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Architetture Luminose e Apparecchi per Illuminazione
by Canesi, Giovanni, & Antonio Cassi Ramelli
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(3), 162 pp. survey of the use of artificial lighting in modern architecture, profusely illustrated. Quarto (11 x 9 inches). Cloth boards with stamped title to cover. Light soiling and minor handling wear, overall very good. Milan (Ulrico Hoepli) 1934. Profusely illustrated survey of Art Deco and modernist lighting fixtures and both interior and exterior settings for lighting designed… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Città Nuova. Quindicinale di Arte-Vita Diretto da Fillia (Later subtitles: Quindicinale di Architettura and Quindicinale di Architettura e Arte)
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Torino, 1932-1934. Tabloid/folio (approx. 56 x 41.5 cm). Original self-wrappers; each issue 8 pp. Some browning to paper, toning, light scattered foxing, some issues with tears along fold lines, overall good condition. Twelve issues in eleven fascicules (Year I, Nos. 1 and 3-6; Year III, Nos. 3-9) of the important Italian Futurist architecture journal, under the direction of Fillia,… Read more about this item Item Price
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L'Almanacco degli artisti "Il Vero Giotto" 1931
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Roma/Foligno: Franco Campitelli, 1931. Duodecimo (19.2 x 13.2 cm). Original illustrated wrappers with cover illustration by Mario Mafai; (2), 432, (4) pp. Some signatures coming loose from binding, overall very good. A small Futurist Italian art almanac, conceived of and compiled by Carlo d'Aloisio da Vasto. This volume features a colver illustration by Mario Mafai and writings by Luciano… Read more about this item Item Price
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Progettare Inpiù. Interventi e Analisi dell'Ambiente e del Sistema Culturale. Anno I, No. 1 (Ottobre/Novembre 1973) through Anno II, No. 10 (n.d., 1975)
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Milan: Jabik & Colophon Editori, 1973-1975. Quarto (28 x 21 cm). Original black-and-white photomontage wrappers; various paginations ranging from 40 to 174 pp. Some light soiling to covers, minor wear, overall very good. A complete run of 10 issues in 8 fascicules of the historic Italian magazine published under the editorial direction of radical Italian architect and designer Ugo… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Via Roma di Torino: Progetto M.I.A.R.
by Pagano-Pogatschnig, Giuseppe; Umberto Cuzzi; Gino Levi-Montalcini; Ottorino Aloiso; & Ettore Sottsass
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[Torino]: S.E.L.P./Studio Editoriale Librario Piemontese, 1931. Quarto (29 x 22 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 22 pp., profusely illustrated. Some light soiling and toning to covers, minor wear to extremities, very mild mildew staining to title page, slight rust to staples, overall very good. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies. This work was published in 1931, only a few months… Read more about this item Item Price
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Delle Trasmissioni Telodinamiche de HIRN. Dissertazione e Tesi presentate alla Commissione Esaminatrice della R. Scuola d'applicazione per gl'Ingegneri in Torino
by Ferraris, Galileo
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Torino: Tipografia Ceresole e Panizza, 1869. Octavo (22.8 x 15.8 cm). Presentation copy in original Romantic binding of white cardstock boards with pastoral scene within a gilt-framed cartouche to front cover and hand-colored portrait of a woman to back cover; 87 pp. plus 2 large folding plates. Some minor soiling and wear to covers, including some areas of wear… Read more about this item Item Price
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Index Rerum Virorumque Prohibitorum: Breviario romano [Index of forbidden things and men: a Roman breviary]. Altogether 30 of 32 published issues
by Bragaglia, Anton Giulio, editor
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Rome: Edoardo Tinto Editore; Edizioni della Casa d'Arte Bragaglia, 1923-1928. Various sizes, most ca. 19.0 × 13.5 cm. Original printed self-wrappers; between 16 and 24 pp. per issue. Most issues very good or better; occasional faint postal stamps or light spotting; issue no. 85 with pencil scribblings to cover and several interior pages; issues no. 95 and 96 removed… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Flippant Ball-Feel
by Villa, Emilio
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Piacenza: Stampa Gi-Bi, 1973. Octavo (21.3 x 15 cm). Original printed and illustrated side-stapled wrappers; 22 pp. Some light soiling and damp-staining to covers, overall about very good. Limited edition of 600 copies. Emilio Villa's "Flippant Ball-Feel" text was composed and published on the occasion of the "Flippers Chimeri" by Corrado Costa and William Xerra, exhibited in the contemporary… Read more about this item Item Price
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Arte Astratta in Italia
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Double-sided poster/catalog from the first major exhibition of abstract art in Italy, held in Rome at the Galleria Roma from March through April 1948, containing a sort of manifesto about abstract art, a statement on the exhibition from Ettore Sottsass Jr., additional texts from Piet Mondrian, George Morris, G. Formaggio, Le Corbusier, Max Bill, Gillo Dorfles, Josef Albers, Fernand… Read more about this item Item Price
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La Nuova Pinacoteca Vaticana, descritta ed illustrata nei Quadri Provenienti dalla Vecchia Pinacoteca Vaticana, dalla Pinacoteca del Laterano, dagli Appartamenti Privati e dai Magazzini dei Palazzi Apostolici
by D'Achiardi, Pietro
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xv, 206 pp. catalogue and description of the paintings in the new Vatican art gallery, heavily annotated, with index, 63 text illustrations, 126 fine plates including 10 in full color. Folio. Leather-backed boards, binding professionally repaired, some edgewear and chipping, contents in good condition. Bergamo (Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche) 1914. Ex-Pierpont Morgan library with bookplate on pastedown. The monumental… Read more about this item Item Price
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Marinetti, "Animatore d'Italianità" (1924) (all published)
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The single unique issue published of the special journal devoted to Marinetti, 4 pp., edited by Mino Somenzi, containing a "Manifesto per le Onoranze Nazionali a F.T. Marinetti", an homage to Marinetti by Marco Ramperti, poetry, and other articles with titles such as "Lo spirito profetico di Marinetti", "L'influenza mondiale di Marinetti e del Futurismo", and "Il significato del… Read more about this item Item Price
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Schizzo. Foglio Irregolar. (Later subtitle: Foglio Irregolable, Foglio Esotico, Foglio Irregolare). No. 0 (n.d., 1977) through No. 6 (8 June 1980) (all published)
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A complete run in 7 issues, each issue approx. 8 pages, of the anarchist Italian journal, containing alternative history stories which allude to real-life events, provocative stories, and essays on topics such as eroticism, homosexuality, and Dadaism. Illustrated profusely throughout. Some minor scattered toning, edgewear, minor chipping, marginal dampstaining to final issue. Tabloid. Original self-wrpps., some tearing and splitting… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ammaestramento Utile, e Curioso, di Pittura, Scoltura et Architettura nelle Chiese di Roma, Palazzi Vaticano, di Monte Cavallo, & altri, che s'incontrano nel cammino facile, che si fa per ritrovarte. O vero nuovo studio per sapere l'Opera de' Professori delle Virtù sudette, che si vedono nelle medeme Chiese, ò Palazzi, le loro fondationi, ò ristoramenti, e chi ne ha la Cura, ò tiene il possesso. Con l'indice delle Chiese, e de' Virtuosi, che si nominano. Et in fine un' Aggiunta, dove è descritto il Duomo di Città di Castello
by Titi, Filippo
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1686. (24), 456, (36) pp. detailed text on artworks in hundreds of Roman churches and palazzi, each building getting its own entry ranging from a paragraph or two to several pages, and including works by Caracci, Mantegna, Gozzoli, Carlo Fontana, Cortese, Domenichino, Borromini, Guido Reni, da Vinci, Lorenzo Lotti, Michelangelo, Gentileschi, Giotto, da Cortona, Luca della Robbia, Masaccio, Raphael,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Comunità. Rivista Mensile del Movimento Comunità. Year I, No. 5 (September 1946) through Year XX, No. 139/140 (November/December 1966)
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Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian social, political, and cultural journal affiliated with the Movimento… Read more about this item Item Price
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Urbanistica. Rivista dell'Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica. Year XVIII, No. 1 (July/August 1949) through No. 59/60 (October 1972)
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A sequential run of 60 issues in 49 fascicules of the long-running Italian journal founded originally in 1932 by the Piemontese division of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, under the initial editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti and later Giovanni Astengo, with the aim of promoting and spreading urban studies and documenting urbanism in Italy and abroad, covering economic, social,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Antique Italian "Tombola" Game
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Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards hand-numbered and with hand-colored empty spaces. Some light age-appropriate… Read more about this item Item Price
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Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places
by Berenson, Bernard
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1957. 4 vols.: Venetian School. 2 vols., XIV, 206 pp. text, 46 pp. topographical index, 1336 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color); and Florentine School. 2 vols., XIV, 222 pp. text, 39 pp. topographical index, 1480 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth. London/New York (Phaidon) 1957-1968. Revised and considerably enlarged edition. Arntzen M 321,… Read more about this item Item Price
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I Gagini e la Scultura in Sicilia nei Secoli XV e XVI. Memorie Storiche e Documenti
by Marzo, Gioacchino di
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Gagini. 2 vols., 831, X, 507 pp. text, transcriptions of 366 documents, ext. notes, indices. 4to. Recent cloth. Palermo (Giornale di Sicilia) 1880-1884. This copy lacks the 38 plates called for. The rare and thorough text covers and documents a considerable part of the history of Renaissance sculpture in Sicily. The author is the renowned historiographer of Sicilian painting… Read more about this item Item Price
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Zeichnungen Alter Meister in der Kunsthalle zu Hamburg. Italiener
by Hamburg. Hamburger Kunsthalle
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Unpaginated (ca. 17 pp., printed recto only) preface and descriptive inventory by Gustav Pauli accompanying a presentation of 30 mat-mounted photogravures faithfully reproducing a selection of Italian old master drawings in the museum's holdings, including works by Bartolommeo, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Lippi, Piranesi, Raphael, Da Vinci, Zoppo, and others. Plates folio; text 4to. Items housed loose as issued in cloth-backed… Read more about this item Item Price
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Palazzine e Ville Signorili. 50 Projetti in 66 Tavole
by Tirelli, Guido
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2 pp. introductory text by G. B. Milani, 66 fine plates showing beautiful architectural renderings and ground plans of expansive and occasionally opulent palazzi of refinement and elegance, most with observation towers, some with terraces and other outdoor spaces, a few incorporating some Art Nouveau details. Small folio. Original decorative boards portfolio, a bit soiled, spine split at joints.… Read more about this item Item Price
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