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PEROTTI, Niccolò. In hoc volumine habentur haec. # Cornucopiae, sive linguae Latinae commentarij diligentissime recogniti: atque ex archetypo emendati. # Index copiosissimus dictionum omnium ... # Eiusdem Sypontini libellus, quo Plynij epistola ad Titum Vespasianum corrigitur. # Cornelij Vitellij in eum ipsum libellum Sypontini annotationes. # M. Terentij Varronis de lingua Latina libri tres: Quartus. Quintus. Sextus. # Eiusdem de analogia libri tres. # Sexti Pompeij Festi undeviginti librorum fragmenta. # Nonij Marcelli Compendia, in quibus tertia ferè pars addita est: non ante impressa ...
(Colophon on K8r:) Venice, in aedibus Aldo I Manuzio & Andrea I Torresano, May 1517; (colophon on Y7v:) November 1513. Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, repeated on the verso of the last leaf. Including:
(2) VARRO, Marcellus Terentius. De lingua Latina.
(3) FESTUS, Sextus Pompeius. De verborum significatione.
(4) MARCELLUS, Nonius. De compendiosa doctrina. Modern brown morocco. 79, [1 blank] ll., "1436" [= 1426] cols. Full description

PERRIER, François. Kunstkabinet, besluitende hondert der allerberoemste antique stantbeelden staende binnen Rome. Op eene uitvoerige wyze, naer de origineele afgeteekend, denende tot een vervolgh op de beschryving van het oude en nieuwe Rome van den heer François Desseine, en, om hunne uitmuntentheit, in het koper gebraght door de twee Cornelissen van Daelen. Een werk zeer nuttigh voor alle beeldhouwers, schilders, graveerders en teekenaers. Hier by komt eene uitvoerige beschryving van yder stantbeeld, aentoonende de plaetsen alwaer de zelve vertoond werden, de naemen der werkmeesters en de historie der zelve. Alles uit de oudheit der schryvers opgedolven.
The Hague, Bernardus van der Cloesen, 1737. Large folio. With a large engraved printer's device on the title page, the title printed in red and black, a richly engraved allegorical title page heading the print-series, and 100 full-page plates of Roman classical statues, engraved by Cornelis van Dalen, both the Elder and the Younger, after designs by François Perrier. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. [2], 54, [2] pp. + 100 plates. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. [PETEA(?)], Michiel. [Letter, signed, to Nicolò Caragiani in Venice concerning the trading conditions in Cairo for different woolen and silk fabrics].
Cairo, 22 October 1732. Manuscript letter in Italian, opening with a duplicate of an earlier letter, in a different hand, dated 26 September 1732, written in ink on one page of a bifolium originally folded 4 more times for sending (to 8.5 x 14 cm) with the address on one side and traces of a red wax on the other. Full description

PHILIPPON, Adam. Curieuses recherches de plusieurs beaus morceaus d'ornemens antiques, et modernes, tant dans la ville de Rome, ques autres villes et lieux d'Italie.
Croissant, Adam Philippon, 1645. Wholly engraved print series consisting of a title-page, dedication, privilege, and 50 plates. The leaves are numbered 1-42, followed by 10 plates with their numbers changed by hand, and the privilege.
With: (2) LE PAUTRE, Jean. Frizes feuillages ou Tritons marins antiques et modernes.Paris, P. Mariette, [ca. 1664]. Series of 6 numbered engraved plates, each with two friezes. 2 series in 1 volume. Small folio (26.5 x 18.5 cm). Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [59] ll. Full description

PIUS V, Pope. Freiheit und Bulla des allerheiligsten in Gott vatters und Herren, Herren Pii, des namens fünfften Bapsts, uber die Erhoehung und Schoepffung des durchleüchtigsten Fürsten und Herren, Herren Cosmi Medices, Hertzogen zu Florentz, &c. Zu einem Groszhertzoge und koenigmässigem, der provintz Ethrurien, ime underworffen. Geschehen zu Rom, den 27. Augusti. Anno M.D. LXIX.
[Germany], 1570. Small 4to (20 x 15 cm). With a woodcut figure of the Pope on the title-page. Set in Schwabacher gothic type with fraktur headings and incidental roman. Half maroon goatskin morocco (1930s?), gold-tooled spine. [12] pp. Full description

PLANELLI, Antonio. Dell'opera in musica trattato del cavaliere Antonio Planelli dell'ordine Gerosolimitano.
Napels, Donato Campo, 1772. 8vo. Contemporary half vellum with a 19th-century spine label. 15, [5], 272 pp. Full description

POLIZIANO, Angelo. Omnia opera Angeli Politiani, et alia quaedam lectu digna, quorum nomina in sequenti indice vedere licet.
Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1498. Folio. Early 18th-century (?) polished calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with red morocco title label, both sides with triple gilt fillets along the edges and large gilt oval coat-of-arms in the centre, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. The coat of arms is of Henri-Louis Loménie, comte de Brienne (1658-1743), son of Louis Henry Loménie de Brienne. [452] ll. Full description

[PRAYER BOOK]. Piae precationes ad missas devote celebrandas, et sacrosanctam eucharistiam sumendam. Cum variis orationibus ex bonis & probatis authoribus collectis.
Rome, Aloysius Zannettus, 1604. 8vo. With a woodcut title page and some ornamented woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled brown morocco, with gauffered edges. 272 pp. Full description

[PROPAGANDA FIDE]. Africa [-] Greci - Italo Greci [-] Armeni di Venezia [-] varie.
[Rome and perhaps elsewhere, ca. 1758-1764 (transcribing original documents going back to at least 1664)]. 4to. Collection of manuscript transcriptions of about 30 letters and other documents. Contemporary Italian sheepskin parchment over flexible boards. [416] pp., including about 15 blank leaves. Full description

RAMBERTI, Benedetto. Delle cose de Turchi. Libri tre. ...
(Colophon:) Venice, Bernardino Bindoni, 1541. 8vo. With a small typographical ornament on the title-page. Modern vellum, sewn on 4 tapes, laced through the joints. 37, [1], [2 blank] ll. Full description