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175021218Firenze: Con Licenza de' Superiori 1750. Stiff Wrappers. Good. 2 of 6 volumes ONLY. Two vols. 8vo. pp. ff 2 2-100 2-96 2-88 blank 2-82; ff 1 2-95 blank 2-96 2-106 blank; contemporary limp paper boards; volume II rebacked with brown library tape; volume I spine ends chipped and worn; library tickets to spines; library stamps and pencil annotations to title leaves; embossed library stamps scattered throughout both volumes; card pockets at rear pastedowns; electronic tag at rear pastedown of volume I; text leaves clean throughout; a reasonably attractive set. Properly de-accessioned. Stiff Wrappers. Con Licenza de' Superiori unknown books
191943051New York: Libreria Rossa N.d. ca 1919. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 24pp. Slight aging; mild creasing to spine; Very Good. Text entirely in Italian. Communist tract issued shortly after the Russian revolution calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie; and the "management of the new society through a free arrangement of persons and competent groups" ".persone e di gruppi competenti interessati all soluzione di ogni singolo problema tecnico e sociale". The pseudonym "Emme" is unknown to us; nor is it certain from which "Libreria Rossa" this pamphlet originated - "libreria rossa" "red bookshop" being a common enough appelation among Italian-American radical booksellers of all political stripes during this period. One copy only in OCLC; not seen in commerce; not in Periconi. Libreria Rossa unknown books
2010169755Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010. Softcover. VG. Clean and tight. Black wraps with color illustration. 202 pp. 182 color and 22 BW illustrations. From the publisher: Italian couturier Roberto Capucci born 1930 is revered by contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of color and materials. Capucci refers to his creations as "studies in form" and draws inspiration from a multitude of sources including art architecture and nature. This beautifully illustrated book the companion to the first exhibition of Capucci's work in the United States examines his career from the 1950s to the present in the context of the rise of Italian fashion. Capucci's designs first captured the attention of the international press in 1951 when he presented his collection in Florence. Considered one of Italy's greatest talents he experimented with construction techniques and unconventional materials such as raffia wire and stones. He refused to compromise his artistic vision to commercial concerns and after withdrawing from the formal fashion world in the early 1980s he presented one collection a year each in a different city around the world. Featuring more than 80 extraordinary works including the iconic "dress sculptures" with their inventive use of pleating color and form Roberto Capucci is a captivating look at this brilliant designer who transcends the conventional line between fashion and art. Philadelphia Museum of Art paperback books
2010127583Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010. Softcover. New shrink-wrapped. Black wraps with color illustration 202 pp. 182 color and 22 BW illustrations. From the publisher: Italian couturier Roberto Capucci born 1930 is revered by contemporary fashion designers for his innovative silhouettes and masterful use of color and materials. Capucci refers to his creations as "studies in form" and draws inspiration from a multitude of sources including art architecture and nature. This beautifully illustrated book the companion to the first exhibition of Capucci's work in the United States examines his career from the 1950s to the present in the context of the rise of Italian fashion. Capucci's designs first captured the attention of the international press in 1951 when he presented his collection in Florence. Considered one of Italy's greatest talents he experimented with construction techniques and unconventional materials such as raffia wire and stones. He refused to compromise his artistic vision to commercial concerns and after withdrawing from the formal fashion world in the early 1980s he presented one collection a year each in a different city around the world. Featuring more than 80 extraordinary works including the iconic "dress sculptures" with their inventive use of pleating color and form Roberto Capucci is a captivating look at this brilliant designer who transcends the conventional line between fashion and art. Philadelphia Museum of Art paperback books
1952WRCLIT82509Milan: Fratelli Bocca Editori 1952. Large octavo. Printed wrapper with pictorial vignette. Small nick at crown of spine text stock slightly tanned at edges very good. The first number of this periodical edited by Chiarni after his departure from BIANCO E NERO. It continued into 1955. Fratelli Bocca Editori unknown books
197767076Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano. Very Good. 1977. Softcover. 181 pages unopened. Tan printed wraps. Very Good . Istituto Storico Italiano paperback 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
200829546London: National Gallery Company 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Wide hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 192 pp. With essays by Simonetta and others. A fine copy in near fine dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. National Gallery Company hardcover books
198911748Italy: Associazione Nazionale Italiana 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fabulous book displaying dozens of examples of fine press printing from Italy. Examples using blind embossing offset lithography web-offset screen printing sheet-fed gravure flexography and die-cutting. Printed on various color paper. Fine condition. Laminated boards with linen spine and metal corner tips. Comes with a separate spiral-bound glossy book listing various Italian printing companies. Both books housed in original folding cardboard box with string ties. Text in English by Vanni Pasca. <br/><br/> Associazione Nazionale Italiana hardcover books
1953385991953. Lithograph on canvas framed in oak. A very good copy. Framed size: 33 x 23 inches; image: 29 x 19 1/2 inches. A framed lithographic image on canvas signed in the image as A. Patune with brass plaque. For use by travel agents with one image representing both sister ships of the Italian Line the Andrea Doria and the Cristoforo Colombo. Uncommon. 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
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
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
169615588Parma: Alberto Pazzoni e Paolo Monti 1696. First Edition. 12mo 16cm. Contemporary vellum over boards; inked spine title; 48 406 26pp. Chafing and perforation to vellum along front joint but holding strong; pencilled note to rear endpapers; text fresh tight and clean; Very Good. A manual of letter-writing illustrated throughout with examples chosen from the author's apparently very large oeuvre. The examples are on a variety of subjects mainly chosen to illustrate the changes in tone and style of address to be used in addressing correspondents of varying stations. Fontana was of a prominent family of Parma and apparently wrote most of these letters while a resident in the estate of his patron Count Alessandro Sanvitale. Rare; OCLC gives four locations of which only one in the U.S. Stanford. From the library of artists Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn with estate bookplate inside front cover. Alberto Pazzoni e Paolo Monti unknown books
197116792Roma: Partito Comunista Italiano / Editoriali Fratelli Spada 1971. First Edition. Lithographed poster offset in three colors; 100cm x 70cm ca 40" x 28"; on heavy paper. Minor toning; light creases at margins; Near Fine - Grade A/A-. A bit of a puzzle: the poster appears to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the formation of the Associazione Bandiera Rossa an Italian Trotskyist group; but the poster bears the imprint of the PCI the main-line Marxist-Leninist party in Italy -- an ideological implausibility even within the chaotic confines of Italian Marxism. Adding further to the confusion is a quotation from Antonio Gramsci founder of the PCI in upper right. In any case a terrific graphic attributed here to Luciano Prati whose name we encounter on a few late-70s Italian film posters but nowhere else. Duke University appears to be the only North American institution to hold a catalogued copy of this work. Partito Comunista Italiano / Editoriali Fratelli Spada unknown 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
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
1938005975Milano: Sperling & Kupfer 1938. First Edition thus. Wraps. Very Good Minus. 8vo. 23 by 15.5 cm. 65 pp. And unpaginated middle section 33 leaves with generally four photos per page that are each part of a moving image when the leaves are quickly flipped. In total eight separate moving images as the moving manipulation works when flipping forwards with the recto photos or backwards with the verso photos. All of these demonstate diving and swimming technique. Thus with four different moving images vertically arranged we have a rather novel flip book. Glucker was a German author of other books on various subjects of physical fitness and this survey first appeared two years earlier in its original German. Condition: moderate wear to cover and age toning of pages. <br/><br/> Sperling & Kupfer paperback books
177820573Nice: Chez Gabriel Floteront A Turin chez Les Freres Reycends 1778. Second edition corrected and enlarged. 4to. Contemporary mottled sheep morocco labels. Rubbed scuffing tears to head and tail of spines and wear to lower corner of cover of first volume else a very nice copy. Second edition corrected and enlarged. 4to. Chez Gabriel Floteront, A Turin chez Les Freres Reycends unknown books
1618254275Venetiis Venice: Juntas 1618. Title with engraved border 11 full-page engravings black chant notation on red four-line staves lxiii i 557 3; 24; 14 pp. text in double columns printed in red and black. 8vo. Bound in contemporary maroon morocco richly gilt black morocco inlaid panel border surrounding central inlaid entrelac design rebacked preserving original spine lacking clasps and catches a.e.g. joints rubbed front joint starting some light foxing throughout contemporary and early ownership notes to endpapers. Title with engraved border 11 full-page engravings black chant notation on red four-line staves lxiii i 557 3; 24; 14 pp. text in double columns printed in red and black. 8vo. Juntas unknown books
179036609N. P.: Augustae Tavrinorum Typis Ignatii Soffietti 1790. Engraved title vignette by Valperga after Palladius. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary marbled boards remains of printed label on spine. Rubbed joints starting printed label on upper cover some spotting of endpapers bookplate from the Bibliotheca Giuliari else a very good and clean copy. Engraved title vignette by Valperga after Palladius. 1 vols. 4to. Contessa Tapparelli Balbo. Memorial of Henrietta the Countessa Tapparelli Balbo wife of Prospero Balbo mother of Cesare Balbo the Italian Writer and Statesman and daughter of Robert Taparelli d'Azeglio Conte di Lagnasco. Including poetic contributions of Gioanni Batista Ghio Conte Guiseppe Franchi Conte Giambatista Somis Albo Crisso Camillo Maulandi Emanvele Rosetti Francesco Morelli and others. Augustae Tavrinorum Typis Ignatii Soffietti unknown books
19307362Boston etc.: Carbone Inc.; Printed by Carver-New England Press 1930. Oblong stapled booklet in wrappers x cm. 24 pages. Illustrated in black & white and color. Folding price list tipped-in at rear. Evident FIRST EDITION. Trade catalogue of imported Italian wares. Some rusting to staples; soiling to top edge of title page. Light soil and edge rubbing to the die-cut folded wrapper. Near very good. OCLC locates no copies. Carbone Inc.; [Printed by Carver-New England Press unknown books
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
1932133321Milano Milan Italy: Tipi del Bertieri 1932. Edition of 420000 copies printed. Softcover. Good covers faded variously some edge chipping. Light blue textured paper wraps with darker blue titles. Vol. 1 Parte Prima: 256 pp. 453 black and white images 4 in color and one map. Vol. 2 Parte Seconda: 256 pp. 403 black and white images 4 in color and one map. Text in Italian. Travel books from the early 1930s for this region of north central Italy. Tipi del Bertieri paperback books
