100 books : The collection of a Gentleman

First Edition


Valentini, Francesco. Trattato su la commedia dell'arte, ossia improvvisa. Maschere italiane ed alcune scene del Carnevale di Roma. Dal professore Francesco Valentini romano. Berlino : presso Luigi Guglielmo Wittich, 1826

Folio, 2 parts in 1 volume, contemporary bounds in boards, pp. x, 32, [2]; vi, 36, [2], 20 colored plates.


Very rare and beautifully illustrated work about the Commedia dell' Arte and Roman Carnival.

20 colored plates after drawings by Sturmer.


It was published in Berlin in 1826, 37 years after Goethe's famous 'Roman Carnival'

The magnificent aquatint panels initially show theatrical masks on 6 panels, followed by 14 panels with masks and festival scenes from Rome Carnival

Bibliography: Graesse VII, 238. - Brunet V, 1038

Monnier, Henry. Moeurs Parisiennes. . Paris: Chez Gihaut freres, 1828

Oblong small folio, brown leather half calf on red morocco boards.

10 colored lithographed satirical plates by Monnier, printed by Villain

Henry Bonaventure Monnier (1799 - 1877) was is a French cartoonist, illustrator, playwright and actor.

First Edition

Cibrario, Luigi. Sigilli de' principi di Savoia / raccolti ed illustrati per ordine del re Carlo Alberto dal cavaliere Luigi Cibrario e da Domenico Casimiro Promis. Torino : dalla Stamperia Reale, 1834.

4to, brown half calf on colored paper, pp XV, 274, [1].

Rare first edition of the presentation of a beautiful collection of seals of the Royal family of Savoy. It is illustrated with an unfolding genealogical table and 33 engraved full page plates of representation of seals .

Strassen Karte der Oesterreichischen Monarchie.1835

General map of Austria, composed by 9 parts, folded in 8 part each, Ca. 75x 110 cm.

Alighieri, Dante. La Commedia di Dante Allighieri / illustrata da Ugo Foscolo. Londra : Rolandi, 1842-1843.

4to, 4 volums bounded in two, contemporary stiff vellum.

FIRST EDITION of the Divine Comedy edited by Ugo Foscolo. Foscolo began working on this project as early as 1820 but only the first volume (of the 5 that originally had to compose the work) was published in 1825 before his death. The preface to this edition bears the signature 'Un Italiano';
the publisher is in fact Giuseppe Mazzini, who carried out the original intentions of Foscolo and published the work following the papers left by him.

Very rare report of the Emperor Ferdnando I travel to Trieste

Ferdinando I e Maria Anna Carolina nel Litorale in Settembre 1844. Trieste, I. Papsch & C. Tipografi del Lloyd Austriaco, 1845

A folio volume, original paper binding, pp. [2], IV, 56, [18] leaves of plates.

Illustrated report of the official visit of the Emperor of Austria Ferdinand I and his wife Maria Anna Carolina to Trieste in September 1844. The work is illustrated with 18 magnificent lithographed plates and sumptuously enhanced with gouache , described in Italian and German.

They were lithographed by Linassi & Comp. on drawings of various artists including Cesare Dell ’Acqua, Gius. Rieger, A. Tischbein, Pietro Pupilli, Fran. Bellemo, Marco Moro, Marco Comirato, Giov. Pividor, Melch. Fontana and Aless.

Very rare. Only one known copy at Yale University Library.

Folded map of Paris with main monuments ad list of streets

Vuillemin, Alexandre. Nouveau plan illustré de la ville de Paris : avec le systeme complet de ses fortifications et forts detaches, et des communes de la banlieue. Paris : Fatout, 1844.

1 map, steel engraving ; sheet 85 x 107 cm, folded in cover to 22 x 13 cm

Splendid work on glossy paper retracing the Very large map of Paris, engraved on steel by Benard, adorned with around fifty vignettes depicting monuments, bridges or squares in Paris and its suburbs, and the 13 forts around Paris (Charenton, Nogent, Ivry, Bicetre, Montrouge, etc.). With alphabetical list of streets, table of towns in the suburbs, distances between forts and the "granting wall" or Farmers General barrier.

The plan shows the two surrounding walls of the city, the wall of the General Farmers, built in 1790, and the bastioned wall of Thiers.

Nouveau plan de Paris fortifie . Paris : P. Marie et A. Bernard, 1855



1 colored folding map of the city of Paris (61x90 cm) . At margin the list of the street names.



Beautiful map of Paris printed shortly after the start of Haussmann's Paris transformation work.


It shows the two surrounding walls of Paris, the wall of the Fermiers Generaux, an enclosure built between 1784 and 1790, the objective of which was to allow the collection, at the crossing points, of a tax on goods entering the city, and the enclosure of Thiers, named after the politician who conceived the project, built between 1841 and 1844, at the request of Louis-Philippe, who wanted to build around the capital a bastioned enclosure which would make the city impregnable.






Beyond the enclosure of Thiers, one can see the 16 detached forts built at the same time as the enclosure (forts of Vincennes, Charenton, Ivry, Bicetre, Montrouge, etc.). These forts are represented by fortified walls in watercolor green. The city is divided into 12 arrondissements, the numbers of which are written on watercolor labels.


It was not until June 16, 1859, that the 20 arrondissements were created, when the suburbs located between the fortifications of the Thiers enclosure and the Wall of the Farmers General were annexed to Paris. Fourteen monument vignettes adorn the map: Arc de Triomphe, Bastille, Hotel de Ville, etc. The Seine is decorated with several boats. The plan also shows the railway lines illustrated with trains. Valley, 2053.

Francesco : da Buti. Commento sopra la Divina Commedia di Dante Allighieri / di Francesco da Buti ; pubblicato per cura di Crescentino Giannini. Vol I (III). Pisa : f.lli Nistri, 1858 (1862)

3 vols 4to, contemporary quartes stiff vellum on paper boards, vol I: pp. XXXVI, 864, 2 plates (Portraits of Dante and Francesco Buti); vol II: pp. 825, x; vol III: pp. 902.



Rare Edition of Dante Masterpiece, printed in 300 copies, with the commentary of Francesco Da Buti, an Italian literary critic and Latinist, one of the first commentators on the Divine Comedy. .


The structure of the Commentary provides, for each song, the division into two "lessons", each of which is divided into "parts". Each "part" contains the explanation of a certain number of triplets.

In commenting Inferno ( Hell), da Buti clearly separates the literary explanation - in the form of paraphrase - from the allegorical interpretation. In the commentary on the two subsequent canticles the "literal exposition" is instead merged "together with the text and allegories".

A nice set in an original full blue vellum binding.


Poesie (Le) di Giuseppe Giusti. Firenze - ed. Barbera 1862.

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Poesie (Le) liriche di Vincenzo Monti - Firenze - ed. Barbera 1862.

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Rime (Le) di Francesco Petrarca - Firenze - ed. Barbera 1863

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Commedie (le) di N. Machiavelli- Firenze - ed. Barbera 1863.

[Togheter with] Poesie e lettere di Vincenzo da Filicaia - Firenze - ed. Barbera 1863.

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Canti di Giacomo Leopardi - Firenze - Successori Le Monnier 18.

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Cronica Fiorentina - Dino Compagni - Firenze - ed. Barbera 1862.

BRUE, Adrien Hubert - BORDIGA, Giovanni Battista

Carta dell' Asia. Ridotta sopra quella in 4 fogli di H. Brue e secondo la Geografia di Malte-Brunn. Milano, Vallardi, 1850.


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BRUE, Adrien Hubert - BORDIGA, G(iovanni) Batt(ista)

Carta dell' Affrica. Ridotta sopra quella in 4 fogli di H. Brue e secondo la Geografia di Malte-Brunn. Milano, Vallardi, 1850.


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BRUE, Adrien Hubert - BORDIGA, G(iovanni) Batt(ista)

Carta dell' Oceania o quinta parte del mondo. Ridotta sopra quella in 4 fogli di H. Brue e secondo la Geografia di Malte-Brunn. Milano, Vallardi, 1850.

BARBET DE JOUY (Henry). Les Gemmes et joyaux de la couronne. Paris, Chalcographie des musees imperiaux, 1865.
2 parts in 1 vol in folio, quarter leather binding on coloured paper (worn).


60 plates drawn and etched from the originals by Jules Jacquemart, each accompanied by an explanatory note by Barbet de Jouy.