100 books : The collection of a Gentleman

[First Edition]

L'Art de plumer la poule sans crier . Cologne, Robert le Turc 1710

12mo, contemporary half calf in red Morocco, on handcoloured paper.



Collection of 21 satirical stories, mostly concerning money and women.

Second edition


Baruffaldi , Girolamo. Rime scelte de' poeti ferraresi antichi, e moderni, Aggiuntevi nel fine alcune brevi notizie istoriche intorno ad essi.
Ferrara, eredi di Bernardino Pomatelli, 1713.


8vo, contemporary roan ralf, (worn), gilt title on red leather label at spine, pp. [36], 608. Edited by Girolamo Baruffaldi, conte Grassini, and Giuseppe Lanzon , printer device at title page.


First edition of this work that is apparently an anthology of Ferrarese poets of the Renaissance, but which turned out to be only a product of the irreverent fantasy of Baruffaldi, and one of the products of its counterfeit workshop.


Binding worn, some marks of use, generally a good copy


References: Melzi, G. Anonime e pseudonime, II, p. 449

First Edition

Casotti, Giovanni Battista. Memorie istoriche della miracolosa immagine di Maria Vergine dell'Impruneta raccolte da Giovambatista Casotti lettore d'Istoria sacra e profana nello Studio di Firenze. In Firenze : appresso Giuseppe Manni all'inseg. di S. Gio. di Dio, 1714 (In Firenze nella Via del Garbo : da Giuseppe Manni all'insegna di S. Giovanni di Dio, 1714).

4to, full vellum binding, 2 pt. (XV, [1], 318, [2], 231, [1]; 57, [3] p.). calcographic illustraton at title page of part 1.

2 full page plates, 10 folding plates by Cosimo Mogalli on a drawing by Alessandro Saller.



Important treatise, from a religious and artistic point of view, for the history of the sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta containing "many documents and information on the history of Florence with the notes of Manni ..." (Brunet)

Among the large tables, of exquisite workmanship and suggestion, we remember those, folded several times, which illustrate the famous procession for the Virgin Mary.


The sanctuary of Santa Maria dell'Impruneta is located in the municipality of Impruneta in the province of Florence.

The Madonna dell'Impruneta, although not remembered for particular miracles, is at the center of a heartfelt and very devoted popular cult, so much so as to make the church one of the most important , and probably the oldest in Tuscany, among the Marian Sanctuaries of Italy.



References: Gamba, 2190; Graesse II, 61

RARE

Paoli, Sebastiano. Funerali per l'illustriss. ed eccellentiss. signora D. Giovanna Pignatelli d'Aragona, duchessa di Monteleone e di Terranova. Coll'orazione detta da Sebastiano Pauli ... nella chiesa della Solitaria nella citta di Napoli . In Napoli : nella stamperia di Felice Mosca, 1723

4to, contemporary vellum, pp. [24], 39, [1].



One engraving by Francesco de Grado based on a drawng by Paolo Salvietti



Provenance: Ex libris Principe Diego Pigantelli di Cavaniglia.

Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, s. Pii 5. pontificis maximi jussu editum, Clementis 8. & Urbani 8. auctoritate recognitum ; in quo missae novissime sanctorum accurate sunt dispositae.
Venetiis : ex typographia Balleoniana, 1726.

Folio, full leather binding with gild decorations at boards and spine. Gilt cross with monogram MD at board center, original clasps, pp. [28], 432, LXXXVII, [3], xylographic headletters and decorations, engraving at title page signed my Sister Isabella Piccini. Printed in red and black.

Illustration along the text signed by Sister Isabella Piccini (PF).

Nice and Rare Roman Church missal, with engraving by sister Isabella Piccini

Isabella Piccini (born Elisabetta Piccini) was an Italian artist and nun.
She worked on etching, engraving, and illustration. Piccini was born in Venice in 1644. Her father was etcher and engraver Guglielmo Piccini. He trained Piccini in engraving and illustration in the style of the great masters such as Peter Paul Rubens and Titian. Piccini became a Franciscan nun in 1666, joining the Convent of Santa Croce. Upon joining, she changed her name to Sister Isabella.

Prominent Italians commissioned works from her, including portraits and religious artworks. Giovanni Antonio Remondini distributed her prints throughout Europe.All income she made was split between her convent and her family.

THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE
IN A ROYAL BINDING WITH GILT COAT OF ARMS OF HABSBURG-HUNGARY ROYAL FAMILY

NIEUPOORT, GUILLAME HENRI. Historia reipublicae et imperii Romanorum ab urbe condita ad annum urbis 727 quo Octaviano Caesari summa imperii cum nomine Augusti delata fuit. Contexuit ex monumentis veterum G. H. Nieupoort. Tomus primus [-2.]. Venetiis: typis Josephi Bettinelli, 1732.

2 volumes in 8vo (166x102 mm), attractive contemporary blind-tooled full calf binding with gilt coat of arms on both covers, blind-tooled floral borders, spine with six raised bands with geometrical blind-toolings, other floral rhomboidal blindtoolings at compartments containings small crowns, pp. [1, blank], [1, frontispiece[, [1, title-page], [1, blank], [58], 472 for the first volume; pp. 592 for the second volume.

Nice Venetian edition of Nieupoort's Historia Reipublicae et Imperii Romanorum («History of Roman Republic and Empire») in a precious binding. A classic text of Roman history, from the foundation until the year 728.

WILLELM HENDRIK NIEUPOORT (1670-about 1730), also known with the Latin name NEOPORTUS, was a Dutch lawyer and historian. He was professor of Ancient History at University of Utrecht. His major works, Rituum romanorum explicatio (1712) and the present Historia reipublicae et imperii Romanorum (1723) became in Europe the classic reference books for the history of the period.

PROVENANCE: Gilt coat of arms of the Habsburg family on both covers.

REFERENCES: IT\ICCU\TO0E\016442. Not in Brunet or Graesse.

Officium B. Mariae Virginis S. Pii V. Pontificis Maximi jussu editum, et Urbani VIII. Venetiis : Ex typographia Balleoniana, 1740


4to, richly decorated full calf contemporary binding, boards with central gilt cartouche inside a ruler with floral decoration at corners, pp. XXXI, 494, inside boards in green paper, full page engravings, engraved headletters.


Nice copy of a rare edition of Officium, with an amazing contemporary binding.


Only one copy in Italian public library, Biblioteca parrocchiale di Romano di Lombardia - Romano di Lombardia - BG

First Edition

Buonamici, Castruccio. Castruccii Bonamici commentariorum De Bello Italico Liber 1 [Liber 2]. Lugduni Batavorum : [s.n.], 1750.


2 vols 8vo, contemporary richly decorated decorated vellum binding, pp. XX,128, XIX, 122, Liber 1, Signature: b6,A-Q4. Liber 2 Signature: a-b4 A-P4.

First Edition of this history of Italy, of classical inspiration, during the war of succession of Austria (1740-1748) which mainly interested Piedmont and Liguria. It was commissioned to Bonamici by the Republic of Genoa.

Due to the hostility to the Savoy that transpired from the work and the grim portrait of Carlo Emanuele III, the Government of the Republic of Genoa decided to publish it with the false place of printing of Leiden.

Second Edition

Dobel, Heinrich Wilhelm. Neueroffnete Jager-Practica, Oder der wohlgeubte und Erfahrne Jager, Darinnen eine vollständige Anweisung zur gantzen Hohen und Niedern Jagd-Wissenschaft in Vier Theilen (...) mit vielen Kupfern und Grund-Rissen. Johann Samuel Heins sel. Erben, Leipzig, 1754

4 parts in 1 volume, full contemporary leather, ff. 16, 148, 264, 184, 108, ff. 32.



21 copper plates

Second augmented edition of the renowned treatise on hunting published in 1746.

It describes hunting prays, hunting dogs, hunting equipment, traps, etc.

Pius VI. Cedola di moto proprio della Santita di nostro Signore Pio Papa Sesto Pontefice Massimo con cui si aumentano le entrate, e si prescrivono nuovi regolamenti, e privilegi per la pontificia Universita di Ferrara e si assegnano nuove rendite all'Ospedale S. Anna, ed al Luogo pio de' Proietti. In Roma : nella Stamperia della Sagra Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1778.


4to, contemporary colored paper board, LVI, Title page in red and black, second title page on opposite page in Latin. Signature: [A]⁴, B-G⁴.



With 11 engraved vignettes along the text.

In Catholic canon law the Cedola di moto proprio it refers to a document issued by the pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him. Such a document may be addressed to the whole Church, to part of it, or to some individuals.

A document issued motu proprio has its legal effect even if the reasons given for its issuance are found to be false or fraudulent, a fact which would normally render the document invalid. Its validity is based on its issuance by the pope by his own initiative, not upon the reasons alleged.

In the present case the Pope issued new rules for the Papal University of Ferrara.

Barotti. Vescovi di Ferrara, 1781Barotti, Lorenzo. Serie de' vescovi ed arcivescovi di Ferrara del signor abbate Lorenzo Barotti dedicata all'eminentissimo e reverendissimo signore il signor card. Bernardino Giraud prouditore del regnante sommo pontefice . Ferrara, 1781.


4to, contemporary paper binding, paper label with title at spine, pp. [8], 159, [1], headpieces with the dedicatee coat of arms and a landscape, signature A-X4 , leaf B2 wrongly marked C2.

Untrimmed


Ex libris Guelfo Sitta

RENOWNED POUGET'S CATHECHISM, 2 VOLUMES

Pouget, Francois Aime. Institutiones catholicae in modum catecheseos, in quibus quidquid ad religionis historiam & ecclesiae, dogmata, mores, sacramenta ... totum id brevi compendio ex sacris fontibus Scripturae & traditionis explanatur. Ex gallico idiomate in latinum sermonem translate; ... Auctore oedem et interprete Francisco-Amato Pouget ... Tomus primus -secundus. Venice, Balleoni, 1782.

2 thick folio volumes, hald calf, red edges, pp. XX, 716 and pp. IV, 680. Red and black title-page.

Fine Venetian edition of renowned Pouget's Cathechism, a perfect syntesis between Christian though and simplicity.

Francois Aime Pouget (born 1666) was a French theologian, from Montpellier. Almost immediately after his ordination he was appointed vicar of Saint-Roche at Paris, and it was in this capacity that he administered the last sacraments to La Fontaine. He was made doctor, and entered in 1696 the Congregation of the Oratory. Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, gave him the direction of his seminary. He returned to Paris, and held at the Seminary of Saint Magloire public lectures on the conscience. He was appointed member of the commission charged with the liturgical reform of the diocese of Paris. The Catechisme de Montpellier, the principal work of Pouget, was published at Paris in 1702; it was at once adopted in all parts of France, has gone through many editions, and has been translated into several languages. At the time of his death Pouget was publishing a Latin edition of it, in which the passages merely indicated in the French work were extensively filled out. This edition, when in the printing office, was seized at the request of cardinal de Bissy, and was published after examination by doctor Clavel, with his comments. The work was completed by the P. Desmolets, and published under the title of Institutiones Catholicae(1725).

There are few works of this kind in which the Christian dogmas, the religious morals, the sacraments, prayers, ceremonies, and customs of the Church are set forth with greater distinctness and simplicity.

References: IT\ICCU\RMLE\025930. OCLC, 797694524.