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THE TABLE OF CONTENTS AS AN EDITORIAL PROSPECTUS
4to (195x144 mm). [24] leaves. Collation: A-F4. With the woodcut arms of the city of Verona on the title page. Late 18th-century red morocco, panels with gilt floral borders, gilt edges, decorated endpapers (a few scratches). Some very light occasional foxing. A very good copy.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of the table of contents of a comprehensive chronicle of the city of Verona, intended by Canobbio to show the plan of his Historia intorno la nobiltà e l'antichità di Verona, to which he worked from 1577 to 1604 and which should cover 3436 years of history of the territory. The work was never finished, only the present index and a summary, Breve compendio cavato dalla sua historia di Verona (1598), were published during his lifetime. Apparently the manuscript of the larger work got lost (cf. A. Viviani, Alessandro Canobbio e la sua opera storica, in: "Nova historia", VII/1-2, 1955, pp. 42-52).
"Se l'interesse archeologico è prevalente in Torello Saraina… Read More

4to (214x152 mm). [8], 135, [1] leaves. Collation: *4 †4 a-z4 A-L4. With the large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page and the printer's device on last leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum, inked title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties (new endpapers, small stains). On title page manuscript ownership's inscription Ballybay Library. Inner margin of the title page reinforced, small holes to the gutter of the first two leaves with no loss of text, small ink stain on the upper blank margin at the end of the volume, otherwise a very good genuine copy.
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. First published in Bologna in 1546, containing only seventy-two chapters, the Ricordi appeared in an enlarged edition in 1549 (124 chapters) also in Bologna. The present, definitive, edition containing 133 'ricordi' was edited by Zaccaria Bellenghi, Fra Sabba's chaplain in Faenza, shortly after the latter's death. The work became very popular and between 1546 and 1613 twenty-five editions were published.
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ON GAMBLING
8vo (205x 127 mm). VIII, 232, [4] pp. The first leaf, a blank, is included in the pagination. The name of the printer can be found in the printing license at the end of the volume. Typographic ornament on the title page. Decorative head- and tailpieces. Contemporary half calf, gilt spine with lettering piece, marbled boards, sprinkled edges (some minor restoration to spine and corners). On the title page manuscript initials "N.C.". Contemporary manuscript note at p. 39. Some scattered foxing due to the quality of the paper, all in all a good, genuine copy.
Rare first edition, dedicated by the author to John Acton (1736-1811), commander of the navy of the Kingdom of Naples, of this work dealing with gambling from every possible angle: mathematical, statistical, ethical, economical, legal, psychological, and social.
In 1790, at the age of twenty-five, Francesco Bernardino Cicala published in Naples the Saggio filosofico e critico sulli giuochi di azzardo, echoing in its title another work on… Read More

8vo (141x95 mm); later stiff vellum, ink title on spine; (47), (1 blank) ll. Italic type. Ownership's entries on the title-page: "di Paolo franceschi" and "di giannantonio Bartholi. Ede sua amicj". A very good copy.
RARE SECOND EDITION, edited by Filippo Pirogallo and by him dedicated to Alessandro Vercelli.
The edition contains the same poems as the first 1538 Parma edition (overall 145 poems including 9 by other authors), with the addition of the stanze Quando miro la terra ornata e bella by Veronica Gambara, here called Stanze aggionte and wrongly attributed to Vittoria Colonna (cf. V. Colonna, Rime, A. Bullock, ed., Bari, 1982, p. 259).
In 1539 Colonna's rhymes were also printed in Florence by Zoppino and twice in Venice (by Salvioni and allegedly by Zoppino or Troiano). These editions are easily distinguishable from the present because they bear either a trefoil or a woodcut border on the title-page. According to Bullock (op. cit.), they are slightly later since they all amend in the dedication… Read More

405x277 mm. Text within a typographic border. Woodcut decorative initial. Traces of folding, restorations along the folding, some foxing, all in all well preserved.
Celebratory broadsheet printed on the occasion of a dinner party given by the vice-podesta of Brescia Andrea Cornaro (or Corner), containing a laudatory sonnet signed by Pietro dalla Curte.
Andrea Corner, born in Venice in 1610 into a noble Venetian family, became a member of the Maggior Consiglio at only 20 in 1630. He had a very successful and long career as a politician, diplomat and galley captain, both in Venice and in the Venetian islands. On February 6, 1668 he married Marina Barbaro, widow of Girolamo Corner, who brought him a dowry of 6,000 ducats. On July 14, 1669 he was elected podesta in Brescia. He made his entrance in town in January 1670. Among the various problems connected with the administration of a territory as vast and relevant as that of Brescia, he had to reorganize the local possessions of the Church, to provide new… Read More

211x150 mm. 8 unnumbered leaves, of which the last is a blank. Sewn but unbound, preserved in a modern cloth slipcase. On the first leaf recto is the following title written by a later hand: "Carmina Croti ad Sanvitalem sup[er] laubibus Iulij Cesaris Pompei & alior[um] proceru[m] Romanor[um] pulcherrima ac videnda". The rest of the manuscript is written by a single, very elegant early 16th-century hand. On the first leaf verso is the dedication "Bartholmaeus Crotus ad Hieronymum Sanvitalem Salae Principem", followed by four verses and a calligraphic ornament. Watermark: lily with double trefoil and the letter 'M' below. Slightly uniformly browned (more strongly on the first and last leaf), paper loss of about 4x2 mm to the outer margin of all leaves not affecting the text, another loss to the outer upper corner of the first leaf not affecting the text.
This is an apparently unpublished and unknown collection of short epigrams dedicated to Girolamo I Sanvitale, Count of Sala, son of Niccolò Maria… Read More