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GUIDO RENI'S FIRST ETCHINGS
4to (223x160 mm). [8] leaves and [8] plates, of which 2 are folding, designed and etched by Guido Reni. Signatures: A-B4. On the title page engraved arms of the city of Bologna. Woodcut initials. Modern stiff vellum with overlapping edges, red edges. Three heads and two jars drawn in red pencil by a contemporary hand on the verso of a plate. At l. A2 a contemporary hand has written a few lines to the epitaph dedicated to Clemens VIII, adding a reference to his death occurred in 1605. A different slightly later hand has added, on the last leaf verso, this long note: "fu giudicato il valore de velipassare 40m scudi d'oro / venne sua B.ne da Cento sino a Bologna per i campi havendo / il Regimento fatto fare una strada per mezzo de Periti, la quale / fu molto commoda per tutti essendo la pubblica cosi' cattiva per / le pioggie cadute che non si poteva andarvi. / Sua B.ne dono' a' Paggi che lo servirono nel tempo che / dimoro' in Bologna 1000 scudi d'oro che sono 75000 / de… Read More

A VERY RARE BODONI OFFPRINT
Large 4to (286x207 mm). [4], 35, [1 blank] pp. Frontispiece with a portrait of Livia Doria Carafa engraved by Raffaello Morghen after a design by Fedele Fischetti. Fine engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled half calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt foliate tools, gilt title on a red morocco lettering piece, panels covered with marbled paper, red edges (some losses to the headcaps, slightly worn and rubbed). Some occasional very light foxing. A very good copy printed on strong paper.
A separate edition of the Elogio storico written by Bertola de' Giorgi as an introduction to the collection Prose e versi per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa. This work was printed in 1784 by Giambattista Bodoni at the behest of the Neapolitan prince Vincenzo Carafa della Roccella (1739-1814), in honour of his late wife, Livia Carafa Doria del Carretto (1745-1779).
For the offprint publication of the Elogio, Bodoni inserted a preliminary two-leaf quire,… Read More

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL TRAVEL GUIDE OF RENAISSANCE ROME
Six parts bound in two volumes, folio (302x200 mm). Each part opens with its own engraved pictorial title page. I (1597): [16, including two full-page portraits of J.-J. Boissard and T. de Bry, and a full-page plate], 163 [i.e. 161], [3 blank] pp. and 1 folding double-page map of Italy. Collation: *-**4 A-T4 V6 (fol. V6 blank). II (1597): [6, including two full-page portraits of J.-J. Boissard and T. de Bry], 18, 55-211 [i.e. 209], 11, [2] pp. and 43 plates, of which 7 are folding, including 4 plates (one double) which are not included in the collation and are not present in all copies. Collation: (:)4 **-***4 A-D2 E-Z4 Aa-Ll4. III (1597): [18 of 22], 41, [1] pp. and 108 engraved plates numbered 43-150. Collation: †4(-2) (without the engraved portraits of Boissard and de Bry on ll. †2 and †3) A4 (fols. A1-A3 signed A2 and A4 respectively) B-E6 F-Z4 AA-II4. The colophon of this part recites: Metz, Abraham Faber, 1595. IV (1598): [4, including… Read More

Six parts in one volume, 4to (220x160 mm); early 19th century half-calf, richly gilt decorated spine with gilt title on red morocco label; (20), 64, (2 blank), (6), 65-203, (3 blank), (6), 205-353, (3 blank), (6), 357-538, (2 blank), (4), 541-583, (1 blank), (6), 585-729, (25) pp. Lacking 2 blank leaves (before pp. 357 and 585). At the beginning of the volume are wrongly bound (12) leaves of index which do not belong to this edition. Every part opens with a separate title-page bearing the printer's device. Part 2, 3, 4 are dated 1660, while parts 1, 5, 6 are dated 1661. With decorated initials, head- and end-pieces. With the author's portrait on l. ++4v engraved by Giovanni Giorgi and many diagrams in the text. Contemporary ownership's inscription on the second front fly-leaf: "Hic liber est Ippoliti de [not readable]. A few gatherings browned, some marginal foxing, but a very good, crisp copy.SECOND GREATLY ENLARGED EDITION. The work is based on Bérigard's lectures at the University of Pisa.… Read More

PROTESTANT MARTYROLOGIUM AND EMBLEM BOOK
THE FIRST PORTRAIT GALLERY OF REFORMERS
4to (190x135 mm). [8], 284, [4] pp. Collation: (...)4 A-Nn4. With 49 full-page woodcut portraits within decorated woodcut borders (including the dedicatee's portrait on title-page verso), 11 woodcut borders without portraits but with two wind-heads and text in the center, and 44 half-page emblematic woodcuts within elaborate woodcut borders. Printer's device on title page. Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. 18th-century mottled calf, gilt spine with lettering piece, all edges red. Engraved armorial bookplate on the front pastedown with manuscript shelf mark ("J VI 13 N° 1616"). Slightly uniformly browned, some marginal light staining, all in all a good copy with very strong impression of the illustrations.
Rare first French edition containing 12 additional portraits compared to the first Latin edition printed by de Laon a few months earlier in 1580 (Icones, id est verae imagines virorum doctrina simul et pietate… Read More