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Very rare prayerbook in magnificent roman baroque fanfare binding attributed to the Soresini family

[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
€ 27,500
Bindings Book of Hours, Missals & Prayerbooks Catholicism & Eastern Orthodox Church History / 17th Century Italy
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Promoting Catholicism through missionary work as the Jesuits lost power:
a manuscript from the Sir Thomas Phillipps collection

[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
€ 39,500
Balkan & Greece Church History & Missions Italy Japan & Far East Jesuits Manuscripts & Documents North Africa
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16th-century travel account of a journey from Venice to the Ottoman Empire

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
€ 4,500
Balkan & Greece Islamic Art, Culture & Science Italy Travel & Voyages Europe Travel & Voyages Middle East Turkey & Ottoman Empire
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Illustrated catalogue of enameled metal signboards, plates and large letters, with a very large poster showing full-sized specimens

RAVASI, Fratelli. Catalogo 1913 ... Placche ferro smaltato e lettere rame ...
Milan, Ravasi brothers (colophon: Stabilimento Grafico Matarelli), 1913. Oblong 8vo (16.5 x 24 cm). With very large, loosely inserted, oblong folding tinted lithographed poster (61 x 90.5 cm), showing types and other decorations in full size in black and white on a green-grey background, and 100 numbered half-tone illustrations in text. Also with a tipped in circular letter on pink paper introducing the catalogue, by Luigi and Giovanni Ravasi. Stapled in publisher's gray paper wrappers, printed in blue. 16 pp. Full description
€ 850
Book History, Printing & Typography Italy Malta
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Illustrious and powerful Florentine men: first edition to include all five biographies

RAZZI, Silvano. Vite di cinque huomini illustri, M. Farinata degl'Uberti, Duca d'Athene, M. Salvestro Medici, Cosimo Med. il piu vecchio, e Francesco Valori.
Florence, Bernardo Giunta the younger and heirs of his brothers, 1602. 4to. With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page. 17th-century(?) sheepskin parchment, later endpapers. [12], 198, [6] pp. Full description
€ 1,750
Italy Law & Politics
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A milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature, this edition with an elaborate engraved title-page

[RICETTARIO FIORENTINO]. Ricettario fiorentino di nuovo illustrato.
(Colophon: Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1623). Folio. With an elaborate architectural engraved title-page, 3 woodcut illustrations in text and a woodcut device above the colophon. 19th-century vellum. [12, last 2 pages blank], 296, [48] pp. Full description
€ 3,500
Italy Medicine & Pharmacy (17th Century)
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A milestone in the history of pharmaceutical literature

[RICETTARIO FIORENTINO]. Ricettario Fiorentino nuovamente compilato e ridotto all'uso moderno diviso in due parti.
Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789. Large 4to (28 x 21 cm). With engraved illustration on title-page, a decorated engraved initial, and a few woodcut head- and tailpieces. 19th-century sheepskin parchment, manuscript title on spine. VII, [1 blank], 350, [1], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Italy Pharmacy / Pharmacopaea
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First edition of an Italian work on physics in the wake of Galileo's trial

ROSSETTI, Donato. Antignome fisico-matematiche con il nuovo orbe, e sistema terrestre.
Livorno, Giovanni Vincenzo Bonfigli, 1667. 4to. With 66 woodcut diagrams and other illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment, with 2 fastenings made from loops of braided cord on the front cover but only traces of thongs on the back. XII, 179, [1] pp. Full description
€ 7,500
Astronomy & Cosmography Italy Mathematics Optics & Perspective Physics & Chemistry
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