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AMMIANUS MARCELLINUS and Jacob GRONOVIUS (editor). Rerum gestarum qui de XXXI supersunt, libri XVIII. Ope mss. codicum emendati ab Frederico Lindenbrogio & Henrico Hadrianoque Valesiis cum eorundem integris observationibus & annotationibus, item excerpta vetera de gestis Constantini & regum Italiae...
Leiden, Pieter van der Aa, 1693. 4to. With an engraved frontispiece, an engraved vignette on the title page, a full-page engraved portrait of Jacob Gronovius by A. van Zylvelt, 3 folding engraved plates (of which two signed by Romeyn de Hooghe), 14 full-page engraved plates, a half-page engraved illustration of Lacus Ascanius. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum with the manuscript title and author on the spine. [68], 724, [20] pp. Full description

AMPHIAREO DA FERRARA, Vespasiano. Opera, nella quale si insegna a scrivere varie sorti di lettere, et massime una lettera bastarda da lui novamente con sua industria ritrovata, laqual serve al cancellaresco et mercantesco. Poi insegna a far linchiostro negrissimo con tanta facilita, che ciascuno per semplice che sia, lo sapra far da se. Anchora a macinar loro & scrivere con esso come si fara con linchiostro, parimente a scrivere con lazurro, & col cinaprio, opera utilissima e molto necessaria alluso humano.
Venice, 1555. Oblong 4to. With a woodcut of two hands, one holding a compass and the other holding a pen, 6 charming woodcut initials in text and 85 engraved models of calligraphic text and initials, all set within black-lined borders. 18th-century gold-tooled vellum. [48] ll. Full description

ARATOR. Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards. (48) ll. Full description

[ARCHITECTURE - DRAWINGS]. Dissegno per la fabrica della Libreria Canonicale.
[Verona, ca. 1720/25]. Folio (38.5 x 25.5 cm). With 4 architectural drawings, 3 double-page (ca. 37 x 50 cm at a scale of about 1:60) and 1 loosely inserted full-page (24 x 35 cm at a scale of about 1:107), skillfully drawn in brown ink and several shades of grey watercolour. Two of the double-page drawings are elevations (1 partly in cross-section), the other 2 drawings are floor plans, each plan with a folding flap tipped on showing the plan of a higher level. Contemporary stiff paper wrappers. Full description

ARRIANUS, Flavius and Pietro LAURO (translator). De i fatti del Magno Alessandro re di Macedonia. Nuovamente di Greco tradotto in Italiano per Pietro Lauro Modonese.
Venice, (colophon: Michele Tramezzino), 1544. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final leaf. 18th-century vellum with a paper title label on the spine. [8], 178, [2] ll. Full description

BAGLIVI, Giorgio. Opera omnia medico-practica, et anatomica. Editio septima.
Lugduni [= Lyon], Anisson & Joannis Posuel, 1710. 4to. With 3 engraved plates, including the famous one showing two tarantulas, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text, numerous woodcut decorated initials, some headpieces built up from typographic ornaments and some floral woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary brown sprinkled calf. [6], XXXIX, [11], 854, [2] pp. Full description

BALBI, Ambrogio. Dissertazioni risguardanti il culto di Venere Ericina.
Comprising:
-Il culto di Venere Ericina rivendicato ad erice re di Sicilia suo vero institutore.
-Dissertazione sopra una lapide inscritta da silla a Venere Ericina.
Turin, widow Pomba and sons, 1824. 8vo. Green half morocco, gold-tooled spine, with the arms of Joaquín Gómez de la Cortina (1808-1868) in gold on each board. 90 pp. Full description

[BARDI, Giovanni de']. Discorso sopra'l giuoco del calcio Fiorentino. Del Puro Accademico Alterato. Di nuovo ristampato.
Florence, Cosimo Giunti, 1615. 4to. With the woodcut arms of the dedicateeon the title-page, 1 folding engraved plate, 2 woodcut decorated initials and decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. Early limp sheepskin parchment (possibly taken from another book) with manuscript title on the spine. 48 pp. Full description

BARTOLI, Danielle. Missione al Gran Mogor del P. Ridolfo Aquaviva della Compagnia di Giesu, Sua vita e morte, e d'altri quattro compagni uccisi in odio della fede in Salsete di Goa.
Roma, Per il Varesi, 1663. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. 218, (2) pp. Full description

BECCARIA, Giambatista. Dell' elettricismo artificiale, e naturale libri due.
Torino, Filippo Antonio Campana, 1753. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title-page, 6 decorated woodcut initials, 8 headpieces (3 woodcut, 5 made up of typographical ornaments), and 3 woodcut tailpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled calf. [8], 245, [1] pp. Full description