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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
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Experiments with fruit trees and vines

GENESY, Amedeo. Trattato razionale di frutticoltura. ... Nuova edizione.
With: (2) GENESY, Amedeo. 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 publisher's catalogue bound at the end the Trattato. Both in original publisher's printed paper wrappers. [2], X, 200; 64 pp. Full description
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A "lost" first Dutch edition of Giraffi's account of the Neapolitan revolt

GIRAFFI, Alessandro and Lambert van den BOS (translator). Historisch verhael van de schrickelijcke beroerte van Napels; met de wonderlijcke opkomst en ongheluckige ondergangh van Mas' Aniello.
Amsterdam, Nicolaes Ravesteyn, 1650. 12mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary vellum. [8], 275, [5 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
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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
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Mastering manners in the Dutch Renaissance

GUAZZO, Stefano and Gomes van TRIERE (translator). Van den heuschen burgerlycken ommegangh ... waer in een yeder onderwesen ende gheleert werdt, hoe hy hem met allerley lieden, heusch, beleeft, geschickt, behoorlijck ende aenghenaem, sal hebben te draghen.
Alkmaar, Jacob de Meester and Gomes van Triere, 1603. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on title-page, with some woodcut initials, and headpieces. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [8], 439, [21], [1 blank] pp; [47 blank] ll. Full description
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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
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