A. B. [Unknown 18th-century Italian Malacologist]
Cochleae et conchae in sua genera distributae juxta methodum Tournefortii, Breynii, Gualterii, Charletton, & Anonymi Galli accedit index colorum Latino-italicus. Curante A. B.
Unpublished, ca. 1745. Folio (28.4 x 21.1 cm). Handwritten title page with calligraphed vignette. 155 pp. with handwritten text, and six blanks, not counting the endpapers; 35 illustrations. Contemporary full vellum. Script title in ink on the spine. Edges mottled red.
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Affò, I.
[Original manuscript] Vita di Pierluigi Farnese. Primo Duca di Parma, Piacenza, e Castro.
Guastalla, 1778 [not published until 1821]. Folio (31.1 x 20.8 cm). Title and four additional chapter titles (all in red and black), [iv], 161 text pages; all carefully hand-written, and with floral vignettes in three colours at the end of two chapters. Four blank leaves in the rear. Contemporary full mottled calf. Spine rich gilt with floral vignettes and burgundy morocco label with gilt title. Boards with rich gilt ornamental borders and corner pieces; gilt-lined edges. Marbled endpapers. All edges red. (Italian binding).
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Appianus Alexandrinus
Historia Romana. De Bellis Civilibus.
Venice, Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Loslein, 1477. Two parts in one. Folio (27.3 x 20.4 cm). 343 [211, 132] leaves. Early 17th-century full vellum. Spine with three raised bands and script title in an old hand. Edges speckled red.
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Benoit, L.
Illustrazione sistematica critica iconografica de' testacei estramarini della Sicilia ulteriore e delle isole circostanti.
Napoli, Gaetano Nobile, 1857-1862. Four parts in one. Folio (31.0 x 24.7 cm). xvi, 248, [iv] pp.; 11 lithographed plates [numbered I-IX, XI-XII] of which the last two in fine, original hand-colouring. Later brown buckram. Spine with gilt lines and title.
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Berthier, P. [M.]
Photographic panorama of Mount Etna.
Paris, Paul Berthier, ca. 1863-1865. Very large board (93.0 x 45.0 cm), with original mounted albumen silver prints (panorama, in two parts of 25.0 x 36.2 cm and 25.0 x 35.0 cm, for a continuous image with a total width of 71.2 cm). Paul Berthier printed studio label pasted on verso.
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Bianchi, G. P. S. [J. Plancus]
De conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus portumque Arimini.
Venetiis (Venice), J. Baptista Pasqual, 1739. 4to (29.2 x 20.0 cm). 88 pp.; wood-engraved title vignette and five folded, engraved plates. Contemporary limp boards with script title in an old hand on the spine.
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Brusina, S.
Biblioteca malacologica II. Ipsa Chiereghinii conchylia. Ovvero contribuzione pella malacologia Adriatica desunta dal manoscritto. Descrizione de' crostacei, de' testacei, e de' pesci che abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto, rappresentati in figure, a chiaro-scuro ed a colori. Dall' abate Stefano Chiereghini Ven. Clodiense. Illustrata.
Pisa, Editori della Biblioteca Malacologica, 1870. 8vo (22.6 x 15.2 cm). 280 pp. Later blue buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
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Capitani, F. di
Francesco di Capitani. [Manuscript design examples].
Roma, di Capitani, [ca. 1935]. Large, oblong cardboard binder with two metal pins. Folio (36.5 x 53.5 cm). 64 leaves with original drawings, of which 61 in full colour (crayon). Black morocco boards with embossed title and patterned pastedowns. Stiff brown endpapers.
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Catullo, T. A.
Trattato sopra la costituzione geognostico-fisica dei terreni alluviani o postdiluviani delle provincie Venete.
Padova, Cartallier e Sicca, 1838. 8vo (21.2 x 13.3 cm). Title page with engraved vignette, [iv], 512 pp.; several tables in the text. Mid-19th-century pebbled cloth. Gilt title on the spine.
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