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69 AD: The Year of Four EmperorsMorgan, Gwyn

69 AD: The Year of Four Emperors


Morgan, Gwyn

Hardcover. 1st, October 28, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. black, gilt-titled spine, white boards, pictorial dust jacket. Minor wear to jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450687


Price: $20.00 

 

Alla ricerca degli itinerari perduti / In Search of Lost Itineraries


Brilli, Attilio

Hardcover. Milan , Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages, folio size, illustrated in color. A pictorial history of travel in Italy. Hundreds of gorgeous vintage illustrations. Italian text. Travel in Italy over routes traveled long ago. A beautiful book. Mild wear to covers.

Record # 408097


Price: $38.00 

 

Art and Society in Italy 1350-1500


Welch, Evelyn

Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Full color illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610705


Price: $15.00 

 

Arts of Tuscany, The : From the Etruscans to Ferragamo


Belozerskaya, Marina

Hardcover. US, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2008-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 265 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear title to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464569


Price: $25.00 

 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens(1848-1907) Sculptore Americano dell'Eta D'Oro


Mina, Gianna A.

Softcover. Italy, Museo Vela, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Italian text. 83 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and coor. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 855940


Price: $23.00 

 

Autobiography of a Generation - Italy, 1968


Passerini, Luisa

Softcover. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2nd, 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Softcover. Some light underlining in pencil. Light wear.

Record # 611708


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Cassino, The


Majdalany, Fred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with age toning, tears to edges & chipping to spine. Toning to edges throughout. Black & white illustrations. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751174


Price: $15.00 

 

Beatrice Cenci - 2 Volumes


Ricci, Corrado

Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 324 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 321 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612143


Price: $44.00 

 

Business History Review: Autumn 2006


Harvard Business School

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard Business School, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles on Milan as a Fashion Center, Danish Modern Furniture Design, DuPont's Marketing of Fashion and Fabrics.

Record # 809332


Price: $12.00 

 

Business History Review: Autumn 2006


Harvard Business School

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard Business School, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles on Milan as a Fashion Center, Danish Modern Furniture Design, DuPont's Marketing of Fashion and Fabrics.

Record # 809331


Price: $12.00 

 

Business History Review: Autumn 2006


Harvard Business School

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard Business School, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages, b&w illustrations. Articles on Milan as a Fashion Center, Danish Modern Furniture Design, DuPont's Marketing of Fashion and Fabrics.

Record # 809333


Price: $12.00 

 

Campanile of Florence Cathedral - "Giotto's Tower"


Trachtenberg, Marvin

Hardcover. New York, NYU Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages of text followed by large section of full color and black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Fading to cloth spine, and along top edge of covers. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611918


Price: $44.00 

 

Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film


Restivo, Angelo

Softcover. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1st paperback, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good. Binding tight. Very clean copy, inside and out. Angelo Restivo argues for a completely new understanding of the Italian art cinema of the 1960s as a negotiation between a national aesthetic tradition of realism and a nascent postmodern image culture.

Record # 31454


Price: $15.00 

 

City of Florence, The: Historical Vistas & Personal Sightings


Lewis, R.W.B.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 4th, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Balcka nd white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233546


Price: $19.00 

 

City of Florence: Historical Vistas and Personal Sightings


Lewis, R. W. B.

Hardcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), 3rd printing, 1994-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462919


Price: $10.00 

 

Coesistenza e rivoluzione - Documenti della disputa cino-sovietica


Calzini, Paolo & Enrica Collotti Pischel

Softcover. Italy, Einaudi, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Presumed 1st paperback. 494 p. Cover and edges a little shop worn and has a small bump to the front edge but still a very good copy, text block clean and tight. Italian language.

Record # 400972


Price: $15.00 

 

COMING OF ROME 55 B. C. to 449 A. D., THE: Third Book in the Britain Before the Conquest Series.


Wacher, John

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 193 pages. Illustrated throughout text with ancient Roman artifacts. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt. Color pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 220589


Price: $11.00 

 

Daily Life in Eighteenth Century Italy


Vaussard, Maurice

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1963, 218 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket priceclipped, has some agewear (see image), but no rips or tears. Binding tight, no pages missing, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Top edge dyed. In great shape for its age. Vaussard has produced an engagingly realistic account of the conditions of life in town and country, from north to south, and in all levels of society. The illustrations are almost all from contemporary paintings.

Record # 32444


Price: $15.00 

 

Daily Life in Eighteenth Century Italy


Vaussard, Maurice

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 218 pages.

Record # 61394


Price: $20.00 

 

Dark Heart of Italy, The: An Incisive Portrait of Europe's Most Beautiful, Most Disconcerting Country


Jones, Tobias

Hardcover. New York, North Point, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Cream colored cover and white spine with gilt lettering. Color illustrated dust jacket.

Record # 603183


Price: $13.00 

Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of MasterpiecesClark, Robert

Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces


Clark, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city s treasures against the historic background of Florence s glorious art.

Record # 471257


Price: $15.00 

 

Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century American Artists in Italy, 1760-1914, The


Soria , Regina

Hardcover. London & Toronto, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Scarce title. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to slightly sunned spine. Pictorial dust jacket, light overall wear, small closed tear to front cover, back-flap chipped at upper edge, ink-marks to front fly leaf. A very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606300


Price: $300.00 

 

Dictionary of Venetian Painters : Volume 1, 14th - 15th Centuries


Zampetti, Pietro

Hardcover. Leigh-on-Sea, F. Lewis Publishers, Ltd., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages of text + b&w plates in rear. Slight sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket spine with slight crease to front cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856762


Price: $50.00 

 

Dictionary of Venetian Painters : Volume 3, 17th Century


Zampetti, Pietro

Hardcover. Leigh-on-Sea, F. Lewis Publishers, Ltd., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages of text + b&w plates in rear. Slight sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 856752


Price: $38.00 

 

Duce!/ A Biography of Benito Mussolini


Collier, Richard

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub in Eng., b&w photos. Previous owner's signature front end paper.

Record # 10992


Price: $10.00 

Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in themLeader, Scott

Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in them


Leader, Scott

Hardcover. Florence, Flor & Findel, 3rd, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Tipped in illustrations and photographs. Age discoloration on every page, beveled brown leather over covers with three bands on spine continued on front and back cover ending in flor de lis decoration. Rubbing all edges. front and rear hinge cracked.

Record # 408290


Price: $188.00 

 

Essential Mediterranean, The How regional cooks transform key ingredients into the world's favorite cuisines.


Jenkins, Nancy Harmon

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages. "How regional cooks transform key ingredients into the world's favorite cuisines." Blue text. Illustrated title page. Yellow endpapers. Light wear to top of spine, otherwise near fine. Yellow and blue pictorial boards, yellow spine with blue lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 803643


Price: $11.00 

 

EXCELLENT CADAVERS: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic


Stille, Alexander

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon, 1st, April 18, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 467 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454568


Price: $10.00 

 

Filippo Lippi (The Library of Great Masters)


Fossi, Gloria

Hardcover. Florence, Italy, Scala/Riverside, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. 78 full color plates. Binding tight. Wrapper glossy and excellent. Pages have just a touch of age tanning to edges. Clean inside and out. In beautiful shape. Examines life and artistic work of Fillippo Lippi.

Record # 31482


Price: $15.00 

Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance FlorenceMartines, Lauro

Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence


Martines, Lauro

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, April 21, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, several color illustrations. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452540


Price: $20.00 

 

Five Centuries of Music in Venice


Landon, H. C. Robbins/John Julius Norwich

Softcover. New York, Schirmer Books, First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 200 pages. Softcover. Profusely illustrated in full page, full color and bw throughout. Light toning to edges of preliminary pages. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751025


Price: $15.00 

 

Florence and Tuscany


Whelpton, Eric

Hardcover. London, Robert Hale, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket price clipped. Spine slightly cocked.

Record # 608138


Price: $12.00 

 

Florence


Gazzini (intro), Giovanni

Hardcover. Florence, A.G.A.F, unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A pictorial guide to the city, 149 black & white plates. Probably early 1960s.

Record # 101044


Price: $18.00 

 

Food of Italy, The


Root, Waverley/Samuel Chamberlain & Warren Chappell

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 749 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with graphic design of Italy printed in green & gold to cover. Gilt titles to red cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with toning, tears to edges, soiling to spine edge. Green top edge. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 751179


Price: $23.00 

 

From Studio to Studiolo: Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes


Feinberg, Larry J.

Softcover. Seattle and London, Oberlin College/University of Washington Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, illustrated throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 855295


Price: $25.00 

Gardens of NaplesMacDougall, Elizabeth Blair/Nicolas Sapieha

Gardens of Naples


MacDougall, Elizabeth Blair/Nicolas Sapieha

Hardcover. New York, M. T. Train/Scala Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover. Full color, full page illustrations & photography throughout. Dust jacket with light fading to cover spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750087


Price: $23.00 

 

Golden Age of the Renaissance, The: Italy 1460-1500


Chastel, Andre

Hardcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, reprint, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 384 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w and a fold-out map in rear. Red cloth with gilt decor and titles. Some edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature and slight foxing to end papers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 856742


Price: $38.00 

 

Halliwell's Flimgoer's Companion 12th Edition


Halliwell, Leslie and John Walker (editor)

Paperback. Italy, HarperPerennial, 12th, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 514 pages. "Everything you'd ever want to know about everyone in the movies." Plus brief history of cinema at the back.

Record # 803531


Price: $8.00 

 

History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity


Reymond, Arnold

Hardcover. London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covers. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations. Light foxing to some pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611942


Price: $23.00 

Hobbes and Republican LibertySkinner, Quentin

Hobbes and Republican Liberty


Skinner, Quentin

softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers.

Record # 469868


Price: $23.00 

 

Il Petit Tour . Itinerari minori del viaggio in Italia


Brilli, Attilio

Hardcover. Milano, Silvana Editoriale, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, illustrated throughout in color.. Profuse color & b/w plates, map endpapers. A lavishly illustrated account of travel in Italy, accompanied by works of art inspired by these journeys. Italian text. In a bright color dust jacket, black cardboard slipcase.

Record # 408098


Price: $50.00 

 

Indagine Su Un Antico Delitto: La Sindone Di Torino (ITALIAN TEXT)


Siliato, Maria Grazia

Softcover. Italy, Edizioni Piemme, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Softcover. ITALIAN TEXT. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy, in excellent condition.

Record # 30955


Price: $19.00 

 

Italian Campaign, The


Strawson, John

NY, Carroll & Graf, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a sharp dust jacket.

Record # 601676


Price: $8.00 

 

Italian Painters of the Renaissance, The


Berenson, Bernard

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 2nd Impression, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 488 pages. Hardcover. 400 black & white plates, includes 16 tipped-in full color plates. Dust jacket with chipping, wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612593


Price: $44.00 

 

Italian Story, The - From the Etruscans to Modern Times


Trease, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, First Edition, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Faint tone to edges throughout. Original dust jacket with toning, moderate wear to edges & price-clipped. Very clean & unmarked.

Record # 751226


Price: $19.00 

 

Italy - A Modern History


Smith, Denis Mack

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, Revised Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages. Hardcover. Black & white map illustration. Toning to edges throughout. Original dust jacket with toning & moderate wear to edges & light sunfade to spine. Very clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751227


Price: $19.00 

 

Italy From Napoleon to Mussolini


Albrecht-Carrie, Rene

NY, Columbia University, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Previous owner's stamp front fly leaf. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Record # 65383


Price: $25.00 

 

Italy In the Last Fifteen Hundred Years: A Concise History (SIGNED)


Schumann, Reinhold

Softcover. Lanham, MD, Univerysity Press of America, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 397 pages. Softcover. Some b/w illustrations (maps). Spine faded, but otherwise very clean copy, in very good condition, inside and out. Letter from Author laid within. A little price tag residue on back cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 30954


Price: $23.00 

 

La Ghigliottina Del Terrore (ITALIAN TEXT)


Rousseau-Lagarde, Val

Hardcover. Italy, Instituto Francese de Firenze, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 181 pages. Soft cover. ITALIAN TEXT. B/w illustrations throughout. A touch of foxing on endpapers and edges. Clean inside. In very good condition.

Record # 30958


Price: $38.00 

 

La Prospettiva di Federico Commando (Domus Perspectivae) (Italian Text)


Sinisgalli, Rocco

Hardcover. Firenze, Edizioni Cadmo, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover in Italian text. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Illustrated with black & white mathematical diagrams throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750242


Price: $23.00 

Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and ArtistsFenton, James

Leonardo's Nephew: Essays on Art and Artists


Fenton, James

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with minor shelfwear. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 471374


Price: $19.00 

 

Life of Georgio Vasari, The: A Study of the Later Renaissance in Italy


Carden, Robert W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Henry Holt & Co., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Gilt top edge. Bright gilt decoration to front cover board. Faded gilt titles to spine. Crack to front half title page but the binding is very tight throughout. Wonderful illustrations in black & white with no markings. Faint toning to pages throughout. Maroon coloured boards with light wear to edges, light wear to crown & heel of spine. Clean pages, some uncut.

Record # 751576


Price: $75.00 

 

Lombard Communes, The: A History of the Republics of North Italy


Butler, W. F.

Hardcover. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, reprint , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 495 pages. Contains some black & white illustrations and photographs. In excellent condition.

Record # 503446


Price: $34.00 

Love and Death in Renaissance ItalyCohen, Thomas V.

Love and Death in Renaissance Italy


Cohen, Thomas V.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL , University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471696


Price: $19.00 

 

Makers of Florence, The - Dante, Giotto, Savonarola and Their City


Oliphant, Mrs.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 4th ed., 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illus. 415 pages

Record # 53648


Price: $18.00 

 

Makers of Venice, The - Doges, Conquerors, Painters and Men of Letters


Oliphant Mrs.

London, Macmillan, Rep., 1905, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: None, 410 pages. B&W illust. A handsome, bright copy.

Record # 300567


Price: $18.00 

 

Man of the Renaissance, The Four Lawgivers: Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Aretino


Roeder, Ralph

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illus.

Record # 53656


Price: $15.00 

 

Medici, The


Schevill, Ferdinand

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages, with b&w photographs. Dust jacket edge wear and minor tears, rubbing and some fading, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 853109


Price: $12.00 

 

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara


Scigliano, Eric

Hardcover. US, Free Press, 1st, 2005-08-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463541


Price: $11.00 

 

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered


Hales, Dianne

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Shuster, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Story of the most recognized artistic subject of all time. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951281


Price: $24.00 

Murder of a Medici PrincessMurphy, Caroline P.

Murder of a Medici Princess


Murphy, Caroline P.

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, April 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages, b&w and color illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454648


Price: $12.00 

 

Mythology of Greece and Rome, The - With Special Reference to Its Use in Art


Seemann, O./G. H. Bianchi

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, First Thus, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with embossed illustration to cover & gilt titles to spine. Previous owners' signature front flyleaf. Frontis illustration, Head of Niobe, Florence, Italy. Black & white illustrations, light toning, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751281


Price: $15.00 

 

Name and Tears & Other Stories: Forty Years of Italian Fiction


Jason, Editor, Kathrine

Hardcover. Saint Paul, MI, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Orange cloth, gilt title to spine. Light edge wear to pictorial dust jacket. Very nice, tight copy.

Record # 607646


Price: $10.00 

Naples Declared: A Walk Around the BayTaylor, Ben

Naples Declared: A Walk Around the Bay


Taylor, Ben

Hardcover. New York, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Price sticker to dust jacket rear. Color images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471482


Price: $15.00 

 

New Guide to Pompeii


Engelmann, Wilhelm

Hardcover. Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 2nd Revised, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 201 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and fold-out map. Leather spine chipping at top and bottom with tear from above title approx. 2" down right side. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608284


Price: $15.00 

 

Niccolo's Smile - A Biography of Machiavelli


Viroli, Maurizio

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket illustration by Santi di Tito, Portrait of Machiavelli, Florence, Italy. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750390


Price: $15.00 

 

Objects: A Chronicle of Subversion in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy


Deichmann, Hans

Hardcover. US, Marsilio Pub, 1st US, 1997-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. Previous owner's sticker to front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463811


Price: $10.00 

 

On the most ancient wisdom of the Italians: unearthed from the origins of the Latin language: including the disputation with the Giornale de' letterati d'Italia


Vico, Giambattista

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Hardcover. Includes extensive bibliography and index of Latin terms. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469531


Price: $38.00 

Other Side of the Tiber, The: Reflections on Time in ItalyWilde-Menozzi, Wallis

Other Side of the Tiber, The: Reflections on Time in Italy


Wilde-Menozzi, Wallis

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471484


Price: $15.00 

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence. 1300-1450Kanter, Laurence

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence. 1300-1450


Kanter, Laurence

Softcover. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Large heavy soft cover. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460381


Price: $38.00 

 

Painting in Eighteenth-Century Venice


Levey, Michael

Hardcover. Oxford, UK, Phaidon, Reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. 159 illustrations including 16 in color, throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Cover boards bound in brown cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. In beautiful condition. A thorough discussion and introduction to the subject of eighteenth-century Venetian painting and individual painters.

Record # 32179


Price: $25.00 

 

Painting in Renaissance Siena 1420-1500


Kanter, Laurence B.

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages with 315 illustrations, including 100 plates in full color. Large heavy volume. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460388


Price: $63.00 

 

Paradise of Cities: Venice in the 19th Century


Norwich, John Julius

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Traces the transformation of Venice from an independent state into a cityscape of artists and inventors. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Rough cut fore edge. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952077


Price: $19.00 

 

Per La Nuova Vita Dell'Italia: Scritti E Discorsi 1943-1944


Croce, Benedetto

Softcover. Napoli, Riccardo Ricciardi, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages, softcover, text in Italian.

Record # 405641


Price: $25.00 

 

Photography: Venice '79


Palazzoli (editor), Daniela/Vittorio Sgarbi & Italo Zannier

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages. Hardcover catalogue published to mark the occasion of Photography/Venezia '79, arranged by the Municipality of Venice and UNESCO. Full color & black & white illustrations throughout. Binding cracked at page 144. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750091


Price: $19.00 

 

Piracy & the Decline of Venice 1580-1615


Tenenti, Alberto

Hardcover. Berkley, University of California Press, reprint, 1967, 210 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. Price-clipped, previous owner's embossed stamp on title page, slight wear evident to dust jacket; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 603848


Price: $13.00 

 

Portrait of the Isles of Scilly


Mumford, Clive

Hardcover. US, Robert Hale Ltd, rep, 1970-07-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket with faint foxing to inside flaps, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463030


Price: $10.00 

 

Renaissance Popes - Statesmen, Warriors and the Great Borgia Myth, The


Noel, Gerard

Hardcover. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. 8 pages of Illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609050


Price: $15.00 

Renaissance Popes, The: Statesmen, Warriors and the Great Borgia MythNoel, Gerard

Renaissance Popes, The: Statesmen, Warriors and the Great Borgia Myth


Noel, Gerard

Hardcover. New York, Carroll & Graf Pubishers, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471822


Price: $19.00 

 

Rienzo - The Rise and Fall of a Dictator


Fleischer, Victor

Hardcover. London, Aiglon Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj worn, chipped

Record # 53651


Price: $18.00 

 

Rome Fell Today


Adleman, Robert H. and Colonel George Wilson

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company , 1st, 1968 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and fly leafs. Some tearing and edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857467


Price: $10.00 

Secret Surrender, The: The Classic Insider's Account of the Secret Plot to Surrender Northern Italy During WWIIDulles, Allen W.

Secret Surrender, The: The Classic Insider's Account of the Secret Plot to Surrender Northern Italy During WWII


Dulles, Allen W.

Softcover. Connecticut, The Lyon's Press, Reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Clean inside and out. From back cover: "This is the classic and controversial inside story of Operation Sunrise, which brought about the surrender of a million Nazi and Fascist forces in World War II."

Record # 30188


Price: $19.00 

 

Selections from Cultural Writings


Gramsci, Antonio (Editor)

Softcover. Harvard University Press, 1st pb, October 1, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 448 pages. Small shallow scratch across fore-edge, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 458279


Price: $25.00 

 

Sexual Life in Ancient Rome


Kiefer, Otto

New York , Barnes & Noble, 7th printing, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 379 pages, 16 B&W plates. Ex-lib with stamping to edges, pages. Rear hinge partially cracked.

Record # 305313


Price: $20.00 

 

Short History of Italian Painting, A


Van Vechten Brown, Alice/William Rankin

Hardcover. London, UK, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., Reprint, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. A few small soil spots to front cover board.Frontis illustration Madonna Adoring in black & white, profuse additional illustrations. Light toning throughout. In very good condtion for its age.

Record # 6670155


Price: $31.00 

 

Short History of Italy, A


Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 447 pages. Previous owners signature on front endpaper. Rear hinge cracked but still strong. Top edge gilt. Covers show standard wear.

Record # 607763


Price: $15.00 

 

Sicily and the Western Colonies of Greece


Miller, Helen Hill

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 219 pages. Hardcover. Olive cloth boards with black printed decoration & silver titles. Original dust jacket with edgewear, small tears to edges & water marking to back of dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in black & white & full color. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751176


Price: $15.00 

 

Social World of the Florentine Humanists, The


Martines, Lauro

Hardcover. New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 419 pages. Hardcover. Covers bound in tan fabric with gilt title and decoration on spine. Some foxing to top edge, otherwise just a touch of age yellowing to edges. Clean and unmarked inside. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. No dust jacket. In very good condition for its age.

Record # 30952


Price: $38.00 

 

Soft Underbelly - The Anglo-American Controversy over the Italian Campaign 1939-1945


Higgins, Trumbull

New York, The Macmillan Company, 1st , 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages including index. Blue dust jacket shows very light edgewear. Internally very good.

Record # 501776


Price: $12.00 

 

Story of Rome, The


Young, Norwood, Illust. by: Nelly Erichsen

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 5th, 1907, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Light edge wear to covers, soiling to spine. Edge wear to pages, front cover slightly cracked at binding. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf, writing on rear flyleaf

Record # 808934


Price: $25.00 

 

Story of Venice, The


Okey, Thomas, Illust. by: Nelly Erichsen

Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering and design. Light chipping to covers, soiling to spine, small rip on back cover. Untrimmed pages. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf and half title page. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 808935


Price: $20.00 

 

Studies in Italian Art and Architecture: 15th through 18th Centuries


Millon (Editor), Henry A.

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 337 pages, hardcover. No dust jacket. Many black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. Fading to spine. Corners lightly bumped. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 951603


Price: $44.00 

 

Studies in the History of Art: Italian Medals


Pollard, J. Graham

Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 299 pages. B&w images throughout. B&w frontispiece. Crease to front cover, some fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Record # 855846


Price: $25.00 

 

Studies in the History of Art: Volume 13 - El Greco: Italy and Spain


N/A

Paperback. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Edited by Jonathan Brown and Jose Manuel, Pita Andrade. Scholarly articles about the artist in English, Italian and Spanish. 188 pages. Black & white illustrations. Corner bump. Paperback.

Record # 66172


Price: $25.00 

 

Studios and Styles of the Italian Renaissance


Chastel, Andre

Hardcover. New York , Odyssey Books, 1st, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 417 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and soil to dust jacket with light chipping to edges of spine. Nice reading copy.

Record # 856774


Price: $44.00 

 

Sun Stood Still, The


Mustarde, J. C.

London, Pilot Press, 1st, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. A British military doctor gives a first-hand account of his life in prison camps in North Africa and Italy during World War II. Rubbing along front cover hinge. Covers worn, soiled.

Record # 601098


Price: $51.00 

 

Ten Pains of Death, The


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., First US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Pale red cloth boards with sunfaded spine & top edge, navy printed titles to spine. Fraying to head & heel of spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf & faint toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751177


Price: $25.00 

 

Treasury of Great Italian Textiles, A


Santangelo, Antonino (Text)

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc,, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Hardcover. Full color and b/w tipped-in plates throughout.. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine. Tanning from age throughout. Foxing to edges and endpapers. Moisture damage to top edge corner, doesn't affect text or illustrations (plates). Binding tight, spine straight. In good shape for its age.

Record # 31742


Price: $50.00 

Twentieth-Century Houses: EuropeBoissiere, Olivier

Twentieth-Century Houses: Europe


Boissiere, Olivier

Softcover. Italy, Terrail, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Over 180 color photographs throughout.

Record # 471806


Price: $25.00 

 

Umbria - The Heart of Italy


Keller, Harald

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, First US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. Hardcover. Tweed cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Frontis illustration, Map of Umbria, in bw. Full page, black & white photography by Konrad Helbig throughout. 145 illustrations, with 5 in color. Dust jacket in full color with tape to head & heel, small tears & light toning. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751191


Price: $25.00 

 

Unmapping the Renaissance


Stepken, Angelika

Softcover. Vienna, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy. Color photographs throughout.

Record # 2230382


Price: $19.00 

 

Venetian Art From Bellini To Titian


Wilde, Johannes

Softcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, Reprinted, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 267 pages. Softcover. Over 200 black & white illustrations throughout, beautifully presented. Bright cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 3340022


Price: $25.00 

 

Venetians, The


Thubron, Colin

Hardcover. Alexandria, VA, Time-Life, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, One in "Time-Life's Seafarer's Series". Color, black & white illust.

Record # 53660


Price: $18.00 

 

Venice - Art and Life in the Lagoon City


Davis, John H.

Hardcover. NY, Newsweek, 5th pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 170 pages illust. in color, black & white

Record # 56588


Price: $15.00 

Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance ConventLaven, Mary

Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent


Laven, Mary

Hardcover. New York, Viking Adult, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 459751


Price: $13.00 

 

Walk in the Villa, A


Baggio (Ed), Elena

Hardcover. Rome, Italian State Tourists, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pgs, many Illustrations in color, black & white. A history of Villas in Rome. The 14th edition of the Italian Book of days - an annual promotional book for tourists.

Record # 101046


Price: $10.00 

 

What Did You Do in WWII Grandpa?


Gabler, Clyde W.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Gateway Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 91 pages, b&w illustrations, in blue cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Author was a staff officer with the air force in North Africa, Sicily and Italy during World War II.

Record # 405310


Price: $25.00 

 

Why Italy Entered into the Great War


Carnovale, Luigi

Hardcover. Chicago, Italian-American Publishing, 1st, 1917, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 673 pages. Black & white illustrations. Front and rear hinges cracked but holding. Text unmarked.

Record # 608233


Price: $18.00 

 

World's Fairs Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and their Narratives, 1860-1915 (Toronto Italian Studies)


Coletta, Cristina Della

Hardcover. Toronto, ON, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 2230360


Price: $38.00 

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