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193213522Milan: Touring Club Italiano 1932. 1st edition. Bluish-grey printed wrappers. VG extremities browned. 256 pp including index. Profusely illustrated 300 images primarily from photographs some color. 4to. <br/><br/>Annual #10. Touring Club Italiano unknown books
193015048Milan: Touring Club Italiano 1930. 1st edition. Red cloth spine & tips with red patterned paper wrappers. VG front map has 'Farigliano' discretely noted in purple marker ink. 270 pp. Profusely illustrated 300 images primarily from photographs some color. 4to. <br/><br/>Annual #VIII. Touring Club Italiano hardcover books
37249ITALIAN POLITICAL POSTER VOTA PSI. Rome: 1950s. Broadside. 38 1/2 by 27 inches. A large red poster featuring the Partito Socialista Italiano emblem of the Italian communist party. Very good. unknown books
20406ITALIAN WINE MAKING DISCIPLINARI DI PRODUZIONE VINI A DENOMINAZIONE DI ORIGINE "CONTROLLATA". Two volumes. Conegliano: Casa Editrice Scarpis 1968 and 1971. 4to. Cloth. 303; 433 pages and numerous maps in color. First edition thus. The complete text of the incredibly complicated DOC regulations which governe and stifled Italian wine makers for a generation. Very good. unknown books
1974JC8088Tundra Books 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Beige cloth lettering stamped in black on upper board and spine; full-color illustrated dust jacket; oblong 8vo; pp. 48 richly illustrated in b/w and full-color. Text in English and French. Small very faint smudge on upper board otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket a bit wrinkled and hastily tape repaired; presentable in mylar. An interesting and sweet homage to the variety of horse-drawn sleighs in Montreal in the 1920s and 1930s. <br/><br/> Tundra Books hardcover books
192221080Chicago: Il Proletario 1922. First edition 12mo 19cm.; original red printed staplebound wrappers; 151pp. Two small shallow chips to upper wrapper fore-edge not affecting text; shallow dampstain to bottom inch of spine. Anarchist-socialist tract printed by "Il Proletario" the Italian-language propaganda arm of the I.W.W. Scarce; only five copies located via OCLC as of October 2014. Il Proletario unknown books
192211420Chicago: Il Proletario 1922. First edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed wrappers; 16pp. Chip to front wrapper with no loss of text; covers partially split along spine-fold; internally clean and unmarked. Anarchist-socialist tract printed by "Il Proletario" the Italian-language propaganda arm of the I.W.W. Scarce; only five copies located via OCLC as of October 2014. Il Proletario unknown books
19885281NY: William Morrow. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0688077633 . Illustrations by Ann Field. Sixth printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . William Morrow hardcover books
006584Italy: The Artist SIGNED BY ARTIST in pencil lower left title lower right. No date no place circa 1930s. Original etching on thick stiff cream wove paper. Stamped "Fine Arte G. Panatta Via F. Crispi 117 Roma" top edge verso soiling verso 1" closed tear and 1/2" chip right edge toning at margins darker at bottom edge all flaws would be hidden by mat. Unframed and unmatted paper size 14" x 19 3/4" plate size 9 1/4" x 11 1/2". A wonderful Italian engraver Laurenzi is little known in the U.S. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. Print. Very Good. The Artist Paperback books
194723062New York: Farrar Straus and Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1947. 2nd printing. Hardcover. price-clipped a bit of wear to bottom extremities faint bookstore stamp at upper corner of ffep; jacket a little edgeworn tiny bits of paper loss at spine ends a few little nicks and tiny tears at edges. The author's memoir of his year in confinement as a political prisoner in a remote region of southern Italy during the war between Italy and Ethiopia. Basis for the 1979 film directed by Francesco Rosi. . Farrar, Straus and Company hardcover books
192554671Paris et Bruxelles: G. van Oest 1925. First edition. Illustrated with 4 color plates and 93 in black and white reproducing 126 miniatures. x126 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Three quarter purple morocco and marbled paper boards original printed wrappers bound in. Binding a little scuffed small chip from foot of spine else very good. First edition. Illustrated with 4 color plates and 93 in black and white reproducing 126 miniatures. x126 pp. 1 vols. Folio. G. van Oest unknown books
17564062Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni Stampatori Pontificii Vaticani 1756. 8vo 210 x 135 mm. 24 407 1 pp. 2 parts the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus Giuseppe Passaro two engraved title vignettes and 12 tailpiece vignettes a few unsigned others by Frey after Passaro or by M. Schedi engraver 3 engraved initials numerous red-printed woodcut initials. Occasional light browning. 18th-century Roman gold-tooled red goatskin covers with densely tooled dentelle border built up from leafy plant tools sprigs floral and arabesque tools each cornerpiece enclosing a grid with gold dots blossom tools and dots in central field ornamental centerpiece of large foliate arabesque and dandelion tools spine in six uniformly gold-tooled compartments block-printed pastedown endpapers with flower and fruit design stencil-colored in red green and yellow gilt edges with gauffred border design; upper cover a bit faded and bowed corner bumped a couple of scrapes to lower cover. Provenance: Horace de Landau 1824-1904 bookplate shelfmark no 47854; Vicomte de Cossette armorial bookplate. A rococo binding on a luxuriously printed and illustrated Office of the Virgin from the Salvioni press official printers to the Vatican. The Salvioni press used several workshops sometimes collectively mislabeled as the "Vatican" or "Salvioni" bindery. Those bound for the papal library were finely executed and different binderies can be identified by their tools color of leather and stylistic details. The present pretty but crowded binding decor with its in places overlapping tooling does not seem to belong to the corpus of binderies represented in for example the Vatican Library's 1977 exhibit catalogue of papal bindings. Stylistically it uses types of tools and decoration - the wide "Louis XV" style border and the basketweave cornerpieces - in vogue during the reigns of Clement XIV 1769-1774 and Pius VI 1775-1799. Its decoration is similar for example to binding no. 262 in Legature papali but it is of inferior workmanship and does not use the same tools. It was probably produced in a Roman shop executing many commissions and forced to work quickly although it could even be a provincial binding. Cf. Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Legature papali da Eugenio IV a Paolo VI no. 262 plate CXCI. Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni, Stampatori Pontificii Vaticani hardcover books
17562896Rome: Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni 1756. 8vo 208 x 133 mm. 24 407 1 pp. 2 parts the Office of the Dead separately titled. Printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 12 full-page engravings by Arnold Van Weserhout and Jacob Frey after Joseph Passarus Giuseppe Passaro two engraved title vignettes 12 engraved tailpiece vignettes a few unsigned others by Frey after Passaro or by M. Schedi engraver 3 engraved capital initials numerous red-printed woodcut initials. Foxing occasionally severe short marginal tear to fol. Z7.Slightly later eighteenth-century Roman gold-tooled red goatskin covers with large dentelle border composed of a triple neo-classical roll-tooled outer frame enclosing six large ornaments each with a basketweave design of diagonally crossing gilt fillets framed in volutes and leafy sprigs a few tiny petal or star tools board edges protected with a probably later frame of silver or silver-plated metal discreetly nailed to the binding two elaborately chased silver fore-edge clasps and catches spine in six uniformly gold-tooled compartments gilt edges with gauffred border design pair of green ribbon page markers marbled endpapers; 20th-century black morocco felt-lined case. Provenance: with Gumuchian Catalogue XII/1930/225; Maurice Burrus bookplate purchased from Gumuchian in 1934 purchase notes at end. A striking rococo binding in fine condition on a luxuriously printed and illustrated Office of the Virgin from the official Vatican press.From the mid- to late eighteenth century the Salvioni press used one or more bookbinding workshops that produced finely gold-tooled bindings for their Vatican publications. Although often referred to as the "Salvioni bindery" this appellation is circumstantial: "the Salvioni firm was responsible for promoting the bindings but it is not known which workshop produced them" British Library Database of Bookbindings. Some of these "Vatican" bindings incorporated variously colored or mottled leather. This example with its basketweave cartouches relies purely on tooling for its effect. An example evidently from the same workshop on a book printed at Rome in 1791 by Salomini using analogous cartouches as corner-pieces as well as a similar "spiraling" border design and some of the same leafy spray and star tools is reproduced in Legature papali no. 264."Whereas the . more flamboyant bindings produced by the Salvioni Bindery rely frequently on polychrome enamel heightening these Vatican bindings strike a somewhat more sober note with their very fine dark-red morocco and rich gold-tooling of high quality" Martin Breslauer Catalogue 107/428.Gumuchian Catalogue de Reliures du XVe au XIXe siecle no. 225 plate 68. Cf. British Library Database of Bookbindings Shelfmark c27e18; For other "Salvioni" bindings see Miner / Walters Art Gallery The History of Bookbinding no. 523; Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana Legature papali da Eugenio IV a Paolo VI no. 264 plate CXCIII. Gioacchino & Giovanni Giuseppe Salvioni hardcover books
30299Firenze n.d. Hand-coloured engraving of the exterior of the Teatro San Carlo. 235 x 305 mm. A 20th century re-impression of the 19th century original with "Correction du dessin et imprimé par l'Editrice PV 200" printed to corners just below image. Matted framed and glazed. <br/><br/>From the collection of Marilyn Horne b. 1934. A distinguished American mezzo-soprano "Horne had a voice of extraordinary range rich and tangy in timbre with a stentorian chest register and an exciting top. In concert she once achieved the feat of singing in a single programme Rossini arias and Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene proof of her exceptional versatility. Throughout her lengthy career she was an admired recitalist singing lieder mélodies Spanish and American songs with equal aplomb." Alan Blyth in Grove Music Online. unknown books
183836247Girard: Naples 1838. Oblong quarto. Contemporary quarter dark brown calf with green textured paper boards decorative dark brown leather label to upper with "Costanza Angelillo" gilt spine in decorative compartments gilt. Occasional secondary pagination.<br/><br/>Contains:<br/>Pacini Giovanni 1796-1867<br/>Merope Grand Opera . arrangé pour Piano solo. PNs 8867-8879. Ca. 1848. 1f. recto title verso blank 1 list of subscribers as of 24 December 1847 18 numbers in piano score with occasional text. Subscribers include Filippo Angelillo in all likelihood related to Costanza Angelillo owner of the volume. Merope in 3 acts to a libretto by Cammarano after Voltaire was first performed in Naples at the Teatro S Carlo on 25 November 1847.<br/><br/>Pacini<br/>Saffo . Souvenirs. Choeur de femmes. Musical manuscript. 1f. recto title on light green paper verso blank 6 pp.<br/><br/>Donizetti Gaetano 1797-1848<br/>Roberto Devereux . Représenté au théâtre Royal de St. Charles le 28 Octobre 1837 . L'opéra entier . D.2.50. . 1er -2ème cahier. 1f. recto title verso blank 3-19 i blank; 1f. recto title verso blank 18 pp. PNs 3939-3943. Ca. 1838.<br/><br/>Donizetti<br/>No. 8. Cavatine PN 6045. Ca. 1843. 6 pp. 1f. From Don Pasquale.<br/><br/>Donizetti<br/>Linda di Chamounix Nouvel opéra . arrangé pour piano solo. 1f. recto title verso blank. Cavatine O luce di quest' anima Ajoutée à Paris pour Mme. Persiani-Tacchinardi et chantée à Naples par Mme. Tadolini. 4 pp. PN 5863; No. 14 Air Final du 2ème Acte de Linda . A consolarmi affrettati Chanté par Mme. Tadolini. 8 pp. PN 5685. Ca. 1840. 2 numbers in total.<br/><br/>Donizetti<br/>Lucia di Lammermoor. No. 4. Duo chanté par Mme. Tacchinardi et par Duprez. 9-18 pp. PN 3953; Grand opéra . arrangé par piano solo. 1f. recto title verso blank 9-15 i blank pp. PN 3962. Ca. 1838. 2 numbers in total.<br/><br/>Verdi Giuseppe 1813-1901<br/>I Due Foscari. No. 14 Choeur d'Introduction Allagioia. 4 pp. PN 6884; No. 2 Cavatine de Jacopo Dal più remoto esilio Chantée à Naples par Fraschini. 10 pp. PN 6875; No. 3 Choeur et Cavatine de Lucrezia Tu al cui sguardo Chantée à Naples par Mme. Bishop. 7 i blank pp. PN 6876; No. 6 Duo de Lucrezia et du Doge Tu pur lo sai Chanté à Naples par Mme. Bishop et Coletti. 9 i blank pp. PN 6879/ Ca. 1845. 4 numbers in total.<br/><br/>Verdi<br/>Ernani . arrangé pour piano solo. 1f. recto title on light blue paper within decorative border verso blank. No. 12 Suite et Stretta No vendetta. 4 pp. PN 6647; No. 14 Duo final d'Ernani et de Silva Esci a te scegli segimi. 9 i blank pp. PN 6604; No. 15. Air final de Mme. Toldi Se crudele il cor mostrai. 4 pp. PNs 4312 3222; No. 3 Cavatine tyrolienne de Mme. Toldi In questo semplice. 7 i blank pp. PNs 4302 3221. 4 numbers in total.<br/><br/>Bellini Vincenzo 1801-1835<br/>I Puritani. No. 18 Duo Il rival salvar tu dei Chanté Par Tamburini et Lablache. 12 pp. PNs 4167 2765. Ca. 1842. 1 number in total.<br/><br/>Mercadante Saverio 1795-1870<br/>l Giuramento. . arrangé pour piano solo. 1f. recto title listing the 21 numbers in the opera verso blank No. 4. Quatuor Vicino a chi si adora. 5 i blank pp. PN 4115. Ca. 1847. 1 number in total.<br/><br/>Binding very slightly worn rubbed and bumped. Occasional light foxing. A clean wide-margined copy overall. An attractively-bound collection. Naples unknown books
19541336069New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 10mo; VG-/G-; pp 246; black spine with red text; dust jacket has moderate scratches to exterior; small chips to corners; cloth shows mild wear to exterior; few white smudges to exterior; strong boards; text block exterior edges show some foxing; deckled fore edge; interior clean; intact binding. 1336069. FP New Rockville Stock. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover books
19191309020Paris: De L'Art Catholique 1919. Softcover. Small quarto; pp 184; G/paperback; dark tan spine with red text; covers show age toning to exterior minor chipping to edges slight rubbing to rear; text block has deckled edges age toning to exterior edges some light foxing toward page edges otherwise interior clean; French text. 1309020. FP New Rockville Stock. De L'Art Catholique unknown books
199724551New York: The Monacelli Press. Very Good. 1997. First American Edition. Softcover. 1885254652 . a bit of edgewear to covers no other significant wear. Trade PB color photographs architectural drawings etc. A sort-of memoir by the famed architect as he chronicles his projects from the mid-1960s through 1996: "I have tried to relate these adventures here so that this book may introduce many young people to the extraordinary ritual that is the making of architecture." He does manage to squeeze out a two-page biography of himself near the end of the book though. Includes a register of his works a list of his collaborators and an extensive bibliography. . The Monacelli Press paperback books
25432- Corticelli Gaetano 1804-1840<br/>Op. 65. Il Sorriso dell'Innocenza Divertimento brillante per piano forte a 4 mani composto e dedicato Alla Noblie Fanciulletta Alda Pio di Savoja. Milano: Fco. Lucca PN 1729 after 1856. 1f. title 1 blank 2-13 i publisher's catalogue pp. Music engraved; catalogue typeset. Signature "Pia Tolomei" in brown ink to upper right corner of title. Stain to lower margin of p. 9. A later issue. The catalogue lists works up to PN 12289 including a transcription by Fortunato Senna PN 10425 from Errico Petrella's L'Assedio di Leida an opera first performed in 1856.<br/><br/>- Cunio 1833-1891<br/>Le Rose 4 Piccole Fantasie Sopra motivi favoriti die Verdi per Piano Forte . Op. blank . No. 3 Rigoletto. Milano: F. Lucca PN B 8192 B after 1858. 1f. title 9 i publisher's catalogue pp. Music engraved; catalogue typeset. Text incipits from arias quoted printed in syllabification above music. Signature "Tolomei Antonietta" in brown ink to upper right corner of title; titling underlined in red crayon; some fingering in ink; multiple paper repairs. A later issue. The catalogue lists works up to PN 11874 including transcriptions from Errico Petrella's Jone an opera first performed in 1858. Rigoletto the latest of the Verdi operas paraphrased in the cycle offered on the present title was first performed in 1851.<br/><br/>- Fanna Antonio 1783-1845<br/>Op. 70. Otto Ricreazioni per Pianoforte a quattro mani Brevi Pezzi adattati per uso della Gioventù . No. 1 Bellini_Beatrice di Tenda: Io soffrii tortura list of seven more numbers follows the latest being Verdi's Ernani 1844. Milano: Gio. Canti e C PN 871fb after 1844. 1 title printed in blue with decorative frame 2-3 blank 4-9 i blank pp. Title lithographed; music engraved. Signature "Pia Tolomei." in brown ink to upper right corner of title; some paper repairs.<br/><br/>- Hünten Franz 1793-1878<br/>Op. 87. Le premier succès Morceau brillant sur un thême de Bellini composé Pour le Piano. Milan: Jean Canti et C. PN 1135 mid-1840s. 1 title 2-3 blank 4-11 i blank pp. Engraved. Signature "Tolomei Antonietta" in brown ink to upper right corner of title trimmed.<br/><br/>- Menozzi Giovanni fl. 19th century<br/>Op. 39. Simpatie musicali Raccolta di Pezzi brillanti per Pianoforte a 4 Mani . Fasc. 3. Milano: Francesco Lucca PN n 9403 n; Z 9403 Z ca. 1854. 1f. title with printed text and decorative frame in blue and lithographed vignette in black 1 blank 2-13 i publisher's catalogue pp. Title lithographed; music engraved; catalogue typeset. Plate number N 9403 N through p. 5 Z 9403 Z from p. 6. Handstamped: I Lombardi di G. Verdi. A later issue. The catalogue lists works up to PN 13493 including a fantasy by Menozzi PN 12849 on Verdi's Un ballo in maschera first performed in 1859.<br/><br/>- Poppi Giovanni 1828-1891<br/>Op. 45. Le Pensioniste Dodici Ricreazioni per Pianoforte a quattro mani somposte sopra melodie del Celebre Verdi N. 1 Nabucco list of 11 more operas follows ending with Giovanna de Guzman. Milano: Gio. Canti PN 3031 after 1855. 1 decorative series title with charming engraved vignette depicting domestic music-making: four women around a piano two seated at a piano and two listening 2-3 blank 4-9 i blank pp. Engraved. Ink stain to final blank page.<br/><br/>- Zenoni Leopoldo 1818-1879<br/>L'Adolescenza seguito all' Infanzia del primogenito Suonate per Piano-forte a quattro mani . Fasc. 5o. Fantasia sull'opera Simon Boccanegra del M. Verdi. Milano: Gio. Canti PN 4599 after 1857. 1-2 title within decorative blue border 3-4 extracted and thus lacking 5-11 i blank pp. Engraved. Signature "Tolomei Pia" in brown ink to upper right corner of title.<br/><br/>Folio. Mid-tan tooled morocco-backed blue mottled paper boards title label with "Tolemei Antonietta" in manuscript within blue decorative border to upper. <br/><br/>Boards worn rubbed and bumped. With occasional fingerings and other annotations in pencil throughout. A compilation of chiefly rare editions primarily intended for the amateur. Of note are the presence of three scarce Lucca catalogues and the charming engraved illustrated title of the Poppi arrangement depicting two young women playing four-hand piano music. unknown books
1976007397Menard Press 1976. SCARCE. Introduction by Edouard Roditi Afterword: self-interview by Primo Levi. Near Fine small rubs to wrappers. Book is clean tight and unmarked. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Menard Press Paperback books
193915042Chicago: Jay Bass 1939. First Edition Thus. Octavo 22cm. Stiff decorative card wrappers; silver foil dustjacket; 8pp. Presentation copy with mounted photographic portrait of Balabanoff 5" x 3" inside front wrapper inscribed in ink: "For my dear friends F&T Lewis with many many heartiest wishes!" dated 1939. Jacket worn and partially detached; text block loose in wrappers; complete just Good. The text consists of Balabanoff's anti-Fascist poem "Human Tears" printed in English French Russian cyrillic Italian and German versions. A much-expanded collection of Balabanoff's poems with the same title was published in New York in 1943; the current volume privately printed and extremely fragile is seldom encountered. <br/><br/>Angelica Balabanoff 1878-1965 an Italian Jew was among the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1900; she joined the Russian Bolsheviks in 1917 and served as secretary of the Comintern from 1919-20 during which time she became closely affiliated with Lenin Trotsky Zinoviev and many others. She broke with the Bolsheviks and left Russia in 1922 after which she once again became active in the Italian Socialist party. During Mussolini's regime she went into exile first in Switzerland then Paris and finally New York City during which time she published a number of multilingual editions of her poetry. Jay Bass unknown books
192516295New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation. Very Good in Good dj. 1933 c.1925. 1st Black and Gold Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . solid copy very light spotting to covers light shelfwear; jacket rubbed edgeworn small tears and minor paper loss at most corners still quite presentable. "The amazing story of one of the most tragic and one of the most lovely of Italian noble women of the sixteenth century -- a century of cruel and vicious license. At the age of eighteen Beatrice Cenci was imprisoned in a lonely castle by her father and subjected to such treatment that she was led to procure his murder. After a year of precarious freedom in spite of appeals to the Pope for clemency she was arrested tried and put to death." Beatrice's travails have had a long afterlife in art and literature: Percy Bysshe Shelley based his 1819 verse drama "The Cenci: A Tragedy in Five Acts" on the story which has also been adapted for a number of novels plays and operas by the likes of Stendahl Alberto Moravia Antonin Artaud and others. It was also the basis for a 1969 Italian film by Lucio Fulci with Adrienne Larussa as Beatrice which had the charming British release title of "Perversion Story." Per the dust jacket this is a "complete unabridged one-volume edition" having been previously issued by Boni & Liveright in a two-volume edition in 1925. . Liveright Publishing Corporation hardcover books
1924005766Firenze: Casa Editrice G. Nerbini 1924. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. The complete run comprised of 21 installments or fascicoli of an extremely scarce Italian pulp magazine that anthologized supernatural fiction. 4to. 29.5 by 19 cm. No copies on OCLC nor in other catalogues we checked Bibliotheca Italiana etc. The magazine although produced on the cheapest of pulp paper which ages terribly did have striking cover artwork for each of its installments. The stories presented are all translations of works in English or French with the original authors never credited. There is one story per installment and the stories have titles such as "La Valanga Vendicatrice" "La Pietra Fatale" "Il Salto della Morte" "Il Telefono Misterioso" and "La Mummia senza Pollice". Casa Nerbini founded in 1897 was until 1943 a major Italian publisher of fumetti or Italian comic books. After Nerbini folded Mondadori published some of its more popular titles. Condition: the pages are heavily age toned the paper brittle and there have some some discrete archival repairs made on the cover pages. Soiling to the front cover. We would nonetheless grade the volume as being in very good condition as the issues are ones that were inevitable given the paper stock used. <br/><br/> Casa Editrice G. Nerbini paperback books
200233562NY:: Warner Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0446530573 . Recipes by Michelle Scicolone. Color photographs. Third printing. Near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Warner Books, hardcover books
2017250988New York: New York Review Books 2017. Paperback. xvi 130 10p very good first edition first printing stated in pictorial wraps. New York Review Books Classics. A sixteen year old boy awakens to sexual love in fin de siècle Trieste. New York Review Books paperback books
