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
Boston: Society of Printers, 1916. 8vo. cloth backed boards, paper cover label. 50 pages. First edition, limited to only 250 copies. Printed by the University Press. This interesting copy contains a four page brochure issued by the Society of Printers for a meeting held in 1947 in which George Marsh was going to talk on "New Methods and Materials and their Influence on Style." The brochure give a two page biographical sketch of Marsh and..... READ MORE about GIAMBATTISTA BODONI OF PARMA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 78166
Boston: Society of Printers, 1916. 8vo. cloth backed boards, paper cover label. 50 pages. First edition, limited to only 250 copies. Printed by the University Press. Soiling around the edges of the covers. Spine lacking. Bookplate of Frederic Melcher on front pastedown. READ MORE about GIAMBATTISTA BODONI OF PARMA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134944
London: Elkin Mathews Ltd., 1925. 8vo. boards. (x), 57 pages. First edition in English, limited to 310 copies. A translation into English of the introduction to Bodoni's famous manual of typography. With the original glassine, which has a tear and corresponding creasing and some loss on the upper rear panel. Some darkening to board edges, minor foxing to deckled edges. Bookplate of Daniel Berkeley Bianchi on front pastedown. READ MORE about G.B. BODONI'S PREFACE TO THE MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO OF 1818 NOW FIRST TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH, WITH...
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 4472
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
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 104304
Edited with an Introduction by Conor Fahy.
Paris: Fondation Custodia, 1993. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (8), 171, (25) pages. Edited with an Introduction by Conor Fahy. This book is an account of the production details concerning the printing and distribution of the Musaeum Francisci Calceolarii, a large illustrated volume containing a Latin description by two Veronese doctors, Benedetto Ceruti and Andrea Chiocco, of some of the Calzolari family's natural history collection. The Musaeum was published in 1622 with 800 folio pages and..... READ MORE about PRINTING A BOOK AT VERONA IN 1622, THE ACCOUNT BOOK OF FRANCESCO CALZO LARI
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 44058
Chicago: American Library Association, 1976. 8vo. cloth. xiv, 190 pages. First edition. Consideration of Economic and Technical Background, attempts to form a monopoly, Privileges and Censorship, an contents of various 15th century books printed in and near Venice. Ownership stamp in ink on front free endpaper. READ MORE about PRINTING AND PUBLISHING IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY VENICE
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 119642
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2012. 4to. paper covered boards. (iv), 315 pages and 26 plates. Reprint of the 1924 first edition. Includes chapters devoted to incunabula printed in England, France, Spain, and Italy with extensive reference to works printed in Rome. A special chapter is devoted to Judaica. Indexed. Includes 26 plates of printing specimens. READ MORE about DIE DEUTSCHEN BUCHDRUCKER DES XV. JAHRHUNDERTS IM AUSLANDE
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 109506
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
Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985. small 4to. cloth, slipcase. xiv, 115, [4] pages. Limited to 200 copies. With Original Leaves from the First Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus' Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518. With new text by Barker, fifty illustrations and four leaves showing four different Greek Aldine types. Printed and bound at Meriden-Stinehour. Prospectus loosely inserted. Slipcase lightly spotted, else fine. READ MORE about ALDUS MANUTIUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK SCRIPT & TYPE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY
Price: $1,600.00 Order nr. 11893
London: The Monotype Corporation Ltd., (1967). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (40) pages. Introductory text followed by the examples of printing. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. Light soiling to covers, else near fine. READ MORE about THE WORK OF GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG WITH `MONOTYPE' FACES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 19540
An offprint from The Biblographical Society.
N.P. n.p., 1936. smal 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 36-61, (2) pages. An offprint from The Biblographical Society. Reprinted by Oxford University in June 1936. A comprehensive survey of Andreas Brentius's reprint of Caesar's address to his men (circa 1481) giving information about the author, printer and layout of the book. Four black-and-white illustrations and diagrams. Inscription on front cover reads, "with compliments from Irvine Masson." Tanned at the edges. Front corners creased. READ MORE about THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A SMALL INCUNABLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 77003
Hamburg: Maximilian- Gesellschaft, (1979). small 4to. cloth, slipcase. lxi, 289, (3) pages. First edition, one of 500 copies for Germany. The definitive bibliography of the press written by Mardersteig prior to his death. Prospectus loosely inserted. Fine condition. READ MORE about DIE OFFICINA BODONI, DAS WERK EINER HANDPRESSE, 1923-1977
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 131892
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label, top edge gilt. 222 pages. First edition, limited to 750 copies. With three mounted color plates and 125 facsimile plates. Covers soiled with spotting along edge of back cover. READ MORE about THE BOOK IN ITALY DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES SHOWN IN FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 126938
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
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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
