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1601ref. 23709Venice: Ducal Palace 1601. Leaf. Fine. Single page of vellum 12 by 16 inches folded and with cuts along two margins to seal the page. Five lines of manuscript the first two in Latin then two in Italian and the last in Latin identifying Marino di Carvallo as the Venetian Ambassador appointed by the Doge of Venice to the King of France Henry IV of Navarre. Signed at the end in Latin "Leonardus Octobonus" for the Council of Ten. He later held the post of Grand Chancellor of Venice. "Marino Gramani Doge of Venice sends greetings and affection to the Most Christian King through our noble and wise faithful and beloved Ambassador Marino di Cavallo." It then references the decision of the Council of Ten the Venetian Governing Body and finishes with "Dated in the Ducal Palace this 4th day of April.1601." The Doge Marino Gremani antagonized Pope Paul IV by trying two priests under Venetian not canon law to which the Pope responded by placing Venice under Interdict. The Ottoboni were an aristocratic Venetian family which provided Venice with more than one Chancellor and ultimately produced Pope Alexander VIII. Marino de Caballo was also from an aristocratic Venetian family and was a noted physician as well as an Ambassador who believed that the most important aspect of his job was to provide an excellent chef and fine food. Finally Henry IV of Navarre a Huguenot ruler of Navarre as Henry III secured the throne of France by converting to Catholicism: "Paris is worth a Mass." Five years later he signed the Edict of Nantes the landmark drecree granting religious tolerance to Protestants and which helped end the Wars of Religion. . Ducal Palace unknown books
1686ref. 183901686. Travel and MapsMilitaryGreece Coronelli Vincenzo Maria. Seventeenth century first edition history chronicling the Venetian reconquest of the Peloponnese during the Sixth Turkish-Venetian War a contemporary Catholic and Venetian account of Ottoman-European military conflict in the eastern Mediterranean. Issued amid the campaigns of 1684-1687 when the Republic of Venice seized control of the Morea from the Ottoman Empire the work revisits the Peloponnese within the strategic geography of Habsburg-Ottoman rivalry and maritime imperial expansion. Coronelli a Franciscan cosmographer and cartographer renowned for his atlases and globes combines military reporting with regional description producing a text that documents the fortification siege and the politics of newly conquered territory. The text's engravings provide a visual record of Venetian defensive architecture and campaign logistics at the height of seventeenth-century Mediterranean conflict. Coronelli Vincenzo Maria. Description Geographique et Historique de la Morée Reconquise par les Venetiens. Paris: Chez Claude Barbin 1686-1687. First French edition. Small octavo. Two volumes bound in one. 295 pages. Fifty-eight double-page copperplate engravings including a map of the Peloponnese. Woodcut chapter headpieces and tailpieces; printed guide letters in woodcut frames. Contemporary calf stamped in gilt to front cover with crowned monogram "V." Front pastedown with mid-eighteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Jacques-Marie Jerome; remnants of inscription dated 1687 on front pastedown; later rebacked and recornered; ex-libris markings. Produced during the consolidation of Venetian authority in southern Greece the volume emphasized Christian victories over Ottoman forces during the broader Great Turkish War. Coronelli's detailed narrative and large-format engravings contributed to broader European knowledge of the Peloponnese at a time when control of its ports and fortresses were especially key Adriatic and Aegean power dynamics. Small chips to front and rear boards; evidence of restoration at spine and corners; interior generally clean with expected age toning; bookplate and early inscription present. Overall very good condition. Substantial illustrated first French edition documenting Venetian imperial expansion and Ottoman-European warfare in early modern Greece. unknown books
1885ref. 139331885. Nineteenth-century albumen views of Venice's Ponte dei Sospiri and Palazzo Ducale document two closely connected structures in the judicial and political history of the Venetian Republic. The Bridge of Sighs completed in 1614 linked the Doge's Palace with the New Prisons across the Rio di Palazzo and carried prisoners between courtrooms magistrates' chambers and cells; the verso preserves a separate view of the Palazzo Ducale the former seat of the Republic's government and judiciary. Original large albumen photograph 10½ x 14 inches mounted on heavy cardboard to an overall size of 14 x 20 inches. The recto shows the Rio di Palazzo with gondolas moored along the canal and the enclosed Ponte dei Sospiri spanning the water its reflection visible below. Catalogued within the lower left corner of the image: "9. Venezia/ Ponte dei Sospiri." The bridge contains two enclosed passageways connecting the New Prisons with judicial rooms in the Doge's Palace. Its familiar name dates from the Romantic period and derives from the imagined sighs of prisoners glimpsing Venice through its small stone windows while crossing from judgment to confinement. On the verso is a second albumen photograph of the same size captioned within the image "38. Venezia/Palazzo Ducale." The two-sided mount preserves nineteenth-century photographic views of buildings central to Venice's former machinery of government and criminal justice. The Doge's Palace housed the Republic's governing bodies courts and earlier prisons while the purpose-built New Prisons were erected across the canal and connected to the palace by the Ponte dei Sospiri. Moderate staining and warping to the cardboard mount; the photographs themselves are in fine condition. The presence of a full-size Palazzo Ducale view on the verso gives the mount two related architectural records rather than a single Venetian tourist view. unknown books
1885ref. 139341885. Nineteenth-century views of Piazza San Marco and the Loggetta document the architectural center of Venice and two of the principal monuments associated with the civic and ceremonial life of the former Venetian Republic. Piazza San Marco served as the city's principal public square bordered by the Basilica di San Marco the Procuratie and the Campanile while the Loggetta at the base of the bell tower formed part of the monumental ensemble surrounding the square. Original nineteenth-century albumen photograph 10½ x 14 inches mounted on heavy cardboard to an overall size of 14 x 20 inches. The recto presents a broad view of Piazza San Marco and its surrounding architecture. Catalogued within the lower left corner of the image: "48. Venezia/ Piazzo S. Marco." On the verso is a second albumen photograph of the same size captioned within the image "25. Venezia/Loggetta" depicting the Renaissance structure at the base of the Campanile designed by Jacopo Sansovino in the sixteenth century. The photographs preserve the appearance of central Venice before major twentieth-century interventions including the collapse of the Campanile in 1902 and its subsequent reconstruction. The Loggetta was heavily damaged in that collapse and later rebuilt giving the verso particular documentary interest as a record of the structure in its nineteenth-century state. Moderate staining and warping to the cardboard mount; the photographs themselves are in fine condition. unknown books
ref. 11774Three nineteenth century photographs of Venice record St. Mark's Cathedral a sculptural detail outside the cathedral and the Ducal Palace concentrating on monuments associated with the civic religious and political center of the city. The views preserve contemporary visual evidence of Venetian architecture and public space during the nineteenth century with particular emphasis on buildings and sculpture surrounding St. Mark's. Three sepia toned photographs of Venice Italy. The first measuring 10 x 7.5 inches presents a frontal view of St. Mark's Cathedral one of Venice's principal churches. The second measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches gives a close view of a horse statue outside St. Mark's Cathedral. The third also 9.5 x 7.25 inches depicts the Ducal Palace the historic seat of the Venetian government and residence of the doges. The grouping therefore records both the ecclesiastical architecture of St. Mark's and the adjoining palace associated with the political administration of the Venetian Republic. The photographs preserve nineteenth century views of monuments central to Venice's religious and governmental history including the cathedral overlooking Piazza San Marco and the Ducal Palace long associated with the city's political judicial and ceremonial life. The second photograph has a small tear at the upper right corner; otherwise the photographs are in excellent condition. unknown books
1797ref. 1504061797. ZANETTI Anton Maria and Marco BOSCHINI. Della pittura veneziana trattato in cui osservasi l'ordine del Busching e si conserva la dottrina e le definizioni del Zanetti. Two volumes. viii 145 i.e. 245 3 including final blank pp.; 256 i.e. 272 pp. each volume illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. 8vo 165 x 110 mm. bound alike in contemporary paste paper decorated with red flowers against a striped ground later glassine wrappers. Venice: Presso Francesco Tosi 1797. First edition based on Boschini's Le Minere della pittura 1664 and Zanetti's Della Pittura Veneziana 1771 with additions by the publisher Tosi. Both Boschini and Zanetti were of fundamental importance to the history of art in Venice. Schlosser-Magnino calls Boschini's guide "the first true artistic guide to Venice" and Zanetti's inventory of Venetian painting "one of the best in its genre" p. 548. This handy set combines their work into a comprehensive practical guide to monuments of Venetian art and architecture including a final section Istoria della Pittura Veniziana sic with biographies of artists; and an addition made in 1797 identifying paintings that were transported out of Venice by military force the same year. Marco Boschini 1613-1678 was a Venetian painter engraver and art dealer whose most important client Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici commissioned him to purchase Venetian paintings for the Medici collection. Zanetti 1706-1778 was the librarian to the famed Marciana Library in Venice for forty years and his familiarity with the art and artists of his city and his access to library records helped to produce his remarkable books. On Zanetti's guide Cicognara adds: "This is the best of the works which deal with Venetian painting and if every principal city possessed a book so arranged and executed we should have gathered together the materials for the best general history of art". Fossati-Bellani 2339. Cicogna 4661. Schlosser-Magnino pp. 548-549. Cicognara 2412 Zanetti & 4350 Boschini. unknown books
1970ref. 232456Venice 1970. Printed circa 1984. Each SIGNED in ink below the image. 1 vols. Each approximately 13 x 9 inches. Fine. Printed circa 1984. Each SIGNED in ink below the image. 1 vols. Each approximately 13 x 9 inches. Lovely luminous group of Venetian views lovingly shot and printed by the Russian-born photographer Kessel 1902 - 1995 whose work for LIFE magazine won international acclaim. As he wrote in his book ON ASSIGNMENT: DMITRI KESSEL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER New York Abrams 1985: "In sun rain fog snow photographing Venice was for me a labor of love " The photos include several views of St. Mark's Square including the Basilica a snowy view of the Doge's palace the Campanile vaporettos parked in a canal gondolas floating in the lagoon one of the famous bronze horses undergoing restoration and others. unknown books
1903ref. 27818Venice: printed by F. EarzÌa & Co 1903. 16mo pp. 2 20; original decorative red printed wrappers; some blue pencil marks in text else good or better. In English throughout with information on gondolas steamboats post offices telegrams banks ticket agents consulates theatres railway time tables principal monuments and sights of Venice etc. Not found in OCLC. printed by F. EarzÌa & Co unknown books
1989ref. 80245np: Comune di Venezia/Marsilio Editori 1989. Second printing issued one month after the first. Square 4to. 420 pp. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. Near fine publisher’s decorated slipcase with one short split to the cloth on one edge. Maps and a complete visual record via birds-eye color photographs of the entire city of Venice. Texts in Italian and English. (np): Comune di Venezia/Marsilio Editori hardcover books
1962ref. 94621Venezia 1962. Very Good. Narrow folded four-page menus. 35 x 33 cm. when unfolded. Some modest wear including a later horizontal fold and a couple of small food/drink stains. Artist print image covers front and back cover of menu. The printed menu occupies the two interior pages. unknown books
1982ref. 205754Paris: Association Francaise d'Action Artisitque 1982. Paperback. VG: wraps are discolored and show shelfwear; binding is solid. Brown wraps with light brown lettering and illustration; 30 pp; richly illustrated in color and bw. Text in French. Association Francaise d'Action Artisitque paperback books
1982ref. 191916Paris: Association Francaise d'Action Artisitque 1982. Paperback. G-wraps are discolored and show shelfwear; pages are foxed; there is cockling of the wraps and text block; pages are lightly foxed; binding is solid. Brown wraps with light brown lettering and illustration; 30 pp; richly illustrated in color and bw. Text in French. Association Francaise d'Action Artisitque paperback books
1955ref. 136169Venice Italy: Casa Editrice Arte Veneta 1955. Hardcover. G Glossy pages have tanned in margins dj is present but shows moderate wear and tape repairs plates are still good. Cream boards BW illus. dust jacket 317pp. Profuse bw plates 1 color plate. Text in Italian. Issued in conjunction with a 1955 exhibition featuring the work of Italian High Renaissance painter Giorgione 1477-1510. Casa Editrice Arte Veneta hardcover books
1955ref. 18935Venice Italy: Casa Editrice Arte Veneta 1955. Hardcover. Good; sunning to spine; light soiling to covers; sunning to page edges library stamp inside front cover no other marks. Cream boards. 295 pp. Profuse bw plates 1 color plate. Text in Italian. Issued in conjunction with a 1955 exhibition featuring the work of Italian High Renaissance painter Giorgione 1477-1510. Casa Editrice Arte Veneta hardcover books
1980ref. 318517Hertingfordbury: Roxford 1980. hardcover. fine/very good. Hundreds of illustrations many in color. 276 pages 4to brown cloth d.w.; minor wear at foot of dust wrapper spine. Hertingfordbury: Roxford 1980. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper. Roxford unknown books
1682ref. 164997La Haye: Moetjens 1682. hardcover. very good. Trad. de l"Italien. Avec un Supplement touchant les Sectes des Caraaites & Samaritains de notre temps. Engraved pictorial half-title cropped close at the bottom edge. 24mo old boards; worn lacks front flyleaf internally near fine. A La Haye: Adrian Moetjens 1682. Very good. Scarce. Third edition revised & augmented with a second part separately titled: Comparaison des Ceremonies des Juifs et de la discipline de L'Eglise par le Sieur De Simonville 1682. Moetjens unknown books
1843ref. 36123Venice: F. Andreola 1843. hardcover. Fascicolo XVIII. 64pp. Folio full red morocco fine gilt floral borders back gilt green moire endpapers a.e.g. Venezia: F. Andreola 1843. F. Andreola unknown books
1729ref. ST16379-042Venezia Venice: Appresso Carlo Buonarrigo 1729. FIRST EDITION. 155 x 105 mm. 6 1/8 x 4 1/8. 1 p.l. extra engraved title 122 pp. Original cream-colored wrapper of heavy paper silk ribbon stitching remnants of old shelf label at foot of spine. Extra engraved title page depicting the Bucinotoro in all its glory surmounted by the Lion of St. Mark emblem of Venice. Front pastedown with bookplate of the duke of Arenberg Castle Nordkirchen. Cicognara 4369. Binding lightly soiled front pastedown lifting occasional faint yellowing to margins other trivial imperfections but still A VERY FINE COPY--clean bright and especially fresh in its remarkably well-preserved fragile binding. This is a detailed account of the magnificent Bucintoro—a ceremonial ship used in the annual ritual in which the Doge of Venice was symbolically wedded to the sea— unveiled in 1729. The city known as La Serenissima had long been a major port for trade between Europe and points East and the people honored the role played by the Mediterranean Sea in the Republic's prosperity. Beginning in 1311 the head of state sailed forth each year on Ascension Day to be "married" to the sea aboard a boat called the Bucintoro. The wooden ship was restored or rebuilt from time to time through the centuries and in 1719 the Venetian Senate commissioned a brand new vessel to be richly ornamented and even bedecked with gold. Our volume describes the process by which the finest artists and artisans of the day--from shipbuilders to sculptors and painters--created the largest and most lavish Bucintoro in history. The engraved title page shows the stately craft in full rig banners flying as Doge Alvise Mocenigo is rowed out to meet his marine bride. Cicognara notes the volume's value in preserving for posteriority these memories of Italian greatness--and that greatness lasted only a relatively short time because after the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797 Napoleon had the Bucintoro stripped of its finery. The denuded and humiliated ship was then used by the Austrian navy until 1824 sailing under the name "Hydra." The presence of a binding identical to ours on several copies in sales records suggests that these may have been the publisher's original wrappers which have weathered the years surprisingly well. The text here is deeply impressed on thick paper upholding the fine tradition of Venetian printing. Appresso Carlo Buonarrigo unknown books
1717ref. 56704to manuscript on vellum 23.5 x 17.1 cm 7 ff. 4 ff. vellum blanks including a full-page frontispiece illumination of Venetian Lion of St. Mark each text page with foliate borders in gold ink headings and initials in gold ink. Bound in contemporary Venetian morocco elaborately gold tooled gold block-printed foliate pastedowns. Edge wear and minor rubbing to spine and boards manuscript loose in binding oxidizing to edges of pastedowns. Marginal flaws to frontispiece illumination just touching border in places a few small wormholes elsewhere minor handsoiling. Finely illuminated early 18th-century Venetian manuscript issued by the city's Magistrato alla Sanità Health Department as a license to certify the physician Antonio Damugliano d. 1747 to practice medicine in the Venetian Republic using his propriety formula for topical salves balsami to treat "wounds and ulcers" f. 3v-3r. The manuscript ornately written out and decorated in gold and colored ink opens with a full-page image of the winged Lion of San Marco in the Venetian landscape which serves as an official seal of the document's authenticity and is inscribed by five Provveditori of the Magistrato and one notary who witnessed the certification. This pharmaceutical license represents a rare material survival of how Venice's Magistrato alla Sanità regulated the practice of medicine in its territories even down to the level of controlling how individual practitioners could work with specific drugs. Damugliano presumably was required to keep the document on his person while plying his trade and to present it to the relevant authorities or even to his patients should his practice be called into question. The text of the document is written out twice – first in Italian and then in Latin – to suit the linguistic preferences of both the common Venetian citizen and the professional medical class. Damugliano also known as Antimo Damulianos is noted in the document dated April 1717 as being a native of the Ionian island of Zante or Zakynthos at the time a Venetian colony and having recently returned from Moscow "where with good success and for a long time he practiced medicine with full official permission of many noteworthy people" f. 2v. Damugliano is said to have studied medicine in Europe likely in Italy specializing in contagious diseases and eventually practicing in Asia Minor Persia India China Egypt Constantinople and Trieste and to have been ordered by Emperor Charles VI 1685-1740 to treat the sick of a plague outbreak in Corinth see L. Zoes passim. Damugliano's name is also associated with a 1725 treatise entitled 'Medicina' which circulated in manuscript form in Venice and dealt with the use of salves pills and stones to treat hydrophobia see L. Zoes; we have been unable to locate a copy of this treatise. Damugliano is also recorded as having worked in Vienna where an April 1746 news magazine comments that the "very famous" Damugliano having traveled through numerous kingdoms has arrived to demonstrate the curative powers of "the wondrous Chinese stone called Bezoar" which is effective against fevers snake bites fatigue colic etc. Nachtrag p. 64. The bezoar stone an indigestible mass formed in the digestive tract of ruminants was lauded from the middle ages as a universal antidote to poison. R. Palmer "Pharmacy in the Republic of Venice in the Sixteenth Century" in A. Wear et al. eds. The Medical Renaissance of the Sixteenth Century pp. 100-17; Epeteris: Hetaireia Byzantinon Spoudon vol. 43-44 1977 p. 417; H. Schmuck Grieschischer Biographischer Index vol. 1 p. 247; L. Zoes Lexikon historikon kai laographikon Zakynthou vol. 1; S. Carbone Provveditori e sopraprovveditori alla Santità della Repubblica di Venezia; P. Selmi "Il Magistrato all Sanità" in Difesa della Sanità a Venezia Secoli XIII-XIX pp. 28-50; Nachtrag zu denen wöchentlich-kurtzgefaßter historischer Nachrichten Der neuern Europäischen Begebenheiten auf das Jahr 1746 p. 64. books
1939ref. 106831Small 8vo red cloth gilt lettering on spine and top cover illustrated 620 pp. Signature on front endpaper normal aging and browning one map with edge tear; otherwise very good plus. Two small double page maps along with text and two larger folding maps in the rear. Lots of detail. oruing Club Italiano, books
1951ref. 106830Small 8vo red cloth gilt lettering on spine and top cover illustrated 399 11 pp. Signature on front endpaper normal aging and browning one map with edge tear; otherwise very good plus. Two small double page maps along with text and two larger folding maps in the rear. Lots of detail. Toruing Club Italiano, books
1819ref. 1120London: J. and C. Adlard 1819. 8vo. 220 x 140 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches. 12 pp. Illustrated with a folding plate depicting the Piazza San Marco Venice. Original blank wrappers separated at the spine folded plate loose in binding. Stamp of the Minnesota Historical Society withdrawn. Tiny tears at the folds of the plate but sound. J. and C. Adlard unknown books
1872ref. 1103New York: Harper & Brothers 1872. 8vo. pp. 481 - 501. Illustrated with wood engravings including a map of Venice four full-page architectural views and nine wood engravings in the text. Original printed wrappers chipped at spine but a sound an not unattractive copy. Anonymous twenty page description of Venice which captures for the American public the history and romance of La Serenissima including images of the most famous palazzi the Doge's Palace. This issue of the Magazine also includes a biography of Edgar Allan Poe an essay on the political character of modern Greeks and the concluding chapter of Anthony Trollope's The Golden Lion of Granpere to name a few of the articles. Harper & Brothers unknown books
ref. D14686Ephemera. Very Good. Group of landscape photographs in sepia ca. 19 x 25.2 cm each mounted on black board 23.5 x 30.5 cm all edges gilt showing the Piazza San Marco from various views; the logetta underneath Campanile Sansovino; Basilica di San Marco and the Battisterio; Porta della Carta; Santa Maria della Salute; Santa Barnaba signed O. Nayatot; Scala dei Giganti; the Arsenale; monuments to Titian and Canova; the tombs of Doge Vendramino and Doge Loredano; the Orologio clock; Ponte Rialto; Ponte dei Sospiri; Palazzo Ducale exterior and Sala dei Pregadi Sala del Maggior Consiglio Cortile; Canal Grande with a view of Palazzo Cavalli and Chiesa della Salute numbered 18638 in lower left corner; the Palazzo Reale loggia; Palazzo Vendramin; Palazzo Cavalli/Franchetti; Palazzo Contarini; Palazzo Pesaro; the Palazzo Minelli staircase; the canal between Palazzo Wanaxel and Palazzo Salviati perhaps from a different series; a view of Isola San Lazzaro; and panoramas. unknown books
1830ref. D7073Venice: Eugenio Testolini n.d. c. 1830. Hardcover. Very Good. Publisher's half brown cloth and printed boards; oblong folio 240 x 343 mm; contains lithographed title-page with inset view of a gondolier and 11 beautifully hand-colored lithographed plates many with the embossed stamp of the publisher in the lower margin. Boards soiled and scuffed; spine tips corners and edge of boards lightly bumped. Nice and bright on the inside! Aside from some faint marginal foxing plates are simply lovely. Eugenio Testolini hardcover books
