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4to (202x150 mm). [32] leaves. Collation: a-h4. Woodcut decorated initials on black ground. Title page in roman and gothic types. Text in roman type. Colophon on l. h4r. Later orange cardboards, inked title on spine. Bookplate with the manuscript initials "V.S." on the front pastedown. Occasional light foxing and staining. A very good copy.
Extremely rare first edition of this school manual on rhetorics written by Parrasio during his teaching years in Vicenza. Parrasio arrived in Vicenza towards the end of 1507 together with his Calabrian pupil Giovanni Antonio Cesario, who signes the address to the reader in verse printed on the title page of the present edition. In January Parrasio delivered an oration Ad municipium Vicentinum and began his courses that he held until the following year. In May 1509 he was in Abano to cure the podagra he was suffering from. In Vicenza, beside the present edition, he also published two more school books in collaboration with the… Read More

4to (200x145 mm). Collation: [π]4 †4 A-T4 V2 X4 Y2 Z4 [χ]2. Half-title, engraved frontispiece, [12], 176, [4: errata corrige] pp. and [4] folding plates engraved by Francesco Nigro and Francesco La Barbera after Gerardo Astorino and Vincenzo La Barbera. Later cardboards, original sprinkled edges. Minor restorations to the outer margin of the first leaves without loss, small worm track in the gutter of a few leaves not affecting the text, tears repaired along the folding of one plate, all in all a very good copy.
EXTREMELY RARE ORIGINAL EDITION of this festival account attributed to Filippo Paruta, but edited by his son Simplicio, who also signs the dedication to the Senate of Palermo, and published posthumously under the name of his other son Onofrio.
In the note to the reader Onofrio provides a detailed list of the works (orations, occasional writings, inscriptions for ephemeral architectures, etc.) of his father Filippo, who was the secretary to the Palermo Senate and the major responsible for… Read More

8vo (151x102 mm). 278, [4] leaves. Collation: A-Z8 AA-LL8 MM10. Colophon at l. MM9r. Printer's device on title page and last leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum, inked title on spine and on the lower edge (soiled, traces of ties). On the front panel and on title page ownership's inscription "Jo: Petri Clericij". Marginal rust spots on leaves AA1-8, a few very light damp stains. A very good, genuine copy.
RARE FIRST ITALIAN EDITION of one of the most important documents for the history of political and educational thought of fifteenth century Humanism. It was begun around 1462, completed in 1468 and first published by Jean Savigny in 1518 under the title De institutione reipublicae libri novem. It has often been seen as a precursor of Machiavelli's Principe and had a great influence on Thomas Elyot's Gouvernour (cf. J. Schlotter, Thomas Elyot's 'Governor' in seinem Verhältnis zu Francesco Patrizi, Freiburg/Br., passim).
The work covers the whole field of civic Humanism discussing all questions of… Read More

SECULAR PUBLIC SCHOOLING IN LATE 16TH-CENTURY VERONA
4to (199x145 mm). [20] leaves. Collation: A-E4. Large printer's device on title page. Text in italic and preface in roman type. Woodcut historiated initials. Later cardboards, inked title on spine (pen trials on both panels). A very good copy.
Rare first edition dedicated by the author to the Count Giulio Cesare Nogarola.
Pescetti was born in Marradi in the Apennines between Tuscany and Romagna around 1556. After studying in Florence, he moved very young to Verona, where he devoted himself to teaching and literary activity, earning a good reputation, until the end of his days. Pescetti was involved in a number of literary disputes, including one that arose between the Sienese writer Orazio Lombardelli and the Veronese scholar Gian Domenico Candido over the use of the letter "z", in which Pescetti intervened in support of the former's arguments in a pamphlet entitled Breve discorso in favore del buon uso della Z (Verona, 1588), which was followed by… Read More

8vo (223x134 mm); nicely bound in contemporary red morocco, gilt centerpiece on the panels within elaborated concentric frames in gilt, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and gilt title on blue morocco label, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (small worm holes at the bottom of the spine); [8], 139, [1 blank] pp. Old stamp of a noble family on the title-page. Shellmark "L4" on the front flyleaf. A fine copy printed on thick paper.
RARE FIRST EDITION, dedicated to Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany, of the first book exclusively devoted to the history of the famous fresco called the "Cenacolo", painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan between 1495 and 1498.
The author, the Dominican Domenico Pino, was the prior of the monastery at the time he wrote the book, and had access to the documents of the conventual archive, which later with the arrival in Milan of Napoleon's troops went dispersed.
Pino was charged by a Milanese printer who was… Read More

8vo (152x96 mm). [16], 349, [3] pp. Collation: †8 A-Y8. Large printer's device on last leaf verso (below which a contemporary hand has added the Psalms quote: "[…] Tange montes et fumig[abunt]"). Woodcut historiated initials on black ground. 18th-century marbled calf, gilt spine with five raised bands and lettering piece, red edges (restorations to spine and joints). On the front pastedown engraved bookplate of Henry Blackett with his family's coat-of-arms and the motto "nous travaillons en espérance" (possibly the London publisher Henry Blackett, 1825-1871). Skillfully repaired worm track to the lower margin at the beginning and at the end of the volume not affecting the text, round worm hole in the lower blank margin throughout most of the volume, pale damp stain to the upper outer corner of the first and last leaves, otherwise a very good, clean copy with several reading signs and marginal annotations in Latin (slightly trimmed) by a contemporary hand.
RARE FIRST EDITION of the De… Read More