts. In fact, he was able to combine notes and musical line through a single
impression, when at the time for this operation it was customary to repeat the operation at least three times. Over the years
Gardano had specialized in the publication of numerous motets, those compositions for two and three voices of a sacred nature that
will later compose the cantus. The latter saw the light, as mentioned, in 1568, that is a year before Antonio died and his business
passed to his children, continuing to maintain a leading role in musical typography. The Cantus is made up of 257 motets, for a
minimum of two and a maximum of eight voices. The composers of the works contained in this book are: Andrea Gabrielli, Georg
Prenner, Jacobus Vaet, André Pevernage, Alexander Utendal, Giaches de Wert, Orlando di Lasso, Joaquin Desprès, Philippe Due, Jean
Guyot, Jacobus Regnart, Matthias Zapfelius, Johannes Deslins , Michael Buissons, Michael Deiss, Simon de Roy, Joannes Chainée,
Stephan Mahu, Franciscus Mergot, Antonio Galli, Wilhelmus Formellis, Adam de Ponte, Jacob van Brouck, Gregorius Trehou, Petrus
Speillier, Antoine de la Court, Henry de la Court, Joannes Lois, Christiaan Jansz Hollander, Lambert de Sayve and Johannes de
Cleve. For some of these authors, the pieces shown in the Cantus represent the only surviving written testimony of their
compositions. Of particular interest, among the many, is the composition of Regnart in praise of Alfonso Este (in Laudem
illustrissimi principis Alphonsi Estensis Ferrarie Ducis, p. 443, lll4r) and that of Henry de la Court in memory of Pietro Piovannelli
himself (in memoriam Petri Ioannelli huius operis collectoris, page 460 ooov). The whole work is intrinsically a celebration of the
music itself, even before the illustrious and sacred characters to whom the compositions are addressed. Likewise, it is an almost
memorial volume, a testimony and a tribute that Giovanelli wanted to address to that Habsburg court where, it is assumed, he
found asylum. One volume, five books that transmit very strong emotions, both for the care and typographic composition, and for
the historical, cultural and musical legacy it bears witness to.
€14450 / $ 17618
MARESTI Alfonso
Teatro geneologico et istorico delle
antiche, & illustri famiglie di Ferrara del
Conte, e Cavaliere Alfonso Maresti
ferrarese. Tomo primo. All’Eminentissimo,
e Reverendissimo Principe il Sig.
Cardinale Sigismondo Chigi. / Tomo
secondo. All’Altezza Serenissima di
Francesco II Duca di Modona, Reggio
etc. – 1678 / 1681. In Ferrara, nella
Stampa Camerale.
Coeval rustic marbled cardboard with
handwritten titles on a patch applied to
the spine; quarto, 34,5 cm (32,5 cm the
second volume, a little shorter at the
upper margin); pp. (2b) + (4) + 264 +
(2b), (2b) + (16) + 226 + (6) + (2b); both
bindings with traces of use (that of the
second volume quite loose), some rare
internal blooms but overall very fresh and
rustling papers, pages 75-78 of the second
volume detached and with the upper
internal corner completely torn (but
present, without hence loss of text), on
the other hand good copy. Both title pages
– framed in double fillet like all the text –
in red and black with the Chigi coat of arms woodcut in the first volume and typographic mark in the second (also present at the
end of tome I), headings, initials and endings in woodcut, each family bears the own coat of arms in woodcut; in the first volume
11 full-page woodcut plates (“Perspective of the Tower of Ricobello” pag. 41, “Brief sketch of the Island that was called Fero
d’Alieno, overo Ferrara, which is nowadays the Friar”, pag. 70, ” Compendious prospectus of the island, which was called Vico-
Abenza, and later Ferrariola, where today is Voghenza “page 72,” Ristretto del Prospetto, as Ferrarola was found, ò Ferrara
Traspadana the year 698. when at 15. August the People passed the Po “page 94,” Compendious drawing as the city of Ferrara was
found to be the year 768. after the death of Giovanni Secondo Bendedei “page 98,” Drawing as the city of Ferrara was found year
839, after the Death of Bendedio II de Bendedei “page 107,” Palazzo Regio, which in the year 1101. it was later destroyed by
Countess Matilda for contempt of Ferraresi “page 111”, funerary monument of Alessandro Bendedei in San Paolo page 116,
Embellishment of the city of Ferrara page 119, “Drawing of Ferrara as it was left by Timothy II” page 126, ” Drawing of Ferrara as
it was left by Timoteo III “pag. 127) plus various family trees; to the second tome beautiful family coat of arms of the Este family in
woodcut at the verso of the title page, 4 full-page woodcut plates (“In this way the city of Ferrara was destroyed by the army of the
Duchess Matilda d’Este” pag. 50, “Drawing or prospectus of the city of Ferrara, which shows that after being destroyed & c. It was
rebuilt by his fellow citizens in six years in the way you see “page 52,” Drawing ò Prospectus of the place called Ferrata, overo Frata,
in front of the esplanade and other surrounding places “Page 60,” Statue of Duke Hercules “page 152) and various family trees.
First and only original edition of this important treatise by Alfonso Maresti (the two original volumes of Alfonso are proposed here,
the third – published in 1708 – was compiled by his son Francesco); unfinished work, due to his death. In addition to the countless
historical and genealogical information contained in the two volumes, the iconographic apparatus composed of numerous woodcut
plates representing some monuments but above all views of Ferrara in various periods of its history, from the early Middle Ages up
to pre-Renaissance.
€ 1020 / $ 1244
MURATORI Lodovico
Antonio
Delle antichità Estensi ed Italiane trattato
d i L o d ov i c o A n t o n i o M u r a t o r i
Bibliotecario del Serenissimo Rinaldo I
Duca di Modena, Reggio, Mirandola & c.
Parte prima in cui si espone l’Origine ed
Antichità della Casa d’Este, e la sua
diramazione nella Linea Reale ed
Elettorale del Regnante Monarca della
gran Bretagna Giorgio I e de i Duchi di
Brunsuic, e Luneburgo, e nella Linea de’
Marchesi d’Este, de i Duchi di Ferrara, di
Modena & c. E si rapportano i
Documenti, e le Pruove, che occorrono /
Delle Antichità Estensi continuazione, o
sia Parte Secondam composta, e dedicata
all’Altezza di Serenissima di Francesco III
Duca di Modena, Reggio, Mirandola et c.
Principe di Carpi, e Correggio, Marchese
d’Este, e della Concordia, Conte di
Novellara et c. Da Lodovico Antonio
Muratori suo Bibliotecario – 1717 / 1740.
In Modena, nella Stamperia Ducale.
Half leather with titles and friezes
imprinted on the spine, marbled boards; folio, 37 x 26,5 cm 2 volumes;
pp. (2b) + XXXI + (1b) + (24) + 439 + (3b), (2b) + (16) + 736 +
(2b); lower margin of the spine of the first volume reinforced with a
leather strip, boards with some paper lacks, slight halos, the most
marked at the outer margin of the last leaves of the first volume, overall
more than good copy, extremely marginal, on strong and rustling paper.
Beautiful full page engraved frontispiece to the first volume with
portrait of King George I of England with cherubs and female figures
holding a representation of Italy, one putto holding a crown, another
crown held by a helmsman on a ship in the background, engraved by
Francesco Maria Francia based on a design by Antonio Consetti,
engraved vignette with cherubs on the title page of the first volume,
woodcut initials, 12 genealogical tables out of the text in the first
volume, others in the text, printed fists scattered in correspondence
with the various years of which it is narrated the story, on the title page
of the second tome an engraved vignette with a portrait of Francesco
III engraved by Giuseppe Benedetti based on a design by Domenico
Fratta, another genealogical table outside the text.
First and important edition of one of Muratori's most famous works,
dedicated to the genealogical study of the Este family and completed
over the course of over twenty years of study and work.
€ 2295 / $ 2798
OSIO Teodato
L’armonia del nudo parlare overo la musica ragione della voce continua
nella quale a forza di aritmetiche et di musiche speculationi si pongono
alla prova le regole sino al presente stabilite da gli osservatori del numero
della prosa et del verso (L’armonia del nudo parlare con ragione di
numeri pitagorici discoperta da Teodato Osio all’Ecc.mo Sr. Don Fran.co
di Melo) – No date (but 1637 from dedication).
In Milano per Carlo Ferrandi. Coeval soft cardboard with titles on gusset
applied to the spine; sedicesimo, 16 cm; pp. (16) 35 (1) 191; half-title page
restored without loss of text, overall excellent copy. Title of eyelet slightly
different from that of the title page; full page engraved title page;
dedicatory (which shows the year of printing) to Count Don Francesco
Braganza; initials, friezes and endings in woodcut; 11 tipped plates folded
several times; editorial glosses.
First edition, uncommon and of a certain rarity. Osio was probably the
first to integrate the aesthetic charge of music into an aesthetic
relationship with poetry and human history in general, in a sort of
harmonic-rhetorical connection and custom.
€ 2125 / $ 2591
OVIDIUS
Le Metamorfosi di Ovidio. Ridotte da
Giovanni Andrea Dell’Anguillara, in ottava
rima. Impressione sesta, al Christianissimo
Rè di Francia Henrico secondo. Con
l’Annotationi di M. Gioseppe Horologgi,
novamente corretto, et ristampato. Con
Postille, et con gli Argomenti nel
principio di ciascun libro di M. Francesco
Turchi – 1578. In Venetia, appresso
Camillo Franceschi.
Rustic cardboard, spine covered in
parchment with handwritten titles,
handwritten title even at the bottom edge;
octavo, 21,8 cm; leaves (1b) + (4) + 268 +
(1b); slight traces of use on the binding,
old ownership notes formerly canceled on
the title page, sporadic and very slight
halos, slightly more marked halo than the
last 15 leaves without ever compromising
the usability of the text, overall a good
copy. Title page with beautiful woodcut
letterpress (bird of prey that feeds its
puppies with its own interior, framed and
motto “I offend me for only feed you”,
initials, headings and endings in woodcut,
each book with beautiful woodcuts (15 in total) at three quarter page in beautiful architectural frames, text mainly in italics on two
columns, with the exception of the final annotations to each book, usual numbering errors.
Beautiful and uncommon sixteenth-century illustrated edition of Ovid’s Matamorphoses, in the sixth impression of the octave
reduction rhyme edited by the poet Dell’Anguillara.
€ 850 / $ 1036
PIEROZZI (Saint) Antonino
In nomine Sancte ac invividue trinitatis.
Incipit prologus, Tertie partis Summe Beati
Antonini, archipresulis florentini ordinis
predicatorum – (1480). Impressa Venetijs,
industry atque impensa Leonardi Wild de
Regensburg (dating from the colophon in
the second volume, missing here).
Half leather from the end of the 18th
century, gilt titles and floral friezes
imprinted on the spine, boards covered in
Remondini-like paper, sprayed edges;
quarto, 31,2 x 22 cm; leaves (1b) + (219) +
(1b), signature A-N10 O8 P-Q10 R8 S10
T8 V-Y10 Z8; peeling at the binding, with
some holes and woodworm walkways, first
flying white paper but present, missing the
A1 (blank) leaf, a dozen of the first leaves
have a cut on the outer margin, in
correspondence with an old pen stroke,
some holes of woodworm and slight halos
that do not in any way affect the fruition of
the work, Z8 leaf and the last blank one
flying but present. Old ownership notes on
leaaf A2 (slightly trimmed) and A4
(formerly erased), always on leaf A2, trace
of an old illegible stamp of belonging, Tabulae on leaves A2 and A3, valuable illuminated initial (in gold, red, cobalt, ocher and two
shades of pink) on A4 leaf, initials inscribed in red and cobalt throughout the volume, text in gothic characters, on two columns and
on 58 lines (59 counting the signature), last ownership note after the last line of text on page Z8, handwritten glosses and ‘manicula’
in the margins on various leaves.
Only the first volume of the third part (complete in two volumes) of the Summa of Antonino Pierozzi, theologian originally from
Florence. This volume initially focuses on the sacrament of marriage and then moves on to various instructions (addressed to the
ecclesiastical and lay Florentine world of the mid-1400) on multiple ethical and theological themes. Incunabulum printed twenty
years after the author’s death.
€ 3300 / $ 4000
PIGNA Giovanni Battista
Historia de Principi di Este di Gio. Batt. Pigna, a donno Alfonso Secondo, Duca di Ferrara. Primo volume. Nel quale si contengono
congiuntamente le cose principali della rivolutione del Romano Imp. in fino al M. CCCC. LXXVI. – 1570. In Ferrara, appresso
Francesco Rossi Stampator Ducale.
Full parchment with handwritten titles on the spine; quarto, 34,7 cm; pp. (8) 635
(119 of various tables and genealogical trees); minimal tears on the binding, small
and absolutely irrelevant woodworm holes in the inner margin, rare blooms and
water gore, overall a good copy with papers that are still fresh, crunchy and
rustling. Title page with woodcut vignette that reproduces the coats of arms of
the Princes of Este; stamp belonging to the old library of Cardinal Giuseppe
Renato Cardinali in the lower margin of the title page; to the back of the title
page it is applied the ex-libris by Archbishop Francesco Vitelli; woodcut talking
caps and editorial glosses in the margins.
Rare first edition of the History of the Este Princes of Pigna, of which only this
first volume was published. This copy is also embellished with references to the
important previous owners: Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali (as per the
stamp on the title page) and Archbishop Francesco Vitelli (as per the ex-exlibris
applied to the back of the title page). Work with a dedication to Alfonso II d’Este
where Pigna traces the intention to have this first volume followed by another of
equal size, the latter effort that will not take place due to the premature death of
the Author. Splendid and clean editorial composition of Francesco Rossi’s presses
that give us a work with wide margins, with the magnificent woodcut of arms on the title page, talking drop caps and numerous
comments in the margins of the text. The Historia closes with 60 papers of very copious tables and genealogical trees on the
descendants of Este (in one case expanded by an anonymous handwritten note); finally, the errors, the register and the inquisitorial
visa.
€ 1275 / $ 1555
PLINIUS (the elder)
C. Plinii Secundi Historiae Mundi libri XXXVII. Maiore, quam hactenus unquam, studio, fide, religione à vitiis quibus multiplici
olim impressione contaminati suerant, vindicati. Adiectis ad marginem non minus doctis quàm succinctis Castigatiunculis, partim è
vetustissimorum codicum collatione erutis, partim gravissimorum scriptorum autoritate, doctissimorúmque hominim iudicio aptè
appositis: quas ad syncerioris lectionis indagationem, velut in tenebris accensa face, non parum lucis confidimus allaturas. Una cum
Indice totius operis copiosissimo, non poenitenda rursus accessione locupletato, locisque
propemodum innumeris, quae cum autoris sensis non fatis congruebant, quàm
accuratissimè restituto (WITH:) / In C. Plinii Secundi Naturalem Historiam Index
Copiosissimus – 1561. Lugduni, apud Ioannem Frellonium (Lugduni, excudebat
Symphorianus Barbier, see second part’s last page).
Nineteenth-century half leather with titles, friezes and golden fillets imprinted on the
spine, four raised bands, parchment boards but entirely covered in marbled paper, traces
of ancient friezes impressed on each of the cuts; folio, 40,8 x 28 cm; pp. (36) + 679 +
(1b) + (70) + (1b), (185) + (3b); traces of use to the binding, including the upper
external corner of the worn front board, first white missing (probably applied to the title
page’s verso as a reinforcement?), very small lack reinstated in the title page, some
browned pages, others with slight stains and blooms, slight path of woodworm at the
inner margin from sheet B4 on 16 sheets, away from the text, another at the lower outer
corner from page 341 to 357, another from 605 to 637, at the inner margin from pag.
677 for 20 sheets, another walkway in the second part on the white margin of 8 sheets
and one in 30 sheets of the final index, overall a good copy though, on still rustling paper.
Double title page, each with a letterpress (crab and butterfly in an architectural frame with the motto “Matura”) engraved on
copper, engraved initials, a couple of handwritten notes from the seventeenth century.
Imposing and uncommon Lyon edition of the mid-sixteenth century of the famous Natural History of Pliny the Elder, edited by
Johannes Nicolaus Victorius and Sigmund Gelen.
€ 1360 / $ 1658
PLINIUS (the elder)
Historia naturale di G. Plinio Secondo. Tradotta per M.
Lodovicho Domenichi. Con le additioni in margine, nelle
quali, ò vengono segnate le cose notabili, ò citati altri Auttori,
che della stessa materia habbiano scritto, ò dichiarati i luoghi
difficili, ò posti i nomi di Geografia moderni. Di nuovo
ristampate, riviste, & ricorrette. Con le sue tavole copiosissime
di tutto quel che nell’opera si contiene – 1589. In Venetia,
appresso Gio. Battista Uscio.
Nineteenth-century half leather with gilt titles and friezes
imprinted on the spine, marbled boards; octavo, 21,2 cm; pp.
(2b) + 55 + (1b) + 1189 + (3b); peeling at the bottom corner
of the front board, small restoration on the title page and at the
corner of the a3 sheet, halos scattered here and there, some
browned gatherings, a couple of light woodworm walkways on
the inner margin, without ever affecting the text. Typographic
mark (San Pietro in oval, allegorical frame and motto Iusti
Intrabunt for Eam), in woodcut on the title page, headers,
initials and endings in woodcut, numerous editorial glosses.
Octavo Venetian edition of the late sixteenth century, in almost
pocket format, of the classic by Plinius the elder.
€ 1062,50 / $ 1295
PORCACCHI Tommaso
L’isole piu famose del mondo descritte da
Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione
arretino e intagliate da Girolamo Porro
padovano, al Sereniss. Principe et Sig.re il
S. Don Giovanni d’Austria General della
Santiss. Lega – 1572. In Venetia, appresso
Simon Galignani et Girolamo Porro.
Full floppy vellum with handwritten titles
on the spine; quarto, 29,8 x 20,8 cm; pp.
(2b) + (22) + (2b) + 117 + (2) + (1b);
parchment stripped in its entirety except
at the upper edge of the spine, slight
neckline of the binding at the lower edge
in correspondence with the first blank
leaf, some very rare and very slight
internal blooms, overall more than good
copy, very clean and still crisp paper.
Beautiful copper engraved title page in an
architectural frame with male figures in
the shape of columns, four cherubs, an
armillary sphere and two globes, woodcut
vignettes and initials, text also in italics, 30
beautiful half-page copper plates of islands
– many of which show the rose of the
winds and sea monsters – engraved by
Girolamo Porro, letterpress on the last page.
Copy from the Nassau-Dillenburg Library (as per label applied to the first blank page: “Ad Bibliothecam Principalem Arausio-
Nassauiensem Dillengurgicam”), old stamp canceled on the verso of the title page.
First edition of this famous treatise by Porcacchi, illustrated by beautiful maps – each of which accompanied by a refined textual
description -, of which the first fifteen refer to the Mediterranean islands (Venice, Corfu, Morea, Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes, Greek
archipelago, Euboea, Sicily, Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, Elba, Mallorca and Menorca) , followed by six relating to the North Sea
(United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Iceland and Gotland) and five others outside Europe (Haiti, Cuba, San Lorenzo
Island in Alaska, Sri Lanka, Moluccas Islands, the entire North American continent and Temistitan). Finally, the famous Globe and
the beautiful nautical equivalent close the work.
€ 5780 / $ 7047
RIPA Cesare
Nova Iconologia di Cesare Ripa
perugino Cavalier de Ss. Mauritio, &
Lazzaro. Nella quale si descrivono
diverse Imagini di Virtù, Vitij, Affetti,
Passioni humane, Arti, Discipline,
Humori, Elementi, Corpi Celesti,
Provincie d’Italia, Fiumi, tutte le parti
del Mondo, ed’altre infinite materie.
Opera Utile ad Oratori, Predicatori,
Poeti, Pittori, Scultori, Disegnatori, e
ad’ogni studioso. Per inventar Concetti,
Emblemi, ed Imprese, per divisare
qualsivoglia apparato Nuttiale, Funerale,
Trionfale. Per rappresentar Poemi
Drammatici, e per figurare co’ suoi
propij simboli ciò, che può cadere in
p e n s i e r o h u m a n o . A m p l i a t a
Ultimamente dallo stesso Auttore di
Trecento Imagini, e arricchita di molti discorsi pieni di varia eruditione; e con nuovi intagli, et con molti Indici copiosi. Dedicata
all’Illustre, & Rev. Padre D. Massimo da Mantova Decano, & Vicario perpetuo di Civè – 1618. In Padova, per Pietro Paolo Tozzi,
nella stampa del Pasquati.
Full floppy vellum (probably coeval but reassembled in a later period, or eighteenth century, as well as the endpapers) with traces of
handwritten notes on the spine; octavo, 22 x 17 cm; pp. (2b) + (48) + 648 + (2b); worn binding, old ownership note deleted from
the title page, rare and slight blooms, a couple of pages with slightly torn lower margin, overall a good copy, fresh and rustling paper.
Title page with allegorical vignette in woodcut, woodcut caps, full-page engraved portrait of the author in a4v, 306 half-page
woodcut illustrations with architectural decorations on the sides. As often happened, the genitals represented in the illustrations have
been censored here by an ancient hand.
Nice example of the fifth edition of the work that made Ripa famous. Last – and most complete – edition edited by the author in
life. The extraordinary iconographic set – increased from edition to edition and now completed – impregnated with allegorical
symbolism makes the work a true classic. It ranges from the representation of concepts, virtues, geographical places, intended for the
use of artists and writers. The work is considered as a ‘summa’ of allegorical representation, a forerunner and an ever-current source
of inspiration.
€ 2975 / $ 3627
SARDI Gasparo / FAUSTINI Agostino
Libro delle Historie Ferraresi del sig. Gasparo Sardi con una nuova aggiunta del medesimo Autore. Aggiuntivi di più quattro Libri
del Sig. Dottore Faustini sino alla devolutione del Ducato di Ferrara alla
Santa Sede. Con le Tavole di tutti gli due Libri. All’Eminentiss.mo, e
Reverendiss.mo Signore il Signore Cardinale Giulio Sacchetti – 1646.
Ferrara, per Giuseppe Gironi.
Full blank parchment with handwritten titles on the spine; octavo, 22,5
cm; 2 vols. in 1; pp. (10) 230 (28); 182 (28) (4b); traces of use on the
binding, some flowering, numerous woodworm holes especially at the
edges, overall a poor to fair copy. Title page with letterpress mark,
vignettes, initials and end caps engraved, 13 copper engraved full page
plates in and out of the text. Missing title page of the addition of the
Faustini’s; lacking pages from 21 to 28 and from 67 to 70 of the Sardi’s
work and pages from 9 to 16 and from 163 to 166 of the addition by
Faustini; numerous membership notes and handwritten glosses. The
genesis of the work is linked to the controversy over the precedence
that for forty years opposed the representatives of the Este house to the
Medici one, putting into play, beyond the apparent futility of the causes,
reasons of substantial rank and prestige for both families, committed to
consolidating the fortunes of their states. The two authors tell stories
about Ferrara with particular regard for the members of the family of
the Dukes of Este, pushed by them to magnify the glories of the city
and, above all, of its rulers. On Gaspare Sardi (about 1480 – after 1559),
in the Literary History of Italy, Giovanni da Pozzo, speaking of the language used, says that the Histories of Ferrara certainly do not
benefit from a vernacular dedicated to annals aimed at mere support of a still formidable potentate.
€ 700 / $ 850
SCALETTI Carlo Cesare
Scuola mecanico-speculativo-pratica in cui si esamina la proporzione,
che ha la Potenza alla resistenza del Corpo grave, e la causa per la quale
la suddetta Potenza si estenda a maggior’ attività mediante la Machina;
Opera utile all’uso civile, e militare necessaria ad ogni Matematico,
Ingegniero, Architetto, Machinista, e Bombardiere. Autore Carlo Cesare
Scaletti patrizio faentino – 1711. In Bologna, per Costantino Pisarri
sotto le Scuole all’Insegna di S. Michele.
Contemporary full vellum with gilded titles imprinted on leather patch
applied to the spine; quarto, 28 cm; pp. (18) + 188; small restoration at
the first blank, very rare and very slight foxing here and there, some
coeval handwritten glosses, overall an excellent copy with wide margins.
First edition; copper engraved frontispiece on full page; title page with
typographic mark; ornate end caps and drop caps; 12 copper plates
outside the text.
€ 1650 / $ 2000
(SCALIGERO Giuseppe Giusto)
Yvonis Villiomari Aremorici In locos controversos
Roberti Titii animadversorum liber. Ad
Nobilissimum virum Andream Oessentum
Quinpentonij et Burentelli dominum,
Maecenatem suum. Cum Duplici indice, altero
auctorum utriusque linguae, qui in hoc libro aut
emendantur, aut illustrantur, aut a Titij cesura
praua, vel calumnia vindicantur: altero rerum, &
vocum memorabilium in utraque lingua – 1586.
Lutetiae, apud Mamer tum Patissonium
Typographum Regium. In Officina Roberti
Stephani.
Eighteenth-century paperback; sedicesimo, 16,2
cm; pp. (4) 197 (6); slight water halo and rare and
irrelevant woodworm holes in the inner margin,
overall more than a good copy. Latin text with
some headwords and phrases in Greek; title page
with vignette, some engraved endings; some engraved medals; numbering error: pag. 83 repeated. Very rare first Parisian edition,
published under a pseudonym, of this satirical pamphlet by Giuseppe Giusto Scaligero on Loci Controversi by the Sansepolcrian
scholar and philologist Roberto Tito of 1583. Scalìgero, Giuseppe Giusto (fr. Joseph-Juste Scaliger). – French philologist of Italian
origin (Agen 1540 – Leiden 1609), son of Julius Caesar. He excelled in the study of antiquity for his perfect command of Latin and
Greek to which he also combined knowledge of Arabic and Hebrew. It seems that this satirical pamphlet, sharply criticizing the
philology of Roberto Tito, was enthusiastically welcomed by many scholastics and undermined the credibility of the opponent
against which he was directed.
€ 510 / $ 622
S T E L L A D E L L A
M I R A N D O L A G i u s e p p e
Maria
Breve instruttione alli giovani per
imparare con ogni facilità il canto fermo,
divisa in due parti. Nella prima
s’assegnano le regole succinte d’esso
Canto, col vero modo di pratticarle. Il
canto francescano, con una regola al
chorista per ben regger’il Choro, e
un’altra all’Organista, per lasciar in Tono
con l’Organo i Canti, ch’occorrono in
tutto l’anno. Nella seconda si pone tutt’il
canto della Settimana Santa con quello
per la Processione della Purificatione
della B. V. e quattro Credi nel fine. Del P.
F. Gioseppe Maria Stella della Mirandola
Minor’Osservante Lettore Teologo;
Predicatore Generale, e Vicario del Choro
d’Araceli – 1665. In Roma nella
Stamperia di Iacomo Fei d’Andr. F..
Half vellum with titles, on a patch, and gilded friezes impressed on the spine, marbled boards; octavo, 23 cm; two parts in one
volume; pp. 149 (11); 111 (but real 120 due to numbering errors); title page with traces of restoration, restored tear on pages 39-40,
overall an excellent copy. Initials, friezes and endings in woodcut. Full-page Guidonian hand in woodcut in the text; numerous
musical notations.
€ 680 / $ 829
TASSO Torquato
Discorsi del Signor Torquato Tasso.
Dell’arte poetica; et in particolare del
Poema Heroico. Et insieme il primo libro
delle lettere scritte a diversi suoi amici, le
quali oltra la famigliarità, sono ripiene di
molti concetti, & avertimenti poetici à
dichiaratione d’alcuni luoghi della sua
Gierusalemme liberata. Gli uni, e l’altre
scritte nel tempo, ch’egli compose detto
suo Poema. Non piu stampati – 1587. I
Venetia ad instanza di Giulio Vassalini
Libraro à Ferrara (BOUND WITH:) / Il
Messaggiero dialogo del Signor Torquato
Tasso al Sereniss. Sign. Vincenzo Gonzaga
Principe di Mantova, et di Monferrato –
1582. In Venetia, appresso Bernardo
Giunti, e fratelli (BOUND WITH:) /
Discorso della Virtù Heroica, et della
Charità del Sig. Torquato Tasso. Al
Sereniss. Sig. Monsig. il Cardinale Cesareo
– 1582. In Venetia, appresso Bernardo
Giunti, e fratelli (BOUND WITH:) /
Discorso della Virtù Feminile, e Donnesca,
del Sig. Torquato Tasso. Alla Serenissima
Sig. Duchessa di Mantova, et c. – 1582. In
Venetia, appresso Bernardo Giunti, e
fratelli (BOUND WITH:) / Il Gonzaga secondo, overo del Giuoco, Dialogo del signor Torquato Tasso – 1582. In Venetia, appresso
Bernardo Giunti, e fratelli.
Rigid half parchment with handwritten titles on the spine, boards covered with decorated paper; octavo, 19,8 cm; 5 volumes bound
in a single one; leaves (1b) + (4) + 108, (2) + 36, 10, 8, 20; slight damages at paper covering the boards, very fresh interiors, only a
few slight halo and a couple of burnished pages at Il Messaggiero (whose title page is the only one with slight foxing), overall more
than a good copy. Old manuscript ex libris on the endpaper, each title page with woodcut mark, woodcut heads and initials, some
handwritten glosses in the margins.
Curious volume that collects some of the “minor” works by Tasso, albeit all worthy of note. In fact, this is the first edition of the
Discorsi Dell’arte poetica which also contains an epistolary of him; of the first edition of Il Messaggiero, that is, a Platonic-inspired
dialogue on the essence of spirits and demons; of the first edition of the Discorso della Virtù Heroica, an attempt to curry favor
with Cardinal Albert of Austria, hoping for his intercession in order to put an end to his imprisonment; of the first edition of the
Discorso della Virtù Feminile, which also set itself as an end an ingratiation to obtain freedom; and of the first definitive edition of Il
Gonzaga secondo, a pleasant booklet on games.
€ 1870 / $ 2280
TERENTIUS
Pub. Terentii Afri Comoediae in sua metra restitutae.
Interp[re]tantibus Aelio Donato gra[m]matico,
Guidone Iuuenale Cenomano, Io[hanne] Calphurnio,
nec no[n] & Seruio, Iodocoq[ue] Badio Asce[n]sio,
cu[m] figuris aptissimis multisq[ue] in locis
adiu[n]ctis dictionibus Graecis q[uae] deera[n]t.
Necnon & ornatissimus index tam vocabulorum
q[uam] adagiorum quae digna annotatu visa sunt,
nouerit impressae – 1526. Impressum Tusculani apud
Benacum in edibus Alexandri Paganini.
Full rigid vellum with handwritten titles on the
spine; octavo, 22,1 cm; leaves (10) + CCLXXXVII;
missing the last leave with register (available in
facsimile on request), modern endpapers, some halo,
some browned leaves and some woodworm path that
does not damage the text (except for a few letters of
the editorial glosses, in 6 central leaves). Nice title
page in geometric frame, text in the center with
comment on two columns on the sides, ornate drop
caps, 5 beautiful full-page woodcut plates.
Rare edition of Terenzio’s comedies printed in
Toscolano Maderno, on Garda lake, by Alessandro
Paganini, part of a large family of Typographers also
active in Venice. Ex libris Renzo and Mirella
Comastri on the last page of the initial index.
€ 2000 / $ 2439
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