DELL’UVA, Benedetto.

Le vergini prudenti.

Florence, Bartolomeo Sermartelli, 1582.

First editions of three religious poems...

£650

DONI, Anton Francesco.

Mondi celesti, terrestri, et infernali,...

Venice, Domenico Farri, 1567.

A handsome copy of the second edition of...

£850

FAGNANI, Giovanni Marco.

De bello Arriano libri sex.

Milan, heirs of Pacifico da Ponte and...

First and only edition of the sole published...

£900

FERRARI, Giovanni Francesco.

Le rime burlesche, sopra varii, et piacevoli...

Venice, heirs of Melchior Sessa, 1570.

First edition of the only work published...

£1250

GASPARI, Giovanni Battista.

Sanctorum Ticinensis ecclesiae episcoporum...

Pavia, Giovanni Andrea Magri, [1651].

First and only edition, rare, of this history...

£850

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