Simon Galignani (Giorgio Angelieri), 1591.Second edition of this famous illustrated book dedicated to the funeral rites of the various peoples of ...

Ferdinando II. Florence: Massi and Landi, 1637.Two works dedicated to the funeral of Ferdinando II de Medici enriched by Stefano della Bella's som...

et privatorum dactyliothecis Florentiae. Florence: Michaelis Nestenus; Francisci Moucke, 1731-1732.Fine copy of this marvellous collection of Roma...

Interesting and crude collection of 22 illustrations depicting Japanese torture, most likely produced for the Western market, in good condition.(2...

Japan: , 19th century.Important collection of Japanese illustrated volumes from the late Edo and early Meiji period, mainly belonging to the categ...

Fifth edition, the fourth produced by the Calcografia Nacional, of the complete collection of 80 grotesque engravings exposing the vices, baseness...

Dessins de Hans Holbein. Paris: Delarue, 1877.Interesting lot of lovely late 19th- and early 20th-century French editions illustrated by contempor...

Hetzel, 1875.Lot comprising a series of elegant 19th-century French illustrated books in contemporary bindings.4to, (268 x 175mm). Frontispiece, n...

cavalli. Rimini: Albertini, 1751.Lot of two scarce works on hippology, in contemporary bindings, printed at Rimini and Fermo.4to, (270 x 200 mm). ...

Florence: Stamperia imperiale, appresso Giuseppe Allegrini, 1753.Fine copy of this work on hippology illustrated with 24 copper-engraved plates by...

Work devoted to the management of horses and particularly interesting because it contains an illustrated manual listing the marks placed on horses...

Ruette, 1629.A copy likely belonging to Philippe de Chieze, the inventor of the saloon carriage (Berline or Berliner Kalesche), which became famou...

Pharamond iusqu'a Louys 14. dit le Grand a present regnant. Paris: De L'Armessin, 1688.Comprehensive collection of portraits of French rulers, fro...

Nicolini per gli eredi Giunta, 1565.First Italian translation and second overall edition of this delightful illustrated work, one of the primary s...

precedute da un saggio sopra l'architettura. Rome: Komarek, 1768.Uncut copy of the first edition of this work, a manifesto of neoclassical aesthet...

Giacomo de Rossi, 1663.The engravings reproduce Carracci's frescoes in the Hall of Aeneas in Palazzo Fava in Bologna, depicting twelve scenes from...

Sonzogno, 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1883, 1885.Interesting lot dedicated to the history of fashion and advertising during th...

Large-format luxury copy promoted by Bozerian and elegantly illustrated with engravings by Le Mire after drawings by Charles Eise.Folio, (365 x 26...

Frambotto, 1656.First edition of one of the first illustrated catalogues of a Wunderkammer, the collections of which can still be admired today at...

vestiture che si costumono nelle Provincie del Re. Naples: Vincenzo Talani and Nicola Gervasi, 1793.Rare collection of plates depicting traditiona...

á populis Roman? ditionis Gr?ce loquentibus ex omni modulo percussa. Paris: Jombert, 1699.Scarce edition devoted to the Greek-language coinage of ...

Milan: Lodovico Monza, 1683.Important text on Roman coinage, rich in information and illustrated with numerous reproductions of coins, in a beauti...

romane [BOUND WITH:] Primo supplemento al Catalogo delle antiche monete consolari. Naples: Stamperia e cartiere del Fibreno, 1855-1856.Scarce, typ...

Richly decorated red morocco copy (in need of restoration) of the first run of the first edition (as can be seen from the inscription on p. 108 of...

Ovid's Metamorphoses in a contemporary binding, enriched with splendid engravings by the German engraver Wilhelm Bauer.4to oblong, (340 x 200mm). ...

Fine illustrated edition of the Vita e Miracoli di San Benedetto enriched with 50 engraved plates by Aliprando Caprioli after drawings by Bernardi...

raisonné et figuré de ses tableaux. Basel: Mechel, 1778. A catalogue illustrated with 30 plates providing an overview of the rooms of the Düsseldo...

1756.Considered Piranesi's most important work, the Antichitá Romane required eight years of study and rendered its author the leading eighteenth-...

First edition of a curious work on the origins of the 'Giòo der Ponte' a traditional battle that would take place on the Ponte di Mezzo in Pisa on...

disegnate dal vero. Florence: Calamandrei, 1823.Illustrated work on Pisa by the artist Giuseppe Rossi, who also illustrated the better-known Pittu...

Rome: Antonio De Rossi, 1700-1702.First complete edition of one of the most important Baroque treatises on perspective by Andrea Pozzo, famous for...

Bernabò, 1655.One of the first works dedicated entirely to the description of the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina illustrated by an ...

Caprarola dai fratelli Taddeo Federico e Ottaviano Zuccari. Roma: [s.e] 1748.Important figurative work dedicated to the Farnese Palace in Caprarol...

tabulis aereis nova cura expressae. Rome: Montagnani, 1790.Collection of finely engraved plates illustrating Raphael's famous frescoes in the logg...

xystis ad picturae miraculum expressa. Roma: Mariette...in aede d. Augustini, 1649.A collection of sacred scenes taken from Raphael's frescoes in ...

Rezzonico [BOUND WITH:] Versi sciolti e rimati di Dorillo Dafneio. Parma: Stamperia reale, Giambattista Bodoni, 1772.Elegant Bodoni edition contai...

1572-1588.Second edition of this richly illustrated work, extremely useful for the study of Mannerist heraldry, the first edition printed in Venic...

Naples et de Sicile. Paris: Clousier, Jacques-Gabriel, 1781-1786.Magnificent edition in an elegant contemporary binding illustrating the artistic ...

celebre pittore Salvator Rosa. Rome: Casaletti, 1780.Complete edition of a series of etchings originally executed between 1656 and 1657 depicting ...

provincia ecclesiarum et coenobiorum descriptio. Brussels: Vleugaert, 1659-1660.Scarce first edition of Sanderus' main work in original vellum bin...

pittore Alessandro Sanquirico per l'I.R. Teatro della Scala in Milano. [Milan: s.e, 1827].30 finely watercoloured plates from the famous collectio...

Ortega e Leon, typographum Sanctae Inquisitionis , 1732.Unknown copy of this large silk printing in praise of Spanish nobleman Antonio Petro Ferna...

[c.a 1780].Collection of engravings by Van Swanevelt, nicknamed 'Herman d'Italie' following a long sojourn in Rome where he became, along with Cla...

Celebrated Venetian edition renowned for its decoration. The frontispiece, portrait of Tasso, and 95 vignettes are by Antonio Novelli while the 20...

Copy of the first illustrated edition of Tasso's heroic epic poem, with engraved plates by Giacomo Franco and Agostino Carracci from drawings by B...

1744.A good copy this richly illustrated edition of Tassoni's heroicomic poem on a fictional war between Bologna and Modena which breaks out when ...

Edition in original binding of this work accompanied by over two hundred engraved plates recounting some of the most significant episodes in Frenc...

all'Insegna di S. Filippo Neri, 1763.Collection of plates dedicated to the Desert Fathers with the first engraved view of Bassano del Grappa taken...

Florence: Cambiagi Gaetano, Bastianelli Luigi, Marzi Domenico, Allegrini and Pisoni, 1769.Gallery of 300 finely engraved portraits of Italian and ...

Thomassin, 1618.Scarce work depicting a collection of ancient cameos from the Grimani collection, probably originally reproduced in drawings by Ba...

[BOUND WITH:] Historiae celebriores Novi Testamenti iconibus representatae. Nuremberg: Weigel, 1712.Second edition of this large Baroque collectio...

Unfortunately an incomplete copy of this important repertory of architectural and furniture models.Oblong folio, 2 parts in one, (455 x 315mm). Fr...

alla scala d'1 per 600.000. Turin: Jean-Baptiste Maggi, 1845.A rare work, complete and never sold at auction (RBH), consisting of 4 large lithogra...

de Chamouni, en Savoie. Paris: Renouard and Guers, 1812.Fine copy of this scarce first edition of Leschevin's account of his voyage, in the introd...

Interesting lot of two scarce maps depicting the railroad route of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the aftermath of the union of the Pacifi...

américain depuis l'année 1770 jusqu'en 1786. Paris: Cuchet, 1787.Third edition of this work, containing an important map of America: 'Carte Genera...

Rare map of the city of Athens in very good condition showing the urban development, still modest in size, in the aftermath of the city's elevatio...

qualunque odierno principe [CON:] Europa vivente o sia curia romana che registra i nomi e cognomi de odierni cardinali.... Venice: Orlandi, 1715.F...

A charming collection of coloured plates of traditional Italian, Swiss, German and North African costumes and a souvenir album of Naples with 14 b...

Illustrated edition in French collecting the numerous letters written to the author's friend, Mario Schipano, during a long journey to the East in...