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1766565Paris: Lacombe 1766. Soft cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 19 x 10 cm 58 pp. including title-page first leaf blank. Bound in red marbled wrappers. Title toned and a bit soiled with two small ink-spots not affecting text toning in the margins of some leaves; nevertheless generally good with some leaves uncut and with original deckle edges. Very rare first and sole edition of the first treatise published by the pioneering French mineralogist Jean-Baptiste Romé de L'Isle 1736-1780 and his sole work on marine biology concerning the "movement generation and nature" of the freshwater polyp. In the present work Romé hypothesizes drawing on observations by the naturalist "M. Bazin" that polyps are a kind of living hive built of thousands of tiny separate units 'petits grains' that nonetheless work harmoniously to feed move and regenerate the entire body. Though Romé's hypothesis is not entirely off the mark-polyps may reproduce asexually by budding for instance-it was eventually disproven by the observations of the naturalist Justin Girod-Chantrans 1750-1841.OCLC: No American copies. Lacombe paperback books
17152135233Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts 1715. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor loss from spine head & foot ink name on front flyleaf. 1715 Full-Leather. viii 141 2 pp. Full calf gilt titles decorations & rules marbled endpapers. Latin text. A work of history by a contemporary of Hadrian. Londini: Ex Officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts hardcover books
19851331488New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers 1985. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 240; VG/VG-; beige spine with red and black text; dust jacket has modest shelf wear to exterior; cloth has clean exterior; mild wear to edges; strong boards; text block shows light wear to exterior; frontispiece; profusely illustrated; arts - Non Western. 1331488. FP New Rockville Stock. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers hardcover books
WELLER9780140449334New. New book. unknown books
1967269611London: Hutchinson 1967. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrated with black and white photographs as well as colored frontispiece portrait. 8vo black cloth dust wrapper dust wrapper has a few chips. London: Hutchinson 1967. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Hutchinson unknown books
102660hardcover. very good/very good. Illus. 8vo cloth d.w. N.Y. 1967.<br/><br/> unknown books
1973137578Vienna: Lisa-Film 1973. Collection of 12 vintage oversize double weight reference photographs for the 1973 German film based on the controversial 1897 play "Reigen" "La Ronde" by Arthur Schnitzler Adapted three time previously; by Max Ophuls in 1950 and Roger Vadim in 1964 both as "La Ronde" and by Richard Lerner and Paul Glickler in 1971 as "Hot Circuit" as well as several time subsequently. <br/><br/>Schnitzler's play which satirizes the sexual and class morals of its era was not produced on stage until 1920 although published versions in various languages were available as early as 1900. With its frank sexual nature and depictions of relationships that crossed class and cultural lines the play was immediately condemned as pornography and withdrawn from the German stage although it remained popular elsewhere. <br/><br/>The play consists of a series of vignettes each featuring a pair of lovers with each character appearing in two consecutive scenes with one character in the first scene appearing in the last. <br/><br/>The photographs in this collection are from four scenes each featuring either Sydne Rome or Maria Schneider as follows:<br/><br/>One photograph of Hans Bremmer and Rome as "The Soldier and the Parlor Maid."<br/><br/>Four photographs of Rome and Helmut Berger as "The Parlor Maid and the Young Gentleman."<br/><br/>Five photographs of Peter Weck and Schneider as "The Husband and the Little Miss."<br/><br/>Two photographs of Schneider and Michael Heltau as "The Little Miss and the Poet." <br/><br/>9.5 x 12.25 inches. Near Fine. Lisa-Film unknown books
197828460Bridgewater CT: The Flume Press 1978. cloth leather spine label. Papermaking. 8vo. cloth leather spine label. 1011 pages. First edition. One of 450 copies printed by this private press of which this is one of 25 copies to be in a special binding and contains a specimen of paper made at The Red Mill located in Bridgewater CT. A charming essay about the joys and pitfalls of starting a papermaking mill. The book is illustrated by Elmer Garrett. Presentation on the half-title. Loosely inserted is a prospectus to the book a signed poem by Garrett a large newspaper clipping giving us history of the mill and two newspaper clippings listing the sale price of the mill. The Flume Press unknown books
2007110758Brooklyn NY: Powerhouse 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Oversized monograph. Commentary by Lopate and 111 black and white photogaphs. A fine and tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A stunningly beautiful book. Powerhouse unknown books
1970137569N.p.: N.p. 1970. Vintage oversized double weight press photograph of actress Sydne Rome circa 1970 with the label of the Paul Kohner agency affixed over the stamp of Italian agency I.M on the verso. <br/><br/>American born actress Sydne Rome achieved success in Italian and French films often typed the innocent or naive American abroad in films such as Roman Polanski's "What" 1972. <br/><br/>9.25 x 11.75 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1627266707Leiden: Jacob Marcus 1627. hardcover. 2 parts in one with continuous pagination. 282 pages. 32mo bound in contemporary vellum. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex officina Iacobi Marci 1627. Editio sexta. A very good clean copy.<br/><br/> The Julian has separate half-title "D. Iuliani Imperatoris Cæsares sive Satyra in Romanos Imperatores. Interprete Petro Cunæo. In limine est eiusdem Præfatio in Iulianum."<br/><br/> Jacob Marcus unknown books
14914196<p>Venice: Theodorus de Ragazonibus 23 August 1491</p><p>Quarto: 20.5 x 14.9 cm. 52 leaves. Collation: a-f8 g4<br /></p><p>SIXTH EDITION OF THE SOLINUS 1st ed. 1473. THIS IS THE FIRST AND ONLY EDITION WITH THE "MIRABILIA ROMAE".</p><p>Bound in early vellum with later endpapers. A fine fresh copy with nice margins printed on high-quality paper. First leaf slightly soiled and with mild wear to the edges a few trivial light stains verso of final leaf lightly soiled faded early inscription to title.</p><p>The "Mirabilia Romae" Marvels of Rome has achieved iconic status. It is the oldest extant guidebook to the city of Rome and the forerunner to all later guides to the Eternal City. Composed around 1143 possibly by a certain Benedict a canon of St. Peter's it serves as a guide to the ruins of the ancient city with explanations of the origins and functions of the buildings and places described see below for a discussion of the contents.</p><p>The book was a bestseller for over 300 years from the Middle Ages to the Roman Renaissance appearing in numerous cheaply-printed editions in the 15th and early 16th c. the majority of them small slim octavos of just a few leaves. As a result of heavy use by tourists and pilgrims copies of all editions are extremely rare. Of the 111! editions recorded in ISTC dating from ca. 1472 to ca. 1511 many survive in only single copies and almost all in fewer than five. The work is very rare in North America with the text represented in only twelve North American institutions see the references at the foot of this description.</p><p>The 1491 "Mirabilia" which appeared in a more substantial volume along with the ancient 3rd c. "Marvels of the World" by Solinus has fared better. In North America this 1491 edition is held by 9 institutions: Walters Art Museum Harvard LC BYU Huntington Smithsonian Newberry UT Austin and Yale.</p><p>The mix of lore and fact found in the "Mirabilia" made the text a natural companion to the "Mirabilia" Solinus who "routinely eschews the mundane in favor of the bizarre to use geography as a structure through which wonders might be revealed."</p><p>The text is divided into chapters that describe in this order: the walls of Rome the city gates the hills of Rome the bridges the "palaces" of the emperors-with mention of the columns of Trajan and Antoninus Pius and the apocryphal "Palace of Nero"; triumphal and memorial arches baths theatres the Vatican obeliskthought to house the ashes of Julius Caesar in its bronze finial cemeteries and catacombs both pagan and Christian the places where the saints suffered martyrdom the giant bronze pine cone the "pigna" temples the Capitol the "marble horses" the Quirinal Dioscuri the equestrian statue of "Constantine" i.e. Marcus Aurelius the Colosseum the Pantheon and the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli with an account of Octavian's vision of the Madonna and Child.</p><p>The often fantastic tales recounted in the Mirabilia were sure to inspire a sense of wonder in the pilgrims and tourists who came to marvel at the ruins which helps to explain why the guidebook remained so popular even after the 15th c. humanists and antiquarians had begun to tease out the reality of Rome's antiquities through a more scientific examination of ruins and texts.</p><p>The "Mirabilia" describes the vanished Capitolium as a palace composed almost entirely of gold said to be worth "a third of the word's wealth". Within this temple were as many statues as there were provinces all facing a statue that represented Rome. They were adorned "by mathematical art" with bells around their necks as a sort of ancient early warning system. Whenever one of the provinces anywhere in the empire would start a revolt its corresponding statue would turn away from the statue of Rome and its bell would begin to ring. The Senate would then mobilize and send troops to crush the uprising.</p><p>In the description of the Colosseum the seed of historical truth the colossus of Nero depicted as the sun god Sol gives rise to a marvelous conception of the amphitheater as a temple of the Sun the great opening above once covered with a gilded bronze dome that mimicked the sky complete with thunder and lightning and rain that was pumped through lead "fistula". The artificial sky was adorned with golden images of the planets and Luna riding her four-horse chariot. A monumental statue of the Sun whose head reached to the sky stood within bearing an orb in his hand a symbol of the Earth. Pope Sylvester we are told destroyed the temple but the arm and head of the statue were still to be seen in the Lateran where the general public misidentified them as belonging to Sampson. The colossal arm and head -moved to the Capitoline in 1471- are now recognized as those of the emperor Constantine.</p><p>However the "Mirabilia" also contains much that is factual or nearly so and we can sense a desire to make accurate statements the heights of the columns of Antoninus Pius and Trajan for instance and to solve what were certainly difficult puzzles the workings of the ancient baths. The "Mirabilia" also preserves for us the names and details of monuments known to the author but later destroyed such as the elusive "Arcus Pietatis" near the Pantheon and the 4th century arch of Gratian Valentinian and Theodosius See Richardson New Topographical Dictionary pp. 26 28. But what is perhaps most valuable to us is the window that the "Mirabilia" provides into the medieval perception of Rome a city of pagan ruins and Christian monuments in which emperors saints prophetic youths and Virgil the Magician inhabit the same landscape.</p><p>Solinus:</p><p>"Gaius Julius Solinus who probably lived between the middle and the end of the third century was concerned with geography though not in the modern sense of the term. His work is entitled Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium but in the Middle Ages when it was widely read it was also known as Polyhistor to emphasize the great number of curiosities that were collected there. The work is a careful compilation from many literary sources chiefly Pliny the Elder but also Pomponius Mela and Suetonius along with various other geographical treatises that are no longer extant. Solinus noted down all the unusual things he came across when reading these works about peoples and their customs animals and plants…</p><p>"The work opens with a full treatment of Rome and Roman history from the kings to the principate of Augustus. The area examined is then extended to Italy and then to Greece and the Black Sea Germany Gaul Britain and Spain; this counterclockwise tour ends with Africa Arabia Asia Minor India and the kingdom of the Parthians in accordance with a systematic geographical plan that is one of the most characteristic features of the work. It enjoyed considerable success in the Middle Ages when it was also read and studied as a summary of the excessively vast Naturalis Historia of Pliny the Elder. It did not however altogether replace it with the result that it enjoyed so to speak a success parallel to that of its more illustrious predecessor."Conte</p><p>"Referring to the reading of Pliny and Solinus in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Anthony Grafton writes: 'Generations of readers thrilled like Desdemona listening to Othello at these tales of strange creatures foods and burial customs – and were no doubt stimulated by them to see the inhabitants of strange lands as literally outlandish less than civilized or even less than human.' Charles Raymond Beazley has made note of this remarkable appeal: 'The compilation of Solinus… became so fashionable in the Middle Ages and exercised so powerful an influence on the geographical imagination that it cannot be passed over. It is simply a collection of marvels chiefly of natural history brought together apparently on the principle 'Credo' or at least 'Lego quia impossibile.'… no one ever influenced Christian geography more profoundly or mischievously."</p><p>"References to and borrowings from Solinus can be found in a wide variety of medieval texts stretching though the whole of the medieval period. Readers of Solinus ranged from Augustine to Bede to Dante and Solinus' influence can be seen in examples as varied as the Hereford Mappa mundi ca. 1300 and Fazio degli Uberti's verse epic 'Dittamondo' 14th c. in which Solinus in the place of Dante's Virgil guides a pilgrim on a tour of the known world. The interest in Solinus had not waned by the fifteenth century… While geography was not a primary area of interest for the humanists Solinus Pliny and authors like them were widely read and commented upon by Renaissance scholars… The strong interest in antiquity that characterized the Renaissance continued the medieval curiosity for the Roman compilers who seemed to have succeeded in encapsulating the entire world and all the knowledge in it."Dover and McDonough</p><p>Hain-Copinger 14880; BMC V 478; Schudt le guide di Roma 565; Goff S 620; GW M42830. North American holdings of the Mirabilia editions ca. 1470-1511: Canadian Center for Architecture Claremont Colleges Getty Harvard Huntington LC Metropolitan Museum of Art Morgan Library NYPL Walters Museum Library Williams Yale</p> Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 23 August books
197156191London: Wolfe Publishing Limited 1971. First Edition. 8vo. yellow cloth in dust jacket; 254 pages. Very Good covers nice; contents clean & tight; very nice d/j. <br/><br/> Wolfe Publishing Limited hardcover books
1983169238Fribourg/Geneva: Liber 1983. Hardcover. VG/VG- light scuffing and soiling to dj minor wear to edges and corners. Black cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering. White and color-photographic dust jacket with forest green lettering. 94 pp. Color illustrations. Translated by Evelyn Rossiter. Liber hardcover books
1983Embry 50714Liber 1983. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. B&W and color reproductions. Liber, 1983. First edition. unknown books
199941008NY:: Oxford University Press. Near Fine. 1999. Hardcover. 0788505475 . First edition. Front free endpaper has been neatly removed else near fine in glossy printed boards. No dust jacket. . Oxford University Press, hardcover books
19142308844S.N 1914. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Ink gift note on verso of one page. 1914 Hard Cover. Both parts of a two-volume accordion-fold photographic viewbook of Rome the first including a four-panel panoramic view and 26 individual photographs and the second 32 individual photographs of important sites throughout the city captioned in Italian on the front with more detailed captions in Italian French English and German on the reverse. The paste-down endpaper of each which continues across the inside binding edge forms a two-panel map of Rome. A photograph of the Basilica of St. Peter is mounted on the front board of the first volume with another photographic view on the back and the front board of the second volume is a colorized photograph. S.N hardcover books
3007Italian text and English Text; 32 views in black and white circa 1890's no autos nice 5-panel fold-out panorama of the city; 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" size; map of inner city on inside paste--down pages; decorative color lithographed front board; slight tips edgewear to binding; a very good copy. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books
20059003195Barcelona: Poligrafa 2005. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. With 218 illustrations in color. Bound in the publisher's original black cloth with the spine and front cover stamped in copper. <br/><br/> Poligrafa hardcover books
17503631Rome:: Gregorio Roisecco mercante di libri in Piazza Navona nella stamperia Puccinelli 1750. THE FIRST EDITION IN THREE VOLUMES. The first Roisecco edition in 2 volumes appeared in 1739. Octavo: 3 volumes:. 16.5 x 11 cm. I. 2 xvi 654 pp. Collation: Ï€2 a8 A-Z8 Aa-Ss8 lacking Ss8 blank and with an added leaf Ii after leaf Ii1. Ï€1 is the engraved t.p. With 19 folding plates of which two are folding maps of ancient and modern Rome. 68 engravings in the text. Vol. II. 2 694 pp. Ï€2 A-Z8 Aa-Rr8 Ss-Tt4 Vv6 Ï€1 is the engraved t.p. With 12 added plates. 82 engravings in the text. Vol. III. 4 523 5 pp. A-Z8 Aa-Kk8 Ï€2 is the engraved t.p. With 1 added plate and a folding letterpress table. 8 engravings in the text. Includes the four-page advertisement for other books sold by Roisecco. I. 2 xvi 654 pp. Collation: Ï€2 a8 A-Z8 Aa-Ss8 lacking Ss8 blank and with an added leaf Ii after leaf Ii1. Ï€1 is the engraved t.p. With 19 folding plates of which two are folding maps of ancient and modern Rome. 68 engravings in the text. Vol. II. 2 694 pp. Ï€2 A-Z8 Aa-Rr8 Ss-Tt4 Vv8 Xx4 Xx4 is blank. Ï€1 is the engraved t.p. With 12 added plates. 82 engravings in the text. Vol. III. 4 523 5 pp. Ï€2 1 A-Z8 Aa-Kk8 Ï€1 is the engraved t.p. 1 is the privilege With 1 added plate and a folding letterpress table. 8 engravings in the text. Includes the four-page advertisement for other books sold by Roisecco. In addition to the 3 engraved title pages the 2 folding engraved maps and the 29 folding engraved plates the three volumes are illustrated with 158 engravings in the text. Vol. I with 82 Vol. II with 68 Vol. III with 8. Bound in matching contemporary vellum bindings silk endbands titles in ink on the spines edges of text block speckled red. Fine copies throughout with some mended tears and minor faults as follows: V. 1: Short wormtrail in gutter of a few signatures at end. V. 2: Short wormtrail in gutter of a few leaves at the beginning and a few signatures at end occasionally touching a letter. V. 3 one leaf browned. A few leaves toned. A beautiful three-volume set describing and illustrating the ancient medieval Renaissance and Baroque monuments and buildings of Rome. This publication marks the culmination of a long series of developments in illustrated guides to Rome. Beginning with the guidebooks produced by Girolamo Franzini and his heirs in the late 16th-century pilgrims and tourists to the once-again-thriving Eternal City could purchase increasingly more accurate guidebooks to the ancient and modern marvels of Rome. In the late-17th century building on the work of Pompilio Totti Michelangelo and Piervicenzo de Rossi published their “Descrizione di Romaâ€. In subsequent editions the “Descrizione†grew to include the redacted works of various learned authorities. The present three-volume production the third to be published by Gregorio Roisecco is based on the final De Rossi edition of 1727 but has been further expanded to include a third volume. The work comprises two and a half centuries of scholarship. Some of the significant authorities whose works were consulted quoted and extracted for this comprehensive guide include: Bartolomeo Marliani d. 1560 Onofrio Panvinio 1529-1568 Alessandro Donati 1584-1640; Famiano Nardini d. 1661; Cesare Baronio 1538-1607; Alfonso Chacón 1540-1599 Antonio Bosio 1575-1629 and Ottavio Panciroli 16th c. Fossati Bellani 704; Olschki Choix 17963; Schudt 207 Gregorio Roisecco mercante di libri in Piazza Navona nella stamperia Puccinelli, unknown books
17653598Rome:: A spese di Niccola Roisecco 1765. THIRD ROISECCO EDITION. The second 3-volume edition 1st 1750. Octavo: 3 vols. 17 x 12 cm. I. a8 A-Z8 Aa-Ss8 Tt-Xx4 Xx4 blank and present. With an engraved frontis. a1 and 19 added plates. II. π1 A-Z8 Aa-Rr8 Ss-Tt4 Vv6. With 20 added plates. III. π1 A-Z8 Aa-Mm8 Nn4 Oo8 With Oo8 blank and present. Bound in three uniform bindings of contemporary patterned paste-paper over cartoncino boards. wear to extremities and spines. Internally this is as close to an immaculate set as I have seen with some deckled edges preserved. The text is bright and clean throughout. The folding engravings are crisp.The three volumes are illustrated with an engraved frontispiece in Vol. I numerous engraved illustrations in the text a folding table and 39 folding engraved illustrations of architectural monuments and sculpture. This set is complete with all engravings called for by Rossetti. Sets such as this with all three volumes complete and with all plates bound in their original bindings are rare on the market. Excellent. A beautiful three-volume set describing and illustrating the ancient medieval Renaissance and Baroque monuments and buildings of Rome. This publication marks the culmination of a long series of developments in illustrated guides to Rome. Beginning with the guidebooks produced by Girolamo Franzini and his heirs in the late 16th-century pilgrims and tourists to the once-again-thriving Eternal City could purchase increasingly more accurate guidebooks to the ancient and modern marvels of Rome. In the late-17th century building on the work of Pompilio Totti Michelangelo and Piervicenzo de Rossi published their "Descrizione di Roma". In subsequent editions the "Descrizione" grew to include the redacted works of various learned authorities. The present three-volume production the third to be published by Gregorio Roisecco is based on the final De Rossi edition of 1727 but has been again expanded to include a third volume. The work comprises two and a half centuries of scholarship. Some of the significant authorities whose works were consulted quoted and extracted for this comprehensive guide include: Bartolomeo Marliani d. 1560 Onofrio Panvinio 1529-1568 Alessandro Donati 1584-1640; Famiano Nardini d. 1661; Cesare Baronio 1538-1607; Alfonso Chacón 1540-1599 Antonio Bosio 1575-1629 and Ottavio Panciroli 16th c. Rossetti 8883; Schudt 208 A spese di Niccola Roisecco, books
188042095Roma: A. Olivieri Fotografo 49-50 Piazza di Spagna via Frattina 151 e 152 1880. 60 photographs of Rome and photos of painting tipped-in on thick cards 165 x 105 mm. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 255 x 185 mm. Bound in full white vellum with rectangular gilt stamped red morocco onlays on upper and lower covers. "Roma" stamped in upper central panel gilt-stamped spine with "Olivieri leg." on bottom panel. Bookplate of Jacob Sloat Fassett. Fine. 60 photographs of Rome and photos of painting tipped-in on thick cards 165 x 105 mm. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo 255 x 185 mm. A. Olivieri, Fotografo, 49-50 Piazza di Spagna, via Frattina 151 e 152 unknown books
7537Full-Leather. Oblong 14" x 10" album containing 63 black and white photographs and 37 hand-colored photos for a total of 100 photos mounted on heavy card stock depicting people and historic structures in Rome Italy. Photos are c. 1900 and measure 9 5/8" x 7 3/4". Binding is contemporary full vellum decorated in gilt and red; floral end papers. Stamp of Holy Cross Abby Canon City Colorado on end papers. Photos are of excellent quality; binding is very good. <br/><br/> hardcover books
201221612NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2012. First edition first prnt. Prologue. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press Hardcover books
198523731n.p.: British School at Rome. Fine. 1985. Hardcover. 0904152081 . Illustrated fold-out diagram. First edition. Fine in green cloth. No dust jacket. . British School at Rome hardcover books
