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Padova: Nella Stamperia del Seminario, Appresso Niccolo Bettinelli, 1796. Padova:  Nella Stamperia del Seminario, Appresso Niccoló Bettinelli, 1796.  Folio.  295 x 210 mm., [11 ½ x 8 ½ inches].  56 pp., with the single letter press leaf of "Avviso al lettore" bound after the title-page.  Illustrated with 15 engraved plates (13 of which are folding). Bassano, 1802.  Folio. 19 engraved plates, (engraved title-page and plates numbered 3-20, without text).  This copy appears to be wanting plate 2. Together two works bound in contemporary leather backed boards, decorated paper cover.  Very nice copy. A separate printing taken from the First Italian edition of the text on handwriting prepared by Charles Paillasson for the Encyclopedia methodique, published, originally in Geneva 1780-1793 by C. J. Pankouche.   This copy is bound with Giuseppe Bonatti's engravings focusing on examples of the Italian methods and traditions.  Bonatti's work appears to be quite rare.   Paillasson's text… Read More

London and New York: John Tallis, 1851. Three volumes. 4to. 275 x 201 mm. (10 3/4 x 8 inches). [2] blanks, iv, 5-268 pp.; [1] blank, [iv], 5-262 pp.; [2], 110 pp. Illustrated with a folding chromolithographic plate, 3 engraved frontispieces, and 138 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary black pebble morocco, three simple fillet borders in gilt, decorated spine; joints and tips lightly rubbed and paper at hinge of front board of volume one is split. Preliminary leaves lightly foxed and sporadic foxing in text, some tissues guards brown, but the text and images are generally crisp and clean. Ownership inscription of Hannah B. Edmands (1823-1909), of Newton, MA appear in all three volumes. First edition. Attractive copy of this extensive study of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, the international exposition of the arts and industry sponsored by the British Government and private supporters. Illustrated with over 140 steel engravings reproduced from daguerreotypes by Beard and Mayall, this… Read More

Bologna: Luigi Guidotti Librajo e Stampatore, 1760. Oblong 4to.  180 x 250 mm., [7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches].  Engraved frontispiece of Valerio Boschi, engraved title-page with an image of the city of Bologna in the background, 2 pp. engraved dedications, 33 engraved plates of countryside villas, landscapes, and country scenes from the environs surrounding Bologna.  Bound in contemporary decorated paper wrappers, spine reinforced with old repair, edges rubbed, fore edges of paper brown with age, margins foxed.  With faults a rare survival. A charming series of engraved and etched plates, designed in great detail and with considerable skill, which capture the feeling of the pastoral countryside around Bologna.  As stated in the title, Palmieri published this work as a type of manual for oil painters, learning how to organize their paintings and create a pleasing compositional structure.  Of the 33 plates nineteen are designed by Palmieri and an additional eleven are designed by another Bolognese… Read More

Philadelphia, 1850. 23 Legal Pamphlets in all.  Bound in contemporary sheep over marbled paper boards, rubbed. 1.  Thompson Cowen, Robert Fullerton, et. al., versus The New Castle and Darlington Rail Road, et. al.  Paper Book and Complainants.  Stephenson & Foster Att'y for Complaintants.  Mercer, Pa., 1857.  92 pp. 2.  The County of Lawrence versus The North-Western Rail Road Co. et al. In Equity.  Paper Book Complainants.  R. B. M'Comb & J. F. Johnston, Solicitors of Complainants.  Pittsburgh: Printed by W. S. Haven, 1858.  82 pp.; with, Appendix, Abstract of Complainants' Bill.  55 pp., plus 1 pp. index. 3.  Daniel Diamond, Plaintiff in Error, versus the County of Lawrence, Defendant in Error.  Error of the Court of Common Pleas of Lawrence County.  Paper Book of Plaintiff in Error.  D. B. Curtz, Attorney for Plaintiff in Error.  New Castle, PA.: E. S. Durban, Book and Job Printers, 1860.  42 pp. 4.  Daniel Diamond, Plaintiff in Error; versus The County of Lawrence,… Read More

Together five works in one volume.  12mo.  160 x 100 mm.; 6 ½ x 4 inches.  Bound in contemporary leather spine and tips, marbled paper boards; spine leather showing wear and some cracking, otherwise a sound copy. Interest group of pamphlets prepared for public consumption and at the behest of the British Museum and the Louvre in Paris.  For Panizzi and Madden 1851was a critical time in the history of British Museum as new space was required to manage the growing collections and the public was clamoring access to the collections.  These pamphlets were published to demonstrate to the Trustees the growing collections of books and manuscripts that were entering the Museum and that a decision about the new reading room need to be taken.   The Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum was published as a reminder of the extent of the collection including details of all the rooms in the museum that held natural history collections and antiquities.  .

London: Printed for John Taylor by George Smith of Liverpool, 1828. 12mo.  160 x 100 mm., (6 ¼ x 4 inches].  [11], 558 pp.  Bound in half green calf, leather tips, marbled paper boards, gilt spine, red leather label; edges rubbed and a bit bumped, otherwise sound.  This copy with the 19th century bookplate of Sir Thos. William Boord, the first Baronet of Wakehurst Place I the County of Sussex First edition of Antonio Panizzi's (1797-1879) first publication after moving to London from Liverpool in 1828.  He first arrived in England in 1823 after being condemned to death by the Metternich regime which controlled much of the north of Italy after the demise of the French.  At the time Panizzi was accused of being member of the Carbonaro a group opposed to the rule of Austria over Italy.  In that year after leaving Italy for Switzerland he published a pamphlet entitled Dei Processi e delle Sentenze, which criticized the harsh treatment of the political opposition in Modena  His sentence drove… Read More

London: George Woodfall and Son for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1847. Folio.  325 x 210 mm., (12 ¾ x 8 ¼ inches).  2, xxv, [1], 19-152 pp. Printed on blue paper. Original printed wrappers; some aging to the paper and a few cracks at the spine, otherwise a fine copy. Unpublished report, printed in a very few copies, of the long and painful history of the publication of the General Catalogue of Books, which was authorized by the Trustees in 1834 and to date in 1847, was still not published.  The Papers is organized by chapters, beginning with a history of the "Orders" issued by the Trustees in June of 1759, that outline the plan for the publication of an "Alphabetical Catalogue of Their Printed Books" and includes all the documents issued by the Trustee on the subject to July of 1846.  This is followed by a "Report by Henry Ellis", Principal Librarian at the BM, about the printed catalogue dated July 25th of 1846, and a rebuttal by Antonio Panizzi, Keeper of Printed Books, which is… Read More

Pall Mall, London: Issued by the Library Committee, 1920. 8vo. 230 x 145 mm., [9 x 6 inches].  58, [1] pp.  Bound in original blue paper wrappers; spine expertly repaired with Japanese tissue; edges of wrappers soiled.  With the bookplate of J. F. Fuggles. Catalogue of a collection of mostly 19th century pamphlets collected by Antonio Panizzi (1797-1879) and given to his biographer Louis Fagan.  The Reform Club as a beloved organization for Panizzi and upon the completion of his biography, Fagan presented them to Club as a gift form one of its most famous members. The pamphlets "have never been fully catalogued before, and the Library Committee considered them of sufficient importance for the history and literature of Italy to warrant the issue of this descriptive list in the hope that it may be of service to a wider circle of students of the subject than have access to the catalogue in the Club Library." The collection contains works mostly documenting the Italian Risorgimento beginning in… Read More

London: Published for the College by H. K. Lewis & Co., 1957. 8vo.  225 x 140 mm., [9 x 5 ½ inches].  78 pp.  Original blue paper wrappers, discolored by sun light on edges and back wrappers. Oldham essay is followed by W. A. Munford's essay, "George Birkbeck and Mechanics' Institutes" and Simon Nowell-Smith's essay "Caryle and the London Library." .

London: J. and C. Adlard, 1819. 8vo. 220 x 140 mm., [8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches].  12 pp.  Illustrated with a folding plate depicting the Piazza San Marco, Venice.  Original blank wrappers, separated at the spine, folded plate loose in binding.  Stamp of the Minnesota Historical Society (withdrawn).  Tiny tears at the folds of the plate but sound.

Washington, PA: Printed by J. Grayson, 1824. 12mo. 168 x 100 mm. (6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches). [2] p. l., 7-348pp. Contemporary brown calf, label on spine; rubbed at edges, but sound and attractive; paper browned but flexible throughout. Very good copy of the only edition of Dr. Parker's manual on agriculture and the industrial and useful arts. Many of the topics he covers include receipts and instructions for successful outcomes. In the first part of the book Parker focus's his attention on the preparation of the soil for a variety of food crops like rye, barley, buckwheat, and potatoes. He talks a great deal about insects and other forces that damage crops and offers solutions for protecting the crops until harvest time. In the section on the useful arts he spends nearly 40 pages on dye making and bleaching, an essential treatment for cloth manufacture. He follows this section with receipts for preparing and mixing colors, staining wood, mixing ingredients to create varnishes, metal working,… Read More

Modena: Printed at the Stamperia Ducale by Giuseppe Conte Fabrizj, 1791. Small 4to.  212 x 148 mm., (8 ½ x 6 inches).  Engraved title-page, 31 leaves.  Illustrated with an engraved title, within an ornamental boarder designed and engraved by Gasparo Gaiani.  Bound in contemporary Italian mottled calf, spine tooled in gilt, red edges, red peppermint striped endpapers, beautifully preserved. Fine copy of the only edition of Parozzi's poems.  A rare collection of 26 love poems, some on true love, other on unrequited love, and other on the disappointed that come with the refusal of one's love.  Other poems discuss love in terms of flattery, sincerity, despair, jealousy, dreams of love, the seasons of love, happiness, thunderstorms as a metaphor for stormy love affairs, the gift of love, and sorrow that comes with the abandonment of love.  This appears to be Parozzi's only published collection of poems. Not in ICCU; on copy located in the US at Harvard.  (957) .

New York: Published by the Author, 1834. 8vo. 190 x 120 mm., (7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches). viii, 9-179 pp. Original cloth boards, rebacked with cloth, remnants of original spine laid down. Light foxing throughout. With faults a good, sound copy. Second edition originally published in New York by H. Wallis in 1823 which included information on British practices. In the self-published edition of 1834 Partridge remove much of this material and focused more on the extraction of colors from wood, the chemistry of scouring and dyeing, and color preparation. The first 40 pages of the book describe in detail the methods and materials used in scouring raw wool and cotton to ensure that all oils and natural elements are removed and cleansed out. The next 100 pages are devoted to dyes. Partridge discusses in detail the which natural materials produce colors pigments, how to make the extractions, and finally how to mix the extracts with solvents and oils to create a color that will fix when applied to textile… Read More

New York and Londong: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. 8vo.  210 x 140 mm., [8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches].   xxiv, 385 pp.  Illustrated with a frontispiece and 48 half tone photographs.  Original decorated publisher's cloth, some slight water damage to the upper cover. Account of Sicily at the turn of the 20th century, with a focus on the art, history,  and landscape of the Island, from the largest of cities to its hamlets and villages.    "To know Europe, one must know Italy.  To know Italy, one must be well versed in Sicilian history, archaelogy , art and literature.  Italy without Sicily leaves no image in the soul;  Sicily is the key to it all"  (Goethe).  Paton echoed Goethe's sentiments and produced a well illustrated guide to this ancient island. Although called a "revised edition", this 1897 edition appears to be the earliest listed in either OCLC or the British Library Catalogue.  Editions of this work were published into the 1920's.   .

London: John Lehmann, 1952. 8vo.  190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches].  189 pp.  Publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket by John Minton.  Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, the whole rather foxed, especially the verso and rear panel, white portions of the spine showing toning, additional light foxing to textblock edges, else a Very Good, sound copy. Novel by the Italian author recounting a man's return to his native Piedmont in Italy after attempting to make his fortune in the United States.   Originally published under the title La Luna e i Falo it is considered his master work and appeared the year after his death. Pavese was an important Italian  translators making  English and American literature accessible to an Italian audience.  He translated Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner, as well as Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens and James Joyce.  His edition of Moby Dick appeared in Italy in 1941.

London: Peter Owen, 1953. 8vo. 190 x 12o mm., [7 1/4 x 5 inches].  211 pp.  Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; jacket with some light abrasion and a bit of fading to the red; verso of the jacket shows some discoloration, otherwise a very good copy. First English edition.   Collection of Pavese's early short stories, written before he graduated to the novel form in the 1930's.  The stories are personal in nature and  reflect his politics, his imprisonment and exile, his failure in love, and the social condition in Italy during the Fascist period.  Pavese translated English and America short stories and essay in the literary journal La Cultura and became its editor in 1934.  .

New York: Printed for Private Circulation by Charles W. Frederickson, 1860. 8vo.  245 x 150 mm., [9 ½  x 5 ½ inches].  32 pp. Unopened copy in original drab green paper wrappers; wrappers soiled and some chips to the edges, otherwise a very good copy. "This reprint is dedicated to the Admirers of Mr. J. Payne Collier, in the United States, by C. W. Frederickson, who appreciates his character as an Honest Man, an Accomplished Scholar, and a Worthy Elucidator of the Text of Shakespeare." The author of  "An Inquiry" was  Nicholas Hamilton, member of the Manuscript Department of the British Museum working under the direction of Sir Frederic Madden, Keeper of the Collection.  His analysis of the annotations and manuscript notes in the so-called Perkins Folio of Shakespeare's Works (1632), concluded they were forgeries of a modern date.  J. Payne Collier, the noted Shakespeare scholar had submitted in an essay entitled, Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare (1853), that the manuscript… Read More

New York: Baker & Scribner, 1849. 8vo. 190 x 120 mm., [7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches]. 103 pp., plus 4pp. ads. Original pictorial boards highlighted in black, red and blue watercolor; boards soiled, joints cracked, spine chipped, yet intact; cheap paper stock toned brown. With faults an unusual binding. First edition of this fantasy novel, called by Wright, an "adventure in California among a strange people whose commonest possession was gold. Obviously modeled on Gulliver's Travels, it also suggests Poe's influence and in some ways is like Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur"s Court." In his series of catalogues dedicated to California, Warren Howell writes, "This scarce work is the first American novel which relates to the Gold Rush. . ." This binding, hand painted on the original drab boards, may represent a special copy created for or by the author, "Can tell a big ly, a.k.a. George W. Peck".   Wright, Fiction, I, p. 2030. Howell, CaliforniaCalifornia Gold Rush: A Descriptive Bibliography.… Read More

Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, Printers, 1849. 12mo. 160 x 100 mm., [6 ¼ x 4 inches]. 144 pp. Bound in contemporary sheep, rubbed, simple leather repair to lower quarter of the spine; lightly foxed. Originally published in 1842, Pedder's book went through numerous editions well into the 1860's. It was considered one of the standard survey books of the period and was especially desirable for the measurement of larger parcels of land in the American west and became a tool for as farmers and settlers who pushed past the Mississippi River.

Paris: A. A. Renouard, 1819. 8vo.  205 x 125 mm., [8 x 5 inches].  60 [1] pp.  Illustrated with one lithographic plate. Bound in modern boards, leather label.  Very good copy. First and only edition, printed in an edition of 250 copies only and published by the noted bibliophile and collector A. A. Renouard.  Peignot's pioneering study on the origins of lithography and its development, with a bibliography of works printed with the lithographic process.  In his book, Early Lithographic Books, Michael Twyman writes, "His  Essai historique sur la lithographie was published in Paris as early as 1819 and was the first monograph on the history of the subject." Peignot discusses the origins of lithography and much like his work on early French printing, he offers strong opinions about who in France was the first to bring the process to the country.  He also writes about the establishment of the process in Germany, Italy, England, and lists titles that were produced by the printers. This work is… Read More