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[BIANCONI, Giovanni Lodovico]. Lettere al marchese Filippo Hercolani ... sopra alcune particolarita della Baveria, ed altri paesi della Germania.
Lucca, Giovanni Riccomini, 1763. 8vo. Contemporary Italian marbled paper over flexible paperboards. XVI, 272 pp. Full description

[BINDING]. [GHELARDI SCOLOPI, Orazio Antonio]. La pace tra la virtu', la gloria, ed amore. Componimento drammatico da cantarsi in occasione delle faustissime nozze del nobil uomo signor Silvestro Michele Arnolfini con la nobil donzella signora Beatrice Luisa Bernardini dedicato alla medesima.
Lucca, Giuseppe Rocchi, 1767. Small 4to (17 x 14 cm). Contemporary red velvet, embroidered with silver and gold thread and white and yellow silk (each board with an emblematic image: a crowned mirror[?] showing a hand planting a flag, perhaps intended as the groom's hand on the front and the bride's hand on the back), sewn without supports through 3 holes, brocade paper endpapers (grape vines and large flowers, white on a copper background), green silk ribbon marker. 24 pp. Full description

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Laberinto damore ... con una epistola à Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria del medesimo autore.
[Florence, heirs of Filippo Giunta the elder], 1525. 8vo. Contemporary sheepskin parchment with remains of a gold-tooled spine label, dark blue edges. 72 ll. Full description

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Filocopo ... Di nuovo riveduto, corretto, & alla sua vera lettione ridotto da M. Francesco Sansovino. ...
Venice, [device of Domenico Giglio] (colophon: Francesco Rampazetto, 1554). Small 8vo (15 x 11 cm). With Giglio's woodcut device on the title-page, 6 woodcut decorated initials (3 series) plus 2 repeats. Set in Aldine-style italic types (with upright capitals) with incidental roman. Contemporary limp vellum. “390” [= 380] ll. Full description

BOETHIUS, Anicius Manlius. Di consolatione philosophica volgare, nuovamente revisto & di molti errori porgato opera al tutto dignissima eccellente & bella.
(Colophon:) Venice, Melchior Sessa, December 1531. 8vo. With the title and leaf 1 printed within a border made up of typographical ornament, and 6 decorated woodcut initials, of which one historiated. 17th-century gold tooled green morocco. [8], 104 ll. Full description

BONFILS, G. LEKEGIAN & CO, Brothers ZANGAKI, Collection MERLIN and Carlo NAYA. [Souvenir album with photographs of the Holy Land, Cairo, Athens and Venice].
[Palestine, Cairo, Athens, Venice, ca. 1890]. Oblong album (41.5 x 31 cm) containing 62 albumen prints, mostly 23 x 28 cm, with 2 smaller prints of ca. 16 x 28 and 5 large prints of 35.5 x 27 cm. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French, and sometimes also in English, on the negative. Contemporary brown half morocco. [59], [11 blank] pp. Full description

BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius [and Tobias FENDT (engraver)]. Monumenta illustrium virorum et elogia. Editio nova. Aucta antiquis monumentis in agro trajectina repertis.
Utrecht, Gijsbert van Zijll, 1671. Small folio (30 x 19.5 cm). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, 125 full-page numbered engraved plates (including 88 with text on opposite page), and 2 full-page unnumbered engraved plates, all showing grave-stones and tombs of famous men. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum. [1], [1 blank], [2], 176 pp., [37] engraved ll., 8, [3], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4] pp. Full description

BRUNI, Lorenzo. Sopra la sezione del tendine d'Achille e di qualche altro tendine come mezzo curativo dei piedi torti. Seconda edizione.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1845.
With:
(2) IDEM. Agl'illustri scienziati del settimo congresso Italiano...
Naples, [Filiatre Sebezio?], 1845. With 2 double-page and 14 full-page lithographs.
(3) IDEM. Su i vantaggi che la ginnastica apporta al fisico al morale e a qualche malattia costituzionale.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, 1844.
(4) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1841.
Naples, Ministero di Stato degli affari interni, [1841]. With 4 folding lithographed plates.
(5) IDEM. Risultamenti clinici ottenuti nella sala ortopedica nell' ospedale di Santa Maria di Loreto in tutto l'anno del 1842.
Naples, Filiatre Sebezio, [1842]. With 3 lithographed plates, including 1 folding.
5 works in 1 vol. Super Royal (except ad 1 Demy) 8vo, mostly in 4s. Contemporary half tanned sheepskin, marbled sides, gold- and black-tooled spine with title in 2nd of 5 fields. 24; [38]; 14, [2 blank]; [4], 24; [2], 43, [1] pp. Full description

BRYDONE, Patrick. Voyage en Sicile et a Malthe.
Amsterdam, D.J. Changuion, 1776. 2 volumes. 12mo. With folding engraved map by A.v. Krevelt, and an engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, sprinkled paper sides. [4], 16, 300, [4]; [4], 260, [4] pp. Full description

BUONFIGLIO COSTANZO, Giuseppe. Prima[-seconda] parte dell'historia Siciliana, nellequale si contiene la descrittione antica, & moderna di Sicilia, le guerre, & altri fatti notabili dalla sua origine per sino alla morte del Catolico Rè Don Filippo II. Divisa in XX libri et due parti.
Venice, Bonifacio Ciera, 1604. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With engraved device on the title-page, full-page engraved author's portrait, and numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and decorated initials. Contemporary limp vellum. [48], 692 pp. Full description