libreria antiquaria mediolanum

Via del Carmine, 1 - 20121 milano (italy) tel. (+39) 02.86.46.26.16 - FaX (+39) 02.45.47.43.33 www.libreriamediolanum.com - e-mail: [email protected] 1. (aCCademia dei Gelati). ricreationi amorose de small worm-hole repaired in the blank margin from p. 229, thin marginal gli academici Gelati di bologna. (Follows): Psafone trattato worm-holes repaired in the last 2 ll., touching few letters. unsophisticated co- py. d’amore del medesimo Caliginoso Gelato melchiorre Zoppio. - bologna, per Gio. rossi, 1590. First edition of a rare emblems book with illustrations ascribed to agostino Carracci. two parts in one 12° volume; 96 pp. – 260 pp., 2 ll. with frontispiece and 9 the iconographic apparatus consists of the full-page etched fronti- half-page engraved emblems by agostino Carracci; contemporary limp vellum, spiece with the central emblem and 9 large and beautiful emblems. manuscript title on spine. Frontispiece slightly shaved in the lower margin, a the second part of the volume offers a treatise on love by melchior- re Zoppo. the academy was founded in 1588 by Zoppo himself and collected the most distinguished literary men and scholars of the time; the aca- demy was supported by Pope urbano Viii barberini and its cultural activities lasted until the end of the 18th century. Praz 244: “scarce”. landwehr (romanic) 4. Cicognara 1831. Frati 6471. € 3.800

2. baratotti Galerana (tarabotti arCanGe- la). la semplicità ingannata. - leiden, Gio. Sambix (i.e. Jo- hannes and daniel elzevier), 1654. 12°; 12 leaves, 307 pp. (without final 2 blank ll.); contemporary vellum, manu- script title on spine. nice copy. First edition. “the first manifesto about women’s inalienable rights to liberty, equality, and universal education” (see enc. of Women). this text, originall en titled tirannia paterna (Paternal tyranny), was po- sthumously published under the title la semplicità ingannata. “Forced by her father to take holy orders, the nun arcangela tarabotti publi- shed a polemic against the dowry system in her Paternal tyranny, which has been described as a feminist critique of the major texts of contemporary misogyny… despite the explosion of women’ publi- shing with the rise of the commercial press in sixteenth-century italy, it was not until the seventeenth century that women writers launched a frontal attack on the institutions that oppressed women. Works by a group of Venetian feminists… actively urged women to chal- lenge the patriarchal institutions of their city” (see enc. of Wo- men). encyclopedia of Women in the renaissance, 2007, pp. 140-141. Willems, les elzevier, p. 183, n. 740. Ferri, biblioteca femminile, p. 361. € 3.500

3. barba antonio. osservazioni microscopiche sul cervello, e sue parti adiacenti. - naples, dalla stamperia del Corriere di napoli, 1807. (bound with): osservazioni sopra la generazione de’ muschi. – Without typographic notes. (bound with): domeniCo miniCHini. istituzioni d’igiene. - naples, dalla tipografia di P. tizzano, 1834. three works in one 8° volume; 20 pp. - V pp., 64 pp., 1 l., 1 folding plate - 158 pp., 1 leaf. Contemporary half green morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, marbled paper boards. occasional light foxing and yello- wing, due to the paper quality, outer margin of the last leaves browned. First edition, very rare, of two works dedicated by antonio barba to observations through the microscope. the first one deals with the generation of mosses; the second treatise is one of the earliest texts about anatomy of human brain. the large folding plate et- ched by P. toro illustrates in detail the microscope used by the au- thor. the final work by professor and doctor domenico minichini is the third edition of a text devoted to a healthy life-style, with sug- gestions concerning wellness, fitness and diet. the section refer- ring to food and beverage is particularly interesting and exhaustive. (barba) Garrison, History of neurology, p. 473. (minichini) Palea- ri i, p. 497. € 2.400 4. barbieri niColo’ Called beltrame. la sup- plica, discorso famigliare... diretta à quelli che scrivendo ò par- lando trattano de comici trascurando i meriti delle azzioni [sic] virtuose. trattato sopra l’arte comica. - Venice, per marco Gi- nammi, 1634. 8°; 8 ll. (without the first blank), 234 pp., 1 l.; engraved title-page with the lar- ge portrait of beltrame character. 18th century vellum, manuscript title on spi- ne and lower edge. a small ownership inscription deleted in the title-page, the upper blank margin of few leaves a little shorter, lightly touching the heading in two or three cases. negligible browning in scattered leaves due to the quali- ty of paper. Second edition (the extremely rare first one was printed in Ferrara). the book is introduced by a very nice etched title-page with the por- trait of the author as beltrame, one of his main characters and one of the most popular characters of the Commedia dell’arte. the book is dedicated to louis Xiii of France, patron of barbieri during his stay in Paris. barbieri was a well-known author and actor, and toured eu- rope playing his works. With his treatise on comic art (first edition: Genua 1627), included he- re in the second part of the volume, and with his Supplica, barbieri to- ok a bold stand on behalf of the comedy and of comic art, against the contemporary general idea of the comedy as a “demonic” literary gen- re. barbieri (Vercelli, 1576- modena, 1641) is credited with many succes- sful comedies, e.g. l’inavvertito (1629), which inspired moliere’s l’Étourdi ou les Contretemps (“the blunderer”, 1653). rasi, i comici italiani i, pp. 265-272. Vinciana 4173 (other ed.). a. Zapperi, dbi Vi (1964), pp. 237-238. € 2.000 5. benZoni Girolamo. la historia del mondo nuovo. - (Venice, Francesco rampazetto, 1565). 8°; 4 leaves, 175 leaves (without the last blank). 18th century calf, red morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. nice copy. First edition. one of the earliest works devoted to the new World and american indians. the account provided by benzoni is particularly in- teresting as it is based on first-hand observation by a non-Spaniard, of- ten denouncing the Spanish cruelty against the indians; the text de- scribes native americans’ life before the contact with europeans and is illustrated by the portrait of the author and several half-page wood- cuts depicting scenes from every-day life and activities of natives. the great success and the wide dissemination of benzoni’s work, and its 6. bianCHini FranCeSCo. de kalendario et cyclo Caesa- iconographic apparatus actually built europeans’ imaginary about in- ris ac de paschali canone s. Hippolyti martyris dissertationes dians and their life. duae. - rome, typis aloysii, & Francisci de Comitibus impresso- benzoni was born in milan in 1519 and moved to the Caribbean in 1541. He visited the antilles, Guatemala, and the west coast of South rum cameralium, 1703. america. among the woodcuts, deserving special mention those sho- Folio; 10 leaves, 92 pp., 4 leaves (tables), 93-176 pp., 4 leaves, 84 pp., 12 leaves (ta- wing cocoa and banana trees, the process of wine- and bread-making, bles), 4 leaves (index), 8 plates (6 folding). Contemporary cartonnage, manu- indians sailing and dancing. script title on spine. light water-staining in the gutter margin of few central lea- Sabin 4790. leclerc, bibliotheca americana 59. Chadenat 3127 (se- ves. Very nice, full-margined copy. cond edition). Palau (1923) i, p. 202. € 24.000 First edition, rare, containing the description of the outstanding sundial housed in the Church of Santa maria degli angeli in rome. thanks to its complexity and precision, the great meridian line - built by Francesco bianchini in 1701-1702 and inaugurated on october 6th, 1702 - can be said to be a complete “astronomical observatory”, since it can register solar, lunar and stellar data: upgrading the one realized by Giandomeni- co Cassini in San Petronio, bononia, it was considered by contempora- ries as the most precious and beautiful scientific instrument in the world. Commissioned by Pope Clement Xi albani to solve some problems de- riving from minor inaccuracy in the Gregorian calendar (introduced in 1582) and to fix an unquestionable date for easter, the sundial consi- stently improves the approximation caused by an error made by Clavius. moreover, the church of Santa maria degli angeli, designed by miche- langelo, stands into the walls of diocletian’s bath and it is then very sta- ble. in the volume, the meridian line is illustrated by a large folding pla- te and by a plate with details of the instrument; other plates illustrate coins, allegoric figures and gnomonical tables. the sundial by bianchini had a great influence and produced an imme- diate echo in europe: two copies were built in Paris and in the following centuries it served as the reference for calculating the exact time. riccardi i, 131: “opera di molta importanza scientifico-storica”. lalan- de, p. 347. Houzeau and lancaster 13144. Poggendorf i, 185. Ziviani, la lettura del tempo, p. 41. € 7.000

7. boCCHi FranCeSCo. eccellenza della statua del San 8. (bodoni GiambattiSta). epithalamia exoticis Giorgio di donatello scultore fiorentino, posta nella facciata di linguis reddita. - Parma, ex regio typographeo, 1775 fuori d’orsan michele dove si tratta del costume, della vivacita’, & Folio; 6 ll. (including title-page), Xli pp., 76 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf; della bellezza di detta statua. - Florence, Giorgio marescotti, 1584. contemporary half red morocco, spine tooled and lettered in gilt. Very nice copy. 8°; 106 pp., 3 ll. (without the last blank); early 18th century half calf, morocco la- bel lettered in gilt on spine. 19th century manuscript annotation on the front pa- First edition of one of the most beautiful specimen-books of ste-down: “extremely rare”. negligible soiling on title-page and last leaf. nice co- bodoni, a masterwork in the art of printing including several py. examples of exotic typefaces. rare first edition of the earliest “monograph in the history of art devo- epithalamia are “the first complete work devoted to oriental ty- ted to an ancient, specific monument” (Schlosser). Written in 1571, as it pography in europe” (Giani). “Such a book, issued in honour of is said in the dedication to Cosimo, but printed in 1584, this work by the marriage of marie adelaide Clotilde, sister of louis XVi, bocchi aims to describe the famous S. George by donatello in Florence, printed in bodoni’s ‘first manner’ from old style types, is a ma- orsanmichele, and to spread the appreciation for this work, which is sterpiece; really magnificent in its types, their arrangement, and worldwide known, still nowadays, as one of the finest symbols of italian the superb engraved decorations” (updike). renaissance. 139 fine etchings by the most important artists of the time (be- Featuring a modern point of view and a new method of looking at art- nigno bossi, Giovanni Volpato, domenico Cagnoni, Simon Fran- works, in this text - “the longest text on a piece of sculpture written du- cois ravenet and others) richly illustrate the volume making it to ring the Cinquecento… - bocchi employs a terminology derived from be a gorgeous example of neoclassicism in printing. 25 large vi- rhetoric to extol three aspects of the sculpture: its representation of gnettes depicting the allegory of 25 Sabaudian towns introduce character, its liveliness, and its beauty. each of these aspects is seen as 25 exotic inscriptions. the following leaves of text explain the al- more closely related to the work’s content than to its style” (Frangen- legoric illustration. berg). brunet: “une des plus belles productions des presses de bodoni”. the writings of Francesco bocchi (1548-1583), also considered as the brooks 70 (tiratura a). Giani, Saggio, p. 85. brunet ii, 1028. up- author of the earliest guide of Florence in renaissance (le bellezze di dike, p. 161. € 15.000 Firenze, 1591), exerted a large influence on later literature on sculpture. Cicognara 3484. Schlosser magnino, p. 391. th. Frangenberg, the art of talking about sculpture: Vasari, borghini, bocchi, “Journal of the War- burg and Courtauld institutes” 58, 1995, pp. 115-131. C. Hattendorff, Francesco bocchi on disegno, “Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld institutes” 55, 1992, p. 274, n. 18. S. menchi, dbi Xi (1969), pp. 72-74. € 4.000 9. borCH JoHann ComPte de. lettres sur les truffes du Pié- mont. - milan, Frères reycends, (1780). 8° ; Viii pp., 3-52 pp. (without 1 blank leaf), 1 l. (errata) and 3 color folding plates; con- temporary red gauffered paper, ornamental border tooled in gilt on sides. two stamped bookmarks (ex bibl. Gan and antichità Preti, milano) on title-page and at the end. ni- ce copy. First edition of one of the few books entirely devoted to truffles. the text, con- sisting of three letters to the marquis of balbiano and to the Count of moroz- zo, deals with the differences between white truffles from Piemonte and black truffles from Périgord, and provides detailed information about their nutritio- nal and gastronomic virtues. the three folding color plates at the end are engraved by louis-Charles Gau- tier-d’agoty after drawings by the author himself: Gautier-d’agoty used here the famous technique of mezzotint, known for the high quality of its tones and for allowing multiple colors to be printed. Volbracht, mykolibri 208. Vicaire 104-105. Pritzel 996. € 6.000 10. borromini FranCeSCo. opera del cavalier Fran- cesco boromino cavata da suoi originali cioè la chiesa, e fabrica della Sapienza di roma con le vedute in prospettiva e con lo studio delle proporzioni geometriche, piante, alzate, profili e spaccati dedicata alla Santità di n.S. Papa Clemente Xi. - rome, data in luce da Sebastiano Giannini all’insegna dell’ancora in piazza navona, 1720. (bound with:) opus architectonicum equitis Francisci boromini ex ejusdem exemplaribus petitum; oratorium nempé, ædesque romanæ rr. pp. Congregationis oratorii S. Philippi nerii additis Scenographia, geometricis pro- portionibus, iconographia, prospectibus integris, obliquis, inte- rioribus, ac extremis partium lineamentis. accedit totius ædificii descriptio, ac ratio auctore eodem equite boromino nunc pri- mum edita. -rome, Sebastianus Gianninus editit, ac excudit ad anchoræ insigne in foro agonali, 1725. two parts in one large folio; (opera): engraved title-page, engraved dedication leaf, engraved leaf (“to the reader”), engraved list of plates and 46 engraved plates (the first one with the portrait of the author, the final one consisting of 2 joint leaves forming a large plan) - (opus architectonicum): engraved fron- tispiece, title-page, 2 dedication leaves, 31 pp. (latin and italian text), 66 + 1 engraved plates (the first one with the portrait and the final one consisting of 3 joint sheets with the large view of oratory S. Filippo neri; other plates con- sisting of 2 or 3 sheets). Contemporary cartonnage. modern book case. the etched frontispiece of the second part is shaved and mounted on a 18th cen- tury leaf. negligible occasional foxing, few worm-holes in the first leaves of the second volume. Wide margined copy. rare first edition of the most important work on roman baroque ar- chitecture. the book is complete with two parts, rare to be found to- gether, and with all the plates: the berlin Katalog describes an incom- plete copy, Cicognara’s and millard’s copies only display the first part; olschki calls for only the first volume. the book illustrates the groundbreaking project of two famous archi- 11. boYle robert. Chymista scepticus, vel dubia et pa- tectonic works by borromini, such as the church of S. ivo alla Sapien- radoxa chymico-physica, circa spagyricorum principia, vulgo za and the oratory and monastery of S. Filippo neri, which soon be- dicta hypostatica. - rotterdam, ex officina arnoldi leers, 1662. came reference sources for the italian and european baroque archi- tecture. 8°; title-page (without its blank conjugated), 8 leaves, 24 pp., 293 pp.; contem- before his death (1667), borromini, together with his friend Virgilio porary cartonnage, manuscript title on spine. uniform light browning due to Spada, had collected drawings of the two projects and had commis- the quality of paper. unsophisticated copy. sioned dominique barrière to execute the engravings, in order to pu- First edition in latin of the first modern chemistry textbook. blish an edition of the work. Since 1660 the artist had been preparing “the importance of boyle’s book must be sought in his combination a number of etchings illustrating S. ivo. but borromini’s death inter- of chemistry with physics. His corpuscular theory, and newton’s mo- rupted the work; only later, Sebastiano Giannini took over the dra- dification of it, gradually led chemists towards an atomic view of mat- wings and the documents, and decided to get them engraved and pu- ter... His argument was designed to lead chemists away from the pure blished. aside from the few etchings by barrière, the others remain empiricism of his predecessors and to stress the theoretical, experi- anonymous. mental and mechanistic elements of chemical science. the Skeptical most of the original drawings were probably sold from Giannini to Chemist is concerned with the relations between chemical substances baron Philippe von Stoch, who stayed in rome between 1721 and rather than with transmuting one metal into another or the manufac- 1731. now they are held in albertina, Vienna. ture of drugs. in this sense the book must be considered as one of the berlin Katalog 2689 (incomplete). Cicognara 442 (only first part). mil- most significant milestones on the way to the chemical revolution of lard, architectural collection, italian n° 22 (only first volume). rosset- lavoisier in the late eighteenth century” (Pmm). ti 1234. Kissner 57. olschki, Choix 16506 (only first volume). Schudt two issues were published in the same year and are identical except 882, 940. Wittkower, art and architecture in italy, 1986 pp. 197-229. for a little difference in the title-pages: one shows “rotterdami, ex of- blunt, borromini, london 1979, pp. 125-126. not in Fowler. ficina arnoldi leers”, the other one “londini: excudebat J. C. ve- € 60.000 niuntque apud Johannem Crooke…”. Fulton 37. Pmm 141. dibner 39. Horblit 14. Sparrow 27 (edition in english). € 9.000 12. bruni leonardo. libro de la guerra de Ghotti fat- to volgare da lodovico Petroni Cavaliere Senese. - Venice, ni- colo d’aristotile detto Zoppino, 1528. 8°; 87 ll., 1 blank leaf; title-page with a large xylographic bordure and a nice woodcut vignette at the end. Contemporary Venetian brown morocco. nice copy. a good edition of the famous work by leonardo bruni, well-known humanist from arezzo, about the History of the italian war against the Goths, in a fine contemporary Venetian brown morocco (apple binder?): blind-tooled spine, a gilt-tooled lozenge with interlaced de- coration in the centre of each side surrounded by a single gilt fillet with corner pieces, other blind-tooled decoration and multiple fillets. this edition, very accurate, in the italian translation by lodovico Pe- troni, is derived from the one printed by Giunta one year earlier, but it stands out for the very nice woodcut bordure which frames the title showing the figures of Cicero and Catilina, and a scene from a battle. Sander 1425. € 4.300 13. CaldeSi GioVanni. osservazioni anatomiche... 14. Camillo Giulio. l’idea del theatro. - Florence, Giulio intorno alle tartarughe marittime, d’acqua dolce, e terrestri. torrentino, 1550. - Florence, Piero matini, 1687. 4°; 86 pp., 1 l. (typographic notes and privilegia); woodcut title-page surrounded by 4°; 2 leaves, 91 pp., 9 folding etchings by Francesco nacci; contempora- a decorated architectonic bordure, displaying putti, fruits and flowers, the medici ry vellum, red edges. blank gutter margin of p. 65 reinforced. nice copy. coat of arms, a view of Florence. Contemporary limp vellum with original leather ties. Very nice, wide-margined copy, occasional light water-staining (in the lower First edition, rare, of the work by Giovanni Caldesi (1650-1732 blank margin). Stamped bookmark (dott. aldo Frugoni), on the first and last leaf. ca), pupil and friend of Francesco redi, dedicatee of this work. First edition, posthumously published, of a rare Sixteenth century treatise as well as the “osservazioni intorno alle torpedini” by Stefano on the “art of memory”. lorenzini (1678) and the “esperienze intorno alla generazione the “theatro” provides a mnemonic method offering a “theater of human delle zanzare” by Pietro Paolo da Sangallo (1679), the text by Cal- mind”, a place where to set up and manage all knowledge and memories. desi largely benefited from the crucial contribution of redi’s tea- this “theater”, invented by the author, should be designed as a real small chings to the use of microscope. amphitheatre, according to Vitruvian rules, and be able to collect all hu- the treatise, one of the earliest and most important studies of man knowledge making “scholars into spectators”. the building should be modern comparative anatomy, is illustrated by 9 large etchings composed by 7 levels, corresponding to 7 planets and introduced by 7 ga- depicting all the parts and limbs of these animals improving the tes, decorated with symbolic figures. through these gates, it is possible to knowledge of their inner structures and skeleton. For his obser- enter a sort of chessboard consisting of 49 blocks dedicated to mytholo- vations, Caldesi used the microscope, as he says at p. 54; the pla- gical characters, emblems and cabalistic symbols. the main subjects of the tes are particularly detailed and thoroughly explained by the au- 16th century’s culture – such as astrology, hermetic and esoteric theories, thor himself at the end of the volume (pp. 79-91). myths… - were collected here in order to allow the reader to keep all kno- Gamba, 1553. de renzi, iV, p. 82. Cole, a History of Compara- wledge in his mind. tive anatomy, 440. Krivatsy 2009. Piantanida 1705: “rare”. not in in comparison with earlier treatises of mnemonic, even among those osler, Cushing, Waller, Wellcome. € 2.200 which had proposed buildings (churches, monuments or the knowledge tree e.g.) as models for collecting memories -, this work stands out for its grandiosity and refinement and can be legitimately considered as the peak of the so-called “theaters of memory”. it will also inspire later philoso- phers, such as Giordano bruno, born 4 years later than Camillo’s death. Young, bibliography of memory, p. 56. biblioteca magica della Casana- tense n. 263. moreni, p. 89. Yates, l’arte della memoria, torino, einaudi, 1972 e 1993, pp. 121-159. liruti, notizie dei letterati del Friuli, iii, p. 69. € 7.500 15. CantiunCula Claudio. Paraphrasis in lib. 1. in- 16. CaourSin Guillaume. Historia von rhodis wie stitutionum iustiniani imperatoris. - Paraphrasis in secundum li- ritterlich sie sich gehalte mit dem tyrannischen Keiser maho- brum institutionum imperialium iustiniani imperatoris. - lyon, met uss turckye, lustig und lieplich zu lesen. - (Strasbourg, mar- apud Seb. Gryphium, 1534-1535. tin Flach, 1513). two parts in one 4° volume; 154 pp., 1 blank leaf – 4 ll., 269 pp., 1 leaf. Con- Folio; 68 leaves; title-page with a large woodcut and 33 half-page woodcuts temporary bolognese “Fortuna binding” (extremities wisely repaired). old ow- (some repeated) within the text; two column German text, gothic type. 18th nership inscription deleted on the first title-page; 18th century annotations on century half calf, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine. Faint browning in few the last leaf (verso). light water-staining in the upper corner of the last part of leaves; the gutter blank margin of ll. l1 and l8 (the last one) slightly repaired. the volume. nice copy. a very beautiful example of contemporary bolognese “Fortuna bin- First edition in German, very rare. the great iconographic apparatus ding” of brown calf, paneled with rich blind-tooled outer borders, a consists of the large title-page woodcut depicting a knight of Saint central blind-tooled lozenge and other floral decoration surrounding a John, 33 half-page woodcuts, representing scenes from the siege, rea- smaller gilt lozenge displaying gilt-title (upper side) and gilt “Fortuna lized by two different hands (one more schematic, the other one more emblem” (lower side); spine in 8 compartments finely tooled in blind. realistic: see e.g. the interiors), and the small portrait of Saint John fol- according to Hobson, this kind of binding should be ascribed to the lowed by the typographic device of martin Flach at the end. the title- “alle Vignette bookbinder”, active in bologna at that time (1525- page illustration and 11 of the woodcuts derive from the first edition; 1545). 17 blocks (some repeated) were used here for the first time. the por- the book contains a commentary to the first and second book of Ju- trait of the Saint had already appeared two years before in the Hortu- stinian’s institutes by the humanist Claudius Cantiuncula (Chansonet- lus animae printed by Flach himself in Strasbourg. te), close friend of erasmus. this finely illustrated account of the famous 1480 siege of rhodes, adams C-558. P. bietenholtz, Contemporaries of erasmus: a biogra- when the Knights Hospitaller withstood a massive attack of the otto- phical register of the renaissance and reformation, i, toronto 1985, man empire, was written by Guillaume Caoursin, hospitaller and vice- p. 268. € 6.700 chancellor of the order of Saint John of Jerusalem. the first edition, in latin, was printed in ulm in 1496 by Johann reger; this German translation was prepared by mulich adelphus, humanist from Stra- sbourg. Goellner, turcica 59. Kristeller, die Strassburger bucher-illustration im XV. und im anfange des XVi. Jahrhunderts, n° 512. € 20.000

17. CaPiluPi Giulio. Fabrica et uso di alcuni stro- menti horarii universali ritrovati da Giulio Capilupi gentil- huomo mantovano con altre inventioni in simile materia. - rome, heredi di Giovan Giliotti, 1590. 4°; 4 leaves (including the etched frontispiece), 42 pp., 1 blank leaf; 9 et- chings (mostly full-page) within the text. early 19th century cartonnage (minor losses to spine). manuscript ownership inscription on a paper label applied on title-page (belisario Simonelli). Good copy. First edition. extremely rare work on gnomonic and sundials, illu- strated by 9 large etchings and a fine engraved frontispiece. the il- lustrations within the text explain in detail how to build four in- struments and their use; particularly interesting the “universal clock”, which improves the one designed by bernardino baldi. ”Frutto degli studi matematici-fisici del Capilupi resta l’operetta dedicata al duca Vincenzo Gonzaga. Vi si illustrano la fabbrica- zione e l’uso di quattro strumenti, il secondo dei quali è il perfe- zionamento di quello inventato dal poeta e matematico bernardino baldi. Vi si tratta di una croce da portare sopra al tavolo, di una croce oraria universale per le ore astronomiche italiane e babiloni- che e dell’annulo di Cristoforo Clavio” (dbi). ”le ultime invenzioni accennate nel frontespizio si riferiscono al modo di costruire annuli e croci horarie portatili, usate prima del perfezionamento degli orologi a ruote” (riccardi). riccardi i, 231. Ziviani, la lettura del tempo, p. 56. morpurgo, diz. degli orologiai, p. 41.G. de Caro, dbi XViii (1975). € 4.500 18. Carletti FranCeSCo. ragionamenti sopra le cose da lui 19. CaValieri bonaVentura. directorium genera- vedute ne’ suoi viaggi si dell’indie occidentali, e orientali come d’al- le uranometricum in quo trigonometriae logarithmicae funda- tri paesi. - Florence, Giuseppe manni : per il Carlieri, 1701. menta, ac regulae demonstrantur, astronomicaeque supputa- 8°; lXXXXViii pages, 1 l., 166 pages, 1 l. (half-title), 396 pages; contemporary vel- tiones ad solam ferè vulgarem additionem reducuntur. - bo- lum, marbled edges. Very nice copy. logna, tebaldini, 1632. First edition of the travel account of the first “private” globe circumnaviga- 4°; 8 leaves, 330 pp., 3 ll., 160 ll. and one large folding plate with xylographic tion, undertaken by the Florentine merchant Francesco Carletti between diagrams and tables within the text. Contemporary limp vellum (end-papers 1594 and 1602. renewed). light browning in few gatherings, but nice copy. the author (1573-1636) left italy with the intention of buying moorish sla- First edition of the work which introduced logarithms in italy and ves in ethiopia to sell in West indies. Carletti left Sevilla with his father in first published work by bonaventura Cavalieri. His research on lo- 1594 and sailed toward West africa. Soon after they reached the West indies garithms and trigonometry was really important also for its applica- (Colombia, Panama, Perù and mexico). but the text is of great interest, in tions to astronomy. particular, for the first-hand observations referring to Japan, China, Philip- ”logarithms were introduced into mathematics in the work of na- pines, and many areas in South asia: around 1596 the Carletti continued pier in 1614. in italy such valuable auxiliaries to numerical calcula- their travel toward the east indies and they stayed in Japan and in China, tion were introduced by Cavalieri, together with noteworthy deve- where Carletti has been living for many years. in 1602 he decided to come lopments in trigonometry and applications to astronomy. in this back to Florence, but his account remained unpublished for around a hun- connection we might mention directorium generale uranometricum dred years. (1632) … [it contains], moreover, excellent logarithmic-trigonome- Carletti was the first traveler to thoroughly describe cocoa and chocolate tric tables”. and to convey their knowledge to italy (amat di San Filippo). b. Cavalieri was born in milan around 1598; he moved in 1616 to Pi- “His account is also a global picture of the principal route and commercial sa where he met benedetto Castelli , “who had studied with Galileo entrepôt of the beginning of the age of discoveries. individual narratives at Padua and was at the time a lecturer in mathematics… [Cavalieri] about overseas discovery by italian merchants resulting from cross-cultural was introduced by Castelli to Galileo, whose disciple he always con- encounters in the age of discoveries were an important group of the genres sidered himself. He wrote Galileo at least 112 letters, which are in- of renaissance historiography... Since they did not always respond to the cluded in the national edition of the opere di Galileo… in [one of pressure of the imperial doctrine prevailing at court, there was a certain level his] letters, Galileo said of Cavalieri ‘few, if any, since archimedes, of objectivity in their accounts. ” (Colla). have delved as far and as deep into the science of geometry’” Sabin 10908. not in Cordier. Hough, the italians and the creation of ame- (dSb). rica n° 57. amat di San Filippo, pp. 362-366. mueller, bibliographie des Ka- riccardi i, 322. Carli-Favaro (28) 131. Cinti 187 (91). e. Carruccio, kao, p. 13. e. Colla, 16th century Japan and macau described by Francesco dSb iii, pp. 149 and ff. tomash and Williams, erwin tomash li- Carletti (1573?-1636), “bulletin of Portuguese - Japanese Studies”, 17, 2008, brary on the History of Computing i, pp. 266-7. € 8.000 pp. 113-144. € 8.500 20. CeCCo d’aSColi. (l’acerba). - at the end: Venice, red by medieval lapidaries Gio. andrea Valvassori detto Guadagnino, 1546). and bestiaries, and by allego- ric and exoteric sources (see 8°; CXVi ll., 3 ll. (without the last blank); 20th century red morocco, spine let- also the nice illustrations wi- tered in gilt. one full-page woodcut depicting two astronomers with an astro- thin the text), Cecco offers a labe; 7 half-page astronomical-cosmological figures and 69 symbolic, exoteric and allegoric woodcut vignettes throughout the text. one tear wisely repaired system based on applied at l. lXV, without any loss; the upper corner of the last leaf reinforced. occa- astrology, which can explain sional light marginal soiling. Printed bookplate on the front paste-down (G.u. all phenomena in the co- lanfranchi). smos. in this work, conside- red by scholars as an “anti- rare illustrated edition of the most celebrated poem by Cecco d’asco- Comedy”, the author sets out li. in the last period of his life, he wrote this poem, l’acerba, an en- a system in opposition to the one described by dante: see the famous cyclopedic, anti-academic text, in a particular italian vernacular. inspi- verses “qui non si canta al modo delle rane, / qui non si canta al mo- do del Poeta / che imaginando finge cose vane”. Cecco, alias Francesco Stabilini, was born in ascoli in 1269; he taught astrology and medicine in bologna and Florence. in his works he pro- pounded audacious theories against Catholics – e.g. that the influence of celestial bodies would be more powerful than the Holy Grace. this text was issued in more than 20 editions along 15th and 16th centuries; it met a great success and aroused the general curiosity, even though, due to the censure of the inquisition, only few co- pies survived: accused of im- piety, the author was executed September 26, 1327 in Flo- rence as a heretic. essling 1336. Sander 1893. Cantamessa 1587. riccardi i, 2, 474 (s.v. Stabili). biblioteca magica Casanatense 1137 (s.v. Stabili, other ed.). € 5.000 21. Coleti GiandomeniCo. dizionario storico-geo- grafico dell’america meridionale. - Venice, nella Stamperia Co- leti, 1771. two 4° volumes; Viii pp., one large folding map, 196 pp. – 192 pp. Contem- porary cartonnage. unsophisticated copy (stamped bookmark on title-pages: albicini). First edition. a great geographical and ethnographical dictionary de- especially in the two letters which appear in the final section, respec- dicated to South america, based on first-hand and verified sources tively addressed to antonio degli adinolfi, dean of Padua university, and illustrated by a large folding map, etched after drawing by the au- and to Pietro antonio Canozi – entitled “laus perpectivae” (see the thor himself. this work is a reference in the studies about those coun- colophon) – we can find an extremely interesting early contribution to tries and the most important work by Coleti. the dictionary includes, the discussion on the development of perspective representation, and in alphabetical order, all the entries relevant to the region: for each en- remarkable information, from first-hand experience, about the most try, geographic, economic and ethnologic information is thoroughly important painters and artists of the time: the author mentions espe- provided. “the author was many years employed in South america as cially antonello da messina but also bellini, mantegna, Pietro lom- a missionary; the principal merit of his work consists in being almost bardo and other contemporary painters. entirely the result of personal observation, or of information procu- the birth of the science of Perspective must be found in the master- red on the spot” (Sabin). pieces of inlaid woodworks of the early renaissance. Here is descri- Coleti (1727-1798), a Jesuit from Venice, moved to South america bed in detail an outstanding example of this art, the chorus of St. an- and lived in quito between 1755 and 1767. tonio from Padua realized by the Canozi brothers between the 1462 Sabin 14339. leclerc 125: “le dictionnaire, rédigé d’après des docu- and 1466 and destroyed in the fire in 1749. ments neufs et authentiques, était très-estimé”. Chadenat 4510. amat Canozi deserves mention not only as one of the finest wood-artists in di S. Filippo, p. 504. Sommervogel ii,1285 Palau ii, p. 231. P. Preto, the italian quattrocento, but also for his activity as a typographer: he dbi XXVi (1982), p. 725. Phillips, p. 801. € 2.300 was the first to introduce the art of printing in Padua and issued some of the most important and influential works in the humanistic culture 22. CollaZio matteo. opuscola. - Venice, bernardi- such as averroes’s commentary to aristotle and leon battista alberti’s nus rizus novariensis, 1486. works. the other texts within the collection are a contribution to the rhetoric 4°; 24 ll. later half vellum, morocco label on spine. Stamped bookmark of pri- debate. vate collection on the first end-paper. nice, wide-margined copy. HC 5476 . GW 7156. iGi 3050. bmC V, 400. Goff C-750. P. l. ba- First and only edition. this collection of opuscula by the humanist gatin, l’arte dei Canozi lendinaresi (trieste, 1990), p. 71. € 12.000 matteo Collazio contains texts of outstanding relevance in art history and history of perspective in italian quattrocento. 23. Colonna FranCeSCo. Hypnerotomachia di Poli- philo cioè Pugna d’amore in sogno. dov’egli mostra che tutte le cose humane non sono altro che Sogno: e dove narra molt’altre cose degne di cognitione. ristampato di novo et ricorretto con somma diligentia. - Venice, in casa dei figlioli di aldo, 1545. Folio (20 x 31,1 cm); 234 leaves, aldine typographic device on title-page and last leaf; 170 woodcut illustrations and 39 woodcut initials throughout the text; 20th century vellum. large paper copy. bookplate on the front paste-down. Second edition (essentially a reprint of the first one, 1499, but 6 wo- odcut blocks were renewed) of the most magnificent illustrated book of italian renaissance, a masterpiece which perfectly harmonizes the textual content and the iconographic apparatus consisting of the fa- mous series of 172 woodcuts. Since the appearance of the edition princeps in 1499, the Hypneroto- machia Poliphili has been heralded as the finest book of italian re- naissance. “the dream of Poliphilo” was admired by aldus’s con- temporaries for its scholarship and value and soon became an inspi- ring source for all the europe: within a year a French translation ap- peared, followed by an english translation in 1592. the text is an allegorical-hermetic novel - written in a bizarre italian language and ascribed to the authorship of Francesco Colonna - and various misfortunes. Venus blesses their love, but when Poliphilo which reflects the neo-Platonic culture of italian Humanism in the is about to take Polia into his arms, she vanishes into air and he wakes second half of 15th century; the refined aldine typographic layout up. and the illustrations depicting the allegorical scenery and architectural essling 1198. Sander 2056. renouard, p. 133. ahmanson-murphy iii settings make the volume to be a milestone in the history of printing n. 300. mortimer (it.) 131. adams C-2414. € 65.000 and a reference for the development of renaissance design. the en- gravings, tentatively attributed to the Paduan artist and miniaturist be- nedetto bordone, stand out for their elegance in applying proportions to architectures’ illustration and to human figures as well as in explo- ring a treasury of emblematic visuals. they illustrate the dream of Po- liphilo, who pursues his beloved Polia through a fantastic landscape of pyramids, palaces, obelisks and ruined temples, bacchanalian festivals 24. Contile luCa. ragionamento sopra la proprietà del- le imprese con le particolari de gli academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche. - Pavia, Girolamo bartoli, 1574. Folio; 6 leaves, 162 leaves, one unnumbered leaf between ll. 43 and 44 (displa- ying a full-page etching depicting a planisphere surrounded by an elaborate ar- chitectonic and allegoric bordure). engraved title-page and 116 half-page et- ched emblems within the text. 18th century half calf, morocco label and gilt fillets on spine, marbled paper on sides, red edges. Faint yellowing in scattered leaves. an old ownership inscription formerly cancelled on the lower blank margin of the title-page, manuscript annotation in the blank margin of 2 ll. ni- ce, good margined copy. First edition, rare. one of the most beautiful and richly illustrated ita- lian emblem books printed in 16th century. it was published in Pavia and dedicated to Philip ii of Spain, whose dedicatory emblem is de- picted in the additional leave showing in the centre the planisphere with america and africa. the 115 more etchings, inscribed within de- corated borders, refer to the other members of accademia degli affi- dati: among them, we can mention emanuele Filiberto and S. Carlo borromeo. each etching shows a motto and the pseudonym of the person. “Contile’s ragionamento, composed for the accademia degli affidati (Pavia), was published in 1574. this work is valuable both for its for- mer section, theoretical, and for the latter, illustrated and devoted to the interpretation of a series of imprese belonging to noblemen and members of the accademie. it offers a magnificent exemplification of the role that the italian accademie, whose members were used to con- ceive and exhibit imprese as distinctive marks, played in the reflection on the imprese, in their circulation outside the courtesan milieu, in keeping alive the fashion of that witty symbolic form” (the study of italian emblems). luca Contile was a prolific poet, author of comedies, and diplomat. He was born in Cetona (Val di Chiana); he was at the service of cardi- nal agostino trivulzio in rome; of alfonso d’avalos, marquis of Va- sto, and Ferrante Gonzaga in milan; of Sforza Pallavicino in Venice, where he supported the birth of Venetian academy. eventually, he moved to Pavia and was active as a member of academy affidati and as high commissioner of the King of Spain. Praz, p. 307. mortimer (it.) 136. adams C-2588. Cavagna, libri e ti- pografia a Pavia nel ‘500, 407. landwehr, romanic emblem books, 233. univ. of Glasgow, the study of italian emblems, 2006. € 8.000 25. Cornelio tommaSo. thomae Cornelii Cosentini pro- 26. CriSCi GioVanni battiSta. lucerna de Cor- gymnasmata physica. - naples, Giacomo raillard, 1688. teggiani. - naples, Giandomenico roncagliolo, 1634. two parts in one 8° volumes; 8 ll. (including engraved frontispiece and title-page 4°; 4 ll. (including the engraved title-page), portrait, 348 pp., 9 ll. (without printed in red and black, 502 pp., 1 blank leaf – 8 ll. (including title-page printed in the final blank); contemporary vellum, marbled edges (minor wear to the red and black and portrait), 120 ll. Contemporary vellum, overlapping borders, ma- head and tail of spine, and corners). old ownership inscriptions in the nuscript title on spine. nice, unsophisticated copy, occasional, minor foxing. first end-paper; manuscript note cancelled in the outer blank margin of l. ZZ1v. light water-staining in the final leaves, faint uniform yellowing First edition of Cornelius’ complete works including the editio princeps of due to the quality of paper. old ownership inscription on front end pa- de Sensibus (the last part of Progymnasmata), elegies, and epigrams. per. unsophisticated copy. tommaso Cornelio was a prominent philosopher from Cosenza and one of the most eminent leaders in the scientific revolution of the second half of First edition, very rare. the book is the earliest extensive treatise the 17th century in italy, and especially in South italy. He studied medicine devoted to South italian cooking and gastronomy. Produced wi- in rome and he was in very close contact with a cultural environment de- thin the environment of neapolitan court, for the first time this veloped from the Galilean tradition and from the naturalism of telesio and text gives attention to regional food and local recipes derived Campanella. He was pupil of marco aurelio Severino and was inspired by from a rich tradition and strongly connected with local produc- Cartesio, Gassendi, Harvey and the royal Society. tion. “much of the credit for exposing the neapolitan intelligentsia to new ideas “Giovanni battista Crisci, whose lucerna de corteggiani was pu- from across the alps belongs to tommaso Cornelio (1614-1684), a distin- blished in naples in 1634, provides the first extensive list of the guished mathematician and physician who had been trained under two fo- food products and specialities from abruzzo to Puglia, the Cam- remost students of Galileo, evangelista torricelli and bonaventura Cava- pania (naples), basilicata, Calabria, and extending into Sicily” lieri, and had enthusiastically embraced the new experimental method in the (mciver). natural sciences”. (Stella). the volume provides an annual menu, suggesting different cour- His masterpiece are the Progymnasmata, published in a first version in ses for each day of the year: there are thousands of suggestions, 1663, but here issued in their complete edition. the dialogue in the first sec- divided into main categories such as “hot courses”, “cold cour- tion of the book – involving Stelliola, trusiano and Giordano bruno - is a ses”, and “dessert or fruits”, which come with 15 red wines and strong statement in support of “modernity” against the Galenic medicine, 15 white wines, especially from naples and Sicily. in addition to the scholastic approach and the dogmatic conservatism. this menu, there are interesting chapters dedicated to courtesan’s the “de oratione filosofandi, the de rerum initiis, the de universitate, duties, Sunday’s special courses and official banquets; deserving the de Sole, the de nutricatione, the de Vita and the de Sensibus, provi- mention, moreover, the valuable lists of foods and suggested wi- de the results of Cornelius’ thorough and concrete application of Galilean nes. scientific method. binG 595. Paleari, p. 418. Westbury 62. Vicaire 221. Simon, bibl. riccardi i col. 374. Krivatsy 2740. Caverni, i, p. 454 - ii p. 135, 136, 180 - Gastronomica, 418. K. mciver, Cooking and eating in renais- iii p. 175, 99, 203, 247, 386. l. thorndyke, Vii, pp. 662-663. Stella d., ita- sance italy: From Kitchen to table, lanham 2015, p. 8. € 10.000 ly in the Seventennth century p. 123. € 3.500

27. dal re marCantonio. le delizie della Villa di Ca- 28. danti eGnatio. trattato dell’uso et della fabbrica stellazzo descritte in verso dall’abate domenico Felice leonar- dell’astrolabio con l’aggiunta del planisfero del rojas. - Floren- di. - milano, malatesta, 1743. ce, Giunti, 1569. Folio; lXViii pp., 1 l. and 24 plates including the portrait of Giuseppe arco- 4°; 4 ll., 194 pp. (i.e. 192: misnumbering between p. 135 and 139), 38 pp., 5 ll.; nati Visconti, owner of the Villa. Contemporary cartonnage (spine reinforced). 19th century half morocco, gilt title and fillets on spine, marbled paper on si- Very nice copy. des. Printed bookplates on the front paste-down (“bibliotheca Francisci ric- cardi de Vernaccia” and landau) and stamped bookplate Galletti on title-page. First edition. this finely illustrated book describes the Villa arconati as it was at the time of its transformation into a “Villa di delizia”. the First edition. one of the first astronomical works written in italian. impressive etchings by m. dal re (1697-1766) depict architectures, the book is dedicated to the astrolabe, his building and use, and is il- perspectives, gardens, sculptures, fountains, water-tricks, balustrades, lustrated by several woodcuts depicting scientific instruments. arcades, façades, theaters, illustrating one of the best Giardini all’ita- egnatio danti, one of the most important astronomers, mathemati- liana of the time. moreover the plates display the elegant life of ari- cians and instrument-makers of Cinquecento in Florence, “was a ma- stocracy in 18th century lombardy, showing the outdoor recreation of ster of observational instruments for astronomy and served on Pope noble people walking around, enjoying the delights of the Villa. Gregory Xiii’s commission of reform the calendar… in 1562 Cosi- “the characteristic aspects of eighteenth-century lombard villas we- mo i called him to Florence to paint maps of all the regions in the re well-suited to the demands of production and display. the u-sha- known world… [in the Hall of maps of the Palazzo Vecchio]. to ped plan—a central residential block with dependent service wings measure the exact duration of the year, danti built an astronomical disposed at right angles to it—and the style of ornament that has be- quadrant on the façade of the church of Santa maria novella with en called both barochetto fiorito lombardo and barochetto teresiano eight solar clocks and an equinoctial ring that we can still see today”. came to typify this region’s villas because it accommodated intensive the Galileo museum holds an astrolabe (cat. 3361), used by Galileo farm work combined with (but separated from) luxurious family living himself, attributed by some scholar to danti. quarters and presented a relatively impressive building exterior without riccardi i, 389. adams d- 123. F. bonoli, e. danti, biographical en- undo expenditure. Castellazzo di bollate reveals just such a plan and cyclopedia of astronomers, 2007, p. 276. € 4.000 ornamentation, designed primarily by members of the arconati fami- ly” (Harris). the Villa di Castellazzo soon became one of the most admired and beautiful villas in the region and was known as a “little Versailles of lombardy”. Cicognara 4030. berlin Katalog 3495. Hoepli (mi) 1232. d. Harris, lombard Villas of the eighteenth Century and the Villa arconati at Castellazzo, Catena, digital archive of Historic Garden and landsca- pe, 2005. € 13.000 29. danti VinCenZo. il primo libro del trattato delle 30. diSeGni del ConVito fatto dall’illustrissimo si- perfette proporzioni di tutte le cose che imitare, e ritrarre si gnor senatore Francesco ratta all’illustrissimo publico, eccelsi possano con l’arte del disegno. - Florence, bartolomeo Sermar- signori anziani, & altra nobiltà. terminando il suo confaloniera- telli, 1567. to li 28 febraro 1693. - bologna, per li Peri. all’angelo Custode, 4°; 4 ll., 62 pp., 1 blank leaf; title-page surrounded by a woodcut architectonic (1693). bordure, several decorated initials; 19th century green morocco, spine lettered Folio; 4 ll., 6 plates (2 folding); later half calf, marbled paper boards. the first in gilt, double gilt fillets on sides, gilt edges (joints wisely reinforced). Small re- plate slightly shaved in the upper margin. two old stamps on title-page (bibl. storation to the blank margin of the title-page and a negligible tear reinforced Conv. Carm. descal.). in the outer blank margin of the second leaf. extremely rare italian festival book, astonishing example of baroque extremely rare first edition of the treatise on proportion by Vincenzo creativity. the volume, issued in only 66 copies as a gift for the guests danti, pupil of michelangelo. this work is a document of enormous of the banquet, is illustrated by 6 fine plates (2 folding), etched by Gia- relevance in the history of art, and especially in the investigation of como Giovannini after marc’antonio Chiarini and G.b. Zaccarini. the transition from mannerism to early baroque. Particularly impressive, the large folding plate depicting the hall of Pa- based upon the heritage and teachings of michelangelo, who very li- lazzo Vizzani giving prominence to the temporary decoration and ap- kely left unpublished annotations used here by danti, the text deve- parati. the other plates show the gorgeous loggia and wonderful sugar lops mihcelangelo’s ideas on proportion in art and architecture, and sculptures. the text describes the decorations at the banquet and in- constantly quotes his authority. only this book, the first one, dedicated cludes a list of invited guests; on p. 6 it is said that the sugar sculptu- to Cosimo de’medici, was published of the 15 books envisioned by res were executed by Giovanni battista Zaccarini, the other decora- danti (the original plan of his wide work is explained by the author tions by Sebastiano Sarti, under the supervision of Gioseffo mazza. himself at the end of the book). “an extensive amount of documentation … was published to docu- brother of the celebrated mathematician egnazio, one of the most ment and to interpret the artistic productions designed for the dinner important artists of the second half of 16th century, “and one of the which commemorated the end of ratta’s term as gonfaloniere… [the most interesting and talented followers of michelangelo, [danti] was a large folding plate] shows a circular banquet table in the great hall of real man of renaissance” (Schlosser). the Palazzo Vizzani... displaying wonders of nature and art, this ban- Cicognara 317. Schlosser magnino, pp. 386-389, p. 400: “rarissimo li- quet hall is a kind of Wunderkammer… the central table piece de- bretto”, pp. 443-444. Comolli i, pp. 12-18: “rarissimo libro”. riccardi picts the large sculpture with four river gods. its general design seems i-394. Gamba 1343: “assai raro”. € 9.500 to have been inspired by bernini’s Fountain of the Four rivers in the Piazza navona in rome… the edible features are clustered, within re- ach of the guests, around the base of the sculpture where smaller ta- bles hold more than 50 silver plates filled to the brim with sweetmeats and candies... toward the center of the table are 24 large leafy and fi- gural sculptures. Standing at the heights of two to six feet, these trumps are made of sugar paste in mimicry of cast metal sculptures. 31. Ferrari oGnibene. de arte medica infantium libri above these are 96 gilt figures with crowns of laurel, olive, oak, and quatuor - de arte medica infantium aphorismorum particulae rose branches that recall the protective powers of the gods. among tres. - brescia, marchetti, 1577. the trionfi are sugar-plate basins surrounded by sugar laid down in pat- terns, like fine stonework in gardens. there was a golden figure inten- two works in one 4° volume; 6 leaves, 196 pp. – 12 leaves (the final blank). ded as a gift for each guest. the expansive imagery of the sculpture Four nice figures and one large emblem etched within the text of the first fold together themes of wealth and power… Within this ornate sche- work. Contemporary limp vellum. one end-paper renewed. negligible margi- me the artwork proper, the gallery of paintings above, the silver and nal soiling in few leaves; a portion in the lower margin of l. 10 (second work) restored, with loss of few letters. old manuscript ownership inscriptions (da- glassware, becomes an ornate frame for the Wunderkammer of the ted 1577 and 1859). great hall which frames the scene. the engraving presents the banquet as theater, seen in fish-eye view, like a vue d’optique” (Walker). First edition of both works. the first text, divided in four books, re- Cicognara 1484. Paleari, p. 616. not in binG. not in ruggieri, Vinet. presents a remarkable step in the history of obstetric and pediatrics; it H. Walker, Food in the art, Prospect book 1999, pp. 142-143. Frati, bi- is illustrated by very nice etchings depicting, for example, solutions for bliografia bolognese, ii, 10179 (calling for only 5 plates). € 12.000 preserving babies from getting hurt when they start walking: a wooden safety helmet, a walker, a high chair. in the first part, we find the ear- liest description and illustration of a glass breast pump. the two works by Ferrari, even though based on classical sources, contain important improvements and new observations deriving from the contemporary debate. deserving special interest, three chapters on tooth disease and skin disturbs in babies. “although Ferrarius treatise on pediatrics did not expanded the tea- 32. (Fontana Carlo). Funerale celebrato nella chiesa di santo antonio della nazione portoghese in roma per la morte del re di Portogallo don Pietro secondo l’anno 1707. - rome, Gior- gio Placho, 1707. large folio; XX pp., 12 engraved plates (2 double-page); contemporary vellum. Faint foxing and a minor stain in the lower blank margin at the end. nice copy. First edition, rare; an outstanding example of roman baroque festival book. the volume is dedicated to the funerals of Pedro ii of Portugal, died in 1706 in lisbon. one year later, gorgeous celebrations were organized by the Portuguese diplomatic delegation in rome: they commissioned the great architect Carlo Fontana to design the ephemeral apparatuses in the church of S. antonio dei Portoghesi. His original drawings are held to- chings of the classical writers on the subject, the illustrations are of in- terest … as they show two commonly used child-training devices of the past - the running stool, ancestor of the present day walker, and the chair stool, which held infants in a sitting position” (norman). durling 1494-1496. Wellcome 2227-2228. Waller 3006-3007. norman 787-788. Pazzini, Storia della medicina i, p. 704. Still, History of pe- diatrics, pp. 147-156. the two works are recorded as separate items. € 6.000 33. (FoSSati GiorGio). raccolta di varie favole delinea- te, ed incise in rame da Giorgio Fossati architetto (French title facing). - Venice, Carlo Pecora, 1744. Six parts in three 4° volumes; 8 ll., 44 pp. – 4 ll., 48 pp. – 4 ll., 76 pp. – 4 ll., 59 pp. – 4 ll., 59 pp. – 4 ll., 36 pp. and 216 full-page etchings printed in various co- lors. italian and French text. Contemporary stiff vellum housed in modern de- corated paper boxes. excellent copy printed on special heavy and white paper, coming from the well known library of earl Caissotti of Chiusano (ownership inscription in the lower blank margin of the second leaf of each volume). First edition of this wonderful color-printed work, one of the most beautiful and resplendent editions of the Venetian typography in the 18th century. the iconographic apparatus which illustrates this edition of classical fables, taken mostly from aesop, is designed and engraved in different colors by the Swiss-born architect Giorgio Fossati. Copies with the 216 plates printed in various colors are particularly rare; nor- mally the plates are printed only in black or red. the first two title-pages are printed in red and black on pink, the vi- gnettes in the other title-pages are in green, pink, red, grey and ochre, three head-pieces in pink and red. the 216 etchings are printed in va- rious colors and nuances: pink, red, bistro, sanguine, light-blue, light- green, dark-green, grey, beige, brown. birds, animals, plants and hu- day in Windsor Castle. the unusual scenes of the paintings, realized mans are placed in Venetian pastoral or architectural settings. by Pietro razina, and here engraved, remembered the colonies subjec- ted to the King as brazil, macao, madeira, Cape Verde islands, Goa, morazzoni, p. 232. Cohen-de ricci 410. rosenwald 1570. Filippo Pe- angola mozambique. the etchings were realized by the most talented drocco in the glory of Venice, art in eighteenth century, 1994 p. 290 artists of the time, such as G. Frezza, n. oddi, d. Franceschini and and fig. 290. € 45.000 depict the embellished façade and the plan of the church, the “ca- strum doloris” expressly built on that occasion, the magnificent arches with scenes celebrating the life and virtues of Pedro ii. the text of the funeral oration, which introduces the series, was written by m. Vin- cenzo lucchesini. Fagiolo dell’arco, “la festa barocca”, ii, p. 23. Cicognara 1488. ros- setti 3494. € 4.500

34. GiliJ FiliPPo SalVatore. Saggio di storia america- el tercer tomo sobre todo merece especial atención pues se refiere a la na o sia Storia naturale, civile, e sacra de regni, e delle provincie lingüística americana de esa parte o sea lengua tamanaque, maipure, Spagnuole di terra-ferma nell’america meridionale. - rome, Chiquito, Guaraní, moxa, mhaya, Guaycuru, omagua, etc., los ts. 1° y 2° tratan de la Historia y Geografía de la Provincias del orinoco, usos luigi Perego erede Salvioni, 1780-1784. y costumbres de sus habitantes, et t. 4° contiene la historia natural de Four 8° volumes; XliV, 356 pp., 3 folding plates, 1 folding geographic map – nueva Granada. la belleza de esta obra radica sobre todo en los gra- XVi, 400 pp., 5 folding plates, 1 folding geographic map – XVi, 430 pp. – XX, bados y en sus mapas” (libreria l’amateur buenos aires). 498 pp., 1 folding geographic map. the etchings are by F. Faccenda, G. Perini Sabin 27382. leclerc 238. libreria l’amateur buenos aires, cat. 25, after l. Guerrini, F. baini. Contemporary half calf, morocco labels lettered in nr. 400. Palau (1925) iii, 341. arias Santa, the intellectual Conquest gilt and gilt fillets on spine, red edges (minor repairs on spine). nice copy. of the orinoco: Filippo Salvatore Gilij’s Saggio di storia americana First edition, very rare. Filippo Salvatore Gilij (1721–1789) was an ita- (1780-1784). € 6.500 lian Jesuit priest who lived in the Province of Venezuela (today central Venezuela) on the orinoco river. His work, illustrated by nice et- chings depicting the every-day life and activities of natives and detailed geographic maps, is one of the most important sources for the histo- ry of orinoco region. the text is based on documents and informa- tion collected by the author himself during his 20-years stay in the re- gion as a missionary. the section dedicated to the language of natives, in the third volume, is of great relevance and still considered as a refe- rence source by philologists. this edition is extremely rare; it did not have a large circulation and the text has not been translated into Spa- nish. ”the author was one of the Jesuits banished to america, with the rest of his order, in 1767. Charles iii honored him with a pension for ha- ving vindicated, in this work, the Spanish government from the attacks of foreigners. the third volume, which relates to the language of the aborigines, is often referred by philologists” (Sabin). “F. Salvador Gilii nació en 1721 en legogne cerca de Spoleto, entró en la Compañía de Jesús en 1740 destinado como misionero en la amé- rica meridional recorrió ésta durante 18 años y siempre en la zona del orinoco, Santa Fe de bogotá, etc. después de la expulsion de los Je- suítas volvió a italia donde murió en roma en 1789. Su obra una de las mejores sobre los indios del orinoco es hoy en día muy rara.

35. (GraZiani Girolamo, StrinGa FranCeSCo). il trionfo della virtù, festa d’armi a cavallo rappresentata nella nascita del Serenissimo Signor Principe di modana l’anno 1660. - modena, nella stamperia di bartolomeo Soliani stampator du- cale, (1660). 4°; 47 pp. and 27 large etched folding plates by Francesco Stringa; 18th centu- ry decorated paper (reused). old manuscript notes on title-page. the gutter margin of the first leaf wisely reinforced (partially affecting one letter); few mi- nor tears reinforced in some plates, a couple of plates a little shaved; occasio- nal marginal foxing. Full-margined copy. one of the most famous and fascinating festival books printed in ita- ly in 17th century, extremely rare to be found complete with the sum- ptuous 27 plates etched by Francesco Stringa (1635-1709). the festivities described by Girolamo Graziani (1604-1675) were held in modena to honor the birth of duke Francesco d’este (1660-1694). the text, in the first part of the volume, contains ballades and verses by Graziani himself performed with music and dances during the gor- geous play consisting in a great allegoric tournament. the large folding etchings depict the combat of horsemen, ballets, monsters, allegoric machines, knights. the pageant, in a great baroque style, was desi- gned and made by architects Giacomo monti (1620-1692) and baldas- sarre bianchi (1614-1678). really impressive, the large plate illustrating the theatre where the spectacles were performed, showing the arena surrounded by the public. Vinciana 179. ruggieri 811 (only 25 plates). Vinet 590. olschki, Choix, 621 (25plates). Sartori 23896 (25 plates). Watanabe 536. € 25.000

36. HerodotuS. Historiae libri novem. - Venice, Johan- nes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 8 march 1494. Folio; 8 ll., 134 ll., 4 additional leaves with a calligraphic and rubricated manu- script index; 2 blank ll. the incipit of text is surrounded by a large “early re- naissance” woodcut border, white on black, and illustrated by a woodcut inset of a man (apollo?) laurel-crowned crowning Herodotus with laurel while he is writing; hand-colored blue initial. old calf (chamois), original leather ties par- tially preserved. Few small worm-holes in the first leaves. nice copy, with go- od margins. ex libris “Georgius Klosz, m. d. Francofurti ad moenum”. third edition of Herodotus containing the first appearance of the fa- mous and beautiful woodcut border considered “probably the most splendid of all examples of decorative art applied to book in the re- naissance” (lippmann). the woodcut, usually shaved to fit the page- size, survives in our copy in a perfect condition and impression. the elaborated black background includes a cartouche at the top with a sa- tyr and a ram, and at the bottom a mythological scene. the large vi- gnette within the frame shows Herodotus receiving laurel. the debate about the attribution of these woodcuts is still open: the unknown “master of the border of the Herodotus” is sometimes connected with the Poliphilus master (essling) or with Simon Perigrini (Pollard). HC 8472 . GW 12323. iGi 4694. bmC V, 345. Goff H-90. essling 735. Sander 3376. Hind, History of Woodcut, pp. 504-505. lippmann, Wood engraving in italy, 104. € 26.000 37. HeureS a l’uSaGe de rouen. Ces presentes heures à l’usage de rouen tout au long sans require. - Paris, Guillaume anabat pour Philippe Coste e louis bouvet, (1502), almanac from 1502 to 1520. 8°; 128 ll. (sign. a-C8, d4, e-q8, r4), printed on vellum. 17th century ha- zelnut morocco lavallière, spine with gilt tooling and lettering in compar- tments, sides with panels made up of a double gilt fillet with corner orna- ments and a central lozenge with the monogram Fm, gilt edges (joints repai- red). in the final end-leaf, manuscript note with the text of prayer “domine non secundum peccata nostra”. nice copy from the collection of edouard Pelat (bookplate on the front paste-down). another bookplate on the first end-leaf. Very nice copy printed on vellum and decorated by hundreds of small and large illuminated initials, colored in gilt, blue, red, and light- blue. the book is perfectly preserved in a fine 17th century binding and contains a rare “livre d’heure à l’usage de rouen”: bohatta men- tions only one copy held in the british library. the text is finely printed in Gothic types and richly illustrated by an impressive, fully engraved iconographic apparatus including the typographic device of anabat, a human figure as a skeleton and 42 other engravings (16 full-page, 26 smaller) throughout the text. Furthermore, each page is surrounded by a large bordure divided into compartments showing small vignettes or larger patterns with hunting scenes and ornaments. bohatta, bibl. des livres d’heures i ed. n° 1213, ii ed. n° 1335. b. moreau n° 115 ascribes the print to a later date, even though 1502 is the year of the calendar. edouard Frère, manuel de bibliographie normand ou dictionnaire historique ii, p. 79 mentions a 1502 edi- tion with different features. not known to lacombe and brunet. € 16.000 38. (HiStoriCi latini minoreS). in hoc volumine ha- ec continentur: nervae et traiani atque adriani Caesarum vitae ex dione, Georgio merula interprete. Helius Spartianus. iulius Capitolinus. lampridius. Flavius Vopiscus. trebellius Pollio. Vulcatius Gallicanus, ab ioanne baptista egnatio Veneto dili- gentissime castigati. Heliogabali principis ad meretrices elegan- tissima oratio. eiusdem io. baptistae egnatii de Caesaribus libri tres. - Venice, in aedibus aldi, et andreae soceri, august 1519. 8°; 8 ll. (including title-page with the aldine typographic device), 422 ll., 2 lea- ves (colophon and aldine typographic device). Contemporary italian havana morocco; each side with a blind-tooled almond surrounded by a rich fytomor- phic decoration, a multiple fillet, four lily-shaped corner pieces; blind-tooled spine, traces of original leather ties, msc. title on lower edge (the lower cover slightly worn). unsophisticated copy from the library of Giulio Cesio Pog- gio/Podio (original Greek and latin ownership inscriptions to front paste- down, title-page and last leaf). little old stamp of a private collection to the first leaf. Second aldine edition of the so-called “Historia augusta”, consisten- tly enlarged if compared with the first edition printed by aldus in 1516, in a remarkable contemporary Venetian binding of blind-tooled havana morocco. the volume, in the new 8° “pocket-size” used by aldus in order to spread classical texts all over europe, is printed with the famous italic type purposely cut by Francesco Griffo from bologna. the texts in- clude the preface by egnazio and his dedication to the French jurist Jacques de mynut. G.b. egnazio (1478-1553) was a distinguished hu- manist and close friend of aldus, who choose him as his testamenta- ry executor. renouard, p. 87, 8. ahmanson-murphy 159 (e cfr. 127). Schweiger, p. 383. € 6.500 39. lami aleSSandro. discorso intorno alla scoltura, et pittura, dove ragiona della vita, & opere in molti luoghi, & à diver- si prencipi, & personaggi fatte dall’eccell. & nobile m. bernardino Campo pittore cremonese. - Cremona, Christoforo draconi, 1584. 4°; 4 ll. (the portrait of bernardino Campi drawn and etched by agostino Carrac- ci applied to the verso of the 4th original blank leaf), 118 pp., 1 blank leaf, 6 ll. in- cluding 2 woodcuts of the proportions of man. 18th century half calf with cor- ners, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine, red edges (minor loss at joints). light thin water-staining in the lower blank margin of central leaves. nice copy. First edition, very rare. the text by lami (1546-1610) is devoted to the work of bernardino Campi (1522-1591), painter from Cremona influen- ced by Giulio romano and Parmigianino, master of Sofonisba anguisso- la. this work represents “the first example of regional art history” (Schlosser). the author gives an argumentative reply to “the lives” of Vasari and the predominance of Florentine and tuscany school of painting shaped by him: this is then an early attempt to focus the attention on the quality of outstanding artists from other regions and schools, such as the Cremone- se Campi. in the volume, deserving to be mentioned, two woodcuts representing human figures at the end (see Cicognara). two different issues of this book are recorded by bibliographies, with a difference regarding the 4th leaf: in one case, the 4th preliminary leaf is blank (see e.g. the copy held by trivulziana library or by Getty library); in the other one, it shows the full-page engraved portrait of bernardino Campi. our copy belongs to the first variant, but it provides the portrait as well, since it has been applied, in ancient times, to the verso of the 4th leaf. Cicognara 154 wrongly ascribes to a second edition the copies with the “Parer sopra la pittura” (last 6 ll.), which is actually included in the first edi- tion and part of it. Schlosser magnino, p. 365. bologna 168. Zappella, il ri- tratto italiano nel libro del Cinquecento, n. 81 e pp. 78, 128, 147. € 5.500 40. la PlaCe Pierre-Simon. théorie du mouvement et de la figure elliptique des planètes. - Paris, de l’imprimerie de Ph.-d. Pierres, imprimeur ordinaire du roi, &c. rue S. Jacques, 1784. 4°; XXiV pp., 153 pp. (i.e. 151: misnumbering); 18th century decorated car- tonnage (reused). uncut copy. interesting manuscript note by an old hand on p. 4. First edition rare, printed in only 200 copies sponsored by the astro- nomer bochart de Saron. this work “was the first separate publication [by the great astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon laplace (1749-1827)], and the preface was his first writing suited to the com- prehension of laymen. it consists of a summary view of the world in nontechnical language and might easily be taken for a prospectus of the exposition du système du monde” (dSb). the treatise deals with ellipsoids of revolution and is of crucial im- portance in space-flight studies; the author, considered as one of the most important scientists of all time, introduces here an original me- thod for calculating the movement of planets, which considers the in- fluence exerted by other celestial bodies. more in detail, he shows “how the general properties of elliptical and parabolic motion may be derived from the second-order differential equations that determine the motion of celestial bodies” (dSb). His attention focuses on Jupi- ter’s satellites. Poggendorff i, col. 1375. dSb XV, p. 316. € 7.000 41. leoniCo tomeo niColo’. ProCluS liCiuS. opuscula nuper in lucem aedita quorum nomina proxima ha- bentur pagella. - Venezia, bernardino Vitali, 23 febbraio 1525. 4°; CXXXiX ll., 5 ll.; title in red and black framed by an elaborated woodcut border depicting grotesque, masks and various animals; geometrical and astro- nomical figures throughout the text, large decorated initials. on l. XXXXi, the first illustration of a dental forceps ever printed. Contemporary vellum, ink. coat of arms Forteguerri from Pistoia on the front side. manuscript title on upper cover and spine, original vellum end-leaves (spine slightly worn). ow- nership inscription “Philippo Forteguerri” and other manuscript “ex libris” in the blank margin of title. old annotations throughout. light water-staining in the outer blank margin of the first and final part of the volume, worm-track in the upper blank margin of ll. lXXVi-XCiV. First edition of Proclus’ commentary on Plato’s timaeus (in the se- cond part of the volume) and of leonicus’ collected works. the com- mentary on timaeus of the well-known neo-Platonist astronomer and philosopher Proclus (V cent. a.d.), originally written in Greek, was partially lost. the extant portion appears in print here for the first time, in the latin translation realized by leonicus from a Greek ma- nuscript. Proclus’ commentary is the most important text dedicated to the Plato’s dialogue, offering unparalleled insights into interpretation of Platonic theories; it is included by leonicus within his own writings dealing with aristotelic works in order to find a synthesis between Platonic and aristotelic thought. this book is particularly interesting also because it contains the first picture of a dental forceps in a printed book. n. leonicus (1456-1531) was born in Venice to a Greek family from epirus. He studied under the tutelage of demetrios Chalcondyles, then was professor of philosophy in Padua. He was admired by scho- lars such as reginald Pole and erasmus. Sander 3947. Wellcome, i, 3744. Poletti, de re dentaria, p. 122. lawn, the Salernitan questions, p. 131. durling 2794. not recorded by Hoff- mann. € 5.500 42. lomaZZo GioVanni Paolo. trattato dell’arte della pittura diviso in sette libri ne’ quali si contiene tutta la theorica , & la prattica d’essa pittura. - milan, Paolo Gottardo Pontio, 1584. 8°; 20 ll., 700 pp., 1 l.; beautiful 17th century red morocco, gilt-lettered and ri- chly gilt-tooled spine, double fillet on sides, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (he- ad and tail of spine wisely repaired). Small tear repaired at p. 459, without any loss. Printed bookplate on the front paste-down (emil b. Goldschmidt). real- ly nice copy. First issue of the first edition of this book, universally considered as the “bible of mannerism” (Schlosser), in an outstanding near con- temporary binding of full morocco richly decorated in gilt. lomazzo was a painter and literary man from milan, friend with Gau- denzio Ferrari. this is his masterpiece, an exhaustive and systematic treatise dedicated to the art of Cinquecento. the work is divided into 7 books: proportions (i), movement (ii), color (iii), light (iV), per- spective (V), technique (Vi), and a complete handbook of classic and Christian iconography (Vii). this is no doubt the best explanation of mannerist theories and a crucial historical source concerning the mi- lanese artistic life of the time and earlier. See Schlosser: deserving a mention is the information about Gauden- zio Ferrari… and the first painters and perspective artists from milan: Foppa, Zenale, bramantino… in the second book, lomazzo claims to have original manuscripts lost today and gives abstracts and excerpts from them. again in the second book, lomazzo provides really re- markable information about writings by leonardo. Fowler 186. Cicognara 4612. Schlosser magnino, pp. 344 and ff. Va- gnetti eiib34. € 6.500 43. lonGHi aleSSandro. Compendio delle vite de’ pittori veneziani istorici più rinomati del presente secolo con suoi ritratti tratti dal naturale delineati ed incisi da alessandro longhi veneziano. aggiuntovi tre brevi trattati di pittura. - Venice, appresso l’autore, 1762. Folio; title-page and 1 leaf, 24 engraved plates (portraits of painters) facing 24 en- graved leaves of text (biographies of painters, italic), 3 ll. (text: treatises), 1 l. (privi- legium); nice contemporary marbled paper boards. Fresh and wide-margined copy. outstanding, fully engraved book with the famous series of portraits of painters by alessandro longhi, son of Pietro. this is considered as one of the most beautiful Venetian books printed along the 18th century: the plates stand out for the high quality of the engraving and for the beauty of the drawing. this copy is perfect, bound within original marbled wrappers. according to Succi, the original number of plates should be 25, but already in 1841 a note of Cicogna defined this collection absolutely rare to be found complete with all the plates and Succi himself states that he had to replace the portraits of balestra and Polazzo, usually missing or even not included into the set: our copy belongs to the second edition (third state) and shows the rare portrait of balestra, not Polazzo. ”in un manoscritto di emanuele Cicogna, datato 17 novembre 1841, pre- messo all’esemplare della seconda edizione del Compendio del museo Cor- rer già si definiva la raccolta dei ritratti ‘libro difficile a trovarsi completo… Gli esemplari mancano per lo più del ritratto del balestra e di quello del Po- lazzo num. XX: ed io lo feci eseguire a penna somigliantissimo alla stampa dal valente disegnatore angelo tramontin: e l’ho inserito a suo luogo” (Suc- ci). ”nel Settecento dobbiamo citare specialmente la notevole e rarissima serie di ritratti corredati da biografie (tutto a incisione) di alessandro longhi, un figlio del celebre pittore di genere Pietro” (Schlosser-magnino). Cicognara 2306. Schlosser magnino, pp. 531, 560. dario Succi, “da Carle- varijs al tiepolo”, Venezia 1983, p. 225. morazzoni, p. 192. € 15.000 44. luCanuS marCuS annaeuS. Civilis belli libri de- cem (i.e. Pharsalia). - Venice, apud aldum, mense aprili 1502. 8°; 140 leaves; contemporary brown morocco, original metal clasps partially preserved (minor repairs on sides and spine, small worm-holes on end-pa- pers). Good copy, several annotations by a 16th century hand to margins. ne- gligible marginal soiling to the first and final leaves. old ownership inscription on l. a1 recto; printed bookplate on the front paste-down “ricasoli Firidolfi”. First aldine edition of lucan’s Pharsalia, the great latin poem dedi- cated to the civil war between Pompey and Caesar, bound in a beauti- ful contemporary brown morocco tooled and paneled in blind. the volume, in the new 8° “pocket-size” used by aldus in order to spread classical texts all over europe, is printed with the famous italic type purposely cut by Francesco Griffo from bologna. the editio princeps was published in rome in 1469 by Sweynheym and Pannartz; this edition by aldus is based on the one printed in Venice in 1493, but enriched and corrected thanks to an old manuscript provided by mar- co antonio mauroceno. renouard, p. 33. ahmanson-murphy 56. Schweiger ii, p. 560. € 5.500 45. maCedonio marCello. le nove muse di marcel- lo macedonio raccolte e date alla stampa da Pietro macedonio suo fratello. - naples, ad istanza di Gio. ruardo all’insegna del compasso, per tarquinio longo, 1614. 4°; 4 ll., 260 pp., 9 full-page etchings; each page framed by a nice typographic border. remarkable contemporary red morocco, probably realized in rome (minor repairs to spine). Very nice copy. attractive emblem book, featuring a really fine typographic layout, in a beautiful contemporary roman morocco binding paneled with gilt fil- lets, tooled with an uncommon gilt bordure with 4 towers as corner- pieces, with central gilt lozenge surrounding an emblem with motto “molitor adusus”, owner’s name stamped in gilt “bernardi Gugliel- mi”, gilt tooled spine, gilt edges. this work, rare to be found complete with all the plates, is introduced by a fully etched title-page and illustrated by 9 full-page etchings by Fe- lice Padovano. these plates, of special beauty, depict the nine muses and remarkably reflect the spirit of their time. adone, dramatic poem by the same author, takes up the pp. from 167 to 260. allacci, p. 10. Giustiniani ii, p. 169 “bellissima edizione”. quadrio ii, p. 292. Crescimbeni iV, p. 155. manzi, annali di tarquinio longo, n° 70. thieme-becker, v. 26, p. 133. € 6.000 46. malPiGHi marCello. dissertatio epistolica de bom- byce. - london, apud Joannem martyn et Jacobum allestry, 1669. 4°; 5 leaves, 100 pp., 12 folding etchings. near contemporary limp ivory vellum, manuscript title on spine, blue edges. Stamp of extinguished library on title. First edition. a milestone in the history of science and a great contribu- tion in the development of microscopic research, this work, illustrated by detailed etchings, represents a crucial contribution to zootomy and comparative anatomy. malpighi was a distinguished scientist from bologna (1628-1694), ap- pointed as a professor of medicine in messina from 1662 to 1666. His mastery of microscopic technique was outstanding: “he used instru- ments of different magnifying powers and made observations with both reflected and transmitted light. He prepared specimens in a number of ways, including drying, boiling, insufflations…” (dSb). “in de bombyce, malpighi had carefully observed the artisan nature construct each of the three stages - larva, chrysalis, and moth - through which the silkworm is formed. He further remarked on the specific ap- paratuses with which the silkworm is provided, among them the air ducts (tracheae) and the blood duct with a number of pulsating centers (corcula)…” (dSb). “malpighi’s work on the silkworm represents the first monograph on an invertebrate and records one of the most striking pieces of research work on his part” (Garrison-morton). this book was printed in london since the royal Society asked malpighi in 1667 to undertake scientific correspondence with them; the author “agreed and the society subsequently supervised the printing of all his later works. in 1691 malpighi was called to rome as chief physician to Pope innocent Xii” (dSb). Frati, bibl. malpighiana, 20. Garrison & morton 293. Krivatsky 7334. Walleriana 11905. Cole library, i, 701. l. belloni, dSb iX, pp. 63-65. € 6.300 47. marulli VinCenZo. Su l’architettura e su la nettez- 48. mirabilia urbiS rome. - Without typographic notes za delle città. idee. - Florence, presso molini, landi e Comp., (rome, eucarius Silber, 1505 ca.) 1808. 8°; 8 ll.; 20th century red morocco, gilt lettering on spine, inside dentelle; ear- 4°; 2 ll., 8, 150 pp., 3 plates; beautiful large engraved vignettes illustrating ar- lier full vellum covers preserved inside. nice copy from the dyson Perrins col- chitectonic exempla. Contemporary half green morocco, titled in gilt on spine. lection (printed bookplates on the first end-leaf) and appeared in the Cat. qua- 19th century stamped bookmark on title-page (crowned coat of arms), other ritch (1923). printed bookmark (lorenzo urbani). exceedingly rare edition of the first guide to the city of rome and the First edition of the first italian treatise expressly and exhaustively de- book considered as the first printed western town guide. this one, de- dicated to urban architecture and town planning. scribed by Sander, is apparently the only surviving copy of this issue. Vincenzo marulli (1768-1808), architect and illuminist from naples, the text, introduced by the well-known woodcut depicting the “lupa” has been only recently reevaluated by scholars; his two works on ar- suckling twins romulus and remus, features the first of three extant chitecture (l’arte di ordinare i giardini”, 1804, and this one) are consi- versions of this guide. dered today as one the most interesting contribution to the early 19th the mirabilia were small guides published for pilgrims and tourists. all century’s architectural culture and debate. editions are very rare, since the little books were usually ruined by the this text - illustrated by very beautiful, finely etched vignettes depic- extensive use and lost. the text contains a short description of the ting buildings, monuments, façades, capitals and so on – contains ide- grandiose ruins of roman times and a selection of the most intere- as derived from author’s travels around europe and mostly inspired by sting places. his sojourns in england, where the architectonic and urbanistic deve- tinto mentions three editions printed without indication of year and lopment was particularly evident. as a reflection of the enlighten- very similar to our copy, but showing some differences. as it concerns ment, marulli’s ideas, are really modern and still accepted and used by those editions, he calls for 1515 as a probable year of publishing. ne- architects and scholars nowadays. vertheless, Sander, Perrins, quaritch and more recently rossetti regi- F. Giorgetta, Hortus librorum liber hortorum, iii, pp. 31-34. ster our issue as published 1505 ca. € 3.800 rossetti G-165. Sander 4617. dyson Perrins 176. Cat. quaritch 1923, 1127. tinto, annali tipografici di eucario e marcello Silber, n° 87. Ci- cognara 3794. Schlosser magnino, pp. 53-57. not in Schudt. € 9.500 49. natali Pietro de’. Catalogus sanctorum. - Vicen- za, Henricus de Sancto ursio, rigo di Ca Zeno, 12 december 1493. Folio; 332 ll. (including the last blank); title in red and black; two column text; several decorated initials on black throughout the text. Contemporary italian monastic binding (spine and front side slightly repaired, few small worm-ho- les). old manuscript inscription cancelled on title-page. Few negligible margi- nal soiling. a minor stain in the lower blank margin of gathering b, not tou- ching the text. Very nice, unsophisticated copy. First edition, nice copy in a remarkable contemporary italian monastic binding of blind-tooled calf on wooden boards, richly decorated with fillets, outer geometrical frame and floral roll, central panel with a leaf- stamped pattern, five original metal bosses on each side, original metal clasps partially preserved. the well-known text, compiled by the italian bishop and humanist Pietro de’ natali between 1369 and 1372, is a hagiographic encyclope- dia divided into 12 books consisting of more than 1500 short stories. it is one of the most famous and influential hagiographic works of the 16th century: it was re-printed several times and used as a referen- ce source by historians, literary men and scholars in the following cen- turies. HC 11676. GW m25858. iGi 6769. bmC Vii, 1047.ib. Goff n-6. € 16.000 50. neri antonio. l’arte vetraria distinta in libri sette. ne quali si 51. oderborn Paul. ioannis basilidis magni scoprono, effetti meravigliosi, & s’insegnano segreti bellissimi, del vetro moscoviae ducis vita, a Paullo [sic] oderbornio tribus nel fuoco. - Florence, Giunti, 1612. libris conscripta. ad Henricum iulium episcopum Hal- 4°; 4 ll., 114 pp., 3 ll.; 18th century stiff vellum, morocco label lettered in gilt on spine, gilt- berstadensem. - Wittenberg, excudebant Haeredes io- tooled spine. Faint marginal foxing on scattered leaves. Printed bookplate on the front pa- annis Cratonis, 1585. ste-down (bibliotheca Co. dominici rosa morando, Verona). Good, wide-margined copy. (bound with:) PraetoriuS abdiaS. de phrasibus First edition of the first and most important work on glass-making and glass-co- ebraeis commentariolus. - Wittenberg, excudebat io- loring. this practical guide for artists and craftsmen will influence the art and te- chniques of glassmaking for at least the following 200 years. it provides infor- hannes lufft, 1561. mation about varnish and shellac, the composition of colors and the imitation of two works in one 8° volume; 176 ll., woodcut portrait of the tzar on precious stones. title-page – 1 l., 71 ll.; contemporary limp overlapping vellum, spine “l’arte vetraria … disclosed Venetian glassmaking techniques, which had been painted with gilt decoration on black (painted label without the title). carefully guarded secrets. neri gained his knowledge of Venetian glassmaking… nice, unsophisticated copy. from working alongside Venetian craftsmen who had relocated to Pisa and an- First edition extremely rare of the earliest biography of ivan twerp. He also worked in Florence under the patronage of don antonio de’ me- the terrible (moscow, 25th august 1530-18th march 1584). dici, to whom he dedicated l’arte vetraria. this biography of tzar ivan iV Vasilyevich was written by a the original italian edition has the look and feel of a personal notebook, with re- contemporary author and was published one year after ivan’s cipes neri developed from hands-on experience and experimentation in making death. His reign saw the great enlargement of russian boun- glass. in the book’s preface, neri expresses his love of glass, calling it a noble daries and the transformation of russia into a multiethnic thing and a “fruit of the art of fire.” then, in 133 “chapters,” he instructs the empire, with a deep affirmation of monarchy, a reduction of craftsman in the making of crystal, calcedonio (glass made in imitation of chal- the influence exerted by boiardi and a strong alliance with or- cedony), other colored glasses, enamels, and other materials. He describes his thodox Church so that it was possible to look at moscow as at tests and their results. Sometimes he gives more than one recipe for the same the third rome.the third part describes the russian army’s kind of glass and for variations in a color” (dolbashian) defeats in livonia. ”the main part of the text deals with the coloring of glass with metallic oxides the second work, (second edition of the “de phrasibus ebra- to give not only clear and uniform colors but also various veined effects. there eis commentariolus”), is a collection of sentences in latin are chapters on making lead glass of high refractive index and enamel (opaque) from bible by abdias Praetorius, theologian and professor of glass by the addition of tin oxide” (dSb). Hebrew at Frankfurt, friend of melanchthon. € 9.000 Cicognara 1726. Poggendorff ii, 269. Gamba 679. dSb X, 23. Camerini 338. duncan 9299. Ferguson, duveen and Vinciana (only later editions). d. dolba- shian, antonio neri, l’arte vetraria, 1612, in “researches.treasures in the rakow research library”, the Corning museum of Glass, 2013. € 6.500 52. orbini mauro. il regno de gli Slavi hoggi corrotta- mente detti Schiavoni. Historia di don mauro orbini rauseo abbate melitense. nella quale si vede l’origine quasi di tutti i po- poli che furono della lingua slava, con molte e varie guerre, che fecero in europa, asia e africa. - Pesaro, Girolamo Concordia, 1601. Folio; 8 ll. (including the first blank), 2 plates, 473 pp. (misnumbering), 15 ll. (including the final blank); modern calf, morocco label with gilt-lettering on spine. the volume is illustrated by 2 full-page etchings depicting “a Slav from the German sea” and “a Slav from illyria”, and by numerous and large em- blems, etched throughout the text. Woodcut typographic device at the end (Concordia). nice copy, with wide margins. rare first edition of the first comprehensive historical survey of the Slav people, one of the most important sources for the late medieval history of the Slav regions, a work that influenced Slavic ideology and historiography and european ideas on Slavs in the later centuries. mauro orbini was a benedictine monk born in dubrovnik. He publi- shed his main work in italian in 1601, in Pesaro (italy); it was then translated into russian by teophan Prokopievich in 1723. the text, il- lustrated by two beautiful full-page etchings and by several large figu- res within the text, deals with the multitude of Slavic people (dalma- tian, Croatian, bosnian, Serbian, russian, bulgarian, Polish people and so on), their history and development, mainly in opposition to the German, Venetian and ottoman empires. michel Vi, p. 36. british library, Catalogue of seventeenth century italian books, ii, p. 630. € 6.500 53. (ortHodoX eaStern CHurCH). Heirmologion. - Venice, Giacomo leoncini, 1584. 8°; 116 ll. (the last blank pasted to the lower side); Greek text printed in red and black; engraved title-page with typographic device, a full-page woodcut depicting the crucifixion on verso of title-page. really remarkable and very rare contem- porary Venetian “alla greca” binding. two small worm-holes in the title-page (af- fecting one letter); worm-tracks repaired in the lower blank margin of the last 2 ll. extremely rare Heirmologion (series of hymns of byzantine liturgy) in an outstanding example of late “alla Greca” Venetian binding, in an perfect state of preservation: calf on wooden boards, blind-tooled spine and covers with the central monogram of “iesus”, the tail and head protruding above and below the boards, blind-tooled fillets on fore-ed- ges. the two original clasps are well preserved with their strands of lea- ther and metal pins protruding from the edge of the opposite board (lo- wer side negligibly worn, minor losses on covers); absolutely unsophisti- cated copy. the relevance of this binding – in a book printed in Greek in 1584 in Ve- nice containing the orthodox liturgy – lies in the fact that it witnesses the survival of this kind of production in Venice longer than it is commonly thought: actually, this distinctive style, employed in Greece during the middle ages and after, usually in monastic or religious foundations, had been introduced in europe on Greek printed books between late 15th century and early 16th century. after that, “alla Greca” bindings seemed to have been discarded and used only for special, luxury copies, for di- stinguished collectors, for example Francis i or Henry ii of France. this book demonstrates that these bindings were still produced in Veni- ce along the second half of the 16th century, for the byzantine market, showing the continuity of the cultural exchange between la Serenissima and the byzantine-Greek world. Giacomo leoncini used here the Gre- ek types designed by the Greek andreas Kounadis. legrand ii, n. 169. la stampa greca a Venezia nei secoli XV e XVi, Ve- nezia 1968, p. 53, n. 97. € 20.000 54. oSio Carlo CeSare. architettura civile demostrati- vamente proportionata et accresciuta di nuove regole. - milan, nella Stampa archiepiscopale, 1661. Folio; 6 ll. (including engraved allegoric frontispiece), portrait of the author, 406 pp., 3 ll. (index), numerous woodcuts and etchings within the text. 18th century half calf, double morocco label on gilt-tooled spine. negligible light browning on scattered leaves, a stain in pp. 225-226. nice copy from the libra- ry of riccati (printed bookplates). Vincenzo riccati (1707-1775), illustrious mathematician from treviso, taught in Padua and bologna and published se- veral studies of mathematics. another morocco bookplate on the front paste- down. First edition, rare, complete with the nice portrait of the author en- graved by Giovan battista bonacina after Cesare dai Fiori and illustra- ted by several geometric figures and diagrams within the text, finely decorated by graceful and curious woodcut typographic bordures. “one of the most curious books in the entire field of architecture… a very beautiful book on a subject not usually associated with splendor: the theory of geometrical proportioning by means of a new type of compass invented by the author, a milanese mathematician born in 1612… Well and spaciously printed in a handsome roman… nearly each page is illustrated with some woodcut diagram or other – delica- tely executed abstract pictures, brought down to earth by a delightful profusion of floral decorations and small animal cuts” (Weinreb). in this work, the milanese author Carlo Cesare osio extensively deals with architectural orders (“tuscan”, “doric”, “Jonic”, “Corinthius” and “mixtus”); he also defends a simplified method for constructing the orders through angles, without any arithmetic calculation, only using the new compass he had invented (see Comolli). riccardi ii, 222: “raro e pregiato”. Comolli iV p. 3-5: “merita riguar- di, e per la dottrina che contiene, e per la rarità degli esemplari, interi specialmente”. Cicognara 589. berlin Katalog 2619. not in Fowler. Weinreb 6.28. € 9.000 55. oVidiuS naSo PubliuS. metamorphosis. Cum lu- culentissimis raphaelis regii enarrationibus. - Venice, Georgius de rusconibus, 20 april, 1517. (bound with:) epistolae Heroi- des. Parma, o. Saladus & F. ugoletus, 15 may 1517. - libri de tristibus. Venice, Joannes tacuinus, c. 1515. - Fastorum libri. Venice, Joannes tacuinus, 12 april 1520. - libri de Ponto. Ve- nice, Joannes tacuinus, 9 oct. 1507. - libri de arte amandi et de remedio amoris. Venice, (Joannes tacuinus), 4 Jan. 1516. - amorum libri tres. Venice, Joannes tacuinus, Jan. 1518. 7 ovidian works in one folio volume: (metamorphosis) 8 ll., 169 ll., 1 blank le- af; title printed in red and black, 59 large text woodcuts, 1 woodcut diagram, ti- tle and l.1 within decorative woodcuts borders, many ornamental woodcut ini- tials of various sizes, some illustrated, large woodcut printer’s device at end. text surrounded by commentary, printed side-notes (worming in lower blank corners of first 10 leaves repaired, mended tear in l. 58). the other six works are illustrated by several woodcuts (in the third and in the last two works, de- voted to the “art of love”, a number of leaves was censured and removed). Contemporary South German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, panel design of fillets and rool-stamp tooling, dated 1523, original brass catches pre- served (edges slightly worn, few worming). From the libraries of leonhart rit- ter von Harrach, with his (misspelled) name blind-lettered on upper front co- ver, and of martin massrig, with his ownership inscription dated 1650 on first title. magnificent volume including 7 illustrated early editions of ovidian works in a contemporary valuable binding featuring the name of the German scholar who put together this noble reunion. the metamor- phosis shows 59 large woodcuts derived from the famous 1497 Vene- tian edition and from the one printed in Parma in 1505. a beautiful ti- tle surrounded by an elaborated xylographic bordure on black and 22 very nice woodcuts illustrate the Heroides. the cuts in the third, sixth and seven works are here used for the first time. Sander 5320, 5279, 5356, 5305, 5344, 5253, 5250. essling 230. not in e., 1712, 1127, not in e., 1652, 2017. duplessis (1), 13, (iii), 32, (Vii) 39. only V is listed in adams, o-451. € 20.000 56. (PadelouP bindinG). l’office de la semaine sainte a l’usage de la maison du roy imprimé par exprès commande- ment de sa majesté. - Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1727. large 8°; frontispiece, engraved title-page, 8 ll., 616 pp. with 5 beautiful full-pa- ge etchings with vignettes after Homblot. Hundreds of decorated initials wi- thin the text. Very nice copy. Very beautiful and perfectly preserved binding by the atelier of antoi- ne-michel Padeloup: contemporary morocco, covers with an outer border surrounding central panel containing rich floral and interlaced gilt tools; at the center of both sides a large oval medallion showing louis XV’s coat of arms; gilt dentelle, gilt edges. richly decorated end-papers, with colored and gauffered floral patterns on gilt. this gorgeous binding recalls the elaborate and luxurious late “fanfare sty- le”, demanding the greatest skills on the part of the bookbinder. Hobson, les reliures à la fanfare, london 1935, pp. 63-65. Gruel le- on, manuel historique de l’amateur de reliures, Paris 1887, pp. 160-161. € 6.000 57. Palmieri matteo. libro della vita civile. - Florence, 58. Paruta Paolo. della perfettione della vita politica libri eredi di Filippo Giunta, 5 settembre 1529. tre. - Venice, domenico nicolini, 1579. 8°; 125 ll. (i.e. 121), 3 ll. (one blank); 18th century half vellum. nice copy. Folio; 12 ll., 316 pp.; contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine and on the lo- wer edge (head and tail of spine with small losses). Few ink. underlining by an old First edition, posthumously published. this book was a reference text hand on scattered leaves. Faint soiling in the blank gutter margin of few central lea- for the political education of the renaissance man. the requirements ves and occasional, minor foxing. nice, unsophisticated copy. for future outstanding citizens and rulers, outlined here, are very simi- lar to those described by baldassarre Castiglione in his Cortegiano: ac- First edition, very rare, of the main work by Paolo Paruta, who acted as of- cording to Palmieri, the ideal citizen is an educated and eclectic gen- ficial historiographer of the republic of Venice from 1579. tleman, actively involved in pursuing the common good, combining this work, “della perfettione”, was really influential and was translated in- the useful and the honest and working both for the individual benefit to english already in 1657 becoming an important and inspiring source for and for the public interest. the author identified this kind of “new ci- the “Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des romains et de leur tizen” especially among the middle class members. décadence” (1734) by montesquieu. in his text, Paruta defends the repu- “together with Poggio bracciolini, benedetto Cotrugli and leonardo blic – and especially the republic of Venice - as the ideal form of gover- bruni, matteo Palmieri is one of the most distinguished authors nment: decisive is the attention paid to the peculiar structure and ideology among the humanists of the Florentine quattrocento. He was at the of the Venetian republic, the only of a certain dimension and power to service of medici, often sent as an ambassador by Cosimo the elder. survive after 1530 in italy. With his contribution, Paruta consistently parti- His writings are mostly in latin, but he significantly decided to com- cipated in building the Venetian myth in contemporary europe. pose in italian two works about the ‘proven life of citizens’ – the Vita “della perfettione [è] un’opera che assume le sembianze di un articolatis- civile and la città di vita – and a third one, dedicated to fiscal pro- simo dialogo a più voci ambientato all’inizio dell’estate del 1563 a trento… blems” (see Parisi). i principali obiettivi di questo scritto parutiano, che offre un suggestivo “matteo Palmieri, whose Florentine guide to civic morality, appropria- quadro dell’ambiente culturale veneziano del tempo, consistono nella giu- tely entitled Vita Civile… became the model... as Palmieri’s dialogue stificazione morale dell’impegno civile, così da restituirgli quella dignità e puts it, the objective of the Vita civile was ‘the proven life of those vir- quel valore che sembra avere in parte smarrito nel corso dei decenni pre- tuous citizens with whom man has often lived on this earth in the past cedenti, e nella raffigurazione di un modello ideale di uomo politico. in and with whom he will be able to live in the future’… Humanism was della perfettione, la vita attiva e l’impegno civico paiono a tratti occupare to be an education for the citizen as well as a discipline and method un ruolo d’importanza pari – o, talvolta, anche superiore – a quello della re- for the scholar” (baron). ligione, nonostante le ripetute dichiarazioni di fedeltà alla Chiesa…” (Ven- decia 227. adams P-118. d. Parisi, il Contributo italiano alla storia del turelli). Pensiero. economia, 2012. brunet iV, 334: “edition rare”. H. baron, Gamba 1561: “originale e bella edizione”. bozza, Scrittori Politici, p. 54. in Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, Princeton 1988, pp. 138- Ferrari, Corso sugli scrittori politici, lez. XiX. adams P-360. P. Venturelli, 139. € 2.500 “mito di Venezia e governo misto in della perfettione della vita politica di Paolo Paruta”, 1961, Società italiana di filosofia politica. € 6.000 59. PetrarCa FranCeSCo. il Petrarca con l’espositio- ne di m. alessandro Vellutello: di nuovo ristampato con le Fi- gure a i trionfi, con le apostille, e con più cose utili aggiunte. - Venice, nicolo bevilacqua, 1563. 4°; 12 ll., 213 ll, 3 ll.; woodcut vignettes. Handsome contemporary calf (small repairs to spine). minor soiling in the lower corner of some leaves in the first part; minor worm-holes in the gutter margin of scattered leaves, water-staining in the final leaves, occasionally worn. old ownership inscriptions and armorial stamped bookmark on the first end-leaf; manuscript note on final end-leaf (verso). Good illustrated edition of the “Canzoniere” in a very rare example of contemporary binding realized in Genoa: brown calf paneled with gilt and blind fillets, 4 floral corner pieces on each side; front cover di- splaying a central decoration with a pierced heart between P and m, gilt-stamped letters e t a (up) and a C o (bottom); on rear cover, the same gilt decoration with two shaking hands between e and n, gilt- stamped letters i d l (up) and t r a (bottom). Spine tooled in gilt, gilt and gauffered edges. this unusual “bespoke presentation binding” was probably realized in Genoa on the occasion of a wedding or of an official engagement (see the pierced heart and the shaking hands on covers). the two central letters should be, therefore, the initials of the dedicatee; the other 12 letters should compose a cryptogram hiding perhaps the sentence o diletta Cara (“oh my dearest”). Federico macchi describes as “from Genoa, roman style, iii quarter of 16th century” (Cat. arte della legatura a brera, milano 2002, n. 29, p. 119) a very similar binding held in braidense library, milan. the edition is dedicated to Carlo Grotta, chancellor of the Cardinal of trento. the text is printed in italic and roman types. marsand p.77. Speck n°302. Fiske 107: Hortis 116. € 6.700 60. PetrarCa FranCeSCo. de los remedios contra man and passionate book and art collector. His magnificent library, con- prospera et adversa fortuna. - Sevilla, per Joan Varela de Sala- sisting of thousand of volumes held in his residence of Warren Wood, manca, 1524. was sold in the Sotheby’s auction on 29th may, 1911 and following days: the auction catalogue had to be divided into 5 volumes! Folio; 4 ll., 169 ll., 1 leaf; gothic types. brown morocco by leigthon brewer ri- Fiscke, p. 26. Palau Xiii, p. 76. not in biblioteca Heredia. € 13.000 chly tooled and paneled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, fore-edges tooled in gilt, gilt edges. the lower blank margin and corner of the first 8 leaves wisely re- paired (the portion affected is larger in the first leaves, then decreasing); a ne- 61. Platina (SaCCHi) bartHolomeo. de honesta gligible portion of the lower blank corner of the last 4 leaves reinforced. a voluptate et valetudine. - Cividale del Friuli, Gerardo di Fiandra, small worm-track repaired in the lower blank margin of few leaves. nice copy: 24 october 1480. ownership inscription (Federico ii Gonzaga), printed bookplate at the front past-down of Charles butler of Warren Wood Hatfield and pencil manuscript 4°; 94 ll. (the last blank); 19th century stiff vellum, two labels lettered in gilt on notes by Carlo alberto Chiesa. gilt-tooled spine, red edges. Worm-track in the lower blank margin of 5 central leaves repaired without affecting the text. nice copy. outstanding copy belonged to Federico ii Gonzaga, duke and mar- quis of mantua, son of isabella d’este and Francesco ii: manuscript the first book printed in Cividale del Friuli (only two books appeared in ownership inscription in the upper blank margin of title-page: “ill.mi this city over the 15th century), and second dated edition of the first co- dni. march. mantue”. okbook ever printed. rare Spanish edition of Petrarch’s “rimedi”; this is a nice example of in this work, the first modern cookbook, Platina connects a huge “Spanish Gothic” book. Woodcut title-page in red and black, with a amount of information coming from the roman and medieval cuisine xylographic architectural frame surrounded by an outer woodcut bor- with the forthcoming taste. the book ran into dozens of editions, dis- dure composed by 12 figures. at the end, full-page engraved coat of seminating a new idea of fine dining throughout Western europe. the arms of Consalvo from Cordoba, dedicatee of the edition. author derived his recipes from a professional chef, maestro martino this copy shows a really distinguished provenance: it comes from the de’ rossi of Como, whom he had encountered in the summer of 1463 library of Federico ii Gonzaga (1500-1540). the court of mantua at alban. He proposed here a new, mellow taste instead of the spicy was at that time a leading center of the italian renaissance, and isa- courses popular of his times. He introduced delicate recipes with legu- bella, mother of Federico, was no doubt a major cultural and political mes and more than 15 typologies of salads. His cooking was easier and figure, and a patron of arts and literature. Federico’s letters speaking more natural, but actually more sophisticated and refined. of books received or sent to others are well-known to scholars. Fur- “titled de honesta voluptate et valetudine (on right Pleasure and Go- thermore, this copy belonged to Charles butler (1821-1907), literary od Health), the Platina cookbook was not just the first printed cookbo- ok, but one of the first printed books everywhere… the combination of latin and the invention of printing led to the dissemination of the cookbook throughout europe in the sixteenth century, and its transla- tion into a number of vernacular languages, including French, Flemish, German, Spanish, english, and back to italian” (Weiss adamson). italian scholar and writer, Platina (bartholomeo de Sacchi 1421-1481) was born in Piadena, near Cremona. in 1462 he proceeded to rome, probably at the service of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga, and was ap- pointed Vatican librarian. HC 13052. GW m33895. iGi 7850. bmC Vii, 1094. Goff P-763. martini 299. binG 1515. Vicaire 689. Simon bacch. i, 79. bitting 374 n. Simon G. 1188. Fumagalli, p. 87. m Weiss adamson, Food in me- dieval times, 2004, p. 126. € 30.000

62. PlautuS tituS maCCiuS. Comoediae XX. - Venice, in aedibus aldi et andreae asulani soceri, mense iulio 1522. 4°; 14 leaves, 284 leaves; remarkable Venetiam brown morocco, blind- and gilt-tooled spine and sides, decoration in gilt on each cover, gilt corner-pieces, gilt and gauffered edges (corners and spine very wisely repaired). negligible marginal foxing in few leaves. a number of notes by old hands (mostly offe- ring textual variants). First and only aldine edition of Plautus’ comedies, a very nice copy bound in a remarkable Venetiam contemporary morocco. the volume was edited by Francesco from asola: in the preface, he refers that the text for this edition was prepared by “aldus noster et erasmus rote- rodamus”. in addition to the the comedies, the book includes an in- dex, the “argumenta” of each comedy, the life of Plautus, the transli- teration of Greek words. this aldine issue is particularly interesting as it was published aiming to reduce the prominence of Giunti in printing Plautus’ texts (they had already printed an edition of Plautus in 1514, reissued in the same 1522) and to propose to the public a new version of the text. renouard, p. 94. ahmanson-murphy 184. Schweiger 761. adams P- 1487. bmC StC it., p. 524. € 10.000 63. Poli GiuSePPe SaVerio. testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. - Parma, ex regio typographeio (bodoni), 1791-1795 - ex ducali typographe- io (bodoni) 1826-1827. three folio volumes; 3 ll., X, 90, 50 pp., 1 l., 74 pp., 1 l., lXXiii pp. – 1 l., pp. 75- 264, lXXVi pp. – portrait, 3 ll., XXiV, 44, XlViii, 56 pp. Within the 3 volumes, 114 plates. beautiful and valuable contemporary italian green morocco signed “Petronio bolognese” and dated 1813, a large central oval garland tooled in gilt on gilt paneled sides, three red morocco labels lettered in gilt on spine of each vo- lume, gilt-tooled spine with geometric decoration, inner gilt dentelle, gilt edges (small portions expertly repaired). the third volume, published 30 years later than the first two, is bound in a contemporary half green morocco, gauffered pa- per on sides, 2 labels on gilt-tooled spine, and was added to the other two at the time: the gilt decoration is very similar to the tooling of the other bindings; so it is very likely that this third volume was thought to be joint to the others. Very ni- ce copy, absolutely unsophisticated, printed on special white paper, with large margins. First edition, very rare, of this groundbreaking work in the study of mollusks by Giuseppe Saverio Poli, universally considered as the father of malacology, in a remarkable contemporary precious neoclassic bin- ding. the volumes, issued by the great printer Giambattista bodoni, feature numerous vignettes (some depicting the Gulf of naples) and are illu- strated by 114 etched plates. it is very difficult to find this work comple- te with the third volume, published only 30 years later than the first two. the portrait of Poli, engraved by antonio ricciani (1775-1836) after Giuseppe Cammarano (1766-1850), introduces this later volume. the 114 etchings throughout are by Scarpati, ottaviani, Zaballi, brun, Cesa- rano after morelli, lo manto, Casanova and other distinguished artists of the time. ”Poli … is celebrated as the author of a lavishly illustrated, scientifically illuminating and extremely costly work on the mollusks of Sicily which, because it is so rare, is not as widely known as it should be” (dance). Considered as “the founder of the study of mollusks”, the author, fol- the ideas of Zabarella (mentioned at the end of the volume), it aims to lower of linnaeus, used his classification system, but introduced ori- go beyond traditional aristotelian schemes. the text is representative of ginal criteria based on a new method: “he outlined a systematic classi- the interest in the contemporary scientific discussion (the year of publi- fication of the two animal groups [mollusks and crustaceans] and pre- cation, 1627, immediately places the work within the debate raised by sented detailed anatomical and physiological descriptions. the work Galileo’s ideas); moreover, it includes political and moral observations was illustrated with a series of beautiful engravings by contemporary and a remarkable music theory treatise. artists” (dSb). before his death, only the sections devoted to bivalves the first book of the work (originally thought to be divided in 3 books) and multivalve were published; the last part of his work was edited po- is the only one printed, as explained at p. 380. However, the indexes of sthumously by his pupil, the doctor and zoologist Stefano delle Chia- books 2 and 3 are enclosed at the end. ie (1794-1860), and deals with gastropods, cephalopods and scapho- riccardi i, 301 e ii, 127. Cantamessa 6237. € 1.900 pods. ”it is the most important work on mollusks in the second half on 18th 65. raddi GiuSePPe. Plantarum brasiliensium nova gene- century in italy” (Caprotti). ra et species novae, vel minus cognitae. Pars 1. Filices (the only brooks 426. Caprotti i, p. 56. nissen 3213. Ghisotti 1990. dance, a history of shell collecting, p. 66. dSb Xi, p. 67. part published). - Florence, ex typographia aloisii Pezzati, 1825. € 28.000 Folio; 2 ll., 87 (1) pp., 1 l., (1) 88-101 pp., 1 l., 97 lithographic plates numbered as 84 + plates 4, 8, 22, 31, 36, 54, 61, 66, 68-72 displaying a ‘bis’. original lithogra- phed wrappers (minor tears on spine). occasional, mostly marginal, light foxing. 64. PomPei alberto. archisophia della quiete e del mo- Very nice uncut copy. to, in tre libri divisa. - Verona, appresso angelo tamo, 1627. First edition very rare to be found with its original printed covers. only 4°; 10 leaves (the final blank), 380 (i.e. 378), 7 leaves (the final blank); a number this part (Pars 1) on ferns was published; here raddi describes 156 new of full-page etchings and several xylographic diagrams within the text; wood- species discovered in brazil during his stay in the region. the nice litho- cut initials and end-pieces; text framed by a typographic border. Contempora- graphic plates by o. ambra, a. and l. bojti, d. Cantini, S. Guerazzi, ry limp vellum, manuscript title on spine. unsophisticated copy. a.G.l. and P. ridolfi, depicting several species of ferns, are particularly First edition. the text is illustrated by woodcuts (diagrams, figures and interesting as one of the earliest examples of the new technique of li- tables) and by 3 nice full-page etchings. really interesting the woodcuts thography. this method, born in Germany in those years, quickly deve- dedicated to harmonic circles, Cabala (pp. 215-225) and musical pro- loped across europe. portions (p. 371). the etchings depict the Zodiac (p. 167), the “distri- “Giuseppe raddi, a botanist from tuscany, came to brazil in 1817 at the butio provinciarum sub astris” (p. 311) and the Harmony of World (p. expense of the Grand-duke of tuscany… Very few books were publi- 337). shed about his voyage to brazil, and only a few articles appeared in this treatise collects miscellaneous scientific subjects; from one side, it scientific periodicals” (borba de moraes). is influenced by neoplatonic and Kabbalistic theories (the author quo- Pritzel 7391. nissen bbi 1576. borba de moraes ii, p. 171. Sabin 67407. tes several times Pico della mirandola); from the other, according to Wellcome iV, 426. € 3.700 66. rHodeS aleSSandro. relazione de’ feli- 67. ruGendaS JoHann moritZ. Voyage pittoresque dans le ci successi della Santa Fede predicata da’ padri della bresil. traduit de l’allemand par mr. de Golbery. - Paris, engelmann & Compagnia di Gesù nel regno di tunchino. - rome, Cie., 1835. per Giuseppe luna, 1650. Four parts in one folio volume; 2 ll., 48 pp., 30 plates – 34 pp., 20 plates – 51 pp., 30 pla- 4°; 8 ll., 326 pp., l l. (errata) and one folding map. a good 18th tes – 32 pp., 20 plates. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered and tooled in gilt. Copy with century half calf with corners, morocco label lettered in gilt on large margins (professionally cleaned). spine. light browning and faint foxing in very few leaves. nice co- First French edition “of the utmost importance for the study of brazilian life at py. the beginning of the 19th century” (borba de moraes), illustrated by 100 im- First edition, complete with the folding map depicting Co- pressive lithographic plates by deroi after drawings by adam, david, maurin, cinchina and tonkin, which is the earliest printed separate Vattier taken from the original sketches by rugendas and depicting landscapes, map of Vietnam. the text represents a thorough account portraits, costumes and habits of local people. in the same year the work was on 17th century Vietnam based on first-hand information published in German and in French, translated by Golbery. provided by the author alexandre de rhodes, Jesuit mis- J.m. rugendas (1802-1858), “helped to shape the image of brazil in europe. He sionary and the first Frenchman to visit Vietnam. His rela- was born in 1802, in augsburg, Germany, to a family of artists… in 1822 ru- tion was translated into French and published in Paris in gendas arrived in brazil to participate in the langsdoff expedition. While sta- 1651; a latin version appeared one year later, in 1652. ying with other members of the expedition at langdorff ’s Fazenda mandioca, the first part of the book deals with ethnography and hi- he became familiar with the city of rio de Janeiro and its surroundings by dra- story of Vietnam and its inhabitants, the second part with wing numerous sketches of local landscapes and of indigenous and black indi- the activity of the Jesuit mission there. rhodes, born viduals. Soon after the expedition left rio de Janeiro, however, rugendas aban- march 15, 1591, avignon and died march 5, 1660, isfahan, doned it and continued to travel on his own, sketching brazilian inhabitants and Persia, entered the Society of Jesus at rome in 1612 and in landscapes. on his return to augsburg in 1825, rugendas published an illustra- 1619 went to indochina to establish a mission. He is con- ted travelogue of his three-year stay in brazil. Voyage pittoresque dans le brésil sidered as the founder of Vietnamese Christian communi- was published in several issues between 1827 and 1835, in both French and Ger- ty, as he converted some 6,700 Vietnamese to the roman man, by the publisher and lithographer Godefroy engelmann, established in Pa- Catholic faith. in order to improve the activity of missio- ris. the travelogue contains one hundred lithographs based on rugendas’s sket- naries, he also published an annamite-latin-Portuguese ches, divided into five sections - “landscapes”, “Portraits and Customs”, “Ha- dictionary and a catechism, the earliest printed books in bits and Customs of the indians”, “life of the europeans”, and “Habits and Vietnamese language. Customs of the blacks”… they convey a romantic image of brazil, influenced Cordier (indosinica), p. 1620. michel Vii, p. 22. de bac- by the mediation of the various lithographers” (araujo). ker/Sommervogel Vi,1719.4. brunet V,1269. Stephen borba de moraes 754. Sabin 73935. Palau 281204. a.l. araujo, brazil through neill, History of Christian missions, 1982), pp. 195-196. French eyes: a nineteenth-Century artist in the tropics, 2015, pp. 50-51. € 3.600 € 26.000

68. ruPP ladiSlao. raccolta di ventiquattro [i.e. twenty- 69. SalluSti GiuSePPe. Storia delle missioni apostoli- six] vedute di milano dedicate all’arciduca ranieri Viceré del re- che dello stato del Chile, colla descrizione del viaggio del vec- gno lombardo Veneto. - (at the end:) milan, Paolo andrea chio al nuovo mondo fatto dall’autore. - rome, Giuseppe mau- molina, 1833. ri, 1827. Folio; 26 contemporary hand-colored engravings, originally mounted on blue Four 8° volumes; Xii, 240 pp. – 262 pp., 1 blank leaf – 246 pp., 1 l., 1 large paper and surrounded by two hand-colored bordures; each plate shows a cap- hand-colored folding map – 256 pp. nice contemporary havana morocco, gilt tion printed on a paper-label applied below the illustration and expressly made decoration with palmettes on sides, green morocco label on gilt-tooled spine, for this copy. Contemporary half brown calf, spine lettered and tooled in gilt, gilt edges. Very nice copy. nice gilt decoration on boards, original printed wrappers preserved inside. Printed bookplate on the front paste-down (Silvio Zipoli). Very nice copy. First edition, rare, complete with the large water-colored geographic map displaying the “region of araucanos” in Chile, often missing. the remarkable copy of one of the rarest and most beautiful series of text offers the most complete description of a voyage in the regions views devoted to milan, completely and finely hand-colored, and with between argentina and Chile ever given before. two additional plates (26 instead of 24). l. rupp was an austrian artist Giuseppe Sallusti was the secretary of apostolic Vicar muzi: they sai- and engraver; the plates were etched by Falkeisen, durelli, bramati led from Genoa to america in 1823, accompanied by don José igna- and others after drawings mostly by rupp himself. cio Cienfuegos, sent from Chile to rome in order to ask the Pope for the series of plates shows the greatest and most interesting monu- a mission to america. they arrived to argentina after a long and trou- ments of milan in a nice landscape animated by the city daily life: tea- bled sailing from Genoa and Gibraltar; they sailed to buenos aires, tro alla Scala, arch of Peace, arena, Villa reale, duomo, S. ambrogio, then moved to mendoza, crossed the andes and finally came to San- S. lorenzo and so on. tiago on march 6th, 1824. the travel is thoroughly described by Sallu- arrigoni, milano nelle vecchie stampe (le vedute) n° 174 (with 26 pla- sti in his account, which provides us with a detailed first-hand infor- tes). € 25.000 mation about the almost unexplored region between buenos aires and Santiago. He describes geography, landscapes, streets and towns, native people, economic, commercial and social activities, fauna and flora. He focuses in particular on the native araucanos living in the Chilean region depicted by the large map, and on the missions settled there. Sallusti and muzi sailed from montevideo for europe, on december 4th, 1824, and arrived in rome on June 18th, 1825. Sabin 75805. amat di S. Filippo i, p. 558. leclerc 1967. Chadenat 4808: “ouvrage très estimé, orné d’une grande carte du Chili”. biblio- grafia historica i jeografica de Chile 439. not in Palau neither Harris- se. € 2.500 70. SaVonarola Girolamo. trattato circa il 71. SaVonarola miCHele, boldo bartolomeo. li- reggimento e governo della città di Firenze. - (Floren- bro della natura et virtù delle cose, che nutriscono, & delle cose non ce, bartolomeo dei libri, 1498). naturali, con alcune osservationi per conservar la sanita, & alcuni que- 4°; 20 leaves (including the final blank); 19th century half vellum, siti bellissimi da notare. - Venice, domenico & Gio. battista Guerra, morocco label with gilt lettering on spine. light water-staining in 1575. the blank outer margin of few leaves. Copy from the library of G. martini (ownership inscription and pencil notes on the first end- 4°; 4 ll. (title-page and dedication), 4 ll. (index), 300 pp.; contemporary limp vellum, paper, n° 324 of his catalogue); other bookplate on the front paste- original leather ties partially preserved, manuscript title on upper and lower edge. light down. spotting in the final leaf of index; negligible water-staining to final few leaves. nice, unsophisticated copy. absolutely rare edition of the most important political and civil work by Savonarola. First edition of bartolomeo boldo’s revision of the well-known text of coo- Written in early 1498 at the instance of Signoria, at that time king, gastronomy, healthy living, herbal medicine and dietetic by the physician under the guide of Giuliano Salviati, this text was an im- and medicine doctor michele Savonarola (1384-1468). Written in 1464 and portant source of inspiration for later italian political published in Venice for the first time in 1508, Savonarola’s text passed thought, even for the modern and innovative ideas of ma- through several reprints, being expanded and modified. boldo re-issued and chiavelli and the elaborate historical culture of Guicciardini. revised the text, largely improving it: this is the first italian edition and the two editions of this treatise were published in 1498 in Flo- first one to show the title “libro della natura”. rence: the present one, by bartolomeo dei libri, and ano- the treatise is particularly interesting in the history of gastronomy: grain, ther one printed for “Societas colubris” (dragon’s society). herbs, citrus trees, fruits, meat, fish, wine, salt, and spices are only some of Which one was the first to be published, it remains a con- the chapters included in the volume. especially in the last section the text al- troversial question even though martini, who had one copy so deals with dietetic and healthy living. of both editions, seems to consider bartolomeo dei libri’s binG 1775. Vicaire 770. Westbury, p. 200. Simon ii, 97. Wellcome 5794. print as the earliest. € 3.500 the treatise is divided into three parts dealing with the im- portance of a civil republican government for a troubled ci- 72. SCHumaCHer JoHann daniel, CHiaVeri Gaeta- ty like Florence; with the negative effects of the tyranny, no. Palaty Sanktpeterburgskoi imperatorskoi akademii nauyk bi- condemned both by natural law and Christian doctrine, and blioteki i Kunstkamery kotorykh predstavleny plany, fasady i profili. with the rules of a good civil government, the only one that can lead a city toward happiness (see martini). (Chambers of the St. Petersburg, imperial academy of Sciences li- Cr 5305. GW m40608. iGi 8793. bmC Vi, 653. Goff S- brary and Gallery showing Plans, Façades and Profiles). - St. Peter- 236. Giovannozzi 229. martini 324. € 13.000 sburg, at the imperial academy of Sciences, 1741. Folio (522x363 mm); title-page in russian and German and 12 double-page plates

(one larger and folding) by Polianov, Sokolov, Katchalov, Wortmann, and mattarnov 73. (SilVeStri GuGlielmo). 24 vedute di mode- after Schumacher. 19th century half calf, red morocco label on the upper cover (re- na e di altri luoghi dei domini estensi. - (Parma, 1789- backed). 1791). First edition, very rare. beautifully illustrated album dedicated to the ma- gnificent Kunstkamera (academy of Science), the great scientific, naturali- 4°; a collection of 24 plates (34, 5 x 24,3 cm) including a large city map stic and anthropological museum in St. Petersburg. and 23 views (the plates are folded and bound in a 4° volume). 20th the first project for the building was entrusted to the architect Georg Jo- century red morocco, richly tooled in gilt on spine and sides, inner gilt dentelle, marbled end-papers. original 18th century printed label with hann mattarnovi, who died in 1719. after some troubles, the project passed manuscript title applied on the front paste-down. light staining, not af- to the italian architect Gaetano Chiaveri, who did not actually complete it fecting the printed surface, on the blank verso of plate called “Veduta and left St. Petersburg in 1728; eventually Zemtsòv and Schumacher took del passeggio della rotonda”; minor defect repaired on plate called over. the building was finished in 1734. anyway, it belongs to Chiaveri’s “Veduta del palazzo ducale di Sassuolo”. Good copy. credit to have designed the interior of library and probably the colonnade First edition of this exceedingly rare album of views of mode- and the famous staircase. na, the most extensive iconographic representation of the city the album consists of the title-page and 12 etched plates showing plans, fa- appeared in print. çades and galleries of the building. the most interesting are those depicting the etchings, realized by Guglielmo Silvestri between 1789 and the inside of the gorgeous library and the beautiful rooms dedicated to the 1791, include the map of modena, with the list of the most im- museum of science and natural history, with various embalmed animals portant places, and views of squares, palaces, churches, streets, (elephants, crocodiles, zebras, fishes) forming a kind of Wunderkammer. gardens, buildings of the city. moreover, deserving special at- extremely rare copies contain an additional engraved title-page and 2 leaves tention are the plates depicting the most renowned recreation of dedication related to anna leopoldovna, regent of russia for a few places in the neighborhood: Pentetorri, bell’aria in mugnano, months in 1740 and 1741 . these leaves were promptly suppressed, imme- Sassuolo, rivalta… showing magnificent residences, gardens, diately after the printing of the book, when elizabeth Petrovna, daughter fountains. of Peter the Great, seized the power from anna. ardently supported by the Copies complete with all the 24 plates are extremely rare: the nobility and the guards, elizabeth raised to the throne in 1741, marking the copy from Giannalisa Feltrinelli’s library featured only 22 plates. beginning of her 20-years reign. Guglielmo Silvestri, born in Parma in 1763, was pupil of beni- When it was published, Schumacher sent a copy of the book to the most gno bossi at the academy of Fine arts. important european museums, but very few copies remained on the priva- te market both because of the political situation connected to the change dizionario illustrato degli incisori italiani, milano 1955, p. 758 of government and because Schumacher himself was involved in a scandal (only 22 plates). € 13.000 regarding the academy’s expenses. berlin Katalog 2771 (describing a copy with title-page and dedication to anna leopoldovna). C. Guarneri, architettura del sapere: la Kunstkamera di Pietro il Grande, Venezia 2010. € 15.000

74. StatiuS PubliuS PaPiniuS. Sylvarum libri quinque. thebaidos libri duodecim. achilleidos duo. - Venice, in aedibus aldi, august 1502. 8°; 296 ll., Greek and latin text. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine. annotation by an old hand on l. a1. nice, unsophisticated copy. First aldine edition, in a copy from the uncommon issue featuring in the colophon the variant “Cautum est et in hoc…” instead of “Cau- tum est in hoc”. this variant apparently belongs to the first issue and it is not mentioned by the bibliographies. the volume, in the new 8° “pocket-size” used by aldus in order to spread classical texts all over europe, is printed with the famous italic type purposely cut by Francesco Griffo from bologna. the collected works by Statius (Sylvae, thebaid, achilleis) are introduced by the “orthographia” by aldus himself. renouard, p. 35. ahmanson-murphy 49. Firmin-didot, p. 213. adams S-1670. € 4.200 75. SuidaS. lexicon graecum [Greek]. - milan, Johannes bissolus and benedictus mangius, for demetrius Chalcondylas, 15 nov. 1499. Folio; 516 ll.; old vellum, spine reinforced (marginal tear to the 7th preliminary leaf without any loss of text, negligible water-stain in the gutter blank margin of the signatures aa-ee, lower blank corner of the last 10 leaves restored, first and final leaves slightly worn). nice copy wth good margins. editio princeps, only incunabular edition of this monument in the hi- story of european culture and the largest incunable printed in Greek. the lexicon Suidas is an enormously large Greek encyclopedic work, containing more than 3000 entries: “besides its strictly lexicographical content, it contains articles on Greek grammar, history and literature. Probably compiled in the middle of the tenth century, it was already well known in 976… its superiority over other comparable works is due to the enterprise of its compiler or compilers in setting out not only to define words but also to explain or interpret all kinds of other things…the editorial work was done entirely by Chalkokondyles. to finance the publication of the book a partnership was formed by Chalkokondyles, the milan bookseller alessandro minucciano and the printers bissoli and mangio… the front matter of lexicon includes a witty dialogue by Stephanos melas entitled bookseller and Scholar” (Staikos). in his preface, Chalkokondyles underlines the usefulness of the lexi- con not only for scholars but also for students and pays a tribute to the printers complimenting both of them on their knowledge of Greek and on their skill at cutting Greek types. HC 15135 . GW m44268. iGi 9189. bmC Vi, 792. Goff S-829. Klebs 939.1. Staikos, Charta of Greek Printing, pp. 236-238. € 42.000 76. SVetoniuS tranquilluS GaiuS. . - Venice, in aedibus aldi et andreae soceri (heirs of aldus manutius the el- der and andrea torresano), august 1516. 8°; 32 ll. (the final blank), 320 ll.; remarkable contemporary Venetian calf (mi- nor defects). modern paper box. Faint marginal water-staining in the first and final leaves. nice, unsophisticated copy. First aldine edition of Svetonius, including Sextus aurelius Victor, eutropius and Paulus diaconus, in a remarkable contemporary Vene- tian binding: blind-tooled spine, blind ruled sides with interlaced or- nament and central lozenges. this collection of historical texts was issued by the prominent huma- nist Giovanni battista egnazio (Venice 1478-1553), who witnessed the foundation of aldine academy (in 1502), was close friend of aldus and his testamentary executor; he was in contact with all the most im- portant humanists of his times such as erasmus, nicholas leonicus, Paolo Giustiniani, bernardo navagero, and others. the edition, which soon became a reference for all scholars and students interested in ro- man history, is one of the “pocket-size” classics printed in the famous italic type purposely cut by Francesco Griffo from bologna. renouard, p. 77, n. 5. ahmanson-murphy 128. adams S-2031. brunet V, 581. € 7.000

77. tHeoPHraStuS. Characteres ethici (Greek and latin text). - Parma, in aedibus Palatinis, typis bodonianis, 1794. Folio; 8 leaves (the first one blank), 49 pp., 4 leaves (2 blank), 57 pp., 1 l. (in- dex); original editorial orange paper boards, original paper label on spine. mo- dern marbled-paper case. Very nice copy, with untrimmed margins. this is one of the most beautiful editions realized by bodoni featuring in the first part the purity and grace of his famous Greek italic type. brooks 560. Giani, Cat. 61. € 3.000 78. Valla GiorGio. Preclarissimi viri Georgij valle Com- mentationes. in Ptolomei quadripartitum inque Ciceronis Parti- tiones & tusculanas questiones ac plinij naturalis historie li- brum secundum. - Venice, aere eruditi marci Firmani in offi- cina Simonis bivilaquae, 10 november 1502. Folio; 84 ll. (the final blank). Several geometric and astrological woodcut dia- grams throughout the commentary to Ptolemy and to Pliny, with black and white figures depicting planets and eclipses. old vellum, manuscript title on spine (spine reinforced). Contemporary ownership inscription in the first page. light soiling in the first leaf. Good copy. First edition of the commentaries on mainly scientific classical texts by the Fifteenth Century humanist Giorgio Valla. He provides an exten- sive commentary to the mathematic and astronomic works by Ptolemy (and especially to the opus quadripartitum), to the philosophical texts dedicated by Cicero to oracles and divination, and, in the last part, to some difficult passages concerning astronomy within the natural Hi- story by Pliny. the text deals with the movement of planets and eclip- ses and it is finely illustrated by nice woodcuts. Giorgio Valla (Piacenza 1447 - Venice 1500) was a well known huma- nist and polymath. He worked in milan as a private teacher in trivul- zio’s family. He was charged with being accomplice of Charles Viii of France and arrested. this work was edited and printed by his son on- ly posthumously. ”il commento di Valla al quadripartitum di tolomeo è in realtà opera autonoma, di astrologia pura, e di indubbia importanza. mi è parsa di particolare interesse la digressione sugli effetti dei pianeti quando si trovano in domicilio o in esilio” (Cantamessa). riccardi ii, 571. Houzeau-lancaster 2331. Cantamessa iii, 8309. bi- blioteca magica 1198. Sander 7462. adams V-151. € 13.000 Venetian PreSentation booKS 79. Poesie nella partenza dell’eccellentissimo Signor andrea da mula dal glorioso reggimento di Chioggia. - (Venice), albrizzi, "Venetian publishers produced some of the finest illustrated books (1775). in europe in the 18th century… due to the exceptional pool of ta- Folio; 43 engraved leaves; contemporary pink paper, with a large and richly de- lented engravers in the city, with Francesco bartolozzi among the corated gilt border and armorial bearings of the family; in the front side, a most prominent” (martineau-robison, see nr. 244-245). crown figure; in the lower side, an “amorino” with the Venetian monogram (W). Very nice copy. “encouraged by copyright laws to issue works unobtainable in rare Venetian presentation book, one of the most beautiful examples other countries and to publish beautifully printed luxury editions, of the rococo typographic production of 18th century in Venice. the [Venetian] publishers were able to develop a thriving, up-to-date book is richly decorated by etchings: the iconographic apparatus in- international market for the english, French, and German trade. cludes the frontispiece, the title-page with the coat of arms of the fa- For the domestic market, they produced rich editions of libretti mily, vignettes and 20 graceful borders surrounding all the 80 pages of and poems for special events, which embodied in their ornamental text. fantasy the particular charm of the eternal festival that was Venice. Pettoello 370. morazzoni, p. 268. € 3.500 Perhaps these reformulated principles are most perfectly embo- died in the “occasional” books, or raccolte, those collections of 80. Poesie per l’ingresso di antonio Gabriel Cavaliere e Can- poems cranked out to celebrate weddings, visits, baptisms, and me- celliere grande. - Venice, alessandri e Scattaglia incisori in rame, morials, printed on page after page of the most delightful borders, (1785). punctuated with diminutive ornaments and graceful vignettes, of- in-folio; frontispiece etched after novelli, etched title-page, C pp., 1 l. with ty- ten designed by the finest Venetian engravers… even their bin- pographic device; text surrounded by delightful bordures. Contemporary gre- en paper, gilt-stamped coat of arms of Gabriel, gilt large bordure with floral dings are stamped with elaborate gilt and colored designs in the sa- ornaments (spine restored). Good copy. me taste as the decoration within them; but they are made of flim- one of the most beautiful and individual baroque illustrated books sy tinted paper” (Palms Chalmers) published in Venice in the second half of 18th century. the lavish de- anne Palms Chalmers, Venetian book design in the eighteenth Cen- coration consisting of one hundred borders surrounding each page is tury. the metropolitan museum of art bulletin. J. martineau-a. ro- a triumph of fantasy and ornamental taste. they are punctuated with bison, the Glory of Venice. art in the eighteenth Century, london little scenes, exotic landscapes with figures, architectures, gardens, mu- 1994, pp. 350-351 describing very similar presentation books (Com- sical instruments, books and so on. ponimenti poetici... manin e Pisani), albrizzi 1763, with title-page, Pettoello 436. morazzoni p. 270. G. Soranzo, bibliografia veneziana borders and vignette etchings by Francesco bartolozzi. 3492. italian book exhibition, londra, 1953. € 3.200 81. Poesie per l’ingresso solenne di sua eccellenza il Signor Gio. Girolamo Zuccato Cavaliere e Cancelliere Grande. - (Veni- ce), albrizzi, (1772). Folio; 37 ll. (without the final blank); each page of text is framed by finely et- ched borders; contemporary pink paper decorated with gilt-stamped little stars, gilt-stamped coat of arms of Zuccato, upper cover, and monogram of Venice, lower cover (spine restored and minor repairs to covers). rare Venetian presentation book, richly decorated by a baroque orna- mental iconographic apparatus perfectly embodying the rococo taste of late 18th century Venetian printing. each page shows an elaborated garland composed by delightful scenes depicting landscapes and lo- vers. among the poems included in the collection of texts, particular- ly interesting those by Gasparo Gozzi, who edited the volume. Pettoello 359. morazzoni, p. 283. G. Soranzo, bibliografia veneziana 3491. lapiccirella 80. € 3.200 82. Ventenat Pierre. description des plantes 83. Viero teodoro. (Peote, bissone e Gallegianti per la re- nouvelles et peu connues, cultivees dans le jardin de J. m. gata svoltasi a Venezia il 2 aprile del 1791). - Venice, teodoro Vie- Cels. - Paris, de l’imprimerie de Crapelet, an Viii (1800?). ro, 1791. Folio; 6 ll., 100 finely engraved plates by Sellier, Pleé, Guyard, Goulet oblong folio album; 17 plates: watercolor portrait of Ferdinand iV and 16 origi- and others after H.J.and P.J. redouté, maréchal, Cloquet and others, nally hand-colored plates depicting a general view of the regatta and 15 brightly de- 100 ll. (text), 1 l. (index). Contemporary half blue morocco, gilt deco- corated boats, expressly realized and adorned for the occasion. near contempora- ration on spine (slightly worn). nice copy. ry half calf. all the plates are mounted (in order to be reinforced), but they are en- tirely well preserved in their original colors. occasional spotting and repairs. First edition. one of the most fascinating botanical books, this volume represents a great document in the history of botanical dedication copy of an extremely rare album of colored plates depicting illustration and studies, resulting from the collaboration of one of the most celebrated and memorable regattas held in Venice at the Ventenant, botanist of empress Josephine, Jacques martin end of 18th century. this copy is an “unicum” expressly realized for Fer- Cels, who, starting from his own cuttings, had developed a gar- dinand iV King of naples. den in South Paris and cultivated exotic plants from australia, on april 2nd 1791, a great celebration was given in Venice to honor the South Pacific and South african flora, and his friend redouté, visit of leopold ii Holy roman emperor, Ferdinand iV King of naples great botanical artist. and Sicily, the Grand dukes of tuscany and the archdukes of milan and the book describes and illustrates for the first time newly di- austria. all the city was decorated for the occasion: festivities included scovered plants from the garden of Cels - especially from au- theatrical productions, machinae, open-air tournaments, ballets, music, po- stralia, and witnesses the great fascination exerted by exotic pular plays which culminated with the impressive regatta, the last one or- flora - and far countries in europe at that time. in his preface, ganized by Venice before the falling of the republic. Ventenant gives also an account of the sources from which directed by leonardo Valmarana, the regatta begun with a historical pro- Cels collected his exotic species. cession of traditional boats, prepared by the most distinguished families the 100 fine plates are engraved by Plées, Sellier and others af- of the city. two of the vessels were realized by “Giuseppe del ben stuca- ter drawings by P.J. redouté (81), H.J. redouté (8) and maré- tore” whose signature appears on the bottom of the plates. the album cha. contains the illustrations of these boats, finely engraved by teodoro Vie- ”Jacques-martin Cels (1743-1806), one of France’s leading ro after drawings by talented artists. the original decoration in watercolors plantsmen of that day, had a nursery outside Paris in which he of the plates is particular remarkable as it depicts each boat with different grew many rare and exotic plants from australia, South africa, details drawn in addition to the design of the engraving. etc. and many plants sent by michaux from america. Cels was Here a complete list: portrait of Ferdinand iV, general view of the regat- an intimate friend of redoute, and encouraged him to portray ta, the “peota” of the Philharmonic Society carrying the emperor and the plant novelties as they came into bloom...” (redouteana, p. 43). King, “bissone” of Francesco Pesaro, niccolò Correr, C. Guido bentivo- Great Flower books, p. 145. nissen 2048. dunthorne 253. glio, agostin Garzoni, Priuli, benedetto Giovannelli, Giacomo Contarini, macPhail 43. Hunt redouté cat. 7. € 6.000 alvise mocenigo, antonio Savorgnan; again a boat of Philharmonic So-

ciety. each boat was dedicated to a special allegoric theme; the 85. ZuCCHi niCColo’. nova de machinis Philosophia. ac- crews were dressed in traditional costumes and composed by cessit exclusio vacui contra nova experimenta, contra vires machina- musicians and dancers. Four allegoric vessels closed the regatta. rum. Promotio Philosophiae magneticae ex ea novum argumentum this set of plates is exceedingly rare, apparently unique. Single plates are absolutely scarce as well: one appeared on private mar- contra systema Pythagoricum. - rome, typis haeredum manelphii, ket few years ago, and only 4 or 5 are known in public institu- 1649. tions (museo Correr, Collezione bertarelli). 4°; 6 leaves, 227 pp., several woodcut figures depicting diagrams and scientific in- Collezione bertarelli of milan: only the plate depicting the ge- struments within the text. Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine. oc- neral view of the regatta. See arrigoni- bertarelli , le stampe casional light foxing. Very nice copy. storiche n° 1337. € 40.000 original edition rare (not recorded by bibliographies on magnetism, such as ronalds and latimer Clark - Wheeler Gift). 84. VilleneuVe daniel JoSt de. il filosofo the work is based on the scarce text printed in Paris in 1646, under the ti- viaggiatore in un paese incognito alli abitanti della terra. - tle “machinarum omnium vires”, but consistently enlarged. Here it is added Selenopoli (Florence), Stamperia bonducciana, 1771. the anonymous pamphlet called experimenta vulgata non vacuum probare, sed plenum (pp. 101 and ff.), which is one of the first published texts about two parts in one 12° volume; engraved frontispiece with title, 246 pp., barometric experiments (including the torricelli barometer). the original 1 blank leaf - engraved frontispiece with title, 280 pp.; contemporary edition of the experimenta, printed in rome in 1648, is exceedingly scarce half vellum, label lettered in gilt on spine, marbled paper covers (minor (only one recorded copy in the world). defects on sides). Few faint marginal foxing on scattered leaves. nice copy. “in italy niccolò Zucchi, one of those who witnessed berti’s experiment, and apparently one of the few italians who knew what Viviani and torricelli rare first italian edition taken from the original French work pu- had done, had been making experiments with the tube and the quicksilver, blished in 1761 in amsterdam. the work describes the imagina- and in 1648 published an anonymous pamphlet about it, reprinted in 1649 ry journey of the author to Selenopoli, an ideal city on the mo- under his name” (middleton). on. a very interesting example of utopian literary genre, the text in the first part of the nova Philosophia, Zucchi describes a number of in- provides us with a modern view on several controversial sub- struments and their use. in the section on barometer, he denies the existen- jects such as education, fashion, government, politics and so on: ce of a vacuum giving a contribution to the scientific debate developed see chapters like Vanità delle nazioni; dell’educazione; delle from Galileo’s experiments and theories. the treatise also includes observa- mode; del dispotismo; dell’attrazione intellettuale per servire tions about magnetism. Zucchi was a Jesuit scholar, known for his observa- da supplemento alla fisica di newton. tion of Jupiter and for designing one of the earliest reflecting telescopes. the work was published anonymously and was ascribed to dif- Poggendorff, ii, 1421. Gillispie, d.S.b., XiV, pp. 636-7. riccardi, ii, 671, p. ferent names. in 1769 “la France litteraire” definitely defined d. 328. de backer - Sommervogel, Viii, 1526-27. King, History of the tele- J. de Villeneuve as the author. scope, p. 44. middleton, the history of the barometer, baltimora 1984. Parenti, p. 182. € 1.700 € 3.200 indeX aldineS 23, 38, 44, 62, 74, 76 inCunabula 22, 36, 49, 61, 70, 75 ameriCana 5, 18, 21, 32, 34, 65, 67, 69 JaPan 18 art/arCHiteCture 1, 6, 7, 10, 22, 24, 27, 29, 30, 32, 33, 35, mantoVa 59 39, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 50, 54, 68, 72, 73, 79-81, 83 mediCine 3, 31, 41, 46, 71 aStronomY/aStroloGY 6, 28, 40, 64, 78 miCroSCoPe-teleSCoPe 3, 13, 46 auStralia 82 mnemoniC 14 ballet 35 natural HiStorY 9, 13. 63, 65, 82 bindinGS 12, 15, 38, 41, 45, 49, 53, 55, 56, 60, 62, 63, 76 oPtiCS-PerSPeCtiVe 3, 6, 22 bodoni 8, 63, 77 ottoman World 16 booKS oF HourS 37, 56 PolitiCS 56, 57, 70 botanY 65 Printed on Vellum 37 braZil 65, 67 rome 6, 10, 32, 48 CloCKS/GnomoniCS 6, 17 ruSSia 50, 72 ColleCtionS-muSeumS 72 SCienCe 3, 6, 13, 17, 19, 25, 28, 31, 40, 41, 46, 50, 63, 64, 78, 85 dietetiCS 71 SetteCento Veneto 33, 43, 79-81, 83 eConomY 57, 58 SHellS 63 emblemS 1, 24, 45 SlaViCa 52 FairY taleS 33 SPain 59 Far eaSt 18, 66 tHeater 4, 35 FeStiVal booKS 30, 32, 35, 83 traVelS 18, 34, 66, 67, 69, 84 Galileiana 19 truFFleS 9 GaStronomY 9, 26, 30, 61, 71 VeniCe 43, 79-81, 83 GreeK 53, 75, 77 Vietnam 66 imaGinarY VoYaGeS/utoPia 84 Women 2

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