Italy
55 items found
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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Burrow, E. I.
Elementi di conchiologia Linneana illustrati da xxviii tavole in rame. Opera volgarizzata sulla seconde edizione inglese dal nobile signor marchese Francesco Baldassini da Pesaro coll' aggiunta di copiose ed erudite note. Ediz. diligentamente accurata dal professore Claro Giuseppe Malacarne.
Milano, Carlo Branca, 1836. 8vo (19.8 x 12.9 cm). xxxi, 368 pp.; one folded chart, 28 engraved plates. Contemporary pebbled half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands, vignettes, and title. Green endpapers.
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Brinckmann-Voss, A.
Fauna e Flora del Golfo di Napoli. 39. Monografia: Anthomedusa/Athecatae (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria) of the Mediterranean. Part I Capitata.
Napoli, Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, 1970. Folio (34.2 x 24.8 cm). 96 pp.; 106 (groups of) text illustrations, and 11 beautiful full-colour plates after watercolours by Ilona Richter. Original stiff, printed wrappers.
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Bresadola, G.
I funghi mangerecci e velenosi dell'Europa media con speciale riguardo a quelli che crescono nel Trentino nell'aila Italia. II edizione.
Trento, Giovanni Zippel, 1907. 8vo. 142 pp.; 121 plates [120 chromolithographed plates (I-CXII, XXIa, XXVIIIa, LIII[a], LIIIb, LVa, XCIXa, CIVa, CIXa), one photographed plate (XCVIIbis)]. Contemporary black half calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lines and title.
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Binding
18th-century Italian 'Notebook' with blank pages.
Italy, ca. 1780. Small folio (22.7 x 15.9 cm). 24 blank leaves of laid paper. Full burgundy calf; boards rich gilt with floral ornaments in a late Louis XV style. Patterned pastedowns. All edges gilt with floral patterns. preserved pink buckram clamshell box (23.6 x 17.1 x 2.2 cm) with gilt title on the spine.
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Berthier, P. [M.]
Photographic panorama of Mount Etna.
Paris, Paul Berthier, 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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