Two pairs of eyeglasses that probably belonged to the Hero of the Two Worlds and were forgotten after his marriage to the marquise Giuseppina Ra...

First edition of the works of the French philosopher and physicist Pierre Gassendi, who published the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631...

Reims: Moureau, 1631.Curious moralistic work with illustrations including a banquet of human flesh.8vo, (148 x 90 mm). Engraved frontispiece, port...

pratique de la patisserie ancienne et moderne. Paris: MM; Depot de librairie, 1841-1854.Composite edition with the first volume of the third editi...

gusto. Naples: Saverio Giordano, 1820.Sixth edition of one of the most famous cooking manuals of all time in which the author, employed by the pri...

pratici, ragionati e dimostrativi della scuola francese applicata in servizio alla russa. Milan: a spese d'una societá dei cuochi milanesi, 1877.F...

relativa confettureria. Turin: Favale, 1854.Scarce first edition of this classic cookery manual written by the Royal Chief Cook and Confectioner o...

Edition of Gelli's Circe in an elegant 19th-century binding.8vo, (140 x 95mm). Allegorical title page with printer's device, initials. 19th-centur...

sudditi del regno di Corsica. Genoa: Scionico, 1744.A fascinating work on the laws of the Republic of Genoa between the sixteenth and nineteenth c...

a migliorarla, e a toglierne gli abusi, e vizj inveterati. [BOUND WITH:] Aggiunta alle riflessioni sopra l'agricoltura del genovesato. Genoa: Stam...

di Genova fatto dal di lei popolo. Genova, Second half of the 18th century.Thanks to God, and to His Great Mother our Protectress, Genoa is totall...

cittá di Genova e sue adiacenze. Genoa: Sambolino, 1875.Interesting lot dedicated to 19th-century Genoese illustrated guides.8vo, (190x130mm). 1 f...

duce della Rep. di Genova. Genoa: Pavoni, 1634.Lot of three works on the Doria family.4to, (240 x 175 mm). Engraved title-page within an elaborate...

ornée de differentes vu?s. Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1781.Beautiful illustrated guide to Genoa, complete with views in good condition of the city and i...

1565.First edition of the celebratory biography of the Genoese condottiere Andrea Doria. The copy is enriched by a curious contemporary handwritte...

Lot of three works on the history of Genoa with the scarce first edition, unfortunately missing one leaf, of the Ligurian history by Foglietta, el...

Maria Farroni, 1636.Rare, the first and only edition of this work on the noble families of Genoa, dedicated to Prince Andrea Doria and fully illus...

Benacci, after 1653.Scarce work, extracted from the 'Historia della Compagnia di Giesu' (1653), which reports the life of Gaspare Berze (1515-1553...

movimenti d'arme successi in Italia dall'anno di n.S. 1613. fino al 1618. Genoa: Pavoni, 1625.First edition of Capriata's work and the works of Be...

nella lingua italiana. Venice: Angiolo Geremia, 1728.Second edition of this important bibliography of Italian books from the 16th and 17th centuri...

le bocche che estragono acqua dalli navigli di Milano. Milan: Motta, 1823.Fine lot on hydraulics consisting of three early 19th-century editions i...

veteribus, quam recentioribus, ad eandem materiam, seu ad idem officium spectantibus. Lyon: Arnaud, Borde, 1680.Scarce edition (no copies sold on ...

nostri qvam peregrini orbis. Frankfurt: Polich, Merian, 1662.Scarce first edition, richly illustrated with fruit trees and shrubs and containing m...

First edition of L'Ecluse's work on European plants, likely belonging to a scholar at the University of Leiden. In particular, the work laid the f...

Lorenzo (1407-1457) Hoc in volumine hec continentur...Elegantiae de lingua latina...de pronomine sui ad Ioannem Tortelium...lima quaedam per Anton...

1730].Scarce and important work in a printed vellum binding from the imperial court of Vienna, comprising an astrological almanac for the year 173...

Luxurious book of hours preserved in its original slipcase with hand-finished illustrations of medieval taste.16mo, (135x90mm). Double engraved fr...

Curmer, [1839].A rich, elegant Mannerist binding produced by the Parisian firm Gruel and Engelmann, particularly known for their luxurious work.2 ...

Fine velvet and silver binding presumably made for a member of the imperial court in Vienna or a local Habsburg dignitary. 4to, (237 x 180mm). Con...

confermare la teorica, e facilitare la pratica del misurare le acque correnti. Turin: Stamperia Reale, 1767.An excellent copy in a fine Piedmontes...

1813-1816.Beautiful edition collecting the works of the most important Italian vernacular authors, namely: Matteo Bandello (vol: 1-9), Sebastiano ...

Lot of late 18th- and early 19th-century works in fine contemporary bindings.12 volumes, 8vo, (155 x 90 mm). Author's portrait, illustrated title-...

Beautiful edition of Metastasio's works, the first to contain his posthumously published sonnets, illustrated with fine engraved plates by the lea...

Paris: Le Normat, 1812.Lot of late 18th- and early 19th-century editions in fine bindings2 volumes, 8vo, (200 x 125mm). Contemporary leather bindi...

jusq'au regne de Louis XIV. Paris: Saillant and Nyon, Veuve Desaint, 1775-1786.Famous edition of the history of France in an elegant contemporary ...

Leipzig: Jean Schreuder, 1765.First comprehensive edition of philosophical writings, containing the original edition of Leibniz's 'Nouveaux essais...

An extraordinary unpublished manuscript by Gian Giacomo Leonardi, diplomat, intellectual and commander in the service of the Della Rovere family, ...

Busdrago, 1755.Lot of Italian literature editions in fine contemporary or amateur binding in works published in the late 18th and early 19th centu...

Incomplete copy of this Venetian incunablew edition of Lucan's Pharsalia, with Ognibene Bonisoli's commentary and early manicules and annotations....

Copy from the Cistercian abbey of Balerne in the Jura, suppressed during the Revolution, with rich contemporary decoration probably made during th...

excerptum [Follows] Viri consularis et illustris conviviorm primi diei satormariorum. Venice: Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis, 28 June 1492.Complete ...

ventose, far le fregagioni, & vesicatorij a corpi humani. Rome: Giacomo Marcucci for Giacomo Mascardi, 1626.Interesting illustrated manual on the ...

Venice: Aldo Manuzio, 1497.Two scarce Aldine editions of medical works (the first appearing 3 times at auction, the second 2 according to RBH), by...

Large antiphonary leaf with a beautiful miniature depicting the Nativity as initial to the hymn Quando natus est ineffabiliter usually recited d...

Lot of two large antiphonary leaves. Folio, (720 x 520mm). Vellum, 5 lines of text and square notation on tetragram, four large illuminated initia...

Large antiphonary leaf with part of the introductory chant for the Mass of the third Sunday after Epiphany.Folio, (590 x 405mm). Vellum, 5 lines o...

Interesting Ethiopian manuscript of the gospel of Mark divided into the 16 chapters of the Greek and Latin tradition with the addition of 48 short...

A good edition of Aldo's famous Institutionum grammaticarum passed through the hands of a fervent italian patriot who inscribed the pastedown ' W ...

Cardinal De Bernis. Vienna: 22 December, 1764.Interesting letter containing Christmas greetings with the Empress of Austria's autograph signature ...

royal residence, 22 June 1773.Austrian patent of nobility in excellent condition, embellished with large illuminated arms, in original binding and...

Curious collection, rarely found complete, of the lives of 11 pirates and admirals, with a portrait of each: Barbarossa, Corneille Tromp, Jacques ...

Interesting lot on the city of Milan that includes, inter alia, seventeenth-century regulations of the admission of candidates to the Collegio dei...

1840.Detailed representations of Milan's most important churches and palaces, with over 70 engravings by Cassina.9 issues in one volume, folio, (4...

Questo succinto trattato di fortificazione non è che una pura introduzione a quest'arte, è fatto solo per erudito trattenimento dei nobili princi...

Collection of 11 volumes, issued monthly (lacking the October volume) of this scarce military encyclopaedia , in fact a military periodical writt...

italiani, 1865.Lot of the two first scarce Italian translations of La Libertá , edited by G. Marsiaj, and Il governo rappresentativo , edited by...

General Bonaparte, Canto D'Irles and Wurmser. [s.l: s.e, c.a 1796-1797].A very scarce popular view (not recorded at auction) illustrating the citi...

Interesting goose board game with a historical subject that starts with the original sin of Adam and Eve and ends in 1815. In particular the final...

maestá Napoleone I. Genoa: Stamperia dell'Istituto e della Gazzetta, 1805.Scarce encomiastic work in original wrappers in honour of Napoleon's vis...

imperiale il principe Eugenio Napoleone di Francia, vicerè d'Italia. Milan: 27 May 1813Confidential manuscript bulletin addressed to the Viceroy b...