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CANINI, Angelo; Antonio de NEBRIJA and Gaspar BARREIROS (or Caspar VARRERIUS). De locis s. scripturae Hebraicis Angeli Caninii commentarius et Antonii Nebrissensis quinquagena. Nunc primùm simul emendatiùs edita. Accessit Gasparis Varrerii lusitani De ophira regione in sacris litteris disputatio.
Louvain, Gerardus Rivius, 1600. 8vo. With a woodcut "IHS" vignette on the title-page. Contemporary limp vellum with the manuscript title on the spine, remnants of ties. [8], 197, [9], [3], [14], 299-250, [6] pp. Full description

CANNA, Pasquale. Raccolta di disegni alla Sacra Real Maestà D.A M.ria Cristina Borbone Regina di Spagna ed delle Indie.
[Naples, 1828-1831?]. Oblong 1mo (39×50 cm). One letterpress leaf dated 22 August 1830, mounted on flyleaf, and 18 hand-coloured lithographs, dated from 1828 to 1831, drawn on stone by Angelo Belloni, Federico Gatt, Gaetano Dura and Settimio Severo Lopresti, and printed by the "Reale Litografia Militare". Contemporary half green sheepskin, gold-tooled spine, front board with letterpress title label. Full description

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis libri octo.
Nuremberg, Johann Petreius, 1532. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. 19th-century gold-tooled mottled calf. 75, [1 blank] ll. Full description

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533.
With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves. 96; [44] ll. Full description

CARACCIOLI, Antonio and Francesco BOLVITO (editor). De Sacris Ecclesiae Neapolitanae Monumentis Liber Singularis ... Opus posthumum Francisci Bolviti ... Studio, et industria in lucem editum. Qui cuncta digessit: stylum alicubi mutavit: omissas ab Auctore curas secundas adiecit: et innumeras penè hiantes lacunas implevit.
Naples, Ottavio Beltrani, 1645. Folio. With large engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Pope Innocent X on the title page, 2 half-page engravings of the martyrdom of S. Maximus Levita from Cumma (5th century; ca. 153 x 103 mm), many woodcut tailpieces and initials.19th-century half vellum. [20], 365, [14], [1 blank] pp. Full description

[CARDUCCI, Alessandro, Giovanni Andrea MONIGLIA, and Stefano DELLA BELLA]. Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cav allo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.
Florence, Nella stamperia di S.A.S., 1661. 4to. With 3 fold-out engravings, 1 woodcut initial, and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], 7-66, [2 blank] pp. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Scrutinio del libro eloges de M. de Voltaire par differens auteurs.
Venice, Presso Modesto Fenzo, 1779. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, and 1 woodcut initial. Later gold-tooled brown morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 96 pp. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.
[Vienna or Venice?], 1785.
With:
(2) [CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Supplimento alla esposizione ragionata della controversia, che suffifte tra la repubblica di Venezia, e quella d'Olanda.
1785.
(3) [CASANOVA, Giacomo], Signed at end: L.A.S.D.V. Lettera ai signori Giovanni e Stefano Luzac contenente alcune offervazioni sopra la Narrazione dell'affare che ha prodotto la differenza vertente fra la repubblica di Venezia e quella di Olanda, pubblicata nei numeri xxi. C xxii. della loro gazetta.
1785. 3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Ads 1 and 2: with a woodcut decoration on the title page, rococo-decorated titling capitals used for one word in the title and one initial, thick-and-thin rules, ad 3: with the same decorated initials as ad 1 and 2, and with woodcut headpieces throughout. Contemporary half vellum with marbled boards, gold-tooled spine, and a black leather spine label lettered in gold: "Miscellanea". LXX, [4 blank]; LXIX, [5 blank]; 48 pp. Full description

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases. [4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp. Full description

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Garnier frères, [1880]. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 145 full-page engravings, the wrappers and titles of each volume are printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled half morocco by Lambert, marbled paper sides, the title, author, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, surrounded by a gold-tooled frame with onlaid morocco ornaments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. [6], XVII, [1 blank], 507, [1 blank]; [6], 530, [4]; [6], 516; [6], 533, [3]; [6], 569, [3]; [6], 563, [1]; [6], 567, [1 blank]; [6], 551, [3] pp. Full description