History, Law & Philosophy

CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.
Lyons, Etienne Michel (colophon: printed by Guichard Julliéron), 1581 (colophon: August). 4to. With Michel's woodcut publisher's device on the title-page (an Ottoman man and a fruit tree with motto "virtutes sibi invicem adhaerent"), a full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier, a small woodcut illustration and 89 beautiful large woodcuts (13 x 9.5 cm) of classical mythological gods and heroes in the text. Modern sheepskin parchmen. [8], 359, [57] pp. Full description

[CARVALHO, Bernardo Teixeira Coutinho Álvares de]. Observações sobre o voto, que Domingos Alves Branco Moniz Barreto, como eleitor da parochia do Sacramento da Corte do Rio de Janeiro apresentou no dia 25 de dezembro de 1821 na junta eleitoral para a installação do governo desta provincia. Nas quaes se mostra, que semelhante voto he contrario ao pacto social da nação portugueza, e aos direitos, e liberdade das provincias do Brasil, escriptas ror [!] hum amigo da união, e da justiça.
Lisbon, Na Typographia de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1822. 4to (ca. 20 x 14 cm). 20th-century gold-tooled brown morocco. 65, [3 blank] pp. Full description

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Esposizione ragionata della contestazione, che sussiste tra le due Repubbliche di Venezia, e di Olanda.
[Vienna or Venice?], 1785. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page. Contemporary blue-grey marbled wrappers. LXX, [2 blank] 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

CASEMBROOT, François de. De Medusa in de wateren van Japan, in 1863 en 1864.
The Hague, Van Cleef brothers, 1865. 8vo. With a wood-engraved device on the title page and 5 tinted lithographed folding maps. Modern half sheepskin, with the original publisher's wrappers (with Dutch flag on front and back, coloured by hand) bound in. XII, [2], 150 pp. Full description

[CASSAS, Louis Francois]. [View of the Taormina theatre ruins (Sicily) with Mount Etna in the distance].
[Sicily or Paris], [ca. 1781 or somewhat later?]. 46 x 81 cm (frame 85 x 128 cm). Watercolour with pencil outlines and highlighted with white, laid in on paper pasted on wood.With a later blue and gold passe-partout in a contemporary gilt frame. Full description

[CASTÉRA, Jean Henri]. Het leven van Catharina II, keizerin van Rusland.
Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1798. 8vo. 3 volumes. With 6 engraved portraits by Reinier Vinkeles. Contemporary marbled boards. XVI, 373, [1 blank]; X, 344; VIII, 348, [1, 1 blank] pp. Full description

CATHARINUS, Ambrosius and Girolamo SAVONAROLA. Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1548. 8vo. With a large engraved portrait of Savonarola mounted on the verso of the blank leaf before the title page, a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials throughout.
Contemporary limp vellum. [1], [8], 100, [1 blank] ll. Full description

CATHARINUS, Ambrosius and Girolamo SAVONAROLA. Discorso contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1548. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and several decorated woodcut initials in the text. Later overlapping vellum. [8], 100 ll. Full description