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Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...]

Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...] by BERTOLA DE’ GIORGI, Aurelio (1753-1798)

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Seller: Govi Rare Books LLC
Title
Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...]
Author
BERTOLA DE’ GIORGI, Aurelio (1753-1798)
Seller
Govi Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
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, including a new title page and a short address to the readers by Bertola de' Giorgi. As in the collection Prose e versi of 1784, the frontispiece features a portrait of Livia Carafa designed by Fedele Fischetti (1732-1792) and engraved by Raffaello Morghen (1758-1833). The separate edition bears no printing date, but it may have been issued in 1785, coinciding with Bertola de' Giorgi's stay in Parma. To date, we have identified only one copy of the Elogio on the market. This copy once belonged to Hugh Cecil Brooks -author of the well-known Compendiosa bibliografia di edizioni bodoniane (1927)- and was sold at the auction of his collection of Bodoni books. Bertola de' Giorgi was born in Rimini into a noble family. At 16 he entered the Siena monastery of Monte Oliveto, but a few years later we find him fighting in Hungary against the Turks. His early life was quite an adventurous one until the age of 24, when in 1776 he began teaching. He taught first in Naples and later universal history in Pavia, whose university at the time was one of the most celebrated in Italy: Volta, Spallanzani, and Scarpa, among many others, hold a chair there (E. Bigi, Bertola de' Giorgi, Aurelio, in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani", vol. 9, 1967, s.v.). De Lama, II, pp. 30-31; Brooks, 252; A. Piromalli, Aurelio Bertola nella letteratura del Settecento. Con testi e documenti inediti, Florence, 1998; M. Pisani, Una famiglia di pittori: i Fischetti, in: "Napoli nobilissima", 27, 3-4, 1988, pp. 112- 121; Id., I ritratti di Livia Doria Carafa principessa di Roccella di Fedele Fischetti e di Giuseppe Sanmartino: un contributo alla ritrattistica napoletana, in: "Antologia di belle arti. Il Neoclassicismo", n.s., 35-38 (1990), pp. 30-41; F. Fedi, Aurelio Bertola de Giorgi: un poeta massone e la letteratura come riposo, in: "Rassegna europea di letteratura italiana", 2, 1993, pp. 25-39; G. Giarrizzo, Massoneria e Illuminismo nell'Europa del Settecento, Venice, 1994, pp. 49-97; P. M. Cátedra, Tace il testo, parla il tipografo. Memoria e autorappresentazione nei libri commemorativi bodoniani, in: "Teca", 4, 2013, pp. 9-51; R. Cioffi - M. L. Chirico, Agli Amici della Virtù. Arte, epigrafia e massoneria nell'Italia di fine Settecento, in "Colligere fragmenta. Studi in onore di Marcello Rotili per il suo 70° genetliaco", G. Archetti et al., eds., Spoleto, 2019, pp. 909-942; G. Greco, Di marmo o d'inchiostro? Vicende ed equivoci sulla ricezione del ritratto di Livia Doria Carafa di Giuseppe Sanmartino e del suo 'doppio a stampa' nelle fonti grafiche del Settecento, in: "L'Illustrazione", 4, 2020, pp. 85-95; G. Pecci, Le opere a stampa di Aurelio Bertola, in: "Studi su Aurelio Bertola nel secondo centenario della nascita (1953)", Bologna, 1954, pp. 285-319.
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De Re Metallica. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover by Agricola, Georgius ; Hoover, Herbert

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De Re Metallica. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover
Author
Agricola, Georgius ; Hoover, Herbert
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Published for the translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912, 1912. Folio, original vellum, slight spotting, a very good copy, with a presentation inscription from Hoover to Judge Frederickick Wells. First edition of Hoover's translation, reproducing all the original woodcut illustrations.
Birds of the Maltese archipelago + autograph letter signed

Birds of the Maltese archipelago + autograph letter signed by Bannerman, David; J. A. Vella-Gaffiero

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Birds of the Maltese archipelago + autograph letter signed
Author
Bannerman, David; J. A. Vella-Gaffiero
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Valletta, Malta: Museums Dept, 1976. Bannerman, David A. (1886-1979). (1) Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent. 4pp. on 2 sheets. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1976]. 211 x 148 mm. Small ink smear on last page. Laid into: (2) Bannerman and Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero. Birds of the Maltese archipelago. Foreword by Dom Mintoff. xix, [3], 550pp. 22 plates, folding map, text illustrations. Valletta [Malta]: Museums Department, 1976. 230 x 155 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (slightly worn and soiled). Together 2 items. Very good to fine. An excellent letter from the noted British ornithologist, author of numerous definitive works on the birds of Europe, Africa and the Atlantic islands. The letter is laid into the above-listed First Edition copy of Bannerman's Birds of the Maltese Archipelago, a work that contains the first full description of the hundreds of different species of birds recorded in the Maltese islands and stresses the crucial role the Maltese archipelago plays in bird migration between Europe and Africa. Bannerman's letter bears no salutation but is complete, as the second leaf is numbered "2"; it was undoubtedly written to the recipient of this copy. The letter contains intriguing details about the book's publication and reception: "You may be interested in the photograph inside the cover of this volume [not present], which was sent to me by Francis Mallia, Director of Malta's museums. It shows Dom Mintoff [Prime Minister of Malta] reading the inscription which I wrote when he was presented with a copy of my book . . . "The foreword by Mintoff (the first he has ever written I am told) may also interest you. As a Vice-President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (England), I had stressed in these pages the importance of more government protection for the migratory birds which pass through Malta en route to Africa to winter and receive abominable treatment at the hands of ignorant Maltese farmers. Mintoff has expressed his views-and my opinion-very forcefully in his foreword. This book which I was invited to write by some resident members of the Malta Ornithological Society for which they had raised a substantial sum to pay for the publication, among themselves, was finally take over as an official Museums Dept. publication & the entire cost of publication authorized by Dr. Cossar & Mintoff on behalf of Government . . . "The Secretary of the M.O.S. opposed the publication as he was secretly writing a book himself which he never divulged to me & which you all have. It's quite good in its way, but the jealousy displayed by the authors Saltana [sic] & Co. did them no credit. They even got a member to raise in their parliament why a "foreigner" (!) had been permitted to write a book on Malta's birds . . ." Dom Mintoff (1916-2012) was Prime Minister of Malta from 1971 to 1984. "Saltana" refers to Maltese ornithologist Joe Sultana (1939-2018), author of Guide to the Birds of Malta (1975). .
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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS by Duyckinck, E. A.

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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS
Author
Duyckinck, E. A.
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Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts (United States)
Description
Chappel, Alonzo. (Chappel, Alonzo)illus. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS by E. A. Duyckinck. Johnson, Fry & Co., NY, 1862. 2 vols., 4to., 3/4 brown morocco over brick-red pebbled cloth, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 119 steel engraved plates after paintings by Chappel. A superb set, unusually fresh inside and out.
Sesshu's Long Scroll. A Zen Landscape Journey

Sesshu's Long Scroll. A Zen Landscape Journey by Sesshu (Binding)

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Sesshu's Long Scroll. A Zen Landscape Journey
Author
Sesshu (Binding)
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Bound in wooden boards, with accordian style text. 39 pages. Original publisher's band in red and black, and with publisher's clear acrylic slip-cover. Introduction and commentary by Reiko Chiba. A lovely copy.
[CHILDREN] [VICTORIAN] OBJECT LESSONS. A B C LINEN No. 890

[CHILDREN] [VICTORIAN] OBJECT LESSONS. A B C LINEN No. 890

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[CHILDREN] [VICTORIAN] OBJECT LESSONS. A B C LINEN No. 890
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co, 1890. 8vo.; stapled printed wrappers; [8] pages, not including the wrappers; printed in color or in sepia; no date, but clearly an early version of this oft-printed Donahue production, printed on Linen.~~The wrappers are a bit soiled, but nonetheless an attractive copy of this charming Victorian ABC book.
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Marco Paul's Travels and Adventures in the Pursuit of Knowledge: on the Erie Canal. by [Abbott, Jacob].

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Marco Paul's Travels and Adventures in the Pursuit of Knowledge: on the Erie Canal.
Author
[Abbott, Jacob].
Seller
Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description
16mo, leather spine with gilt title and illustration, 2 illustrations, including frontispiece, 140 pp. Some wear to spine and extremities, a bit of foxing, one signature partially sprung; otherwise very good. Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) is considered one of the most prolific writers of children's books in the 19th century. He and his brothers produced a well received set of historical biographies, which included stories on Xerxes, Darius the Great, and Alexander the Great. He also produced a few travel and adventure books. The current tile is about life along the Erie Canal in the mid 19th century. The OCLC locates 4 copies of this edition. heritage-history website. OCLC.
VORT #3: Summer 1973

VORT #3: Summer 1973 by Alpert, Barry

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VORT #3: Summer 1973
Author
Alpert, Barry
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Silver Spring, MD: Vort, 1973. First Edition. Very good.. DC area poetry mag featuring work by Robert Creeley, David Bromide, Donald Powell, Kenneth Irby and others. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Very good. SIGNED by Alpert to first page. Touches of darkening to wraps. Interior bright and clean. 87pp.
The Sun is also a Star

The Sun is also a Star by Nicole Yoon

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The Sun is also a Star
Author
Nicole Yoon
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780375978241
Condition
Fine
Description
Barnes & Noble exclusive collector's edition stated with the complete number line; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the 2nd free paper. In as new, unread condition; a beautiful copy that is the basis for the movie. In archival protection.
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Nauchnye Osnovy Kurortnogo Lecheniia v SSSR [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve] (Scientific Foundation of Sanitarium Treatment in the Soviet Union) by Aleksandrov, V. A.

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Nauchnye Osnovy Kurortnogo Lecheniia v SSSR [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve] (Scientific Foundation of Sanitarium Treatment in the Soviet Union)
Author
Aleksandrov, V. A.
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Moscow: Pravda, 1951. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 24; stapled printed wraps; minor wear to spine tips and corners; near fine. Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii (The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the League of Militant Atheists, also called The Union of the Godless, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and intelligentsia. In 1947 the Society commenced publishing journals and propaganda materials and it sponsored lectures, demonstrations and parades. Dedicated to eradicating religious beliefs and promoting science and knowledge, the public lectures were diligently recorded and printed (example of which is the current one) in a pamphlet form occasionally with numerous illustrations. The topics covered medicine, scientific discoveries, Communist leaders’ works and speeches, history, notable names, anti-Imperialist propaganda, etc. In 1963 the organization was yet again renamed to ‘Znanie’ (Knowledge) and it is still in existence today. Sanitarium treatments in the Soviet Union.
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Whatever Goes Up: The Hazardous Fortunes of a Natural Born Gambler by TYLER, George C. with J. C. Furnas

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Whatever Goes Up: The Hazardous Fortunes of a Natural Born Gambler
Author
TYLER, George C. with J. C. Furnas
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
IN: Bobbs, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover. First edition. Pages light brown from age, clean text. Illustrated. Spine lightly faded on red cover. Spine ends bumped.
I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film)

I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film) by Allan Dwan (director); Alan LeMay (screenwriter); Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy (starring)

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I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film)
Author
Allan Dwan (director); Alan LeMay (screenwriter); Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1952. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1952 film. Production number rubber-stamped and in ink on the verso. A biographical musical about American composer Stephen Foster. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.

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