Asher Rare Books

By the founder of the famous dynasty of scenographic designers

GALLI BIBIENA, Ferdinando. Direzioni a' giovani studenti nel disegno dell' architettura civile, nell' academia clementina dell' instituto delle scienze ...
Bologna, Lelio dalla Volpe, 1745 & 1732. 2 volumes. Small 8vo (17.5 x 10 cm). With 75 full-page engraved plates in the first volume, and 58 full-page engraved plates in the second volume, including 18 folding. Further with some woodcut decorated initials, and some tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary vellum, with the manuscript title on the spine, red spotted edges. [1], [1 blank], [10], 143, [1]; 159, [1] pp. Full description

€ 1,750

Architecture Art & Art History Education & Pedagogy Italy Optics & Perspective School & Textbooks

Experiments with fruit trees and vines

GENESY, Amedeo. Trattato razionale di frutticoltura. ... Nuova edizione.
With: (2) IDEM. La vite piramidale. ... Seconda edizione.
Torino, Francesco Casanova (back of title-page: printed by Vincenzo Bona), 1891. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a woodcut frontispiece showing the Fresia Grossa variety of grape vine and a fruit tree, each volume with several woodcut illustrations in the text and with a publishers catalogue bound at the end the Trattato. Both in original publishers printed paper wrappers. [2], X, 200; 64 pp. Full description

€ 750

Agriculture Arboriculture & Dendrology Fruit Culture Gastronomy Horticulture Italy Wine / Viticulture

A feast of knowledge: the Roman world of fish

GIOVIO, Paolo. De Romanis piscibus libellus, doctus, copiosus & elegans, iam recens aeditus.
Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1528. 8vo (15.1 x 10.1 cm). With a full-page woodcut decorated illustration, incorporating Grapheus device on the verso of the last leaf. Modern vellum. [64] ll. Full description

€ 950

Early Printing - 16th century Fishes Italy

Large, colourful watercolour of traditional Southern Italian costumes

[WATERCOLOUR PAINTING]. [GIUDICE, Luigi del (attributed)]. [Festivities and costumes at a southern Italian festival].
[Southern Italy], "1817" [=1816]. Watercolour on paper (ca 51 x 71 cm), dated in the lower left corner. Gilded frame (ca. 56 x 76 cm). Full description

€ 4,500

Art & Art History Costumes & Uniforms Drawings & Watercolours Italy

200 Etruscan antiquities collected in Gori's conceptual museum

GORI, Antonio Francesco. Museum Etruscum exhibens insignia veterum Etruscorum monumenta aereis tabulis CC. nunc privum edita et illustratum.
Florence, Gaetano Albizzini, 1737. 2 volumes. Folio (27.5 x 37.5 cm). With 200 engraved plates (12 folding), and 1 folding plate with Etruscan script. Contemporary vellum. LXVIII; [2], XLII, 471, [1] pp. Full description

€ 6,500

Archaeology Art & Art History Classical Antiquity Italy Peru

Most beautiful and influential (but also censored) edition of 13th-century stories, including several borrowed and reworked by Boccaccio in his Decameron

GUALTERUZZI, Carlo (compiler) and [Vincenzo BORGHINI (“corrector”)]. Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. ... Cento novelle ... Di nuovo ricorrette.
Florence, Filippo & Jacopo Giunta, 1572. 4to (21.5 x 16 cm). With the Giunta's woodcut device on the title-page and a different one on the last page and about 120 woodcut decorated initials (about 7 series) including some repeats. With the main text set in roman type but the extensive preliminaries in italic. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment. [26], [2 blank], "153" [= 165], [3] pp. Full description

€ 2,500

Early Printing - 16th century Italian Literature Italy Literature

Italian grammar dedicated to the French Queen Maria de’ Medici

GUEDAN, François. Institution de la langue Florentine et Toscane. Pour apprendre promptement, & facilement, la langue Italienne. Tant pour la lecture, prononciation & escriture d'icelle: que pour l'intelligence, composition, & traduction des livres Italiens en François, & des François en Italien.
Paris, Jean Gesselin, 1602. Small 8vo. Modern blind-tooled vellum, each board with a central ornament, gold fillets on spine, red morocco spine-label, red edges. 189, [3] pp. Full description

€ 2,250

Italy Literature School & Textbooks

"Arabian Nights"-style stories, set in Central Asia

[GUEULLETTE, Thomas Simon]. Novelle tartare tradotte dal francese nell'idioma italiano.
Venice, Francesco Andreola for Gaetano Martini, 1882. 3 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Contemporary gold-tooled half calf, decorated paper sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine. 156; 156; 150 pp. Full description

€ 800

Central Asia Italian Literature Italy

Beautifully bound fundamental Italian translation of Homer's Illiad

HOMER. Iliade di Omero. Traduzione del Cav. Vincenzo Monti.
Milano, Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1812. 2 vols. Large 8vo (23.5 x 16 cm). Contemporary elaborately gold-tooled green calf (or sheepskin), with a light brown title-label on the spine lettered in gold. All boards show the large gold-tooled crowned coat of arms (of the French Barons Pavée de Vendeuvre - see to Rietstap 5, Pl. XXIII) within a gold-tooled frame, brown marbled endpapers, gilt edges. [1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], 366; 386 pp. Full description

€ 4,500

Greek & Roman Classics Italian Literature Italy

Fourth edition of an English cookery book especially devoted to desserts

JARRIN, Guillermo A. The Italian confectioner; or complete economy of desserts, according to the most modern and approved practice. ... New edition, revised and enlarged.
London, John Ebers & Co. (back of title-page: printed by William Clowes), 1829. 12mo. With lithographed frontispiece and 2 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf. [2], VIII, [2], IX-XXX, 240 pp. Full description

€ 550

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