25 Highlights at the Libri antichi e di pregio a Milano, Salone dei Tessut, Via San Gregorio 29
May 22nd: 6:30 - 8:30pm (opening), 23rd: 10am - 8pm, 24th: 10am - 8pm, 25th: 10 am - 2pm
 | SORGVLIET & ANGUIEN IN 49 PLATES EXQUISITLY COLOURED & HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD AVEELE (AVELEN), Johannes vanden.['t Parck van Anguien (Enghien)].[Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, ca. 1695. WITH: AVEELE, Johannes van den. [Het Schoone Perk van Sorgvliet (Zorgvliet)]. [Amsterdam], Nicolaas Visscher, ca. 1695. Small oblong folio (20 x 30.5 cm). 2 works in 1 volume. Two etched print series showing the buildings and gardens of two of the greatest estates of the Low Countries, Anguien with a plan and 16 views (11 x 15 cm), designated with the letters A-R; Sorgvliet with 32 unnumbered views (11 x 15.5 cm). The whole exquisitely and subtly coloured and highlighted in gold by a contemporary hand. Near contemporary sheepskin parchment. Full description »
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 | 1ST ED. OF BLAEU'S 3RD ITALIAN CITIES ATLAS WITH STOPENDAAL'S MAGNIFICENT VIEW OF NAPLES BLAEU, Joan.Theatrum Civitatum nec non Admirandorum Neapolis et Siciliæ Regnorum.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, [1663]. Atlas folio (54.5 x 34 cm). With 15 maps (11 double-page) and 33 other plates, including 18 views (12 double-page and 2 larger folding). Further with several large decorated woodcut initials, the largest 52 mm. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum, green cloth ties. Frontispiece lacking. Full description »
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 | “REMARKABLE” & “EXCEEDINGLY ELEGANT” WOODCUTS OF FAMOUS (& INFAMOUS!) WOMEN BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.De Claris Mulieribus.Berne, Mathias Apiarius, (colophon: 1539). Small folio (29 x 20 cm). With 2 different versions of the publisher’s bear & honey-tree device (on the title-page & last page) and 13 woodcut illustrations plus 2 repeats (7.5 x 14 cm) by “IK” (Jakob KALLENBERG). Further with one woodcut border strip used as a tailpiece, and with the main text in a fine roman type in the “Basel” style introduced by Peter Schoeffer the younger. With the eighteenth-century Nürnberg armorial bookplate (also showing a bear with a beehive!) of Johann Conrad Feuerlein (1725-1788), Councillor to the city of Nürnberg. Eighteenth-century flexible boards covered with blue paste-paper, blue edges. In a modern blue goatskin morocco box. Full description »
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 | RARE FUNGI FLORA OF TRENTE BRESADOLA, Jacopo.Fungi Tridentini Novi, vel Nondum Delineati, Descripti, et Iconibus Illustrati.Trente, J.B. Monauni (vol. I), J. Zippel (vol. II), 1881-1892[-1900]. 14 parts in 2 volumes. 8vo. With 217 lithographed, hand-coloured plates of fungi. Black half morocco. Full description »
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 | MINIATURE BOOK OF LOVE EMBLEMS, WITH 81 ENGRAVINGSCAMERARIUS (CAMERARIO, CALMER), Giorgius.Emblemata Amatoria.Venice, Pietro Paolo Tozzi (colophon: Venice, printed by Giacomo Sarzina, 1627). Small oblong 16mo (7 x 9 cm). A Latin emblem book, with 83 poems and 81 full-page engravings (4.5 x 6 cm) on integral leaves, namely the engraved title-page with 4 cupids, the full-page engraved arms of the dedicatee, Venetian Senator Dominico Molino, 75 love-emblem engravings and 4 engravings of tombs. Further with 1 woodcut tailpiece (plus 1 repeat), 2 woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and decorations built up from 5 different cast fleurons. Set in roman type with incidental italic and Greek. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine and board edges, edges sprinkled red. Full description »
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 | 52 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS OF ORCHIDS CAMUS, Edmond Gustave.Orchidées de France.[Paris], 1895. Imperial 4to (32 x 26.5 cm). Atlas-volume with calligraphed title-page, 52 fine watercolour drawings on 51 leaves showing orchid varieties, finished with arabic gum, and 1 leaf with photo of the author pasted in. Burgundy half morocco binding, marbled sides and endleaves. Full description »
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 | CROLL'S STANDARD WORK ON IATROCHEMISTRY CROLL, Oswald.Basilica Chymica, continens Philosophicam propriam laborum experientiam confirmatam descriptionem et usum Remediorum Chymicorum Selectissimorum e Lumine Gratiae et Naturae desumptorum. In fine libri additus est Auctoris ejusdem Tractatus Novus De Signaturis Rerum Internis.WITH: BOLLINGER, Ulrich. Elegia de Vera Antiqua Philosophica Medicina. WITH: BOLLINGER, Ulrich. Encomium Wetterae Athenarum Hassiae. Frankfurt on the Main, G. Tampach, [1622]. 2 parts with additional poetry in 1 volume. 4to. Richly engraved title with occult symbols, alchemist plans and 6 alchemist portraits in the wide borders, 2 full-page woodcut plates, large woodcut on title added treatise, woodcut vignettes on 2 poetry titles. Contemporary vellum. Full description »
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 | IN A BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOURING DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis.Traité des arbres fruitiers; contenant leur figure, leur description, leur culture, &c.Paris, Saillant Desaint, 1768. Royal 4to (32.5 x 25 cm). Two title-pages, two half-titles, full-page engraved frontispiece, 180 full-page engraved plates, depicting various types of fruits, woodcut head- and tailpieces, all in a beautiful contemporary hand-colouring. Contemporary marbled calf, gilt fillets along border, spine with raised bands, richly gilt compartments, with gilt-stamped name and title, marbled pastedowns and endleaves, blue speckled edges. Full description »
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 | CLASSIC OF SURVEYING & INSTRUMENT-MAKING RARE LAST (EXPANDED) ED. WITH 29 NEW ENGR. ILLUSTRATIONS FABRI, Ottavio.L'Uso della Squadra Mobile, con la quale per teorica, e pratica si misura geometricamente ogni distanza, altezza, e profondità; ... accresciuta in questa terza edizione di parecchie istruzioni, ..., ec. da Giovanni Vettori.Trento, "Stamparia Vescovile Paroniana" (= Giambattista Parone, printer to the Diocese of Trent), 1753. 4to. With engraved architectural title-page and letterpress title-page (each with the arms of the diocese), 1 unnumbered folding and 3 numbered illustration plates, 25 engraved illustrations in the text (mostly 8.5 x 10.5 cm but 4 nearly full-page; irregularly numbered I-XXIV), engraved arms of the dedicatee, 1 engraved pictorial initial letter, 8 woodcut head and tail pieces (plus 3 repeats), 9 woodcut decorated initial letters (plus 16 repeats). Richly gold-tooled contemporary tanned sheepskin, silk ties, gilt edges. Full description »
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 | GESNER ON MEDICINAL DISTILLATION AND WINE-MAKING GESNER (GESSNER), Conrad.De Remediis Secretis, Liber Physicus, Medicus, & partim etiam Chymicus, & Oeconomicus in Vinorum diversi Saporis Apparatu, Medicis & Pharmacopolis omnibus præcipuè necessarius, nunc primùm in lucem editus.Zurich, Christopher Froschauer, [1569]. WITH: GESNER, Conrad. De Remediis Secretis, pars secunda: nunc primum opera & studio Caspari Wolphii ... in lucem editus. (colophon: Zurich, Christopher Froschauer, 1569). 8vo. 2 parts in 1 volume. With Froschauer's woodcut device on both title-pages; 87 small woodcuts in the text; 9 decorative woodcut initial letters (plus 3 repeats) from three series; roman and italic type with an occasional word of Greek; and fleurons. Contemporary vellum. Full description »
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 | TERRESTRIAL, HISTORICAL, MARITIME & CELESTIAL ATLAS IN 11 VOLUMES MAGNIFICENT COLOURED COPY WITH 54 ADDITIONAL MAPS TO 1687 JANSSONIUS, Johannes.Atlas Major, sive Cosmographia Universalis ...Amsterdam, heirs of Johannes Janssonius, 1675 (with additions to 1687). Imperial folio (51 x 32 cm). 11 Volumes. With 2 letterpress title-pages (each with the same woodcut publisher's device), 11 engraved title-pages (9 with the titles on letterpress slips), 605 engraved maps, mostly double-page with a few larger folding (including 54 added maps by Nicolaas VISSCHER and Frederick DE WIT). Further with 3 engraved views, 4 engraved diagrams, numerous woodcut diagrams, monuments, coins, etc. in the text. With all engraved title-pages, maps, publisher's devices and the views, larger diagrams and many woodcuts in the text coloured by a contemporary hand, the engraved title-pages and some celestial charts also highlighted in gold. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, in a panel design with a large centrepiece with an armillary sphere in the centre opening, cornerpieces and 2 rolls, rebacked, gilt edges, new silk ties. Each volume with the eighteenth-century bookplate of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Full description »
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 | MAGNIFICENT COPY OF THE FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF LISTER'S EPOCH-MAKING CONCHOLOGICAL WORK IN BINDING BY DERôME LISTER, Martin.Historiae, sive Synopsis Methodicae Conchyliorum quorum Omnium Picturae, ad vivum delineatae...London, for the author, 1685-[1697]. 4 parts and Appendix in 1 volume. Folio. 490 leaves with 1086 copper-engravings, including titles and sub-titles, with illustration of shells and mollusc anatomy. Magnificently bound in 18th century French red morocco, spine ribbed and richly gilt, with richly gilt arabesque borders on sides, richly gilt inner decoration, with light blue silken endpapers (DERôME). Full description »
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 | SPLENDID INITIALED AUGSBURG BINDING CA. 1574 LIVIUS, Titus and Lucius FLORUS.Von Ankunfft unnd Ursprung des Römischen Reichs, ...(colophon: Strasbourg, Theodosius Rihel, 1574). Small folio. With title printed in red and black in an elaborate woodcut frame by Tobias Stimmer; Rihel's printer's mark (13 x 10 cm); 131 examples of 66 woodcuts by Stimmer and others (10.5 x 14.5 cm); dozens of large (48 mm) and small gothic initial letters. Contemporary elaborately blind-tooled sheepskin parchment, painted in red, green, white and yellow, and gilt; blind-tooled board edges and turn-ins; gilt and gauffered edges with red and uncoloured decorations; headbands in green, yellow and white; signed "H" probably Caspar Hornheffers in Augsburg. Full description »
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 | COLOUR COSTUME DRAWINGS FOR AN ITALIAN BALLET [MANUSCRIPT & DRAWINGS - BALLET].Ordinazione del Vestiario per il Balletto La Pastorella Svizzera di Giovanni Briol. N-14-figurini.[Naples?], ca. 1840. 4to (21 x 15 cm). A set of 15 costume drawings on 14 numbered leaves in pencil, ink and gouache (numerous colours plus silver and gold) serving as models for the head costume-maker (capo-sarto) for Briol’s ballet “La Pastorella Svizzera” (The Swiss Shepherdess) each with a facing page of manuscript text indicating the name of the character(s), the number needed (when more than one) and further information about the costume. On wove paper. Contemporary green half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, green textured-paper sides, black title-label with gold lettering & decoration on the front board. Full description »
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 | FINELY ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT SCIENCE COURSE [MANUSCRIPT]. PHISICAE PARTICULARIS CURSUS.Conscriptus a Sancti Prade ex Biolo Vultereno ac Collegij Urbani de Propaganda Fide Alumno, auditusque a Perillustri D. Emanuele Caranza in eodem Collegio olim Alumno nunc autem Philosophiae Lectore.[Rome], 1730. Large 8vo. With a fine pen drawing in brown ink of a large armillary sphere as half-title, with hatched shadows; a very beautiful watercolour frontispiece, highlighted with gold, with an armillary globe at the top and a terrestrial globe at the bottom, both flanked by branches with grapes; and with marine and landscape views on either side of a blank central space intended for the title; and 21 fine pen drawings in text showing a globe, the movement of comets, eclipses, a compass rose, the refraction of light, etc. Written in brown ink in a regular and quite readable student's hand. Contemporary vellum. Full description »
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