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(Aldine Press) BIBLIOTHECA ALDINA.
Roma Fiammetta Soave 1991 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 94, (2) pages.
A collection of one hundred publications of Aldus Pius Manutius and the Aldine Press, including some valuable Aldine conterfeits. This collection includes a series of valuable editions of Greek Classics of which many are 'editiones principes', all in folio size, with titles and colophons characterized by Aldus's wonderful type setting technique, and a large number of the famous 'pocket' classics printed in his italic type. Illustrated and indexed. Covers slightly soiled.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 58853

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(Aldine Press) BOOKS INCLUDED IN THE AHMANSON-MURPHY ALDINE COLLECTION.
Los Angeles UCLA Library n.d. small 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers 117 pages.
Reproduced from typescript. Front cover detached.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 69316

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(Aldine Press) A FINE COLLECTION OF BOOKS PRINTED BY ALDUS MANUTIUS AND HIS SUCCESSORS AT VENICE.
London Christies's 1995 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 119, (19) pages.
A catalogue for the auction at Christie's in 1995, which offered a fine collection of books printed by Aldus Manutius and his successor at Venice including many in contemporary bindings and with important provenances. It list 86 entries and is illustrated in color and black and white. Prices realized loosely inserted.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 58895

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(Aldine Press) Kallendorf, Craig W. and Maria X. Wells. ALDINE PRESS BOOKS AT THE HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE.
(Mansfield Centre, MA Martino Publishing 2010 small 4to. paper covered boards. (vi), 415 pages.
Reprint of the scarce 1998 first edition now issued by Martino Publishing with the permission of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. Contains 33 pages of plates depicting bindings, inscriptions, and shelf marks. A total of 526 entries containing information on author, title, illustrations, full collation, colophon, author index, binder index, provenance index, bibliography of Aldine Quincentenary Catalogues. One page foreword by H. George Fletcher.
Price: $ 110.00 other currencies Order nr. 104989

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Crapulli, Giovanni (editor) TRASMISSIONE DEI TESTI A STAMPA NEL PERIODO MODERNO.
(Rome) Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1985 8vo. stiff paper wrappers x, 329+(1) pages
Text in Italian, with articles in French, German, and English. Volume II, Transmission of Printed Texts in the Modern Era. 2nd International Seminar, Rome and Viterbo, June 1985. No XLIV in the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo series. Scholarly articles on publishing and bibliographical studies. Table of contents, list of contributors. Wrappers lightly tanned.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115358

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Crapulli, Giovanni (editor) TRASMISSIONE DEI TESTI A STAMPA NEL PERIODO MODERNO.
(Rome) Edizioni dell'Ateneo 1983 8vo. stiff paper wrappers xii, 205,(3) pages
Text in Italian, with articles in French, German, and English. Volume I, Transmission of Printed Texts in the Modern Era. 1st International Seminar, Rome and Viterbo, June 1985. No XXXVI in the Lessico Intellettuale Europeo series. Scholarly articles on publishing and bibliographical studies. Table of contents, list of contributors. Wrappers lightly tanned.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115359

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(Edizioni Dell'Elefante) EDIZIONI DELL'ELEFANTE AN EXHIBITION OF BOOKS, DOCUMENTS AND BINDINGS ARANGED FOR THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY
(Rome) n.p. 1987 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 62 pages
Introduction in English and Italian by Francis Haskell. Exhibition catalogue of books, documents and bindings concerning this Italian publisher. Wrappers rubbed at the edges, tail of spine and bottom front corner bumped.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 104545

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L' ERMA DI BRETSCHNEIDER, LA STORIA DI UNA CASA EDITRICE DAL 1896.
(Roma L'Erma di Bretschneider 2000) small 4to. stiff paper wrappers 69, (2) pages
A history to commemorate the centennial of the publishing house. Includes English and German translations.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 64886

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(Formiggini, Angelo Fortunato) Mattioli, Emilio and Alessandro Serra. ANNALI DELLE EDIZIONI FORMIGGINI (1908-1938).
Modeno S.T.E.M.-Mucchi 1980 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxii, 435, (2) pages.
First edition. A Catalogue giving descriptions of all works published by A.F. Formiggini between 1908 and 1938. Illustrated with four leaves of title pages reproductions. With an introduction by the authors. Includes bibliographical references and an index. All in Italian.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 61740

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Govi, Fabrizio I CLASSICI CHE HANNO FATTO L'ITALIA: PER UN NUOVO CANONE BIO-BIBLIOGRAFICO DEGLI AUTORI ITALIANI.
THE CLASSICS THAT HAVE MADE ITALY: A NEW BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ITALIAN AUTHORS
with an introductory essay by John Ragone and a note by Umberto Pregliasco Modena Giorgio Regnani Editore 2010 8.25 x 11.25 inches hardcover, dust jacket 415 pages
I Classici Che Hanno Fatto Ltalia (or The Classics That Have Made Italy) offers itself as a counterpart to the great work Printing and the Mind of Man, illustrating the history of the Italian culture through a selection of works by Italian authors (by birth or adoption) from the thirteenth century to the present.

The publishing history of a text, whether a masterpiece or the work of a pioneering era, can be broken into two parts: information on the production and dissemination of works such as print runs, reprints, counterfeits, privileges, trade agreements, etc; and the mutual relationship between the press and the readers, showing how the printed book has influenced the way people read and write. Each work explained in the book calls special attention to editorial strategies such as format, font, illustrations, dedications, etc. The Classics That Have Made Italy is not just a list of prominent texts defining Italian history or a history of the Italian book from a typographic standpoint, but also a chronological overview of known printed texts.

The Classics That Have Made Italy provides the edition, background information, references, historical and cultural significance of each work, brief biography of the author, and an index. An essay by John Ragone examining the transformation of Italy from the fifteenth century is included. The book is written in Italian and accompanied by an English translation of the introduction.

Fabrizio Govi, who graduated from Bologna in 1997 with a degree in literature, is an antiquarian bookseller in Modena. John Ragone teaches at the University of Rome La Sapienza and has contributed to a number of books, including A Century of Books, Publishing in Italy, History and Scenarios for the XXI Century, Communication Memory, and others. Umberto Pregliasco works at an antiquarian bookshop in Turin and is the author of several articles on the bibliophile and trade and protection of antique books. He has been the chairman of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Italy (ALAI) since 2004.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 104769

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(Hoepli) CATALOGO CRONOLOGICO, ALFABETICO-CRITICO SISTEMATICO E PER SOGGETTI, DELLE EDIZIONI HOEPLI (1872-1896).
Milan Ulrico Hoepli (1896) 8vo. disbound xv, (i), 494 pages
XXV Anni di Vita Editoriale. Introduction by Gaetano Negri. Photograph as frontispiece. Ex-library copy from the Mercantile Library, Philadelphia, with markings. Disbound, cover and backstrip missing, first ten pages detached, pages fragile, extremities worn.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 69687

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(Italy) THE ITALIAN PUBLISHERS AT THE NEW YORK BOOK EXHIBITION.
Milan Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana (1928) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, fore and bottom edges uncut xxiv, 396+(1) pages.
First edition. A catalogue of the exhibition of Italian publishers at the Casa di Cultura Italiana at Columbia University in 1928. Includes a brief history of each publisher; with a preface by Antonio Vallardi, head of one of the oldest Italian publishing houses. Paper watermarked "Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana Milano." Text in English and Italian. Wrappers discolored. Some pages unopened.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 47759

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Myers, Robin and Michael Harris (editors) A GENIUS FOR LETTERS: BOOKSELLERS & BOOKSELLING FROM THE SIXTEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURIES.
Winchester & New Castle, DE St Paul's Bibliographies & Oak Knoll Press 1995 8vo. printed paper over boards. 188 pages.
By the mid-eighteenth century bookselling was established as the key factor in the book business. On the one hand, booksellers were at the center of the interlocking range of associated activities involved in the manufacture and distribution of a multi-form product. On the other hand, they helped to shape the consumption of print in the market, responding to and guiding the taste of readers as customers.
Printers, binders, authors, and readers never achieved the corporate force and solidarity of the booksellers who, in England, early on dominated the London Stationers' Company. It was as `publishers' in its increasingly specialist sense of the marketing and distribution of texts, that this commercial sector acquired its authority in the long term. As the owners of valuable copyrights the leading London booksellers laid the foundation of a commercial interest which was never seriously challenged.
The contributors to this volume unravel some of the complexities of the trade organized by business people working at different times and different places but all pursuing what might be called the logic of the market place through the sale of books. Topics include booksellers and bookbinders by Anthony Hobson; Italian bookselling in the eighteenth century by Luigi Balsamo; booksellers and bookshops in late seventeenth-century London by Giles Mandlebrote; and circulating libraries, booksellers and book clubs 1870-1966 by Simon Eliot. Head of spine bumped. Spot on free endpaper.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 115675

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Pescasio, Luigi L' ARTE DELLA STAMPA A MANTOVE NEI SECOLI XV-XVI-XVII.
Mantova Editoriale Padus (1971) 4to. cloth 321, (3) pages
Text in Italian. A history of the art of printing in Mantova, Italy, from the 15th through the 17th centuries. Preface by the author. Organized by century with biographies and bibliographies of significant printers. Indices of names, places, and illustrations. Table of contents. Black and white illustrations. Boards lightly faded.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 116071

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Pettas, William A. THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY.
A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 1096 pages
This ambitious project explores in detail the history and output of the Giunti Press in Florence, covering the firm from its beginnings in 1497 to its end in 1625, and providing descriptions of each Giunti book published with extensive indication of the libraries holding copies of each edition. In doing so, it addresses issues of censorship, the development of the Italian language from Florentine dialect, and the larger literature and history of Florence in the late Renaissance.

Printer and publisher Aldus Manutius, founder of Aldine Press, is well known among students of Renaissance Italian literature and history. Less has been published on the Guinti, however, a family whose members established operations over much larger territory than the Aldine press, collectively achieving much greater financial resources and surviving for a longer period of time. Their role in the history of Italian literature was significant and deserves an extensive review. The aim, then, of the present history is to tell the story of this late Renaissance Florentine printer-publisher.

Part I of the book covers all aspects of the Giunti family and the press, the nature of its output, its relationship to the governments of Florence and Tuscany, to social conditions, to the economy, to members of their own family, to their editors, and to the strictures of censorship. Names of Greek authors and editors in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been cited in a transliteration of the Greek rather than the usual Western form, and libraries holding Florentine Giunti editions have been listed by country. The catalogue in Part II provides a basic description of all known editions, as well as some unsigned editions that others have attributed to the Giunti, seeking to identify as many surviving exemplars as possible. In addition, the book provides Giunti images, genealogical tables, a chronological list of editions by language, and a list of works cited.

Dr. William Pettas is a native of Buffalo, NY, and has had a long career in public and academic library administration. His research has focused on the Giunti family of Florence, and he has published extensively on their firms in Florence, Rome, Venice, Lyon, Burgos, Salamanca, and Madrid. In researching this book, he has traveled extensively to libraries with rare book collections in the US, England, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, and Greece.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 105520

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IL RISORGIMENTO GRAFICO, ANNO XXIII, NUMERO 3.
Rivista Mensile d'Arte del Libro, Anno XXIII. Bertieri, Raffaello (editor) Milano Raffaello Bertieri 1926 large 4to. stiff paper wrappers (i), 104-147, (3) pages followed by four plates
Issue No. 3, dated March 31, 1926, of the graphic arts review edited by Raffaello Bertieri, director of the famous Scuola del Libro located in Milan. Trade ads with illustrations for inks, presses, photographic equipment, etc. comprise the first section. Contains the articles "La Giunta d'Arte per I Servizi Editoriali" and "Ancora della Fiera Internazionale del Libro" beautifully printed on rag paper. Includes four plates, two of which have color illustrations tipped-in. Wrappers lightly soiled and worn, spine faded, tail of spine bumped.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 95757

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(Saks, John A.) VENETIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, THE COLLECTION OF JOHN A. SAKS.
London Christie, Manson & Woods 1981 8vo. stiff printed paper wrappers. 85, (11) pages.
Catalogue to the Christie's Auction. Includes 44 illustrations, an index of artists and engravers. Acquisition date stamped in corner of front cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 42988

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Sorbelli, Albano LE MARCHE TIPOGRAFICHE BOLOGNESE NEL SECOLO XVI.
Milano Bertieri e Vanzetti n.d. (but 1923) 4to. paper wrappers, later paper spine covering. 56, (4) pages.
First edition. A collection of sixteenth-century Bolognese printers' marks illustrated and described. Included among these are the marks of Caligola Bazalieri, Aldo Manuzio, G.B. Bellagamba and various other minor or anonymous printers. Sorbelli provides an introduction as well as commentary on each mark illustrated. Printed in red and black. Tears along bottom edge of front cover. Small tears at top and bottom of spine.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 60111

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Sorbelli, Albano LE MARCHE TIPOGRAFICHE BOLOGNESE NEL SECOLO XVI.
Milano Bertieri e Vanzetti n.d. (but 1923) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56, (4) pages.
First edition. A collection of sixteenth-century Bolognese printers' marks illustrated and described. Included among these are the marks of Caligola Bazalieri, Aldo Manuzio, G.B. Bellagamba and various other minor or anonymous printers. Sorbelli provides an introduction as well as commentary on each mark illustrated. Printed in red and black. Unopened copy.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 99699

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Sutermeister, Guido GLI EDITORI "DA LEGNANO" 1470-1525.
2e Parte-Inventario delle Edizioni Varese Tipografia Arcivescovile Dell'Addolorata 1948 8vo stiff paper wrappers 254 pages
Text in Italian. No. 12 of Memorie, 1948. Published by the Legnano Society of Art and History, 2nd part of an inventory of publications. Unopened. 241 entries with information about writers, transcribers, printers, editors, format and font. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bibliography. Chronological and authors' indices. Wrappers detached from text and torn at edges. Tanning at edges.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 108394

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Valliardi, Antonio EDITORIA ITALIANA E LA SUA ASSOCIAZIONE DAL 1869-1949.
Milan Pubblicazione Bibliografico-Editoriali Ltd. 1950 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages.
Text of an address delivered on the 80th anniversary of the first formal organization of publishers in Italy. A brief historical overview. Browned somewhat around edges.
Price: $ 22.50 other currencies Order nr. 52866

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Valliardi, Antonio OTTANTA ANNI DI VITA ASSOCIATIVA DEGLI EDITORI ITALIANI (1869-1949).
Milan Associazioni Italiana Editori 1950 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers 3-111 pages, with 14 additional leaves of plates.
A chronology in sections of the various organizations of Italian publishers beginning in 1869, with photographic illustrations or facsimiles, several indexes, and a list of the organizations' publications. Backing browned, chipped; several small tears.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 52865

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