GONZAGA, Curzio.

Il Fido amante, poema eroico.

Mantua, [(colophon:) Giacomo Ruffinello, 1582].

First edition of Curzio Gonzaga’s captivating...

£600

LACTANTIUS.

Opera.

[Venice,] Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

Magnificent incunable edition of the works...

£25000

MARZAGLIA, Gaetano.

Fascetto di pratiche matematiche spiegate...

Verona, Dionisio Ramanzini, 1780.

A lovely copy of the second edition, considerably...

£650

[MASS.]

Cerimonie piu’ notabili della messa privata;...

Turin, Gianfranco Mairesse, 1739.

An apparently unrecorded edition of this...

£300

MONIGLIA, Tommaso Vicenzo.

Osservazioni critico-filosofiche contro...

Lucca, Vincenzo Giuntini, 1760. 

Uncommon anti-materialist work by the Tuscan...

£250

[NOVARA.]

Editti per le sagre ordinationi, con altre...

Novara, Francesco Liborio Cavallo, [1704].

Very rare set of edicts governing ordination...

£400

[OUR LADY OF LORETO.]

Abregé de l’histoire de Notre Dame de...

Loreto, Federico Sartori, 1787.

Rare edition of this guidebook for French...

£1350

PACE, Giulio.

Artis Lullianae emendatae libri IV. Quibus...

Naples, Secondino Roncagliolo, 1631.

Rare third edition (first 1618) of this...

£750

PASSI, Carlo.

La selva di varia istoria … la quale...

Venice, Altobello Salicato, 1572.

An unsophisticated copy of Passi and Ruscelli’s...

£500

PITTORIO, Lodovico.

Delle homelie di M. Lodovico Pittorio...

Turin, Francesco Lorenzini, 1581 (colophon:...

Very rare edition of a popular and much...

£800

[PREDIERI, Luca Antonio, composer; Apostolo ZENO, librettist.]

La tirannide vendicata, drama per musica,...

Pesaro, Gavelli, 1726.

First edition, very rare, of the libretto...

£1250

RAIMONDI, Eugenio.

Delle caccie … libri Quattro, aggiuntovi’n...

[Naples, Lazzaro Scoriggio, 1626.]

Second edition, expanded and extended,...

£1850

[SAVONAROLA, Girolamo.] Ambrogio Caterino POLITI.

Discorso … contra la dottrina, et le...

Venice, Giolito, 1548.

First edition of a condemnation of Savonarola’s...

£1500

[THOMAS À KEMPIS.]

Messer Giovanni Gerson. Utile & divota...

Florence, Piero Pacini da Pescia, 16 April...

Scarce edition of an anonymous Italian...

£4000

THOMAS AQUINAS; Antonius PIZAMANUS, editor.

Opuscula [with a life of St Thomas].

Venice, Hermannus Liechtenstein, 7 September...

First collected edition of seventy-one...

£3750

URCEO, Antonio.

Hoc Codri volumine haec continentur. Orationes,...

Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Benedetti, 7...

First edition of a quintessential piece...

£3000

VALLISNERI, Alberto Maria.

Lettioni venti sopra gli alti, et ineffabili...

Milan, Giovanni Battista da Ponte & fratelli,...

Very rare first edition of a collection...

£500

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Sermones quadragesimales [– de tempore...

[(Colophons:) Venice, Simon de Luere for...

An annotated copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s...

£3250

ZENO of Verona, Saint. 

In presenti opusculo infrascripta continentur. ...

Venice, Giacomo Penzio for Benedetto Fontana,...

Rare first edition of the sermons of Zeno...

£1500

FRANKLIN, Benjamin.

The Art of making Money plenty in every...

London, Darton, Harvey, and Darton, and...

First English edition in book form, scarce,...

£1000