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Washington, D. C.: Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees of Harvard University, 1972. 8vo.  255 x 175 mm., [10 x 7 inches].  [x], 114 pp.  Illustrated with 59 black and white illustrations.  Bound in original green cloth, title in gilt on upper board.  Very good copy. Inspired by the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks, this book has the following essays:  Eugenio Battisti, Natura Artificiosa to Natura Artificialis."; Elisabeth MacDougall, Ars Hortulorum: Sixteenth Century Garden Iconography and Literary Theory in Italy":  Georgina Masson, "Italian Flower Collectors' Gardens in Seventeenth Century Italy"; and Lionello Puppi, "The Villa Garden of the Veneto from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century".  Each essay is very well illustrated. .

1930. Oblong 4to.  240 x 320 mm., [9 ¼ x 12 ½ inches].  Illustrated with 40 photographic gravure reproductions.  Bound in still paper wrappers, sewn with red cord; some discoloration of paper stock but sound and attractive copy. Souvenir of the City of Florence illustrated with the iconic sites of this Renaissance town and its illustrious history.  With a list of plates, each of which is protected by a tissue guard.

New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1957. 8vo.  235 x 150 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 inches].  22, 415, vii, [i] pp.  Illustrated with a color printed frontispiece, 3 color plates, and 24 black and white illustrations in the text.  Bound in publisher's black cloth, title in gilt on upper board and spine, dust jacket; jacket with minor chipping at edges and head and tail of spine; book plate of Gene Burdett. First American edition of Iris Origo's masterpiece of research and writing, excavating for a diverse reading public from original sources, the life and times of a cloth merchant in Prato during the 14th century.  Much more than a simple biography, Origo brings to life the cities of Prato and Florence and the business and governments that were evolving during the early years of the Italian Renaissance.  A standard work.

London: John Murray, 1998. 8vo.  x, 278 pp.   Illustrated with 16 pages of photo reproductions.  Publisher's green cloth, title gilt on spine, dust jacket.  Very good copy. Originally published in 1970, this appears to be a fourth printing.  "This is a small classic of autobiography in which Iris Origo recreates the lost mad world of Bernard Berenson and the Ango-American artistic coterie in Florence.   Her courageous account of wartime struggles at La Foce in Tuscany where she lived after her marriage is one of the most moving memoirs of the Second World War I have ever read"  Fiona MacCarthy.

London:2017: Puskin Press. 8vo. 220 x 145 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  [6], 184 pp., plus 2 pp. ads.  Original black boards, dust jacket.  Very good to fine condition. First edition.  Published from a newly discoverd diary, the textt describes the prelude to the coming of the WWII as well as the years leading up to her most vivid description of the occupation published under the title War in Val D'Orcia issued in 1947.  A very personal account of the wars and its impact on her family and the community it supported.

Boston: David R. Godine, 2002. 8vo.  230 x 155 mm., [9 x 6 inches].  [viii], 373 [1] pp.  Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 24 black and white illustrations in the text.  Bound in white linen cloth spine over blue paper boards, dust jacket.  Near fine copy. First American edition.  Award winning biography of Iris Origo, daughter of Anglo American parents, brought up in England and America by her grandparents, and wife of a minor Italian aristocrat.  The story covers her early years as a privileged young girl, her education, her marriage to Antonio Origo, her move to the Val d'Orcia and  the reconstruction of her estate La Foce before and during the War years.  Of particular importance was her and Antonio's navigation of mine field of the Italian facism and coming war.  The biography is based on unpublished letters, diaries, and papers and is considered a definitive work on Origo's life and provides a vivid account of Italy during the war years.

8vo. 156 x 98 mm., (6 ¼ x 4 inches). [16], 207, [3] pp., including final blank. Illustrated with a woodcut printer's device to the title-page and a full-page device to the final leaf. Bound in contemporary paste-paper boards; some soiling to the covers and slight wear to the spine; paper shelf label at head of spine covering a manuscript number and a couple of dates on front endpapers.
First edition and only edition. Important book criticizing the art world in mid-16th century Italy, where personal collections of paintings, drawings, sculpture and jewelry were being formed by a growing number of wealthy patrons. Orologi, a relatively unknown critic satirizes both collectors and artists who were participating in "deceitful" (inganno) practices to bolster their ownership of pieces of art.
In an essay by Sally Hickson published in I castelli di yale, she writes, "This essay deals with only one aspect of Orologi's interest in art deception, and that is with the deception of art itself. In its… Read More

Venice: Gabriele Giolito de'Ferrari, 1562. 8vo. 156 x 98 mm., (6 ¼ x 4 inches). [16], 207, [3] pp., including final blank. Illustrated with a woodcut printer's device to the title-page and a full-page device to the final leaf. Bound in contemporary paste-paper boards; some soiling to the covers and slight wear to the spine; paper shelf label at head of spine covering a manuscript number and a couple of dates on front endpapers. First edition and only edition, scarce in the trade. Important book criticizing the art world in mid-16th century Italy, where personal collections of paintings, drawings, sculpture and jewelry were being formed by a growing number of wealthy patrons. Orologi, a relatively unknown critic satirizes both collectors and artists who were participating in "deceitful" (inganno) practices to bolster their ownership of pieces of art. In an essay by Sally Hickson, which appears in "I castelli di yale", she writes, "This essay deals with only one aspect of Orologi's interest in art… Read More