Legnano: Societá Arte e Storia, 1946. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, loosely inserted in pamphlet folder. 55 pages. From the reference library of H.P. Kraus with bookplate on inside front cover. Small tears along edges. READ MORE about GLI EDITOR "DA LEGNANO" 1470-1525
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 104303
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1981. 4to. half cloth over decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (viii), 55, (3) pages. Limited to 500 copies with translation and typography by Alastair Johnston. Revised from the 1967 article. 31 illustrations in the text. READ MORE about CYRILLIC & ORIENTAL TYPOGRAPHY IN ROME AT THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY: AN INQUIRY INTO...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 18832
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 2003. thick 8vo. cloth. 688 pages. Reprint of the third edition which was originally published in Paris in 1834 in only 350 copies. (Besterman p.5153; Breslauer and Folter no.115 for first edition). This famous bibliography of the output of the Manutius family and their Aldine Press, 1494-1598, has remained the standard work on the subject and has been praised as a classic of its kind. Over 1500 entries given..... READ MORE about ANNALES DE L'IMPRIMERIE DES ALDE OU HISTOIRE DES TROIS MANUCE ET DE LEURS ÉDITIONS
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 32240
Munchen: Weiss & Co., (1926). thin 4to. later two-toned cloth with paper cover and spine labels. 126 pages. 516 items bibliographically described. Fine copy. READ MORE about GIAMBATTISTA BODONI OPERA TYPOGRAPHICAE MDCCLXIX - MDCCCXXXIX
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 20950
Boston: Society of Printers, 1916. 8vo. cloth backed boards, paper cover label, dust jacket. 50 pages. First edition, limited to only 250 copies. Printed by the University Press. Jacket chipped along spine with 4" piece lacking. Unusually well-preserved copy of this scarce book. READ MORE about GIAMBATTISTA BODONI OF PARMA
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 1449
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, (2015). tall 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 255+(1) pages. First edition. Table of contents, list of major characters, acknowledgments, four appendices, select bibliography, endnotes, index. Frontispiece, color and black and white illustrations in text. The first English language biography. READ MORE about GIAMBATTISTA BODONI: HIS LIFE AND HIS WORLD
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 128557
London: John C. Nimmo, 1891. small 4to. later cloth with original gilt stamped cloth spine laid down. xxii, 463 pages. First edition. (Appleton p.16). Of the whole edition of 520 copies, this is one of the 265 numbered copies printed for distribution in the United States. Beautifully printed by the Chiswick Press in England. Contains twenty-two full page illustrations, engraved chapter headpieces and engraved initial letters. The last 259 pages reprint scarce documentary material on..... READ MORE about VENETIAN PRINTING PRESS, AN HISTORICAL STUDY BASED UPON DOCUMENTS FOR THE MOST PART HITHERTO...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 4106
N.P. n.p., 1974. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 62-70 pages. Offprint from The Library Chronicle, volume XL, number 1, winter 1974. Part of the bibliographic studies in honor of Rudolf Hirsch. READ MORE about THREE EARLY VENETIAN EDITIONS OF AUGUSTINUS DATUS AND THE PRESS OF FLORENTIUS DE ARGENTINA
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 79703
(Ann Arbor, MI): UMI Research Press, (1981). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 315+(1) pages. No. 43 in the Studies in Musicology Series. A revision of the author's thesis, UNC Chapel Hill, 1975, on the life of a 16th century Roman music printer. Table of contents, list of illustrations, acknowledgments, preface, endnotes, four appendices, bibliography, index. Black and white illustrations. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about VALERIO DORICO: MUSIC PRINTER IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY ROME
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 120821
New Rochelle, NY: Elizabeth Press, The, (1972). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Limited to 400 copies (Not in Buff). Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed on Magnani rag paper by Stamperia Valdonega and published by James L. Weil. READ MORE about THREE YEARS RINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21131
Con nota introduttiva su Le Antiche Cartiere di Caselle di Giovanni Donna d"Oldenico.
Cirie: Società Storica delle valli di Zanzo, 1962. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 22 pages. Con nota introduttiva su Le Antiche Cartiere di Caselle di Giovanni Donna d"Oldenico. IX in the series of pamphlets. READ MORE about GIOVANNI FABRI, TIPOGRAFO DEL XV SECOLO
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Perugia: Presso Carlo Baduel, 1782. small 4to. contemporary patterned paper wrappers. (ii), xxii, (ii), 154 pages. An attractive festival book commemorating the return of Pius VI from a visit to Germany. The engraved title page was beautifully designed by Antonio Stefanucci and engraved by Raimondo Fauci, and the engraved frontispiece was designed by Petrus Labruzzi and engraved by Camillus Tinti. The decorative tail-piece is also by Stefanucci and Faucci. Carlo Baduel of Perugia printed the..... READ MORE about AL FAUSTO RITORNO DALLA GERMANIA DI PIO VI PONTEFICE MASSIMO
Price: $850.00 Order nr. 58718
Milano: Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana, 1927. 4to. later cloth. Not paginated. Exhibition catalogue showing highlights of Italian printing and design. 290 books described in detail accompanied by 52 full-page plates. Original paper front cover bound-in at the end. READ MORE about DAL QUATTROCENTO AL NOVECENTO, PRIMA MOSTRA DEL LIBRO ITALIANO A BUENO AIRES SOTTO L'ALTO...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 33070
Milano: Associazione Editoriale Libraria Italiana, 1927. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Exhibition catalogue showing highlights of Italian printing and design. 290 books described in detail accompanied by 52 full-page plates. Wrappers chipped with tear in spine covering. READ MORE about DAL QUATTROCENTO AL NOVECENTO, PRIMA MOSTRA DEL LIBRO ITALIANO A BUENO AIRES SOTTO L'ALTO...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 49049
3 Volumes.
Boston, MA: G.K. Hall & Co., 1970. small 4to. cloth. x,679+(1); (ii), 262; (iv), 613+(1) pages. 3 Volumes. Preface by editor Robert G. Marshall, table of contents, identifying codes of libraries represented, index of printers and publishers. Arranged alphabetically by author. READ MORE about SHORT-TITLE CATALOG OF BOOKS PRINTED IN ITALY AND OF BOOKS IN ITALIAN PRINTED ABROAD 1501-1600
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 131349
N.P. Columbia University, (1977). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 40, (15) pages of plates. An exhibition catalogue celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Casa Italiana. A collection of Italian treasures such as examples in music, literature, architecture and science were on display at the University in 1977. Light cover soiling. READ MORE about ITALIAN TREASURES FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 57368
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. A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions. 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..... READ MORE about THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY
Price: $195.00 Order nr. 105520
New Castle, Delaware, and Venice, Italy: Oak Knoll Press, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, and La Musa Talìa, 2009. 6.75 x 9.5 inches. paperback, dust jacket. 632 pages. The Books of Venice (Il libro veneziano) contains a series of essays (in English and Italian) exploring Venetian book history from the Quattrocento through current production, books printed "in the shadow of Aldus Manutius." Venice's books, like her art and architecture, have long been considered one of her greatest..... READ MORE about THE BOOKS OF VENICE (IL LIBRO VENEZIANO
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 100392
Milano: Vanni Scheiwiller, (1966). 4to. paper covered boards, dust wrapper, cardboard slipcase. (v), 80, 17+(1) pages with 139 plates. Text in Italian. Nineteenth and twentieth century printing history in Italy. With 133 illustrations and an index. Spine of dust wrapper slightly sunned, minor wrinkling and a small open tear to the bottom front corner of the dust wrapper. READ MORE about IL LIBRO ITALIANO SAGGIO STORICO TECNICO 1800-1965
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 104268
![VOM ITALIENISCHEN FRUHDRUCK [CONCERNING EARLY PRINTING IN ITALY]. Victor Scholderer](/pictures/thumb/048458.jpg?v=1434398560)
Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1932. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, publisher's description loosely inserted. 28, (2) pages. Scholderer, librarian for early printed books at the British Museum, discusses incunabula in Italy, what was printed and where, and points out some contrasts with German production of the time. An address given at the General Meeting of the Gutenberg Society on 6/26/32. Inserted is a page from an unidentified bookseller's catalogue offering an Italian incunable. Set in Stempel-Memphis. In terms..... READ MORE about VOM ITALIENISCHEN FRUHDRUCK [CONCERNING EARLY PRINTING IN ITALY
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 48458
(Verona, Italy: Stamperia Valdonega for the Sparrow Press, 1981). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 49, (3) pages. Frontispiece etching by Eugene G. Canadé. Acknowledgments. Presentation from the author on front free endpaper. A collection of poetry. READ MORE about USES AND OTHER SELECTED POEMS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 118871
