20 great Cartolina Postale cards, almost all in very good or better condition, blank on versos, with handsome relief chromolithograhy, featuring salutes to famous Italians, with illuminated manuscript artwork. Celebrated are: Rafael, Boccaccio, Giotto, Petrarch, Verdi, Cellini, Michelangelo, Goldoni, Tasso, and Massacio, plus other Italian themed cards.
Photos measure approximately 8 x 10 inches and are matted and backed at some point in the distant past. Shows: Temple of Agrippa, Arch of Titus, interior of the Colosseum, Pyramid of Cestius, ruins of the Claudian acqueducts, and the Grand Canal in Venice. Typical yellowing and light fading.
Sheets are stiff old card stock, 14 sheets with 6 photos a page and one with 2 photos, photos mainly measuring about 3.5 inches in diameter, and all labeled underneath. Some of the photos seem a little faded and others are clear as a bell. A couple are taken aboard.....
London: John Murray, 1869. Hardcover. Eleventh edition. 8vo, faded rose cloth gilt, very good, light wear and soil, map in pocket at rear, xxxvi, 620 pp. Rear inner hinge neatly strengthened. Map in nice condition.
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.
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.....
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.....
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.
Roma: Museo Preistorico-Etnografico "L. Pegorini" 1971. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1971. Softbound, 249 pp., heavily illustrated (including fold-outs), clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, small ink-notation on the book's spine, light soiling/discoloration to the page-edges and the covers, light rubbing or wear to the tips and edges. Text in.....
Roma (Rome): Centro per le Relazioni Italo-Arabe, 1960. Paperback. 1960, Softcover, Italian text, translated from the original Arabic, Illustrated. 177 pp. This is 1120 of 1200 copies. Near Fine copy in wax jacket, in original cardboard slipcase. Light fade to spine; owner's signature on fly leaf; else, clean and unmarked.....
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.....
New York: Wiley, 1884-5. Hardcover. Complete set in 10 parts. Hardcovers, each uniformly bound in gray paper over boards. Illustrated by Alexander. A Very Good set. Most with light rubbing to the covers. Previous owner's signature on the fly leaf of all. Clean contents. Sound bindings. Each book now housed.....
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.
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.....
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.....
Parma: Typis Al berti Pazzoni, & Pauli Montii, 1702-1706. Hardcover. Volumes One and Two, 1702 and 1706 (a third volume was published in 1741, not present here). Folio, old vellum, lacking half title, ix (ie vii) (1) 470 (2) xv (1) 499 pp. Second volume with half title present. Good.....
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.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1912. Hardcover. Slightly later printing. 8vo, in handsome midnight blue half morocco gilt, about fine, 201 pp, color plates throughout.
New York: Abrams, 1992. First English language edition. Hardcover. 1992. First English language edition. Hardcover, 380 pp. 192 illustrations including 165 color plates. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Due to the size of this item, extra postage may be required for priority or international orders.
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.
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.
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.
Milano: Touring Club Italiano, 1914. Hardcover. 1914 edition, red cloth, 724 pp, many maps, light wear to binding, almost very good.
Milano: Touring Club Italiano, 1927. Hardcover. 1927 edition, red cloth in dust jacket, very good crisp copy, jacket lightly edgeworn, about very good, 618 pp, maps throughout.
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.....