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Contemporary accounts of two power struggles, in Italy and in the Low Countries

CAPELLA, Galeazzo Flavio. De rebus nuper in Italia gestis [in the running heads: "De bello Mediolanensi"] libro octo ...
(Colophon: Antwerp, Maarten de Keyser), 1533.
With: (2) SERVILIUS, Johannes (Jan KNAAP). Geldrogallica conjuratio in totius Belgicae clarissimam civitatem Antverpiam, duce Martino Rosheymio, ...
Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1544. 2 works in 1 volume. Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm). Contemporary vellum wrappers, with 2 fragments of the March and April calendar leaf (in red and black) of a manuscript Missale romanum (ca. 1475/1500?) used as end leaves. 96; [44] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
Early Printing - 16th century History / 16th Century Italy Law & Politics Military History (16th Century) Netherlands
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First and only edition of a primary source for the early history
and church history of Southern Italy, in particular of Naples

CARACCIOLI, Antonio and Francesco BOLVITO (editor). De Sacris Ecclesiae Neapolitanae Monumentis Liber Singularis ... Opus posthumum Francisci Bolviti ... Studio, et industria in lucem editum. Qui cuncta digessit: stylum alicubi mutavit: omissas ab Auctore curas secundas adiecit: et innumeras penè hiantes lacunas implevit.
Naples, Ottavio Beltrani, 1645. Folio. With large engraved coat of arms of the dedicatee Pope Innocent X on the title page, 2 half-page engravings of the martyrdom of S. Maximus Levita from Cumma (5th century; ca. 153 x 103 mm), many woodcut tailpieces and initials.19th-century half vellum. [20], 365, [14], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 1,500
History / 17th Century Italy Religion (17th Century)
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The Medici wedding spectacle of 1661

[CARDUCCI, Alessandro, Giovanni Andrea MONIGLIA, and Stefano DELLA BELLA]. Il mondo festeggiante balletto a cav allo fatto nel teatro congiunto al palazzo del sereniss. gran duca, per le reali nozze de' serenissimi principi Cosimo terzo di Toscana, e Margherita Luisa d'Orleans.
Florence, Nella stamperia di S.A.S., 1661. 4to. With 3 fold-out engravings, 1 woodcut initial, and 2 woodcut headpieces. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum. [1], [1 blank], 7-66, [2 blank] pp. Full description
€ 22,500
Ceremonial Festivities & Fireworks Horses & Horsemanship Italy Music, Theatre & Dance
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From admiration to critique: Casanova’s account of Voltaire

[CASANOVA, Giacomo]. Scrutinio del libro eloges de M. de Voltaire par differens auteurs.
Venice, Presso Modesto Fenzo, 1779. 8vo. With a woodcut illustration on the title page, and 1 woodcut initial. Later gold-tooled brown morocco with the title lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. 96 pp. Full description
€ 9,500
Broadsides, Ephemera & Pamphlets France History / 18th Century Italian Literature Italy
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The making of the first complete French edition of Casanova’s Mémoires

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Paulin, 1833-1837. 10 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary gold-tooled quarter calf. The set is housed in two blue marbled paper slipcases. [4], 427, [3]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 432, [4], 480; [4], 455, [1 blank]; [4], 468; [4], 475, [1]; [4], 455, [1 blank], [4], 426; [4], 394 pp. Full description
€ 3,500
History / 18th Century Italy Travel & Voyages Europe
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The beautifully illustrated luxury issue, of which only a 100 copies were printed

CASANOVA, Giacomo. Memoires ... ecrits par lui-meme.
Paris, Garnier frères, [1880]. 8 volumes. 8vo. With 145 full-page engravings, the wrappers and titles of each volume are printed in red and black. Contemporary gold-tooled half morocco by Lambert, marbled paper sides, the title, author, and volume number lettered in gold on the spine, surrounded by a gold-tooled frame with onlaid morocco ornaments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. [6], XVII, [1 blank], 507, [1 blank]; [6], 530, [4]; [6], 516; [6], 533, [3]; [6], 569, [3]; [6], 563, [1]; [6], 567, [1 blank]; [6], 551, [3] pp. Full description
€ 12,000
Bindings Erotica France French Literature History / 18th Century Italian Literature Italy Law & Politics Prints & Print Series
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Splendid large watercolour view of ruins in Sicily

[CASSAS, Louis Francois]. [View of the Taormina theatre ruins (Sicily) with Mount Etna in the distance].
[Sicily or Paris], [ca. 1781 or somewhat later?]. 46 x 81 cm (frame 85 x 128 cm). Watercolour with pencil outlines and highlighted with white, laid in on paper pasted on wood.With a later blue and gold passe-partout in a contemporary gilt frame. Full description
€ 25,000
Archaeology City Plans, Topography & Views Classical Antiquity Drawings & Watercolours Italy
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From admirer to adversary: Catharinus against Savonarola

CATHARINUS, Ambrosius and Girolamo SAVONAROLA. Discorso ... contra la dottrina, et le profetie di Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1548. 8vo. With a large engraved portrait of Savonarola mounted on the verso of the blank leaf before the title page, a woodcut printer's device on the title page, and several decorated woodcut initials throughout.
Contemporary limp vellum. [1], [8], 100, [1 blank] ll. Full description
€ 950
Early Printing - 16th century Italy Law & Politics Religion (16th Century)
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Includes excellent logarithmic-trigonometric tables

CAVALIERI, Bonaventura Francesco. Trigonometria plana, et sphaerica, linearis, & logarithmica. Hoc est, tam per sinuum, tangentium, & secantium multiplicationem, ac divisionem iuxta veteres: quam per logarithmorum simplicem fere additionem iuxta recentiores; ad triangulorum dimetiendos angulos, & latera procedens.
Bologna, heirs of Victor Benati, 1643. 4to. With engraved frontispiece and 28 geometrical figures on a folding engraved plate. Contemporary vellum, with manuscript title on spine. [16], 71, [1 blank]; [4], 44, [4] ll. (tables) Full description
€ 2,500
Italy Mathematics
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