Arcetri Astronomia a Firenze e il colle di Arcetri. Monografia in onore di Giorgio Abetti.
Firenze: 1983. First Printing. Wraps. Wraps, 10 x 7.5 inches, very good, light wear to the dust jacket at top of spine, 154 pp, illustrated, some in color.
Italy
Delle lettere familiari d'alcuni Bolognesi nel secolo decimottavo, 2 vols. 1820
Bologna: Tipografia di Ulisse Ramponi, 1820. Hardcover. Second Bolognese edition. 2 volumes, leather-backed marbled boards, good with some rubbing and wear to spines, top outer corners of the front boards of both volumes lightly chewed by a pet. Contents very good and clean with moderate foxing. 420 & 360 pp.....
Handbook of the Italian Artmy, Prepared by the General Staff, 1913
London, Nashville, etc. The Imperial War Museum in association with The Battery Press, etc. 1995. Hardcover. Cloth 8vo, very good, with map pocket at rear, 222 pp.
Puglie (Ca. 1905), Guide Regionali Illustrate
Roma: Rouring Club Italiano, Ca. 1905. Wraps. Tall 8vo, 9.5 x 6.75 inches, softcover in pictorial green wraps, very good, 88 pp, illustrated. Undated but rear inner cover features Italian bank ad stating that the Bari branch just opened in September 1904. Text in Italian.
Rare pamphlet & 10 postcards of Montecassino Abbey, 1945, a year after the battle there
11 pp. pamphlet in English about the abbey, which was founded in 529 AD, and its destruction in May, 1944 from Allied bombing in a huge battle that cost hundreds of lives of civilians. Some wear and tanning; laid in are ten before-and-after postcards with two views each, very heartbreaking.....
Umbria (1908), Guide Regionali Illustrate
Roma: Rouring Club Italiano, 1908. Wraps. Tall 8vo, 9.75 x 6.75 inches, softcover in pictorial green wraps, very good, light wear along top edge. 63 pp, illustrated, text in Italian.
Capriccio Italiano; Een reisboek over ItaliÎ
J.M. Meulenhoff: Amsterdam, 1960. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing ("Vierde druk 1960"). Cloth hardbound in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, 210 pp., illustrated, Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket, owner's small inscription to the front flyleaf, light soil and minor edgewear to the covers, dust jacket with a bit.....
Odysseus in ItaliÎ
J.M. Meulenhoff: Amsterdam, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth hardbound in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, 278 pp., Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, dust jacket with a bit of soil and discoloration, some rubbing/edgewear to the dust jacket. Text in Dutch.
Il Fatto D'arme del Tarro fra i principi italiani et Carlo Ottavo Re di Francia, Insieme Con L'Assedio Di Novara
Novara: Antonio Crosa e Carlo Moscotti, 1865. Hardcover. Published 1865, 8vo, leather backed marbled boards, good plus with some wear and rubbing to leather, corners rubbed with some loss of paper covering, contents a bit tanned, 256 pp. History of the struggles between France and Italy that took place in.....
L'Ateo e Il Credente
Salerno: Moriniello, 1964. Paperback. Inscribed by the author to Italian poet and anthologist Pasquale Spataro at fly leaf. 1964, Softcover, Italian text, 153 pp. Very Good copy: light edgewear and soil to covers. Contents tanned, but unmarked.
Arezzo; Un viaggio fotografico dentro la citta
(Arezzo): Creative Arts, 2007. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto in dust jacket, about fine copy, 253 pp, color photos, some folding plates. Texts in Italian, English, French, Spanish and German. Arezzo is in eastern Tuscany, Italy. The hilltop Arezzo Cathedral features painted vaulted ceilings and a 15th-century fresco of Mary Magdalene.....
Roma in Botticella
Rome: Adriano Rossi, 1960. Hardcover. Hardcover with beige cloth boards in slipcase, 1960, quarto, unpaginated, heavily illustrated in color. Book good with mild wear to boards, front 20 pages loose from binding but present, otherwise text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ. Slipcase VG with mild rubbing and soil. Text.....
The Romance of the Borromean Islands - An Italian Suite
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1930. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt titles, cover pastedown illustration, gilt edge. 8vo. 167pp. Illus. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Light rubbing to spine-ends, mild brown spotting to foredge. Some chipping to dustjacket with loss, loss to spine-ends.....
Monteverdi
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, Inc., 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 1963, Hardcover in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear. There is a bookplate present, to the front paste down end paper.
Texas Quarterly, Summer 1961: Special Issue IMAGE OF ITALY
Austin: University of Texas, 1961. Wraps. Large 8vo, wraps, very good, some toning and soil, light wear to covers, particularly spine, contents very good, 267 pp, plus notes on contributors, etc., illustrated with photos throughout by Russell Lee.
The Italian Lakes (A. & C. Black book with color plates, in handsome half leather), 1908
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1908. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, half dark red morocco and marbled boards, very good with light wear to leather, some drying, rubbing and darkening, light wear to spine head, front joint a little cracked but still tightly bound; previous owner's bookplate on pastedown and gilt.....
Angioli e Bambini nella Notte di Natale
Milano: S. Lega Eucaristica, 1931. Paperback. 1931, Softcover, Italian text, 205 pp. Good copy: handwritten title on spine; wraps show light soiling; contents age-toned, but unmarked.
Roads and Ruins: The Symbolic Landscape of Fascist Rome
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. Hardcover. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild edgewear, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has hint of rubbing.
The Roman Theatre and its Audience
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Second printing. Paperback. 1992, Second printing, 267 pp. Fine copy: price-sticker on rear cover. Clean and unmarked text.
The Comic History of Rome
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., ca. 1900. Hardcover. Gilt stamped red cloth boards, octavo, 308pp., illustrated with 10 full page color plates and smaller b&w illustrations. Book has rubbing and soil to boards, spine faintly sun toned and has a split to each joint, wear to spine ends and corners.....
Funicolari A Varese
Como, Italy: Published by the author, 1991. Hardcover. 1991. Italian text. Hardcover. 161 pp. Illustrated. Near Fine in a Good+ dust jacket with shallow snags along the edges and light soil from handling. DJ now in mylar.
Guide d'Italia del Touring Club Italiano: I Volume - PIEMONTE, LOMBARDIA, CANTON TICINO
Milano: Touring Club Italiano, 1914. Hardcover. 1914 edition, red cloth, 724 pp, many maps, light wear to binding, almost very good.
Guide d'Italia del Touring Club Italiano: LE TRE VENEZIE, SECONDO VOLUME
Milano: Touring Club Italiano, 1920. Hardcover. 1920 edition, red cloth, 611 pp, many maps, light wear, still very good, some annotations on front endpaper by FRANKLIN TOKER a major architectural historian who was a significant author of many works on Florentian cathedrals and Medieval-Renaissance architecture, including work on the Cathedral.....
Preprints: Fifth CISM-IFToMM Symposium on Theory and practice of robots and Manipulators, Ro Man Sy 84
Udine, Italy: Self Published, 1984. Paperback. 331 pp. Very good copy. Clean, bright, unmarked text (1 page has a section circled in ink). Numerous b&w illustrations. Slight creasing/ discoloration of cover. Small tear to top of spine. PRevious owner's signature on inside cover. Stamp on back endpaper. Preprints from the.....
Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca Della Musica di Bologna - Guida al Percorso Espositivo
Bologna, Italy: Comune de Bologna, 2004. Paperback. 2004 Softcover, in Near Fine condition, showing the very lightest shelf wear. The text is in Italian. --- 2003 Copertina morbida, in Near Fine condition, che mostra l'usura scaffale molto pi+¦ leggero. Il testo +¿ in italiano. ---.